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Trump slams senior official who resigned over war with Iran; Historic snowstorm and record heat; Members of Congresswoman’s security team shot in police standoff; and more on tonight’s broadcast.
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Tonight, a top counterterrorism official resigns in protest
over the war with Iran.
Now, the fallout.
As President Trump hits back,
sounding the alarm, the high-ranking official saying
he can't support a war launched against a country he says
posed no imminent threat.
The fierce pushback from the White House tonight
as Israeli forces take out a top Iranian official
amid new attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Now the State Department ordering all American embassies
to immediately review security.
Winters last stand, stunning images of snow piled so high
it's reaching the rooftops in Michigan.
Drivers stranded in the snow.
Some passengers forced to sleep on cats in airport terminals
and the major airport now closing multiple security checkpoints.
New body cam video showing a deadly standoff between Dallas Police
and a member of Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett security detail.
What we're learning about how he got hired.
An Amtrak train crashes into an 18-wheeler in Texas
nearly 100 passengers evacuated.
A nation on the brink, our team,
the first cameras inside a Cuban hospital in a decade
as doctors race to save patients amid blackouts
and gas shortages.
Crashing down to earth, the moment of rare media
streaks across the sky above Cleveland and the huge bang
that shook the city.
Sick black smoke over the heart of New York City
as a high-rise fire erupts just blocks
from the safe Patrick State parade.
Her side of the story.
It was the kiss cam seen around the world.
The woman at the center of that viral cold play moment
sitting down with Oprah.
What she's revealing now.
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Nightly news starts right now.
This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas.
Good evening.
I'm Kristen Welker in for Tom tonight.
We begin with the growing fallout from the war with Iran.
A top U.S. counterterrorism official
announces he's quitting in protest.
Joe Kent writing in his resignation letter
he cannot in good conscience back the president's war
with Iran saying there was never an imminent threat
from the country.
That bombshell setting off an internal white house battle
with the president and his allies attacking Kent.
President Trump today also lashing out
at NATO allies for so far refusing to help
open up the straight of her moose.
He now says the U.S. can do it alone.
And there are other major developments
in the war tonight.
Israel killing Iran's security chief in a new strike.
And we're tracking major attempts to attack the U.S. Embassy
in Baghdad.
This video showing the moment air defenses took out
a suspected Iranian drone.
We are covering it all tonight beginning
with senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez.
Tonight President Trump is slamming
his former director of the National Counterterrorism Center
after Joe Kent resigned in protest
over the war with Iran.
I always thought he was a nice guy,
but I always thought he was weak on security,
very weak on security.
Kent posting Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation
and it is clear that we started this war
due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
Kent is a retired green beret,
a former CIA officer,
and a longtime Trump supporter.
When I read a statement,
I realized that it's a good thing that he's out
because he said that Iran was not a threat.
Iran was a threat every country
it realized what a threat Iran was.
Kent statement also drawing rebukes
for alleged anti-Semitic overtones,
Republican Congressman Don Bacon blasting Kent,
posting good riddance.
Anti-Semitism is an evil eye to test
and we surely don't want it in our government.
But former GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene
calling Kent a great American hero.
Today, the president also lashing out at European allies.
We helped with Ukraine.
Yes.
And they don't help with Iran.
We're declining to help defend
the crucial straight of hormones
from Iranian attacks on oil tankers.
We don't need too much help
and we don't need any help actually.
You would have thought they would have said
we'd love to send a couple of minesweepers.
It's not a big deal.
It doesn't cost very much money.
But they didn't do that.
President Trump also confirming
his meeting with China's President Xi Jinping
will be delayed.
Is Iran now a bigger foreign policy priority for you
than China?
Iran is just a military operation to me.
Iran is something that was essentially
largely over in two or three days.
There's nothing they can do right now
because everything is knocked out.
And Gabe joins us from the White House now.
Gabe, there are new signs of the impact of all of this
on travelers and people's bottom line.
Yes, Kristen.
The Delta Airlines CEO said today air fares
have already gone up over the last two weeks
because of the rising cost of jet fuel.
Kristen.
All right, Gabe Gutierrez.
Thank you, Gabe.
We appreciate it now to those strikes killing
top Iranian regime officials responsible
for recent brutal crackdowns on Iranian protesters.
All as Iran is launching new attacks on its neighbors.
Here's Richard Engel.
Ali Larajani was last seen in public on Friday
during a government rally in Tehran.
Proof to Iranians that their government was still functioning
and unafraid.
Today Israel killed him.
Prime Minister Netanyahu announcing it, saying
we are undermining the regime with the hope
of giving the Iranian people a chance to remove it.
Larajani was a hardliner with a $10 million US bounty
on his head.
He was close to Iran's supreme leader.
And he oversaw much of January's crackdown
when state enforcers known as the Beseech
killed thousands of Iranian protesters.
The top Beseech commander was also assassinated.
It's an evil group.
I mean, they killed much more than 32,000 people
and the man who was responsible for that
was also killed yesterday.
But Iran is still fighting back,
including firing cluster bombs at Israel.
This train station was hit by a cluster bomb.
You can see where the little bomb lit penetrated
the roof right there and caused a lot of damage
down onto the staircase.
These cluster bombs are not very large.
It didn't destroy this station.
It didn't even cause any casualties.
But it has a psychological effect
because they're very hard to stop.
So for a moment, as the weapons are dropping,
it feels like the sky is raining hand grenades.
More Iranian bombs rain down on Baghdad.
But the US embassy compound took a hit.
There were no serious injuries or damage.
And Richard joins us now live in Tel Aviv.
So Richard Iran's attacks are now sparking
a new alert from the State Department.
What can you tell us?
They are, according to a cable reviewed by NBC News,
the State Department has ordered all embassies
and consular facilities around the world
to immediately review their security
because of Passover or spill over effect from this war.
And, Chris, let me just share with you
some video we captured just moments ago.
It shows a cluster bomb exploding over Tel Aviv
and those tiny little dots,
dozens of them that you see in the sky,
each one of those is one of those small bomblets
that I was talking about that hit the station earlier today.
Well, it underscores the enormity of the attacks
Richard Angle, thank you so much.
Our other major story tonight,
the homes across the Midwest still trapped
under feet of snow following that blizzard this week
and the new air travel chaos.
Passengers now forced to sleep on cats in one airport.
Here's Maggie Vespa.
Tonight, stunning new video shows
this Michigan neighborhood completely submerged
under mountains of snow.
Here reaching as high as roofs.
Now, sub-zero windshields freezing piles,
twice as tall as parked cars.
This family's front door, impassable.
In Wisconsin, car after car,
stranded along this Green Bay highway.
Entire cities buried,
storms raging out east too,
with more than a dozen semis and cars
wrecked in upstate New York
and severe winds toppling massive trees
in Massachusetts and Maryland.
This week's wild weather,
exacerbating America's travel mess.
Strong winds, grounding flights
at Houston's Bush International Airport,
stranded passengers sleeping on cats.
United Airlines sending hundreds to hotels
and transforming terminal C into sleeping quarters.
Atlanta's airport seeing long lines
as TSA callouts mount amid the government shutdown.
At Philadelphia International,
TSA closing additional security checkpoints
starting tomorrow due to staffing woes.
Today, more than a thousand flights
canceled nationwide.
Mother Nature's Wrath also felt out west.
With triple-digit temps roasting,
Arizona, Nevada, and California,
and windy dry conditions
fueling historic wildfires in Nebraska,
leaving one person dead
and more than 700,000 acres burned.
The days ahead are really, really high risk.
A brutal combination of fire and ice,
wreaking havoc, coast to coast.
And speaking of ice,
this massive 20-foot mountain behind me
is all snow cleared just from the streets
of Waukeshaw, clean up across the Midwest,
expected to take days.
Kristen, looks like it will.
Maggie Vespa, thank you.
Well, we have new body cam footage tonight
showing a deadly police standoff with a man
who served on a U.S. Congresswoman's security team.
Ryan Noble is now with the video
and the questions being raised about
how the suspect ever got the job.
Tonight, new police footage
of the lead up to the death of a man
who once served as a member of Congresswoman
Jasmine Crockett's security detail.
Hey, stop the car.
Stop the car.
Move your car.
Move your car.
39-year-old Diamond Robinson was shot and killed
after appearing to point a gun at police
during a standoff.
That video shows police chasing after the car
he was driving,
which had been flagged for having stolen plates.
They followed him into a garage where
he refused to get out of his car.
Officers offered him opportunities to speak
with family members to resolve a situation peacefully.
Police fired tear gas to force Robinson out of his car.
When he emerged, he put his hands to his waist
and police say, eventually pointed a gun.
Police freezing the video and circling
what appears to be a weapon.
That is when officers open fire.
Police!
Don't do this!
Robinson was killed by the gunfire.
Police say Robinson,
who was known as Mike King to Congresswoman Crockett
and her staff had multiple aliases
and accused him of wearing police style uniforms
to falsely represent himself as a federal agent.
Congresswoman Crockett,
who recently lost a primary for US Senate in Texas,
said that Robinson's past, quote,
doesn't fit the person we came to know as Mike King.
Congresswoman Crockett wants to know how Robinson
got through the vetting process
to make it on her security detail,
calling the situation incredibly alarming.
Kristen?
Ryan, thank you.
Tonight, a rare look inside a Cuban hospital
as doctors struggle to treat patients
amid a power and energy crisis there.
The Cuban government giving our George Solis access
to the hospital the first time they've done so
in more than a decade.
Yonetti Spolo Garcia is fighting for her life
at this hospital in Havana.
The mother of two young boys has leukemia.
Administering what in most places
would be routine cancer treatments is almost impossible here.
Garcia lives about 20 miles away from the hospital
too far to walk.
She tells me without fuel or affordable transportation,
life has only gotten harder.
We are fighting every day, she says.
My biggest fear is going to bed
and not waking up next morning.
This is a supply room where all of the medicine is stored
but power can go up for up to eight hours at a time,
which is enough to make the refrigerated medication spoil.
They've had to come up with other ways to keep it cold.
You try to save it.
Of course.
Doctors here say across the country people are dying
because of the fuel crisis.
So far, they tell me this hospital has been lucky.
Yet, that goal, that's his 11-year-old son
got here today in an ambulance.
She says she feels grateful for that
because transportation is so scarce.
Ambulances not on the road are in places just like this one.
Some broken, some in need of repair.
Others just in need of gas.
That's so hard to come by.
In fact, 300 ambulances are sitting idle.
There are only 25 being used for the entire country.
All electric.
Everywhere you turn, Cubans are suffering.
The streets have been dark and homes.
Dangerously hot.
Garbage is piling up on every street corner.
Carlos Montez de Olsa says he tries to stay calm
but it's overwhelming.
The stress gets you.
You could have a heart attack, he says.
Families huddle around in the dark.
It makes you want to cry.
Yes, I believe Garcia tells me.
They feel devastated.
Patients is running thin as these power outages
affect every aspect of life here from keeping food cold
to getting clean water.
It is a huge challenge for all of these families.
Kristen?
George Solis, thank you.
And back here in the US, a mysterious loud boom
woke up residents across Cleveland this morning.
The cause, a meteor crashing to earth.
Here's Sam Brock.
Tonight, meteoric levels of confusion in Cleveland.
After a loud boom, rang through the region.
Frightening the pets in this person's backyard
and stopping drivers in their tracks.
Oh, what the f**k was that?
The fireball also spotted as far away as Pittsburgh
streaking through the sky.
Anyone that's in Northeast Ohio,
did you hear the loud boom?
It sounded like a freaking fireball went off in the neighborhood area.
NASA says it was a meteor,
fracturing into small pieces when an asteroid nearly six feet in diameter
and weighing around seven tons entered the atmosphere.
The ground beneath my feet was no longer stable.
Ralph Harvey studies planetary materials like these
that Case Western Reserve in Ohio.
We're just basically talking about space debris.
Yeah, it's falling into the earth's atmosphere.
Why do we hear about this kind of thing more?
Well, the main reason is it's actually more common than most people think.
What's different about this one is it came during daylight hours
right over a major metropolitan area.
So it turns out, what are we dinosaurs?
It's nothing prehistoric or even life-threatening,
just a fiery moment shaking up some shocked Ohioans.
Sam Brock and BC News.
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And we're back now with a viral moment
that had the whole country talking last summer.
Now the woman caught on camera in an embrace with her boss
on a cold play concert.
Kiscam is telling her side of the story.
Here's Stephanie Gask.
Oh, look at these.
All right.
A moment lasting less than 20 seconds.
Either than having a fair or that's just very sharp.
The Kiscam embrace at a cold play concert last summer
became an instant online sensation,
watched by billions around the world.
And Kristen Cabot's life would never be the same.
Well, there was paparazzi there for weeks.
They wouldn't leave.
There was, I had people trust passing and looking in my windows.
We had people doing drive-by's and yelling and honking.
We had my father.
With your children home.
Yes, with my children home.
Cabot speaking out for the first time on camera in an interview with Oprah.
It wasn't even calculated where we thought to ourselves like no one's looking.
Cabot revealed her husband, who she had separated from,
was at the concert too.
And that CEO Andy Byron told her he was going through a divorce himself.
But the former head of HR says the vitriol was largely reserved for her.
Andy Byron, your boss.
Did people, were people coming up to him?
No.
Not at all.
And women, she says, were the cruelest.
How I looked, how I was dressed, how I behaved,
you know, the sleeping my way to the top, to the gold digger,
the husband's stealer.
Both Byron and Cabot resigned from their jobs.
We were united in their judgment.
And I feel bad for us as human beings.
That's what we did to you.
Thank you.
Cabot says she made a mistake that night.
But did not deserve this.
Stephanie Gask, NBC News.
And we are back in just a moment with the wild video.
A police officer jumping on the foot of a stranger's car.
Then making the driver chase down a suspect.
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We are back now with a massive fire erupting in Manhattan.
Flames and smoke billowing from the roof of a high-rise building.
The plumes visible for blocks just before the St. Patrick's Day Parade
got underway nearby.
Now no one was injured.
In Texas, an 18-wheeler collided with an Amtrak train carrying
more than 100 people aboard.
The shipping container was thrown from the mangled truck
while the train's windshield was shattered incredibly though.
The fire chief says just two people suffered minor injuries.
And wild video out of Oklahoma police officer jumping onto the hood
of a car to pursue a suspect fleeing on a midi bike.
You can see here the officer pursuing the suspect on foot
when he stops a passing car, climbs on the hood,
and begins directing the driver.
Once the officer gets close enough, he jumps onto the bike,
apprehending the rider.
That is some fancy police work.
When we come back, it's a match.
The emotional moments for medical students years in the making.
That's next.
Welcome back and a look at New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Just one of the major celebrations across the country today.
We hope you have a happy St. Patrick's Day.
And before we go, there's good news tonight.
Every March, medical students all across the country
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And for one Iowa mom, it was a big step toward her dream of being a doctor.
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For Adi Rosa, this is a moment years in the making.
The single mom is also a med school student.
And this notification revealing whether she matched
into a residency program.
Mommy's gonna be a doctor!
Mommy's gonna be a doctor!
Mommy's gonna be on my list.
I'm so happy.
I started second semester when she was four weeks old.
And it was definitely the hardest year of my life.
It's just incredible how much my community has shown up for me and made it possible.
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Congratulations!
Adi is one of thousands of med school students across the country
finding out if they matched.
Can you see it?
Oh my god!
Then on Friday, they'll find out where.
I'm gonna be a doctor!
I left!
I'm gonna be a doctor, Dan!
The next generation of doctors answering the call.
I hope that people look at stories like mine, other stories of mothers and medicine
and know that it's hard, but it's absolutely possible.
Mommy's gonna be a doctor!
Those smiles say it all.
We salute them tonight.
That is Nightly News for this Tuesday.
I'm Kristen Welker in for Tommy Amos for all of us at NBC News.
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