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Oil prices surge after attacks on energy sites; Trump’s DHS nominee grilled by Senate as travelers face long TSA lines; Potentially record-setting heat wave scorches western United States; and more on tonight’s broadcast.
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Tonight, the price of oil
now the highest in years
after new attacks on energy sites across the Middle East.
With top intelligence leaders
under fire on Capitol Hill,
a devastating strike
setting an Iranian oil field on fire
as the U.S. launches a new wave of attacks on Iran.
President Trump telling our reporter
Iran is going down
as they launch new strikes on Saudi Arabia.
Our correspondent is there.
Look at that, as that Capitol is hit.
Plus, the nation's intelligence leaders
peppered by senators
was Iran an imminent threat to the U.S.
for the controversial answers.
Airport breaking point,
passengers waiting hours,
lines weaving around baggage carousels
and the urgent warning tonight
could some airports be forced to shut down?
The unprecedented heat wave out west.
Dramatic rescues on hiking trails
as temperatures soar
to triple digits in March.
Explosive new reporting on
civil rights icon Caesar Chavez
disturbing allegations of abuse
against women and girls
after decades of silence.
One accuser, a 95-year-old activist
who says he's secretly
fathered two children with her.
The deadly crash in the Alps
terrifying video of a gondola
in free fall down the mountain
you see it there.
The accident in Texas,
dozens of cars off the rails
has met teams now called in.
A family's desperate search
and American college student
vanishing after a night out in Spain.
So how did his phone end up
at the police station while he's still missing?
The threat to the world's most famous hippo,
Mudang.
The viral sensations stand off
with someone who broke into her enclosure.
And there's good news tonight.
A bride-to-be turns to her students
for marriage advice.
The hilarious and surprisingly
wise secrets to a happy life
from a room full of second graders.
Nightly news starts right now.
This is NBC Nightly News
with Tom Yamas.
Good evening. I'm Halle Jackson
in for Tom and we begin tonight
with escalations in the Iran war
pushing oil and gas prices
even higher.
This is an infrastructure.
Look at this. A huge fire
at an Iranian gas field
after it was hit.
And across the Gulf states
a relentless Iranian barrage,
missiles and drones
apparently targeting energy sites.
Look at these two huge fireballs
seen earlier in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
And here in Washington,
the focus today on the rationale
for the U.S. to launch this war
in the first place.
This war is developing
up in Lebanon.
Images from Beirut showing
this building collapsing.
You see it there after an Israeli strike.
Israel had issued an evacuation order
before the attack.
We've got it all covered
from DC to the Middle East,
starting with Gabe Gutierrez
at the White House.
Tonight, the devastating wave
of U.S. air strikes in Iran.
The Pentagon saying nearly 8,000
regime targets struck so far.
The Iranian retaliation
against Israel overnight.
Telling me the attack was nothing
compared to what happened to them.
They're going down.
They're losing big.
Meanwhile, a strike on an Iranian gas field
which Iran is blaming on Israel
and an Iranian attack on oil facilities
and Qatar causing oil prices to spike.
Vice President Vance today
calling those rising prices
a temporary blip.
We're going to take care of business
and we're going down to reality.
All is Israel overnight.
Killed Iran's intelligence minister
who helped launch that recent
brutal crackdown on Iranian protesters.
As of this moment,
the regime maintains power
within Iran,
even though they are vastly degraded
on almost every front.
Director of National Intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director
John Radcliffe testifying on Capitol Hill
describing the threat from Iran
unimpeded, yes, a senator.
They would have the ability to
range missiles to the continental U.S.
As former,
high-ranking counterterrorism official
Joe Kant who resigned in protest
over the war with Iran, arguing there had been no
imminent threat to the U.S.
appeared with supporter Tucker Carlson.
Was Iran
on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon?
No. They weren't
three weeks ago and this started.
But the CIA Director
is slamming Kant's accusation.
In fact, the intelligence reflects the contrary.
So you disagree with Mr. Kim?
I do.
Iran has been a constant threat to the United
States for an extended period of time
and posed an immediate threat
at this time.
Later, Democrats pressing Gabbard
who'd previously been a skeptic
of U.S. intervention abroad.
Was it the assessment of the intelligence community
that there was a, quote,
threat posed by the Iranian regime
yes or no?
Senator, the only person who can
determine what is and is not an imminent threat
is the president.
You're evading a question
because to provide a candid response to the committee
would contradict a statement
from the White House.
Gabe is joining us now from the White House.
Gabe, there's also a focus on that
critical straight of hormones,
getting it back open.
And you have some new reporting on that tonight.
The military dropped a four,
5,000-pound deep penetrating bombs,
often called bunker busters
that slammed into facilities
holding Iran's anti-ship cruise missiles
along the straight of hormones.
But they did not wipe out the entire inventory yet.
This is the first known time
the U.S. military has used these
in combat.
Gabe Gutierrez, thank you
to those new Iranian attacks on its neighbors.
Kier Simmons is in Saudi Arabia tonight
and Kier Iran is targeting the Saudi Capitol
even with foreign ministers holding a key meeting there.
That's right, Halley tonight.
We witnessed the most intense bombardment
of the Saudi Capitol yet.
Take a look at these pictures.
As Saudi authorities say they intercepted
every missile that debris
was caused to fall.
Halley, as we flew into Saudi Arabia today,
our plane had to circle
whole for 90 minutes until the
Capitol's airport could be reopened.
When we did get here,
we witnessed boom after boom,
even as regional foreign ministers
gathered together for an emergency meeting.
The Saudi foreign minister saying
he is trying to de-escalate, Halley.
But many of the countries here
are furious, Halley.
Tonight, we're hearing Qatar is saying
it is expelling Iranian diplomats, Halley.
A dramatic scene there.
Kier Simmons in Saudi Arabia, thanks.
Also tonight, with spring break in full swing,
some of the worst TSA lines we've seen yet
during this Homeland Security shutdown
and the man picked to lead that
department next, facing heat on Capitol Hill.
Here's Tom Castello.
Five weeks into the partial
government shutdown, and some of the
longest TSA lines we've seen yet,
hours-long lines in Miami.
We always get here like three hours early,
but some of the people are really curious.
Same in Atlanta, the line
weaving around the luggage carousels.
If you have a flight out of Atlanta today,
and the next couple of hours
get here as soon as possible.
And New York, LaGuardia.
You hear about three hours before you have a flight.
Making matters worse, an airport
ground stop and power failure in Denver.
The TSA says nearly 10 percent
of its entire workforce
called out Tuesday.
Also working without pay, the Coast Guard,
FEMA, and U.S. Cybersecurity.
Democrats and Republicans both insist
they want to fund Homeland Security.
Why are we not funding these agencies?
That protect Americans.
We have put on the floor
bills to fully fund TSA.
And my Republican colleagues
have objected.
But Republicans object to democratic demands
to include ice policing reforms.
Part of a contentious confirmation hearing
for Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
to replace outgoing DHS Secretary Christy Nome.
Today, Mullen refused to apologize
for calling Senator Rand Paul a snake.
And saying he understood why
Senator Paul's neighbor attacked him
in 2017, causing serious injuries.
I just wonder if someone who
applauds violence against their
political opponents is the right person
to lead an agency that is struggled
to accept limits to the proper use of force.
As far as me saying that I
invoke violence, I don't.
Mullen softened his position on some
immigration policies while defending
federal officers who shot and killed
two Americans in Minneapolis.
Though he said he regrets making
statements blaming Alex Pretti
for his own death.
I went out there too fast.
I was responding immediately
without the facts. That's my fault
that won't happen to Secretary.
Would you want to apologize to the
family of Alex Pretti?
Sir, I just said I regret those statements.
Is that the same as an apology?
I haven't seen the investigation.
We'll let the investigation go through.
In Washington and Tom, when you talk
about those long lines, the TSA
analysis it could stop operations
at some airports if this funding
fight keeps up. Right.
Bottom line is we're already seeing some
airports with 30, 40, 50% fewer staff
than they need. And we've already seen
Philadelphia, for example, consolidating
TSA positions. The TSA says if this
goes on, if people aren't getting paid
and they keep calling out sick,
TSA may have to close down some
airport operations, TSA operations
reports. Plenty to watch Tom.
Thank you. On the west coast, a
heat wave making history, sending
temperatures past a hundred and it's
not even spring yet. Liz Croyts reports
from a sweltering Los Angeles.
Across the west tonight, a scorching
march heat wave making winter feel
more like the height of summer.
From California to New Mexico,
38 million people under heat alerts.
Cities like Tucson and Phoenix
bracing for triple-digit temps.
Neither have ever before seen a
scorching march. Those are
June. Those are just light
temperatures. The Phoenix Fire
Department says already this week
they've had to make at least two
heat-related rescues on their hiking
trails, which the city is now closing
during the day through Sunday.
Multiple spring training games in the
area are also moving to evening hours.
Take breaks every 45 minutes.
Get in the cooler environment and
cool yourself down. In LA, the
blazing sun beating down on these
trails. We're going about one or
two o'clock. We are dying out
here. I mean, it is hot.
We rolled up yesterday at two
30 because it was so hot.
We drank four gainerades each
four water is like you can't get
enough fluids. Some ski resorts
now forced to close for the season
early. These images from veil
Colorado show parts of the slope
so melted you can see the grass.
And in Nebraska, the warm dry and
windy conditions continue to
reach the top of the mountain.
We're going to have a couple of
years that have now turned deadly
claiming the life of 86 year old
Rose White, a grandmother who died
trying to escape. Liz is joining us
now live from Altadena and Liz
not much heat relief inside anytime
soon. Yeah, Holly, that's right.
The sea wave is expected through
at least Sunday and we can feel it
right now. We're well into the 90s
here. You can see these incredible
temperatures. That would be the
highest temperature ever recorded
in the US in the month of March.
Holly, Liz Croix, thank you to
the disturbing new accusations
tonight against a civil rights
icon. Caesar Chavez considered a
hero of the labor movement in the
70s, but now years after his death
allegations emerging that he sexually
abused women and young girls.
Now some are calling for his name to
be removed from the schools and
streets named after him.
That's a great contract tonight
shocking allegations that Latino
labor rights icon Caesar Chavez,
whose name is on schools and
monuments across the country,
sexually abused women and girls
decades after his death.
Though not as weird that now 95
who co-founded the United
Farm Workers Union with Chavez
revealed in a statement he sexually
assaulted her twice.
The first time I was manipulated
and pressured into having sex with
Chavez against my will and in an
environment where I felt trapped.
Wyrtha says the encounters
resulted in two children with Chavez.
I chose to keep my pregnancy
secret and after the children were
born, I arranged for them to be
raised by other families that could
give them stable lives.
Her statement came after the New
York Times published an investigation
detailing Wyrtha's account along with
two other women who say Chavez
sexually abused them beginning when
12 and 13 years old.
NBC News has not spoken with the
women. One Anamurghia is seen here
next to Chavez during a march in
1975.
The Times said it found extensive
evidence to support the two women's
claims through interviews with more
than 60 people, union records
and confidential documents.
Neither the paper nor NBC News have
been able to corroborate Wyrtha's
claims, which she says she kept
secret for 60 years.
Chavez, together with Wyrtha,
led a movement widely credited
with transforming farm labor in the
United States.
It is a pleading for
social change for
social justice.
Guaranteeing union protections
health, safety and social services.
Tonight, his family acknowledging
the allegations, calling them deeply
painful, adding they wish peace
and healing to the survivors
and commend their courage to come
forward.
And Wyrtha says the farm workers
movement has always been bigger
and more important than any one
individual.
This, as the union he helped
found, says it won't participate
in any upcoming annual
remembrance events for Chavez's
birthday.
Kamehla Bernal, thank you.
To Switzerland now and the terrifying
video of a deadly gondola crash
at a ski resort.
Danielle Hemamjan has that story.
She's crashing down a mountain
side.
Video capturing the cable car
overturning multiple times
at this ski resort in Engelberg,
Switzerland.
After it detached from the cable
and plunged down the mountain.
The winds blowing at more than
50 miles an hour.
As a helicopter was dispatched
to the scene and people rushed
to help.
Police confirming only one person
had died.
A 61-year-old local woman who
later died of her injuries.
Police saying, as a result of
the accident, operations had to
be suspended and passengers had
to be evacuated.
The fatal crash, coming after a
particularly difficult season in
the Alps.
The new year began with a
fire in a club that killed more
than 40 people, many of them
teenagers.
Then weeks later, a series of
deadly avalanches.
Back in central Switzerland,
the cause of this
gondola crash still under
investigation.
Danielle Hemamjan NBC News
London.
When we return in 60 seconds,
an American college student missing
in Spain, his face on
flyers across Barcelona.
His family's desperately for help
to find him.
He's not pursued on
paddle boards.
How they caught a suspect to try
to make it downriver.
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of a University of Alabama student
gone missing on spring break in
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These are the missing person
who has been working with
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This is one of the most
blanketing Barcelona tonight
where American college students
are frantically searching for 20
year old Jimmy Gracie, the
Chicago area native and
University of Alabama junior
who mysteriously vanished from
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Last seen around 3 a.m. Tuesday,
this is a photo of Jimmy taking
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right? It's one of those things you
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I think that's what it is.
The government tells us Jimmy
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His dad has already made his way
to Spain while his mom and four
younger siblings cling to hope
here in the Chicago area.
Pally, Maggie Vespa, thank you.
We are back in a moment with a
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When we come back, would you ask second graders for marriage advice?
One teacher did.
They're words of wisdom before her big day.
Finally, there is good news tonight.
A second grade teacher turning to some unexpected experts before her wedding, her students.
For second grade teacher Clarissa Trevino, her most personal class assignment yet.
I love my students.
I absolutely love them.
They're the funniest kids.
I just wanted to have them involved with something with the wedding.
When her boyfriend Omar proposed, Trevino immediately started thinking about how to
include the class, so she turned to them for marriage tips.
The marriage advice I give my teacher is carefully telling him to give her flowers.
Get her starbucks every day.
Not eating each other snacks.
That one's very important too.
Now happily on their honeymoon, the couple says they've already started putting the advice
to good use.
To take her on a date, you go to a five star restaurant.
Yeah, like you go in places, you know, and I did just that.
When we got to Vegas where we had our wedding, I went ahead and got the corner table at
the Eiffel Tower.
Trevino, posting the words of wisdom on TikTok, where it now has half a million views.
The marriage advice I give my teachers to be kind and fun with each other.
You know, these are seven and eight year olds talking about, you know, love is kind.
You know, so it was really nice to kind of see how they thought.
You know, kids are amazing.
And that is good advice for all of us.
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