Nightly Files Full Broadcast – March 29

Tonight the major ramp up in the mission to clear that collapse bridge in Baltimore the largest crane on the East Coast now joining the operation the massive mechanical arm capable of lifting up to 1,000 tons arriving from one of the biggest Salvage operations ever plus a fleet of tugboats barges Coast Guard vessels and additional.

Cranes on the way one of the first major tasks cutting that bridge into pieces to make it easier to remove four workers missing and presumed dead in the water as officials race to reopen that busy Port also tonight the atmospheric River storms slamming the West this holiday weekend were tracking it all the violent chaos in Haiti the rare interview with.

The country's most Infamous Gang leader what he says it will take to get him to the table for ceasefire talks three presidents on one stage inside Joe Biden's fundraiser with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton the record-breaking Hall and former president Trump his new attempt to kick fonny Willis off that Georgia election case the mystery in.

Florida what's causing fish to behave like this and wash up dead this is NBC Nightly News with Lester Hol and good evening I'm Tom yamas in for Lester tonight it will be lengthy complicated and dangerous as work begins to clear wreckage of the Francis Scott Key bridge and the massive ship that crashed into it tonight a huge floating.

Crane you see it right here it's arrived on the scene it's the largest on the East Coast part of an armada of barges Salvage vessels and tugboats on the way a good part of that bridge will have to be sawed into pieces so it can be lifted off the ship and out of the water only then will ship traffic return to this part of Baltimore Harbor which we.

Observed hours after the deadly Collision it will take weeks even months President Biden will visit the site next week as investigators look at issues on the ship and the bridge that may have contributed to the disaster and it's where we begin tonight with NBC's Tom costell arriving at the site of Baltimore's bridge collapse the biggest.

Floating crane on the East Coast able to lift a th000 tons for one of the biggest Salvage missions ever just part of a flotilla now in route including the crane that lifted the Miracle on the Hudson plane out of the river in all seven floating cranes 10 tugboats nine barges eight Salvage vessels and five Coast Guard boats 8,000 local jobs are.

Waiting we need to clear the channel and open the vessel traffic to the port because the health of the Maryland economy and the national economy depend on it on the water the Army Corps of Engineers is using underwater drones and sonar to map the precise location of the wreckage then lay out a coordinated Salvage plan for divers how we can cut.

It up into the pieces we need to be able to lift NTSB investigators still interviewing crew members and Gathering evidence on the crushed cargo ship now trapped under the weight of Twisted steel a piece of Highway lying on top so take a look at the front of the ship at the at the bow of the ship and you see that piece of Steel that's lying across.

It that's 3 to 4,000 tons that is so heavy it's pushing the bow into the water down into the bottom of the the river and then it's lifting the stern up out of the water below the water line the river depth is roughly 50 ft to reopen the port the cranes will lift massive chunks of steel concrete and sunken cargo containers some hazardous.

All of it must be gone the sand on the bottom completely clean you can't leave any concrete any steel because it it's a it's a threat to the vessel we're going to get it all off the bottom and reopen this channel so it provides for safe navigation meanwhile in Honduras construction worker mayor Martin suazo's family in a heart-wrenching weight for.

His body to be recovered from the water in Baltimore his brother's saying we are still waiting with faith and hope that they will find his body so we can bring him home and with that Tom Costello joins us live tonight Tom still four victims unaccounted for lost underneath that water and we see there right behind.

You that massive 1,000 ton pound crane they're hoping will help in the recovery yeah it's prepositioned it's ready to go just part of the many ships and boats and operators that are coming in President Biden will be here next week meeting with incident commanders we expect and the government has now pledged to Maryland $60 million to help.

In the rebuilding process that will be a drop in the bucket of what could be a multi-billion doll price tag Tom yeah they're going to need a lot more than that all right Tom Costello leading us off tonight Tom we thank you here in New York three presidents help bring in a $26 million hall for the Biden campaign at that star studded fundraiser and it.

Had former president Trump firing back today here's Kelly O'Donnell with a dramatic flourish three presidents emerged Democratic donors posted their images of this entrance at a glitzy New York City fundraiser needling a fourth president Donald Trump with a Twist on the sensitive issue of age in this clip.

Released by the B C I mean all the things he's doing are so old speaking of old and uh you know a little old and out of shape but anyway tapping into the political skills of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to sell the Biden agenda Democrats looking for a Counterpoint to polling that shows voter.

Frustrations with President Biden you've got record-breaking job growth you've got an unemployment rate that is as low as it has been for African-Americans by the way the lowest on record ever tickets started at $250 but donations soared as high as a half million for the star studded night the event raised $26 million while outside a large and Loud.

Protest over President Biden's policy on the Israel Hamas War meanwhile former president Trump creat created his own contrast joining mourners grieving NYPD officer Jonathan Diller who was shot and killed the suspect a repeat offender Mr Trump slamming President Biden for not directly reaching out to the Dillers they could have called you don't have to.

Be a rocket scientist to know even a call would be perhaps I'm not sure they' take his call and new in the Georgia election interference case Mr Trump's lawyers are asking an appeals court to remove Fulton County DA fonny Willis and to dismiss the case Tom Kelly odonnell with that new reporting from the White House Kelly thank you we now go to Haiti.

We tonight the notorious gang leader who many say is in charge of the capital sat down for an interview with our partners at Sky News his demand that gangsters be allowed to join the new government here's Ellison Barber what gunfire arson this is life in hai's capital city the country's National Police unable to.

To match the Firepower of gangs Jimmy barbecue ched is arguably the face of Hades gang wars he controls large swats of territory and heads the powerful G9 group in Alliance support of Prince's biggest gangs in a rare interview with Sky news's Stuart Ramsey barbecue says he is willing to consider a ceasefire but seem to suggest the.

Newly formed transitional presidential Council must include gang leaders in Northern Haiti that divide is evident what we keep hearing from people is that one of the big concerns in areas outside of Port of prin is less the violence and less so worry about the gangs and more.

Right now the concern is about how they do things like this wash their clothes how they get food how they get clean water it's harder right now to get everything earlier this week the Biden Administration approved a proposal to send Hades police $10 million worth of weapons ammunition bulletproof vest and helmets all from a Department of.

Homeland Security stock pipe but to many it has not come soon enough Ellison Barber NBC News and in the Middle East dozens are reported dead in Syria tonight after an apparent air strike by Israel raising fears of a wider conflict in the region NBC's Raph Sanchez is in Israel tonight Raph what more do we.

Know Tom this is the largest apparent Israeli attack in Syria in years according to a war monitoring group they say this strike in Aleppo killed not just 36 Syrian soldiers but also six militants from the Iranian group Hezbollah now Israel is not claiming responsibility for this strike but remember Hezbollah dominates Southern.

Lebanon they are aligned with Hamas but they are larger and they are more powerful and earlier today Israel says it killed a senior Hezbollah Commander responsible for Rocket attacks on Israeli civilians the militants are confirming his death and they are vowing revenge and all of this is Raising fears that without a ceasefire deal this war.

Could spread well beyond Gaza Tom Raph Sanchez for us Raph thank you for that back here at home an atmospheric river is taking aim at the West Coast this holiday weekend 21 million people under flood alerts in Southern California including LA and San Diego as storms push through tonight and tomorrow areas in the mountains could see up to 2 feet.

Of snow now to our rare interview with the cia's top cyber security official speaking out on Election interference Tik Tock and your passwords she sat down with Courtney Cub what would you say is the the the foreign government that is I guess causing you the most heartburn right now oh gosh um I heard somebody make a great analogy they said um Russia.

And Putin right now are like a massive hurricane that can have some very longlasting damage and impact uh but the People's Republic of China and the threat of conflict in the Far East is like climate change um the potential for epical like an epic uh event that could really change lives Julianne Galina's title may sound bureaucratic I'm the.

Deputy director of the CIA for digital Innovation but her portfolio is Broad and essential appointed in February she's in charge of the cia's efforts to detect and protect against cyber threats from abroad among her foremost concerns threats to us elections particularly Russia spreading false information creating doubt and swaying us officials.

And with China she sees efforts to influence us opinion as the biggest threat if you're changing the minds of a group of people or many people that's hard to undo it's hard to even know what the source was or how it happened including on social media are you on Tik Tok no neither are her kids or her parents she says I tell them don't touch.

It Tik Tok denies being owned by the Chinese government but back at CIA headquarters her biggest concern might surprise you honestly the the thing that that concerns me the most is worrying that maybe someone in my Enterprise still has password 123 as the password um it's you know in other words basic cyber hygiene Courtney QB NBC News.

Langley Virginia and we are marking a troubling anniversary tonight one year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan gerscovich was detained in Russia here's Andrea Mitchell on today's first anniversary of Evan gerscovich arrest in Russia the Wall Street journal's Front Page was mostly blank white columns where his.

Reporting should have been and a searing story on what Evan has lost during a year in jail journalism is not a crime prominent journalists gathered at the Wall Street Journal this week for a 24-hour readathon of evans's work a year is a long time for his parents do you think they're doing enough we have a commitment from the US government we.

Know they're working hard and we just uh want them to continue doing last month the possibility of a trade was raised in an oval office meeting between President Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Schulz two sources tell NBC News Schultz for the first time considered giving up a Russian assassin Putin wants who's in a German prison in exchange for Alexi.

Naali the US wanted the deal to also include Evan and Paul wheelan an American businessman imprisoned in Russia for what the US says are false Espionage charges a week later navani died the sources say before the trade was proposed to the Kremlin today President Biden's message for Evan and his.

Family did you ever think it would last this long we knew that it was going to be a marathon but still had hopes that it will be sooner tonight congress's four leaders in a rare bipartisan statement saying reporters are not bargaining chips and calling on the Kremlin to release Evan and all who are wrongfully.

Detained Tom and tonight we are all thinking about Evan and his family all right Andrea thank you in just 60 seconds the mystery in the waters of South Florida why are big fish spining uncontrollably and then dying off to search for answers next all right we're back now with a.

Baffling underwater mystery scientists are trying to figure out the strange phenomenon impacting fish in the Florida Keys causing them to spin out of control and then wash up dead here's Marissa par in the shimmering Blue Waters of the Florida Keys long the jewel of Florida southern coast a mystery lurks beneath the surface fish with the spins flipping.

And spinning without stop in my lifetime of Dives I've never seen any Behavior like this from fish at all diver Greg fenworth first observed it last year and soon learned the fish including these small tooth sawfish which can grow up to 16 ft were dying scientists are struggling to understand why it's unprecedented they do not spin like this.

They do do not behave like this this is not normal behavior at all that highly unusual behavior has been seen in more than 40 species according to florid deficient Wildlife necropsies on dead fish have revealed no side of a pathogen or bacterial infection State officials say oxygen levels water solidity pH and temperature are not believed to be the.

Cause bewildering researchers it's a mystery there's so many different possibilities that it's really difficult to isolate which one it could be 28 sawfish have been found dead but the actual number believed to be even higher a blow to this critically endangered species that was early in its road to recovery so to see these animals dying.

Could be a major setback we want to get to the bottom of it and figure out uh a way a way to to come back from this Fisheries in the Florida Keys remain open though State officials say swimming where dead fish are observed isn't recommended why do we need to protect the ecosystem and the fish that live here it's very special future.

Generations need to be able to appreciate it the same way I did para NBC News the Florida Keys that's Nightly News for this Friday I'm Tom yamas thanks so much for watching have a great night thanks for watching stay updated about breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or follow us on social media.

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