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Tonight the house overwhelmingly voting for a bill that could ban Tick Tock over National Security concerns and a bipartison vote the house passing legislation that would bar Tik Tock the video sharing app with 170 million users in the US unless its China based owner sells the platform but will it pass the Senate we're at the capital also tonight.

The major winter storm it could be the worst to hit the Denver area in years we're tracking it the news on Boeing the NTSB saying security video of repair work on that door plug before it blew off in midair was erased the judge in the Georgia election interference case dismissing some of the charges against Donald Trump why were they thrown out.

The US deploying Marines to Haiti as the country spirals into violent chaos and the bestselling author airlifted out his harrowing escape the new test for one of the deadliest forms of cancer NBC News investigates an Oklahoma town divided you are a leader in an Oklahoma chapter of a white nationalist organization and I want to know if you.

Have any explanation to that the city official at the center of a firestorm and ringing in Spring the phone hotline that will lead you to the most beautiful sites of the season this is NBC Nightly News with Lester H good evening and welcome the end of tick tock As We Know know it in the.

United States maybe closer tonight after the House of Representatives passed a bill that could impose a ban on the hugely popular video sharing app in the US concerns over Tik tok's Chinese parent company and a potential National Security risk carried the day in the house the bill approved on a 352 to 65 vote with one Democrat voting present in.

All 50 Democrats and 15 Republicans voted against the bill which now heads to the Senate Tik Tock which denies its Service as a spy tool claims 7 million small businesses and 170 million American users and in a statement urges the Senate to consider the facts listen to their constituents and realize the impact on the economy Republican house.

Speaker Mike Johnson applauding the vote in a statement saying it signals our resolve to deter our enemies NBC Savannah sellers has details the bill needed two-thirds of the house to pass and it got that easily the Y's are 352 the Nays are 65 now it goes to the Senate where it will likely face a.

Tougher road if signed into law it would give Chinese parent company bite dance just six months to divest tick talk or face the possibility of a ban on the app the legislation prompted by National Security concerns including fears the Chinese government could access Americans personal data and feed them content that would influence their views.

Our intent is for Tik Tok to continue to operate but not under the control of the Chinese Communist Party 50 Democrats and 15 Republicans voted no it's an overly broad bill that I don't think will withstand First Amendment scrutiny it's opening Pandora's Box and I'm opposed to this bill aligning with former president Trump who once tried to ban Tik Tok but.

Now says he's against that Tik Tok fighting back hard even flying creators to Washington hello this is my son Jason Linton shares his life as a dad with his 13 million followers what would it mean for you and your family if Tik Tok were to be banned in the US it would be devastating being able to to Just Launch out a positive message would be.

Completely stopped wish it was a bad dream but it's not JT laborne uses Tik Tok to promote his clothing company do you think this could impact how people vote 100% there will be people that will not be reelected because of the way they choose to vote on this fan t talk says it has 170 million users in the US according to.

An NBC News poll 22% of Voters say they use the app once a day or more the potential political Fallout with those young voters not lost on some Senators cutting out a large group of young voters is not uh the best known strategy for reelection Republican Mike Gallagher one of the Bill's sponsors says that's not a good enough reason to ignore a.

Looming national security threat I don't think courting the clicks of 17-year-old should take precedence over allowing our foremost foreign adversary to dominate what is increasingly becoming the primary news source for Americans under the age of 30 Tik Tock says its CEO was on the hill today but it's unclear if he met with.

Lawmakers the company maintains it is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government this legislation if sign into law will lead to a ban of Tik Tok in the United States Savannah what's a thinking on how this bill might fa in the Senate its future is uncertain Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been non-committal about bringing it up for a vote.

Meanwhile the leaders of the Senate intelligence committee released a statement praising the bill and calling for Senate action President Biden has said that if it passes he will sign it Lester Savannah sellers at the capital tonight thank you so just what is the Potential Threat to National Security that many say tick tock poses and how.

Could your data potentially be used senior Washington correspondent hiy Jackson reports it's not the trends that worry top us officials but the threats they say Tik Tock poses sounding the alarm about the popular apps chinese-based ownership Tik Tok presents serious National Security risks to the people at the United States.

Americans need to ask themselves whether they want to give the Chinese government the ability to control access to their data like many apps Tik Tok collects user information like IP addresses approximate location synced contacts and and more the concern not only that China the CCP might be able to see all that info but how they could use it.

Especially in an election year you cannot rule out that the CCP could again use Tik Tock as a platform to influence 2020 2024 elections right we cannot rule out that the CCP could use it correct now fears the Chinese government could covertly spread Miss and disinformation all of it part of a broader battle with one of the world's biggest economic.

Power houses I think this is one of the rungs on the way up the ladder of a cold war type dispute between the United States and China there's so many more opportunities for the Chinese to influence the American population Tik tok's already banned on government-owned devices in the US and in countries like Canada and Australia India banned the.

App altogether Tik Tok has long insisted it works to protect personal info pointing out new US user data is stored on a us-based cloud and it denies China's government controls the app the bottom line is this American data stored on American soil by an American company overseen by American Personnel in a letter to Congress Tik Tok says it's.

Invested more than $1.5 billion dollars to address concerns and argues us data could be less secure if the company is sold Lester hie thank you also tonight what could be the biggest snowstorm in years about to hit Denver and severe weather headed for parts of the Midwest Bill Currin joins us he's tracking it all Lester this crippling snowstorm will.

Be all day tomorrow but we're already starting out with some really strong thunderstorms we have two severe thunderstorm watches one for the St Louis area one in areas of Central Kansas and we may get another one shortly over the Kansas City area these thunderstorms will be blossoming and going all night long as far as the risk.

Area goes Kansas City to St Joseph you're in that enhanced risk and then tomorrow we have a chance of severe storms all the way from Dallas to just south of Chicago so isolated tornadoes too as far as the snow goes we got about 6 to 5 million people that are in these watches warnings the hardest hit areas will be from Denver into the Foothills.

Someone will get 3 to four feet of heavy wet crippling snow and power adages for the Denver area at least a foot with this big storm all right Bill thank you tonight the head of the NTSB says investigators are still missing critical information from Boeing about that max9 door plug that blew out over Portland Tom Castello covers Aviation Force Tom.

The NTSB Chief is clearly frustrated she is Jennifer homedy said says Boeing has still not provided important details that NTSB investigators need about why that door plug blew out and why four bolts that holded in place were missing in a letter to Congress homy writes today we still do not know who performed the work to open reinstall and close the.

Door plug on the accident aircraft Boeing has informed us that they are unable to find the records documenting this work investigators asked for security footage from the factory floor Becka niip in the fall however she writes they were informed the footage was overwritten Boeing insists it has cooperated fully and it has security.

Videos that are kept for just 30 days on average Lester all right Tom Castello thank you let's turn out of a deepening crisis in Haiti the US sending in a new contingent of Marines to guard the embassy and Americans making some harrowing escapes including a best-selling author Gabe Gutierrez reports from neighboring Dominican.

Republic tonight with Haiti in utter chaos a new team of US Marines has been sent to help protect the American Embassy this is what hell on Earth sounds like a nighttime gun battle in Porter Prince captured on a terrified bystander cell phone another woman haian American Shel humor says an armed gang kicked her out.

Of her home and threatened to kill her if she went back we are so frightened for our lives we can't never go back home she's now desperately trying to escape and meet up with her family in Miami but the border and the airports are shut down also suddenly trapped bestselling author Mitch album visiting an orphanage is Charity runs in Haiti.

You can't go anywhere you know you can't get out that's how Haitians live every single day then a harrowing escape a stealth private helicopter mission rescued album and orphanage staffers you know the fear is that the gangs are going to shoot at the helicopters that's they they did they've done that we're all on top of one another not in seats.

Just a big ball of humanity and the door closed and and within 60 seconds we were up in the air in the dark and and and flying ha's prime minister just said he'd step down as soon as a new interim government took over but a notorious gang leader known as barbecue is calling for civil war here in the neighboring Dominican Republic the government is.

Stopping desperate Haitians from coming and in Florida the governor is already deploying extra law enforcement and drones in anticipation of a possible migrant influx from Haiti Lester Gabe Gutierrez thank you and back home now it is official the Biden Trump rematch is set after both candidates clinch their nominations Tuesday and Mr Trump today.

Getting some good legal news in Georgia Peter Alexander has late details tonight The Showdown is set the rematch polls say most Americans were hoping wouldn't happen between President Biden and former president Trump late today the president here in Battleground Wisconsin my predecessor who failed the most basic Duty any president owes the American.

People the duty to care the latest polls show the race in Wisconsin is tight how many bagels are you guys making a day uh on the weekdays we're doing 800 900 at Ali boy bagelery in Milwaukee owners Ben nearen Housen and Stacy Lopez tell us their costs are rising but they've resisted raising prices we're playing with what uh consumers are willing to.

Pay versus what we have to pay these Democrats are anxious about the economy but it's social issues like abortion rights solidifying their support for the president where almost turning the clock backwards is very frightening overnight Mr Trump taking aim at the president there's never been anybody worse at doing that job than Joe Biden Matt.

Leopard owns an auto repair shop in wakaa County telling us more customers are coming in because it's cheaper to fix an older car than to buy a new one these guys should be buying a new car but these days yeah you just you can't afford it you got a family you got a house mortgage he reports Mr Trump saying America is worse off than it was.

Four years ago I want my economy back I want our national security back I want our tax money to stay here meanwhile a Georgia judge today dismissed six charges in the election interference case involving Mr Trump saying they were too vague including a charge related to this phone call where the former president pressured Georgia's Secretary.

Of State I just want to find uh 11,780 votes which is one more that we have the judge left the door open for prosecutors to refile those charges Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty President Biden heads the campaign events in Michigan tomorrow while former president Trump will be in a Florida courtroom in.

His classified documents case Lester Peter Alexander thank you in 60 seconds screening for colon cancer the new blood test that could be a GameChanger right after this we're back with a new way to test for colon cancer the second leading cause of cancer deaths among American adults and Thompson is here with more on.

A promising study and it really is Lester colon cancer can be treatable if it's caught early but more than 40% of adults 45 and older don't follow screening guidelines often deterred by colonoscopies or atome stool tests now a large new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports a blood test was able to detect 83% of col rectal.

Tumors while colonoscopy is still the most accurate screening this new test is designed for people with average risk of colon cancer and no family history the test is already available but since it's not approved by the FDA yet it is not covered by insurance and costs about $900 the test maker Garden Health tells us the FDA will be approving or will be.

Considering approving the test later this year I know you'll be following it in thanks very much coming out the town that put a man who ran a white nationalist group on the city council now some are now trying to vote him out our investigation is next now to our NBC News investigation.

Enid is a small community in Oklahoma but tonight it's a town divided over its identity reputation and an official who once led a local chapter of a white nationalist group Brandy zadra has our report it's an unusual meet up on a Monday night in Enid Oklahoma the location is secret somebody mins the door for.

Security a small group determined to change their city so everybody in this room played a role among those here are 69-year-old Connie Vickers I was born and rais here in Enid and 74-year-old Nancy prel I've lived here most of my life their best friends and Democrats rare in the deeply conservative County both retired but hard at work how many.

Doors did you knock on I don't know it was a lot enough to get the signatures needed for a recall election of City Commissioner Jud bevens this is Jud bevens in 2017 tiki torch in hand in Charlottesville Virginia marching alongside a vowed white supremacists and neo-nazis I saw the picture of Jed bevens with the tiki.

Torch and I was like just shocked the more they looked the more they found bevens had been an active leader in the white nationalist group identity Europa according to an analysis of photos biographical details and other information blevens hid his white nationalist identity behind the online moniker Conway in private online forums.

Reviewed by NBC news blevens as Conway posted racist messages and praised Hitler and yet when the former Marine ran for City Commissioner last year as a Conservative Republican he won by 36 votes let go now presidental and Vickers are part of the Enid social justice committee vocal opponents of blev since he took office the group mincing no.

Words on its website saying Enid has a Nazi problem a lot of people don't want to say the word Nazi but when you see what he did and what he's involved with you know it's not name calling it's what he is and what he believes we wanted to ask blevens what he believes for ourselves but he denied our multiple requests for interviews we tried once.

More outside a city council meeting can I ask you were a leader in an Oklahoma chapter of a white nationalist organization and I want to know if you have any explanation to that here here why did you march and unite the right why did you hold a tiki torch and March as Jews will not repace I've been a conservative all my life Cindy Allen.

Was editor publisher of the Enid news and Eagle when bevens won her paper had published a front page story about his past prior to the election blevens called it a hit piece we followed up uh many times and he never would answer us and yet he won he won There's an opportunity now to address what kind of Tolerance of extremism this community is.

Going to have Enid's mayor David Mason also a Conservative Republican says behind closed door War Levens admitted to his involvement in white nationalist activities and my follow-up question was are you still involved with those groups and he told me I do not have to answer that question and my my thought was you just did bevan's opponent in the recall.

Election set for April 2nd is a republican too she didn't want to talk about the race with us a race that most here see us squarely about Levens if we vote him in a second time it probably says a lot about about who we are that identity is exactly what Vickers and presal are working for National white supremacist.

Organizations have called you to outrageous antifa Commandos badge of honor what happens if you don't win we keep putting up a fight we're we're not going to put up with it quietly fighting they say for the soul of their City Brandy zadra and BC News Enid Oklahoma and we'll take a break but there's more had next to call.

Back to a simpler time the hotline to Spring where to find the best wild flowers finally the most beautiful sites of spring are just a phone call away here's Liz Kitz as spring emerges all around Southern California the hills are alive with the sound of displays of San verb.

Dun evening primrose that's actor Joe Spano seen on NCIS and in Apollo 13 welcome and heard on one of California's most quirky Traditions the wildf flower hotline what is it that gives you so much joy about being part of this hotline every year there's no downside to beautiful flowers coming out of the ground the weekly telephone hotline.

Started 41 years ago by the Theodore Payne Foundation a way for the group's botanist to let fellow flower enthusiasts find the best spring blooms pick up the phone and call yeah just pick up the phone and call I mean there's something you know Charming about it right now getting to some of the most popular spots like here in the.

Anoro desert does require a drive but for all these colors folks say it's worth it and this is just the start of the Season experts say just wait this year's rain could lead to another Super Bloom like recent years in the cizo plane and analou Valley imagine someone taking a paintbrush and just flinging paint across the hills I'm glad we did.

This that vision is what brought chandini Sharma all the way from Oklahoma showing it off to her friend in India it's just so beautiful and so colorful so colorful I dreamt of it all night a simple yet extraordinary pleasure preserved by painters you turn the other way photographers and a voice sharing this.

Natural wonder with the world we have the right conditions for an excellent Wildflower viewing season LZ CS NBC News Los Angeles just gorgeous that's Nightly News for the this Wednesday thanks for watching I'm Lester Hull please take care of yourself and each other good night thanks for watching stay updated about breaking news and top stories on.

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