Nightly News Full Broadcast - Feb. 5

breaking news tonight the state of emergency has a deadly and historic storm slams the West Coast the extremely dangerous storm fueled by an atmospheric River bearing down on Southern California Los Angeles getting a month's worth of rain in a single day widespread flooding mudslides forcing evacuations in the Hollywood Hills at least three people dead from the storm Swift water rescues firefighters reaching three people clinging to a tree we're in the storm Zone also tonight King Charles diagno

sed with cancer what we know about his treatment and plans for Prince Harry to return to the UK to be with him the new US strikes on houthi Rebels NBC News the only news organization embedded with the US Navy in the Red Sea right as those strikes were launched Senators revealing their long awaited bipartisan deal on the border but House Republicans calling it Dead on Arrival is there a path forward after that midair emergency the new problem bowling has discovered on some of its 737s the 9/11 fi

refighter in that iconic image beside President George W bush at Ground Zero how he's being remembered and before it became the birthplace of jazz the hidden history of New Orleans as America's first city of Opera this is NBC Nightly News with Lester hold good evening and welcome the situation is serious tonight for 33 million people living under flood alerts from one end of California to the other many facing Relentless rain Rising Waters fast moving mudslides and widespread power outages the s

evere weather system fueled by a so-called atmospheric River roared in yesterday and is already blamed for several deaths in Northern California The Weather Service calling these high-risk days a distinction reserved for only the most dangerous flood potential tonight Los Angeles taking the brunt of it with several several locations registering double digigit rainfall amounts in a 24-hour span making for LA's wetest single day in 19 years there have been some harrowing rescues and evacuations as

the heavy rains have sent mud and debris crashing through Southern California neighborhoods it's where we begin tonight with correspondent Liz KZ tonight we're lless rain battering California up and down the coast the destructive atmospheric River causing spin outs landslides and flooding in northern California three people have now died from falling trees in Napa storms flooding this church the pews now covered in plastic as the storm moves South Los Angeles feeling the brunt getting more than

a month's worth of rain in one day only leave your house if it is absolutely necessary overnight several people forced to evacuate their homes near the Hollywood Hills after this mudslide tore through their neighborhood my mom started screaming Spencer masimoto was watching Indiana Jones when he heard the debris and boulders rushing down the street it's kind of scary his dad took this video as the family escaped in their pajamas now back home their front door blocked by mut and this is what the

neighborhood now looks like these mangled screen doors toppled trees Electronics rocks Boulders debris everywhere it's a similar story near Beverly Hills where a Mudslide buried This SUV did you expect it to be this bad who would this is crazy out here and in enino a landslide seriously damaged several homes this one nearly falling off the cliff much of California getting shocking rainfall totals parts of LA seeing 10 in in 24 hours in San Bernardino First Responders rescuing this family from R

aging Waters this video from the Santa Cruz Coast shows strong winds blowing seaf foam across the pier meantime some areas starting to ease like Santa Barbara evacuations lifted after torrential downpour Sunday washing up this sailboat and causing flooding downtown this backyard here is just get wre but the monster Storm still hovering slowly on the Move Orange County in San Diego now on high alert and Liz the rain still coming down in places when is it all expect to ease well Lester it's not le

tting up right now and here you can just see the power of this storm here this SUV got pushed across the road from the driveway by that mudslide and more downpours are expected we're very much still in the thick of this storm the mayor is telling people to work from home and to stay off the roads if they can Lester all right Liz CZ thank you from London the news tonight that King Charles has cancer and it's it's not related to his recent treatment for an enlarged prostate Molly Hunter reports fr

om Buckingham Palace where the king is cancelling his public events tonight Buckingham Palace announcing King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer just a week after the 75-year-old Monarch was released from a London Hospital following a routine prostate procedure in good spirits walking out waving to the crowd with wife Queen Camila by his side in the statement released to tonight the palace not saying what kind of cancer it is only revealing that during the king's recent Hospita

l procedure for benign prostate enlargement a separate issue of concern was noted subsequent diagnostic tests have identified a form of cancer according to Buckingham Palace Charles began outpatient treatment today in London so the king actually by disclosing some of those personal details about his prostate issues just recently was in some ways breaking with tradition the queen was certainly much more private about her health the palace confirms he shared his diagnosis personally with sons Harr

y and William and a source close to Harry and Megan tells NBC News Harry will travel to the UK to visit his father in coming days Charles who's been King for just 18 months was last seen out at church yesterday and bugging and Palace says he will continue to undertake State business and official paperwork and will postpone upcoming events I think we will expect to see certainly William do more duties over the next couple of months which will be difficult for him according to the Palace Queen cam

ela will continue with a full schedule of Royal duties and Molly we just heard Prince William will likely take on more engagements what more do we know Lesar that's exactly right we learned today that Prince William will return to the public eye this week for the first time since his wife Kate princess of Wales had abdominal surgery and really with King Charles out of the public eye for the next couple of weeks the burden of Royal duties will fall to Prince William Molly Hunter Thank you new att

acks by Iran backed houy militants on ships in the Red Sea despite retaliatory strikes by the US on houthi and other Iran link targets Courtney Cub is the only reporter embedded with the Navy in the Red Sea while it's conducting these strikes she has our exclusive report tonight the the Iranian back toothy militia again firing on commercial ships in the Red Sea and vowing more is to come despite new US retaliatory strikes designed to deter them we will not hesitate to defend lives and the free f

low of Commerce we were there on Saturday night just after 10 p.m. when the US and British military hit 36 houie Targets in 13 locations we're on the deck of the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the southern Red Sea this is where over the weekend more than two dozen US military aircraft took off to conduct strikes against the houthi rebels in Yemen Captain Marvin Scott flew an fa18 in those strikes calling them a success we do extensive Mission planning everyone launches knowing you k

now what the game plan is we rarely Miss Lieutenant Commander Alex Morgan is a helicopter pilot did we think we'd be doing it here in the Red Sea my crystal ball was broken that day but uh the way we do it hasn't changed dramatically the commander of the carrier strike group telling us there is still significant danger here how big of a threat do the houthis pose to freedom of navigation right now uh a substantial threat they could attack a commercial ship uh render it uh somewhat in U immobile

uh and could bog the straight up for weeks if not months and he says the houthis are getting critical help from Iran they are getting intelligence uh from Iran uh they are using using uh Iran uh to give them some targeting information the commanding officer saying all of it creates a threat to the US military too are you worried about the safety of the sailors on this ship absolutely uh am I worried about the safety of the ship uh every single day this comes as the US is also retaliating against

the Iranian back militias responsible for a drone attack that killed three US soldiers hitting 85 Targets in seven locations inside Iraq and Syria on Friday theid president has been under pressure to respond more forcefully with over 160 attacks by Iranian back militants against American targets since October Mr Biden declaring the new US strikes a success are the strikes working Mr President yeah meanwhile these missions are also leaving a mark with the American Service members carrying them o

ut seeing missiles being launched from aircraft the explosions associated with all of these things it's a lot of sights and sounds that will be etched in my brain forever forever according other there signs that these strikes have deterred the militias well Lester there were reports of at least two new incidents over the weekend in which Iranian backed militias targeted bases with Americans in Syria but there were no reports of any injuries Lester all right Courtney qby thank you in Chile author

ities say intense wildfires in the central part of the country have now killed at least 122 people hundreds more are missing Chile's President says the fires have burned down at least 3,000 homes they started on Friday and were fueled by record heat and drought much of South America is in the grip of an intense heat wave in Washington backlash by Republicans and some Democrats to that bipartisan Senate border security Bill house Speaker Mike Johnson calling it even worse than expected while Pres

ident Biden is praising it Ryan Nobles has late details for us tonight growing backlash to the newly revealed bill designed to beef up border security House Republicans calling it dead un arrival I just don't believe that the Senate Bill meets the criteria that's necessary to solve the problem the new legislation negotiated by a small group of bipartisan Senators provides $60 billion to help support Ukraine and 14.1 billion for Israel but the battle is over $20 billion worth of reforms to the na

tion's migration system the bill expands the number of detention facilities all allows for an emergency declaration when more than 5,000 migrants cross on a given day and raises the standards for migrants to qualify for Asylum GOP negotiator James Langford urging Republicans to pass it when we had a republican house Republican Senate and president Trump as President we weren't able to pass border security pieces President Biden supportive too we don't have enough agents we need help why won't th

ey give me the help but Republican critics arguing the bill makes the crisis worse including by still allowing migrants to be released into the US pending Asylum hearings they've been releasing people into uh into the country uh without detaining them now this bill would say that's okay but Democrats insist Republicans are taking their marching orders from former president trump our new NBC News poll shows 57% of Voters believe Mr Trump would handle border security best just 22% pick Mr Biden th

ey want to keep the Border unsolved as a problem so that it benefits them in the upcoming election is President Trump the one driving the House Republicans when it comes to this issue the answer is no they had the Border solved under the Trump Administration and the Biden Administration has completely undone all that work and Ryan some Democrats are also criticizing this deal that's right Lester Progressive Democrats are worried the immigration reforms go a bit too far and they're also concerned

about unconditioned Aid to Israel meanwhile Republicans are meeting behind closed doors to determine if there's enough votes to move forward or if they should kill the bill ler Ryan Noble's out Capitol Hill for us tonight thank you in 60 seconds the new quality control issue affecting deliveries of Boeing 737 Max planes of the discovery and what it means next there are new troubles for Boeing tonight one month after the midair emergency involving a door plug the aviation Giants saying it is dis

covered a produ ction error that will further delay deliveries of new 737 Max planes here's Tom Costello it's more evidence that boing's quality control problems extend through its supply chain boing now says it will likely delay deliveries of some 737s after a supplier discovered two holes may not have been drilled exactly to our requirements Spirit Aeros systems makes the fuselage it struggled for years with production problems the Mis drilled holes were on a window window frame Boeing says 50

undelivered 737s will need a fix though it insists it's not an immediate flight safety issue and all 737s can continue operating safely Spirit now says engineering determined that there is no safety of flight issue and it will work with Boeing one month after a door plug blew out on a Max 9 over Portland grounding the entire fleet the FAA today said nearly 94% have been inspected and return to service but boing's quality control remains under investigation and heightened scrutiny and we'll ensu

re that those airplanes meet all safety standards before we can approve them for delivery after a recent safety standown on the max production line the company received a thousand employee suggestions for improvement Boeing CEO insists that includes Spirit AOS systems we own our supply chain we own Spirit we own the results of our work we understand that we really do tomorrow FAA Chief Whitaker will be on Capitol Hill as members of Congress demand answers and accountability Lester all right Tom

thank you also there's new video from the moment that deadly earthquake struck in Japan on New Year's Day a cyclist struggling for balance and a building collapsing just feet away the video also showing people trapped in their car as it's rocked by the force of the Quake the earthquake left more than 200 people dead coming up the other candidate for president and what it could mean for the general election the rise of Robert F Kennedy Jr [Music] next we're back now to talk about the candidate th

rowing a big question mark into the 2024 race Robert F Kennedy Jr the independent who is drawing attention and controversy has both major parties concerned he could shake up the race he spoke with Von hilard Kennedy tonight with the Biden Trump rematch looking likely there is an independent trying to make this a three-way race if you give me a sword and some ground to stand on I will give you back your country Robert F Kennedy Jr is mounting an increasingly credible bid to qualify for the 2024 b

allot more than 55 years after his father's presidential run how confident are you that you could actually win the White House I think I can win the White House a new NBC News poll shows 34% of Voters suggesting could see themselves supporting him but both Biden and Trump's allies fear he could play spoiler who do you think you will draw more voters away from Donald Trump or Joe Biden I mean I hope to draw equal numbers from both of them I think at this point I'm probably drawing more from presi

dent Trump trump himself even praising Kennedy he's a very good man and he's uh his heart is in the right place and he's doing really well President Biden has not even publicly acknowledged Kennedy's campaign in Environmental Lawyer Kennedy left the Democratic party last year you're a Republican and you're saying that you would be open to considering RFK Jr yeah Kennedy speaks often about America's income gap what's the main issue for you that brought you to it oh corporate Greed for sure but he

has drawn scrutiny from Democrats including for his discredited assertions vaccines cause autism and his recent staunch criticism of the co shots would you have tried to stop the FDA from approving the the co I would have said that they need to do science to show that the vaccine is actually going to avert more problems than it's uh that and it's causing so would you have sought to stop the FDA from approving the I I know my my policy is not going to interfere with anybody who wants to take a v

accine some of his views LED four prominent members of his own family to say he does not share the same values as their father why should Americans ignore those words well you know listen I I disagree with my family on a lot of stuff I have family members who strongly support me and Kennedy tells us he now intends to name his vice presidential running mate within the next month Lester Von hilard thank you coming up the by You music tradition being rediscovered the sound of New Orleans before [Mu

sic] Jazz I can hear you it was one of the iconic images after the 911 attacks President George W bush at Ground Zero with his arm around Bob Beckwith a retired New York firefighter like so many Beckwith jumped in to help after the terrorist attacks in 2011 tonight the sad news that Bob Borth has died after battling cancer he was 91 and as we Mark Black History Month a footnote being revealed and celebrated in New Orleans the music embraced by the city before there was Jazz Priscilla Thompson ex

plains before becoming the birthplace of jazz New Orleans in the late 1700s was a city of Opera would regular people just be out in the streets singing too oh yeah absolutely and they knew all of the operatic Aras and free people of color found success as classical music Ians a history that javana Joseph says has been largely erased why don't we know about these black composers and black singers Jim Crow laws and a lot of the musicians that had found work here they started losing those jobs now

javana and her daughter Arya Mason are working to restore that Heritage through oper Creole finding the lost works of local composers of color and giving them a long overdue American debut including Edmund de's Moran believed to be the first full Opera composed by a black American we can see actually the artistic process taking place the conductor helping bring the 550 page handwritten Opera to life is Patrick Dupre Quigley this piece of music is the most important piece of American music that n

o one has ever heard Moran will premere in New Orleans New York and DC for javana and Arya a chance to expand the cannon of Great opera [Music] Works restorative justice is our goal Priscilla Thompson NBC News New Orleans terrific that's Nightly News for this Monday thank you for watching everyone I'm Lester Holt please take care of yourself and each other good night thanks for watching stay updated about breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or follow us on social media