Nightly News Full Broadcast - March 21

[Music] breaking news tonight the escaped inmate and his accomplice in Idaho now caught but not before they may have committed more horrifying violence the dangerous convicted felon and the gunman police say broke him out of the hospital in a Brazen Ambush back in custody tonight but while they were on the Run police say they may have killed two people what we're learning also tonight the Blockbuster lawsuit the justice department accusing Apple of having an illegal smartphone Monopoly what a co

uld mean for your iPhone the new NTSB report on an American Airlines plane running off the Runway in Dallas the error investigators say caus the brakes to fail the US turning up the pressure on Israel calling for an immediate ceasefire and the release of all hostages held in Gaza back-to- back spring storms bringing snow from the Midwest to the Northeast the stunning news involving baseball Superstar shoh Otani his interpreter suddenly fired the allegations of massive theft and illegal gambling

the medical milestone for the first time ever the kidney from a pig transplanted into a human and the powerful new Memorial reclaiming a sight with a painful past our emotional journey and the moment I made very personal Discovery this is NBC Nightly News with ler HT good evening everyone we start with breaking news tonight The Manhunt now over for an escaped Idaho prison inmate and his alleged accomplice authorities say both men were arrested this afternoon after a short car chase no shots were

fired in contrast to Yesterday When three Corrections Officers were shot and wounded one by Apparent Friendly Fire during the escape and now authorities say they are investigating two homicides that they say may be connected to the fugitives time on the Run Dana Griffin has late developments for us Dana still a lot of question to be answered tonight absolutely Lester these dangerous suspects were arrested in Idaho without further gunfire after investigators say they may have killed two people w

hile on the land they managed to ditch their first getaway car and hop into another investigators now piecing together their movements over the last day and a half tonight escaped inmate Skyler me and accomplice Nicholas umau arrested after a vehicle Pursuit with police nearly 30 6 hours after their Brazen shooting Ambush on Corrections Officers outside of Boise Idaho Hospital investigators say the men may now be tied to two homicides during their time on the Run we did find the shackles at the

scene of one of the homicides the motive and why they they did what they did um I don't know the men taken into custody in twinfalls Idaho nearly 130 mi from the hospital where three officers were shot during the initial Escape station continuing had a driver who was the shooter authorities say both men are members of the white supremacist gang ARA Knights according to the doj the ARA knights was formed in the mid1 1990s in the Idaho prison system they often use initials AK to identify themselve

s similar to the tattoos on me's stomach the Gang has also used violence to Target inmates of color I mean the fact that they did a you know basically a movie type shootout to free him from prison is just really B and it means that they've been planning it for a while authorities now turning their investigation to how they pulled off the coordinated attack and escape with near certainty this was not an accident this was a planned event and we're channeling every resource we have and trying to un

derstand exactly how they went about planning it a sophisticated criminal plot coming to an end with these jailhouse friends heading back behind bars Dana Griffin NBC News tonight the US justice department is looking to take a B out of apple filing a lawsuit against a computer giant accusing it of monopolizing the smartphone market by restricting its operating system Laura Jarrett now with the legal battle attorney general Merrick Garland announcing a landmark lawsuit today accusing Tech Giant A

pple of leveraging its dominance over the smartphone market to box out competitors in a way that hurts customers Apple has Consolidated its Monopoly power not by making its own products better but by making other products worse consumers should not have to pay higher prices because companies break the law the justice department joining more than a dozen states in nearly a 90-page complaint accusing the company of violating antitrust laws through the iPhone Apple watch and Apple pay doj saying th

e tech Behemoth which has more than a billion active iPhones worldwide deliberately makes products less compatible with its competitor devices has any iPhone user who has ever seen a green text message or received a tiny grainy video can attest Garland specifically calling out Apple CEO Tim Cook referencing this exchange cook had back in 2022 when he was asked if the company would fix the problems associated with texting video between iPhones and Androids not to make it personal but I can't send

my mom certain videos or she can't see me certain videos and so we leave buy your mom an iPhone Apple today calling the lawsuit wrong on the facts and the law saying it threatens who we are and the principles that set Apple products apart in fiercely competitive markets if successful it would hinder our ability to create the kind of Technology people expect from Apple the lawsuit the culmination of years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple's wildly popular products fueling its growth into one of th

e most valuable companies in the world people love buying their iPhones people enjoy their iPhones it is the most popular smartphone brand here in the United States so Laura what does the doj want Apple to do to remedy this well Lester the government wants Apple to make its products more compatible with other companies technology but the department hasn't ruled out even breaking up Apple if necessary a drastic step that hasn't happened since Bell systems back in 1982 but Lester this is likely to

be a legal fight that goes on for years all right Laura thank you we want to turn that to two Aviation mishaps under federal investigation one involves an American flight that landed in Dallas with no breaks the other involves another problem with the Boeing Max 8 Tom Castello joins us let's start with what happened in Dallas Tom yeah this happened back in February as the American Airlines 737 landed on the DFW Runway the pilots found they had no breaks they set their thrust reverses to maximum

as the control tower started fire rescue just in case the plane rolled off the end of the runway into an overrun area nobody injured the NTSB found a maintenance team had improperly reconnected and swapped two hydraulic brake lines and electrical lines American Airlines tells us the safety of our customers and team members is our top priority and we are fully investigate cooperating rather with the NTSB Lester and Tom the second investigation could suggest another issue with the Boeing 737 Max

and quality control yeah that's right the FAA wants hundreds of Max planes inspected over three years for chafing wire bundles that could cause the pilots to lose control nbcnews.com was the first to report this problem that dates back to 2021 when Pilots momentarily lost control of a Max that suddenly rolled to the right the FAA warns wiring damage could lead to loss of control of the airplane Boeing tells NBC News this is not an immediate safety of flight issue it's already being addressed but

it does come as the FAA focuses on quality control breakdowns at boing Lester all right Tom Costello thank you now to the Middle East tonight the Biden Administration taking a more aggressive stance and calling for an immediate ceasefire at the United Nations Raph Sanchez is in Israel with late details tonight Secretary of State Anthony blinkin back in the Middle East as the US for the first time puts forward a un Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and we hop

e that all countries will back that resolution those again it's a marked shift for the US which was left diplomatically isolated after vetoing three previous ceasefire resolutions but those measures called for an end to the fighting even without a hostage deal the new American resolution conditions a ceasefire on the release of hostages the negotiators continue to work uh the gaps are narrowing while at elifa hospital Israel's military raid stretching into a fourth day IDF says it's killed 140 m

ilitants inside and captured senior Hamas operatives but it's another blow to a Healthcare System already near collapse it's a fact manal and REE know well both are mothers from Gaza suffering from breast cancer my wish is to see my children and grandchildren and go back home manal says they were allowed out of Gaza for treatment in Jerusalem but now an Israeli court is deciding whether to send them back to a place where basic medicines are impossible to find Our Fate will be death she says and

the US says it'll bring that UN resolution up for a vote Friday morning also tomorrow the CIA director will be in Qatar trying to jump start those hostage negotiations Lester Raph Sanchez thank you now to the crisis in Haiti the US now flying trapped Americans out on chartered planes as the country descends further into chaos guad Venegas is in Miami as dozens arrived back on us soil this is what relief looks like a plane of 14 US citizens including children arriving in Central Florida after a h

arrowing escape from Haiti it took a couple of tries and they didn't give up they stayed with us until the end of the mission Philip armont was on board this flight chartered by the state of Florida with his wife and his 2-year-old son very difficult part was getting around and and making it to the airport to fly out we were dealing with little kids not adults so that made it even more stressful on the parents and it it was just scary they were lucky there are still more than a thousand American

s in Haiti but with the airport and pter prints shuttered roads closed daily gun battles on the streets and armed gangs overrunning the capital most Americans have no way out I would say it's worse than a war zone private security contractors now going door Todo trying to rescue them helicopter got surrounded today at the airport where the helicopter had to take off in a manner that was just you know I don't want to say unsafe but again the tower told him he may not be able to land there again a

nother flight arriving in Miami today just Happ because I get the the United States 66 more Americans now on us soil how is the country right now country in help a country in chaos and people Terri for their lives hoping to get out wad Vegas NBC News Miami and here at home yet more winter weather on the way tonight 20 million people are under winter alerts from Montana to Maine parts of the Midwest could see 3 to 6 Ines of snow with up to a foot possible in Northern New England then another wint

er storm will bring yet more heavy snow to parts of these areas early next week up next the major news on ensuring breakthrough weight loss drugs plus the ground Unbreaking transplant of a pig's kidney into a human could it be the answer for so many waiting for [Music] Relief good news for some Americans who want access to those very popular but pricey weight loss drugs Medicare now says it will cover the cost of wovi for patients with an increased risk of heart attack stroke or other cardiovasc

ular problems but Medicare still will not cover wovi if it's only being used for weight management and medical history made in Boston tonight doctors saying that for the first time they have successfully transplanted a kidney from a pig into a living person here's Emily aeta inside this Mass General operating room a medical milestone for the first time a team of doctors transplanted a genetically modified Pig kidney into a 62-year-old man whose previously donated kidney failed and was struggling

on dialysis it's Dr Leo Rella first suggested a pig kidney knowing the patient could not wait for a human one of the 100,000 people in the US on transplant waiting lists the vast majority need kidneys most of our patients have to wait for an organ from the deceased donor list and unfortunately if they have to stay years on dialysis that means their health is going to continue to deteriorate our immune systems typically reject foreign tissue but through cuttingedge crisper technology from E Gene

sis this pig kidney had six 69 genomic edits to improve compatibility and to reduce the risk of infection from viruses still animal to human transplants are riddled with unknowns including how long the pit kidney will last but so far the patient's nefrologist says the results appear promising we had the the surgery on Saturday and we think he's on track for discharge this coming Saturday so within a week within a week in a statement the patient said I saw it not only as a way to help me but a wa

y to provide hope for the thousands of people who need a transplant to survive we need a permanent solution and dialysis was never made to be a permanent solution could it essentially make dialysis obsolete that's our goal Emily eeta NBC News Boston pretty remarkable up next the emotional journey into the history of the slave trade and how a new monument is changing the [Music] landscape now the new Memorial that has risen from the blood soaked soil of an American Tragedy the enslavement of mill

ions of black people a Memorial Park opening next week in Montgomery honors their lives with while quietly challenging movements to minimize our nation's racial history I got a preview the peaceful beauty of the Alabama River in Montgomery is undeniable but so is its place in a brutal history so the narrative will begin again on this boat absolutely being sold down the river being trafficked by boat or by rail was an absolutely terrifying experience for enslaved people Brian Stevenson is the fou

nder and CEO of the Equal justice initiative which created the freedom Monument Sculpture Park on these Shores where the slave trade once flourished there's not much in the visual record of that era that helps you get a sense of the humanity of these people and so sculptures and replicas help weave the story from the places they were held they would put them in holding pens uh where they would wait until the auction to the places they were whipped so they would be Shackled yes you can see the me

tal uh points here along the trail visitors are reminded this human trafficking was not just a stain on the South North Carolina Maryland New Jersey its tentacles reach North no begins in the north it begins in New England also posted here laws that codified brutality against slaves homicide shall be deemed excusable when committed by accident or Misfortune in lawfully correcting a slave Licensed to Kill that's right that's right and all of these laws really created a an order that empowered peo

ple to use violence to maintain slavery the Monument Park joins the recently open Legacy Museum which documents the history and impact of the Atlantic slave trade a third site the National Memorial for peace and Justice lays be the raw history of lynching in America it seems like a direct repudiation of some of the things the movements we've heard over the last couple of years to not teach some of this history critical race theory for me it's been a lifelong ambition to just kind of get people t

o reckon with the truth we can't get there if we don't talk honestly about this history the centerpiece of the Sculpture Park this wall embossed with 122,000 surnames that were adopted by newly emancipated slaves during the 1870 census prior to the 1870s census enslave people were could only be numbers uh in the census or first name and these are the names that represent the 4 million people who were emancipated recorded in 18 70 and um you know we wanted to um see them in a place of honor uh se

e them on a wall of scanning the names you know what I'm doing now of course I find what I'm looking for here we go yeah there it is mar Holt yes now that name was picked for some reason yeah that's right we don't know why no and what's interesting is um a lot of the names were names that people heard I sit there and I look at that and I I think of who that name represents yeah yeah what they went through could they ever imagine me yeah that's the thing that's powerful standing here yeah the urg

e is to grieve for them Brian Stevenson wants us to honor them he quotes from the inscription at the base of the wall we honor your perseverance in the midst of Sorrow we honor your strle for Freedom your children love you and the line that jumps out of me the country you built must honor you yeah yeah yeah and that's what this Monument hopes to do absolutely a powerful and as you saw personal journey of Discovery that's Nightly News thanks for watching please take care of yourself and each othe

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