Nightly News Full Broadcast - May 2 - Bilingual Subtitles
Tonight, the major crackdowns as the number of arrests on campuses surpasses 2,000, more
than 200 of those arrests happening at UCLA,
police using flash bangs, firing non-lethal projectiles as they moved in to rip down the pro-Palestinian encampment.
New body camp from the NYPD officers the other night breaching that building at Columbia and arresting protesters inside our report coming up.
Also tonight, President Biden condemning the clashes on campuses saying violent protests is not protected.
It's 2024 rival Donald Trump praising the NYPD crackdown, calling it a beautiful thing.
The massive fireball on I-95,
a fuel tanker colliding with a tractor, trailer, and a car in Connecticut, no injuries, but how long could the interstate be shut down?
The evacuations ordered in Texas widespread flooding, submerging homes, roads, and cars.
Former President Trump back in Ford as his criminal trial resumes,
the former attorney for Stormy Daniels on the stand, testifying about hush money payments as prosecutors asked the judge to hold Mr.
Trump contempt again.
New for Britney Spears and ambulance called to a landmark LA hotel after sources Mr.
R got into an altercation with her boyfriend and the Lego legend, turning the landmarks in our nation's capital into mini masterpieces.
Good evening and welcome.
More takedowns at college, protest in campmans, leaving hundreds more arrested.
But the pro-Palestinian movement they joined is still alive and playing out at dozens more of the tent camps that have popped up at other campuses across the country.
California Highway Patrol officers in the front lines of a crackdown at UCLA overnight,
tearing directed by pro-Palestinian supporters and moving into arrest those who defied orders to disperse.
The sweeping operation captured on live TV,
President Biden, breaking his silence in the demonstrations, expressing his support for peaceful protests, but adding where a civil society and order must prevail.
And NBC News Count shows over 2,100 people have been arrested nationwide since the demonstrations began.
Tonight, we take you into the chaos.
Here's Liz Kreitz.
With the clashes between college campus demonstrators and police reaching new heights, today President Biden condemning violent disruptive protests.
Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing cancellation of classes and graduations.
None of this is a peaceful protest.
Threatening people.
instilling fair people is not peaceful protest it's against the law dozens of
universities and colleges across the country continuing to grapple with how
to handle the growing movement of pro-Palestinian demonstrators this morning
at UCLA law enforcement breaching the massive encampment just before dawn all
right right now you hear the flash bangs there but the police We're taking the barrier,
trying to make their way into the encampment, the students though, they were pushing back and trying to hold the line.
Demonstrators, many of them in hard helmets and gas masks, appearing to use fire extinguishers
aimed at police trying to fend them off, police pushing back with overwhelming numbers.
California Highway Patrol officers making hundreds of arrests.
We're not going to back down.
We to be forced.
Students demanding divestment from Israel,
but also taking their protests beyond the war in Gaza,
calling for defunding the police as well, and asking supporters to bring them supplies, including material for shields, umbrellas, and water.
Today, the campus left covered in trash and busted tents.
The university's iconic Royce Hall defaced with graffiti.
Some of those arrested now released from a downtown jail, speaking out.
How do I feel I've never felt more proud of myself or my community?
Across the country at Columbia University in New York,
the NYPD today releasing portions of body cam video from Tuesday night's raid to Clear Hamilton Hall.
Police finding protesters sitting on the ground with arms linked.
Nationwide, more than 2,100 arrests have been made connected with campus protests.
Today, Portland State University campus closed down and 12 arrests and cleared the school's library.
Overnight, four arrested at Yale, 90 removed from campus at Dartmouth.
And at the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus, defiant students reestablishing their tents just 24 hours after police disbanded the encampment there.
We're gonna be here indefinitely until they meet our demand.
Back at UCLA, cleanup is underway.
Professor Graham Blair, who arrested this morning in the encampment, is defending the students right to protest, despite some of the tactics they've used.
I think anyone who is worried about graffiti on buildings on a college campus needs to come visit a college campus.
It's 18 year olds who are learning for the first time how to express themselves.
Liz, what is UCLA saying about what played out there this morning?
Well, Lester, the UCLA Chancellor says that protesters were given several warnings to
leave, but that ultimately the encampment here was unlawful and had become a huge disruption here on campus.
They said because of that, it had to be removed to restore campus safety.
Lester.
Much different scene behind you, Liz.
Thank you.
All this is having an impact in the 2024 presidential campaign.
President Biden facing pressure over the ongoing protests.
As former president Trump praised the NYPD campus crackdown, Gabe Gutierrez is at the White House.
President Biden's condemnation of violent campus protests are his first on-camera comments about the growing controversy in more than a week.
There's the right to protest.
but not the right to cause chaos.
The president says he won't call in the National Guard, and he bluntly rejected the protesters' demands to change his policy in the Middle East.
Mr.
President, have the protest forced you to reconsider any of the policies with regard to the region?
No.
President Biden is facing mounting political pressure.
Some want him to do more to support Palestinians, while many Republicans are blasting him for not speaking out earlier.
In moments like this, those who rush and to score political points.
But this isn't a moment for politics.
smoke for clarity.
Still, the war is playing a larger role in the 2024 campaign.
For months on the trail, the president's face growing pro-Palestinian protest.
But the tensions are boiling over this week.
Former President Trump is praising the police response at Columbia University.
It was a beautiful thing to watch, New York's finest.
But, Mr.
Trump is also drawing controversy for an interview where he would not commit to respecting the outcome of the election,
saying if everything's honest, I'll gladly accept the results.
If it's not, you have to fight for the right of the country.
The president firing back late today.
Mr.
President, are you worried that Trump says he won't accept the election results?
And Gabe, we can circle back to the protest for a moment.
The president remarks, I understand, where a last-minute ad to his schedule.
Yes, Lester, but the White House insists the president was not bowing to political pressure.
Biden campaign officials, meanwhile, previously downplayed the college protests, arguing that young people care more about other issues like the economy and abortion rights.
Lester.
Okay, Gabe Thank you.
A traffic nightmare in the northeast after a fiery crash in Connecticut shut down part of Interstate 95 in both directions.
Emily, a candidate.
with thick blooms of smoke darkening the sky, a nightmare is seen today in Norwalk, Connecticut.
After a crash involving a passenger car, tractor trailer and fuel truck ignited this massive fire on I-95.
Flames engulfing the tank or that if of gasoline.
I couldn't believe what I was saying.
It looked surreal.
Remarkably, no one was
seriously injured, but tonight officials are urging people to avoid the area as the aftermath coded in fire suppressing foam continues to clog traffic.
I stay home, take the train.
This critical Northeast corridor sees 160,000 drivers a day.
Now being diverted onto local roads and other inner states.
Our 40 minutes to get the work today.
Stop, start, stop, start.
A of I-95 will remain closed for several days in order for this bridge scorched by the flames to be demanded.
gasoline-fueled fires can get hot enough to deform even steel, leading to bridge collapses like this in Philadelphia last year.
Back in the tri-state tonight, drivers bracing for this travel headache to linger.
The now charred bridge, less than 10 years old, will begin to be removed first thing tomorrow.
Then will have to repave the road with the goal of reopening this major traffic artery at the earliest Monday morning.
Lester.
Emily Aketa, thank you.
We're watching severe flooding tonight in Texas with the Houston area hit hard after more than five inches of rain.
Cars trucks were submerged, some mandatory events.
ordered and at least nine rescues were carried out.
Tonight, 6 million people remain under flood watches in parts of Texas and Louisiana.
dramatic moments of the former president Trump's hush money trial today as a key prosecution
witness was cross-examined about the alleged payments he helped arrange.
Laura Jarrett has the latest.
Former President Trump arriving at court today watching his defense team go on offense
casting a key prosecution witness is out to extort him for money.
The defense hoping to discredit Keith Davidson, the lawyer who negotiated payoffs for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougall.
Both threatened to go public with stories of sex with Mr.
Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
Mr.
Trump has denied the allegations of both women and denied any advanced knowledge of the payoffs.
His defense team is suggesting today Davidson had a habit of shaking down celebrities like Charlie Sheen for money.
David's in saying he never extorted anyone, testifying at length about his negotiations with Michael Cohen, Mr.
Trump's former attorney.
But admitting today, he met nor spoke to the former president.
Instead, he dealt exclusively with Cohen, who he painted as desperate and despondent,
that then-president-elect Trump would not make him Attorney General or White House Chief of Staff.
were Cohen lamented, I can't believe I'm not going to Washington.
Cohen's saying he'd save Trump so many times you don't even know.
Davidson testifying about Cohen, I thought he was going to kill himself.
A helpful point for the defense as it tries to cast Cohen as having an axe to grind against Mr.
Trump.
The former president is accused of illegally doctoring his internal records to disguise his repayments to Cohen,
making Cohen's testimony critical for prosecutors, who are now seeking additional fines against Mr.
Trump, saying he violated a gag order again by calling his former fixer a liar.
While the defense argues the former president should be allowed to defeat him, defend himself against Cohen's frequent criticism.
We'll turn to the developing news out of Los Angeles involving Britney Spears and a late night incident with her boyfriend at a famed hotel.
Chloe Milas is here.
Chloe, what do we know?
Lesser NBC News has learned that authorities responded to an incident involving Britney Spears at the landmark Chateau Marmont hotel early this morning.
Two sources close to the singer say that she got into a fight with her boyfriend,
Paul Salise, but went home with her security team and is safe.
The disputed a report that Spears threatened hotel employees, but did say that she was screaming and crying.
Now late today, Spears took to social media acknowledging an incident had happened.
happened, saying that she
and paramedics showed up at
this comes just hours after
settle the terms of their divorce and two-and-a-half years after she was publicly released from her 13-year conservatorship.
Spears' representatives and the if responded to request for comment tonight, Lester.
All right, Chloe, thanks very much.
In 60 seconds, what's behind a surgeon?
Opioid overdoses with at least nine people dead since Monday in one city alone, where with first responders stunned by what they're seeing.
In Texas, first responders are racing to contain a surge in opioid overdoses, calls for help, spiking a thousand percent this week.
Priscilla Thompson is on the front line.
We have two overdoses running right now.
Wow, right now we go out to every overdose for Austin EMT Randy Chabra.
It's been a harrowing week.
In a typical day, how many overdoses do you all usually get called for?
Three, maybe five.
What does that number look like this week?
We've had I think we're up to 73 across the three days.
A more than 1,000%
spike in overdose calls likely caused by drugs Unbeknownst to users,
Austin officials say, confirming at least nine people have died of suspected overdoses since Monday amid a of hospitalizations and 911 calls.
and just 48 hours, which can reverse an overdose before it's too late.
The DEA says fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for young Americans.
My girl.
She died.
She died.
over those.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Those on the front lines in Austin outbreaks like this could be the next wave of the crisis.
My fear is that's just the start.
What's next?
The fear that it becomes just unmanageable.
Right.
that we have no ambulances left and that we still have overdoses occurring.
It's happened on Monday where you would go and it's not one person.
It's four people, right?
But happens if it's 10 people?
Purcella Thompson, NBC News, Austin.
We will take a break and then coming up alerting drivers when someone is going the wrong way.
We're back now with a possible way to prevent the deaths of hundreds on the road,
technology that could detect drivers going the wrong way and alert others to the danger.
Scott of our Dallas station on how it works.
along a turnpike near Dallas a car makes a U-turn re-entering going the wrong way the
highway is one of a growing number of U.S.
roads directional sensors detecting the car alerting police.
We have a wrong way driver in your city with your second home on camera right now but authorities are unable to stop the driver who travels
eight minutes before slamming head on into another car killing the wrong way
driver who investigators say head of blood alcohol leveled twice the legal
limit and the other driver 41-year-old Michael James Jackson on his way home to his wife, Wendy.
It just a kind soul and he was just so undeserving of this.
There's a kind driving the wrong way.
Wrong way crashes kill about 400 people each year in the US.
Despite an increase in road sensors and highway message boards that can warn of wrong way drivers.
The trouble is alerting people in the path of danger, not just police.
Everyone knew except for the people that were driving.
and we're in imminent danger and that's what you want to change absolutely her
husband's friends who used to work with Michael and are now spread across
some of the nation's biggest tech companies believe cell phone alerts are the answer
we need to make the people that are in harm's way aware so that they can take
action michael inaman points out state officials can already ready send alerts through a federal cell phone warning system used for amber alerts.
He says alerts could be tailored to reach only phones moving near a wrong way vehicle.
It's a concept proving possible as we saw in Detroit,
where German technology company Bosch showed us a cloud based wrong way driver warning system test vehicle.
We obviously can't drive the wrong way,
so for this test Bosch engineers have briefly flipped the direction in the detection system just on this freeway ramp up ahead.
So when we enter going the right way, we should get a wrong way alert.
Halfway down the ramp.
Check your travel direction.
stop at the nearest shoulder.
We got the alert still with plenty of time to pull off the road.
It can also warn other cars and cell phones with apps using the Bosch software nearby.
In Europe, Bosch says it issued more than 600 alerts in one year.
The company now trying to make the system more widely available.
We are working.
with many partners to bring this feature into their apps and we're in active discussions with car makers.
Meanwhile, Jackson's friends are hunting for state highway systems, willing to do more with their sensors and cameras
to move beyond message boards on the road and send alerts directly to drivers in harm's way.
is there.
It's just getting the authorization and getting the right people in place who can allow us to do this.
Her hope that carmakers in states find the funding and the will to implement technology that can save lives.
Scott Friedman, NBC News, Dallas.
Coming up after a short break, he builds a masterpieces piece by piece.
Next, how 100,000 Lego bricks really add up.
Finally, the artists recreating landmarks one Lego at a time.
Here's Halley Jackson.
for Richard Paulis.
It's the little things.
The really little things.
So this is my Lego studio.
The long time Lego lover building a business brick by brick.
When you first started out, was it just for your own pleasure at first?
Just for the challenge of it.
If you can look at something and say, how can you possibly build that out of Legos?
Challenge accepted.
His The Kennedy Center, the White House, even the famous Ben's Chili Bowl inside Reagan National Airport.
A little napkin holder to the soda machine, even a hot dog.
The tools of his trade tucked into bins lining his basement.
Oh, here.
all of these matched by color totally coordinated by his estimate nearly a hundred thousand lego pieces in all
But what you won't find any kits or directions Paulus builds as he goes like he did for his first big sale.
I've always loved Dulles Airport You have six months and 70,000 bricks later the airport itself offered him 10,000
If Paul is good move it actually had to tilt on about a 30 degree angle to get out of here
and then I had to actually saw the railings off of off of my stairwell to get it out.
It's a business.
It's also a passion for you.
It really is with more commissions coming in each click a connection when you miniaturize everything when you scale it down.
It makes it more human more personal personal for everyone.
I can't let you leave empty handed.
Thank you.
Even us.
So just something I whipped up for you.
Hallie Jackson NBC News.
I like his style and he's building a following too.
That's nightly news for this Thursday.
Thank you for watching.
I'm Lester Holt.
Please take care of yourself and each other.
Good night.
Thanks for watching.
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