NBC Nightly News Full Episode - April 22

CATHOLIC CHURCH IN. TRANSITION. POPE FRANCIS' FUNERAL. SET FOR SATURDAY, AS. THE VATICAN REVEALS. THE RITUALS AND. PERSONAL DETAILS THAT. OF HIS. FAREWELL. TOM LLAMAS AT THE. VATICAN ON WHERE THE. CATHOLIC CHURCH COULD. GO FROM HERE. AS MEETINGS BETWEEN. THE CARDINALS ARE. ALREADY UNDER WAY AS. THEY PREPARE TO. CHOOSE WHO WILL LEAD. THEM. >> DO YOU WANT THE. POPE TO MODERNIZE THE. CHURCH OR DO YOU WANT.

A POPE THAT IS. CONSERVATIVE? >> I WANT THE POPE. WHO FOLLOWS GOSPEL. >> OUR EXCLUSIVE. REPORTING. SOURCES TELLING NBC. NEWS DEFENSE. SECRETARY PETE. HEGSETH SHARED. SENSITIVE MILITARY. INFORMATION JUST. MINUTES AFTER. RECEIVING IT THROUGH. SECURE CHANNELS. >> ELON MUSK TONIGHT. SAYING HIS TIME WITH. DOGE WILL DROP. SIGNIFICANTLY AFTER. TESLA REPORTED A 20%. DROP IN AUTO REVENUE. >> UNIVERSITIES. UNITED. MORE THAN 200 HIGHER. ED LEADERS PUSH BACK.

ON THE TRUMP. ADMINISTRATION'S. EFFORTS TO BRING. SWEEPING CHANGES TO. THEIR SCHOOLS. >> KAREN READ BACK IN. COURT, THE WOMAN. ACCUSED OF KILLING. HER POLICE OFFICER. BOYFRIEND BY STRIKING. HIM WITH HER SUV. NOW STANDING TRIAL. AGAIN. >> LAURA JARRETT ON. THE DRAMATIC ESCRIPTION OF MC. FOR THOSE ON THE GO. >>> GOOD EVENING, AND. WELCOME. MOVING WITH SPEED AND.

THE GUIDANCE OF. ANCIENT TRADITION, PLANS ARE UNFOLDING. FOR THE FUNERAL AND. BURIAL OF POPE. FRANCIS. A SATURDAY MORNING. FUNERAL AT ST. PETER'S BASILICA IS. EXPECTED TO DRAW SOME. OF THE WORLD'S MOST. POWERFUL PEOPLE, INCLUDING PRESIDENT. TRUMP. BUT IN DEATH AS IN. LIFE, IT IS THE. POWERLESS FRANCIS. WANTED REFLECTED. IN THE MEMORIAL PLANS. HE HELPED DRAFT. THEY INCLUDE THE. SIMPLE COFFIN HE. CHOSE THAT HE NOW. RESTS IN INSIDE A. VATICAN CHAPEL. THESE IMAGES RELEASED. BY THE VATICAN TODAY,

OUR FIRST LOOK AT HIM. SINCE HIS DEATH. TONIGHT AS THE. CARDINALS WHO WITHIN. WEEKS WILL CHOOSE HIS. SUCCESSOR GATHER IN. ROME, THE FAITHFUL. WAIT IN ANTICIPATION. FOR THEIR CHANCE TO. SEE THE POPE ONE LAST. TIME TO SAY GOOD-BYE. IT WAS ANNOUNCED. TODAY THE POPE WILL. LIE IN STATE IN ST. PETER'S BASILICA. TOMORROW THROUGH. FRIDAY. TOM LLAMAS LEADS OUR. COVERAGE FROM THE. VATICAN. TOM, GOOD EVENING. >> Reporter: LESTER, GOOD EVENING TO YOU. IN JUST HOURS, ST. PETER'S SQUARE HERE. JUST BEHIND ME WILL. TRANSFORM WITH PEOPLE.

AND RITUAL. RIGHT NOW, TONIGHT, POPE FRANCIS LIES IN. REST AND ONLY HIS. FAMILY, CLOSE. FRIENDS, AND SOME. CARDINALS HAVE SEEN. HIM. BUT THAT ALL CHANGES. TOMORROW WHEN HIS. BODY AND HIS COFFIN. WILL COME HERE TO ST. PETER'S SQUARE AND. THE PUBLIC WILL GET. TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS. BEFORE HIS BURIAL. TONIGHT, THE. CENTURIES OLD. TRADITION OF HONORING. THE LIFE OF A PONTIFF. AND CHOOSING A NEW. ONE IS UNDER WAY. CARDINALS FROM AROUND. THE WORLD GATHERING. AT THE VATICAN WHERE.

DAILY MEETINGS BEGAN. TODAY. IN THE COMING WEEKS, 135 CARDINALS UNDER. THE AGE OF 80 WILL. DECIDE THE FUTURE OF. THE CHURCH, INCLUDING. CARDINAL ROLANDAS. >> DO YOU WANT THE. POPE TO MODERNIZE THE. CHURCH OR A POPE THAT. IS CONSERVATIVE? >> I WANT A POPE WHO. FOLLOWS GOSPEL. >> Reporter: IT'S A. QUESTION MANY. CATHOLICS ARE NOW. WEIGHING. >> YOU HAVE TO SEARCH. FOR A NEW POPE TO. CONTINUE WITH WHAT HE.

HAS STARTED. >> Reporter: AS THEY. HONOR THE LEGACY OF. POPE FRANCIS, KNOWN. FOR HIS HUMILITY AND. COMMITMENT TO LIFTING. UP THE MOST. VULNERABLE, FROM HIS. NATIVE ARGENTINA TO. ST. PATRICK'S. CATHEDRAL IN NEW. YORK. >> FOR US AS. CATHOLICS THIS IS A. DEATH IN THE FAMILY. >> Reporter: AND HERE. IN ROME. >> WE PRAY FOR HIM, PRAY FOR THE NEXT. POPE. >> Reporter: THE. VATICAN TODAY. RELEASING THE FIRST. IMAGES OF THE CYPRESS. COFFIN CHOSEN BY POPE. FRANCIS. THEY SHOW THE PONTIFF. LYING IN THE CHAPEL.

WHERE HE WORSHIPS. MOST MORNINGS WEARING. REST VESTMENTS, A. ROSARY IS WRAPPED. AROUND HIS HANDS. THE SWISS GUARDS. PROTECTING HIM, AND. WE'RE LEARNING NEW. DETAILS ABOUT HOW HE. WILL BE REMEMBERED IN. THE COMING DAYS. EARLY TOMORROW. MORNING HIS BODY WILL. BE MOVED IN A. PROCESSION TO ST. PETER'S BASILICA. FROM WEDNESDAY TO. FRIDAY, MEMBERS OF. THE PUBLIC WILL PAY. THEIR RESPECTS AS HIS. BODY LIES IN STATE. HIS COFFIN WON'T BE. ELEVATED BUT RATHER. PLACED FACING THE. PEWS.

REFLECTING POPE. FRANCIS' DESIRE TO BE. REMEMBERED AS A. SHEPHERD AND. DISCIPLE, NOT FOR HIS. POWERFUL POSITION. HIS FUNERAL IS. PLANNED FOR SATURDAY. MORNING, WITH SEVERAL. WORLD LEADERS. EXPECTED TO ATTEND, INCLUDING PRESIDENT. TRUMP, PRESIDENT. ZELENSKYY, AND THE. PRINCE OF WALES. POPE FRANCIS IS GOING. TO BE BURIED HERE? >> YES, HE'S GOING TO. BE BURIED HERE AT THE. OLDEST CHURCH. DEDICATED TO THE. BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. IN THE WESTERN WORLD. >> Reporter: ART. HISTORIAN ELIZABETH. SAYS HIS FINAL.

RESTING PLACE HOLDS. SPECIAL MEANING. >> HE'S ASKED FOR. SOMETHING VERY. SIMPLE. A VERY SIMPLE BURIAL. SPOT. IT'S NOT A BIG. CHAPEL, BUT WHAT POPE. FRANCIS WANTS IS A. VERY SMALL SPACE. RIGHT NEXT TO THIS. ICON OF THE MADONNA. SO THERE'S A LITTLE. ALCOVE, A LITTLE. SPACE WHICH IS RIGHT. NEXT TO THE CHAPEL. WHERE THAT ICON WAS, WHERE HE HAS PRAYED. SO MANY TIMES. >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO. TRADITION, HE WILL BE. BURIED WITH A SMALL. BAG OF COINS, MINTED.

DURING HIS PAPACY, TO. AID IN FUTURE. IDENTIFICATION. THE FISHERMAN'S RING. HE WORE NOW BROKEN, A. RITUAL SIGNIFYING HIS. DEATH. IT WILL BE BURIED. WITH HIM, AND HIS. TOMB WILL HAVE JUST. ONE WORD. FRAN SIS KS. YET ANOTHER. REFLECTION OF THE. HUMBLE NATURE OF POPE. FRANCIS. >> AND TOM, WHAT DO. WE KNOW ABOUT WHEN. THE CONCLAVE COULD. BEGIN? >> Reporter: LESTER, AS THE WORLD GETS. READY TO SAY GOOD-BYE. TO POPE FRANCIS, THE. COLLEGE OF CARDINALS. IS BUSY HERE AT THE.

VATICAN MEETING AND. PLANNING THAT. CONCLIVE. IT HAS TO START 15 TO. 20 DAYS AFTER THE. POPE'S DEATH. THE EARLIEST IT WOULD. START IS THE SECOND. WEEK OF MAY. >> TOM LLAMAS, THANKS. >> ANNE THOMPSON IS. ALSO AT THE VATICAN. TONIGHT. THERE'S AN AMERICAN. CARDINAL WHO IS. TAKING CENTER STAGE. THIS WEEK. >> Reporter: THERE. SURE IS, LESTER. CARDINAL KEVIN. FERRELL IS THE MAN. POPE FRANCIS. HAND-PICKED TO BE THE. CARM ALINGO, THAT IS. THE MAN WHO RUNS THE. VATICAN IN THIS TIME.

BETWEEN POPES. TOMORROW, HE WILL. LEAD THE PROCESSION. MOVING FRANCIS' BODY. TO ST. PETER'S. BASILICA. THIS COMES AFTER HE. HAD TO MAKE THE. FORMAL DETERMINATION. OF POPE FRANCIS'. DEATH AND SEAL THE. PAPAL APARTMENTS. FERRELL WAS BORN IN. DUBLIN, IRELAND. HE SPENT MOST OF HIS. CAREER IN THE U.S. IN. WASHINGTON AND. DALLAS, THEN HE WAS. CALLED TO ROME BY. POPE FRANCIS TO LEAD. THE DEPARTMENT OF THE. LAYTE. CHURCH RUNS IN HIS. FAMILY, HIS OLDER. BROTHER IS A BISHOP. >> THANK YOU. >>> THERE IS BREAKING.

NEWS TONIGHT FROM. TESLA. THE CEO ELON MUSK. SAYING HIS TIME AT. DOGE WILL DROP. SIGNIFICANTLY NEXT. MONTH. BRIAN CHEUNG IS HERE. WHAT'S THIS ALL. ABOUT? >> THAT'S RIGHT, ELON. MUSK SAID HE WOULD BE. SCALING BACK AND. SIGNIFICANTLY. DROPPING BACK ON HIS. WORK WITH DOGE. STARTING NEXT MONTH, PROMISING TO COMMIT. MORE TIME TO HIS CAR. COMPANY, SAYING HE'S. SCALING BACK TIME AT. THE AGENCY, QUOTE, NOW THAT THE MAJOR. WORK OF ESTABLISHING. THE DEPARTMENT IS. DONE. HE ADDED THAT HE WILL. SPEND A DAY OR TWO A. WEEK ON GOVERNMENT. MANNERS AS LONG AS. PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD. LIKE HIM TO. THE NEWS CAME AS.

TESLA TONIGHT. REPORTED A 71% DROP. IN NET INCOME FROM. LAST YEAR. TESLA SAID TRADE. POLICY ADVERSELY. IMPACTS COSTS FOR THE. COMPANY AND SAID. CHANGING POLITICAL. SENTIMENT COULD HAVE. A MEANINGFUL IMPACT. ON CUSTOMER DEMAND. FOR ITS VEHICLES. TESLA STOCK DOWN OVER. 40% YEAR TO DATE. >> BRIAN, THANK YOU. >> WE TURN TO OUR. EXCLUSIVE NEW. REPORTING ABOUT. DEFENSE SECRETARY. PETE HEGSETH. SOURCES TELLING NBC. NEWS THE PENTAGON. CHIEF SHARED. SENSITIVE MILITARY. INFORMATION JUST. MINUTES AFTER.

RECEIVING IT THROUGH. SECURE CHANNELS. HERE'S PETER. ALEXANDER. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, NBC NEWS HAS LEARNED. SHORTLY BEFORE U.S. FIGHTER JETS TOOK OFF. TO LAUNCH AIR STRIKES. AGAINST IRANIAN. BACKED HOUTHI REBELS. IN YEMEN LAST MONTH, THE HEAD OF U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND USED. A SECURE GOVERNMENT. SYSTEM TO SEND. DEFENSE SECRETARY. PETE HEGSETH HIS. SUPERIOR SPECIFIC. DETAILS ABOUT THE. IMMINENT OPERATION. ACCORDING TO THREE. U.S. OFFICIALS WITH. DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF. THE EXCHANGES. MINUTES LATER, THE. SOURCES SAY, HEGSETH.

USED HIS PERSONAL. PHONE TO SEND SOME OF. THAT INFORMATION TO. AT LEAST TWO GROUP. CHATS ON THE. MESSAGING APP SIGNAL, ONE WITH HEGSETH'S. WIFE, BROTHER, AND. PERSONAL ATTORNEY. THE MATERIAL INCLUDED. WHEN THOSE FIGHTER. JETS WOULD TAKE OFF. AND WHEN THEY WOULD. HIT THEIR TARGETS. DETAILS THAT IN THE. WRONG HANDS COULD PUT. THE AMERICAN PILOTS. IN DANGER. HEGSETH TODAY DENIED. SHARING ANY. CLASSIFIED. INFORMATION ON. SIGNAL. >> I LOOK AT WAR. PLANS EVERY SINGLE. DAY. WHAT WAS SHARED OVER. SIGNAL THEN AND NOW,

HOWEVER YOU. CHARACTERIZE IT, WAS. INFORMAL, UNCLASSIFIED. COORDINATIONS FROM. MEDIA COORDINATION. AND OTHER THINGS. >> Reporter: WHEN. ASKED PRESIDENT TRUMP. AGAIN THIS WEEK SAID. HE REMAINS CONFIDENT. IN HEGSETH. >> TOTALLY, WHY DO. YOU EVEN ASK A. QUESTION LIKE THAT? >> Reporter: STILL A. PROMINENT REPUBLICAN. LAWMAKER HAS NOW. JOINED TOP DEMOCRATS. REPUBLICAN. CONGRESSMAN DON. BACON, A RETIRED AIR. FORCE GENERAL, TELLING NBC NEWS IF. TRUE, IT IS. UNACCEPTABLE AND I. WOULDN'T TOLERATE IT.

IF I WAS RESPONSIBLE. >> PETER, WE'RE ALSO. LEARNING SECRETARY OF. STATE MARCO RUBIO. PLANS TO REORGANIZE. THE STATE DEPARTMENT. >> Reporter: LESTER, THIS IS A MAJOR. SHAKE-UP. SECRETARY RUBIO SAYS. HE WANTS TO. STREAMLINE A BLOATED. BUREAUCRACY THAT. COULD SLASH HUNDREDS. OF POSITIONS AND. OFFICES AT THE STATE. DEPARTMENT. RUBIO SAYS IT'S AN. EFFORT TO MAKE HIS. DEPARTMENT MORE. ALIGNED WITH. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S. AMERICA FIRST AGENDA. LESTER. >> PETER ALEXANDER AT. THE WHITE HOUSE, THANK YOU. >>> NOW TO THE. GROWING TENSION. BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES. AND THE FEDERAL.

GOVERNMENT. HUNDREDS OF. EDUCATIONAL LEADERS. SIGNING A LETTER. PUSHING BACK AGAINST. THE TRUMP. ADMINISTRATION'S MOVE. TO RESHAPE HIGHER. EDUCATION. STEPHANIE GOSK HAS. MORE. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, A UNITED FRONT FROM. SMALL COLLEGES TO. MASSIVE STATE. UNIVERSITIES, TO THE. IVY LEAGUE. >> I'M HAPPY THAT. THEY'RE FINALLY. SPEAKING OUT. >> Reporter: MORE. THAN 200 EDUCATIONAL. INSTITUTIONS SIGNING. A STATEMENT. PROTESTING THE TRUMP. ADMINISTRATION'S. EFFORTS TO RESHAPE. HIGHER EDUCATION IN. THE U.S. INCLUDING FORDHAM.

UNIVERSITY. >> PUSHING BACK. AGAINST THIS. GOVERNMENTAL. OVERREACH I THINK IS. A REALLY GREAT STEP. FOR UNIVERSITIES. >> THIS NOTION THAT. WE ARE BASTIONS OF. LIBERAL PROGRESSIVISM. INTENT ON TEARING. APART THE FABRIC OF. AMERICAN SOCIETY IS A. FALSE NARRATIVE. >> Reporter: THE. STATEMENT CALLS THE. GOVERNMENT'S TACTICS. UNPRECEDENTED. OVERREACH AND. POLITICAL. INTERFERENCE. >> IT RISKS NOT ONLY. AMERICAN HIGHER. EDUCATION BUT OUR. DEMOCRACY ITSELF. >> Reporter: ADMINISTRATION. OFFICIALS SAY THE. GOAL IS TO ROOT OUT.

ANTI-SEMITISM ON. CAMPUS, BUT THE. DEMANDS HAVE BEEN. GREATER IN SCOPE. TARGETING DEI. PROGRAMS AND. CURRICULUM. THE STATEMENT'S. RELEASE COMING JUST. HOURS AFTER HARVARD. BECAME THE FIRST. SCHOOL TO SUE THE. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. FOR FREEZING $2.2. BILLION IN RESEARCH. FUNDS. THE LAWSUIT ACCUSES. THE GOVERNMENT OF. USING THE FUNDING AS. LEVERAGE TO GAIN. CONTROL OF ACADEMIC. DECISION MAKING. IN A STATEMENT, A. WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN. CALLED THE FEDERAL. FUNDING OF UNIVERSITY. RESEARCH A GRAVY. TRAIN. >> THE PRESIDENT HAS. MADE IT QUITE CLEAR.

THAT IT'S HARVARD WHO. HAS PUT THEMSELVES IN. THE POSITION TO LOSE. THEIR OWN FUNDING. >> Reporter: DR. DAVID WALTZ'. RESEARCH INTO EARLY. A.L.S. DETECTION WAS. ABRUPTLY STOPPED. >> THE WORK WE'RE. DOING IS NOT. POLITICAL IN NATURE. IT'S REALLY SIMPLY TO. BENEFIT HUMAN KIND. >> Reporter: RESTARTING THE STUDY. WILL BE DIFFICULT. >> TAXPAYERS HAVE. PAID FOR A PROJECT. THAT WILL HAVE NO. RESULTS. >> Reporter: HOW DO. YOU FEEL ABOUT THE. FACT THAT YOUR. UNIVERSITY HAS TAKEN.

THIS STAND? >> I'M 100% BEHIND. IT. I'M PROUD OF HARVARD, AS I THINK MOST OF. THE FACULTY ARE HERE. >> Reporter: STEPHANIE GOSK, NBC. NEWS. >> KAREN READ WAS. BACK IN COURT TODAY. FOR A SECOND MURDER. TRIAL IN A CASE THAT. HAS GRIPPED THE. COUNTRY. SHE'S ACCUSED OF. KILLING HER BOSTON. POLICE OFFICER. HER LAWYERS INSISTING. SHE WAS FRAMED. HERE'S LAURA JARRETT. >> THERE WAS NO. COLLISION. SHE'S A VICTIM OF A.

BOTCHED AND BIASED. AND CORRUPTED. INVESTIGATION. >> Reporter: KAREN. READ'S DEFENSE TEAM. ATTEMPTING TO STRIKE. AT THE HEART OF THE. STATE'S CASE IN HER. TRIAL FOR THE ALLEGED. MURDER OF HER FORMER. BOYFRIEND, A BOSTON. POLICE OFFICER. A CASE THAT HAS. CAPTURED GLOBAL. ATTENTION. >> I'M DECLARING A. MISTRIAL IN THE CASE. >> Reporter: READ. BACK IN COURT TODAY. FOR OPENING. STATEMENTS IN HER. RETRIAL AFTER A JURY. DEADLOCKED LAST YEAR. >> I'M LIVING IN. PURGATORY. >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS ONCE. AGAIN CHARGING HER. WITH SECOND DEGREE. MURDER, MANSLAUGHTER,

AND LEAVING THE SCENE. OF AN ACCIDENT. ACCUSING READ OF. RAMMING HER SUV INTO. JOHN OREEF AFTER A. NIGHT OF HEAVY. DRINKING. CAUSING HIM TO HIT. HIS HEAD AND DIE IN. THE SNOW. >> WE ARE NOT GOING. TO TRY TO PROVE THAT. KAREN READ TRIED TO. KILL JOHN O'KEEFE. WE'RE NOT GOING TO. TRY TO PROVE THAT SHE. INTENDED OR WANTED. HIM DEAD. WHAT WE WILL PROVE IS. SHE ENGAGED IN AN. INTENSIONAL ACT, DRIVING BACK AT HIM. AT THAT SPEED IN THE. STORM. >> Reporter: BUT READ. HAS MAINTAINED HER. INNOCENCE. HER LAWYERS TELLING. THE JURY TODAY,

O'KEEFE WAS KILLED AT. A FELLOW OFFICER'S. HOME AND THEIR CLIENT. WAS FRAMED. >> JOHN DID NOT HAVE. A SINGLE INJURY. CONSISTENT WITH BEING. HIT BY A CAR. NO BROKEN BONES, NO. FRACTURES. JOHN O'KEEFE WAS. INJURED SOMEPLACE. WARMER AND HE WAS. MOVED. THAT ALONE IS. REASONABLE DOUBT. >> Reporter: NO ONE. ELSE HAS BEEN CHARGED. IN HIS DEATH. BUT THE CASE HAS. TURNED INTO A. CULTURAL SENSATION. >> I AM JUST OBSESSED.

WITH THIS CASE. >> Reporter: WHILE. BACK IN COURT, READ'S. COMMENTS AND. INTERVIEWS SINCE THE. LAST TRIAL --. >> DID I SAY THAT I. HIT HIM OR WAS IT. TOLD TO ME THAT I. SAID I HIT HIM. >> Reporter: MAY. COMPLICATE HER. DEFENSE AT THIS ONE. LAURA JARRETT. >> MAJOR CHANGES ARE. COMING TO THE. NATION'S FOOD SUPPLY. TODAY, THERE HHS. SECRETARY AND FDA. COMMISSIONER. ANNOUNCED A FEDERAL. BAN ON FOOD DYES. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN. FOR POPULAR FOODS AND. DRINKS? HERE'S VICKY NGUYEN. >> Reporter: KEEPING. HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISE.

TO MAKE AMERICA. HEALTHY AGAIN, HEALTH. SECRETARY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SAYS HE. WANTS FOOD MAKERS TO. STOP USING SYNTHETIC. DYES MADE FROM. PETROLEUM TO COLOR. WHAT WE EAT AND. DRINK. >> THE PROBLEM IS. INDUSTRY IS MAKING. MONEY KEEPING US. SICK. >> Reporter: THE FDA. CITING A NEW EPIDEMIC. OF CHILDHOOD. DIABETES, OBESITY, AND ADHD. IN JANUARY, THE FDA. BANNED RED DYE NUMBER. 3, THE NEW BAN. TARGETS SIX MORE. SYNTHETIC DYES AND.

TWO FOOD COLORINGS. COMMON INGREDIENTS. FOUND IN CEREALS, CANDIES, CAKES, AND. EVEN MEDICINE. THE MEASURE. AUTHORIZES FOUR NEW. NATURAL COLOR. ADDITIVES AND FAST. TRACKS THE APPROVAL. OF OTHERS. A FOOD DYE TRADE. GROUP SAYS IN PART, COLOR ADDITIVES HAVE. BEEN RIGOROUSLY. REVIEWED BY GLOBAL. HEALTH AUTHORITIES. WITH NO SAFETY. CONCERNS, DESPITE. COMMON. MISCONCEPTIONS, COLORS ARE APPROVED. AND CONTINUE TO BE. USED WORLDWIDE. IN BOSTON, FOOD. MAKERS ARE ALREADY. USING PIGMENTS FROM.

CABBAGE, TURMERIC, AND BEETS AS FOOD. COLORINGS. WHY IS SO MUCH FOOD. IN THE AMERICAN DIET. MADE WITH ARTIFICIAL. COLORS AND FLAVORS? >> IN SHORT, BECAUSE. THEY'RE EASY. THEY'RE CHEAP. >> Reporter: THE CEO. SAYS THE TECHNOLOGY. IS AVAILABLE NOW, AND. THERE'S NO NEED FOR. ARTIFICIAL COLORS. >> SO THIS IS PURPLE. CARROTS AND BEET. JUICE. >> IT CAN MAKE FOOD. LOOK THE SAME AS THE. RED DYE? >> YES, WITH THE. RIGHT DILUTION, CONCENTRATION, AND. INTELLIGENCE, YES. >> IS IT MUCH MORE. EXPENSIVE TO USE.

THIS? >> NO. >> THE BAN CALLS FOR. ALL SYNTHETIC DYES TO. BE REMOVED BY THE END. OF NEXT YEAR. VICKY NGUYEN. >> IN 60 SECONDS, A. WARNING FOR PARENTS. WE'LL TELL YOU ABOUT. THE ALARMING. NATIONWIDE RISE IN. WHOOPING COUGH WHIC. >>> AN IMPORTANT NEW. HEALTH ALERT, ESPECIALLY FOR. PARENTS TONIGHT ON A. SPIKE IN AN INFECTION. THAT CAN BE DANGEROUS. FOR BABIES. WHOOPING COUGH. SAM BROCK JOINING US. NOW.

SAM, WHAT ARE YOU. FINDING OUT? >> SCIENTISTS FINDING. IT'S A COMBINATION OF. FALLING VACCINATION. RATES, SKIPPING. BOOSTERS AND MORE. TESTING. THE U.S. HAS MORE. THAN 8,000 REPORTED. CASES OF WHOOPING. COUGH SO FAR THIS. YEAR. THAT IS MORE THAN. DOUBLE WHERE WE WERE. AT THIS TIME LAST. YEAR. IN MICHIGAN ALONE. THAT FIGURE JUMPED. 1800% IN ONE YEAR. THE BACTERIAL. INFECTION IS SPREAD. THROUGH DROPLETS AND. IS CONTAGIOUS. PRESENTING INITIALLY. LIKE A COMMON COLD. BUT PROGRESSING TO. VIOLENT COUGHING.

SPELLS THAT CAN BE. FATAL, AS YOU SAID, FOR INFANTS, WITH TWO. YOUNG CHILDREN DYING. IN LOUISIANA IN THE. LAST SIX MONTHS. PERTUSSIS CAN TAKE. HOLD IN THE FIRST. YEAR OR TWO OF A. CHILD'S LIFE. GETTING A VACCINE, OF. COURSE, IS YOUR BEST. PROTECTION. >> VERY CONCERNING. SAM, THANKS. >>> UP NEXT, THE. FIRES AND MANDATORY. EVACUATIONS IN NEW. JERSEY. PLUS, A DRAMATIC. ESCAPE. A SIDEWALK. >>> WILDFIRES TEARING.

ACROSS PART OF NEW. JERSEY BURNING MORE. THAN 1,000 ACRES AND. BLANKETING THE SKY. WITH THICK SMOKE. MAJOR ROADS ARE SHUT. DOWN AND EVACUATION. ORDERS ARE IN PLACE. AS CREWS WORK TO GET. THE RAPIDLY SPREADING. FIRE UNDER CONTROL. >>> TERRIFYING. MOMENTS ON A SIDEWALK. IN POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW. YORK. A MANHOLE EXPLODING. NARROWLY MISSING A. WOMAN AND TWO. CHILDREN. THE LOCAL FIRE. DEPARTMENT SAYS. CARBON MONOXIDE WAS. FOUND UNDERGROUND AND. INSIDE BUILDINGS ON. THE BLOCK.

THEY SAID NO ONE WAS. HURT IN THAT. EXPLOSION. >> IN CHINA, A UNIQUE. HALF MARATHON PITTED. 12,000 HUMAN RUNNERS. AGAINST 21 HUMANOID. ROBOTS. PART OF AN EFFORT TO. SHOWCASE DEVELOPING. TECHNOLOGY, ALTHOUGH. MOST OF THE ROBOTS. HAD A ROUGH ROAD. SOME FELL DOWN, OTHERS FELL APART.IMPORTANT. PART. >> Reporter: MAGGIE. VESPA, NBC.