NBC Nightly News Full Episode – April 27

Tonight, the new developments after a. deadly car attack at a busy street. festival. A massive emergency response. A driver plowing through the crowd, knocking people to the ground. At least. 11 killed, dozens more hurt. This is the. darkest day in our city's history. New. tonight, what police are revealing about. the suspect and what we're learning. about the victims. Intense weather. turning deadly. Record rainfall. triggering flash floods washing cars off. the road. My neighbor's car was was.

floating down the river. Plus, a twister. and hail stom. Look at that. In New. Mexico. We're tracking the severe threat. for the start of your week. New warning. signs for President Trump as he. approaches 100 days in office. Our new. NBC News poll showing Americans not. happy about where the country is headed. The report from voters on his handling. of immigration, inflation, and tariffs. Steve Cornaki is here to break it down. Thousands wait in line to visit the tomb.

of Pope Francis as the focus now shifts. to the selection of his successor. The. terrifying moments as a boat smashes. into a pier, going airborne, flipping. over, and a major cancer breakthrough. The new treatment option that could help. some patients avoid surgery. This is NBC Nightly News with Hi. Jackson. We are coming on the air with. new questions tonight after someone. plowed a car into a festival, killing 11.

people, hurting dozens more. Victims. ranging in age from just 5 to 65. You. can see the aftermath here in Vancouver. after that SUV drove into a block party. celebrating a Filipino holiday, ramming. into food trucks lining the streets. People there crying, stunned, some in. the crowd even stopping and capturing. the driver themselves. According to. police, investigators say it was not an. act of terrorism, revealing the suspect. had a history of mental illness as a. city now in shock and in grief reels.

from the attack. Our Dana Griffin is in. Vancouver tonight. And a warning, some. of the video you're about to see is. disturbing. Oh my god. Tonight, the city of. Vancouver in shock. Oh my god. My god. After hundreds attending this block. party Saturday night celebrating. Filipino heritage were mowed down by a. driver in this black Audi SUV. This is. the darkest day in our city's history. It happened just after 8:00 p.m. local.

time. Officials say the 30-year-old. driver and Vancouver resident was. arrested after witnesses intervened, holding him on scene until police. arrived. According to police, that. driver entered the festival area here on. East 43rd Avenue. You can still see. tents, food trucks, crime scene markers, and a ton of debris in the middle of the. road from when that SUV came plowing. through. Sheldon Nipshake returned to. the festival soon after the crash. And I. saw this lady. She was screaming, "I. can't feel my legs. I can't feel my. legs." And people, there are people.

around her trying to help her. According. to police, at least 11 are now dead, dozens more injured. No motive has been. released, but authorities don't believe. this was an act of terrorism, saying. they have a history of interactions with. the suspect related to mental health. There are many unanswered questions. about why this horrific crime happened. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. offering these words of solidarity to. the Filipino Canadian community and to. everyone in the broader lower mainland.

Vancouver. I would like to offer my. deepest condolences. a community in. mourning and continuing to process an. unimaginable tragedy. Like all of you, I'm completely. heartbroken. I'm shocked. and I'm angry. Vancouver police say they. are confident in the risk assessment. they conducted prior to this event. That's why there were no dedicated. police officers or vehicle barriers. However, they will review all. circumstances surrounding the planning.

of this event and if there could have. been more done to prevent this tragedy. Hie Dana Griffin in Vancouver. Thank. you. The severe weather threat ramping. up tonight and into the early part of. this week with millions of people in the. danger zone after deadly flooding, twisters, and hail have left part of the. country battered already. Adrien Bratis. is tracking it all. Rising flood water in Oklahoma. threatening homes and sweeping cars off. the road. Record rainfall forcing.

rescues. First responders using boats to. bring neighbors to safety as officials. urge some residents to evacuate. From. above, you can see the creeks spilling. over to nearby fields. We've got. sheriff's deputies going house to house. in areas that are floodprone where. people are living, trying to do. evacuations. In Lton, more than 5 ines. of rain fell on Saturday, setting a. daily record. My neighbor's car was was. floating down the river. Police say one. person was killed after their car was. submerged. All right, pull over now.

Meanwhile, in southeast New Mexico, storms spawning two confirmed. tornadoes. Damaging hail battering. windshields and homes. We lost our. basketball goal. Look at the front of. our house. In Pennsylvania, a cold front. fueling strong wind gusts as. firefighters work to contain two. wildfires. And tonight, the threat isn't. over. Millions in the path for damaging. wind, hail, and tornadoes. The severe. weather risk ramping up tomorrow with 36.

million on alert from Texas to Michigan. Adrienne Bris, NBC News. New warning signs for President Trump. just ahead of his first 100 days in. office with our new NBC News polling. showing a majority of Americans. disapprove of the president and how he's. handling key issues like the economy. Aaron Gilchrist reports. Tonight, a new measure of President. Trump's job performance. An NBC News. stay tuned poll showing a majority of. American adults disapprove of how he's.

handling the job. And 60% of Americans. also say the country is on the wrong. track under his leadership. That. national feedback coming as Trump. approaches the 100th day of his second. term this week. A term so far focused on. things like reshaping the world economic. order. Americans concerned about the. prices they'll pay even as threats of. tariffs have led to negotiations. We're. going to be taking in a tremendous. amount of money. We're going to be. taking in a lot of jobs, a lot of plants.

and factories. They're already coming. Trump's Treasury Secretary backing his. tariffs play. You're not going to tell. the the person on the other side of the. negotiation where you're going to end. up. But the administration refusing to. confirm whether Trump has talked tariffs. with the biggest US competitor, China. I. think that the Chinese will see that. this high tariff level is unsustainable. for their business. Despite a campaign promise to end the. war in Ukraine on day one, which the. president now says was an exaggeration,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio. suggesting a peace deal may be at an. impass. We have to make a determination. about whether this is an endeavor that. we want to continue to be involved in. This after President Trump's face to. face on Saturday with Wimir Zalinski. The president also sharing skepticism on. social media about whether Russia wants. to stop the war. Democrats worried about. Trump's next move to just abandon. Ukraine after all the sacrifice that. they made. It would just be a moral. tragedy.

Aaron Gilchrist is near the president's. home in New Jersey. And Aaron, late. tonight, President Trump still sounded. somewhat hopeful Ukraine may make. concessions. Hi, the president was asked if he. thought Zalinsky was willing to give up. Crimea, the area annexed by Russia in. 2014. The president said, "Oh, I think. so." which is the opposite of what. President Zalinsky has said as recently. as last week. Allie. Aaron Gilchrist in New Jersey. Thank. you. Let's bring in Steve Cornaki for a. closer look at the numbers at the big.

board. And Steve, how does this all. break down when you look at specific. issues? Yeah, Hy, we can see Trump's. overall approval of 45%. But what really. is dragging him down? It's right here. It's inflation, the cost of living. Obviously, one of the issues arguably he. was elected on 40% approval and the. tariffs. tariffs and trade 39% approval. right there. Where's he doing a little. bit better? You can see here it's on. some of the more cultural fronts. His. executive order on DEI 44% approval and.

border and immigration. It's basically. it's almost 5050 right there. But these. two issues right here, Hie, really. dragging the president down. There's. also some revealing trends when you look. at the gender gap, too, right? Yeah. A. new look at it, a twist here. We always. talk about the gender gap. It's been. around forever. What happens though when. you combine gender with generations? I. think this is very revealing from our. new poll. Trump's approval rating here, Gen Z, this is voters under 30 years. old, men under 30, 45% job approval. And. that number is not too far off what you.

see in other generations among men and. other generations that you see among. women. Which one of these is not like. the other? It's right here. Trump among. Gen Z women, women under 30 falls off a. cliff. And Hie, it's not just Trump's. approval rating. issue after issue in. this poll. The most progressive side of. the political spectrum is concentrated. right here. Women under 30. Steve Cornaki at the big board. Thank. you. The White House's immigration. crackdown drawing new scrutiny over the. effect it's having on some families. All.

as we're learning about hundreds of. arrests in Colorado and Florida this. weekend. Here's Marissa Par. Tensions rising across the country over. the escalating battle on immigration and. impacted families. Bring her home. Hayy. Sanchez says she was ripped apart from. her still nursing baby. Deported to Cuba now separated from her. husband and several children. All US. citizens left behind in Florida, including her one-year-old. We want to. Haiti back. It's really hard. Targeted.

large-scale operations have been touted. by ICE, boasting nearly 800 arrests. across Florida in just the last week. In Colorado Springs, DEA agents detained. more than 100 people after a raid on a. club, turning them over to immigration. authorities. ICE says they're focused on. quote criminals, but immigration rights. groups say their actions show otherwise. They're arresting people. indiscriminately. Civil rights attorney. Serene Shabaya says these detentions. have been happening at routine. appointments and then being ambushed and.

put on flights in the early hours of the. morning before any court opened. And in. New Orleans, two families deported to. Honduras. In one case, an undocumented. mother with her American children. One. just four years old with cancer, and in. another case, an undocumented mother and. her American 2-year-old daughter. The. memorandum order in their case states. that the mother expressed that she would. like to take her children with her, but. advocates say that's not true. We know. for a fact that the mother did not.

actually want her US citizen child to go. with her. The federal judge ordering the. matter be set for a hearing. Quote, "In. the interest of dispelling our strong. suspicion that the government just. deported a US citizen with no meaningful. process." Borders are Tom Hman. responding this morning when asked about. removed American children. The children. aren't deported. The the mother chose to. take the children with her. That when. you're at the country illegally and you. know you're here illegally and you. choose to have your assistant child, that's on you. That's not on this. administration. Families now at the.

center of a brewing national firestorm. Mercap NBC News Miami. To breaking news. tonight, two sources tell NBC News a. second suspect has been arrested in. connection with the theft of the. Homeland Security Secretar's purse last. week. Secretary Christy Gnome had been. dining with family at this DC restaurant. when the bag with $3,000 in cash and her. government ID inside was taken. Officials say the first suspect arrested. yesterday is in this country illegally.

To the Vatican now where the focus is. shifting to when a new pope will be. selected as tens of thousands of people. wait hours in line for a chance to pay. their respects at the tomb where Pope. Francis was laid to rest. Annne Thompson. is there. A joyful noise today outside the. basilica where Pope Francis is buried. His words turned into music. The faithful waiting two hours in a line. that wrapped around Santa Maria Majori.

for a chance to walk by his tomb. Many emotional like Cincinnati's Karen. Dime just what Pope Francis meant to the. world. You know, very moving experience. The cardinals coming to pray as well. Those under the age of 80 will select. France's successor. The start date for. the conclave expected this week. Cardinal Petro Perilene, thought to be. one of the contenders, celebrated mass. this morning in a crowded St. Peter's.

Square. Originally intended for the. canonization of the first millennial. saint, which is now. delayed. The mass itself a reminder that. unlike political transitions, much about. the Catholic Church is indeed eternal. The task of the church is to make sense. of the truths the church has professed. for 2,000 years. That's the task for the. next pope. Brooklyn Sophia Lazaro says. Pope Franc's death has changed the. conversation among her friends. Like I.

just feel like it's just been Yeah. very. influential. Maybe more than I even. would have thought. A pope bringing. people together in life and. death. And Thompson, NBC News, Rome. A scary moment in Miami. Look at this. here. That boat going airborne, flipping. over. Look at this video showing it. speeding up, then it swerves before it. runs into some other boats that are. docked. There it is. It flips. It lands. upside down. Several people were on.

board, including some children. Apparently, they were thrown from the. boat into the water. Witnesses quickly. jumped into action to help them. One. person was hospitalized and still no. word on what caused the crash. We are. back in a moment with the major cancer. breakthrough that could let some. patients avoid surgery altogether. [Music]. Back now with a new study out today. showing how immunotherapy could help. some patients beat cancer without.

surgery. Here's Dr. John Torres. Hi. When Moren Sedaris was diagnosed. with gastroosophageal cancer over two. years ago, doctors told her she wouldn't. just need chemo and radiation, but they. would also have to remove part of her. esophagus and stomach. I wouldn't be. able to eat or talk. My two favorite things in life. Are you. kidding me? But then she found a. promising clinical trial for patients. like her with tumors that have a genetic. mutation called mismatch repair.

deficiency. All our cells in the body. when they divide they make mistakes and. mismatch repair corrects those mistakes. In these tumors to gain an advantage the. tumors have shut down mismatch repair. Any tumor can have the mutation, but. they predominantly affect colurectal, gastric, pancreatic, and endometrial. cancers. Recently admitted, the trial. co-led by Dr. Louise Diaz had patients. skip surgery and instead take an.

amunotherapy drug. So this amunotherapy. is is not just revving the immune system. up to fight the tumor. It's exposing the. tumor and if the reality is the tumor. looks foreign, it will wipe it out of. the body. today. That study finding the. experimental approach is 80% effective. in people with the mutation. This is. Moren. Um, and you see here her active. esophageal cancer when we first met her, that highlighted area right there. There. black black area there. Okay. And then.

after treatment, you can see that that. area disappears. It's gone. It's gone. Any tumor that needs to go for surgery. should be checked for mismatch repair. And in 80% of patients, we might be able. to avoid surgery. Less than a year after. her diagnosis, Moren had no evidence of. cancer. It was like winning the lottery. Dr. John Torres, NBC News. When we come. back, there's good news tonight about. the unexpected way this musician got his. job and the unusual concerts he now.

delivers. [Music]. There is good news tonight about the. power of music after one man was given. the keys to a lifelong career he never. [Music]. expected to get to this Maryland town's. most musical. perch takes 50 steps up a winding. staircase. Wow. Fortunately for the.

folks in. Frederick, John Woodman's a pro. Carolon is an instrument of bells played. from a keyboard of batons and pedals. Do. you always play in socks? I always play. in socks. For 33 years, Whitman has been. Frederick's city. caroliner, a seasoned organist, and. former public school teacher.

[Music]. performing free concerts every single. Sunday. A job he didn't just earn, he. inherited. About two years after we. moved to town, I found a Manila envelope. with my name misspelled on it. Um, and. inside the envelope was a brass key. The. key from Frederick's prior caroliner, who'd heard him play just once opened. the door, literally. What a way to get a. job. Yeah, it was bestowed upon me. The.

playlist, everything from. classical to classic rock. You played. Billy Joel on this thing. Oh, I did. today. Yeah. [Music]. These days, only about 180 of these. instruments operate in the US. So, for. these Marylanders to hear ringing. regularly is a treat. And although it's an instrument anyone. can.

learn, really anyone. You too can be a. Caroliner. [Music]. It just sounds better in the hands and. feet of a pro. I hope people find something that they. like or maybe something familiar or. maybe something romantic. If it makes. people happy, that's good. And that's nightly news for this Sunday. Lester will be back tomorrow. I'm Hi.

Jackson. For all of us here at NBC, thanks for watching and have a great. week. Thanks for watching. Stay updated about. breaking news and top stories on the NBC. News app or follow us on social media.