NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas Full Episode - Nov. 6

BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT. WE'RE FOLLOWING MAJOR STORIES OUT OF WASHINGTON. THE MAJOR WHITE HOUSE SHAKEUP, PLUS THE ARMED MAN ARRESTED FOR THREATENING THE PRESIDENT'S LIFE. SECRET SERVICE ARRESTING THIS MAN NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE ARMED. WITH MULTIPLE FIREARMS AND ALLEGEDLY THREATENING TO KILL THE PRESIDENT. WHAT WE'RE LEARNING PLUS THE SURPRISE MOVE JUST DAYS AFTER THE REPUBLICAN WIPEOUT. PRESIDENT TRUMP ELEVATING THE MAN BEHIND HIS IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN, STEPHEN MILLER, TO THE TOP WHITE HOUSE JOB. CRITICS SAY HE COULD PUSH THE PRESIDENT TO EVEN MORE EXTREME POSITIONS.

OUR KRISTEN WELKER WITH NEW REPORTING. MEGHAN MARKLE'S ESTRANGED FATHER ARRESTED. THE FBI WHEELING THE 82-YEAR-OLD OUT IN HANDCUFFS. HE'S NOW CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, WHAT INVESTIGATORS DISCOVERED IN HIS STORAGE UNITS. POWERFUL STORMS SLAMMING TENS OF MILLIONS ALONG THE EAST COAST. DRIVERS TRAPPED IN RISING WATERS, PLUS GROUND STOPS AT MAJOR AIRPORTS. WE'RE TRACKING. THE HEARTBROKEN FATHER OF THE YOUNG CO-PILOT KILLED IN THAT FLORIDA JET CRASH.

SPEAKING OUT WHILE HE LISTENED TO HER FINAL MAYDAY CALL OVER. AND OVER AGAIN. TERRIFYING VIDEO OF A MAN ARMED WITH A GUN HOLDING A CHICAGO BUS DRIVER. HOSTAGE. HOW SHE NARROWLY ESCAPED. CYBER BUST. IT'S THE END OF THE ROAD FOR TESLA'S CYBER TRUCK. WHY CEO ELON MUSK IS STOPPING PRODUCTION. POPE LEO'S HISTORIC TRIP, THE PONTIFF. SOUTH AMERICA. JUST WEEKS AFTER LUNG CANCER SURGERY, THE GIANT PANDA REVEAL ATLANTA'S NEWEST CELEBRITIES. MAKING THEIR AMERICAN DEBUT,

AND OUR GREAT AMERICAN TONIGHT, THE FONZ HIMSELF, HENRY WINKLER ON HIS BREAKOUT ROLE ON HAPPY. DAYS AND HIS FAMILY'S ESCAPE FROM NAZI GERMANY. NIGHTLY NEWS. STARTS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH TOM. AND GOOD EVENING AND WE THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON THIS FRIDAY NIGHT. WE'RE COMING ON THE AIR WITH SOME BREAKING NEWS. THE SECRET SERVICE. ARRESTING A MAN NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE CARRYING AN ARSENAL OF WEAPONS.

YOU SEE THEM RIGHT HERE, INCLUDING THAT AR-15. STYLE GUN. AUTHORITIES SAY HE WAS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT, ALLEGEDLY CLAIMING HE HEARD VOICES TELLING HIM TO KILL THE PRESIDENT. NEWS OF THAT ARREST ON THE HEELS OF A MAJOR SHAKEUP INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE. JUST DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION. MANY VIEW AS A REPUDIATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S MORE EXTREME POLICIES. TODAY HE ELEVATED THE MAN BEHIND MANY OF THEM IN A SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT. PRESIDENT TRUMP PROMOTED HIS LONGTIME ADVISER. STEPHEN MILLER. TO BE THE NEXT WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF,

REPLACING SUSIE WILES, THE FIRST WOMAN TO EVER HOLD THAT JOB. MILLER IS THE ARCHITECT OF THE PRESIDENT'S MASS DEPORTATION POLICY, A KEY ISSUE THAT MOTIVATED VOTERS ON TUESDAY, WITH THE MAJORITY SAYING IT WENT TOO FAR. WE HAVE NEW REPORTING TONIGHT ON WHAT LED UP TO THAT CHANGE AND. WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR THE FINAL 2 YEARS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY, BUT WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN WITH THAT THREAT TO THE PRESIDENT. TOM WINTER JOINS US NOW LIVE. TOM, THIS ALL HAPPENED RIGHT NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE. YES, THAT'S RIGHT, TOM. IT'S THE 2ND TIME IN 2 DAYS SOMEONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED. FOR THREATENING TO KILL PRESIDENT TRUMP.

LOOK AIS HOMELAND SECURITY PHOTO WHICH SHOWS HIS ALLEGED ARSENAL, INCLUDING AN AR. STYLE RIFLE, TWO SEMI-AUTOMATIC HANDGUNS, AND DOZENS OF ROUNDS OF AMMO RECOVERED FROM THE CAR OF THE SUSPECT. THEY SAY THIS MAN, YANNI YORRIS GUANIPA CRINOS, A VENEZUELAN MIGRANT IN THE US ILLEGALLY, IS NOW UNDER ARREST. THE SECRET SERVICE APPARENTLY SAW HIM ACTING SUSPICIOUSLY IN HIS CAR. RIGHT NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE ON THURSDAY. HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD AGENTS. HE HEARD VOICES IN HIS HEAD.

THAT TOLD HIM TO COME TO WASHINGTON. TO KILL THE PRESIDENT. HE HASN'T ENTERED A PLEA YET. TOM. OK, TOM WINTER LEADING US OFF ON THAT BREAKING NEWS. TOM, THANK YOU. NOW TO THE OTHER BREAKING NEWS INVOLVING THE PRESIDENT, HIS SHAKEUP AT THE WHITE HOUSE, NAMING HIS CONTROVERSIAL AIDE STEPHEN MILLER. AS HIS NEW CHIEF OF STAFF. FOLLOWING THE REPUBLICAN WIPEOUT IN THE MIDTERMS. HERE'S GABE GUTIERREZ. TONIGHT, THE FIRST WHITE HOUSE SHAKEUP FOLLOWING THAT MASSIVE MIDTERM DEFEAT. STEPHEN MILLER, THE POLARIZING ARCHITECT OF THE PRESIDENT'S CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION,

HE NEW WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF. SUZY WILES IS OUT. I THINK. SUSIE'S DONE A VERY GOOD JOB, GREAT JOB, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT, STEVEN'S BEEN GREAT. AND UH. A WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL TELLING NBC NEWS. WILES SUBMITTED HER RESIGNATION LAST NIGHT. HOURS LATER, POSTING SERVING PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN THE HONOR OF A LIFETIME. JUST WEEKS AGO,

THE PRESIDENT HAD STRONGLY DISMISSED REPORTS. THAT HE WAS CONSIDERING REPLACING HER. BUT THEN CAME THOSE CRUSHING REPUBLICAN LOSSES. WILES WAS TRUMP'S LONGEST SERVING CHIEF OF STAFF AND THE FIRST. WOMAN TO HOLD A POWERFUL POSITION IN THE NATION'S HISTORY. THE ICE BABY, WE. CALL. HER THE. IN MARCH, SHE REVEALED SHE'D BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER BUT KEPT. WORKING AND IN SEPTEMBER ANNOUNCED SHE WAS CANCER FREE. MILLER'S ELEVATION COMES AS THE ADMINISTRATION PREPARES FOR A POTENTIAL.

SHOWDOWN WITH DEATS WHO HAVE PROMISED INVESTIGATIONS OF TRUMP OFFICIALS, POSTING. LAWYER UP. MILLER FREQUENTLY CLASHING WITH DEMOCRATS. WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET THE COMMUNISTS. DESTROY A GREAT AMERICAN CITY. TONIGHT TOP HOUSE DEMOCRAT HAKEEM JEFFRIES SAYING MILLER'S PRESENCE. IN GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE ERADICATED LIKE A MALIGNANT TUMOR. WHILE THE PRESIDENT IS TOUTING HIS PROMOTION. STEVEN'S BEEN WITH ME. FROM THE BEGINNING. HE GETS IT. VERY GOOD POLITICALLY. AND HE'S A VERY GOOD MAN. HE'LL DO A GREAT JOB,

GREAT. MANAGER. GABE IS COVERING THE PRESIDENT IN FLORIDA. AND GABE THINGS ARE MOVING PRETTY QUICKLY. WILES DID NOT MAKE THAT TRIP. YES, TOM. WILES SAID TODAY WAS HER LAST DAY. MILLER IS NOW TRAVELING WITH THE PRESIDENT, AND WHILE SHE DID NOT MENTION IT IN HER POST, A SOURCE WHO HAS SPOKEN WITH WILES CONFIRMS. TO NBC NEWS HER RESIGNATION WAS DUE IN PART. TO THOSE GOP MIDTERM LOSSES. TOM, GABE, THANK YOU. MEET THE PRESS MODERATOR KRISTEN WELKER IS HERE, AND KRISTEN, YOU HAVE SOME NEW REPORTING ON. WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE PRESIDENT REALLY DOUBLING DOWN HERE.

THAT'S RIGHT, TOM. ONE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER TELLING ME TONIGHT. THIS IS THE PRESIDENT'S WAY OF SAYING TO DEMOCRATS, I'M GOING TO FIGHT YOU. NOW. REMEMBER, PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE WAS LOOKING TO WORK WITH DEMOCRATS. MILLER HAS BEEN ONE OF THE PRESIDENT'S MOST HARDLINE ADVISERS, PUSHING MANY POLICIES VOTERS REJECTED, AND NOW HE WILL BE THE TOP GATEKEEPER TO THE PRESIDENT, THOUGH A SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL TONIGHT TELLING ME. MILLER BELIEVES HE HAS FOSTERED GREAT WORKING RELATIONSHIPS, ARGUING HE CAN GET THINGS DONE. TOM KRISTEN WELKER WITH THAT NEW REPORTING AND MAKE SURE TO JOIN.

KRISTEN FOR A BIG POST-ELECTION MEET THE PRESS THIS SUNDAY ON NBC. NOW TO THAT SHOCKING ARREST IN FLORIDA. TODAY WHERE MEGHAN MARKLE'S FATHER WAS ARRESTED. AND CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. MARKLE MAKING HIS FIRST COURT APPEARANCE IN TAMPA. OUR JESSE KIRSCH IS THERE. TONIGHT MEGHAN MARKLE'S ESTRANGED FATHER ARRESTED BY THE FBI IN LAKELAND, FLORIDA. THE 82-YEAR-OLD THOMAS MARKLE SR. NOW CHARGED WITH ONE COUNT OF POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, ACCORDING TO AN FBI SPECIAL AGENT'S SWORN STATEMENT.

OVER THE PAST WEEK, INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED TWO CALIFORNIA STORAGE UNITS REGISTERED TO MARKLE, SEIZING ROUGHLY 80 ITEMS INCLUDING SLIDES, FILM NEGATIVES, BOOKS THAT CONTAINED SUSPECTED CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. THE FBI ALLEGEDLY DISCOVERING AT LEAST. TWO SEPARATE IMAGES SHOWING A CLOTHED MARKLE. AND A NUDE PREPUBESCENT GIRL. LAST MONTH, THE AFFIDAVIT ALSO SAYS A WITNESS DISCOVERED SUSPECTED CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. AMONG MARKLE'S POSSESSIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES. THOMAS MARKLE SR. PREVIOUSLY TELLING THE DAILY MAIL ALLEGATIONS THAT HE.

POSSESSED CHILD SEX ABUSE IMAGES ARE SICK LIES. MEGAN'S DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIP WITH HER FATHER WAS THRUST INTO THE SPOTLIGHT. DURING HER 2018 ROYAL WEDDING, WHICH HE DID NOT ATTEND, MEGHAN SPEAKING OUT IN A 2021 INTERVIEW WITH OPRAH, DID IT FEEL LIKE BETRAYAL WHEN YOU FOUND OUT YOUR FATHER WAS. WORKING WITH THE TABLOIDS? I'M JUST TRYING TO DECIDE IF I'M COMFORTABLE EVEN TALKING ABOUT THAT. LAST MONTH, MEGHAN SHARED IN A STATEMENT THAT UK POLICE INFORMED.

HER OF DISTURBING ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HER ER IN 2019, ADDING, MY CHOICE TO NOT ALLOW HIM TO HAVE CONTACT WITH OUR CHILDREN WAS FOR ONE REASON. TO PROTECT THEM. TONIGHT, MEGHAN AND HARRY ARE DECLINING TO COMMENT ON HER FATHER'S. IT SORT OF OBVIOUSLY VINDICATES HER ESTRANGEMENT FROM HIM. AND THE FACT THAT PRINCE HARRY, PRINCESS LILIBERT, AND PRINCE ARCHIE, HER TWO CHILDREN, HAVE NEVER MET THEIR GRANDFATHER AND HER HUSBAND HAS NEVER MET HER FATHER. JESSE KURST JOINS US NOW OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE IN TAMPA. JESSE,

WHAT'S NEXT FOR THOMAS MARKLE. AND WHERE IS HE TONIGHT? TOM, LATE TODAY, MARKLE WAS RELEASED, BUT A JUDGE ORDERED HOME DETENTION WITH ELECTRONIC MONITORING. IF CONVICTED, HE FACES UP TO 20 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON. WE'VE REACHED OUT TO MARKLE'S ATTORNEY, BUT SO FAR. WE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK. TOM, JESSE, THANK YOU. A NEW ROUND OF DANGEROUS WEATHER SLAMMING THE NORTHEAST TODAY, BRINGING TORRENTIAL RAIN. AND FLOODING. THIS AFTER RECORD FLOODING IN PARTS OF THE SOUTH THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. OUR ERIN MCLAUGHLIN HAS MORE.

HEAVY RAIN DRENCHING COMMUNITIES FROM MASSACHUSETTS TO NORTH CAROLINA. I DON'T THINK ANY OF US CAN SEE. THIS VEHICLE STALLING OUT ON A SUBMERGED STREET IN MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY. SOUTH OF BOSTON, THESE DRIVERS PLOWED THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS BEFORE DAWN. AND POWERFUL THUNDERSTORMS ROLLED THROUGH THE AREA. FIREFIGHTERS IN ABINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS RACED TO EXTINGUISH THIS 3 ALARM HOUSE FIRE.

IT STARTED AFTER LIGHTNING STRUCK A 60-FOOT PINE TREE IN THE BACKYARD. IT'S AN AGGRESSIVE, AGGRESSIVE ATTACK. OUR DEPUTY CHIEF DID AN INCREDIBLE JOB. CALLING OUT WHEN WE NEEDED EARLY ON AND JUST TO GET THE ADDITIONAL PEOPLE THERE. 4 PEOPLE WERE HOME AT THE TIME. EVERYONE MADE IT OUT OK. WHILE IN MICHIGAN, THE FIRST MEASURABLE LAKE EFFECT SNOW OF THE SEASON, AND IN THE SOUTH NEAR THE GEORGIA-TENNESSEE BORDER, A MASSIVE CLEANUP NOW UNDERWAY. A DAY AFTER A 1000 YEAR FLOOD EVENT LEFT ENTIRE COMMUNITIES DEVASTATED.

CREWS IN MCKAYSVILLE, GEORGIA AND COPPER HILL, TENNESSEE WORKED TO REMOVE DEBRIS FROM THE TWO TOWNS, AND TOM, THERE ARE NEW WEATHER ALERTS GOING INTO. WEEKEND. OUT WEST, PARTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARE UNDER RED FLAG. WARNINGS FOR FIRE DANGER AND IN SOUTHERN TEXAS. HEAVY RAIN IS IN THE FORECAST. TOM, ERIN MCLAUGHLIN FOR US. TONIGHT. WE ARE HEARING FROM THE FATHER OF THAT YOUNG. CO-PILOT IN THAT LEAR JET CRASH IN FLORIDA. HE SAYS HE WISHES HE HAD BEEN IN THE COCKPIT WITH HIS DAUGHTER,

CALLING HER A HERO. AS SHE REMAINED CALM. HERE'S TOM COSTELLO. THE RADIO CALL WAS TERRIFYING. NATALIA THOGAREES WAS THE 20-YEAR-OLD CO-PILOT OF THAT DOOMED LEAR JET. TODAY HER FATHER SAID HE'D LISTENED TO HER. FINAL CALL SEVERAL TIMES SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS. SHE MADE ME SO PROUD. SHE, SHE SHOWED ME WHAT IT IS TO BE A HERO. A HERO, HE SAYS, FOR REMAINING CALM ON THE RADIO AS SHE AND CAPTAIN JEFF GREGORY.

REPORTED BAD WEATHER, TURBULENCE, AND ICING CONDITIONS. GOING INTO A FATAL NOSEDIVE NEAR PALM BEACH WITH 7 PASSENGERS ON BOARD. TAUGHT NATALIA TO FLY WHEN SHE WAS JUST A TEENAGER, EARNING HER LICENSE AT 17. NOW LOSING HER IS ALMOST. TOO MUCH TO BEAR. SHE WAS GIFTED.

AND MY SOULMATE. NTSB INVESTIGATORS HAVE RECOVERED DEBRIS AND A PORTION OF ONE ENGINE. NEAR THE CRASH SCENE. I WANTED TO BE BY HER SIDE, INSIDE THE PLANE TO HELP. THE FILGUEREA ATTORNEY CITING NATALIA'S 1300 HOURS OF COCKPIT TIME. PUSHING BACK ON CLAIMS SHE WAS INEXPERIENCED. THE PURPOSE OF THIS. IS TO PRESERVE. NOT JUST HER MEMORY BUT HER REPUTATION.

THE NTSB IS STILL NOT SUF THE PLANE HAD A COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER. THE INVESTIGATION. EXPECTED TO TAKE MONTHS. TOM, TOM, THANK YOU. WHEN WE RETURN IN 60 SECONDS, THE VIOLENT SCENE ON A CITY BUS. A MAN, LOOK AT THIS, WAVING A GUN AND THE DRIVER. HAVING TO JUMP FROM THE WINDOW TO GET AWAY. PLUS, THE END OF THE ROAD FOR THE CYBER TRUCK. DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS ONE? HOW THE CAR OF THE FUTURE. FELL FLAT. SO WHY ARE DRIVERS NOW RUSHING TO BUY THEM? AND LATER, HENRY WINKLER, HOW HE BROUGHT THE FONZ TO LIFE.

AND OPENING UP ABOUT HIS FAMILY'S ESCAPE FROM NAZI GERMANY. HE'S THIS WEEK'S GREAT AMERICAN. WE'RE BACK NOW WITH THAT STUNNER FROM TESLA CEO ELON MUSK TODAY, ANNOUNCING THAT THE COMPANY WILL STOP PRODUCTION OF THE CYBER TRUCK NEXT YEAR. THE TRUCKS KNOWN FOR THEIR UNIQUE DESIGN MAY NOW BECOME COLLECTOR'S ITEMS. HERE'S RYAN CHANDLER. TONIGHT THE TESLA CYBER TRUCK NEARING THE END OF THE ROAD. ELON MUSK ANNOUNCING THE COMPANY WILL BE WINDING.

DOWN PRODUCTION OF THE PICKUP NEXT YEAR, JUST 3 YEARS AFTER IT HIT THE MARKET. IT'S BEEN A BUMPY RIDE FOR THE ECLECTIC EV FROM THIS FAILED DEMO AT ITS DEBUT. TO THIS REACTION TO ITS UNIQUE DESIGN. THAT THING IS. SO FREAKING UGLY. SALES FELL FAR SHORT OF MUSK'S PREDICTION FOR 250,000 A YEAR, SELLING JUST OVER 20,000 LAST YEAR. VERY UNIQUE DESIGN. BUT HERE IN LOUISVILLE,

TEXAS TODAY, CAR DEALER DAVID BAUM'S PHONE HAS BEEN RINGING OFF THE HOOK. WE'VE ALREADY HAD 6. CUSTOMERS CALLED TO TRY TO BUY THIS TODAY. HE SAYS USED CYBER TRUCKS ARE AN EVEN HOTTER TICKET NOW. MY GOAL IS. TO FILL THIS LOT UP WITH AT LEAST ANOTHER 10 CYBER TRUCKS BY THE END OF THE MONTH. WOW, BECAUSE WE KNOW WE'LL SELL THEM BY THE END OF THE YEAR, AND THEIR VALUE IS ONLY GOING TO GO UP. MUSK SAYS THE TEXAS FACILITY WHERE THE TRUCK WAS BUILT. WILL SWITCH TO PRODUCING THE CYBER CAB ROBOTAXI, WHICH SHOWS DESPITE THE CYBER TRUCK'S FATE, TESLA IS STILL LEANING IN TO DARING DESIGNS.

THERE'S NO STEERING WHEEL OR PEDALS. SO I HOPE THIS GOES WELL. WE'LL FIND OUT. BAUM SAYS THE CYBER TRUCK WILL NOW BE A PRIZED COLLECTOR'S ITEM. FOR YEARS TO COME. I THINK IT'S JUST A COMPLETELY UNIQUE TRUCK. YOU EITHER LOVE IT OR YOU HATE IT. RYAN CHANDLER, NBC NEWS, LEWISVILLE, TEXAS. WHEN WE RETURN, POPE LEO'S FIRST MAJOR TRIP AFTER SERIOUS SURGERY. TAKES HIM TO THE PLACE WHERE HE BEGAN HIS WORK AS A YOUNG MISSIONARY.

AND THE ECSTATIC WELCOME FOR THE GIANT PANDAS IN ATLANTA. AND THE HOPE THERE COULD BE MORE SOON. STAY WITH US. WELCOME BACK. IN COLORADO, 1 POLICE OFFICER IS DEAD AND 3 OTHERS WOUNDED AFTER A SHOOTOUT ON A BUS. IN THE DENVER AREA. IT HAPPENED THURSDAY EVENING. POLICE SAY AN OFFICER SPOTTED A MAN MATCHING THE DESCRIPTION OF A HIT AND RUN SUSPECT. BOARDING THE BUS AND CALLED FOR BACKUP. THE SUSPECT THEN OPENING FIRE. POLICE RETURNED.

FIRE, KILLING THE SUSPECT, AND AN ALARMING MOMENT CAUGHT ON CAMERA ABOARD A CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY BUS. THIS MAN BRANDISHING A GUN ERRATICALLY, THE DRIVER ABLE TO STOP THE BUS AND JUMP OUT OF A WINDOW AND GET AWAY. OFFICERS FOUND THE SUSPECT LATER IN A VEHICLE NEARBY. THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYING HE'S A CONVICTED. FELON AND HAS SINCE BEEN CAUGHT AND CHARGED. ALSO TONIGHT, POPE LEO ARRIVING IN URUGUAY AND LOOKING GOOD AS HE KICKS OFF HIS THREE-COUNTRY. TWELVE-DAY TOUR OF SOUTH AMERICA JUST WEEKS. AFTER HIS LUNG CANCER SURGERY.

THE TRIP WILL BRING HIM TO ARGENTINA AND PERU, WHERE LEO SERVED AS A MISSIONARY PRIEST AND BISHOP FOR TWO DECADES. THE POPE ALSO TOLD THE PRESS HE WAS PROUD AS AN AMERICAN. TO CAST HIS BALLOT FOR THE MIDTERMS. OK, AND HERE AT HOME, A NEW CHAPTER OF PANDA DIPLOMACY AFTER TWO. GIANT PANDAS FROM CHINA MADE THEIR PUBLIC DEBUT. AT ZOO ATLANTA. ARRIVED IN THE US IN SEPTEMBER BUT. HAD TO SPEND SOME TIME IN QUARANTINE FIRST. THE ZOO BUILT THEM A BRAND NEW MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR HOME, HOPING THE TWO COULD MAYBE HIT IT OFF.

AND EXPAND THE FAMILY. WHEN WE COME BACK TONIGHT FROM OVERCOMING DYSLEXIA TO. HIS RISE AS THE FONZ ON HAPPY DAYS, MY INTERVIEW WITH THE LEGENDARY HENRY WINKLER, THIS WEEK'S GREAT AMERICAN. FINALLY, OUR SERIES GREAT AMERICANS. TONIGHT, THE MAN BEHIND THE FONZ AND. OH WHAT A STORY HE HAS TO TELL. FROM HIS FAMILY ESCAPING NAZI GERMANY. TO THE COUNTLESS LIVES OF CHILDREN HE HAS CHANGED. OUR GREAT AMERICAN. ACTOR HENRY WINKLER.

WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT AMERICA. WHEN PEOPLE SAY. THERE IS MORE THE SAME ABOUT US. THAN THERE ISN'T, THEY ARE NOT JOKING. HENRY WINKLER BURST ONTO SCREENS IN THE 70S WITH AN ICONIC CATCHPHRASE. BRINGING TO LIFE ONE OF TV'S MOST BELOVED CHARACTERS, ARTHUR FONZARELLI IN HAPPY DAYS. JUST PLAY IT COOL. I GOT TO BE THIS GUY.

WHBUT HE WAS ALSO COOL.SS, FONZIE WAS SO COOL. I FIGURED OUT WHAT COOL IS. BEING AUTHENTIC. WHEN DO YOU REALIZE OR DO THEY TELL YOU. FONZIE IS TAKING OFF BECAUSE AT FIRST YOU'RE NOT IN A LOT OF THE ACTION, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN. I HAD MORE THAN 7 LINES IN A SCRIPT. I WAS ONLY IN 7 EPISODES OUT OF THE 13 THEY WERE SHOOTING. ALL OF A SUDDEN. I WAS IN ALL OF THEM. WHAT WAS THE RELATIONSHIP LIKE WITH FONZIE? HE GAVE ME MY LIFE. HE INTRODUCED ME TO THE WORLD.

WINKLER WAS BORN IN MANHATTAN. HIS JEWISH PARENTS FLED NAZI GERMANY IN 1939. HIS DAD MAKING A DECISION THAT ALMOST COST HIM HIS LIFE. HE TOOK MY MOTHER'S JEWELRY. AND HIS MOTHER'S JEWELRY. AND HE. MELTED DOWN A BOX OF CHOCOLATE, POURED THE CHOCOLATE. OVER THE PIECES OF JEWELRY, PUT IT BACK IN THE BOX. UNDER HIS ARM. AS HE LEFT GERMANY, NAZIS SAID, HAVE ANYTHING OF IMPORTANCE, OF WORTH,

VALUE? HE SAID, NO, JUST CHECKED MY BAGS, AND IT WAS ALL ON THE BOX OF CHOCOLATE, HE SOLD THE JEWELRY. AT A PAWN SHOP AND STARTED. HIS NEW LIFE. IT'S A STORY HE SWORE NEVER TO FORGET. HIS PARENTS STRUGGLED, AND HE SAYS HIS UPBRINGING WAS HARD AT TIMES, WHICH MAY BE WHY PLAYING OTHER CHARACTERS FELT LIKE AN ESCAPE. MY TWO WORDS ARE TENACITY. AND GRATITUDE. TENACITY GETS YOU WHERE YOU WANNA GO,

AND GRATITUDE MAKES THAT JOURNEY. MORE COMFORTABLE, MORE PALATABLE. TO TRAVEL. IT IS THAT. SIMPLE. HE'S APPEARED IN DOZENS OF SHOWS AND MOVIES, INCLUDING THE COACH WHO DISCOVERS BOBBY BOUCHER IN THE WATERBOY. I WOULD BE HONORED. PLAY FOOTBALL FOR THIS TEAM. ME. PLAY FOOTBALL. A CLUELESS ATTORNEY IN ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. IT'S A FIGURE OF SPEECH. YOU'RE GONNA BE FINE. AND AN ACTING TEACHER IN THE DARK COMEDY BARRY,

WHICH EARNED HIM AN EMMY. THANK YOU. IT'S WHAT I DO. READING SCRIPTS PART OF THE JOB, BUT NOT SOMETHING THAT CAME EASY. YOU DIDN'T READ YOUR FIRST BOOK UNTIL I WAS 31, 31 YEARS OLD. I WAS TOLD BY MY PARENTS. THAT I WAS A DUMB HUNT, THAT I WAS A DUMB DOG, BUT THERE WAS A SECRET THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW. WHAT, WHAT, WHAT DID YOU HAVE? I JUST THOUGHT I WAS STUPID. I HAD DYSLEXIA. THE DIAGNOSIS CHANGED HIS LIFE. BUT NEVER SLOWED HIM DOWN. HE'S NOW AUTHORED MORE THAN 40 CHILDREN'S BOOKS,

AND HE AND HIS WIFE HAVE COMMITTED THEIR LIVES TO HELPING CHILDREN IN NEED. WHEN YOU MEET A CHILD WHO'S JUST FOUND OUT THEY WERE DYSLEXIC. AND HE'S 10. AND I TOOK THAT CHILD AND I SAID, LET ME JUST TELL YOU. YOU ARE GREAT. YOU ARE GREAT JUST THE WAY YOU ARE, AND YOU'RE WIRED DIFFERENTLY, BUT YOUR IMAGINATION. IS BIG. WOW. THAT'S INCREDIBLE. AND NO ONE TALKED TO ME LIKE THAT.

IT IS MY JOB ON THIS EARTH TO TALK TO PEOPLE LIKE THAT, TO TALK TO THOSE CHILDREN. A GREAT AMERICAN AND A TRUE GENTLEMAN. WE THANK HENRY WINKLER FOR THAT CONVERSATION. THAT'S NIGHTLY NEWS FOR THIS FRIDAY. I'M TOM YAMAS. WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. TONIGHT. AND ALWAYS, WE'RE HERE FOR YOU. GOOD NIGHT.