NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas Full Episode - Sept. 4

BREAKING TONIGHT, THE MISTRIAL DECLARED IN THE CLOSELY WATCHED LINDSAY CLANCY TRIPLE MURDER CASE. THE STUNNING TURNS IN COURT. HER DEFENSE'S EMERGENCY APPEAL TO THE MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT ALLEGING A. HOLDOUT JUROR HAD A BIAS AGAINST PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MENTAL ILLNESS. BUT THE JUDGE ULTIMATELY DECLARING A MISTRIAL. SO WHAT HAPPENS FOR LINDSAY CLANCY NEXT? POWERFUL STORMS UPENDING LABOR DAY WEEKEND TRAVEL, DESTRUCTIVE WINDS TAKING. DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES,

THOUSANDS OF FLIGHTS DELAYED. PLUS THE ALLEGED VIOLENT OUTBURST ON A PLANE. PASSENGERS DUCT TAPING THIS MAN TO HIS SEAT. WAR OF WORDS SIX MONTHS INTO THE WAR WITH IRAN. PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLING THE CONFLICT SMALL POTATOES. MIRACLE RESCUES IN NEPAL. TWO PEOPLE PULLED OUT ALIVE, ENCASED IN MUD AFTER 9 DAYS TRAPPED IN A TUNNEL DEEP BENEATH THE RUBBLE. HOW THEY HELD ON TO HOPE. AS STRIKES. DOWN INSIDE A SECRET DRONE WORKSHOP IN UKRAINE,

OUR RICHARD ENGEL GETTING AN UP CLOSE LOOK AT. HOW WARTIME TECH IS CHANGING THE FRONT LINES. OUR SERIES THE COST OF DENIAL EXPOSED A RASH. OF REJECTIONS OF HEALTHCARE CLAIMS INVOLVING MILITARY FAMILIES. TEXAS NOW LAUNCHING AN INVESTIGATION. AFTER OUR REPORT. CAUGHT BETWEEN CROSSING BARRIERS, VIDEO CAPTURING A PASSENGER TRAIN SLAMMING INTO A TRUCK. NIGHTLY NEWS BEGINS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH TOM YAMASS.

GOOD EVENING. I'M KATE SNOW IN FOR TOM TONIGHT, AND WE BEGIN WITH THE STUNNING TWISTS AND TURNS TODAY. IN A MASSACHUSETTS COURTROOM AFTER SEVEN DAYS OF DELIBERATIONS. THE JUDGE IN LINDSAY CLANCY'S MURDER TRIAL SAYING HE. HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO DECLARE A MISTRIAL, BUT THAT WAS FAR FROM THE LAST WORD. IT SPARKED A FIERY RESPONSE FROM CLANCY'S ATTORNEY. ATTORNEY DEMANDING AN EMERGENCY APPEAL TO PAUSE THE JUDGE'S DECISION.

AND AVOID A MISTRIAL. JUDGE WILLIAM SULLIVAN GIVING HIM JUST ONE HOUR TO GET THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE STATE. TO INTERVENE. AT THE HEART OF THE APPEAL, A LONE JUROR, THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY SINGLED OUT, ACCUSING THE JUROR IN A FILING OF HAVING A BIAS TOWARD PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS. WHAT FOLLOWED WAS AN INCREDIBLE SCENE, A RUSHED ZOOM HEARING WITH BOTH LEGAL TEAMS, LINDSAY CLANCY HERSELF AND A STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. BUT THE APPEAL WAS DENIED AND A MISTRIAL WAS DECLARED. SO WILL THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY TRY THIS CASE AGAIN?

EMILY AQUETA IS AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL IN PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS FOR US TONIGHT. AFTER DELIBERATIONS DRAGGED INTO A 7TH DAY TONIGHT, LINDSAY CLANCY'S DRAMATIC MURDER TRIAL CULMINATING. IN NO VERDICT. IT IS WITH A HEAVY HEART THAT WE REPORT WE ARE UNABLE TO COME TO A UNANIMOUS DECISION. CLANCY, SEEMED STOIC, STARING STRAIGHT AHEAD AS HER DEFENSE MADE A LAST DITCH APPEAL. OVER AN ISSUE WITH A JUROR. IN AN EXTRAORDINARY MOVE, THE JUDGE GIVING THE DEFENSE ONE HOUR TO FILE THEIR APPEAL,

THEN MAKING THEIR CASE VIRTUALLY TO THE TOP COURT IN. MASSACHUSETTS AND FORCING THE JURY TO WAIT IN THE WINGS. THE GOAL WAS TO AVOID A MISTRIAL. IT WAS DENIED, AND I'M GOING TO DECLARE A MISTRIAL. IT FOLLOWED A HEAD TURNING REVEAL FROM A JURY NOTE THURSDAY. THAT THERE WAS A SINGLE HOLDOUT BLOCKING A UNANIMOUS DECISION. IT CLEARLY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY INDICATES. THAT THEY ARE BASICALLY 11 TO 1, AND THIS PERSON WILL NOT APPLY REASONABLE DOUBT TO THE EVIDENCE.

TO RETURN A NOT GUILTY. VERDICT, THE DEFENSE SAID. THE HOLDOUT WAS A MAN AND SPARRED WITH THE JUDGE OVER WHY THE JURORS SHOULD. BE DISMISSED AND HOW TO INSTRUCT THE GROUP OF 3 MEN AND 9 WOMEN. YOU DIDN'T DO IT FORCEFULLY, AND WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? I GET A BRASS BAND. OUTSIDE OF COURT, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY WOULD NOT SAY IF HE'S. GOING TO TRY THE WIDELY WATCHED CASE AGAIN, BUT CALLED THE MURDER CHARGES FOR THE STRANGULATION. CORA, DAWSON AND CALLAN.

WARRANTED. THE FACTS. ARE LINDSAY CLANCY KILLED HER THREE CHILDREN, AND THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTED TO US. THAT SHE WAS IN CONTROL OF HER ACTIONS WHEN SHE COMMITTED THOSE HOMICIDES. BUT THE DEFENSE ARGUED CLANCY IS. NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE BECAUSE OF POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS. IN A CASE THAT'S THRUSTED MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH INTO THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT. WHEN ASKED HOW CLANCY'S DOING, NOT GOOD. SHE DESERVED THAT. ACQUITTAL THAT SHE SHOULD HAVE HAD. TONIGHT, THE ATTORNEY FOR HER EX-HUSBAND WRITING IN A.

STATEMENT THAT HE IS GRATEFUL TO THE COURT, ADDING. THE PROSPECT OF RELIVING THIS TRAGEDY. THROUGH ANOTHER TRIAL IS EXTRAORDINARILY PAINFUL. AND EMILY JOINS ME NOW FROM THE COURT. WHAT HAPPENS TO LINDSAY CLANCY NOW UNTIL THE DA DECIDES WHAT TO DO NEXT, EMILY? SO KATE, LINDSAY CLANCY WILL CONTINUE TO BE HELD AT THE SAME PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL. YOU CAN SEE HER THERE ARRIVING A SHORT TIME. AGO. THE JUDGE IS EXPECTED TO REVISIT THIS CASE. AT THE END OF THE MONTH.

KATE, ALL RIGHT, EMILY AQUETA, THANK YOU. AND LAURA JARRETT JOINS ME NOW ON SET AFTER JUST AN EXTRAORDINARY DAY TODAY. LAURA, UH, TALK ABOUT. HAD THE JURY. YOU KNOW, WE WERE WAITING ON WHAT THIS COURT AND THE STATE WAS GOING TO DO. WALK ME THROUGH. HOW WE EVEN GOT THERE. IT WAS JUST A REMARKABLE SCENE, KATE. YOU ALMOST NEVER SEE THIS, THIS HASTILY CONVENED ZOOM MEETING WITH THE STATE SUPREME COURT JUDGE. IT WAS ALL ABOUT THIS LONE HOLDOUT JUROR. WHICH THE DEFENSE SAID FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

HAD SOME ALLEGED BIAS. AGAINST LINDSAY CLANCY, WE DIDN'T REALLY LEARN MANY DETAILS OF WHERE HE WAS GETTING THEM FROM, BUT I THINK IT JUST UNDERSCORES THE EXTREMELY UNUSUAL, RARE, DRAMATIC NATURE OF THIS ENTIRE CASE. SO NOW THE BALL'S IN THE COURT OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. WHAT OPTIONS DO THEY HAVE? QUITE A BIT, QUITE A BIT OF DISCRETION HERE TO CHANGE UP THE CHARGES, CHANGE UP THE STRATEGY. I THINK IT WAS NOTEWORTHY. HE DID NOT COME OUT SWINGING TODAY SAYING. I'M GOING TO RETRY HER FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER, WHICH IS WHAT SHE WAS FACING HERE. WE COULD SEE REDUCED CHARGES. KATE.

ALL RIGHT, LAURA JARRETT, THANK YOU SO MUCH. NOW TO THE VOLATILE WEATHER THAT'S DISRUPTED TRAVEL FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, WITH THE NATION'S AIRLINES CALLING THIS THE BUSIEST LABOR DAY WEEKEND. IN HISTORY. BUT ONE FLIGHT. WAS MORE CHAOTIC THAN OTHERS. NBC'S TOM COSTELLO IS AT REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT TONIGHT. FROM CROWDED AIRPORTS TO CROWDED ROADS, PHILLY, ORLANDO, LOS ANGELES, ONE LAST SUMMER TRAVEL SURGE, A RECORD NUMBER OF LABOR DAY AIR TRAVELERS. LAST NIGHT'S VIOLENT STORMS,

WINDS GUSTING ABOVE 60. MPH IN THE WASHINGTON DC AREA, THIS WAS THE VIEW ON THE TARMAC AT REAGAN AIRPORT. NATIONWIDE, MORE THAN 10,000 FLIGHTS DELAYED THURSDAY, AND THIS FLIGHT FORCED TO DIVERT. THESE PIXELATED PHOTOS FROM TMZ. SHOW A PASSENGER DUCT TAPED TO A SEAT ACCUSED OF A VIOLENT. OUTBURST ON A FLIGHT FROM DALLAS TO NEWARK LANDING IN BALTIMORE. THE FBI. SAYS THAT PASSENGER WAS ARRESTED, IS FACING STATE CHARGES, AND THEY'RE NOW INVESTIGATING THE TRAVEL TROUBLE AS.

AMERICARE PAYING MORE TO GET THERE. A GALLON OF REGULAR NOW AVERAGING $414 A GALLON. A YEAR AGO IT WAS $320. TODAY, DIESEL HIT AN ALL-TIME HIGH. A TYPICAL DRIVER NOW PAYS $270 MORE PER MONTH TO DRIVE. SO EXPENSIVE TO THINK ABOUT TAKING A ROAD TRIP. THESE DAYS. HIGHER FUEL. PRICES MEAN HIGHER JET FUEL PRICES, AND THAT MEANS HIGHER TICKET PRICES. DOMESTIC AIRLINE TICKETS NOW AVERAGING $750. ACROSS ALL AIRLINES, AND YET.

NEARLY EVERY AIRLINE SAYS. THEY'RE FLYING FULL. I TRY TO PLAN IT FAR IN ADVANCE. SO THAT I AM MAKING PAYMENTS, AND THIS RECORD BREAKING LABOR DAY TRAVEL PERIOD MEANS THE. AIRPORTS AND ROADS WILL BE JUST AS BUSY ON MONDAY. TOM COSTELLO, NBC NEWS, WASHINGTON. TOM, THANK YOU TO THE WHITE HOUSE NOW AND THAT NEW HEADLINE. FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP SIX MONTHS INTO THE WAR WITH IRAN, CALLING THE CONFLICT SMALL POTATOES FOR THE US. HERE'S GABE GUTIERREZ. TONIGHT, DESPITE THE US AND IRAN TRADING AIRSTRIKES,

AVERAGE GAS PRICES TOPPING $4 A GALLON, AND THE DEATHS OF 18 AMERICAN SERVICE MEMBERS, PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYING HE AGREES WITH THE VICE PRESIDENT THAT THIS IS NOT A WAR. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T CALL IT A WAR. I CALL IT A MILITARY CONFLICT BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S SMALL POTATOES FOR US. IT'S NOT A BIG. THING. COMPARING THE NUMBER OF LIVES LOST TO OTHER CONFLICTS, WE LOST 18 SOULS, 18 GREAT SOULS. I WAS THERE TO GREET. THE FAMILIES OF THOSE PEOPLE AT DOVER,

AND THEY'RE GREAT. I GOT. VERY FRIENDLY WITH SOME OF THE FAMILIES. THEY WERE INCREDIBLE FAMILIES, BUT. AND ONE IS TOO MUCH, BUT IN VIETNAM WE LOST TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. IN. AFGHANISTAN WE LOST A LOT, AND TOUTING US EFFORTS TO ESCORT OIL TANKERS THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, PROTECTING THEM FROM IRANIAN ATTACKS. WE'RE NOT FIGHTING RIGHT NOW. THERE'S NO FIGHTING. WE'RE. A LOT OF OIL. INITIALLY, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PROJECTED THE WAR WOULD BE OVER IN WEEKS. WE PROJECTED 4 TO 5 WEEKS.

IT'S NOW PAST THE 6 MONTH MARK, BUT WE'VE BEEN IN THERE FOR. 5 MONTHS, AND IN 5 MONTHS, WHAT DID WE DO? WE STOPPED THEM FROM HAVING A NUCLEAR WEAPON. THE PRESIDENT ALSO SAYING THE US MIGHT ATTACK A KEY IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITE, PICKAXE MOUNTAIN, VERY SOON. IF IRAN TRIES TO RESTART IT, KATE. GABE GUTIERREZ, THANK YOU, GABE. OVERSEAS NOW TO STUNNING IMAGES FOLLOWING THAT MASSIVE FLOOD DISASTER ON THE. NEPAL-CHINA BORDER MORE THAN A WEEK AFTER THE DEADLY WAVES HIT.

TWO MEN WERE SOMEHOW FOUND ALIVE AND PULLED OUT BY RESCUERS. DANIEL HAMMAMJN HAS THE VIDEO. 9 DAYS LATER AND AGAINST ALL ODDS, THEY WERE PULLED OUT. CAKED IN MUD BUT ALIVE. WORKERS TRAPPED IN A TUNNEL AFTER THOSE CATASTROPHIC FLOODS. HAD BEEN BURIED DEEP BENEATH DEBRIS AND LAYERS OF MUD AT A HYDROPOWER PLANT.

ONE OF THE MEN ASKING HIS RESCUERS. WHAT DAY IT WAS, HE TOLD THEM HE FELT IT WAS HIS RESPONSIBILITY TO SAVE HIS COLLEAGUES. AND CHOSE TO STAY BEHIND. WHEN THE WATER CAME POURING DOWN. MORE THAN 500 WORKERS ARE MISSING FROM THE POWER PLANTS ALONG THE RIVER. LAST WEEK'S DEVASTATING FLASH FLOOD SWEPT AWAY ENTIRE. TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN A MATTER OF SECONDS, WITH AUTHORITIES IN NEPAL OVERWHELMED BY THE SCALE OF DEVASTATION, DANIELLE HAMMAMJN, NBC NEWS.

IN UKRAINE, MISSILES AND DRONES ARE RAINING DOWN AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS HEAD. TO KYIV AND MOSCOW TO DISCUSS A PATH TO PEACE. RICHARD ENGEL HAS EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO UKRAINE'S HIGH-TECH DRONE WORKSHOP. RUSSIAN TARGETED UKRAINE'S MAIN INTELLIGENCE HEADQUARTERS. IN CENTRAL KIEV WITH A DRONE. RUSSIA IS STRIKING KIEV WITH AN INTENSITY NOT SEEN SINCE THE START OF THE WAR. UKRAINIAN COMMANDERS TELL US 95% OF THE WAR IS NOW BEING FOUGHT WITH DRONES.

WE WERE GIVEN EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO A SECRET DRONE WORKSHOP. NEAR THE RUSSIAN BORDER RUN BY UKRAINE'S 9TH BRIGADE. THE SOLDIERS HERE SOUP UP THEIR DRONES TO MAKE THEM MORE LETHAL. AND HARDER TO STOP. THE COMMANDER CODE NAME BULLET WORKED IN CONSTRUCTION BEFORE THE WAR. THIS IS OUR BLACKSMITH SHOP WHERE WE BRING DEATH TO THE RUSSIAN ENEMY, HE TELLS ME. WHO TAUGHT YOU HOW TO DO THIS? WAR HAS TAUGHT US TECHNOLOGY.

WHEN SOMETHING DOESN'T WORK OUT, WE FIND A SOLUTION, HE SAYS. THEY CAN CHURN OUT ABOUT 120 ATTACK DRONES IN THIS WORKSHOP. EVERY DAY. AND THIS IS WHAT ONE OF THE MODERN UKRAINIAN DRONES. LOOKS LIKE AFTER THESE SOLDIERS HAVE FINISHED CUSTOMIZING IT. IT'S NOT OPERATED BY REMOTE CONTROL, WHICH CAN EASILY BE JAMMED. INSTEAD, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, INSIDE THIS CANISTER IS ABOUT 15 MILES OF FIBER OPTIC CABLE, AND THE FIBER OPTIC CABLE. COMES OUT OF THE BACK, STAYS ATTACHED TO THE PILOT,

AND THE ONLY WAYAND THE DRONE TO STOP IT IS TO ACTUALLY CUT THE CABLE. ON TOP HERE. AN EXPLOSIVE IS MOUNTED, AND IN THE FRONT. IS THE DETONATOR. THE UKRAINIANS CALL IT THE MUSTACHE. IT'S VERY CRUDE, AND WHEN THE DRONE. HITS ITS TARGET, THESE TWO. METAL CABLES. CONNECT, COMPLETE THE CIRCUIT, AND THE ENTIRE THING BLOWS UP. THIS IS NOT A STATE SECRET. RUSSIAN DRONES ARE VERY SIMILAR. AND WHICHEVER SIDE INNOVATES THE FASTEST.

COULD END UP WINNING THE WAR, RICHARD ENGEL, NBC NEWS, HARKEY. WE'RE BACK IN JUST 60 SECONDS. THE MAJOR UPDATE IN OUR SERIES THE COST OF. DENIAL AND HOW THE COMPANY NOW IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. FOLLOWING OUR REPORT. WE HAVE A MAJOR UPDATE IN OUR SERIES THE COST OF DENIAL. WE RECENTLY TOLD YOU ABOUT TRIWEST, THE HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATOR FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL. IT SERVES MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, BUT SO MANY WERE FACING DENIALS FOR CARE. NOW THE TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL IS INVESTIGATING TRIWEST.

ERIN MCLAUGHLIN JOINS ME NOW AND ERIN, THE AG SPECIFICALLY REFERENCED YOUR REPORT. THAT'S RIGHT, KATE. IN HIS STATEMENT ANNOUNCING THE INVESTIGATION, TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON SPECIFICALLY POINTED TO OUR REPORTING. AND THE STORY OF GUY SHOEMAKER, AN ARMY VETERAN IN TEXAS WHO AT THE TIME WAS FACING A WAVE OF ERRONEOUS DENIALS, POINTING TO OTHER HEALTH INSURANCE HE DID NOT HAVE. AS A RESULT, GUY AND HIS WIFE CATHY SAID THEY'D BEEN DENIED POTENTIALLY LIFE SAVING CARE. YOU FAXED. YOU FAXED AGAIN.

YOU CALLED, YOU CONTACTED YOUR LAWMAKER. YOU POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND THE ONE THING THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE, YOU. NBC. NBC. THE TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS THAT RECENTLY COMPLAINTS HAVE SURGED AGAINST. TRIWEST CLAIMING THE COMPANY HAS INCORRECTLY DENIED NUMEROUS HEALTHCARE CLAIMS. AFTER OUR INITIAL STORY AIRED, THE CEO OF TRIWEST ISSUED A PUBLIC APOLOGY. AND PROMISED SYSTEM-WIDE CHANGES. TONIGHT TRIWEST.

SAYSIS REVIEWING THE AG'S INVESTIGATIVE DEMAND AND. THAT IT IS COMMITTED TO ITS 4.3 MILLION MEMBERS. THE SHOEMAKERS TELL US THEY'RE HAPPY THAT THE. TEXAS DISTRICT ATTORNEY GENERAL IS TAKING ACTION, BUT THEY SAY THEY WANT TO SEE MORE DONE. AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, THANK YOU. WHEN WE RETURN, THE NEW RECORD JUST SET AS MEASLES CASES RISE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. BACK NOW WITH A CONCERNING NEW MILESTONE. AS MEASLES OUTBREAKS SPREAD ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

THE CDC REPORTING. THE US HAS HIT A NEW 35-YEAR HIGH IN CASES WITH. MORE THAN 3100 CONFIRMED INFECTIONS THIS YEAR. THIS WEEK'S UPDATE INCLUDES DOZENS OF NEW CASES IN WISCONSIN AND PENNSYLVANIA. EXPERTS SAY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE SICK WITH MEASLES IS LIKELY MUCH HIGHER. BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE HAVE NOT BEEN TESTED. AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. THE TERRIFYING MOMENT A PASSENGER TRAIN PLOWED INTO A TRUCK IN POLAND. YOU SEE IT HERE. THE TRUCK SLOWLY DRIVING ACROSS THE TRACKS AS THE BARRIERS COME DOWN,

THE TRAIN. SLAMMING INTO THAT TRUCK. POLISH RAILWAY LINES SAID THE DRIVER OF THE TRAIN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. LUCKILY NO OTHER INJURIES REPORTED THERE. AND IN THAILAND, THESE US SERVICE MEMBERS GOT A LARGER THAN. LIFE EXPERIENCE AFTER A RECORD LONG DEPLOYMENT IN. THE MIDDLE EAST ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THESE SAILORS AND MARINES ENJOYED SOME TIME OFF AT AN ELEPHANT SANCTUARY, INTERACTING WITH THE ANIMALS CLOSE UP. AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.

YOU CAN SEE THEM SPLASHING AROUND WITH ONE OF THE ELEPHANTS. IN THE WATER. GOOD STUFF. THAT IS NIGHTLY NEWS FOR THIS FRIDAY. I'M KATE SNOW. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.