Nightly News Full Episode - Oct. 2

♪♪. >>> BREAKING NEWS JUST. IN. WE HAVE THE LETTER. JUST SENT FROM SEAN. "DIDDY" COMBS TO THE. JUDGE THAT WILL. SENTENCE HIM TOMORROW. COMBS SAYING HE IS. SORRY AND ASKING TO BE. RELEASED AND SENT HOME. TO HIS FAMILY, DESCRIBING HOW BEING. LOCKED UP HAS CHANGED. HIM FOREVER. WE'LL SHOW YOU THE. LETTER JUST SENT TO. THE JUDGE. >>> ALSO TONIGHT THE. DEADLY TERROR ATTACK. AT A SYNAGOGUE.

TWO PEOPLE KILLED AND. MORE HURT AFTER A MAN. RAMMED HIS CAR INTO A. CROWD THEN STARTED. STABBING PEOPLE. THE BRUTAL AMBUSH. HAPPENING AT A BRITISH. SYNAGOGUE ON YOM. KIPPUR AS TENSIONS. OVER ANTISEMITIC. ATTACKS ARE ON THE. RISE. >>> ALSO BREAKING. TONIGHT, THE WHITE. HOUSE ON OFFENSE AFTER. BLOWING UP BOATS FROM. VENEZUELA, THE TRUMP. ADMINISTRATION. DECLARING THE U.S. IS. ENGAGED IN A FORMAL. ARMED CONFLICT WITH. DRUG CARTELS. >>> SHUT DOWN. DEADLOCK. THE PRESIDENT POISED. TO TAKE THE HISTORIC.

STEP OF LAYING OFF. FEDERAL WORKERS. MY INTERVIEW WITH THE. TOP REPUBLICAN IN THE. SENATE. WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THE. URGENT NEGOTIATIONS. >>> A COMMUTER BUS. BURSTING INTO FLAMES, THE MASSIVE FIREBALL. CHOOSING ROADS. >>> TWO DELTA JETS. COLLIDING ON THE. GROUND AT ONE OF THE. COUNTRY'.

>> Announcer: THIS IS. "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS". WITH TOM LLAMAS. >>> GOOD EVENING. AS WE COME ON THE AIR. TONIGHT WE HAVE SOME. BREAKING NEWS. ON THE EVE OF HIS. SENTENCING, SEAN. "DIDDY" COMBS, THE. FALLEN MUSIC MOGUL, WRITING A FEDERAL. JUDGE PLEADING FOR. MERCY. HE WRITES IN PART, I. HAVE TO ADMIT MY. DOWNFALL WAS ROOTED IN. MY SELFISHNESS. HE APOLOGIZED TWO OF. THE WOMEN WHO ACCUSED. HIM OF ABUSE,

INCLUDING CASSIE. VENTURA WHO HE. ASSAULTED AS. PROSECUTORS ASKING FOR. AN 11-YEAR PRISON. SENTENCE FOR COMBS. AFTER HE WAS FOUND. GUILTY OF TWO COUNTS. OF TRANSPORTATION TO. ENGAGE IN. PROSTITUTION. LAURA JARRETT JOINS US. LIVE. YOU HAVE THE LETTER. THERE. HE MAKES IT CLEAR HE. IS ASKING THE JUDGE TO. BE LET GO TO HIS. FAMILY RIGHT NOW. >> IT'S A PRETTY. STRIKING LETTER. COMBS IN HIS OWN WORDS. SAYING HE REALIZES HE. IS IN A SITUATION. WHERE NO AMOUNT OF. MONEY OR FAME CAN SAVE. HIM. HE WRITES THIS. I HAVE BEEN HUMBLED. AND BROKE TON MY CORE. JAIL IS DESIGNED TO.

BREAK YOU. SOME DAYS I THOUGHT I. WOULD BE BETTER OFF. HE SAYS THAT HE LOST. EVERYTHING FROM HIS. BUSINESSES TO TIME. WITH HIS CHILDREN, HE. IS A SINGLE FATHER. HE ALSO APOLLs TO THE. WOMEN WHO PROSECUTORS. SAY HE ABUSED. HE SAYS THAT VIDEO OF. HIM ABUSING CASSIE. PLAYS OVER IN HIS HEAD. DAILY. HE IS A CHANGED MAN. HE SAYS HE IS SOBER. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN. 25 YEARS. HE WILL AN OPPORTUNITY. TO ADDRESS THE COURT. TOMORROW. REMEMBER HIS LAWYERS. ARE ASKING FOR 14. MONTHS. PROSECUTORS ASKING FOR.

FAR GREATER, 11 YEARS. BEHIND BARS. HE WAS ACQUITTED OF. THE CHARGES THOUGH OF. COURSE THAT COULD HAVE. KEPT HIM BEHIND BARS. THE REST OF HIS LIFE. >> THAT SENTENCING. TOMORROW. WE WILL BE COVERING IT. LIVE ON NBC. THANK YOU. >>> FOLLOWING BREAKING. NEWS OVERSEAS. A TERROR ATTACK IN. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, AT A SYNAGOGUE ON. JUDAISM'S HOLIEST DAY. A MAN RAMMING HIS CAR. INTO THE CROWD THEN. ATTACKING WITH A. KNIFE. TONIGHT TWO WORSHIPERS. ARE DEAD. RAF SANCHEZ IS THERE. FOR US. >> Reporter: A SCENE. OF TERROR AT A. SYNAGOGUE.

POLICE CONFRONTING THE. ATTACKER. THEY HAVE SHOT HIM BUT. HE IS STILL ALIVE AND. THEY FEAR HE HAS A. BOMB. WHEN HE TRIES TO GET. UP, OFFICERS OPEN. FIRE. THE VIOLENCE. SHATTERING THE. REFLECTIVE CALM OF YOM. KIPPUR, JUDAISM'S. HOLIEST DAY. >> A VILE INDIVIDUAL. COMMITTED A TERRORIST. ATTACK THAT ATTACKED. JEWS BECAUSE THEY ARE. JEWS. >> Reporter: POLICE. SAY TWO MEN FROM. MANCHESTER'S JEWISH. COMMUNITY WERE KILLED.

THREE OTHERS SERIOUSLY. INJURED. AND TONIGHT SAYING. THEY BELIEVE THE. ATTACKER WAS A. 35-YEAR-OLD BRITISH. CITIZEN OF SYRIAN. DESCENT. >> POLICE SAY THE. ATTACKER ARRIVED AT. THE SYNAGOGUE AT THE. END OF THIS STREET AT. AROUND 9:31 A.M. RAMMING HIS CAR INTO. WORSHIPERS AND JUMPING. OUT ATTACKING THEM. WITH BLADED WEAPON. >> I HEARD BANG-BANG. AND HEARD THE. HELICOPTERS AND HEARD. THE SIRENS. >> Reporter: LOCALS. SAY IT WAS MAINLY.

CHILDREN AND ELDERLY. PEOPLE INSIDE THE. SYNAGOGUE DURING THE. ATTACK. POLICE PRAISING THE. COMMUNITY, INCLUDING. THE RABBI FOR BLOCKING. THE DOORS AND KEEPING. THE KILLER OUT. DEPLOYING A ROBOT TO. SEARCH HIS BODY FOR. BOMBS, FINDING NONE. >> HE WAS WEARING. ABOUT HIS BODY A VEST. WHICH HAD THE. APPEARANCE OF AN. EXPLOSIVE DEVICE. >> Reporter: KING. CHARLES SAYING HE IS. DEEPLY SHOCKED AND. SADDENED, ESPECIALLY. ON SUCH A SIGNIFICANT. DAY FOR THE JEWISH. COMMUNITY. JOSH SIMONS IS A. MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. AND PART OF THAT. COMMUNITY.

>> EVERYBODY IN THIS. COMMUNITY WILL BE. HOLDING THEIR CHILDREN. TONIGHT THAT LITTLE. BIT CLOSER. >> Reporter: HOW IS. THIS COMMUNITY FEELING. TONIGHT? >> FRIGHTENED, SCARED, HURT. TO. >> Reporter: THERE HAS. BEEN A SURGE OF. ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE. IN BOTH EUROPE AND THE. U.S. SINCE THE START. OF THE GAZA WAR, INCLUDING THIS. FIREBOMBING ATTACK IN. COLORADO IN JUNE, WHICH KILLED AN. 82-YEAR-OLD WOMAN. AND TONIGHT SYNAGOGUES. ACROSS THE U.S. ON. HIGH ALERT AFTER YOM. KIPPUR THE DAY OF. ATONEMENT TURNED INTO. ANOTHER DAY OF.

TRAGEDY. >> RAF JOINS US LIVE. FROM THE SCENE. POLICE SAY THEY. ARRESTED THREE OTHER. PEOPLE IN CONNECTION. WITH THAT ATTACK? >> Reporter: THAT'S. RIGHT, TOM. TWO NEN IN THEIR 30s, A WOMAN IN HER 60s. ARRESTED HERE IN. MANCHESTER ON. SUSPICION OF PREPARING. AN ACT OF TERRORISM. WHEN I SPOKE TO. ANOTHER MEMBER OF. PARLIAMENT EARLIER, HE. SAID POLICE ARE STILL. INVESTIGATING WHETHER. THIS WAS A SO-CALLED. LOAN WOLF ATTACKER OR. PART OF A LARGER. ORGANIZATION. TOM. >> THE RAIN COMING. DOWN THERE AS THIS. INVESTIGATION. CONTINUES.

RAF, THANK YOU. >>> NOW TO ANOTHER. DEVELOPING STORY. PRESIDENT TRUMP. TONIGHT SAYING THE. U.S. IS AT WAR WITH. DRUG CARTELS. THAT COMING IN A NEW. NOTIFIFICATION FROM. THE TRUMP. ADMINISTRATION TO. CONGRESS. COURTNEY KUBE, I KNOW. YOU HAVE NEW REPORTING. WHAT THIS MEANS? >> Reporter: THAT'S. RIGHT. NBC NEWS OBTAINED THE. CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE. THE TRUMP. ADMINISTRATION SENT TO. CONGRESS IDENTIFYING. DRUG CARTELS AS. TERRORIST. ORGANIZATIONS, DECLARING THEIR. ACTIONS CONSTITUTE AN. ARMED ATTACK AGAINST. THE UNITED STATES. ESSENTIALLY, SHE SAID.

SAYING THE U.S. IS AT. WAR WITH THEM. IT COMES AFTER THOSE. DEADLY U.S. MILITARY. STRIKES ON BOATS NEAR. VENEZUELA THAT THE. U.S. SAYS WERE. CARRYING DRUGS AND. CARTEL MEMBERS. THOUGH KEY DEMOCRAT. SENATOR JACK REED. SAYING THERE IS NO. CREDIBLE LEGAL. JUSTIFICATION OR THE. U.S. ACTIONS. VENEZUELAN LEADER. MADURO ORDERED. MILITIAS TO GET READY. A WHITE HOUSE. SPOKESPERSON TELLS US. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS. PROTECTING OUR COUNTRY. FROM THOSE TRYING TO. BRING DEADLY POISONS. TO OUR SHORES. >> THANK YOU. >>> NOW TO DAY TWO OF.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SHUTDOWN WITH. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYING. THEY ARE PREPARING TO. LAY OFF FEDERAL. WORKERS. TWO KEY PLAYERS ON. BOTH SIDES, WHAT COMES. NEXT. HERE IS RYAN NOBLES. >> Reporter: TWO DAYS. IN, THE IMPACTS OF THE. PARTIAL FEDERAL. GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. STARTING TO GROW. INCLUDING TOURISTS. TURN AWAY FROM. PHILADELPHIA'S ICONIC. LIBERTY BELL. >> I AM HERE ONE DAY. WHO KNOWS HOW LONG IT. WILL LAST. >> Reporter: NO-NO YOU. NEW VOTES ON THE. SENATE ON THIS HOLIDAY.

AFTER DEMOCRATS. BLOCKED A REPUBLICAN. FUNDING BILL THAT. WOULD REOPEN THE. GOVERNMENT. >> WELCOME EVERYBODY. TO DAY TWO OF THE. DEMOCRATS' SHUTDOWN. >> Reporter: CONGRESSWOMAN. OCASIO-CORTEZ. RESPONDING. >> WE ARE FIGHTING TO. MAKE SURE THAT. PEOPLE'S HEALTH CARE. PREMIUMS CAN REMAIN. LOW AS POSSIBLE. >> Reporter: PUSHING. BACK ON GOP DEMANDS. WHEN THEY SAY LET'S. JUST GET THE. GOVERNMENT BACK OPEN. AND NEGOTIATE FOR. SEVEN WEEKS, WHY DON'T. YOU BUY THAT ARGUMENT? >> BECAUSE THEY DON'T. WE HAVE SEEN THIS.

HAPPEN OVER AND OVER. AGAIN. AND EVERY TIME THIS. ADMINISTRATION SAYS. SOMETHING, THEY GO. BACK ON THEIR WORD. WE HAVE TO JUST END. THIS RIGHT NOW. >> Reporter: TONIGHT. TOM SPEAKING TO SENATE. REPUBLICAN LEADER JOHN. THUNE. >> WHEN ARE YOU GOING. TO GET IN A ROOM WITH. SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER. AND THE DEMOCRATS AND. SORT OUT? >> I DON'T KNOW THERE. IS A LOT TO SORT OUT. IT'S A STRAIGHTFORWARD. PROPOSITION. YOU KNOW, WE GOT A. BILL SITTING AT THE. DESK IN THE SENATE. THAT HAS BEEN PASSED. BY THE HOUSE OF. REPRESENTATIVES THAT. THE PRESIDENT IS. PREPARED TO SIGN TO. OPEN UP THE. GOVERNMENT. THEY WANT TO TALK.

ABOUT OTHER ISSUES. THOSE OTHER ISSUES. WERE MORE THAN HAPPY. TO HAVE THAT. CONVERSATION. I DON'T THINK YOU CAN. KEEP THIS HOSTAGE. SOON AS THEY RELEASE. THE HOSTAGE, WE CAN. TALK ABOUT THE OTHER. ISSUES. >> Reporter: AS. PRESIDENT TRUMP PLANS. TO MEET WITH BUDGET. DIRECTOR RUSS VOUGHT. TODAY OVER POTENTIAL. FIRINGS OF FEDERAL. WORKERS. >> IT'S LIKELY GOING. TO BE IN THE. THOUSANDS. >> Reporter: WHILE. THOUSANDS OF FEDERAL. WORKERS LIKE JENNA. HORTON HAVE BEEN. FURLOUGHED. SHE SAID COULD ONLY. CHECK HER GOVERNMENT. EMAIL TO SEE IF SHE IS. LAID OFF. >> WE CAN SIGN ON TO.

FIND OUT IF WE GOT. FIRED OR SIGN ON TO. COMPLETE RETIREMENT. PAPERWORK. >> Reporter: THE. SENATE WILL HAVE A. VOTE TOMORROW BUT THEY. ARE PLANNING NO VOTES. OVER THE WEEKEND. MEANING THE SHUTDOWN. IS EXPECTED TO EXTEND. INTO NEXT WEEK. TOM. >> RYAN NOBLES. COVERING THIS FOR US. FROM CAPITOL HILL. THANK YOU. >>> TWO DELTA AIR. LINES JETS COLLIDING. IN NEW YORK ON THE. TARMAC AS N.

BREAK DOWN BETWEEN ATC. AND THE FLIGHT CREW. COULD BE A FOCUS. >> STILL A VERY SCARY. ACCIDENT. THANK YOU FOR THAT. >>> IN NEW JERSEY, TWO. TEENAGE GIRLS HAVE. BEEN KILLED AFTER A. VEHICLE RAN THEM OVER. A TEEN SUSPECT NOW. ARRESTED AND CHARGED. WITH TWO COUNTS OF. FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. HERE IS THE THING. THE FAMILIES SAY THE. ATTACK WAS. INTENTIONAL. ERIN McLAUGHLIN HAS. THE STORY. >> Reporter: TONIGHT. IN NEW JERSEY A. COMMUNITY REELING.

>> THEY WERE THE BEST. PEOPLE I EVER MET. >> Reporter: AFTER A. 17-YEAR-OLD BOY. CHARGED WITH TWO. COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE. MURDER IN THE. HIT-AND-RUN KILLING OF. TWO TEENAGE GIRLS. BEST FRIENDS IDENTIFY. BID THEIR FAMILIES AS. MARIA AND ISABELLA. ACCORDING TO THE. COUNTY PROSECUTOR, THE. SUSPECT WHO HAS NOT. BEEN NAMED BECAUSE HE. IS A INMOOER ALLEGEDLY. STRUCK THE GIRLS WITH. HIS BLACK JEEP WHILE. THEY HAD BEEN OUT RIDE. ANG E-BIKE MONDAY. EVENING. >> CAME RUNNING OUT OF. THE HOUSE AND I HEARD. PEOPLE SCREAMING AND I.

IMMEDIATELY CALLED. 911. >> ONE OF THEM DIDN'T. MAKE IT AT THE SCENE. IT WAS REALLY HARD TO. SEE. >> Reporter: ACCORDING. TO EYEWITNESSES THE. SUSPECT DROVE OFF. HE WAS CHARGED TWO. DAYS LATER. TWO LAW ENFORCEMENT. SOURCES TOLD NBC NEWS. IT MAY HAVE STEMMED. FROM POSSIBLE BREAKUP. OR ARGUMENT. THE GIRLS' FAMILIES. RELEASING A SCATHING. STATEMENT CALLING THE. SUSPECT A COWARD OF A. MAN PLOTTING THIS. ATTACK AGAINST MARIA. FOR MONTHS SAYING HE. IS COMPETENT AND. MEDITATE. >> IT'S NOT FAIR.

IT'S NOT FAIR TO THE. PARENTS. IT'S NOT FAIR TO THE. KIDS. JUSTICE NEEDS TO BE. DONE. >> Reporter: ERIN. McLAUGHLIN, NBC NEWS. >>> AND IN OKLAHOMA. TODAY THE PASTOR WHO. ONCE LED A ONE OF THE. BIGGEST CHURCHES IN. THE COUNTRY PLED. GUILTY TO CHARGES HE. SEXUALLY ABUSED A. YOUNG GIRL IN THE. '80s. HIS ADMISSION AFTER AN. NBC NEWS INVESTIGATION. HELPED BRING THE. ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE. TO NATIONAL ATTENTION. NBC'S PRISCILLA. THOMPSON HAS MORE AND. A WARNING TO OUR. VIEWERS SOME OF THE. DETAILS YOU ARE ABOUT.

TO HEAR ARE. DISTURBING. >> Reporter: THE MAN. WHO ONCE LED ONE OF. THE LARGEST. CHOREOGRAPHERS IN. AMERICA TODAY WALKING. INTO AN OKLAHOMA. COURTHOUSE PLEADING. GUILTY TO SEXUALLY. ABUSING AN UNDERAGE. GIRL. >> THIS HAS TAKEN MY. ENTIRE LIFETIME TO GET. HERE. >> Reporter: THAT GIRL. WAS CINDY, NOW 55, DELIVERING A MESSAGE. TO HER ABUSER THROUGH. TEARS AS ROBERT MORRIS. ADMITTED TO FIVE. COUNTS OF LEWD OR. INDECENT ACTS WITH A. CHILD IN THE '80s. >> PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.

WHO HE IS THAT HE CAME. INTO OUR HOME AS A. PEDOPHILE DISGUISED AS. A PREACHER. >> Reporter: IT BEGAN. ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN. 1982, CINDY SAYS, WHEN. SHE WAS 12 AND MORRIS. 21. IT CONTINUED FOR. YEARS. A SECRET CINDY KEPT. UNTIL 1987 WHEN SHE. TOLD HER PARENTS AND. CHURCH LEADERS AND FOR. THE FIRST TIME LAST. YEAR SHARED PUBLICLY. >> HE STARTED BY. TOUCHING MY BREASTS. AND PUTTING HIS HANDS. IN MY PANTS. >> Reporter: DECADES.

PASSED. MORRIS GREW INTO AN. EVANGELICAL. POWERHOUSE, SERVING ON. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S. SPIRITUAL ADVISORY. COUNCIL, ALLUDING TO. PAST TRANSGRESSIONS AT. TIMES IN HIS SERMONS. >> I DEVELOPED AN. APPETITE BEFORE I WAS. SAVED. >> Reporter: HIS SINS. THAT NBC NEWS REPORTED. ON LAST YEAR NOW. OFFICIALLY CRIMES. MORRIS HANDED A. TEN-YEAR SENTENCE, THOUGH HE WILL ONLY. SERVE SIX MONTHS IN A. COUNTY JAIL AS PART OF. A NEGOTIATED PLEA.

DEAL. HE WILL ALSO HAVE TO. REGISTER AS A SEX. OFFENDER AND PAY. $250,000 IN. RESTITUTION. >> THERE IS HOPE TO. COME OUT OF SHAME AND. TO BE WHOLE AGAIN, AND. THAT'S MY HOPE FOR ME, MY HOPE FOR OTHER. VICTIMS AND EVEN FOR. NO C. HALFTIME CONTROVERSY. FROM THE NFL, THE. SHOW'S PRODUCERS OR. BAD BUNNY. >> GABE GUTIERREZ. >>> WHEN WE.

>>> WE'RE BACK WITH A. DECISION BY THE FDA. AHEAD OF THIS WEEK'S. GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. REGULATORS APPROVING A. SECOND GENERIC VERSION. OF MIFEPRISTONE, ONE. OF TWO MEDICATIONS. USED IN MOST ABORTIONS. IN THE U.S. THE PILL IS TYPICALLY. USED WITH ANOTHER ONE. TO INDUCE ABORTIONS. THE FDA'S APPROVAL. AFTER HEALTH SECRETARY. ROBERT F. KENNEDY SAID. THE FDA WOULD LOOK. INTO THE MEDICATION'S. SAFETY. >>> ALSO, THOUSANDS IN. FRANCE FROM WORKERS TO. STUDENTS TAKING TO THE. STREETS TO DEMONSTRATE.

AGAINST GOVERNMENT. SPENDING CUTS AND. DEMANDING HIGHER TAXES. ON THE RICH. SOME OF THOSE PROTESTS. TOURING CHAOTIC AT A. TESLA DEALERSHIP AND. SOME SHUT DOWN THE. EIFFEL TOWER TODAY. >>> HERE AT HOME A NEW. JERSEY TRANSIT BUS. BURSTING INTO FLAMES. AFTER BLOWING A TIRE. ON THE NEW JERSEY. TURNPIKE. IT HAPPENED AN HOUR. INTO THE MORNING. COMMUTE SO THERE WERE. ABOUT 50 PEOPLE ON. THAT BUS,