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in all states and situations. Breaking

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news tonight. The new aftershock as we

0:34

come on the air after that rare earthquake

0:36

rocked the northeast, one of the strongest

0:38

in the last century. The earth came

0:40

from atop the Statue of Liberty, capturing

0:42

the images as the 4.8 magnitude earthquake

0:45

shook New York City. The tremors

0:47

felt as far south as Washington,

0:50

D.C., as far north as Maine,

0:52

rattling homes, barbershops, coffee shops, and

0:54

now the concern after that new

0:56

4.0 aftershock.

0:59

Also tonight, Israel's military dismissing

1:01

two senior officers from their positions

1:03

after that deadly strike on aid workers,

1:06

what it now says went wrong.

1:08

And our NBC News exclusive.

1:10

By conversation with the families

1:13

of American hostages nearly six

1:15

months since Hamas abducted them.

1:17

How do you put one foot in front

1:19

of the other? I live my life

1:21

in agony, in

1:24

sadness. Their new plea to

1:26

Prime Minister Netanyahu. The fire at

1:28

Senator Bernie Sanders' office in Vermont.

1:31

Investigators late today saying it was arson. President

1:34

Biden in Baltimore touring the site

1:36

of the deadly bridge collapse and

1:38

meeting with first responders and victims,

1:40

families. The countdown to the total

1:42

eclipse, the excitement causing a business

1:45

boom in some of the most

1:47

unlikely places. This is

1:49

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

1:52

Good evening and welcome. A lot of conversations

1:54

here in the east today began with the

1:56

words, did you feel it? Well, potentially tens

1:58

of millions of people. did. An

2:01

unusually strong earthquake fell from Maryland

2:03

to Maine. The shockers

2:05

setting tall buildings swaying in Philadelphia,

2:07

New York and Boston among other

2:09

places and a new aftershock shortly

2:11

before we came on the air

2:13

this evening. At 4.8 magnitude,

2:16

folks in the West would likely have

2:18

been unfazed by this morning's quake, but

2:20

earthquakes of this intensity in the east

2:22

are not common. This is the strongest

2:24

in this region in over a decade.

2:27

It struck a little before 10 30

2:29

a.m. Eastern time this morning. Its

2:32

epicenter was in northern New Jersey.

2:34

There are no reports of widespread

2:36

damage, though crews did survey bridges,

2:38

airport runways and the like. Emily

2:41

Aketa is near the epicenter in New

2:43

Jersey with the latest. Seems

2:49

like this are typically out of the West

2:51

Coast, but just

2:53

before 10 30 this morning, a 4.8 magnitude

2:57

earthquake rocks the New York City

2:59

area with shockwaves fell 300 miles

3:02

away, stopping

3:04

people in their tracks at the

3:07

barber and rattling nerves inside this

3:09

coffee shop. Who's normally watches the

3:11

earthquake disrupts a UN meeting. Yeah,

3:15

Earth cam even capturing the Statue of

3:17

Liberty shaking. So you think this crack

3:19

is from the earthquake? I do. Janelle

3:21

Jensen lives by the epicenter in New

3:24

Jersey, which sits near a major fault

3:26

line. The entire house was just shaking.

3:28

So in my head, I just thought

3:30

that there was gonna be an explosion.

3:33

Crews and first responders now sprayed

3:35

across the region, evaluating building. Several

3:37

homes in Newark had to be

3:39

evacuated and runway inspections prompted ground

3:42

stops at J. F. K. And

3:44

Newark Airport. Remarkably, no serious

3:46

damage or injuries have been reported.

3:48

We're gonna be reviewing all potentially

3:52

vulnerable infrastructure state sites throughout the state

3:54

of New York. It's the most significant

3:56

earthquake to rock the East Coast since

4:00

and the strongest one in New Jersey in nearly 250

4:02

years. This

4:04

is a rare event. The Earth was

4:06

releasing some stress that had built up

4:09

between the two plates and it'll now

4:11

settle down for a

4:13

long time. And shaken Northeasterners tried to

4:16

do the same. I'm

4:18

a little generous, yeah, because you know you don't

4:20

experience things like this in New York. And Emily,

4:22

as we said, you're near the earthquakes epicenter in

4:24

New Jersey. We felt, here in the studio, at

4:26

least some of us here felt, an aftershock a

4:28

while ago, do they still pose a threat? Well,

4:32

Lester, there have been at least seven

4:34

aftershocks in the region, including a magnitude

4:37

four quake that rattled the ground here

4:39

just minutes ago. Experts say these could

4:41

linger for another several days and people

4:43

should drop, take cover, and hold on

4:45

when experiencing one. Lester. Emily Aketa,

4:48

tonight in New Jersey, thank you.

4:50

Facing intensifying pressure from the U.S.,

4:52

Israel announced new steps to get

4:54

humanitarian aid into Gaza and it

4:57

released results of its preliminary investigation

4:59

into an airstrike that killed seven

5:01

aid workers. Here's Gabe Gutierrez. Tonight,

5:05

the U.S. is cautiously welcoming Israel's

5:07

commitment to open more aid routes

5:09

into Gaza after a tense phone

5:12

call between President Biden and Israeli

5:14

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the president

5:16

declining today to answer whether he

5:19

threatened Netanyahu with stopping military aid.

5:21

I asked him to do

5:23

what they're doing. What Israel is doing is

5:25

opening a crossing to allow aid into

5:27

northern Gaza, using a port in southern

5:30

Israel as a supply hub and allowing

5:32

trucks from nearby Jordan to bring aid

5:34

through Israel into Gaza. Today, the president

5:36

was also asked if his tougher tone

5:39

with Netanyahu meant he was abandoning Israel.

5:43

The Israeli Military has removed two

5:45

officers from their posts and reprimanded

5:47

three others after this week's deadly

5:49

strike that killed seven aid workers

5:51

from Chef Jose Andres' World Central

5:53

Kitchen. It's very important that Israel

5:55

is taking full responsibility for this

5:57

incident. According to Israel's newly released...

6:00

The report it's forces wrong We

6:02

identified with they thought was a

6:04

gunman on one of the A

6:06

trucks and mistakenly assumed there were

6:08

Hamas terrorists inside. The forces did

6:10

not identify. The vehicles in question

6:12

has been associated with World Central

6:14

Kitchen. Calling. It a serious

6:16

failure. Was a

6:18

terrible chain of errors and should

6:21

never have happened. World Central Kitchen

6:23

says the emissions are important steps

6:25

forward, but the charity is calling

6:28

for an independent investigation because it

6:30

says Israel's military cannot credibly investigate

6:32

it's own failure in Gaza. Also,

6:35

stocks are set for this weekend. A

6:37

senior administration official says the President is

6:40

urging the leaders of Egypt and the

6:42

car across them off her the cluster

6:44

Harrogate fact you smell Almost six months

6:47

since the October Seventh Hamas attack on

6:49

Israel. The families of five Americans held

6:51

hostage in Gaza still wait for proof

6:54

of life and the safe return of

6:56

their loved ones. I sat down with

6:58

I'm Yesterday to talk about their pain,

7:00

frustrations and hopes. Knows

7:03

that. They have seen as a

7:05

power of hope. Abigail was released

7:07

on that system first day of

7:09

being a hostage in May have

7:11

seen the nightmares come true. My.

7:13

Sister City listing Saudis and

7:15

late amazing sister and her

7:17

beloved husband Daddy Honey Where

7:19

I'm out for their early

7:21

morning lock on October seventh

7:24

and were the first citizens

7:26

of. This. Terror Arms

7:28

and they were murdered.

7:30

His. Nice a

7:33

mass Isis. Terrorists on

7:35

motorcycles, singer shots murdered. We

7:37

learn that is ah, about

7:39

seventy six days after. That

7:42

of that, or for five months. My.

7:46

Americans born and raised cousin

7:48

Ruby. And. His lovely

7:50

wife had it leaves of their

7:52

sont nineteen year old it was

7:54

lives like as a bad news

7:56

and the unimaginable news three weeks

7:58

ago that he. actually amongst those

8:01

who were murdered on

8:03

October 7th. For some

8:05

of these American families, the fates of

8:07

their kidnapped loved ones are still unknown

8:09

and they're desperate for them to come

8:12

home. It's hard for

8:14

anyone to step into your shoes and to imagine

8:16

what it's been like. How do you put one

8:19

foot in front of the other? Like

8:21

I live my life in agony,

8:24

in sadness, like I'm

8:26

worried sick for my

8:28

boys. Like every minute of the

8:30

day, every second of the day, I don't have

8:33

nights, I don't have anything.

8:35

Like but I need to

8:38

continue with what we are doing. Like

8:41

to put it out

8:43

there. Out there, exactly.

8:46

Sweet hostages have told horrific stories

8:48

of violence and sexual abuse at

8:51

the hands of Hamas. I

8:53

want to ask you about some of the

8:56

reports we've heard from hostages who have

8:58

been freed about their treatment in

9:00

captivity. For those of you

9:02

who still have missing loved ones, is

9:04

that something you need to hear or

9:06

something you'd rather not hear about? It's

9:09

very difficult. I don't like to hear that. My

9:12

aunt Aviva and uncle

9:14

Keith's seagull were both

9:16

taken together. And Aviva

9:19

was released on day 51,

9:21

the same day that Abigail

9:23

was released. And she's

9:25

home and we're just,

9:27

I don't even know how to express

9:29

the amazing feeling. Yet at

9:32

the same time, Keith is there. She

9:34

knows exactly what Keith's and all of

9:36

the hostages are going through every single

9:38

day. And I just want to

9:40

underline the urgency. The

9:43

opportunity for a deal is not going

9:45

to get any better than it is

9:47

today. And I

9:50

just, I think that's why we're all here

9:52

today. The urgency and hearing

9:54

Aviva's stories is, you know, it's

9:57

horrific. All the testimonies. My

9:59

Hope. During a Living Breathing

10:01

Human Beings Prime Minister Netanyahu, he

10:04

needs to be that brief. Leader.

10:06

He needs to be that powerful, strong leader.

10:08

And he needs to make. It clear she's

10:10

been talking for many months about how

10:12

important hostage releases. With.

10:15

We don't have any more time for talking.

10:17

I asked about four year old Abigail. Was

10:20

her emotional? She'll in progress in what can

10:22

you share with us? And she's

10:25

a beautiful child for before.

10:27

The terrorist attack on October seventh was

10:29

running around barefoot and playing and dancing

10:32

to be on face videos and just

10:34

a few a full life. She is

10:36

able to do those things again so

10:39

on a day to day level. She

10:41

is loved by family and. She's

10:43

doing wonderfully. But.

10:46

We all know that there's a sack of

10:48

seeing your parents. Murdered earlier in the

10:50

crisis for group Met with President

10:52

Biden at the White House. Do

10:54

feels like administration still for

10:56

to and your loved ones

10:58

as a priority. We.

11:04

Feel that serve because. Attention

11:07

and support from the bottom

11:10

assertions. Of

11:12

an end of the day. We

11:14

need all of one but they need to pull

11:17

every lever and it has been on or else

11:19

who would have her larger ones for com? Are

11:21

you still talking to do? Minister Down Or. After

11:25

really I mean for for with. Extraordinary

11:27

amount of access and they're

11:29

incredibly transparency and available. For

11:31

for the Israeli Army actions

11:33

in Gaza right now complicating

11:35

any effort to get your

11:37

loved ones as to the

11:39

pressure on Israel to stop

11:41

the fire and. Provide.

11:44

Ceasefire and humanitarian support

11:46

to Gaza. Is

11:48

obviously increasing. Jets.

11:51

Hamas, Isis. Can

11:54

stop? Everything

11:57

by releasing the hostages and putting on

11:59

the web. There's a

12:01

surplus of suffering going around and

12:04

horrible mistakes are happening. The

12:06

tragic horrifying mistake

12:08

of those seven aid workers getting

12:11

killed. It's a

12:13

straw that's breaking the camel's back. What

12:16

happens when you begin to lose sympathy?

12:19

Do any of you feel that that is

12:22

occurring? It's a struggle Lester, but

12:24

we need to recognize that that

12:26

chain reaction that brings us unfortunately

12:28

back to you after many months

12:31

was unleashed on October 7th

12:33

by Hamas in an unprovoked

12:36

savage massacre

12:38

of civilian communities. Look at

12:40

Gaza. How can you not look at

12:42

that and not feel

12:45

unbelievable sympathy for

12:48

the suffering that's going on there? And

12:50

here we are with our innocent

12:54

loved ones, hostages for 181 days,

12:56

hidden in tunnels, they

12:59

kind of disappear in this

13:01

horror that's going on. And there's no question

13:03

that it feels like the world

13:05

is moving on. If you look

13:07

at the Gaza border, which is where

13:09

my son was abducted

13:12

from, it's two

13:14

or three miles away. They're

13:17

so close and yet so far

13:19

and yet Hamas is still holding on to them.

13:22

What keeps them going? I just wanted to say that's one

13:24

line that we say every single day in our

13:26

house and someone gave it to us

13:28

in a sticker because we say it so much.

13:30

Hope is mandatory. Part

13:33

of my conversation with families of American

13:35

hostages held in Gaza in

13:38

Baltimore today, President Biden got a firsthand

13:40

look at the efforts to clear away

13:42

the collapse Francis Scott Key Bridge touring

13:44

the site by air and then meeting

13:47

with the first responders and families of

13:49

the men who died in the disaster.

13:51

Mr. Biden pledging to reopen the channel

13:53

quickly and to provide financial support to

13:56

the region And a strong

13:58

New Jobs Report out today in March. The

14:00

way of adding more than three

14:02

hundred thousand jobs blowing pass economists

14:04

expectations by about one hundred thousand,

14:07

the unemployment rate declining slightly to

14:09

three point eight percent wage growth

14:11

was up four point one percent

14:14

year over year, outpacing the rate

14:16

of inflation. And

14:18

police in Burlington, Vermont are investigating a

14:20

fire suspecting arson at the office of

14:23

Sen. Bernie Sanders. They're looking for a

14:25

suspect who they say sprayed an accelerant

14:27

on the door and centered on fire.

14:30

A building sprinkler system put the fire

14:32

out. People were working in the office

14:34

at the time but there were no

14:37

injuries. And sixty seconds.

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of the Spring Solar Eclipse, excitement is

15:56

taking hold across the nation and along

15:58

the path of totality if causing a

16:01

business boom in some unlikely places. Organ

16:03

chest. He has more now from his

16:05

home town in Texas. Tonight

16:08

the countdown zone for a celestial

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date with destiny. We've. Been

16:13

talking a clip said the last year and

16:15

a half. Go Monday. A solar

16:17

Eclipse passing over Thirty one million

16:19

Americans living at the prized path

16:21

of totality. So we're directly

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on the centerline. In

16:26

his Texas, the Blue Capital Snail

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capitalizing on it's four minutes and

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twenty three seconds of total darkness.

16:32

All of our hoteliers told us

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that they. Opened. Up but things last April

16:36

eighth for April eighth and they were sold out

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within two to three. Days it it has been

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sold out for a year. Yes, Nationwide.

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Air B B says nine out of

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ten listings are booked. A log: the

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Eclipse is passed from Maine to Texas

16:50

and Hop Meyer and her family arriving

16:52

just in time from Germany as. Something

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over here from Europe. To be honest, Are

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