Thursday, November 5, 2026

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1:06Meltdown on Wall Street erasing those post-midterm gains. The S &P having its worst day in more than a year. Chip giant NVIDIA losing more than a trillion dollars from its peak. How long could it last and what it means for your 401k? Also breaking tonight, the aftershocks from the Democratic blue wave. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaking out and digging in amid our reporting that President Trump is discussing replacing him. Plus, our Steve Kornacki back at the big board with the uncalled razor thin races in Mississippi and Alaska, where the vote stands tonight. Chilling new video of the deadly shooting at an office complex near Tampa.

1:47The heroic security guard taking down this man with an AR-15. And the moment the shooter rammed his car through the gates. Catastrophic flash flood emergencies. Dozens rescued along the Georgia, Tennessee border. Reports of people trapped on their roofs. This propane tank exploding. Neighborhoods underwater still. Comedian Russell Brand found guilty of rape. New videos of him being interrogated. Could he face additional charges? A postal worker opening fire at a Des Moines post office shooting her own colleagues, how police captured her. California Governor Gavin Newsom commuting sentences of more than 500 death row prisoners.

2:28What it means for those behind bars. Stuck on the tracks, the train plowing into this 18-wheeler sending cargo flying. Nightly News starts right now. This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yawmas. Hey, good evening, and we thank you for joining us on this Thursday night. We need to begin with that brutal day on Wall Street, with the markets plummeting in their worst day in more than a year. All three major indices, you see them right here, just absolutely nosediving. The tech-heavy Nasdaq now down more than 5%, with the Dow and the S &P down big time as well, as the full impact of Tuesday's blue tsunami comes into focus.

3:10The fear for investors that Democrats may slow AI and data center growth, which has been powering the markets to record highs. We'll get into what it means for your 401k and we'll have new reporting on the political fallout from Republicans midterm wipeout. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defiant today, saying he's not going anywhere as we learn that the president is considering possible replacements for him. And our Steve Kornacki is standing by at the big board with new vote count just in. Could the Democrats add two more Senate seats? We're covering it all tonight, starting with Christine Romans and that Wall Street wipeout.

3:49Tonight, the tech-driven meltdown on Wall Street. All the worst performers are AI hardware. As investors further absorbed the midterm elections results, yesterday's market enthusiasm, today, wiped out, and then some. It's not good. There's no way to spin it. The Nasdaq plummeting more than five and a half percent. The Dow and S &P also down sharply. Why are stocks down so much today? I think this is a crisis of confidence, confidence in the AI trade itself. I also think it is a little bit of pushback on the midterms. Right. And so we've had a lot of state and local governors push back on new data centers.

4:27Companies connected to data centers and the artificial intelligence build out took some of the biggest hits after voters supported dozens of ballot measures across the country, imposing restrictions on the construction of new facilities. And the people have spoken, right? This has been unpopular to build data centers. NVIDIA, the leader in the chip sector, down more than 9 percent for the day. The company erasing one point four trillion dollars in value since its peak last month. Elon Musk's companies, SpaceX and Tesla, also fell dramatically today. The world's first trillionaire spent one hundred sixty eight million dollars supporting Republicans in Texas, where both companies are based only to see Democrats win handily across the state.

5:09Today's sell off begging the question, is it a bit of air coming out of the A.I. boom or a sign of more difficult days to come? All right, let's pick it up right there. Christine joins us now live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. And, Christine, we saw the big move higher just yesterday and then a total 180 today. So what should investors make of these big swings? Look, some people here today telling me it feels like an overreaction. Anytime there's news on AI, markets either soaring or, like today, falling dramatically. It's because AI has become such an outsized driver of the stock market, Tom, and the economy.

5:45Christine Romitz for us. Christine, thank you. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defined today as he prepares for a potential impeachment battle, with Democrats now preparing to take control of Congress. Here's Garrett Haig. Tonight, with that crushing midterm defeat for Republicans, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth digging in, releasing this new video as he prepares for a potential impeachment battle. Didn't work against President Trump, and it won't work with me. Two people familiar with the situation tell NBC News President Trump has told some allies he's considering replacing Hegseth, though the president today insisted he has no intention of removing him.

6:25All as the midterm's blue wave could crash further into Republican territory. In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colombe leading by fewer than 2 ,000 votes. Are you still confident that you'll win? Yeah, I'm confident, very confident. Republicans say there are more than 20 ,000 remaining ballots. The significant number of these, we believe, are in and remain in Republican-leaning districts. And in Alaska, an alleged Democratic scheme to sabotage Republican Senator Dan Sullivan's campaign by placing another Dan Sullivan on the ballot may be working. Democrat Mary Peltola now leads Senator Sullivan by just 637 votes, while the other Dan Sullivan has drawn 3 ,600 votes.

7:10And another GOP candidate who told The New York Times he was also recruited to run, receiving nearly 5 ,000 votes as the count continues. President Trump posting that the votes for the, quote, fake Dan Sullivan and that other candidate should be, quote, immediately given to the real Dan Sullivan. State and federal officials are investigating, all while Republican recriminations continue. 2026 was not simply a blue wave. It was a blue tsunami. me. It was an ass kicking. All right. With that, Garrett Haig joins us live from the White House. And Garrett, I know we have a projection out west in that critical L.A.

7:48mayor's race. Yeah, that's right, Tom. NBC News projecting that city council member Nithya Raman, a Democratic socialist, has defeated the Democratic incumbent mayor there, Karen Bass. The move now puts Democratic socialists in control of the country's two largest cities, New York and L.A. Tom. All right, Garrett, we thank you for that. Let's bring in Steve Kornacki, who's watching these razor thin margins. And one of the reasons why we haven't projected Mississippi yet is because new vote is still coming in and it's so close. That's right, Tom. A lot of this here you're seeing is vote by mail.

8:18If it's postmarked by Election Day, it can come in up to five days after Election Day in Mississippi. And what's been happening with that vote by mail? Cologne, the Democrat, has been doing better than Hyde-Smith, the Democrat. And so that advantage for Cologne, while extremely narrow, has ticked up a little bit from election night. All right. We heard Garrett mention Alaska. What's it looking like there? Yeah, take a look here. Now, this one may not be settled here until November 18th. Excuse me. November 18th is when they do the ranked choice runoff. Notice there's four candidates here, that other Dan Sullivan voters there had to rank on the ballot.

8:50First choice, second choice, third choice. So they'll do that process, the ranked choice runoff, not until November 18th. But if the Democrats got Mississippi and Alaska, that would be 56 Senate seats for them, a high watermark for them in a long time. And that would go along with, just to put in perspective, what we already know has happened on the House side. This is the House majority of every party that's controlled it going back to the early 90s. Our NBC News projection right now, the Democrats will land at about 259 seats. If that happens, it's the highest a party's had in the House since 1991.

9:21A monster number there. All right, Steve Kornacki for us. Steve, we thank you for that. We have some other news we want to get to tonight, including new video of the moment a hero security Guard took down that gunman who opened fire at a Citibank office complex just outside of Tampa yesterday. Jesse Kirsch with that new video. Tonight, new horrifying images of a security guard taking down an active shooter near Tampa, Florida. The surveillance footage released today by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office shows Citibank security officer John Fraley Wednesday afternoon preparing to engage with a gunman who had just killed a woman in the office courtyard.

9:58He takes a tactical position in the men's restroom. He sees a suspect coming and he engages this suspect. You can see the suspect, 35-year-old Jacob Pearson, fall to the ground, appearing to shoot back before the violence finally ends. Pearson later died at the hospital. The sheriff says that security guard is a Marine Corps veteran and this week heroically saved lives on a campus filled with more than 3 ,200 people. The gunman's rampage began when he allegedly crashed his vehicle into this courtyard. According to the sheriff, Pearson owed Citibank$2 ,500 and said this to a bank collection attorney's office hours earlier.

10:41Unless you want me to go over there with my AR-15, my bulletproof vest and my insanity, you MF and cancel this court case. And today, officials also identifying the victim as 41-year-old Citibank employee Leanne Selman. She was valued. She was beloved. She was described as a bright light. And her colleagues and all of us are grieving. Jesse Kirsch, NBC News. And there are states of emergency tonight in Georgia and Tennessee, with widespread flooding swapping out entire neighborhoods, trapping residents. George Solis and his team in the flood zone tonight. Tonight, rivers roaring after rain deluge communities in the Blue Ridge Mountains near the Georgia-Tennessee border.

11:25Multiple flash flood emergencies overnight as families slept, rain falling as fast as three inches an hour. Floodwaters tearing through McKaysville, Georgia and Copper Hill, Tennessee. First responders making dozens of rescues, carefully helping this woman out of a boat and onto dry land. These businesses and homes all inundated. Authorities going door to door. A Black Hawk helicopter flying overhead. We had reports that some people was on the roofs of their house. So we put drones up in the sky and then we got the Black Hawk as well. The power of those waters sweeping away propane tanks. And this frightening moment.

12:05Oh, jeez. You gotta be kidding me. Watch again. A massive fireball from a propane tank igniting. Crews racing to extinguish the flames. Not far from there, shops downtown completely destroyed. We're inside of a business here on Main Street, Donna's. To give you a sense of just how high the water got, well above my head. Take a look at the flag there. That is where the water line is. Riley Kendrick's family owns a cabinet store. My father's business is right on the river over there. And his work van and all that was in it, and it was completely submerged. It's ruined. But many business owners are vowing to rebuild.

12:41My daddy didn't raise a critter. He did not raise a quitter. All right, George joins us tonight from McKaysville, Georgia. And, George, we can see some of that debris right next to you. The river there reached a record high. Yeah, that's right, Tom. The Toccoa River cresting above 18 feet, bringing with it vast destruction. Look at this picnic table here up on the side of this building and the water. Take a look well above these windows here. Now, they've since returned to normal, but the cleanup here is just getting started. Tom. George Solis for us. We head to California now where Governor Newsom announced the largest death row commutation in modern American history, granting clemency to hundreds.

13:20Laura Jarrett has the details. Tonight, the lives of more than 500 inmates on California's death row now spared. Governor Gavin Newsom today issuing the broadest commutation of death sentences in modern American history, reducing every sentence in the state to life without the possibility of parole. Writing in an open letter,

13:51It's a move the Democratic governor had mulled over for months, with more inmates on California's death row than any other state. I have to prepare for my own consciousness, my rocking chair test. Yeah. Do I commute the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere? Anti-death penalty advocates urged the governor more recently to clear death row entirely, while opponents of the move expressed outrage today, like the father of 12-year-old Polly Klass, kidnapped and killed by Richard Allen Davis in 1993. I'm terribly disappointed by what he did. It's a knife in the back to the victim families. Though Newsom may not have the final word in most cases, as California's law requires the state's highest court to review his clemency move for the majority of those on death row with multiple felony convictions.

14:46Laura Jarrett, NBC News. When we return in 60 seconds, comedian and actor Russell Brand convicted of rape, the new video of him being interrogated and how long he could go to prison. Plus, the postal worker accused of gunning down colleagues in a major city. And game over. Five years and$5 billion later, the controversial Live Golf shuts down. So what's next for some of the game's biggest stars? When an intruder approaches a home, they expect a camera. What they don't expect. Stop. This is SimpliSafe. Police are on the way. Using smart AI cameras, live U.S.-based agents help deter intruders in under 30 seconds.

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16:41We are back now with the verdict in the case of actor and comedian Russell Brand. convicted today by a London jury of rape and sexual assault. Our Danielle Hamamgin has a story. Russell Brand, the convicted rapist. A London jury today finding the British comedian and actor guilty on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving incidents that occurred between 2004 and 2009. Brand was convicted of raping one woman at his former home in London. Russell Brand used his influence, status and fame to prey on and exploit women. The sexual assaults against three women also took place in London, at a bar, a radio station and then later while Brand was working on a British television project.

17:29The victim says Brand forced her to give him a massage despite her objections and claims Brand then placed his head directly into her groin area. After the verdict, London's Met Police released these videos of Brand's interrogations after allegations were first reported by the Times of London and the UK's Channel 4. Allegations which Brand strongly denied. I led a very promiscuous life in the past, which I've spent years openly denouncing. I've never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity. And tonight, London's Met Police saying Brand is being investigated on further rape allegations made by two women.

18:07Brand became a fixture in UK media before making a name for himself in Hollywood with films such as Get Him to the Greek and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, as well as a brief marriage to Katy Perry. Brand is now in custody with the judge telling him he should expect a significant prison term. And as Russell Brand spends his first night in prison, he'll be back in court on Monday for sentencing. Tom? Danielle, thank you. When we return, the moment a train plowed through a semi, stuck on the tracks, sending cargo everywhere.

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19:37This drone video showing the aftermath there with that truck in the middle of the huge train. The driver got out moments before the train hit and officials say nobody was heard. Live Golf, the Breakaway Golf League, funded by Saudi royalty, will shut down after five years and spending nearly$5 billion. Phil Mickelson and Greg Norman led the split that promised massive paydays to players, but created a civil war in the sport. Now Liv has failed to reach an agreement with financial backers to keep the league going. What we don't know, how soon Liv's biggest stars will return to the PGA. That's Nightly News for this Thursday.

20:13I'm Tom Yamas. We thank you so much for watching tonight. And always, we're here for you. Good night. When an intruder approaches a home, they expect a camera. What they don't expect. Stop. This is SimpliSafe. Police are on the way. Using smart AI cameras, live U.S.-based agents help deter intruders in under 30 seconds. Don't just record a break-in. Stop it from ever happening. Plan starting around a dollar a day. Right now, get 70 % off your new system with professional monitoring at simplisafe.com. 30 seconds response time requires monitoring plan with outdoor protection starting at$49.99 a month.

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