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1:19Are we closer to a mistrial or an acquittal? Also breaking former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez agreeing to plead guilty in connection to that violent stabbing attack that also left him hospitalized. Severe storms pounding the Midwest, violent winds and rains, plunging hundreds of thousands of people into darkness. The flash flooding happening already. Also tonight, the ICE agent charged with lying about shooting a Venezuelan man during an immigration operation, what he first told authorities that was allegedly false. College football showdown. Should pro athletes be allowed to return to play at the university level?

1:59The court battle today. Gloria Steinem's final words just released as the nation remembers the women's rights trailblazer. The new Roblox warning the family who can't seek justice after a predator on the gaming app exploited their nine-year-old daughter all because she clicked on the terms and conditions. Robot gridlock more than a dozen delivery bots malfunctioning on a Chicago sidewalk. waiting through a wedding, a bride and groom getting married in a flooded out church. And there's good news tonight. The whole school turning out to celebrate one of their own, a fourth grader, bringing the end to her cancer.

2:41Nightly news starts right now. This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yalmas.

2:52And good evening, and we thank you for joining us on this Thursday night. We begin with the chaotic scene in the courtroom today during the trial of Lindsey Clancy that has left legal analysts shocked. The deadlocked jurors sending another note to the judge that, according to the defense attorney, reveals there may be one lone holdout who is accused of refusing to follow the law when it comes to reasonable doubt. We're going to explain this for you. The judge sending the jurors back to keep deliberating. And then there was this, the defense admonishing the judge in open court for not tossing out that juror.

3:25That attorney later suggesting to reporters that he feels he's on the verge of an acquittal. But if those jurors remain deadlocked, the case of a mother who admitted to killing her three children could end in a mistrial. Our Emily Aked is outside the courthouse again. She starts us off. Tonight, tensions flaring in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. as a new note from the jury appears to suggest one juror is at odds with the other 11. The court has an instruction from the foreperson of that juror that's been working for a week now saying that there's one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you've given him or her on reasonable doubt.

4:07Lindsay Clancy stoic and her defense attorney visibly exasperated after the judge refused his request to dismiss that juror. The judge called such a removal a sensitive undertaking and instead reread an explanation about the meaning of proof beyond reasonable doubt. I don't feel that it is proper for me to side with one side or the other of the deliberations. I don't feel it's appropriate for me to say I agree with one juror or 11. The prosecution agreed. Can we extrapolate how the jurors are leaning here? Absolutely. Kevin Reddington is leading this charge. So that means that there is likely 11 not guilty votes and one guilty vote.

4:50And the juror that he's most concerned about is the guilty vote. The deadlocked jury has already told the judge twice they can't agree on whether Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three young children. As the group of nine women and three men are sent back to the jury room for what will be day seven of deliberations. Get the s*** out of the case. I don't want to be a trial. With that, Emily Akeda joins us now live from outside the courthouse. Emily, walk our viewers through this. How difficult is it to remove a juror? Well, Tom, legal experts say the process itself isn't that difficult with six alternates.

5:28But the judge has to be very careful not to even appear to put his thumb on the scale. Clancy's defense says that he's expecting, quote, further inquiry into the issue by the judge first thing tomorrow, Tom. Emily, we thank you for that. Also breaking tonight, a major development in the criminal case involving Mark Sanchez, the former NFL star and Fox Sports analyst. We have new reporting tonight that he will plead guilty over a stabbing attack that also left him injured. Here's Stephanie Goss. Tonight, former NFL quarterback and sports analyst Mark Sanchez striking a deal, agreeing to plead guilty in connection with a 2025 stabbing incident in downtown Indianapolis, according to a court document, which does not specify what charge Sanchez has agreed to plead guilty to.

6:12His trial was set to begin later this month. Sanchez's attorney writing, we are finalizing an agreement with the prosecutor's office that provides a path toward resolving the state's case. Sanchez was facing multiple criminal charges, including felony battery, after allegedly attacking 69-year-old delivery man Perry Toll. The former New York Jets quarterback had been in town to call the Indianapolis Colts game. Video showed Sanchez in the early morning hours bloody and appearing to stumble moments after the alleged fight. This was the county prosecutor describing the incident in 2025. We are literally talking about people fighting over a parking space.

6:51According to the police, the driver told officers Sanchez smelled like alcohol and that he feared he was trying to kill him. Both men ended up in the hospital. Sanchez was treated for stab wounds and Toll was slashed in the face and left with a deep gash. Sanchez had become a familiar face on Fox Sports after his career in the NFL ended. A month after he was arrested, Fox Sports confirmed he was no longer with the network. Stephanie Goss, NBC News. Tonight, we're also tracking dangerous storms as we head into the holiday weekend. More than 400 ,000 without their power knocked out across the Midwest.

7:29And now flight delays nationwide. Valerie Castro is at LaGuardia for us. Tonight, severe storms on the move. And it's just pouring. Tens of millions now in the crosshairs. Multiple tornado warnings already, including for the city of Detroit. We have the tornado warning for Wayne County. We have the tornado warning actively for Washtenaw County and for Oakland County. Flooding rains submerging streets in Milwaukee. Trees snapping, limbs crashing into homes in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, residents say they believe lightning caused this early morning apartment fire.

8:05Officials are still investigating. This after extreme weather on Wednesday wreaked havoc on Rogers Stadium in Toronto. Entire seating sections destroyed. Strong winds and rain pummeling this neighborhood. Police helping stranded drivers to dry land. The brutal wind tearing apart scaffolding. These workers scrambling to safety and hear scaffolding smashing through a high rise window. Two guys were on it screaming. Then I heard this big smashing glass. The weather already impacting holiday travel. Travelers at New York's LaGuardia Airport telling us they're frustrated. Flight has been delayed three times today.

8:43Whether it's air traffic or it's weather, let's just figure it out and get us down there. And at this airport alone, more than 80 flights canceled, more than 500 flights delayed. Valeria Castro joins us now live from LaGuardia. Valeria, I know you're checking the boards there. Delays are already starting to pile up as weather is hitting major airports. Yeah, Tom, tonight there are already more than 8 ,000 flights delayed across the country. You can see some of those on the flight board here behind me. The TSA says more than 17 million people are expected to fly over the next several days. Tom.

9:16A busy Labor Day weekend. OK, Valeria, thank you. to Washington now in that headline from Vice President Vance saying he would not call the ongoing conflict with Iran a war. Plus, our Gabe Gutierrez pressing the vice president. When will high gas prices get back to three dollars a gallon? Tonight, despite Iran targeting American bases in the Middle East and those U.S. retaliatory strikes on Iran's air defenses, Vice President Vance says the U.S. is not at war. I wouldn't call it a war. Right now, there is no active shooting. I recognize there have been places where this has flared up. Major combat operations, again, major combat operations lasted for about six weeks.

9:56The administration says the U.S. is now escorting 30 to 40 commercial oil ships a day through the Strait of Hormuz to avoid Iranian attacks and drive down the price of oil. But we pressed the vice president about this prediction from Treasury Secretary Scott Besson about gas prices back in July. I think we can get back to$3, hopefully. When? Maybe by Labor Day. The U.S. national average for gas now at$4.14 a gallon. Do you have a new timetable for Americans on when they could expect lower gas prices, and should they not expect to see$3 gas again until at least 2027? Well, in defense of Scott, he said maybe by Labor Day, because we're talking about things that are inherently unpredictable.

10:38The fundamental reality is that the reason gas prices are so high right now is because the Iranians are shooting at commercial shipping. But I'm not going to make a promise about when it's going to return to three dollars. The vice president also downplayed the threat of Iranian cyber attacks, saying they have limited ability to disrupt the normal lives of Americans. Tom. Dave Gutierrez for us at the White House. And just as fans are set to celebrate the return of college football, the new legal battle brewing in college sports. Should pro athletes be eligible to come back to the college game?

11:12You heard us right. Here's Jesse Kirsch. With the college football season kicking off, tonight, a growing legal showdown. Should pro athletes be allowed to play the college game? Daquan Wright, Xavier Harris, and Blake Cotton all briefly joined NFL team training camps this summer. But now, the former pros want to return to college football, reportedly at Louisiana State University. LSU's head football coach defending the idea. If it makes your team better and it's legal to do and your players want it, I'll take the hit publicly for it because that's my job. But LSU's critics calling for a flag on the play.

11:53Blowback coming from other powerhouse programs, including the Texas Longhorns coach. The fact that somebody out there is going to take a player off of an NFL roster and tell somebody who's been doing it for nine months, go kick rocks, that morally is wrong. And the coach of LSU's opponent this weekend, Clemson. I don't blame the kids and people trying to take advantage of the system. I just think it's embarrassing where we are with college football. The athletes are asking a Baton Rouge judge to help them take advantage of new NCAA rules, generally extending athlete eligibility to five years. But tonight, the SEC filing suit against LSU in federal court, arguing athletes who go pro should not be allowed back in college competition.

12:36Jesse Kirsch, NBC News. A major case right there. All right. And we are remembering an American trailblazer tonight who carved her place in U.S. history, fighting for equality for women. Gloria Steinem has passed away at the age of 92. Tonight, in an interview just released, you'll hear her describe how she wants to be remembered. Here's Ann Thompson with that new video. Gloria Steinem was the face of women's rights for more than half a century. It took 100 years for us to become human beings and to vote. Not surprising that it will take a century to get equality. Using the power of words. Spoken.

13:15I think that what feminism is about really is telling us that we ourselves can do it and not getting us to imitate other people. Written and put into action. Stand here not only for the Equal Rights Amendment, but in the names of all the women in this country who struggle with two jobs when men have one. Born in Toledo, Ohio, she initially wanted to be a rockette. Instead, Steinem became a journalist, exposing the working conditions of Playboy Bunnies by going undercover and becoming one herself, writing columns for New York Magazine, and finding her voice as an activist, helping to establish the National Women's Political Caucus.

13:59We are the women that our parents warned us about, and we are proud. Then co-founding Ms. Magazine, tackling once taboo subjects like sexual harassment, domestic violence, and abortion. We've changed consciousness. We just now have to change structures. Her efforts recognized with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Married just once to businessman and activist David Bale, Steinem's life dramatized on stage and in film. Tonight in a new Netflix special, Steinem herself saying how she wants to be remembered. There was this person who tried to make the world a little more equal, compassionate, joyful, funny than it was when I showed up.

14:50An entrepreneur of social change. Ann Thompson, NBC News. And she did all those things. All right, we are back in just 60 seconds with a mother's nightmare her child exploited online. But because her nine-year-old daughter clicked on those terms and conditions, they may not be able to seek justice. Plus, the first ICE agent charged in connection with the Minneapolis shooting, what he's accused of doing. And wading through their wedding, look at this, the couple who had to get married in a church even in the middle of monsoon season. Stay with us. avoiding your unfinished home projects because you're not sure where to start thumbtack knows homes so you don't have to don't know the difference between matte paint finish and satin or what that clunking sound from your dryer is with thumbtack you don't have to be a home pro you just have to hire one you can hire top rated pros see price estimates and read reviews all on the app download today think glp ones are too expensive on row you can access fda approved GLP-1 weight loss treatment at your lowest possible price if you're covered.

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17:07But for one Georgia mom, popular gaming platform Roblox led to a knock at her door that changed everything. When did you first figure out what was really going on? When I was contacted by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. Federal agents informed her a 46-year-old man had been grooming her 9-year-old daughter, chatting on Roblox, forcing her to send sexually explicit images and threatening blackmail. And you thought, no, they've got the wrong person. Right. I was floored. I was devastated. He was arrested and pled guilty to coercing a child to produce pornographic material. The mother has asked us not to name her or her daughter to protect their privacy.

17:49The family has now filed a civil lawsuit against Roblox. The sticking point? A clause in the site's terms of use. One, the company says, requires mandatory arbitration for these types of allegations that would keep the family's case out of court. When you first signed up for Roblox, there's a whole bunch of terms and conditions. Do you have any idea what was in all of that text? I had no idea, but I would have never given up my daughter's rights to seek justice for what this platform has done to her. She says her daughter made multiple accounts agreeing to the terms on her own. Roblox now facing more than 150 lawsuits alleging it could have done more to protect children from predators online and fighting the arbitration clause, pointing to a law Congress passed in the wake of Me Too that bans forced arbitration in cases involving sexual assault or harassment.

18:44But Roblox says it's not bound by that law, arguing that users of the platform agreed to arbitrate when they set up their accounts and that it asked minors to get parental permission when signing up. Alexandra Walsh represents many alleged victims and their families. The notion that a child, by clicking an I agree button, could give up their constitutional right to a jury trial, it's legally wrong and it's morally unconscionable. Roblox did not respond to our requests for comment. Earlier this year, the company rolled out new safety features it says will protect kids, like more robust age screening and more limited messaging functions.

19:22In court filings, the company denies any liability, saying the third-party predators bear sole responsibility for their heinous conduct. What's your response to that? Would that man had access to my daughter if it wasn't for that platform? Her life has changed forever. Laura Jarrett, NBC News. And when we return, the search for an ICE agent just indicted over his role in raids in Minneapolis and delivery robot meltdown, the sudden sidewalk takeover in Chicago. That's next. Within every beautifully busy day, there's a brief moment between now and next. A moment made just for you to recharge, refuel, and most importantly, bring out the Bob.

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21:24us. Back now with the Justice Department for the first time indicting an ICE agent involved in those federal raids. A source familiar with the investigation telling NBC News that a grand jury charged ICE agent Christian Castro with lying to the FBI. Castro claimed he was attacked by a Venezuelan immigrant before shooting him in the leg. A civil rights investigation into whether he should be charged with the shooting is still ongoing. And take a look at this. About a dozen delivery robots in Chicago clustering together and blocking the sidewalk. They have become a regular presence and some residents say a nuisance on the streets.

22:01Coco Robotics says an error caused them to change course all at the same time. They say it was fixed in just a couple of minutes and they apologize for the inconvenience. And new video of a very wet wedding in the Philippines. You can see the bride look closely walking down the aisle of a completely flooded out church. The flood water was waist deep after heavy monsoon rains, but that didn't stop the couple from tying the knot. The newlyweds said it wasn't the wedding they imagined, but that it's definitely a day they won't forget. That's for sure. When we come back tonight, there's good news about the whole school coming out to support one very brave little girl.

22:39That's next.

22:50Finally, there's good news tonight about an inspiring show of support. Students at one Alabama school lining the halls to celebrate their classmate who just beat cancer.

23:05They're cheering for one of their own.

23:10Fourth grader Devin Coker, surprised by her Pritchard Prep classmates in Mobile, Alabama, on her way to the hospital for a day she's been waiting for. Devin was diagnosed with leukemia at just seven years old. The last two plus years have been filled with hospital stays and chemotherapy treatments. But today, that's coming to an end. We're gathered here for a very special occasion for a very special child. Devin ringing in a new chapter, celebrating the end of her cancer treatment.

23:53I was very proud of myself because I was like, in my mind, it was like, oh, Devin, you did it. You beat cancer. And you're really proud. You get to be proud. Devin's parents, Duvon and Brittany, moved by the show of support. That's what victory sounds like. That's what victory looks like. grateful for her fight. She's strong. Now she's a survivor.

24:22She is a survivor. Devin, keep fighting hard. That's nightly news for this Thursday. I'm Tom Yamas. We thank you so much for watching tonight and always. We're here for you. Good night. Bidding the bell.

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