Nightly News Full Broadcast - June 5

tonight mystery in the sky what we're learning about the critical mission to protect the nation's capital a private plane puts Washington on high alert sending fighter jets soaring into action at supersonic speeds the new details as investigators race to piece together the mystery the Cessna pilot scene slumped over by F-16 fighter Crews the clues being combed through at the crash site and what we know about the family on board a mother and a two-year-old among the lives lost investigation inflection point Donald Trump's lawyers meeting with special counsel Jack Smith over the classified documents case the grand jury set to reconvene all as more Republican contenders jump into the 2024 race a Chinese warship nearly colliding into an American Destroyer days after a Chinese jet flew by an American surveillance plane China's new warning to the U.S at NBC News exclusive the investigation into a dangerous drug partnership on us soil Chinese criminal groups working with Mexican cartels how America became the middleman plus our look into the future with Apple's new virtual reality headset but is its price tag a reality for Shoppers this is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt good evening it's great to be back with you tonight the mystery behind the tragic fate of a private jet that flew for hours in radio silence as investigators focused on a remote section of Virginia where the plane crashed to Earth on Sunday the highly experienced pilot and its three passengers including a small child were killed the plane tracked on radar as it flew from Tennessee toward its destination Long Island New York only to turn around and fly back south with a plane not responding to controllers its pilot appearing to be slumped over according to the crews of Air Force f-16s sent to intercept the plane as it neared sensitive airspace over the DC area the fighters breaking the sound barrier in a supersonic pursuit of the Wayward plane which crashed over rural Virginia Tom Costello now with what we know so far in a remote thick Virginia Forest investigators are piecing through the decimated remains of that private citation jet that apparently ran out of fuel and crashed as Air Force fighter jets watched unable to help prior to the incident the palette was slumped over family members tell NBC New York that Adina azarian a prominent real estate broker was on board with her two-year-old daughter Arya their Nanny and the pilot headed for the Hamptons we just devastated you have to tell people every day that you love them it started at 1 13 p.m Sunday as the plane left Tennessee headed for Long Island New York but at 128 just 15 minutes later the veteran Pilots stopped responding to air traffic control commands the plane continued North all the way to Long Island before doing a u-turn on heading back towards Tennessee still failing to respond to controllers contact Washington six Air Force fighter jets were scrambled along the east coast as the plane approached restricted DC airspace two f-16s were authorized to go supersonic they had to break the sound barrier to get up to speed to get to get to the uh to the aircraft in question [Music] their twin booms startling residents and pets on the ground as they fired flares then flew straight at the citation calling the pilot and air defense provider he has been intercepted they quickly saw the pilot was slumped over and unresponsive as his plane continue flying into Virginia where it crashed having traveled 300 miles without radio communication the NTSB is considering whether a sudden loss of cabin air pressure could have incapacitated everyone on board just as golf legend Payne Stewart and five others were killed in 1999 when their plane lost cabin pressure then crashed in South Dakota you have a matter of seconds to get your oxygen mask on or you will not be able to breathe it could be anywhere from a matter of 15 seconds up to a minute to get that mask on and if you you don't you will indeed pass out so Tom if the pilot was incapacitated how could the plane had done that U-turn and started heading south again that's what I've been asking all day one theory is that the plane's autopilot had been programmed to fly to Long Island then return to Tennessee see once the plane hit its New York destination the autopilot might then have plotted the return course without the pilot now the plane was not required to have any black boxes the NTSB is hoping to learn whether there were black boxes and also whether other avionic systems might have provided some Clues as to what happened Lester all right Tom Costello starting us off thank you lawyers for former president Trump met today with a special counsel as the probe of Mr Trump's handling of classified documents appears to be reaching an inflection point it comes as more Republicans jump into the race for president Garrett hake reports tonight the special council's probe of Donald Trump's handling of classified documents entering a pivotal stage with the former president's attorneys meeting with senior officials including special counsel Jack Smith but not the Attorney General at doj headquarters this morning according to a person familiar with the matter the meeting a possible sign the investigation may be wrapping up Mr Trump defending himself last week well he knows this everything I did was right we have the presidential records act which I abided by a hundred percent Mr Trump is already the first former president ever to be charged with a crime the grand jury investigating him set to reconvene this week could also make him the first to face Federal indictment the former president today attacking the investigation as a witch hunt on social media writing how can doj possibly charge me who did nothing wrong when no other presidents were charged despite his legal challenges Mr Trump still holds a commanding lead in polls of the 2024 primary race as the field of his opponents continues to take shape with 10 major candidates expected to be in the race by week's end thank you Iowa [Applause] I'll see you soon former vice president Mike Pence filing paperwork today to make his White House bid official ahead of affordable announcement Wednesday former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and North Dakota governor Doug burgum also expected to join the race this week and New Hampshire Governor Chris sununu a frequent Trump critic who had long flirted with the White House bid saying today he would not run telling the Washington Post he believes candidates with quote no path to Victory should drop out so as not to divide the Republican opposition to Mr Trump and pledging he'd work from outside the race to block Mr Trump from claiming the nomination former president Trump and his message his style his brand have cost us dearly and he doesn't represent the Republican party so Garrett Mr Trump is still the front runner is the rest of the field changing their approach to him slightly Lester this past weekend several candidates criticized Mr Trump for his recent Praise of Kim Jong-un and perhaps his top rival Ron DeSantis took aim in Mr Trump's immigration policies tentative steps towards taking on the party front-runner more directly Lester all right Garrett Hague thank you in Virginia the mother of a six-year-old student who shot his teacher will plead guilty to federal charges Deja Taylor's attorney said her client will plead guilty to gun and drug charges stemming from the shooting at richneck elementary man in a statement she also wished teacher Abby zwerner a complete recovery tensions are escalated between the U.S and China after yet another close encounter between the two countries and tonight there is more Fallout here's Janice Mackey Frayer when i tension mounting between the U.S and China after another close call this time in the Taiwan Strait they want us to stop Flying and sailing and operating in support of international law not going to happen the defense department releasing this video showing a Chinese warship nearly colliding with an American Destroyer coming within 150 yards of it forcing the ship to slow down to avoid a crash the encounter happened Saturday during a joint military drill with the Canadian friggin but it was in Singapore where the incident boiled over with U.S defense secretary Lloyd Austin and China's Minister of Defense Lee Shong Fu at the same security conference and traded barbs over provocation secretary Austin accused the people's Liberation Army or pla of being unsafe accidents can happen that could cause things to spiral out of control Lee telling the U.S the best way to avoid problems here is to quote mind your own business as the PLA modernizes and as it expands it's able to conduct more intercepts so they become more normal it's happening more often just last week over the South China Sea a Chinese fighter jet flew across the nose of an American surveillance plane and earlier this year NBC News was on board a U.S Navy aircraft when it was intercepted by a Chinese jet that flew 500 feet off the wing for over an hour U.S China relations have hit new lows since the U.S shot down that Chinese balloon earlier this year China says these encounters are Justified to protect its sovereignty and what is a deepening rivalry with the U.S in Asia Lester Dennis Mackey Frayer in Beijing thank you in Ukraine new efforts in the Easter provoking a war of words from Russia as it claims a major Ukrainian offensive has failed Molly Hunter reports from a country on the apparent Eve of major battle where Sirens are sounding once again tonight crane is accusing pressure of spreading misinformation the Russian Ministry of Defense announcing today that a major Ukrainian offensive had failed on the Eastern front in Donetsk releasing this drone video Russia says shows Ukrainian tanks being stopped in their tracks the ministry also claiming hundreds of Ukrainian troops had been killed NBC News has not independently verified these reports one Ukrainian official calling it an absolute lie they did not cause us any lawsuits Ukraine's Deputy defense minister saying We are continuing the defense including counter-offensive actions but Ukraine is not labeling any Battlefield advances including those in back moot today as a spring or nearly summer counter-offensive instead the Ukrainian military announcing a slick campaign of Silence it follows a deadly weekend a two-year-old girl killed in a Russian strike in the Ukrainian city of nepro and tonight the Ukrainian foreign minister confirming Ukraine is equipped and ready when you go on the counter-offensive one thing is to have enough of weapons to begin it but he added it's a whole other thing to have enough to Win It now Lester the foreign minister also said NATO membership won't stop this war but it will stop future Wars and you hear those Sirens right now the air raid alert sirens have been active in hartkeve all day long Ukrainian cities across the country tonight on high alert Lester Molly remains safe thank you in 60 seconds our inside look at the global crime groups that Federal officials believe are fueling human trafficking in the marijuana black market and later Apple's huge virtual reality announcement and the price tag that is already turning heads we're back now with our investigation into human trafficking in the illicit marijuana industry before tonight it was hard to tell who is responsible now Jacob soberov reports that a sophisticated International money laundering partnership may be to blame with deadly consequences it's the latest report in our series captives of cannabis it's early in the morning in Riverside County California these sheriff's deputies are about to execute a dozen search warrants on residential homes they say they're going to find illegal marijuana grows there and victims of human trafficking working on those grows but first they're going to go after the leader of the operation this person a mid-level operator Kingpin Mastermind I would say this is a mid-level operator we believe that the people that are ultimately in control or likely in China nice and easy what'd you guys find in there uh we found several documents that ultimately link these suspects living in this home to several of the other locations that we've been investigating the couple's arrested and deputies focus on the organized crime ring they say this grow appears to be a part of we don't know how large this organization is but we do believe that it is global to some extent if it is so big how come you guys are out here alone where's the where's the federal government where's the DEA that's a great question uh that's a great question to push for answers we met Bill Bodner DEA special agent in charge of Los Angeles for an exclusive interview in our reporting we've seen Chinese Nationals involved in the illicit cannabis trade the law enforcement that we've been talking to says that they believe that the bosses of those operations are back in China how is that connected to what you're seeing the Chinese criminal organizations have such a desire for U.S dollars in cash that they're getting into a variety of criminal uh Enterprises to create that cash and I'm surprised to hear that them running cannabis grows it's generating cash that they're then using to accomplish Capital flight out of China in other words the DEA says this form of organized crime is one that extends far beyond Black Market cannabis and is rooted in a desire for Chinese Nationals in the U.S to get their money out of China due to recent restrictions and how much they can take out of the country a U.S treasury official tells NBC News the Chinese criminal organizations are operating in the U.S and now working with Mexican cartels by helping them launder money made from meth Fentanyl and Other Drugs they do so by loaning out the cartel's dollars to unsuspecting Chinese people living in America these criminal organizations are then repaid in Chinese currency back in China and the money launderers buy Chinese products and have them shipped to Mexico where they're sold and give that money in pesos back to the cartels in the end no money actually crosses International borders and the treasury Department says the dirty dollars are quote disappearing Into Thin Air the DEA says instead of products like the closing appliances that were once widely available here in LA's wholesale District the products money launderers are sending from China to Mexico are deadly guess which product is very available in China That's not available here at all precursor chemicals it was the synthetic drug explosion in 2015 and 2016 when this Capital flight model started precursor chemicals were used as a way to transfer wealth in Mexico the precursors are made into meth and Fentanyl synthetic drugs that have caused U.S overdose deaths have more than double since 2015. hey Sinaloa cartel let me introduce you to Chinese organized crime that's what happened and by working together they've been able to get millions if not billions of dollars out of China into the United States and they've been able to use a synthetic drug trade to do it for you in the DEA how do you go after stopping this from happening our focus is 100 Sinaloa cartel Jalisco New Generation cartel and it's because of this synthetic drug trade it's it's like nothing we've seen before until then Mexican cartels and Chinese organized crime continue to use the United States as their middle man with no end in sight Jacob soberov NBC news we have more to tell you about when we come back from the iPod to the airpod the iMac to the Apple watch will Apple's latest vision of the future change how we see virtual reality [Music] we're back now with a warning for drivers gas prices could climb higher this summer after Saudi Arabia said it would cut oil production by a million barrels per day the production cut is set to begin in July and is expected to last at least a month if not longer now to a highly anticipated announcement from Apple the tech giant debuting a headset that combines virtual reality with actual reality and as Jacob Ward points out if you want to try it you might need to save up the weight is finally over introducing Apple Vision Pro Apple revealing a mixed reality headset its first new product in years you can see here and interact with digital content just like it's in your physical space this is what it looks like when Steve Jobs revealed the iPhone back in 2007 Apple went on to change our lives putting social media at our fingertips and upending the music business it released the iPad Apple watch airpods but the company has been looking for something as transformative as the iPhone for more than a decade today announcing a 3500 headset We Believe Apple Vision Pro is a revolutionary product The Vision Pro offering life-size video calls lifelike app experiences and the ability to capture and watch multi-dimensional videos Apple now Rivals with meta and Google in this space Mark Zuckerberg renamed his company the market leader in honor of his virtual reality Ambitions and released a new VR headset last week but the mark it doesn't really exist yet well Apple sells more than 200 million iPhones each year fewer than 9 million headsets have been sold by any company the Wall Street journal's Joanna Stern a contributor for NBC News was among the first to test drive Apple's new headset available to us customers early 2024. in comparison to other VR headsets out there this thing is very Sleek it is very comfortable to wear but that is in comparison to what are some pretty clunky what I call nerd helmets the company known for inventing new categories fighting to dominate one that hasn't quite materialized at least not yet Jake Ward NBC News Cupertino California that's Nightly News for this Monday thank you for watching everyone I'm Lester Holt please take care of yourself and each other thanks for watching our YouTube channel follow 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Published: Mon Jun 05 2023