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tonight, escaped inmate and his accomplice in idaho now captured, but not before they have committed more horrific violence, the dangerous convicted felon and the gunman, according to police, taken from the hospital in a brazen ambush. on the Run Police Say Two People May Have Been Killed What We're Learning Also Tonight Blockbuster Lawsuit Justice Department Accuses Apple of Having Illegal Smartphone Monopoly What It Could Mean for Your iPhone New US Report NTSB on American Airlines plane skidding off runway in Dallas error, investigators say, causes brakes to fail US increases pressure on Israel calling for immediate ceasefire and release of all hostages held in Gaza back-to-back spring storms bringing snow from the Midwest to the Northeast the surprising

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involving baseball superstar Shoh Otani, his interpreter suddenly unleashing accusations of massive theft and illegal gambling, the medical milestone for for the first time, the kidney of a pig transplanted into a human and the new and powerful Memorial that recovers a view with our painful past. emotional journey and the moment I made a very personal discovery, this is NBC Nightly News with ler HT, good evening everyone, we start with breaking news tonight.

The chase is over for an escaped Idaho prison inmate and his alleged accomplice, authorities say both men were arrested this afternoon after a brief car chase no shots were fired, unlike yesterday when three correctional officers were greeted shots were fired and one was wounded by apparent friendly fire during the escape, and now authorities say they are investigating two homicides that they say may be related to the fugitives' time on the run. Dana Griffin has some recent news for us Dana, there are still a lot of questions to answer tonight. Absolutely Lester, these dangerous suspects were arrested in Idaho without further shooting after investigators said they may have killed two people while on the ground where they managed to ditch their first getaway car. and jump to another Investigators are now reconstructing his movements over the past day and a half.

Tonight, escaped inmate Skyler, myself and his accomplice Nicholas Umau were arrested after a vehicle. Chase with police almost 30 6 hours after his brazen shooting. Ambush on correctional officers outside Boise, Idaho Hospital. Investigators say the men may now be linked to two homicides during their time on the run. We found the shackles at the scene of one of the homicides, the motive and why they did what they did. I don't know the men taken. custody in Twinfalls Idaho, nearly 130 miles from the hospital where three officers were shot during the initial escape station. In the mid-1990s, in the Idaho prison system, they often used the initials AK to identify themselves, similar to the tattoos on my stomach.

The gang has also used violence to attack inmates of color. I mean the fact that they did a, you know, basically a movie type shootout. releasing him from prison is really B and means they've been planning it for a while. Authorities are now focusing their investigation on how they carried out the coordinated attack and almost certainly escaped. This was no accident. This was a planned event. and we are channeling every resource we have and trying to understand exactly how they planned a sophisticated criminal plot that comes to an end with these friends from prison returning behind bars Dana Griffin NBC News tonight the US department of justice is looking to take a B from Apple files lawsuit against computer giant accusing it of monopolizing the smartphone market by restricting its operating system Laura Jarrett now with legal battle Attorney General Merrick Garland today announces landmark lawsuit accusing tech giant Apple of taking advantage Its dominance over Apple smartphones has consolidated its monopoly power not by improving its own products but by making other products worse.

Consumers should not have to pay higher prices because companies break the law. The Justice Department joined more than a dozen states in a nearly 90-page complaint accusing the company of violating antitrust laws through the iPhone Apple Watch and Apple Pay Doj, saying the tech giant, which has more of one billion active iPhones worldwide, deliberately makes products less compatible with its competitors' devices. Any user who has ever seen a green text message or received a small grainy video can attest that Garland specifically called out Apple CEO Tim Cook, referencing this exchange the cook had in 2022 when he was asked if the company would fix problems associated with video text messages between iPhones. and Android, not to make it personal, but I can't send my mom certain videos or she can't watch certain videos, so let's go, buy your mom an iPhone.

Apple today calls the lawsuit factually incorrect and the law says it is a threat. who we are and the principles that distinguish Apple products in fiercely competitive markets, if successful, would hinder our ability to create the kind of technology that people expect from Apple demand, the culmination of years of regulatory scrutiny of wildly popular products Apple driving its growth one of the most valuable companies in the world people love buying their iPhones people enjoy their iPhones it's the most popular smartphone brand here in the United States, so Laura, what does the Department of Justice what Apple does to remedy this?

Lester, the government wants Apple to make its products more compatible with other companies' technology, but the department has not ruled out even breaking up Apple if necessary, a drastic step that has not happened since Bell Systems in 1982, but Lester is This is likely an ongoing legal fight. for years, okay Laura, thanks, we want to turn that into two aviation mishaps under federal investigation, one involving a U.S. flight that landed in Dallas without interruption and the other involving another problem with the Boeing Max 8. Tom Castello joins us, let's start with what happened. in Dallas Tom, yes this happened in February when the American Airlines 737 landed on the DFW runway, the pilots discovered they had no breaks, they put their thrust reversers to maximum when the control tower initiated the fire rescue in case of the plane went off the end of the runway into an overrun area no one was injured the NTSB found that a maintenance crew had improperly reconnected and swapped two hydraulic brake lines and power lines American Airlines tells us that the safety of our customers and members of the equipment is our top priority and we are investigating thoroughly cooperating instead of the NTSB Lester and Tom the second investigation could suggest another problem with the Boeing 737 Max and quality control yes, that's right, the FAA wants hundreds of them to be inspected Max planes for three years to detect irritating wire bundles that could cause pilots to lose control nbcnews.com was the first to report this issue dating back to 2021 when pilots momentarily lost control of a Max that suddenly veered into the right, the FAA warns that damage to the wiring could cause the plane to lose control.

Boeing tells NBC News this is not an immediate assurance of The flight issue is already being addressed, but it comes as the FAA focuses on quality control failures at Boeing. Lester, okay, Tom Costello, thanks now to the Middle East, tonight the Biden Administration took a more aggressive stance and called for an immediate ceasefire in the United States. Nations Raph Sanchez is in Israel with late details tonight Secretary of State Anthony flashes back in the Middle East as the United States introduces for the first time a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and we hope that all countries support that.

That resolution is again a marked change for the US, which was left diplomatically isolated after vetoing three previous ceasefire resolutions but those measures called for an end to fighting even without a hostage agreement. The new US resolution conditions a ceasefire. fire to the release of the hostages negotiators continue working, the gaps are narrowing while at the Elifa hospital Israel's military incursion continues into its fourth day. The IDF says it killed 140 militants inside and captured senior Hamas operatives, but it is another blow to a health system already on the brink of collapse. It's a fact, manal and REE know it.

Well, they are both mothers from Gaza who suffer from breast cancer. My wish is to see my children and grandchildren and return home. Manal says they were allowed to leave Gaza for treatment in Jerusalem, but now an Israeli court is deciding whether to send them back somewhere. where it is impossible to find basic medicines Our destiny will be death, she says, and the United States says it will put that UN resolution to a vote on Friday morning. Also tomorrow the director of the CIA will be in Qatar trying to start those hostage negotiations. Lester Raph Sanchez Thanks now to the crisis in Haiti, the US is now flying stranded Americans onto chartered planes as the country descends further into chaos.

Guad Venegas is in Miami as dozens returned to US soil. This is what relief looks like. A plane with 14 American citizens, including children arriving in Central Florida after a harrowing escape from Haiti took them a couple of tries and they did not give up they stayed with us until the end of the mission Philip Armont was on board this chartered flight through the state of Florida with his wife and 2-year-old son, the most difficult thing was getting around and getting to the airport to fly. We were dealing with young children, not adults, which made it even more stressful and scary for the parents.

Luckily, there are still over a thousand Americans in Haiti, but with the airport and fingerprints closed, roads closed, daily shootings in the streets, and armed gangs overrunning the capital, most Americans have no way out. I would say it's worse than a war zone. Private security. The contractors are now going out the door All trying to rescue them. The helicopter was surrounded today at the airport where the helicopter had to take off in a way that was just, you know, I don't want to say unsafe, but again the tower told it that it might not be able to. to land there again, another flight arriving in Miami today I'm just happy because I have the United States, 66 more Americans now on American soil, how is the country right now?, country in help, a country in chaos and people, Terri, for their lives, waiting to get out Vegas NBC News Miami and here at home even more winter weather on the way tonight 20 million people are under winter advisories from Montana to Maine parts of the Midwest could see 3 to 6 inches of snow with up to a foot possible in northern New England then another winter storm will bring even more heavy snow to parts of these areas early next week and the next major news on how to ensure innovative weight loss drugs plus the ground The seamless transplant of a pig kidney into a human could be the answer for so many waiting.

Good news of relief for some Americans who want access to those very popular but expensive weight loss drugs. Medicare now says it will cover the cost of wovi for patients at higher risk of heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular problems, but Medicare still will not cover wovi if it is only being used for weight management and medical history taken tonight at Boston doctors said they have success

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y transplanted a kidney from a pig into a living person for the first time. Here's Emily Aeta inside this Mass General operating room, a medical milestone for the first time. A team of doctors transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old man whose previously donated kidney failed and he was struggling with dialysis.

Dr. Leo Rella first suggested a pig kidney knowing that the patient could not wait for one human being out of 100,000. People in the US who are on transplant waiting lists, the vast majority need kidneys, most of our patients have to wait for an organ from the deceased donor list and, unfortunately, if they have to spend years in dialysis, that means your health will continue to deteriorate our immune system. Systems typically reject foreign tissue, but through E Genesis' cutting-edge technology, this pig kidney had six 69 genomic edits to improve compatibility and reduce the risk of virus infection. Still, animal transplants toHumans are plagued with unknowns, including how long the kidney will last.

But so far the patient's nephrologist says the results look promising. We had surgery on Saturday and we believe he is on track to be discharged next Saturday, so within a week, within a week, in a statement the patient said: "I saw it not only as a way ". to help me, but it is a way to provide hope to the thousands of people who need a transplant to survive, we need a permanent solution and dialysis was never meant to be a permanent solution, could it essentially make dialysis obsolete? That is our goal Emily eeta NBC News Boston Bonita highlights below the emotional journey into the history of the slave trade and how a new monument is changing the landscape now the new Memorial that has emerged from the blood-soaked soil of an American tragedy the enslavement of millions of blacks the upcoming opening of a Memorial Park Week in Montgomery honors their lives while quietly challenging movements to downplay our nation's racial history.

I got an advance. The peaceful beauty of the Alabama River in Montgomery is undeniable, but so is its place in a brutal story, so the narrative will begin anew on this boat. Being sold down the river Being trafficked by boat or rail was an absolutely terrifying experience for slaves Brian Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice initiative that created the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park on these shores, where human trafficking once flourished. slaves. There's not much in the visual record of that time that helps you get a sense of the humanity of these people, so the sculptures and replicas help weave the story from the places where they were held, they would put them in pens, uh, where they would.wait until the auction in the places where they were whipped to be chained.

Yes, you can see the metal points here along the trail. Visitors are reminded that human trafficking was not just a stain on the south. North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, their tentacles reach north. It doesn't start in the north, it starts in New England. Laws codifying brutality against slaves were also published here. Homicide will be considered excusable when committed by accident or misfortune by legally correcting a slave with a license to kill, that's right, that's right, and all of these laws really created an order that empowered people to use violence to maintain the slavery Monument Park joins the recently opened Legacy Museum that documents the history and impact of the Atlantic slave trade a third site, the National Monument for Peace and Justice, will be the raw history of lynchings in the United States It seems like a direct repudiation of some of the things that the movements we've heard in recent years don't teach some of this critical race theory of history.

For me, it's been a lifelong ambition to just get people to take into account the The truth is, we can't get there if we don't talk honestly about this history, the centerpiece of the Sculpture Park, this wall etched with 122,000 surnames that were adopted by the newly emancipated slaves during the 1870 census, before the 1870 census, slaves could only be numbers on the census or name and these are the names that represent the 4 million people who were emancipated recorded in 1870 and you know we wanted to see them in a place of honor, see them on a scan wall. the names you know what I'm doing now of course I find what I'm looking for here we go yeah there's Mar Holt yeah now that name was chosen for some reason yeah that's right we don't know why not and which one is it.

Interesting is that many of the names were names that people heard. I sit there and look at that and think about who that name represents, yeah, yeah, what they went through. Could you ever imagine me? Yeah, that's what's powerful standing here, yeah. The urgency is to cry for them Brian Stevenson wants us to honor them, quotes the inscription at the base of the wall we honor your perseverance in the midst of pain we honor your fight for freedom your children love you and the line that jumps from I, the country you built it should honor you, yes, yes, yes, and that's what this Monument hopes to do, an absolutely powerful journey and, as you saw, Discovery staff, that's Nightly News, thank you for watching, please take care of yourselves and each other, good night, thanks for watching, stay.

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