Friday, April 3, 2026
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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3.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, a desperate search and rescue mission deep inside Iran after an American fighter jet is shot down. |
| 0:07.0 | The scramble to find the airmen before the enemy does. |
| 0:10.0 | New video of Iranians, look at this, opening fire on U.S. planes as they search for that downed service member. |
| 0:17.0 | Another American on board rescued and flown out of Iran with chilling new photos now from Iranian State TV showing the smoking wreckage. |
| 0:24.9 | Iran now offering a bounty for the missing American. |
| 0:27.9 | At least three other U.S. aircraft also hit as part of the search, the latest on the mission and the injuries. |
| 0:35.0 | Plus President Trump on the phone with our correspondent tonight, what he says |
| 0:38.8 | about how today's strikes affect negotiations to end the war. And the cost of war hitting home, |
| 0:45.4 | as we may be heading into the summer of the surcharge, Amazon adding a new fee to most of its |
| 0:50.9 | shipments, airfares and bag charges also on the rise, where you'll feel it next. |
| 0:56.7 | Possible tornadoes tearing through the Midwest. You see this huge debris cloud filling the sky in |
| 1:01.9 | Iowa. Pieces of wreckage raining down. Golf ball-sized hail, pelting neighborhoods. |
| 1:07.8 | The brush fire forcing evacuations in California, and the threat only growing tonight. |
| 1:13.7 | The Artemis 2 crew sending back a stunning new look at the Earth as they approach the moon, |
| 1:19.6 | and now we're hearing from the astronauts themselves. |
| 1:22.9 | The revealing call to police in the search for a missing Air Force general, what his wife told them, |
| 1:28.0 | with questions now over his past at a base linked to UFO conspiracy theories. |
| 1:33.1 | A high-stakes rescue at sea gone wrong what happened to these federal agents after their boat flipped over. |
| 1:39.4 | Nightly News starts right now. |
| 1:42.7 | This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas. |
| 1:48.6 | Good evening. I'm Halley Jackson in for Tom tonight. And we begin with that intense |
| 1:52.5 | search and rescue mission happening right now in Iran with the U.S. military rushing to find |
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