Tonight let the games begin the opening ceremony kicking off the

2024 summer Olympics here in Paris the first ever floating opening ceremony

team USA led by flag bears LeBron James and Cocoa Golf.

As more than 7,000 athletes sailed along the scent, Lady Gaga performing in pink, and the stunning

sight the Olympic cauldron lit and floating up into the sky.

Then the incredible comeback, Selene Dion, her first live performance in years after a debilitating health battle.

All of it coming hours after a massive attack,

paralyzed France's train network,

chaos for hundreds of thousands of travelers.

Who was behind it?

Also tonight, California's largest wildfire of the year

doubling to a hundred seventy eight thousand acres in 24 hours more than a hundred

homes and structures destroy.

In Oregon, an air tanker crashing while battling a blaze.

Kamala Harris getting a big endorsement from the Obama's and are exclusive reporting.

Harris's phone call to the family of an Illinois woman fatally shot

by police, her message to them.

Donald Trump's meeting with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and what he said today about returning to the site of his attempted assassination.

And one of Team USA's biggest stars Katie Lideki, can she shatter her own records as she swims

for gold here in Paris.

This is NBC Nightly News.

Reporting tonight from the Olympics in Paris.

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