Breaking news as we come on the air tonight, reports of tornadoes and intense severe storms,

and in New Orleans, the manhunt for 10 escaped inmates. In Louisiana, the inmates had made it out of

jail overnight through a giant hole. Their escape not detected until hours later this morning.

New surveillance video is showing them running out of the facility and then running across

an interstate in the dark. Police capturing one of the men in the heart of the French quarter,

why the sheriff says there are indications they had help from the inside. Plus severe storm damage

in St. Louis. The damage reports coming in. A man being rescued from the rubble that's on top of 11

tornadoes reported just a day before, that toppled silos as ranchers hurted cattle to safety,

intense hail making driving dangerous and piling up delays on travel boards at major airports.

The cross-examination of Cassie Ventura, the defense trying to raise issues with her romantic

life with Sean Diddy Combs and the twists and turns of their relationship over the years,

Diddy passing notes to his defense attorney during another intense day in court.

Off the rails, the transit strike stranding tens of thousands of commuters

in one of the busiest travel corridors in America. This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome. Breaking news tonight, the New Orleans manhunt after nearly a dozen

prisoners escape a jail near the city's French quarter.

Officials say the breakout took place overnight, though it took over two hours before the public was made aware.

Their absence discovered during a headcount this morning.

The sheriff saying the prisoners received assistance in their escape from individuals inside our department. The early investigation

revealing they may have also taken advantage of low staffing, inoperable surveillance cameras,

and defective locks. And new surveillance video shows the men escaping from the facility.

Five of the men were being held on murder charges, one convicted.

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