Tonight a violent spring catches the South by surprise. Kentucky torn apart after an unexpected

tornado, the 45th of the year. As the sun came up, people on the ground stunned, and the damage

across the deep south, the 18-year-old son of a famed actor critically injured, 38 million facing

severe storm stretching into the evening.

Elon Musk's doge departure from wielding a chainsaw to getting a key from the president,

plus facing questions over reported drug use, the intense witness testimony in the Diddy's sex

trafficking case, the witness going by the pseudonym Mia detailing years of abuse and harassment,

how Diddy's defense is questioning her today. Some of the worst wildfires in memory in Canada

making air dangerous to breathe in the Midwest. And the honor of a lifetime, after 10 years at

nightly news, my final broadcasts from Paris to Tokyo, Uvaldi to Ukraine,

the greatest generation to the wild blue yonder, the news we've covered, the people we've met,

and the stories we've told, your stories.

My gratitude to all of you on this special night.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome.

This spring of extraordinarily violent weather is bringing dangerous surprises

and leaving 38 million in the danger zone tonight.

After Kentucky was broadsided by an unexpected tornado, the

severe weather danger zone expanding across the mid-Atlantic and southeast, with tornado watches

in effect for parts of West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. This after a tornado caught

some Kentucky residents off guard. With little warning, the powerful twister

sent people scrambling for cover and first responders racing to warn those in its path. It killed

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