Tonight the dangerous weather pounding the West Coast, just as holiday travel ramps up, and the major storm taking aim at the East right before Christmas.

The flooding disaster out west, dramatic rescues caught on camera, firefighters using a ladder to save children, the race to reach trapped drivers, and were tracking the snow and rainmaker

set to heat the East Coast tomorrow. High Seas pursuit, the U.S. Coast Guard, chasing down

an oil tanker near Venezuela, the president's new threat against the Maduro regime.

New questions about the Epstein files. Why did this photo of President Trump disappear from the files only

to be reposted as victims and lawmakers say more needs to be released? The battle at 60 minutes

going public. CBS News's leader halting a story right before air, the correspondent blasting

the decision as quote political. Chilling new body cam video, the correspondent, blasting the decision as, quote, political.

Chilling new body cam video, the terrifying moment, a shoplifting suspect,

pulls a gun on police, then tries to pull the trigger, what the officer did next.

Mass burglars targeted a house with children still at home, the mother speeding home to help,

then ramming into the crooks car

with them inside, that brave mother telling us what happened. The Kansas City Chiefs moving

stadiums leaving their home state, so where are they heading next? And the holiday light display

powered by compassion, hundreds gathering outside a children's hospital night after night

to wish sweet dreams to the little ones inside. Nightly news starts right now.

This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas.

And good evening. We begin with a new warning just announced life-threatening flooding is possible across parts of California.

Communities now bracing for evacuations as millions prepare to travel for the holidays.

Take a look at this, firefighters climbing a ladder over rushing floodwaters to reach children that were trapped inside that home, the water rising

fast beneath them. And across the West neighborhoods underwater, first responders swimming out

to submerged vehicles, trying to reach drivers. Look at that. Plus, we're tracking another

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