Tonight, Wall Street craters as the world reacts to President Trump sweeping tariffs, the worst day for markets since 2020, wiping out $2 trillion.

World leaders hitting back promising retaliatory tariffs.

Stalantis shuddering plants in Canada and Mexico, temporarily laying off nearly a thousand American workers.

The president defending the move saying markets will boom and he is evening the field.

And from phones to shoes, how much everyday items you buy could go up.

As analysts say, the move risks high inflation and even a possible recession.

The nonstop severe weather, 34 tornadoes reported. At least seven killed,

the dramatic video, an entire roof blowing off. The top peeled off a daycare center. Rivers rising,

the urgent rescues. Teen stabbing tragedy, the high school student allegedly attacked by another classmate, later

dying in his twin brother's arms, what their father is saying tonight.

The Pentagon will investigate the messy leak of sensitive military planning involving major

Trump officials, plus did a far-right activist meeting spur firings of top national security aids. No place like home,

one of the first of its kind, programs that lets kids get hospital quality care from home.

And there's good news tonight how Lenny, the giant loggerhead turtle, went from badly injured,

back to the deep blue sea.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome. Today, the stock market firmly and quickly condemned.

President Trump's new tariffs in ways only markets can, painfully.

A global sell-off eliminating $2 trillion at U.S. financial markets, which tumbled right

from the start of the trading day, never to recover. By closing, the Dow losing just under 4% of

its value, the S&P 500 down close to 5%, and the NASDAQ down nearly 6 percent, a day reminiscent of the start of the pandemic

of 2020.

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