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NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

Sunday, August 17, 2025

NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

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3.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

European leaders to join Zelenskyy for Trump White House meeting; American Carnival cruise passengers drown at new Bahamas resort; 3 people killed, 9 injured in mass shooting at Brooklyn club; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

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0:00.0

Tonight, a united front from overseas. Leaders on the way to Washington as we speak,

0:05.9

pushing for peace in Ukraine. Just hours from now, President Trump set to meet with Ukraine's

0:11.4

president after Friday's summit with Russia. And now, multiple key European heads of state

0:17.0

heading to the White House for backup tomorrow. Can they avoid the kind of confrontation we saw

0:22.2

six months ago in the Oval Office? We've got the late developments. Two American cruise

0:27.4

passengers drowning in separate incidents at a new resort in the Bahamas, the latest on the investigation.

0:34.1

Take a look at this. Divers rescued, caught in waves from Hurricane Aaron. The storm weakening

0:40.2

overnight, but it could get stronger soon, the latest track and the impact to the East

0:45.3

Coast. The search for suspects after a deadly shooting at a Brooklyn nightclub, three people

0:50.6

killed, several more hurt. We'll take you live to the scene.

0:58.8

Caught on camera, dramatic moments as masked federal agents surround a car.

1:03.0

Windows smashed and then shots fired.

1:05.3

What we're learning about the violent confrontation.

1:07.7

And there's good news tonight.

1:12.9

Potlux for total strangers coming together and sharing much more than food.

1:21.8

This is NBC Nightly News with Hallie Jackson. Good evening. We begin tonight with the world watching the White House and world leaders set to descend on Washington just hours from now, a kind of European

1:28.6

show of force in solidarity with Ukraine's president, Volodemir Zelensky, in his own

1:34.0

critical summit with President Trump to try to stop Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

1:38.3

On the line, no less than the future of that country, just a few days after the Trump-Puton

1:43.0

talks in Alaska, and six months

1:45.3

after a stunning Oval Office blowup between President's Trump and Zelensky.

1:50.0

So will tomorrow look different or just as difficult with the diplomatic stage now set?

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