Sunday, January 4, 2026
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, Venezuela's captured leader in a New York prison as we learned new details about the |
| 0:07.0 | overnight raid that took him down. The new images of Nicolas Maduro in handcuffs in U.S. |
| 0:13.0 | custody, even giving a thumbs up and the new photos of his wife captured alongside him |
| 0:19.0 | the charges they'll face in an American courtroom tomorrow. |
| 0:22.9 | Our new reporting on the American raid inside of Venezuela, the months of preparation, and the |
| 0:28.6 | source on the inside, you'll hear from injured Venezuelan soldiers speaking from the hospital |
| 0:34.0 | about the American attack that took them by surprise. Our reporter on the Venezuelan border as armed civilians patrol streets inside the country |
| 0:43.1 | and President Trump's new threat today against Venezuela's vice president and de facto leader |
| 0:48.9 | after her defiance towards the U.S. protests against the military action across this country as Democrats blast |
| 0:57.0 | the mission as reckless what one key congressman told me about who should lead Venezuela. |
| 1:03.0 | The holiday travel chaos set up by the attack, airspace finally reopened over the Caribbean, |
| 1:09.0 | Americans now scrambling to book new flights home. |
| 1:12.4 | While in the U.S., the family of the prominent Ohio couple found murdered in their home, |
| 1:18.0 | speaking out, the chilling 911 call as police plead with the public for help in finding the killer. |
| 1:24.7 | Plus, the bus crash in Houston as it slid down the side of a highway. |
| 1:29.3 | This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas. And good evening. We begin with those fast-moving |
| 1:37.4 | developments after that American raid in Venezuela, a country of 30 million people, now bracing |
| 1:43.4 | for what comes next. |
| 1:45.0 | While their captured leader, Nicolaas Maduro, is said to appear in an American courtroom tomorrow. |
| 1:50.9 | Tonight, he's in a federal prison in Brooklyn. |
| 1:53.5 | And we have these new images to show you of Maduro posing with U.S. agents giving a thumbs up there, |
| 1:58.9 | being helped out of an armored vehicle at a DEA office, |
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