Tonight, Pope Francis back home after weeks in the hospital greeted by crowds and the recovery

still ahead. Cheers erupting in Rome, the Pope making his first public appearance since his

battle with pneumonia began. Catholics around the world seeing prayers answered with the 88-year-old

on the mend just in time for Easter what his doctors are saying

tonight. The race to contain wildfires burning in several states tonight, a state of emergency

and evacuations in the Carolinas with one million Americans under fire alerts. Growing pressure

on the Senate's top Democrat as he insists he will not step down,

and the new efforts inside that party took chart a path to push back on President Trump.

The president himself pushing ahead with mass deportations,

Venezuela now set to accept migrant flights from the U.S.

and Canada's new prime minister on offense over tariffs. New arrests tonight in that

deadly mass shooting in New Mexico. The latest on the investigation as the community grieves the

three people killed. Unimaginable heartbreak for a New York baseball star. The questions tonight

over the death of Brett Gardner's teenage son while on vacation.

A 12-year-old girl facing hate crime charges for an alleged attack on two students.

This is NBC Nightly News with Hallie Jackson.

Good evening. We are coming on the air as for the first time in five weeks,

the Pope is spending this Sunday back at the Vatican.

His release from the hospital after a battle with pneumonia, a milestone for the billion-plus

Catholics he leads. You can see Pope Francis here on the balcony waving to those who had gathered

below before his car ride back home, still with those oxygen tubes in place.

The emotional crowd, waving and cheering as he acknowledged them.

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