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NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

Thursday, August 7, 2025

NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

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3.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

U.S. businesses feeling impact of Trump’s new tariffs; Helicopter crashes into barge on Mississippi River killing two people; Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Israel intends to take over Gaza; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight, the major new escalation in the trade war, the biggest import tariff in nearly a century,

0:07.8

why some American businesses are cheering the move, but others are set to pass on billions in

0:13.4

costs to American consumers, which prices could be rising soon.

0:18.0

Plus, a fireball and dark plumes of smoke fill the air on the banks of the

0:22.2

Mississippi, a helicopter tangled on power lines crashing onto a barge below. This just in,

0:28.8

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling for the Israeli military to take control of all of Gaza

0:34.7

and new reporting Israeli troops gathering on the Gaza border.

0:39.0

The stage set for a high-stakes meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin,

0:43.4

what the Russian leader is saying and why it's not a done deal just yet.

0:47.8

When a sergeant opened fire at Fort Stewart, they jumped in to save lives,

0:52.2

how these soldiers' training kicked in.

0:54.5

And our first video of the accused gunman, 52 million under heat alerts,

0:59.0

you won't believe how hot it is in Arizona right now, as people flock to cooling centers.

1:05.0

Danger on the tracks, the van getting stuck at a railroad crossing as a train comes barreling through.

1:11.5

And the Texas Longhorn football walk-on getting mobbed by his teammates after the big news

1:17.3

from a Hollywood star, his hard work, earning him a scholarship.

1:22.5

More on this incredible moment. Nightly News starts right now.

1:27.3

This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas,

1:31.2

reporting tonight from Miami. And good evening. We begin tonight with President Trump's

1:37.5

trade war, now in full effect. Countries facing new fees from 10 to 50 percent. You see them right

1:43.5

here on much of what they sell to

1:45.5

the United States. The cost at home in most cases being absorbed by American companies and by you,

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