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NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

Thursday, September 4, 2025

NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

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3.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

HHS Sec RFK Jr grilled over CDC turmoil, vaccines; Trump administration drops plan to require airlines to pay passengers for delays; U.S. Department of Justice sues utility company over California fires and more on tonight’s broadcast.

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0:00.0

Tonight, the explosive Capitol Hill hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., grilled on vaccines and so much more.

0:07.9

Fiery moments as Republicans and Democrats press the HHS Secretary about public health in America.

0:15.4

Kennedy defiant blaming the CDC for pandemic deaths and rejecting criticisms that he's making it harder to get vaccines.

0:23.3

The growing tropical threats were tracking major storms in the Atlantic and Pacific on the move

0:28.7

tonight. New video of the deadly disaster, a tram derailing and smashing through the streets

0:34.4

of Lisbon, killing 16. We now know an American is among the dead.

0:39.7

You'll hear from witnesses describing the horrifying moments the tram came crashing off its tracks.

0:45.8

Tonight, the NBC exclusive Jenna Bush Hager sitting down with the devastated parents whose children

0:51.4

never returned from Camp Mystic, now demanding action, and the haunting

0:56.2

last letters from their daughters. Aerial rescue a worker high up on a light pole at a baseball

1:02.3

stadium hitting his head, unable to come down, the race to save him from the sky. The plan promised

1:08.7

to Americans, if the airlines delayed your flight and it was

1:12.1

their fault, they should pay. So why did the Trump administration just scrap the proposal?

1:17.7

Tom Costello standing by. Remembering fashion giant, Giorgio Armani, the mark he left on fashion

1:24.1

from Hollywood to Wall Street to the red carpet. And with the NFL season set to kick off, a young Eagles fan who's overcome so much

1:32.7

getting the surprise of a lifetime from the Super Bowl champs themselves.

1:37.8

Nightly News starts right now.

1:40.8

This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas.

1:47.6

And good evening. It was one of the most explosive days on Capitol Hill since President Trump's second term began.

1:53.9

His health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., facing tough questions by senators on both sides of the aisle over vaccines, public health, and basic

2:03.0

trust in medical care. One senator accusing him of, quote, reckless disregard for science and

2:09.0

the truth. But Secretary Kennedy didn't back down, saying the CDC made mistakes during the

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