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NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

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4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Urgent manhunts for escaped prisoners underway in several states; Secretary Kennedy announces the CDC is changing COVID vaccine recommendations; Documents: Trump administration to stop student visa interviews; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight jail breaks, inside the man hunts to put escape inmates behind bars.

0:05.0

The dramatic video as two are captured on the run in Texas and at large or more than a week after bolting from their New Orleans cells,

0:14.0

where the search stands for the rest and the new details on the people accused of aiding them while on the lamb.

0:20.0

It comes as law enforcement is trying to close in on a former Arkansas police chief convicted

0:25.9

of murder, the images of him wearing a uniform he made to look like a corrections officer,

0:31.4

what the prosecutor who put him away tells us.

0:34.6

The controversy over the COVID vaccine, why the CDC is no longer recommending

0:39.0

shots for healthy kids and pregnant mothers. Will insurance cover vaccines if you want one?

0:45.7

Road rage, what a judge just ruled as New York fights the Trump administration over congestion

0:51.5

pricing tolls in Manhattan. Plus, could the fees spread to other U.S. cities, the new data on how much they have cut down on traffic.

1:00.0

The King's speech, Charles pushing back on President Trump's entrees to make Canada part of the U.S.

1:07.0

With the popularity of supplements on the rise, so are side effects, our report on the new

1:12.8

concerns about liver damage. And state of the art from Nintendo cartridges to ALF, how a

1:19.0

collegiate time capsule is connecting generations. This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

1:28.1

Good evening and welcome. The desperate race to stay ahead of the law for those escaped

1:32.8

New Orleans jail prisoners has come to a crushing end for three more of them. Two of the

1:38.4

escapees making a final bolt for freedom by car, leading police in a pursuit down a Texas highway yesterday, finally

1:45.9

corralled by law enforcement. And with a separate inmate arrested in Baton Rouge, all but two

1:51.5

of the men who originally escaped into the night a week ago last Friday have been recaptured.

1:57.3

And with each day, new details emerging about the escapee's lives on the run.

2:01.6

Though the New Orleans breakout resembles a movie plot, another escape we're following tonight from an Arkansas prison has written its own improbable plot line,

2:11.6

a police chief serving 30 years for murder, now on the run after an impersonation act helped him escape.

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