NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas - Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

Investigators examining new surveillance video of subject outside Nancy Guthrie’s home around when she was abducted; Experts weigh in on how investigators might have uncovered Guthrie video evidence; Team USA wins 5 medals on Day 4 of Milan Cortina Olympics; and more on tonight’s broadcast. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Tonight, we're live from Milan as Team USA begins its march towards Olympic glory. While back at home, the new video message from Savannah Guthrie as a possible ransom deadline approaches. You'll hear the urgent new plea from Savannah for anyone with any information to please come forward. Her video posted just before the final deadline in that unverified ransom note. We speak with a former hostage negotiator as Savannah and her siblings say they are willing to to pay. Also tonight, triumph and tribulations at the Olympic Winter Games. What skier Lindsay Vaughn just said about her horrific crash and the injuries she's now recovering from. Plus, we go one-on-one with gold medal winners, Breezy Johnson, and the American figure skating team.

And the question tonight, why are some Olympic medals suddenly falling apart? Back home, members of Congress combing through millions of unredacted Epstein files. what they reveal. Plus, Galane Maxwell pleading the fifth, her new demand in order for her to speak up. A small plane crash landing at a busy intersection hitting multiple cars, the dramatic sound from inside the cockpit, you'll hear the pilot saying what he thought were his final words. Explosive highway heist, armed robbers blowing up an armored truck in broad daylight, what happened next? and Atlanta Falcons rookie arrested after a police chase taken down by multiple officers. And one year since losing both parents in a plane crash,

I sit down with American figure skater Maxim Nowboff, ahead of his Olympic debut, what it means to live out their shared dream on the ice. Nightly News starts right now. This is NBC Nightly News. Live from the Winter Olympics in Italy. Reporting tonight from Milan, here is Tom Yamas. And good evening from Milan, where the Winter Olympics have begun, and Team USA has already soared to great heights and experienced some painful setbacks.

We have new reporting on Lindsey Vaughn's condition, and we'll have one-on-ones with the first American gold medal winners in a moment. Behind me here in Milan, the Duomo, one of the world's largest cathedrals, towering over. over this beautiful city and over these games. And it's fitting tonight as we begin with prayer, specifically our dear colleague, Savannah Guthrie's call for your prayers as she releases a new message. It comes with that deadline tonight from an unconfirmed ransom note in the case of her missing mother Nancy.

We'll have more on the Guthrie family now saying they will pay to get their mother back. But first, we want to play Savannah's new message just out tonight for you in full. Hi there, everybody. I wanted to come on and just share a few thoughts as we enter into another week of this nightmare. I just want to say, first of all, thank you so much for all of the prayers and the love that we have felt my sister and brother and I. and that our mom has felt because we believe that somehow, some way,

she is feeling these prayers and that God is lifting her even in this moment and in this darkest place. We believe our mom is still out there. We need your help. Law enforcement is working tirelessly around the clock trying to bring her home, trying to find her.

She was taken and we don't know where. And we need your help. So I'm coming on just to ask you, not just for your prayers, but no matter where you are, even if you're far from Tucson. If you see anything, you hear anything, if there's anything at all that seems strange to you, that you report to law enforcement, we are at an hour of desperation. And we need you out. And there have been some new developments that have just come into the newsroom. So let's get right to Liz Kreutz on the ground in Tucson with the latest on this investigation. Tonight in that new video, Savannah, making an excruciating plea.

We are an hour of desperation. And we need you out. The message posted just hours before the final deadline and that alleged ransom note sent to three news outlets last week following Nancy's disappearance. The demand, $6 million U.S. dollars in Bitcoin by 5 p.m. tonight. We will pay. While investigators have not yet determined if the ransom note is real, on Saturday, Savannah posted this heart-wrenching video saying she and her siblings are willing to pay, despite no evidence they've received proof of life.

We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. What do you make of these specific words she's using? We want to have peace, celebration. Well, there could be some implication to the family and the communicate that some harms come to Nancy or they've lost Nancy. I think the family leaves. Nancy could still be here, but maybe she's not. Either way, we still want to deal with you because it's important to us. Jim Kavanaugh, a former hostage negotiator, has reviewed the purported ransom note and tells us there are some things that make him question its legitimacy,

like how the alleged abductors still having given definitive proof they actually. took Nancy. He was also struck that the note asked specifically for payment in U.S.D. Does it seem like these were originating from overseas? That's kind of the first impression. We don't talk like that domestically. We would just say $6 million, $7 million, $10 million, whatever the number. We wouldn't say USD. Over the weekend, investigators continued their extensive search of Nancy Guthrie's home, towing away a car, believed to be hers, and searching the vegetation around her home, along with a septic tank. you're looking trying to find somebody alive.

But now you have to go back and say, well, maybe she was hidden. You know, harmed it hidden. A painstaking search now nine days since Nancy disappeared. All right, Liz, you're outside Nancy Guthrie's home right now there in Tucson. We just heard from the sheriff's office about the search continuing. Yeah, that's right, Tom. The sheriff's department says they plan to continue searching Nancy's home and property as well as her daughter, Annie's home tonight and to tomorrow.

Tom. Liz Croyd's leading us off tonight here on Nightly News. Liz, thank you. We'll take a turn back here to Milan. We've just heard from Lindsay Vaughn for the first time since her brutal crash on the downhill. Vaughn posting on Instagram, it wasn't a storybook ending or a fairy tale. It was just life. I have no regrets.

Those are the words from Lindsay Vaughn tonight, a day after this horrific crashed, knocked her out of the Olympics. Vaughn posting on Instagram, she suffered a compliment. complex tibia fracture that will require multiple surgeries to fix. She crashed just seconds into her downhill run. Oh, I thought that snow. The crowd stunned a silence as she was airlifted from the course. I was simply five inches too tight on my line when my right arm hooked inside the gate, twisting me, Vaughn wrote. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever, adding, if you take anything away from my journey, it's that you all have the courage to dare greatly.

And that's what these athletes did today, with medals up for grabs in five sports, including freestyle skiing. First runner three for Eileen Gou. Eileen Gou took home silver in slope style. Eileen Gou, the stop on the right side, 1260, a beautiful masterpiece of... Gou is a San Francisco native, but competes for China. where her mother is from. Sometimes it feels like I'm carrying the weight of two countries on my shoulders and just being able to ski through all of that, you know,

and still show my best and still be so deeply in love with the sport. That's really what I care about. On the ice, the U.S. women's hockey team continued their dominant run, beating Switzerland 5'0. A five-off victory for the United States. Despite a strong skate from married ice dancers, Madison Chalk and Evan Bates, they're skating with precision, with ease,

They sit in second place after tonight's short program. Just hours after Chalk and Bates helped Team USA win gold in the team event, their teammate, Alyssa Lou, says her medal broke. Skier Breezy Johnson had the same problem. Yeah, it came apart. And now Olympics organizers say they're investigating with maximum attention. Team USA's first gold medal of these games went to skier Breezy Johnson in the very same race where Lindsay Vaughn crashed.

Molly Hunter caught up with Johnson fresh off her big win. Breezy Johnson at the United States of America. It was Breezy Johnson's day. It's a crazy day. It feels incredible. But minutes after winning, she told us, it belonged to someone else too. Yeah, my dad taught me to ski, and he was in an accident a couple of weeks ago. He couldn't come here.

He found out that he can no longer ski anymore. And so, yeah, the least I could do is trying to ski fast for him. He skied so fast. Congratulations. But the biggest moment in the two-time Olympians career partially overshadowed by the brutal and dramatic end of teammate Lindsay Vaughn's storied career. Yeah, I mean, I know what it is for an Olympic dream to die on this slope. And watching that, like, you know, really reminded me of how it felt four years ago. And my heart aches for her.

Back in 2022, Breezy's Beijing Olympic dreams dashed when she crashed on this very court. rupturing her ACL. It's never really been the place that I put it all together, but I knew that I really could. On Sunday, close friend and teammate Michaela Schifrin seen cheering Breezy on as she'd chase gold. And tomorrow, the two will pair up to compete in the women's team combined

at event making its Olympic debut. We're not used to competing as a team, and so I feel a lot of pressure to help her out and do the best I can as a teammates. Michaela Schifrin is the most decorated alpine skier of all time, but she struggled in the last Olympics, and tomorrow is her first of three planned events chasing gold. Tom?

All right, Molly, thank you. We'll have more from Milan later in the broadcast. We want to turn now, though, to Washington, where Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Galane Maxwell appeared before lawmakers, but declined to answer questions. Hallie Jackson joins us now live, and Hallie, it comes as lawmakers were also given their first look at the unredacted Epstein files.

What'd they learn? That's right, Tom. We're getting some new reaction from lawmen. with some saying they're frustrated by what they say are too many redactions or the unmasking of victims' identities. It comes as Epstein's convicted co-conspirator Galane Maxwell appeared virtually from prison for a private deposition to Congress, repeatedly declining to answer questions, pleading the fifth. Her lawyer now saying Maxwell invoked her constitutional right to silence, adding that she is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump.

Some Epstein abuse survivors now tell us they plan to attend a person. potentially explosive hearing featuring Attorney General Pam Bondi later this week. Tom? Hallie, thank you. We have some dramatic images we want to show you from Georgia tonight, a plane, making an emergency landing onto a busy street after one of the pilots radioed what he thought would be his last message to his family. Here's Tom Costello. Stunning video from Gainesville, Georgia, captured the moment a single-engine beachcraft bonanza crashed into a busy intersection, on board two pilots, including a student. Just seconds earlier, one of them radioed a goodbye.

We're not going to make it. Please help my wife slowly. I love her. Stay at my parents. I love them so much. The plane careened down the road, slamming into three vehicles, a fuel tank embedded in the back of an SUV, the driver covered in fuel. The plane had taken off from a nearby airport and was trying to turn back when it developed

engine trouble. Amazingly, only two people suffered minor injuries. Both pilots walked away. The fact that they were able to land in the middle of hundreds of vehicles and only hit three of them, no power lines is very remarkable. The Bonanza is considered one of the best general aviation planes in the air. Tonight, the FAA is investigating. Tom. All right, Tom Costello for us. When we return live from Milan in 60 seconds, the Quad God takes flight. How Ilymalanin helps. How Ilymallon help lead Team USA to gold. We talk to the team. Next.

We're back now with Team USA's figure skaters who won gold in the team event in a nail-biter with Team Japan. Stephanie Goss caught up with him today, Milan. The U.S. came into the figure skating team competition, heavy favorites. But Japan was not going down without a fight. The two teams neck and neck throughout the three-day event. But Ice Dance couple Madison Chalk and Echalk and Eiff. Evan Bates dominated.

And pairs skaters, Danny O'Shea and Ellie Cam, Forget about meeting expectations. They just exceeded them. Pulled out one of their all-time best performances. It really looked like you took the nerves and you said, not today. We kind of did. We're like, we're just going to go out there and experience as much joy from this circumstance as possible. You know who has unmistakable joy on the ice?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. For sure. World champion Alyssa Lou skated the short program. You're back on Olympic ice again. How does it feel? It felt really good.

I just knew first around was going to have fun, have a blast train on everybody else. Then there was Ilya Malinanin, his sheer number of quads impossible to beat. No one else can do what he does. Scoring more than 200 points in the free skate, giving the gold to Team USA. It was an incredible feeling.

The crowd was amazing. Now it is time to look at to the individual medals. Has the tone been set with this gold medal? Alyssa. Well, I'm really excited for the individual events. Team USA first shining as a team. Ready now to shine on their own. Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, Milan.

And we're back in a moment with the NFL star arrested in broad daylight after a police chase. We'll show you the video. And the explosive armored car heist that didn't go off as planned. That's next. Welcome back. A star rookie for the Atlanta Falcons is now under arrest accused of violent domestic dispute. Linebacker James Pierce Jr. was taken into custody in a major scrum. You see it right here after a police chase in Miami on Saturday.

He's accused of taking off in his Lamborghini and clipping a police officer after allegedly hitting former girlfriend and WNBA star Rakea Jackson with his car. Pierce posted bail and his attorney says Pierce maintains his innocence. Also, from here in Italy, this scene almost straight out of an action movie, heavily armed and masked men blocked a highway and set off an explosion trying to get into an armored bank truck. But this Italian job didn't quite pan out like the movies, Italian police later apprehending two of those attackers. And the new warning from Cuba that due to a fuel shortage, they can no longer refuel international flights into the island nation. Some airlines are now suspending flights to Cuba, the growing energy crisis due in part to a U.S. blockade cutting off oil from Mexico and Venezuela. And when we come back from here in Milan, my emotional conversation with the American figure skater whose parents were killed in that deadly mid-air plane crash over the Potomac.

Finally tonight from here in Milan, my conversation with American figure skater Max Naumov, hoping to triumph at the Olympics a year after tragedy. Always keep fighting. It's one of the lessons Maxim Naumov's father instilled in him, back when he was a little boy with big goals. I always dreams of being in the Olympics. Floats in the air, beautiful. Words he's had to lean on now more than ever. Only he knows what it took the journey to this point, to this stage.

Last month, as Max waited, anxiously to learn if his scores would be enough to make his first Olympic team, he kissed a grainy photograph. That's Max, age three on the ice for the very first time, flanked by his parents, Vadim Naumov and Yevgenia Shishkova. 85.17. I wanted, you know, them to be with me, to literally share that moment with me, because they deserve it.

They deserve to be there right next to me. you know. The Russian Olympians not just Max's parents, but his coaches as well. That moment is so special because that was the beginning to everything. That was the beginning to where I am now. That beginning met a tragic end last year after a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army Blackhawk killed 67 people. Among them, the two people who were Max's entire universe. He says in that moment, he simply froze. You weren't sure if you were coming back. No, sir. I had those moments where I just froze. I didn't know what to do.

So I said, hey, this is such a crucial and pivotal moment in my life. If at this moment I don't take on the responsibility, then I'll look back forever on this moment and know that I did not step up. And so he returned to the ice, training through grief and exhaustion, pushed by his choreographer to rediscover the joy of skating. He just pushed me out there and he's like, hey, just go. Like, let's do our step sequence. And then he puts on the music and I just go.

It was almost like an overflow of emotion at that point because I was just literally skating like normal. But it felt right. It just felt right. It felt absolutely right. I felt like what I needed to do. Max wholly rededicated himself to his lifelong Olympic dream, feeling his parents' presence in every skate.

If I'm skating my program at competition, if there's a stumble or there's a wobble, I feel them literally carrying me up in that moment. They're with you. They're with you on the ice. Yeah, and I feel that physically, emotionally, mentally, all of the above. Max's resilience and perseverance also building to this. One of the last conversations Max had with his parents was about the Olympics.

The moment he finally became an Olympian. It was his godmother who helped him slip on that iconic Team USA jacket for the first time. Tell me about that feeling. Yeah, man. I mean, I put on that jacket. I remember, and I didn't want to take it off. I'd literally just hug myself with it, you know. Max has his parents' photo here with him in Milan,

and he's planning to honor their legacy once again, this time on the world's biggest age. When you did make the Olympics, did you have a conversation of your parents? Of course. The words just kept filling out is that we did it, you know, we did it. Everything we did together was as a team. It was 19 years, all brought together to this moment, you know.

I still feel like we did it together. And we can't wait for Max to hit the ice. And primetime coverage kicks off tonight at 8 o'clock on NBC and Peacock. That's nightly news for this Monday. I'm Tom Yamash reporting from Milan. Thanks so much for watching tonight. And always, we're here for you. Good night.