NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas - Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Episode Date: September 9, 2026

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Breaking news tonight, the jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case speaking for the first time in an NBC exclusive. Three jurors breaking their silence. Days after the mistrial, what they're revealing about the heated deliberations that devolved into shouting and their frustrations with the one holdout juror. He admitted he had reasonable doubt. Hurricane Lowell slamming Hawaii, plunging nearly an entire island into darkness. The powerful storm roaring on shore with fierce winds, mounds of sands lifting cars and pushing them inland, our reporter in the storm zone. Plus, the powerful surf lashing California's coast, the Malibu home once linked to actor Nicholas Cage nearly swallowed by a sinkhole. New images of the black box is recovered from that deadly Amazon cargo plane crash. Plus the identities of the five people killed just released.

A small plane with a family on board vanishes after leaving the Bahamas for Florida. Relatives searching the ocean themselves by boat. Their grim discovery today. Deadly new wave of attacks, Russia's powerful new jet drones striking a TV station amid a U.S. push to renew peace talks. Our Richard Engel is there. The Virginia mom convicted for letting her five-year-old child walk a half mile alone in their gated community, how it's sparking a national debate over parenting, a young girl running into a busy road rate, and the worker jumping into action to save her from oncoming traffic. Stranded at sea,

a sailor, flagging down rescue crews after his catarmeran quickly sank in the open ocean and honoring a 9-11 hero, the man in the red bandana, credited with saving more than a dozen people during the attacks at the cost of his own life. How he's being recognized 25 years later. Nightly News starts right now. This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas. And good evening. We thank you for joining us on this Tuesday night. We want to begin with that exclusive interview from our NBC station in Boston with three of the jurors in the trial of Lindsay Clancy who killed her three children. That case ending in a mistrial last week after the jury couldn't agree on. on a verdict for Clancy, and tonight, we now know why.

The jurors describing the tense scenes inside the deliberation room as they tried to convince a sole holdout to acquit Clancy by reason of insanity. He admitted he had reasonable doubt, and then he said, but I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty. Clancy was facing murder charges after she admitted to killing her three young children. Her defense claiming she was in the middle of postpartum, psychosis. But even though she was one vote away from a not guilty verdict, there are still questions over Clancy's future with prosecutors tonight, Wayne, a retrial for the accused

killer. Our Emily Akedas following this story, she has new reporting. It starts us off. Tonight, several jurors from Lindsay Clancy's widely watched murder trial breaking their silence. We're trying to figure out, did she know right from wrong at that time? Describing volatile deliberations involving the one holding. out juror. He was very arrogant. He really did not take anything that anybody said. In their first interview since a mistrial was declared last Friday when they couldn't reach a unanimous decision. He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms. I was so excited. And then he said, but I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty

by reason of insanity. Paula Devlin, Ronnie Carlson and Kelly Farina, part of a jury of nine women and three men, telling our NBC 10 station in Boston at points, name calling and yelling were so loud, alternate jurors in the other room could apparently hear them. Every one of us in the hours of a frustration would get up and walk the room. He would not interact with us and try to understand. The judge denying the defense's request to remove that one juror, as they tried to determine whether Clancy was in control of her actions and should be held criminally responsible for killing her three young children. Everything proved that she loved her children, so she had to have snapped.

As for how they viewed the prosecution... I just found it to be harsh. The fact that they had no character witnesses in regard to Lindsay of being a bad mother. So I found it to be biased right out of the gate. I found them all. to be kind of unprofessional and just without a heart. And with that, Emily joins us now live in studio. Emily, you just got off the phone with the jury four person. And she told you something very interesting about the retrial. Yeah, Tom, you could hear the emotion in her voice.

She said there were a lot of tears when they couldn't reach a unanimous decision calling the trial an emotional roller coaster. If there is a retrial, she says she plans to go in person in support of Lindsay Clancy's defense. I should also note that our station in Boston has tried to reach that one holdout juror, as others have described. All right, Emily Aketa and our NBC Boston team with a lot of new reporting. We thank you for that. Now to the other breaking news, that state of emergency in Hawaii, Hurricane Lowell bringing torrential downpours, high surf, and 85-mile-per-hour wind gusts causing major damage across the state's islands.

Liz Croyd and her team on the island of Kauai in the storm zone for us tonight. Tonight, Hurricane Lowe lashing Hawaii, packing damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and powerful waves. The worst of Lowell's fury came in the middle of the night, winds gusting up to 85 miles per hour. We're in the thick of the storm right now, and you can just feel the force of these winds. The coast here is just getting hammered. In this Poipu neighborhood on the island of Hawaii, homes obliterated. One, lifted off its foundation and split in half. There is so much destruction here.

We are told that this structure had been attached to this home, but the wind so strong, it broke it off and essentially threw it across the road. We met Gentry Cruz. He tells me he manages this property. How are you feeling about this damage here? Sox, but I mean, can I do nothing about it? Mother Nature is Mother Nature. At a nearby Sheraton Hotel, the storm lifting up these cars

and carrying them across the parking lot. Have you ever seen anything like this? No. In Iowa, we have tornadoes, but not like anything to this effect. The hotel pool now filled with sand instead of water. The oceanfront restaurant destroyed. More than 90% of the island losing power during the storm. Other Hawaiian islands affected too. The storm shutting down this highway on Oahu.

Back here on Kauai, residents cleaning up as the full scope of Hurricane Lowell's devastation comes into focus. And Tom, you can still see some of the flooding here. This is usually a big picnic area now submerged in water. For an island, so reliant on tourism, there is months of cleanup ahead. And it's not over yet. The hurricane has passed, but tens of thousands of people are without power. And there's still a threat of flash flooding and mudslides. Tom.

Liz, thank you. And more extreme weather tonight and powerful surf, also leaving a trail of destruction along California's coast. Dana Griffin joins us live from Malibu with a look at a massive sink hole in front of a mansion believed to be owned by actor Nicholas Cage. Dana, what are you learning? Yeah, Tom, authorities are investigating what caused that sinkhole to open up. And this is a vacant beachfront home previously linked to Nicholas Cage. The hole is pretty wide and city officials say the collapse also caused a gas leak. Fortunately, no one was hurt. It comes after high surf from another tropical system, Marie, has been impacting the Southern California coast for days.

These waves in Long Beach forcing firefighters to evacuate multiple residents, south of here in Orange County, at least a dozen homes damage there. And Tom, back here in Malibu, five homes have been red-tagged, deemed too dangerous to enter. Tom? A critical scene there in Malibu. All right, Dana, thank you. We have a major update tonight in that Amazon cargo plane crash. We now know the identities of the five people who were killed in the horrific crash in Miami.

Federal investigators are combing through data from the plane's black boxes. George Solis reports tonight near the crash side of Miami. Tonight, new images from the NTSB of the black boxes recovered from the Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plain that overran the runway at Miami International by 1,300 feet, killing five and erupting into flames. The plane traveling nearly 130 miles per hour at the end of the runway, slammed into a van, crashed to a perimeter fence, and then struck a van. vehicle traveling on a nearby road. Video captures the moment one of the two pilots on board jumped from the aircraft. Tonight, NTSB chairwoman Jennifer Homody briefing on the investigation's

initial steps. Here on scene, we're focused on that evidence, focused on taking pictures, videos, drone footage, measurements of tire marks on runways. Tonight, we're learning more about the lives lost when this airplane beard off the runway outside the airport. It struck a truck. We do have a patient on the ground. We're looking and serving the area for more patients. The Miami-Dade County Sheriff's Office revealing all five victims were in this van belonging to an airline cleaning service. It's an incredibly tragic incident that has occurred. Unfortunately, we are left with picking up the pieces and trying to identify what happened and how it occurred. Among the victims whose ages range from 47 to 75 is 55-year-old Rolando Leon.

Tonight, a friend of Leone calling him a beautiful soul. He was a wonderful person, a very nice man, very sociable and supportive. 21 Air, which operated the plane, says it's cooperating with the NTSB's investigation. George Solis joins us now live from near the scene of that crash in Miami and George. We know the pilots were the only two people on board that plane and they both survived. That's right, Tom, and we know they were both treated and released from the hospital or earlier this week. And we saw that incredible video of one of those pilots jumping from the plane. Now, we understand that NTSB investigators have not spoken to them yet, which is going to be

critical and understanding what went wrong here. Tom. George, thank you. We're going to stay in Florida, and we have a story of a Miami family that vanished on a small plane returning from the Bahamas. Their relatives took to the sea themselves to try and find them. Tom Costello now with their heartbreaking discovery. tragedy in the waters off the Bahamas as a family desperately searching by boat on their own for relatives who'd vanished when their small plane disappeared, making their own grim discovery. The family writing in a statement, it is with profound sadness that we confirm all four of our family members have been found deceased. The grandparents, 80-year-old Maria Lamar and 79-year-old Lily Lamar, and grandchildren, 28-year-old Sophia Sosa and 22-year-year-old Christian.

My uncle is a lifelong, very experienced pilot, and they were departing, business as usual, like he's done his entire life. All four missing since 2 p.m. Sunday, when their small private plane returning to Miami from a regular trip to the Bahamas, instead flew south, possibly to avoid extreme weather, then suddenly dropped off radar. With the initial search delayed by the extreme weather, the family pleaded for help. We're asking for everyone out there to please help. Relatives discovered a first family member on Sunday. This morning, private boats left Miami searching for the other three. A short time later, a tragic end.

The family writing, our relatives ultimately located our loved ones and had to bring them aboard their own vessels. A civilian vessel that is a family member of the deceased, they were able to recover bodies. Tonight, Bahamian authorities tell me they've recovered some plain debris as they coordinate returning all four victims to the U.S. Tom. Tom Costello for us, we want to turn overseas now to the war in Ukraine and Russia's new bloody wave of strikes. Our Richard Engel is on the ground in Kiev and reports tonight from the scene of a new attack.

This video from a playground in Ukraine shows a woman sheltering a toddler as a jet-powered Russian drone rips through the sky over Kiev. It's the terrifying sound of a new weapon, which Russia unleashed across Ukraine's capital. A television studio with journalists inside was directly targeted. Experts say Ukraine can't stop the new jet drones. They fly too high and too fast. The TV studio was reduced to ruins. In some sense, it hits harder as a journalist when a media center television network is directly attacked. And clearly someone was injured here because I'm following a blood trail running into this bathroom to try and clean themselves off. And here there's quite a bit of blood. And the sink is full of it. It is just a tragic scene. The deadly new attacks come after a

72-hour pause by Russia, while President Trump's envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff visited Moscow and Kiev in a bid to relaunch peace negotiations. And so I know that if we don't try, we will not succeed and nothing will change. But something is changing. Ukrainians are back to taking shelter in metro stations. Firefighters are racing to strike scenes to battle flames. And Russian attacks, it seems, are growing more brazen, targeting Kiv now with impunity. President Zelensky tonight said that he is working with the U.S.

to try and arrange trilateral negotiations with Russia and stressed, that Ukraine is critically low on air defenses. Tom. Richard Engel, in Ukraine tonight, when we return in 60 seconds, the parenting debate, the mother convicted for letting her five-year-old wander their neighborhood alone,

should she have been charged. Plus, the sailor rescued after days adrift in the middle of the ocean and the honor for a 9-11 hero, how the man in the red bandana saved so many lives and now is being honored 25 years later. We're back now with the mother charged for letting her five-year-old son walk their neighborhood alone.

Maggie Vespas spoke to that mother. Tonight, a national debate mounting over parenting practices after this Virginia mom was convicted of a crime for letting her five-year-old son, Sam, go on a walk to look for feathers. I mean, I just felt like this is so overblown. Carrie Ann Parkinson says it all started back in June when she let her kindergartner go on a half-mile walk alone in their gated community along a winding path to a pond. Is this a neighborhood where kids walk by themselves play alone outside? Yes, absolutely. It's a very, very safe neighborhood. A security guard spotted Sam and called police who served Carrie Ann with a warrant for her arrest, the charge, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a class one misdemeanor. Parkinson says she was sentenced to six months

of suspended jail time. She'll also be on Virginia's abuse and neglect registry for seven years. I really think that it just got out of control. If we really care about Sam was the best thing to threaten his mom with arrest. It's absurd overreach. She should not be on the registry. The ordeal sparking outrage online. She allowed him alone at five years old. He had to cross streets and pass a pond. The mom of five, a recent law school graduate, now appealing her conviction. Maggie Vespa, NBC News. All right, we're back in a moment. Back now with a dramatic rescue in the Indian Ocean, a Canadian sailor found stranded in a small

inflatable boat after his catamaran started to sink. You can see the man here waving to rescuers who dropped life-saving supplies and airlift him to safety. The man was traveling from the northern tip of Australia to a remote island when his boat hit severe weather and began taking on water. And in Mexico, look at this, a last-minute rescue in traffic. Video shows a young child running into a road as cars. drive by, several people chased after him but one trips and falls, a supermarket employee

working outside, tackles the boy to the ground just as he's about to run in front of a car. All right, when we come back tonight, the man in the red bandana, his story of mystery and heroism on 9-11, the honor he just got at the White House, our exclusive with his mother next. Finally tonight, as we mark 25 years since the September 11th attacks, we're remembering the bravery and courage from that day, including the man in the red bandana, credited with saving more than a dozen lives. His identity was originally a mystery. Now, 25 years later, he's been awarded one of the nation's highest honors, and his mother is telling Aaron Gilchrist what it all means.

He was one of the heroes who emerged on one of the nation's darkest days. Wells Crowther was 24 years old, working in the South Tower of the World Trade Center when the planes hit. The equities trader and volunteer firefighter rescued 18 people at the cost of his own life. President Trump today paying tribute to that bravery. Highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Wells' mother, Allison, receiving the posthumous honor. What does your son receiving that medal mean to you? Oh, it's a huge honor. Today, a simple red bandana connects Allison to her son. He had one growing up and in 2001 kept one tied around his wallet. I said, Wells, are you still carrying that thing?

You're working on Wall Street now. Like thousands, Wells didn't come home on 9-11. When his remains were recovered in 2002, Allison could bury her son, but she still was desperate to know what happened to him. Then she found a newspaper article with a familiar detail. This mysterious man wearing a red bandana, a red handkerchief, going around, putting out small fires, saying, you know, stand up, if you can stand, stand up now. If you can help others do so, follow me. I know the way, and I said, well, there you are.

Kelly Ryer was in a South Tower elevator when the second plane struck. Badly burned, he remembers crawling into a smoke-filled lobby and hearing a clear, commanding voice through the darkness. I remember him being in the stairwell and calling everyone to the stairwell and opening the door to the stairwell and saying, The stairwell is here. Heeding that advice is what saved me. Wells used his red bandana to shield his face from the smoke as he went back and forth helping more people. How proud are you of your son for what he did on 9-11? I'm so proud. I'm so proud of him. I'm so proud of him.

You know, it's the price of greatness losing him. But I'll always be so proud of him. Aaron Gilchrist, NBC News. A real hero. and all this week we'll be honoring those heroes and remembering those we lost on 9-11. That's nightly news for this Tuesday. I'm Tom Yamis.

We thank you so much for watching. Tonight and always, we're here for you. Good night.