NBC Nightly News S2026E68 - Mar 17 Tue

President Trump slammed the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center who resigned in protest over the war with Iran as "weak on security." NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports. The Iranian regime's security chief who was responsible for the brutal crackdown of Iranian protestors earlier this year was killed in an airstrike. NBC News' Richard Engel reports. A member of Texas Congresswoman's Jasmine Crockett's security team was chased down by police in Dallas. After a standoff in a garage where police say he pointed a gun, he was shot and killed. Police say the identity he had with the Congresswoman's office is not who he really was. NBC News' Ryan Nobles reports. Tonight, we get a rare look inside a Cuban hospital, as doctors struggle to treat patients amid the growing power and energy crisis there. NBC News' George Solis is the first journalist given access to a hospital in Cuba in more than a decade. Huge piles of snow in the Midwest, record heat out west, dangerous storms in the northeast, and deadly wildfires in Nebraska … NBC News' Maggie Vespa covers the extreme weather around the country. Kristin Cabot, the executive caught on camera last year in an embrace with her boss at a Coldplay concert, shared her side of the story with Oprah. NBC News' Stephanie Gosk reports. Some residents in Ohio and Pennsylvania saw a fireball streaking through the sky. NASA says it was a meteor fracturing into small pieces. NBC News' Sam Brock has the story. This week, thousands of medical students across the country will find out if they've been accepted to a coveted residency program, and for one single mother in Iowa it's the culmination of years of hard work to provide a bright future for her and her daughter. Kristen Welker reports.