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And good evening. Tonight we're learning just how dramatic and expansive the President's White House ballroom project really is. New pictures show the extent of the demolition. You see it right here. Construction equipment tearing into the historic East Wing building tonight. And now NBC News has learned the entire East Wing will come down in a matter of days that according to two White House officials. It is a major shift from what the President said this summer when he promised the new ballroom wouldn't touch the existing East Wing. Tonight, President Trump showing renderings of what this new space may look like and take a look. It's almost bigger than the White House itself. A Trump administration official acknowledged the process is fluid and said the demolition is part of plans for the East Wing to be, quote, modernized and rebuilt. But critics say the administration is tearing down history. It's where we begin tonight with Gabe Gutierrez at the White House. Tonight, NBC News learning the entire east wing of the White House will be demolished within days, according to two Trump administration officials. As the president builds a new 90,000 square foot ballroom paid for by himself and private donors, among them Comcast, NBC's parent company. This is a plan if it's got tables so that you honor a foreign leader. We have a proper space. This is an interior shot of... I think there'll be nothing like it. Late today, the president's showing off renderings of the massive structure, which he says is now expected to cost around $300 million. Over the years, many presidents have made changes. This obviously would be the biggest change, but this was something they've wanted for... At least 150 years. But tonight, the White House is facing backlash. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit created by Congress to help preserve historic buildings, sent a letter to administration officials, warning the planned ballroom will overwhelm the White House itself, which is only about 55,000 square feet. Despite the president promising this in July, it won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it, but not. touching it. A White House official now says the scope and the size of the Ballroom Project have always been subject to vary as the process develops. Democrats are blasting the plan. It's his personal whim and it is sort of emblematic of the authoritarian tyrannical approach that this president takes to power. All right, Gabe joins us live from the White House. And Gabe, I know you've asked to see what's happening at the East Wing. What do they tell you? Yes, we have, Tom. A senior White House official tells me the administration expects to take reporters to the site at some point soon once demolition is complete. Meanwhile, the Treasury Department, which is next door, has told its staff not to share photos of the East Wing because they could reveal sensitive items. Tom? All right, Gabe Gutier is leading us off. There was a new U.S. strike today on what the Trump administration says is another boat... trying to smuggle drugs into the U.S. And now the president is warning strikes against the cartels on land could be coming very soon. Here's Courtney Kuby.

Tonight this video showing another deadly U.S. military strike against a boat allegedly smuggling drugs to the U.S. killing two narco terrorists on board, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Posting the strike was in international waters, but for the first time the boat was traveling in the eastern Pacific rather than the Caribbean Sea. President Trump tonight suggesting he'll soon order strikes on cartels smuggling drugs by land too. Something very serious is going to happen, the equivalent of what's happening by sea. And we're going to Congress just to tell them what we're doing, just to keep them informed. We have to do it for national security. We have to do it to save lives. This is the eighth strike the Trump administration has announced against alleged drugboats since early September, killing at least 36 people. Two men survived a U.S. airstrike on their semi-submersible boat last week, the U.S. Navy plucking them from the water and transferring them to Colombia and to Ecuador. But tonight a U.S. official says Ecuador has already released the man transferred to their custody. Some lawmakers have questioned the legality of the strikes, but President Trump again tonight defending his effort against cartels. You realize that every time you see that happen, you're saving 25,000 American lives. Every one of those boats that gets knocked out is saving 25,000 American lives, not to mention the torn up families all over the country. Courtney joins us now live. Courtney, let's go back to those two survivors in one of those recent strikes. Do we know what's happened to them? Yeah, Tom, the Trump administration says it provided information and evidence to both Colombia and to Ecuador to show these men were trafficking drugs. At this point, Colombia says it will prosecute one of them while Ecuador released the other. Tom. Okay, Courtney, thank you. Also tonight, President Trump, ramping up pressure on Russia to make a peace deal in Ukraine, unleashing new sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies saying they are funding Russia's war machine. Keir Starmer Simmons is in Russia for us tonight. Tonight, the Trump administration ramping up pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine. I just felt it was time. Look, these are tremendous sanctions. These are very big. Against their two big oil companies. And we hope that they won't be on for long. New sanctions hitting Russia's two largest oil companies. In response, the Treasury Department says, to Russia's, quote, lack of serious commitment to a peace process. It comes after new Russian airstrikes, firefighters carrying children from the rubble after Ukrainian officials say a kindergarten was hit, while Russia's President Vladimir Putin today overseeing a nuclear exercise. As administration officials tell NBC News, a tense call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia's foreign minister ended after Moscow said fighting will continue until it gets concessions from Ukraine. For Trump, its primary goal is to stop the war. And the Kremlin thinks... The Kremlin thinks that it's unacceptable. Unacceptable. unacceptable. Because this is in favor of Ukraine. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been calling on the Trump administration to put more pressure on President Vladimir Putin. Tonight, these new sanctions are aimed directly at the Kremlin's war economy. Tom.

Keir Starmer's Simmons from Moscow tonight. Now to the new hurricane threat, tropical storm Melissa, growing, threatening the Caribbean now and even the East Coast. Everyone's watching this very closely. Bill Cairns joins us, and the storm is barely moving. That's a big concern? A huge concern with rainfall. But this looks like our most dangerous threat of the hurricane season. Now just south of Haiti, it's going to do a slow crawl near Jamaica. And it's going to take like five days to get there. And in the meantime, it's over some of the warmest water on the planet. That's the high-octane fuel for this storm. And that's why we think it's going to get to at least a category four. It wouldn't surprise me at all to get up to a category five near Jamaica by the end of the weekend. The track on this storm is incredibly confusing. Explain to our viewers why. Yeah, the wind is what steers these storms. And so the wind is very, very light, a loft like where the jets fly. So in other words, this is going to be like a sailboat without sails out over the ocean for the next five days. It's not till early next week that we see that northeast turns. So wherever it's located about five days from now, then it either heads up towards Cuba or possibly towards Haiti, but a devastating storm nonetheless. All right, going to be some time until we know. All right, Bill, we thank you for that. Now to the new clashes involving immigration officers and the new details tonight about a shooting that left two people. injured. Here's Morgan Chesky. Shouts and confusion during an ice raid on New York City's Canal Street. Tonight, the Department of Homeland Security responding after the enforcement operation prompted backlash from Democratic officials in New York. None of this is about public safety. It is about fear and chaos. DHS saying this was a targeted raid, resulting in nine arrests of suspects in the country illegally. with criminal histories including robbery, assault, domestic violence, and drug trafficking. We arrested criminally illegal aliens that have horrible rap sheets. So it's the other people they want to protect? I don't think so. And new details on this operation that ended in gunfire in LA's popular fashion district. This video shows officers arresting Carlitos Ricardo Perias, who documents ice activity on TikTok. Prosecutors say when federal officers tried to serve an immigration arrest warrant on Padias, he repeatedly rammed officers' vehicles, his spinning tires creating smoke. One ice agent fired his handgun. wounding both Pattias and a deputy U.S. Marshal hit by a ricochet. Almost daily, we have two to three of these ramming incidents, which is a deadly force. You know, and it's put in our officers and agents at risk. Tonight, Pettias's attorney says he is described as a pillar of the very community. He was arrested in. A lot of members of that community, they depend on him for knowledge as to what's going on around them.

Morgan joins us now live. Morgan, I know our reporters have just broken a story about recruits trying to join ice ranks. Yeah, Tom, in the rush to hire these new federal immigration officers, one current and two former DHS officials tell NBC news that recruits are going into training before they've completed the agency's vetting process. DHS says that most recruits have former law enforcement training and have already been through other training as well. Tom. More of that reporting on our website right now. Morgan, we thank you. We stay now west. Frightening moments when a small plane crashed into the middle of a soccer field in Southern California. One woman on the ground hit. Liz Kreutz now has the harrowing details. A terrifying incident in Southern California, this small plane making an emergency landing at a popular park in Long Beach, injuring a woman on the ground as it came crashing down. It looks like they got someone on the stretcher, and there's emergency services are responding. The fire department says the pilot of the single-engine aircraft, an elderly man, survived and was taken to a hospital. The woman who was injured 42-year-old Tiffany Harrison, a family friend telling NBC News she is deaf and was walking her. dog when part of the plane hit her from behind. Her mother, Shannon, told me that it's definitely a broken pelvic and three broken vertebrates in the spine. Flight tracking data shows this flight originated east of L.A. It was on its way to the Long Beach Airport when it landed right here. Neighbors say this is often a busy park filled with kids playing soccer. Meanwhile, in Venezuela, this horrific crash of a small plane just after takeoff. Authorities there say two crew members died on board. Back here at home, two other aircrafts were also forced to make emergency landings Tuesday. Outside Las Vegas, police say this single engine, Cessna, landed on an interstate after reporting engine issues. And in San Diego, a pilot diverted to the beach after his engine also began to fail. Well, the engine quit and landed on the beach. Fortunately, no one was injured in those two incidents in what was a series of near disasters across the west. Liz Croyd's NBC News, Long Beach, California. To Paris now in the Louvre reopening today for the first time since that massive jewel heist. A heist, we now know, worth $102 million. Our Raf Sanchez is in Paris tonight live for us. And Raf, we learn new details about the security lapses there and a certain camera. Yeah, Tom, the director of the Louvre appeared in front of a French Senate committee today and acknowledged failings on the part of her museum. She said the only security camera outside the Apollo gallery where those jewels were being kept was facing the opposite direction to the balcony the thieves used to break in. So no one saw the gang climbing up that ladder truck until it was too late. She also said the museum's infrastructure is so old, it's difficult to install. modern security systems, and that she offered her resignation to the French government, but that it wasn't accepted. Tom? All right, Ralph Sanchez, a lot of new reporting there. Raf, we thank you. When we return the future of Amazon, we go inside the robot lab, how AI is dramatically changing their workforce, and why the company says this could be good for some workers. We'll explain.

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For Aaron Martin, the solution is upskilling. You got paid to go to school. He enrolled in Amazon's apprenticeship program to learn how to repair the robots that do the very work he used to, earning more than $40 an hour. Amazon says more than 300,000 U.S. employees have trained for new roles as AI and automation change or replace their jobs. When people are like cynical and they're like, AI is coming, it's going to take our jobs, it's going to ruin humanity. What do you say to that? I don't think so. This isn't Terminator. All right, and with that, Vicky joins us in studio. So, Vicki, it's not just Amazon that's going to feel the effects of AI. Definitely not, Tom. Walmart, the nation's top private employer is saying its headcount will remain flat over the next three years in part because of AI. So hiring experts say, here's what you do now. Talk to your managers. Lean into AI. Ask what you can do to AI proof your job. All right, Vicky, win for us. Vicki, we thank you. And we are back in a moment with the new video, Justin. Look at this. The truck driver rescued after his rig was dangling over a Texas overpass. Plus, look at why doctors needed this woman to play the clarinet during brain surgery. How would help them. That's next. There are moments that define who you are and who you're becoming. And when those moments arrive, what you drive should rise to meet them. The Range Rover Sport commands attention from the very first glance. Every line, every detail, engineered for impact. Inside, refinement takes over with sculpted 22-way heated seating with available massage and a 13.1-inch touchscreen that puts everything within easy reach. But the Range Rover Sport isn't just about luxury. It's about uncompromised performance, too, delivering a powerful, agile drive that feels as confident as it looks. and with nearly endless ways to personalize, from interior finishes to wheels to unique colors and accessories, your Range Rover Sport becomes unmistakably yours. For those who expect more from every moment, there's a vehicle designed to meet it. The Rangerover Sport. Exclusive offers available now. Explore further atrangeover.com. At DSW, we asked the important questions. Like, what shoes are you going to wear? Whether you're prepping for wedding season, festival season, or just planning the ultimate vacay, the right shoes can make or break an RSVP. So own the moment. You've got big plans and we've got just the shoes at the perfect price, of course. Get ready to get ready with designer shoe warehouse. Head to your DSW store or DSW.com today. And let us surprise you. An undisturbed sleep is a beautiful thing. That's why a beauty rest mattress is designed to give you unparalleled motion separation. Isolating movement with our pocketed coil technology to help you sleep soundly no matter what's moving on the other side of the bed, while providing individualized support for every sleeping position. People at their best get their beauty rest for 100 years. We are back now with a dramatic rescue in Texas. Take a look at this, a truck dangling off a highway overpass after the driver lost control trying to avoid a collision. The fire department raced in to help rescue that driver who was stuck inside. Eventually they were able to pull him to safely with only minor injuries. That's incredible. Now to an urgent search for an American who went overboard a Norwegian cruise line ship heading for Miami.

It happened near the Azores, the Portuguese Air Force, the cruise line, and nearby fishing boats all trying to help and find the 26-year-old. And in London, a medical miracle. Watch this. A patient with Parkinson's disease plays the clarinet. while undergoing deep brain stimulation, a procedure designed to improve motor skills. 65-year-old Denise Bacon stayed awake for the brain surgery, playing the instrument as doctors implanted electrodes into her brain, and it worked. Doctors witnessed an instant improvement in her hand, movements, and ability to play music. Incredible. When we come back, Michael Jim Jordan's NBA return, opening up about why he wishes he could take on the greats of the game right now. That's next. Finally tonight, there is good news for basketball fans across the country who are hearing from the legend himself. In a rare interview, Michael Jim Jordan, speaking to our Mike Toriko as he takes on a new role for the NBA, this time as a special contributor for NBC. I wish I can take a magic pill, put on shorts, and go out and play the game of basketball today. Because that's who I am. That's that type of competition, that type of competitiveness is what I live for. And I miss it. I miss that aspect of playing the game of basketball. Being able to challenge myself against what people see as... Great basketball. 22 years since retiring from the NBA, Michael Jim Jordan is talking once again. Do you ever pick up a ball in just shoot? I haven't picked up a ball in years. Surprising fans that one of the last times he held a ball was when he rented a house during the Ryder Cup, and the owner asked him for a favor to shoot a free throw for his grandkids. It's the most nervous I've been in years. Stop it. In years. Stop it. Come on. The reason being is those kids... heard the stories from the parents about what I did. 30 years ago. I hope you switched it. Absolutely. These days, Jim Jordan saying his focus is on his family, catching up on the valuable time loss during his prime. A defining time that fans are celebrating to this day, his 1986 rookie card selling this week for a record $2.7 million. For now, Jim Jordan says he feels a duty to share his thoughts on the game. You know, that's part of what, you know, this is all about. surpass it, pay it forward. Looking forward to seeing more of MJ and Toriko this season. That's nightly news for this Wednesday. I'm Tom Yamas. Thanks so much for watching. Tonight, and always, we're here for you. Good night.

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