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Federal agents have searched the homes of Sean “Diddy” Combs, an appeals court has reduced Trump’s bond in the civil fraud judgment, the Boeing CEO announced he’ll step down, and more on tonight’s broadcast.

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>>> BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT. THE FEDERAL RAID ON HOMES IN TWO CITIES OWNED BY MUSIC MOGUL SEAN “DIDDY” COMBS. AGENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY RAIDING COMBS’S MANSIONS IN LOS ANGELES AND MIAMI. IT COMES AS THE RAPPER FACES LAWSUITS AND CLAIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE.

WHAT WERE THE FEDS LOOKING FOR? >>> ALSO TONIGHT, THE LAST-MINUTE REPRIEVE FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. THE APPEALS COURT CUTTING THE $464 MILLION BOND IN HIS CIVIL FRAUD CASE BY MORE THAN HALF. BUT ALSO A SETBACK. THE NEW DATE SET FOR MR. TRUMP’S HUSH MONEY

TRIAL. >>> THE MAJOR SHAKE-UP AT BOEING AFTER A SERIES OF SCARY MISHAPS. THE CEO ANNOUNCING HE’S RESIGNING. AND HE IS NOT ALONE. >>> THE SPRING STORMS DELIVERING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS TO THE MIDWEST AND THE PLAINS. AL ROKER IS HERE. >>> THE U.N. SECURITY

COUNCIL PASSING A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA. AND WHY ISRAEL IS CANCELING A HIGH-LEVEL VISIT TO THE U.S. OVER IT. >>> NEW DETAILS IN THAT DEADLY TERROR ATTACK AT A MOSCOW CONCERT HALL. WHO VLADIMIR PUTIN IS BLAMING AFTER THE

SUSPECTS APPEARED IN COURT. >>> L.A. DODGERS SUPERSTAR SHOHEI OHTANI BREAKING HIS SILENCE. WHAT HE SAID ABOUT HIS INTERPRETER, WHO WAS FIRED AMID ALLEGATIONS OF THEFT AND GAMBLING. >>> AND HURRY UP AND WAIT. THE PARIS TRADITION MAKING ITS RETURN AHEAD OF THIS SUMMER’S OLYMPIC GAMES.

>> Announcer: THIS IS NBC “NIGHTLY NEWS” WITH LESTER HOLT. >>> GOOD EVENING. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT. FEDERAL AGENTS STAGING COORDINATED AND COAST-TO-COAST RAIDS ON RESIDENCES ASSOCIATED WITH RECORD PRODUCER AND MUSIC MOGUL SEAN “DIDDY” COMBS. POLICE IN TACTICAL GEAR EXECUTING SEARCH

WARRANTS AT MR. COMBS’ RESIDENCES IN LOS ANGELES AND MIAMI. SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER TELL US IT’S RELATED TO A TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL ASSAULT INVESTIGATION IN NEW YORK. THE THREE-TIME GRAMMY WINNER HAS RECENTLY BEEN SWEPT UP IN A SERIES OF CIVIL

LAWSUITS IN WHICH HE HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. HE HAS DENIED ALL THE ACCUSATIONS. STEVE PATTERSON IS IN LOS ANGELES NOW WITH LATE DETAILS. >> Reporter: TONIGHT THE MULTIPLE HOMES OF SEAN “DIDDY” COMBS FROM COAST TO COAST RAIDED BY FEDERAL

HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS AGENTS. HEAVILY ARMED AND TACTICAL TEAMS SWEEPING THROUGH COMBS’s POSH LOS ANGELES PROPERTY THIS AFTERNOON, GUNS DRAWN, CLEARING ROOM TO ROOM. PEOPLE IN HANDCUFFS AS AGENTS MADE THEIR WAY THROUGH THE PROPERTY. A SIMILAR SCENE PLAYING OUT IN DIDDY’S HOMES MORE THAN 2,000

MILES AWAY ON MIAMI’S STAR ISLAND, WHERE SEVERAL CELEBRITIES INCLUDING GLORIA AND EMILIO ESTEFAN AND JENNIFER LOPEZ ALSO HAVE HOMES. >> THE FACT THAT DIDDY’S HOME WAS RAIDED MEANS THAT AGENTS FOR HOMELAND SECURITY WERE ABLE TO SHOW PROBABLE CAUSE

THAT A CRIME WAS COMMITTED AND THAT EVIDENCE OF THAT ALLEGED CRIME WOULD BE FOUND AT THESE HOMES. >> Reporter: COMBS’S WHEREABOUTS RIGHT NOW UNKNOWN. BUT MULTIPLE SOURCES TELL NBC NEWS DIDDY WAS IN THE MIAMI AREA WHEN THE SEARCHES BEGAN. THE RAIDS WERE

CONDUCTED BY DHS ON SEARCH WARRANTS ORIGINATING FROM FEDERAL PROSECUTORS IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. A PERSON FAMILIAR TELLS NBC NEWS MULTIPLE WITNESSES HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED BY PROSECUTORS AND INVESTIGATORS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CASE. >> THE SPEED AT WHICH

IT APPEARS THESE RAIDS WERE CONDUCTED SUGGESTS THAT AGENTS WERE CONCERNED THAT THEY NEEDED TO SECURE EVIDENCE QUICKLY AND PREVENT ANYONE FROM DESTROYING EVIDENCE BEFORE THEY GOT THERE. >> Reporter: IT’S THE LATEST IN A LEGAL FIRESTORM SURROUNDING THE 54-YEAR-OLD MUSIC

MOGUL, WITH MULTIPLE LAWSUITS ALLEGING SEXUAL ASSAULT, ABUSE, HARASSMENT, FORCED DRUGGING AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF ILLEGAL FIREARMS AND NARCOTICS. THE ALLEGATIONS BEGAN LAST YEAR WITH COMBS’S EX-PARTNER, R&B SINGER CASSIE, FILING A LAWSUIT IN NEW YORK. SHE WAS SEEKING $30 MILLION ALLEGING

PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE AS WELL AS SEX TRAFFICKING. THEY SETTLED FOR AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT. SEVERAL OTHER WOMEN CAME FORWARD WITH SIMILAR ACCUSATIONS. REPRESENTATIVES FOR COMBS DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RESPOND TO NBC’S REQUEST FOR COMMENT. >> AND STEVE, YOU’RE JOINING US NOW OUTSIDE

A HOME THAT FEDS HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH ALL DAY. ARE THEY STILL THERE? >> Reporter: LESTER, ABSOLUTELY. THIS IS STILL AN INCREDIBLY ACTIVE SCENE, WITH POLICE ACTIVITY STRETCHING BEYOND THIS ROAD BLOCK REALLY AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE INTO THIS AFFLUENT, QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD.

WE’RE HEARING A VERY SIMILAR SITUATION AND SCENE IN MIAMI, WHERE MULTIPLE SOURCES ARE NOW TELLING US THAT THREE PHONES WERE SEIZED AT DIDDY’S PROPERTY 2,000 MILES AWAY. LESTER? >> ALL RIGHT. STEVE PATTERSON, THANK YOU. >>> WE TURN NOW TO THE MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN

TWO OF DONALD TRUMP’S COURT CASES IN NEW YORK. JUST AS THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS UP AGAINST A DEADLINE TO POST A $464 MILLION BOND TO COVER HIS CIVIL FRAUD JUDGMENT, AN APPEALS COURT GAVE HIM A LIFELINE. BUT IT COMES AS HE

LOST A BID TO FURTHER DELAY HIS HUSH MONEY CRIMINAL TRIAL. HERE’S LAURA JARRETT. >> Reporter: TONIGHT A WIN FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. AT THE LAST MINUTE AN APPEALS COURT REDUCING THE BOND IN HIS CIVIL FRAUD CASE BY MORE THAN HALF, TO $175 MILLION.

THE TRIAL JUDGE HAD SET IT AT MORE THAN 450 MILLION. MR. TRUMP PRAISING THE RULING. >> WHAT THEY DO IS THEY DO ELECTION INTERFERENCE, WHICH IS COURT CASES AND LET’S TRY AND TIE HIM UP AND LET’S TAKE AS MUCH OF HIS MONEY AS POSSIBLE.

I RESPECT THE APPELLATE DIVISION FOR SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCING THAT RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY. >> Reporter: WITH NO LENDERS WILLING TO COVER THE STAGGERING PENALTY WHILE HE APPEALS, MR. TRUMP WAS FACING THE PROSPECT OF NEW YORK’S ATTORNEY GENERAL SEIZING HIS ICONIC PROPERTIES AND

BANK ACCOUNTS AS SOON AS TODAY BUT NOW HAS TEN DAYS TO COME UP WITH THE FAR SMALLER BOND. MR. TRUMP SAYING HE HAS THE CASH AND WAS PRESSED BY NBC’S GARRETT HAAKE. >> NOW THAT THE BOND’S BEEN REDUCED, ARE YOU GOING TO START PUTTING

MONEY INTO YOUR CAMPAIGN? >> WELL, FIRST OF ALL, IT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, I MEAN, FRANKLY. BUT I MIGHT. >> Reporter: THE COURT FOUND MR. TRUMP FALSELY INFLATED THE VALUE OF HIS PROPERTIES TO GET BANKS TO GIVE BETTER LOAN TERMS. HIS ATTORNEYS ARE

APPEALING, SAYING THERE WERE NO VICTIMS, THAT THE BANKS WERE REPAID. BUT TODAY NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES HIGHLIGHTED THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS STILL ON THE HOOK SHOULD HE ULTIMATELY LOSE HIS APPEAL, SAYING “DONALD TRUMP IS STILL FACING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HIS STAGGERING FRAUD.

THE $464 MILLION JUDGMENT PLUS INTEREST AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AND OTHER DEFENDANTS STILL STANDS.” MEANWHILE, THE PRESUMPTIVE GOP NOMINEE SAT STONE-FACED IN A DIFFERENT COURTROOM TODAY, RECEIVING A SERIOUS SETBACK. A JUDGE IN MANHATTAN SETTING A NEW DATE OF APRIL 15th FOR THE

FIRST EVER CRIMINAL TRIAL OF A FORMER PRESIDENT. FACING CHARGES OF DOCTORING HIS COMPANY’S RECORDS TO COVER UP AN ALLEGED AFFAIR BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION, MR. TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM TODAY FAILED TO CONVINCE THE JUDGE FROM DELAYING THE TRIAL ANY FURTHER.

>> I DON’T KNOW HOW YOU CAN HAVE A TRIAL THAT’S GOING ON RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ELECTION. NOT FAIR. THEY’RE ALL TRYING TO DAMAGE TRUMP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. IT’S HAVING THE REVERSE EFFECT. >> LAURA, THIS TRIAL WILL GET UNDER WAY IN

THREE WEEKS. THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS ASKED TODAY WHETHER HE WOULD TESTIFY IN THE CASE. >> YES, LESTER. AND HE SAYS HE WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM TESTIFYING, SAYING HE’S DONE NOTHING WRONG. AND HE DID TAKE THE STAND IN HIS CIVIL FRAUD TRIAL.

BUT A CRIMINAL TRIAL COMES WITH VERY DIFFERENT RISKS, LESTER. >> ALL RIGHT, LAURA, THANK YOU. LET’S BRING IN NBC’S GARRETT HAAKE, WHO COVERS THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. AND GARRETT, HIS CAMPAIGN IS EAGER TO HIGHLIGHT THESE LEGAL BATTLES. >> Reporter: THAT’S RIGHT, LESTER.

THEY’VE BECOME CENTRAL TO MR. TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN. HE’S HAD ALMOST NO PUBLIC EVENTS SINCE LOCKING UP THE GOP NOMINATION AND HE HAS NONE SCHEDULED. HIS SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS ARE ALMOST ENTIRELY FOCUSED ON THE CASES AGAINST HIM. AND MOST CRITICALLY, HIS REPEATED CLAIMS OF ELECTION INTERFERENCE

BY DEMOCRATIC PROSECUTORS HAVE BECOME CENTRAL TO HIS FUND-RAISING STRATEGY. SO FAR HE’S DOING WELL AGAINST PRESIDENT BIDEN IN POLLS. BUT THE RISK HERE, COULD THE INDEPENDENT VOTERS WHO DECIDE CLOSE ELECTIONS SOUR ON THE FORMER PRESIDENT IF HE IS CONVICTED OF A FELONY? LESTER.

>> GARRETT HAAKE HERE IN NEW YORK. THANK YOU. >>> LET’S GET TO THAT BIG OVERHAUL AT BOEING, WHICH HAS BEEN SHAKEN BY QUALITY CONTROL FAILURES INCLUDING THAT DOOR PLUG BLOWOUT IN FLIGHT. CEO DAVE CALHOUN ANNOUNCED HE’LL LEAVE BOEING THIS YEAR, AND

HE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE. HERE’S TOM COSTELLO. >> Reporter: HE’S THE CEO OF ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S CRITICAL ECONOMIC DRIVERS. NOW UNDER PRESSURE, BOEING’S DAVE CALHOUN SAYS HE’LL LEAVE BY YEAR’S END. AFTER FIVE YEARS OF CRISIS AND GROUNDINGS INVOLVING TWO MAX 8

CRASHES THAT KILLED 346 PEOPLE, THE MAX 9 DOOR PLUG BLOWOUT AND QUALITY CONTROL BREAKDOWNS ACROSS BOEING. >> WE’RE GOING TO GET AHEAD OF ALL OF THE ISSUES WITH THE FAA AND WAY MORE IMPORTANTLY OUR OWN PEOPLE BRING TO OUR

ATTENTION, AND WE’LL GET AHEAD OF IT. THAT WILL HAPPEN. >> Reporter: IT COMES AS THE COMPANY IS THE FOCUS OF CRIMINAL, NTSB AND FAA INVESTIGATIONS. LAST WEEK FAA CHIEF MIKE WHITAKER TOLD LESTER HE WAS SURPRISED DURING MEETINGS AT BOEING THAT THEIR PRIORITIES

SEEMED TO BE PRODUCTION, NOT SAFETY. >> I THINK IT REALLY SHOWS HOW THE MINDSET HAS BEEN ON PRODUCTION. AND I THINK YOU WOULD HAVE EXPECTED AT LEAST MORE OF A SHOW OF FOCUS ON SAFETY. AND THAT WAS LACKING. >> Reporter: CALHOUN RESPONDING TODAY.

>> I RECOGNIZED EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE I HEARD IT FROM ALL OF OUR OWN PEOPLE. >> Reporter: AIRLINE CONFIDENCE IN BOEING HAS ALSO BEEN SHAKEN FOLLOWING THE DOOR PLUG BLOWOUT. >> IT MAKES YOU MAD. IT MAKES YOU MAD THAT

WE’RE FINDING ISSUES LIKE THAT ON BRAND NEW AIRPLANES. >> Reporter: IN A STUNNING REBUKE A GROUP OF AIRLINE CEOs RECENTLY ASKED TO MEET WITH BOEING’S BOARD BUT WITHOUT CEO CALHOUN. NOW WITH BOEING’S STOCK DOWN 26% THIS YEAR THE BOARD IS MAKING BIG CHANGES.

IN ADDITION TO CALHOUN THE HEAD OF COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT IS LEAVING. THE HEAD OF 737 PRODUCTION HAS ALREADY LEFT. AND BOEING’S BOARD CHAIR WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION. >> BOEING NEEDS TO ENSURE THE QUALITY CONTROL AND THE SAFETY METRICS THAT THE AIRLINES ARE LOOKING FOR.

>> Reporter: SEVERAL AIRLINES SAID THEY’RE COMMITTED TO BOEING AS IT MOVES TO BUY AND INTEGRATE SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, ITS TROUBLED FUSELAGE MAKER. IN AN E-MAIL TO EMPLOYEES CALHOUN TODAY SAID, “THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE ON US, AND I KNOW THAT WE

WILL COME THROUGH THIS MOMENT A BETTER COMPANY.” >> AND TOM, BOEING’S HEADACHES HAVE NOT BEEN LIMITED TO THE 737 MAX. >> Reporter: THAT’S RIGHT. THE 787 DREAMLINER. AIR FORCE ONE. THE MILITARY TANKER AIRCRAFT HAVE ALL HAD ISSUES. AND BOEING’S STARLINER SPACESHIP IS SET TO

CARRY ITS FIRST CREW TO THE SPACE STATION NEXT MONTH, FIVE YEARS BEHIND SCHEDULE. SO THERE ARE CHALLENGES COMPANYWIDE, LESTER. >> TOM COSTELLO, THANK YOU. >>> MORE HEAVY SNOW TONIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF THE PLAINS AND UPPER MIDWEST, WHERE AS MUCH AS A FOOT MORE

OF SNOW COULD FALL IN SOME AREAS, PRODUCING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. TO THE SOUTH MILLIONS COULD SEE SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. AL ROKER IS WATCHING IT ALL. AL, WHAT SHOULD WE BE FOCUSING ON? >> WELL, LESTER, RIGHT NOW WE ARE FOCUSING ON THIS LINE OF SEVERE

STORMS PUSHING THEIR WAY IN. WE HAVE TORNADO WATCHES UP UNTIL 8:00 P.M. FROM LOUISIANA AND PARTS OF ARKANSAS ALL THE WAY DOWN INTO PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI AS WELL. WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT 9 MILLION PEOPLE AT RISK FOR A FEW STRONG TORNADOES.

WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 70 MILES PER HOUR. THIS HATCHED AREA, WE COULD BE LOOKING AT EF2-PLUS TORNADOES, AND THEY COULD BE OVERNIGHT. AND THOSE ARE THE MOST DEADLY. ALSO 40 MILLION PEOPLE UNDER WIND ADVISORIES STRETCHING FROM THE APPALACHIANS ALL THE WAY DOWN INTO TEXAS.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS ANYWHERE FROM TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN IN THE SOUTHEAST ON INTO THE LOWER GULF. AND ANOTHER FOOT OF SNOW POSSIBLY ON UP INTO NORTHERN MINNESOTA. LESTER? >> ALL RIGHT, MR. ROKER, THANK YOU. >>> TONIGHT ISRAEL SAYING IT WILL PRESS

ON AGAINST HAMAS DESPITE A U.N. RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A CEASE-FIRE AND IS NOW CANCELING A MEETING IN WASHINGTON IN PROTEST OF HOW THE U.S. VOTED. RAF SANCHEZ IS IN TEL AVIV. AND RAF, IT’S ANOTHER SIGN OF THE STRAIN BETWEEN PRESIDENT

BIDEN AND PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU. >> Reporter: THAT’S RIGHT, LESTER. THE U.S. COULD HAVE VETOED THIS RESOLUTION, AS IT’S DONE IN THE PAST. INSTEAD IT ABSTAINED, ALLOWING IT TO GO THROUGH. PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU SLAMMING THAT DECISION, CANCELING A VISIT TO

WASHINGTON BY SENIOR ISRAELI OFFICIALS, AND ACCUSING THE WHITE HOUSE OF BACKTRACKING BECAUSE THIS RESOLUTION DOES NOT EXPLICITLY LINK THE CEASE-FIRE TO HAMAS RELEASING HOSTAGES. NOW, THE WHITE HOUSE IS SAYING THERE IS NO CHANGE IN U.S. POLICY, BUT WITH THIS RESOLUTION UNLIKELY TO

MAKE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE ON THE GROUND IT IS LOOKING LIKE THE BEST CHANCE OF A BREAKTHROUGH BOTH FOR THE HOSTAGES BUT ALSO FOR PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS SUFFERING IN GAZA IS GOING TO BE AT THOSE CEASE-FIRE NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY RIGHT NOW IN QATAR. LESTER?

>> OKAY, RAF, THANK YOU. >>> IN MOSCOW RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN TONIGHT BLAMING RADICAL ISLAMISTS FOR THAT TERRORIST ATTACK AT A CONCERT HALL THAT KILLED AT LEAST 137 PEOPLE. HERE’S MATT BRADLEY. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, MOSCOW MOURNS AS EYEWITNESSES TELL THE

WORLD ABOUT THE HORRORS THEY ENDURED. “I HONESTLY THOUGHT IT WAS A FIRECRACKER,” SAID THIS SURVIVOR. “BUT THESE CRACKLE, THEY WERE LIKE THIS. THEY WEREN’T STOPPING. THERE WAS SCREAMING, PANIC.” GUNMEN WENT ON A RAMPAGE THROUGH A CONCERT HALL FRIDAY, SHOOTING, THROWING BOMBS AND DOUSING THE

BUILDING WITH FLAMMABLE LIQUID, WITNESSES SAID. AT LEAST 137 PEOPLE WERE KILLED. “THEY WERE JUST WALKING AND GUNNING DOWN EVERYONE, METHODICALLY IN SILENCE,” SAID THIS SURVIVOR. TONIGHT RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYING RADICAL ISLAMISTS WERE TO BLAME. OVER THE WEEKEND PUTIN

HAD BLAMED UKRAINE FOR TRYING TO HELP THE TERRORISTS ESCAPE. SOMETHING UKRAINE DENIED. ISIS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ATTACK. THE U.S. SAYS THE GROUP IS AN AFGHAN-BASED AFFILIATE CALLED ISIS-K. ISIS-K WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR A SUICIDE BOMBING THAT KILLED 13 U.S. TROOPS AND MORE THAN

180 AFGHANS DURING THE CHAOTIC AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN. THE FOUR ACCUSED GUNMEN IN FRIDAY’S TERROR ATTACK, ALL OF THEM TAJIK NATIONALS, WERE CAUGHT BY POLICE. TWO OF THE FOUR PLED GUILTY. ALL LOOKED BEATEN AND BATTERED. VIDEOS OF WHAT APPEAR TO BE BRUTAL

INTERROGATIONS AIRING ON RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT-BACKED NEWS CHANNELS. AND LESTER, THIS ATTACK HAS CLEARLY RATTLED EUROPE. ITALY AND FRANCE HAVE BOTH RAISED THEIR DOMESTIC SECURITY LEVELS. LESTER? >> OKAY, MATT, THANKS. >>> IN 60 SECONDS MLB SUPERSTAR SHOHEI OHTANI SPEAKING OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME

ABOUT THE BETTING SCANDAL INVOLVING HIS OWN INTERPRETER. WHAT HE’S CALLING A COMPLETE LIE. NEXT. >>> JUST IN TONIGHT, BASEBALL’S BIGGEST STAR BREAKING HIS SILENCE ABOUT A SCANDAL THAT HAS ROCKED THE SPORT. SHOHEI OHTANI POINTING THE FINGER AT HIS NOW FIRED INTERPRETER AMID

ALLEGATIONS OF THEFT AND GAMBLING. HERE’S LIZ KREUTZ. >> Reporter: TONIGHT BASEBALL’S BIGGEST STAR, SHOHEI OHTANI, SPEAKING FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT THE THEFT AND GAMBLING ALLEGATIONS SWIRLING AROUND HIS FORMER INTERPRETER, IPPEI MIZUHARA. >> IPPEI HAS BEEN STEALING MONEY FROM MY

ACCOUNT AND HAS TOLD LIES. VERY SADDENED AND SHOCKED THAT SOMEONE WHO I’M TRUSTED HAS DONE THIS. >> Reporter: SPEAKING THROUGH A NEW TRANSLATOR, OHTANI ADDRESSING REPORTS $4.5 MILLION WAS ALLEGEDLY WIRED FROM HIS ACCOUNT TO A BOOKMAKER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, WHERE

SPORTS BETTING IS ILLEGAL. >> SO I NEVER BET ON BASEBALL OR ANY OTHER SPORTS OR NEVER HAVE ASKED SOMEBODY TO DO IT ON MY BEHALF. >> Reporter: THOSE REMARKS COME NEARLY A WEEK AFTER THE DODGERS FIRED MIZUHARA, WHO ALLEGEDLY TOLD CONFLICTING STORIES

ABOUT WHAT OHTANI KNEW AND WHEN. THE MLB IS NOW INVESTIGATING. >> THEY’RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE PAPER TRAIL WITH RESPECT TO COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN MR. OHTANI AND HIS INTERPRETER TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT IT IS HE UNDERSTOOD HE WAS AUTHORIZED WHEN THESE SUBSTANTIAL TRANSFERS

OF FUNDS WERE BEING MADE. >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO THE “L.A. TIMES” OHTANI’S NAME SURFACED IN A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO BOOKIE MATTHEW BOWYER. HIS ATTORNEY SAYS BOWYER HAD NO INTERACTIONS WITH OHTANI, ONLY MIZUHARA, AND NO BETS WERE PLACED ON BASEBALL. >> AT SOME POINT MR.

BOWYER UNDERSTOOD THAT A WIRE TRANSFER HAD COME THROUGH WITH THE NAME OHTANI AND THE SUBJECT LINE SAID LOAN. BUT THAT WAS THE ONLY KNOWLEDGE THAT MR. BOWYER HAD AND HE NEVER ASKED ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT. >> Reporter: THE IRS NOW INVESTIGATING

BOWYER AND MIZUHARA. NOW, HERE AT DODGER STADIUM OHTANI DID NOT TAKE ANY QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS BUT HE INSISTED HE DID NOT PAY OFF HIS INTERPRETER’S DEBTS. MIZUHARA HAS NOT RESPONDED TO NBC NEWS’S MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS TO REACH HIM. LESTER? >> LIZ KREUTZ, THANK YOU.

>>> UP NEXT, WITH THE SUPREME COURT SET TO DEBATE ACCESS TO THE ABORTION PILL TOMORROW, THE WOMEN SENDING IT TO STATES WHERE IT IS CURRENTLY ILLEGAL. >>> BACK NOW WITH THE ABORTION PILL BATTLE. WHILE IT’S BANNED IN 14 STATES, SOME

ACTIVISTS HAVE TAKEN IT UPON THEMSELVES TO MAIL IT TO WOMEN IN THOSE PLACES. BUT AS DASHA BURNS EXPLAINS, THAT COULD ALL CHANGE WITH A CASE THAT GOES BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT TOMORROW. >>> IN THIS BASEMENT IN UPSTATE NEW YORK ONE GROUP IS GIVING

ABORTION ACCESS TO THOUSANDS IN STATES WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL. WE’RE NOT SHOWING FACES BECAUSE THEY FEAR REPERCUSSIONS. >> WHERE’S A LOT OF THIS MEDICATION GOING? >> THE MEDICATION IS GOING TO ALL THE STATES THAT THE PHARMACY WILL NOT SEND TO. SO I WOULD SAY THE

MAJORITY ARE GOING TO TEXAS. LOUISIANA, ALABAMA, FLORIDA, GEORGIA. >> Reporter: NEW YORK IS ONE OF SIX STATES OPERATING UNDER NEW SHIELD LAWS WHEN IT COMES TO TELEHEALTH, WHICH PROTECT PROVIDERS DOING THIS FROM PROSECUTION. FOR NOW. >> HOW MANY PRESCRIPTIONS ARE YOU

MAILING OUT TODAY? >> TODAY WE’RE DOING 112. >> Reporter: DR. LINDA PRINE PRESCRIBES PILLS FROM NEW YORK CITY. >> WHAT IS THE SCALE OF THIS OPERATION? >> SO BEFORE WE HAD THE SHIELD LAW WE WERE MAILING PILLS TO THE BLUE STATES. AFTER WE PASSED OUR

SHIELD LAW THE FIRST MONTH WE SENT ABOUT 4,000 PILLS INTO RESTRICTED STATES. AND NOW WE’RE UP TO AROUND 10,000 PILLS A MONTH. >> Reporter: ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS GROUPS TAKING NOTICE. >> THE FACT REMAINS THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE SITTING IN CALIFORNIA DOES NOT

MEAN THAT YOU ARE NOT VIOLATING THE LAWS OF FLORIDA, TEXAS AND 30 OTHER STATES. SO I THINK THEY HAVE A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY ABOUT THIS. >> Reporter: BUT THAT ACCESS IN QUESTION. THE SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR ORAL ARGUMENTS TOMORROW IN A CASE

THAT COULD PROHIBIT PRESCRIPTION OF ABORTION PILLS VIA TELEMEDICINE AND PREVENT PROVIDERS FROM MAILING THEM. >> WHAT ACTION DO YOU WANT THE SUPREME COURT TO TAKE? >> WE HOPE THAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL AGREE WITH THE TWO LOWER COURTS WHO HAVE ALREADY FOUND THAT

IT’S LIKELY THAT THE FDA BROKE FEDERAL LAW AND ITS OWN RULES WHEN IT BROUGHT THE ABORTION DRUGS TO MARKET. >> I THINK WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT IS REALLY WAYS TO WORK AROUND WHATEVER SCENARIO COMES UP SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE

TO GET THESE MEDICATIONS TO PATIENTS. >> Reporter: DASHA BURNS, NBC NEWS, NEW PALTZ, NEW YORK. >>> WE’LL TAKE A SHORT BREAK. WHEN WE COME BACK, AHEAD OF THIS SUMMER’S OLYMPICS THE >>> FINALLY, IF YOU APPRECIATE FAST SERVICE WHEN YOU GO

OUT TO EAT, PARIS HAS JUST THE COMPETITION FOR YOU. HERE’S STEPHANIE GOSK. >> Reporter: THIS SUMMER IN PARIS THE FASTEST ATHLETES IN THE WORLD WILL WIN OLYMPIC GOLD AND MAYBE BREAK WORLD RECORDS. WHICH IS NOT EXACTLY WHAT WAS HAPPENING SUNDAY ON THE STREETS

OF THE FRENCH CAPITAL. BUT NONETHELESS THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION WAS IN THE AIR. 200 WAITERS FROM CAFES ACROSS THE CITY RACED 1.2 MILES IN UNIFORM CARRYING TRAYS WITH WATER, AN ESPRESSO CUP AND A CROISSANT. OR AS THE LOCALS CALL IT, A CROISSANT. THE RULES WERE SIMPLE,

NO RUNNING, ONLY ONE HAND CAN CARRY THE TRAY AND THE WATER CAN’T SPILL. NO ONE WANTS A SOGGY CROISSANT. “I DON’T NECESSARILY EXPECT TO BE FIRST,” THIS WAITRESS SAYS. “I DON’T HAVE THE BEST CARDIO.” THE PARIS MAYOR LAUNCHED THE RACE. CALLING THE FRENCH

BISTRO A WAY OF LIFE. AND THE RACE HAS HONORED IT FOR OVER A CENTURY. WAITERS FACING OFF SINCE 1914. SOME YEARS CARRYING WINE INSTEAD OF WATER. SPEED-WALKING THROUGH THE STORIED STREETS. IN 1929 THESE TWO GOT CREATIVE, IF ALSO A BIT RECKLESS. IN RECENT YEARS A LACK

OF SPONSORSHIP PUT THE RACE ON HOLD. BUT WITH THE CITY’S SUPPORT IT WAS BACK. AT THE END THE WINNER BROKE THE TAPE IN VICTORY AND CRUMBLED IN EXHAUSTION. THE THRONGS OF OLYMPIC COFFEE DRINKERS WON’T DESCEND UPON THE CITY FOR A FEW MONTHS. PLENTY OF TIME TO WORK

ON THEIR CARDIO. STEPHANIE GOSK, NBC NEWS. >> WHAT A GREAT TRADITION. THAT’S “NIGHTLY NEWS” FOR THIS MONDAY. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.