News & Sports

Hidden cameras reveal Mexican drug and immigrant smugglers crossing the U.S. border and traveling miles north into the country, NBC's Mark Potter reports. (Nightly News)

Tannersville, N.Y., was a standard-issue faded country town until resident Elena Patterson, a native of South Africa, came up with the radical idea to paint the whole town in cheery, bright colors, which has turned it into a tourist destination. NBC's Mike Leonard pays a visit. (TODAY)

A woman in rural Arkansas is Making A Difference for her community in such a profound way, she's known as a real-life miracle worker. NBC Special Correspondent Chelsea Clinton reports.  (Nightly News)

Ten years of war have had little impact in the town of Qarabagh in provincial Afghanistan. Many in the town fled to Pakistan, refugees from the Taliban. NBC's Sohel Uddin reports.  (Nightly News)

For many school children in rural China, a typical day maybe spent with no food at all.   Now, a newly launched free school lunch program is providing them with a hot meal, possibly the only one they will have all day.  NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.     (Nightly News)

The Army Corps of Engineers is flooding several small communities along the Mississippi River on purpose to protect Louisiana's two largest cities, New Orleans and Baton Rouge. NBC's Anne Thompson reports (TODAY)