NBC News and MSNBC Special Coverage of the Deadly Attacks in Nice, France

NBC News and MSNBC will provide ongoing coverage of the deadly attacks in Nice, France.

Tonight, Lester Holt will anchor “NBC Nightly News” live from Nice, France.

At 10pm ET, Holt will also anchor a special hour of “Dateline NBC” from Nice. Harry Smith, Dennis Murphy, Keith Morrison, Andrea Canning and Josh Mankiewicz will file stories for “The Bastille Day Attack: A Dateline Special.”

Earlier today, Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie anchored a special edition of TODAY, “Terror in France.”

Yesterday, MSNBC broke in to report the news at 5:41pm ET. Brian Williams led MSNBC’s ongoing live coverage from 6:01pm ET to 8:02pm ET and later returned to anchor from 11pm ET to 1 am ET.

On the network, Lester Holt anchored an NBC News Special Report at 6:01pm ET. VIDEO: http://nbcnews.to/29J6eOq

At 11:56pm ET, NBC News Correspondent Janet Shamlian was reporting live from the scene. VIDEO:  http://on.msnbc.com/29ARqld

This morning on TODAY, she described how she and her family happened to be on vacation in Nice when the attack occurred and how they could easily have been on the scene. VIDEO: http://on.today.com/29MVWQS

NBC News and MSNBC correspondents on the ground and enroute to Nice are Kelly Cobiella, Chris Jansing, Ayman Mohyeldin, Bill Neely, Janet Shamlian and Harry Smith.

Veteran journalists Christopher Dickey and Bob Franken are also contributing to our live coverage from Nice.

Follow the NBCNews.com live blog for the latest updates: http://nbcnews.to/29HSVDa.

NBC News will continue to provide network special reports throughout the day as news warrants.

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Maggie Steenland

NBC News Communications

212.664.7874

maggie.steenland@nbcuni.com