{"id":1376,"date":"2016-06-02T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2016-06-02T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T14:16:12","slug":"watch-lester-holt-interviews-airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-in-havana-cuba-for-nbcs-on-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2016\/06\/02\/watch-lester-holt-interviews-airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-in-havana-cuba-for-nbcs-on-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: LESTER HOLT INTERVIEWS AIRBNB CEO BRIAN CHESKY IN HAVANA, CUBA FOR NBC\u2019S \u201cON ASSIGNMENT\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Also on Sunday\u2019s \u201cOn Assignment:\u201d Harry Smith Talks to Jay Leno About Driverless Cars, <\/span><\/b><\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/pnokumot\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/video\/on-assignment-driverless-cars-697057347696\"><em><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: windowtext;text-decoration: none\">Click Here<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/a><em><b> for a Preview <\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Josh Mankiewicz Reports on a Ground-Breaking Approach to Treating the Nation\u2019s Heroin Epidemic \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">NEW YORK \u2013 June 2, 2016 \u2013 On this Sunday\u2019s \u201cOn Assignment,\u201d Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky speaks to Lester Holt about what he likes to call \u201cthe worst idea that ever worked\u201d: the birth and growth of the revolutionary home-sharing website and app, in Chesky\u2019s first network newsmagazine profile. A billionaire three times over at just 34 years-old, Chesky also addresses criticism that Airbnb faces in cities across the world. Among the others interviewed: the world\u2019s third-richest man, legendary investor Warren Buffett, who paid Chesky the ultimate compliment, saying, \u201cWhy couldn\u2019t I have thought of it?\u201d To watch a preview of the story, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/pnokumot\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/video\/airbnb-mi-casa-es-su-casa-696971331876\">click here<\/a>. \u201cOn Assignment,\u201d the limited series from \u201cDateline NBC,\u201d airs on NBC Sunday, June 5 at 7 p.m. ET\/ 6 p.m. CT.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Also in \u201cOn Assignment,\u201d Harry Smith explores the driverless car revolution with the godfather of the technology, Sebastian Thrun, and Brad Templeton, a Silicon Valley pioneer who has worked on self-driving cars at Google. Smith tracks the movement\u2019s origins from a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) challenge to current efforts of researchers racing to get self-driving cars on the road. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/pnokumot\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/video\/on-assignment-driverless-cars-697057347696\">Click here<\/a> to watch a preview of the story, in which Smith interviews America\u2019s best-known car enthusiast, Jay Leno, about why Leno looks forward to a driverless future. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Additionally, Josh Mankiewicz reports from Gloucester, Massachusetts, where Chief of Police Leonard Campanello started a ground-breaking approach to treating the nation\u2019s heroin epidemic.\u00a0Campanello partnered with several treatment facilities to create \u201cThe Angel Initiative,\u201d in which any addict who walks into the police station and asks for help is guaranteed access to detox facilities. To date, 101 police departments in 23 states have adopted elements of the initiative. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u201cOn Assignment\u201d is produced by the \u201cDateline NBC\u201d team, with Senior Executive Producer David Corvo and Executive Producer Liz Cole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"># # #\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">For more information contact:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Jake Urbanski<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">NBC News<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">o: (212) 664-3211<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">c: (646) 823-2133<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">e: <a href=\"mailto:jake.urbanski@nbcuni.com\">jake.urbanski@nbcuni.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also on Sunday\u2019s \u201cOn Assignment:\u201d Harry Smith Talks to Jay Leno About Driverless Cars, Click Here for a Preview Josh Mankiewicz Reports on a Ground-Breaking Approach to Treating the Nation\u2019s Heroin Epidemic \u00a0 NEW YORK \u2013 June 2, 2016 \u2013 On this Sunday\u2019s \u201cOn Assignment,\u201d Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky speaks to Lester Holt [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2016\/06\/02\/watch-lester-holt-interviews-airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-in-havana-cuba-for-nbcs-on-assignment\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from WATCH: LESTER HOLT INTERVIEWS AIRBNB CEO BRIAN CHESKY IN HAVANA, CUBA FOR NBC\u2019S \u201cON ASSIGNMENT\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dateline","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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