NBC News Special Report Recaps: NBC News Special Report Summaries for March 2018

See short summaries of topics covered during special reports that NBC News aired in March 2018 after the page break below: ↓

March 6:

President Donald Trump and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven held a joint press conference from the East Room of the White House.

March 13:

1. President Trump tweeted that he had replaced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with outgoing Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo. He also said Gina Haspel would become new head of the CIA.

2. Outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made a statement from the United States State Department briefing room after his firing. >>Special Report on Periscope<<

March 14:

Students across the United States of America walked out of class in honor of the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and demanded enhanced gun control measures.

March 15:

1. A span of a newly-installed pedestrian bridge adjacent to Florida International University (FIU) collapsed over Southwest 8th Street and crushed eight vehicles in Sweetwater, Florida. Multiple deaths and injuries were reported.

2. Officials held a news conference after the pedestrian bridge span adjacent to FIU collapsed.

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March 20:

A shooting at Great Mills High School in Grand Mills, Maryland injured two students. The shooter committed suicide as a school resource officer fired shots back at him.

March 22:

1. President Trump announced plans for $50 billion in new tariffs against imports from China. Trump's personal lawyer John Dowd also announced his resignation.

2. The DOW Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 700 points following President Trump’s announcement of billions of dollars in new tariffs against China sparking fears of a trade war and the controversy over Facebook users’ data breach by Cambridge Analytica.