A  letter from  future CIA director, Richard Helms, when he was an intelligence operative during WWII, to his young son.  Helms got into  Hitler's chancellery in Berlin and took a piece of the Fuehrer's stationery…  he wrote the letter to his son, Dennis, saying in part  "The man who might have written on this card once controlled Europe - three short years ago when you were born. Today he is dead, his memory despised, his country in ruins."  He dated the letter "V-E day" for May 8, 1945. (Nightly News)

It appears that there are few environmental dangers evident in the collapse of a natural gas platform that is burning to the waterline more than 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana. NBC’s Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)

The House is likely to pass the Senate version of the bill, which would lower student loan interest rates for the college students in the fall. NBC’s Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)

Filled with secrets, the CIA museum -- which is closed to the public – houses all kinds of artifacts: from a 70s-era drone, to the gun found next to Osama bin Laden when Navy SEALs killed him in a midnight raid. NBC’s Richard Engel reports. (Nightly News)

The 41st president shaved his head in solidarity with a two-year-old cancer patient who lost his hair while undergoing treatment for leukemia. NBC’s Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)

The Affordable Care Act ties millions in Medicare funding to patient satisfaction. But the mandated patient surveys may have unintended consequences, critics say. NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports. (Nightly News)