NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports tonight on Jane Goodall - the trailblazer who studied chimpanzees and changed the way we looked at these great apes. Goodall passed away at the age of 91 while on a speaking tour in California. | NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

TONIGHT: NBC News’ Anne Thompson takes us inside a Washington D.C. hospital to see how robots are being used to prepare and deliver medicines to patients. Watch on NBC Nightly News at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT | NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

6.2K views · 72 reactions | For years, NBC News' Anne Thompson has reported on the risk whales face in the waters they face with cargo ships and fishing lines. Tonight, she tells us about a new approach to protect these giants of the sea. | NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas | Facebook

Before he died, Pope Francis gave the money in his bank account to a pasta factory next to a juvenile prison. The factory employs former and current inmates, with the goal of putting them on a glidepath for the future. NBC News' Anne Thompson visits the factory, talks to the workers and reports on a papal spike in sales since word got out about the donation. | NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

Deaths from 9/11-related illnesses will soon outnumber those lost that day. NBC News Correspondent Anne Thompson has the details tonight on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. | NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

26K views · 325 reactions | NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports for the series “The Cost of Denial” about a Michigan man who languished in a hospital bed for five weeks waiting on insurance approval for his rehab care. He and his wife say that delay has affected them for the rest of their lives. | NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas | Facebook