engel, for yielding. i'd like to thank the chairman and the ranking member of the foreign affairs committee for the bipartisanship with which they have led this bill and which i think we will accomplish some very good things tomorrow. the figures around this program speak for themselves. the millions of lives saved the orphanage that are no longer full, the many pregnant women that will not transmit a dead lie virus to their children this is without question pepfar and the global fund one of the most effective foreign aid programs ever conceived in this chamber. but americans might ask, in good faith why spend money in places like africa and asia and in the caribbean when the needs are so intense right here at home? and the answer to that question could not be more clear. africa and asia, where pepfar and the global fund do the most good, are areas of great instability but of great promise. where countries like china are buying up commodities, are exerting their influence, are throwing their weight around

>> richard engel with us from kabul tonight. richard, thank you. >>> and there was a worrisome piece of news from that region earlier today. word from beirut that at least 23 people were killed by a pair of suicide bombers who attacked outside the iranian embassy. a sunni group linked to al qaeda has claimed responsibility and says there would be more attacks unless iran and hezbollah stops supporting the assad ve sheem in the syrian war. >>> there is news tonight regarding safety in the skies and airline pilots, for that matter around the world are relying these days too much on automation in the cockpit and losing basic piloting skills. a new faa report to be released later this week warns of what they call automation diction and calls on airlines to reinforce basic flying skills. nbc's tom costello has our report. >> reporter: it's the end of a long cross-country or international flight. but in today's highly automated cockpits, how much flying do the crews actually do? captain karen kahn has spent 36 years as a pilot for a m

joining us now live from kabul is nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. thanks for being here tonight. >> it's a pleasure to be with you as all. kabul is missing you. you'll have plenty of time to come back, it seems. >> i know that spot, and i have a feeling we're going to be seeing you long there longer than we expected to be. >> what struck you about this draft agreement when you first got a hold of it. as you mentioned, there eels always been this vague notion. there's never been in enduring presence. but really it was all big. it was never clear how many troops were going to stay, it was never clear how long they were going to stay, and some of these questions remain unanswered. but what is clear, when you see a draft of this document, is that u.s. officials and afghan officials behind closed doors have been very hard at work hammering out a detailed agreement that would allow u.s. troops to stay here for decades or at least a decade or not. the document talks about going up through 2024, and beyond. it outlines a variety of commitments like the afgh

>> richard engel, how much room do you think hamid karzai has? how willing are they, how willing is the karzai government to negotiate with the obama administration on the language of athere's a great deal of flexibility. in fact, karzai's government does not want this letter. this is about karzai himself. by the way, karzai is not particularly concerned about winning over public opinion. karzai has said he's not going to run in the next elections, which are just in april. so this is more about his legacy. he wants to be remembered by his people as the man who came into this country who helped bring it, if you will, into a modern era and then who stood up to the americans and said we're going to keep an american presence here for our long-term stability, but we're going to do it with the americans begging to stay and with them confined to their bases. so it is not that he has an aggressive populous and is facing an imminent election. >> ayman, i want to turn quickly, if we can, over to the bombing in beirut. i wonder whether you think retaliation

i want to bring in congressman engel of new york. what's your reaction to this? >> well, my reaction is, i never quoted ronald reagan, but it's trust but verify. the iranians have not been friends of the united states, and you do negotiate with your enemies. you don't necessarily negotiate with your friends. i think the sanctions worked, and that's the reason why the iranians are at the table. the president has decided to go on this course of action, and we'll have to see. but i'm skeptical. i must tell you, i'm skeptical. i'm skeptical because i think that it's not so unusual to expect the iranians to stop enriching while they're talking. if there are going to be six months of talks, and that's fine, where at the end, everyone says there hopefully will be an agreement where iran will not have a nuclear weapon, i think it's a show of good faith, iran should stop enriching. now, the u.n. security council has met a number of times, has passed resolutions calling on iran to stop enriching, and yet, in this agreement, that's not in there. that's troubling to me and t

richard engel tonight with u.s. troops in afghanistan where a much-needed holiday break didn't last long and came to a sudden end. >>> and those who serve. for a job that requires heavy lifting, employers are finding it pays to turn to those who carried the load in the past. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. in some places across this country tonight it's as if someone announced we are in danger of running out of stuff and those who need stuff better buy it now because it is going away forever. it is that day on the yearly calendar when people in recovery from thanksgiving head out to be part of a massive crowd streaming through malls and stores, in some cases whipped into a crazed, violent frenzy. however much web retailing has taken hold in this country forever, today was devoted to old-fashioned shopping from one end of the country to the other. here is the scene live at the mall of america in minnesota and the park meadows mall outside of denver. then there is john yang in chicago to start us off. goo

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deal obtained by richard engel would commit u.s. troops until the end of 2024 and beyond. we'll have a live report from kabul on what this would mean for those serving in america's longest war. >> we came here for a mission, and we take care of the mission and we go home. >>> battle lines. the fight to have outside prosecutors take over military assault cases. but on this, the senate sister hood is divided. >> we should not do what the generals are telling us to do. this is our job. >> we will be creating more problems than we will be solving if we make the change as advocated by senator jill brand. >> and the legacy lives on. 50 years after president kennedy first established the medal of freedom, president obama presented the awards to legends today from ernie banks to oprah winfrey and bill clinton. and moments from now we'll be going live to arlington national cemetery. president obama and former president clinton will lay a wreath at kennedy's grave, the eternal flame. and as we mark this anniversary of his death this week, robert mcneil and jim lair will be joining m

filming incoming is much more difficult. >> before too long, engel and his crew find themselves in an extremely difficult situation. the soldiers from restrepo decide to mount an operation designed to draw out the taliban. >> the troops broke up into two units. one unit from restrepo climbed down in the middle of the night through the hills and took up a post in a safehouse in the middle of this village. the other unit openly, overtly walked, drove and moved in to the village on the other side and set up position in a farmhouse. >> it's a trap to catch the taliban. and things are going just as planned. until a tragic mistake changes everything. >> so i was filming and suddenly there's this very loud explosion. >> a u.s.-fired mortar lands directly on the safehouse where part of the unit waits in ambush. >> it was a really, really awful moment because what it meant was that the operation that we had thought we were going to do, suddenly turned into this very dire situation. >> i remember as soon as we heard that bang, we knew something was wrong. then we heard the most disturbing thing

nbc news chief correspondent richard engel has the details. >> reporter: nbc news obtained this draft of a u.s./afghan security agreement. it's still unsigned, but it describes a sweeping long-term relationship with the united states paying for afghan security forces and maintaining outposts in this country perhaps until 2024, and maybe beyond that. u.s. troops training, equipping and advising afghan forces, and hunting al qaeda. moving off base would be extremely restricted. afghan officials want 10,000 to 15,000 troops to stay, for a decade at least. u.s. officials talk of 7,000 to 8,000. >> i think they're on their feet, a little nervous about taking the first few steps without us, but i think they can do it. >> reporter: but most afghan troops don't want u.s. troops to leave. >> we need strong support from international community. >> reporter: why not just leave? the afghan government could collapse and again become a haven for insurgents. after so many years would a force of 7,000 make a difference? iraq stands as a warning. there was no agreement there when the u.s. left and the

richard engel, nbc news, kabul. >>> now to the other story that our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has been following for us today. an elderly american veteran, an 85-year-old man, detained on a tourist trip to north korea. and as andrea reports for us tonight, there are tense negotiations underway to set him free. >> reporter: merrill newman fought as an infantry officer for three years during the korean war. the retired teacher's life dream was to go to north korea, say family members. after nine days on a tour of the world's most isolated nation, newman and a friend were about to leave when a military officer boarded their plane taking newman away. he hasn't been seen since. alarming family and friends from his retirement home. >> i think they're all worried. >> reporter: now it's a matter of high-stakes diplomacy. what can you say to pyongyang, to the north koreans about the american being held? >> well, north korea really needs to recognize the dangerous steps it has been taking on many fronts. this is obviously one of those moments where north korea needs to f

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richard engel, nbc news, cairo. >>> now to this widening and nsa spying story. all of it coming by leaks by the former u.s. defense contractor edward snowden. tonight's revelations involve very big names in the internet and e-mail world. now big companies are calling for new privacy laws to stop u.s. intelligence agencies from breaking into their data overseas. for more on all of it we turn to our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell in our d.c. newsroom tonight. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the tech companies worry they are losing an arm's race with the nsa which nbc news confirms has been hacking into google and yahoo data centers around the world as fast as the company has put up firewalls. vacuuming up e-mail and phone records. google and yahoo data centers in all corners of the globe reach targets by data collection by nsa and british intelligence. as first reported in the "washington post" they found more documents leaked by edward snowden, hundreds of thousands of e-mails, search queries and other activity collect

>> richard engel live from afghanistan for us tonight. richard, thank you. >>> still ahead for us this evening, secret agents. a plot right out of "homeland," a name from the beatles and a real life thriller exposed. >>> and later, hold the phone. who is that on the other end of the butterball hot line? >>> it's the kind of thing we never know about while it's happening because we're not allowed to, but tonight we are learning more about a secret area at guantanamo bay called penny lane where after 9/11 the cia took a sizable risk. we get more on the story from our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >> reporter: hidden only a few hundred yards from the guantanamo prison's administrative offices a top secret compound of cottages now abandoned, but ten years ago, following 9/11, code named penny lane. an ironic allusion to the beatles song just as gitmo was code named strawberry fields. in fact, what went on at penny lane was more like "homeland" than a magical mystery tour. >> it's not a trial. it's a quick execution you'

richard engel with the latest in politics in cairo tonight. and the second trial. richard, thanks. >>> gas prices are in the news tonight in this country. the national average of a gallon is now $3.25 a gallon, lowest level of the year. experts predict it will continue to fall. close to $3 a gallon. drivers in at least 35 states are already seeing $3 a gallon gas in some areas. that's because the price of oil is now down below $100 a barrel. currently at $94. still falling thanks, in part, to the current natural gas boom which has of course come with environmental controversy. >>> the idea of being bullied in the context of the nfl was tough for a lot of people to understand at first. how it could happen in such a highly charged atmosphere where just making the team tends to reward the very toughest. but a story is emerging from the miami dolphins about a young player and fear, intimidation, race and in part an ongoing football tradition. our report tonight from nbc's kerry sanders in miami. >> reporter: miami dolphins offensive tackle jonathan martin is 6'5", 312.

richard engel, nbc news. cairo. >>> another developing story we're keeping a close eye on in that region, an outbreak of polio in syria and the possibility of those trying to escape the civil war. nbc chief medical editor nancy snyderman is following this. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. when the reports of polio broke last week, the world took notice and the world health organization confirmed at least ten cases. experts tell nbc news, they're concerned that could be the tip of the iceberg because polio does not respect borders and as refugees flee, the virus can flee with them. in jordan where the largest refugee camp is, about 120,000 people in a semipermanent camp, almost 19,000 children were immunized with oral polio vaccine, trying to stop the spread of this disease. in lebanon, the concern is a little greater. they've had more than 1 million refugees crossing the border and unlike neighboring countries, the refugees are not concentrated in one area. in fact, they're in cities, in towns and in

kate. >> richard engel in afghanistan. we thank them for their service. >>> even before a lot of turkeys were in the oven, hours before the football games, holiday shopping kicked off across the country this morning. and as it creeps earlier and earlier, more than a dozen major retailers from target to macy's are open. according to the national retail federation survey, 33 million people are expected to shop today. and that has some people asking -- if it is all too much too soon. here's nbc's john yang. >> reporter: before dawn in suburban chicago, desiree shuffle is where she wants to be, first in line at k mart. >> this is what i live for to be number one. >> reporter: husband bobby and mom laurie are here too. >> whatever the boss says today. >> go get the pajamas. the toys. the barbies, the hotwheels. >> reporter: she is hot on the trail of a nintendo video game for her son, only nine are in stock. >> right now i just saved -- $165. on one item. >> reporter: racing from store to store is a family tradition. she liked

richard engel plans to be with american troops for thanksgiving dinner tomorrow in afghanistan. the pentagon is supplying 45,000 meals, trying to ensure everyone who is deployed gets a hot meal, even at remote fire base where is the food has to be flown in. we hope you remember them all at your own thanksgiving table. >>> turkeys are in the news generally toght. starting with the annual turkey pardon at the white house. gave us a chance to see daughters sasha and malia, now 12 and 15. the turkeys chosen to be spared by the president get to live out their lives on a farm. >>> by the way the pew research center says like the americans eating them, turkeys have gotten bigger over the years. in 1980 the average live bird weighed 19 pounds on average. they have now ballooned closer to 30. with all the work awaiting us on thursday, the pizza industry reports thanksgiving eve -- tonight -- is for many the second biggest day of the year for pizza sales behind super bowl sunday. >>> a glittering charity gathering at kensington palace in london last night benefitted the homeless. yes, tha

nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel was inside the morsi trial. what were you seeing? >> reporter: well, i've been to quite a few trials over the years and norpally they are quite boring pro seed do you recall durl affairs, he started to say he was a victim of a show trial and victim of a coup. he wasn't the only person yelling. as he was screaming at the judge say this was all nonsense and the court was illegitimate. several journalists in the room, egyptian journalists who are pro hill military and support the coup against morsi, they started yelling at well and trying to shout him down. the journalists who were smoking and standing on chairs, some of them took off shoes. i thought one was going to throw his show at morsi and chanting, death, death, death, saying that he should get the death penalty. as you had the defendant, mohamed morsi yelling at the judge calling the trial illegitimate and you have journalists yelling death at the defendant. >> richard, that's an extraordinary scene that you've witnessed. what do you make of that in light o

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engel and his colleagues are part of a small group of courageous journalists risking their lives to report from syria. some of the most extraordinary images are being captured by manny, an independent french photographer and filmmaker. manny uses a fake name in order to protect his identity. >> before becoming a journalist, i used to teach kids in middle schools in paris. >> as a young man, manny also teaches in syria where he travels to study arabic. >> i started going syria quite early in my life. >> when he decides to switch careers and become a journalist, the syrian conflict beckons. >> when these movements happened in the arab world, i thought, okay, this is something that is really important that is happening. i lived there and i know those people. >> using his teaching credentials as cover, manny sneaks into the country. >> i had to go through the border illegally. the biggest danger you're facing is to be discovered. >> in syria he begins reporting the human side of war, meeting and talking with ordinary citizens, including children. >> manny also gains the trust of fighters of th

richard engel tonight with u.s. troops in afghanistan where a much-needed holiday break didn't last long and came to a sudden end. >>> and those who serve. for a job that requires heavy lifting, employers are finding it pays to turn to those who carried the load in the past. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening.

richard engel is on the ground to tell us why. and big brother/big business. the new trend in health care that has employers paying attention to more than the bottom line. they're also watching your waistline. does it go too far? and giving directly. no organizations, no charity groups. what if we gave directly to the poor. there is a group doing it. and it's today's big idea. lots to get to, but we start with that ground breaking deal hammered out in geneva last night. iran will get initial relief from some sanctions. essentially billions of dollars in oil money that had been frozen in exchange, iran agrees to halt what is called high grade uranium enrichment. iran will not stop all uranium enrichment. and it cannot install centrifuges, those devices used to enrich uranium. again, this is all a temporary deal designed to provide a six month window to reach more comprehensive agreement. let's go live to london where john kerry arrived earlier today. first of all, what has been the reaction to this deal from around the world? >> we're seeing mixed reactions com

richard engel in kabul tonight with news of a deal that could keep the u.s. in afghanistan for ten years or more. >>> sounding a warning. from the faa, about what they see as a growing danger to modern aviation. >>> and a letter from jackie, seen for the first time, written to another woman who lost her husband to oswald's bullets that day in dallas, tonight, she shares her memory with tom brokaw. "nightly news" begins now.

so our feeling in the legislation which i and engel passed out of the house with 400 votes was that we needed to continue to ratchet up those sanctions until iran was willing to agree to give up it's right to enrich. until they do that, they're still on the road to having the capability for undetectible nuclear weapons breakout. and that's the bottom line. we just feel more pressure needs to be brought in iran rather than to make this deal and take the pressure off of iran which will allow them to go forward with their economic revitalization in the country. >> right. >> that isn't in our interest. >> congressman angle, it's there. there is this agreement now. and the president has said quite clearly, now is not the time for more sanctions here. >> it's dpisisappointing to me t iran will still be allowed to enrich while they're talking. i wouldn't that i is a prequek it is to any talks without allowing them to dismantle the centrifuges. the agreement is here. we have to make it work. and i think we need to be very, very careful with the iranians. i don't trust them. i don't think we sh

. >> new york's testimony he can congressman elliott engel is the ranking member of the house foreign relations committee. first of all, let's pick up on what senator corker just had to say there. is that what we can expect, bipartisan move on the hill to rein in the administration's deal? >> well, i don't know about a bipartisan deal. i mean, look, there is an agreement for six months. i hope it works. inso som i have some trepidation. they're not required to stop enriching, they're not required to dismantle any of the send friday fu send friday futrfriday funlg ac funlgs. through will there is you now 6 six months. >> you you outlined several pieces of trepidation there. sounds as if you have a lot of concerns. >> i do have concerns because iran has been a bad play are all these years and there is some concern that once you start unraveling sanctions, you can put the genie back in the bottle again. that's a big question. but i do think bottom line as the president has said, iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. an if this gets us there, then i'm okay with it. i just hav

>> richard engel in afghanistan this morning. thanks. >>> want to turn to the weather system that is pummeling people across the country. janel klein is in ft. worth, texas, this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. the roads in texas and throughout much of the west are dangerous blamed for deaths and crashes, including one involving singer willie nelson's tour bus. the storm is not done yet. heavy snow and near whiteout conditions brought traffic to a standstill in new mexico on saturday, not to mention the high winds. >> hard to keep control of your car especially under the bridges and stuff, it whips you. we almost saw a semi jackknife in front of us. >> reporter: in philadelphia as temperatures begin to drop, workers load up the last few deliveries of fire wood before it gets really cold. >> people call at the last minute, it's cold, we got to get some wood. >> reporter: officials are issuing a code blue of the area until tuesday morning. >> looking forward to some good warm heat from the wood. the kind of

. >> richard engel spoke with troops currently deployed in kabul. >> it's very important. >> everyone understands what they are doing when they sign the contract. >> jim miklaszewski joins us now. last word from the state department is that this is all still under review. >> oh, absolutely. and quite frankly, people here at the pentagon at the state department over at the white house are a little bit surprised that anybody in congress would be taken by surprise by this 2024 date for u.s. troops to remain in afghanistan to provide some type of training and assistance and even conduct counter terrorism operations well after the official combat role has ended in 2014 because president obama and hamid karzai signed an agreement, the strategic partnership agreement is what it's called, which laid out the 2024 deadline in may of 2012. a year and a half ago. but what the problem is that there are some details within the agreement that still have at the very highest levels of the government here in washington concerned and that is primarily that the karzai government is trying to put severe r

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well, the real name of a girl known as baby hogue knew engraved on head stone. 4-year-old engel can a casteel was murdered back in 1991. she was identified just last month after new york police arrested a 52-year-old cousin of that child. nasa is hoping its latest mars space craft will help shed light on the atmosphere of the mysterious red planet. the new robotic explorer called maven will blast off into space on monday to begin a 10 month long journey to explore mars. president obama announcing his healthcare fix, if you can call it that this week saying that americans who have had their health insurance plans cancelled, we're talking about millions of folks, because of the affordable care act can now keep those plans for another year, if the insurers are willing to do it. democrats say this is a step in the right direction. is it enough. will there be more dem defections. susan joins us the chief congressional correspondent for "the washington examiner." good toe sue, susan. >> thanks for having me. >> you know, for three long years, president obama and harry reid have been able to

i want to play what elliott engel, new york's congressman had to say about it. take a listen. >> it's disappointing to me that iran is still going to be allowed to enrich while they're talking. i would have thought that that should be a prerequisite to any kind of talks. i do think sanctions should always be hanging there, because that's what brought iran to the table in the first place, and i don't think you make them bargain in good faith by going squishy. >> so majority leader eric cantor said this morning that this plan weakens the sanctions, takes the heat off iran to abandon their program. is the obama administration giving up too much in this deal? what would you say to your fellow democrats who are saying they're worried there, especially congressman elliott engel. >> no, thomas, the united states and its allies are not giving up too much. first of all, the overwhelming majority of the sanctions remain in place throughout this period of time. there was a very small relaxation of some of the sanctions on a one-time and reversible basis, number one. number

. >> chief foreign correspondent richard a richard engel is monitoring the negotiations. is this karzai being karzai, the flaky guy that the u.s. is used to dealing with, never knowing where he's going to come down on an issue, saying all sorts of threatening things and then finally doing what we ask, or is this deal in real jeopardy? >> reporter: it seems like this deal is in real jeopardy, but it's very hard to know. this could be karzai negotiating, him posturing or karzai has taken a decision that he wants to make a deal with the taliban, make a deal to reintegrate the opposition into the future government of afghanistan, and in order to do that he can't have a deal with the united states. so i really don't think we know at this stage how serious karzai is. i've spoken to many different afghan officials and some of them have told me they don't think that karzai wants a deal with the united states. they think he would rather be the person who signs a deal that sees american troops leave with some integration process. if you look at the new demand karzai is putting forw

richard engel, nbc news, kabul. >> george zimmerman has been released after a jail after charges related to a domestic dispute. the judge set zimmerman's bond at $9,000. he also imposed other restrictions including requiring zimmerman to wear a monitoring device. the former florida neighborhood watchman was arrested monday after a 911 call to his girlfriend's home. he faces domestic violence charges of aggravated assault, battery and criminal mischief. his girlfriend told deputies zimmerman pointed a begun at gu and prosecutors said she feared for her life and zimmerman had mentioned suicide. >> i didn't see anything and i don't believe mr. downey saw anything that caused us any 3450ed conce immediate ker need concerns. in speaking with mr. zimmerman, he's clear and coherent. he understand what's going on. >> while on bond, zimmerman cannot have any contact with his girlfriend, travel outside of florida or possess any weapons or ammunition. he'll be back in court on july 7th. in july, he was acquitted of shooting death of trayvon martin and was officially served divorce papers while in j

nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel spent the last several days with the tenth mountain division and reports from forward operating base gamberi. >> reporter: it helps to be at a few thousand feet to appreciate how hard it has been to fight in gans. 12 years in these mountains. osama bin laden once had a house down there not far from tora bora. but times have changed. lieutenant colonel al boyer, tenth mountain division, is part of the new mission. he is an experientialed war man. seven deployments in iraq and here. today he is a diplomat of sorts visiting the afghan general. relations are more important than ever because afghans do most of the now. but americans have been killed in meetings like this so u.s. troops need armed escorts. guardian angels like staff sergeant travis drudge from wa dbush, indiana. >> if they're not trustworthy, that he stay on guard. >> reporter: with a young son and a taught on the way, he is more cautious now than other deployments. >> you think more about your family, the wife, the kids, than just yourself. >> reporter: but most american tr

. >> reporter: new york congressman elliot engel-- top democrat on the foreign affairs committee and author of a new tougher set of sanctions against iran-- wants the white house to keep up the pressure. >> the iranians are talking about how this agreement won the right to enrich. they don't have the right to enrich and we need to make it very clear to them. >> reporter: the president's advisors say a military strike remains an option if iran doesn't live up to this agreement but with economic sanctions being eased and a second round of negotiations beginning that threat, scott, appears more distant that ever. >> pelley: major, thank you. so how is this playing in iran? elizabeth palmer has that part of the story. >> reporter: for iranians desperate for sanctions relief, the geneva deal delivered as soon as it was signed. iran's currency started gathering strength-- to the relief of business owners in tehran's bazaar. that has man put it "75 million people finally slept well last night." happy crowds turned out to cheer the iranian negotiators as they arrived back in tehran. young pe

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jim engel is live in washington. i total the messed that one up but they say, they're admitting this is a huge task. >> jaw. it's not only the website. the administration is looking for a way to help the people whose policies have been cancelled. how do you unravel the chaos created by four million cancellations at the same time the administration is trying to sign up seven million uninsured? listen. >> where would all the people go? at the same time, it's obvious that the administration is not ready with obamacare so what do you do? >> you can't just hit the reset button here. you're going to have to send out millions of letters to people. people are going to have to go through the process of deciding whether they want to go back to their old policy or whether they want the subsidy under obamacare if they can get it. >> it would take about six months to uncancel policies because of all the notifications and state regulations involved but lawmakers in washington are desperate to find something to reduce the chaos suc

chief national correspondent jim engel is here with the news live this afternoon. >> reporter: hello, bret. industry leaders tell fox that by last week only 50,000 people had signed up for the federal exchanges under obama care putting the administration far behind its goal of 500,000 in the early days, 7 million by early next year. and that further complicates efforts to fix another problem. >> reporter: the administration is desperately searching for someone who is searching. how do you unravel the chaos by 4 million cancellations at the time they're trying to sign up 7 million uninsured. >> all of a sudden the interest in delaying or putting off obama care is bipartisan. you have democrats and republicans. everybody knows we're not ready to do this. >> lawmakers have suggested several options, extend the enrollment period, delay the mandate for a year or delay the entire law for a year. >> take another year, everybody take -- catch their breath. let them stay on the old plans and we can continue to fight about this in 2014. >> if you delay the individual mandate you must delay the

richard engel tonight with u.s. troops in afghanistan where a much-needed holiday break didn't last long and came to a sudden end. >>> and those who serve. for a job that requires heavy lifting, employers are finding it pays to turn to those who carried the load in the past. "nightly news" begins now.