anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >> what an incredible turn of events. we wanted to let you know tomorrow morning on "today" the sky divers and pilots will join matt lauer with more of the video of their day in the air and safe return to earth. >>> we are back in a moment with an incredible find behind a wall in a man's apartment now making headlines around the world. >>> michelle knight one of the three women held prisoner in that house in cleveland, ohio, has granted her first one-on-one television interview to tv host dr. phil. while grisly details have come out in some of the excerpts, in this exchange she talks about what kept her strong, how she made it through 11 years of captivity. >> was there a time you thought you would rather just die? >> yes. but that would be taking the easy way out. and i want my son to know me as a victor, not a victim. and i wanted him to know that i survived loving him, his love got me through. >> could you see his face clearly in your mind? >> yeah. >> could you hear his little voice? >> saying, mommy, please don't do

mark potter, nbc news, melbourne beach, florida. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. i will see you tomorrow on "today" and then back here tomorrow evening. "today" and then back here tomorrow evening. have a good night, everyone. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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

. >> "nightly news" begins now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. happy thanksgiving. i'm kate snow in for briand eve. happy thanksgiving. i'm kate snow in for brian tonight. let's start with something to be thankful for. despite dire predictions and worries that a winter storm might have a major impact on holiday festivities and travel, the flight delays have subsided. while there was snow and rain, millions of americans were able to celebrate the holiday today with family. high wind here in new york calmed enough by this morning to allow the macy's thanksgiving day parade to go ahead as planned. and we start off tonight from the parade route. good evening, katie. >> reporter: hey there, kate. we are told americans are eating 736 million pound of turkey today. but before all the food comas can kick in, 6th avenue here was abuzz with people. crowds lining the street for a thanksgiving day parade that went off without a hitch, almost. >> reporter: thankfully the 3.5 million people who lined the

nbc news confirmed the gunman has been killed. there is one gunman at least the report for now and nbc news can report that the gunman in the shooting has been killed. nbc news pete williams also reporting that one tsa agent has lost his or her life, another was shot and wounded in the leg, we have no update on the condition. we are going to take a brief break. the news the gunman has been killed, one tsa agent also killed, one wounded in the leg. we're going to be back with more on this developing story when cnbc returns. to a mattress to a mattress to to tostore and essentially they just get sold something. we provide the exact individualization that your body needs. before you invest in a mattress, discover the bed clinically proven to improve sleep quality. the sleep number bed. once you experience it, there's no going back. right now our queen mattress sets are just $1299-our lowest price ever! plus special financing until 2015. only at one of our 425 sleep number stores nationwide. sleep number. comfort individualized. >>> w

rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> there was news on the jobs front today. there's been a lot of speculation that last month's government shutdown would make for an ugly jobs report. but a surprise there. employers added 204,000 jobs in october. far more than economists had expected. as for the rate of unemployment, it ticked up slightly to account for all those government workers who were furloughed for 16 days. and the market liked the numbers today. dow hit a high. nasdaq and s&p were also up today. >>> they could be close to an agreement with iran about its nuclear capability. a major push now as john kerry unexpectedly traveled to switzerland where talks are being made to save the deal. broke this news that the secretary was on his way there. she is with us tonight from geneva. ann, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. that's right. a dramatic day in geneva where talks with iran got on the fast track with first signs that a deal could be signed within hours. one by one they came. secretary state kerry and his counterparts from britain,

ron allen, nbc news, new york. >>> when "nbc nightly news" continues this sunday, the shopping wars. the unusual steps some malls are taking this holiday season as online competition heats up. >>> and later, maintaining the memory of jfk. the woman in charge of the eternal flame. [ male announcer ] coughequence #10. speechless.

jill rappaport, nbc news, new york. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. brian william will be here tomorrow. coming up next, football night in america, followed by the new england patriots versus the denver broncos. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night. >>> on a windy and truly frigid night in new englandwe are about 30 miles south of boston at gillette stadium in foxborough, where about 90 minutes from now, the two best quarterbacks of their generation and two of the best teams in football this year will square off on sunday night football. tom brady has the edge on peyton manning head to head. the pats are 9-4 overall against manning's colts and broncos teams and that includes wins in their last two matchups and

>>eporter: joe fryer, nbc news, san francisco. >> well done, san ancisco. how great ishat? that'sur broadcast on a friday night. and for this week, thank you for being here with us. i'm brian lliams. lester holt wille here with you is weekend. weof course, hope to s you right back here on monday night. inhe meantime, please have a good weekend. good night. >>> you jt saw the story of transformed into a full blown it's not over ye right now at 6:00, the journey of how the batkibecame king of san francisco aleast for this day. good eveng, thanks for joining us. i'm raj mathai >> i'm jsica aguirre. >> mor on that story in a mome. >>> first, i apologize, what san jose's polic chief said today after we exposed the department played a numbers gameith statistics. misleading the publiabout how gang-related homicides a down. >> our investigative reporter broke the story earlier this nth. it continues to unfold. >> that' absolutely right, ra and ss. no one from t san jose police department would go on camera to talk abouthe inaccurate coarison of gang crime statistics until now. in a

jill rappaport, nbc news, new york. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. brian william will be here tomorrow. coming up next, football night in america, followed by the new england patriots versus the denver broncos. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night.

nightly news begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. >>> we begin tonight with a federal government action that affects the way millions of americans get around. for half a century in this country seat belt advocates have been pushing for seat belts in buses. now a change is coming. we learned today the government is going to require seat belts on some buses. and while it's something of a safety landmark there are lots of questions and lots of exceptions. we begin with stephanie gosk. roughly 55 million passengers shuttled through here. very few of them had the option to use seat belts. that's about to change. when commercial bus crashes happen, the injury and death toll can be high. 15 people were killed in march of 2011 when a bus flipped on i-95 in new york city, rolling over and ramming into a guardrail, the roof completely sheered off by a signpost. fewer people would have died if seat belts had been installed. today after decades of debate, the national highway safety administration announced new rules requiring seat belts in all

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, macon, georgia. >>> we'll take a break. we'll be back here in a moment with news in just today about a relic of american music history believed to be lost forever until now. >>> big story in politics being reported on the website of the "new york times" late today. details on the new book from the authors of "game change." it's called "double down." in it authors write that president obama's inner circle secretly considered switching out vice president joe biden with hillary clinton on the ticket. they went so far as to get the opinion of focus groups, but in the end the research showed there wasn't a big enough bounce in support to justify such a bold move. the vice president was not made aware of these investigations. the authors say mitt romney scratched new jersey governor chris christie off his short list for v.p. because of several unanswered questions including some about his medical history. the authors will debut their new book monday morning on "today". >>> the house of representatives is out with its legislative

and stay he with nbc news. there will be specia coverage of the anniversary of keedy's assassinationthroughout the week on all our programs and platforms. >>> the is new conce tonight among thecountry's police that it becoming much easier to make lethal plastic guns that could be slipped past metal detectors just as an important protection against tho weapons is about to be lost. we get more on that story from nbc's justice correspondt pete wiiams. >> reporter: this is what has law enforcement organizations so worried, a plastic gun that can withstand firing seval bullets but cannotbe discovere by metal9/ detectors inpublic buildings, schools, sports arenas and airports. >> this would be really dangerous for travelers, it would mean a terrorist, crimal, menlly ill person could walk tough a metal detector undetected, completely undetected and pfectly legal. >> reporter: theun is made using machines called 3-d printers widely available that layer downthin layers of pltic to build objects. computer instructions fo

tom costello, nbc news, college park, maryland. >>> new this hour nbc news is debuting a new poll. it gives us a fresh look into what a head-to-head match up of hillary clinton and governor chris christie might look like come 2016. tracie potts has the numbers. >> reporter: they show chris christie may have a bit of an uphill battle if he's matched up with hillary clinton. we got a sneak peek from this in the exit polls. our brand new nbc news poll out this hour shows 2016 presidential race were held today clinton would beat christie by 10% and when you dig deeper into the polls you see not only does she win overall she wins among african-americans, handedly, along latinos, among whites christie has an edge and also among wealthier americans. also it's showing us chris christie may have a bit of a problem within his own party. 32% of the republicans or republican leaning voters said that they would support christie but almost the same percent said they would go for another republican. he has a lock on the northeast where his state is but in the rest of the country, republicans are

we've projected that, nbc news. here in virginia, the bellwether of bellwethers the last few years, we're still projecting this race as too close to call. not even half the results are counted yet. could be a long night here in virginia. we have projected a democrat to win the lieutenant governorship here in virginia. the race here in virginia has been all about national issues. the democrats talking about government shutdown, the republicans talking about the disastrous health care rollout. so in many ways, virginia, the bellwether for how election night goes. across the country, though, there's a lot of interesting elections. you mentioned the new mayors that will be elected in detroit and boston. out akrss the colorado 11 counties are voting whether to secede and become their own state. seattle the incumbent mayor there, he's got a tough re-election fight. from coast to coast, a lot of mayors races. but nationally this is one they'll be looking at to see if the tea party is a problem for the republicans or not, d

so nbc news originally said it was too early, now it's too close. what can you tell us? >> reporter: here's what we can tell you about what changed, frankly as the raw vote count came in, sometimes they can hold a have a margin of error. as the night goes on, the polls are corrected a little bit. but as we know, the vote was out, there's about 20% of the vote that's still uncounted, almost all of it is exclusively in northern virginia, why does that matter? because northern virginia is now a heavily democratic area of the state. so as you have noticed, as the vote count has come in, mccauliffe has closed the gap on cuccinelli. cuccinelli performed a -- if mccauliffe does end up performing at where democrats normally do in northern virginia and he does eke out a victory, he's going to have northern virginia, the issue of abortion and women to thank. because it's going to be essentially a tale of two states in virginia, the state of northern virginia voting in one direction, and the rest of the state going in more of a swing state, more in another direction. that's where t

nightly news begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters, this is nbc nightly news with brie and williams. >>> it's plainly visible on the currency we use. it says in god we trust. but even before this nation was a nation, the founders puzzled over a dilemma that's still a dilemma today. how much separation should there be between the government and religion. prayer, said in public at things like town meetings -- our justice correspondent at the court for us tonight. >> reporter: nearly every government body in america opens its meetings with a prafrm the question for the justices, when does that go too far and violate the separation of church and state. it's the way cities and towns have opened public meetings for hundreds of years in a country with god on its currency, something like a prayer brings the supreme court to order. >> god save the united states and this honorable court. >> reporter: but justice elena kagan said what if it began with a priest? some say it's unconstitutional. >> and we ask all these things in your holy name, amen. >> i don't think you should have to e

kristen dahlgren, nbc news, lleville, new jersey we suld point out those folk renng today are still expectedo return their movies. that's "nbc nighy news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reportinfrom neyork. i ll see you tomorrow rning on "today" and right back here tomorrow eveng. on "today" and right back here tomorrow eveng. good night. --aptions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thanks for joining us. i'm terry mcsweeney. >> and ie diane dwyer. hilly clint is here in t bay area right now. she' avoiding the press right now. there's even a media black outon social media. chase h more for . inside.er: we were allowed we walked right inside and got to hear il clinton but t answer eveone wants to hear, no sheid not say directly anything but if you talk to people insi, ther were a lot of hint iner halhour spch. there was that rally outbefore with hil supporters saying they're ready for hillary, of course rea for her to run in 2016. it getting a lot of talk here in san francco over the weekend becae this washe first ofwo speaking events that sheas scheduled here in san francisco. and because of t

these days a security consultant and nbc news analyst. sadly, it seems we only get to talk to you after another episode of gun violence. this is your former turf. a place you were charged with protecting. that ring of tsa, commissioner, does not have weapons traditionally. you don't think the answer will be to weaponize concentric circles as you work your way into the airport? >> there will probably be a call to do just that. i would advocate against that trying to train 50,000 people to handle firearms in a very contained situation. better to leave it so the highly trained police personnel such as those that went into action today. >> as we said, l.a.x. on a friday morning, 9:30, busy place. hard to name a time when l.a.x. isn't busy. the problem with running an airport, you've got to have the free flow of people. isn't that exactly what makes them increasingly fertile targets for random violence and organized terrorism? >> while the violence occurred at the tsa checkpoint and maybe proceeded farther into the terminal, it could have just

frances koe, nbc news. >> and nbc's bill karins will have more in just a few minutes. >>> no to an nbc exclusive with president obama, including an apology. nbc news chief white house correspondent chuck todd sat down and asked about a promise he made to the american people where he said, if you like your health insurance, you can keep it, period. >> well, first of all, i went what i said, and we worked hard to make sure that we implemented it properly. but obviously we didn't do a good enough job and i regret that. we're talking about 5% of the population who are in the individual market, out there buying health insurance on their own. even though it only effects a small amount of the population, it means a lot to em in, obviously, when they get this letter, cancelled. and i am deeply concerned about it and i have assigned my team to see what can we do to close some of the holes and gaps in the law. >> do you feel like you owe these folks an apology for even if you didn't do it intentionally? for misleading them? at this point they feel misled and you have seen the anger out there. >>

let's listen to the nbc news special report. >> this is an nbc news special report. >> from nbc news, president kennedy and governor john connelly of texas have been cut down by assassin bullets have been cut down in dallas. >> good day from dallas, texas. that voice you just heard from the first nbc news bulletin to air that day, 50 years ago, the voice of don pardo who was interrupting daytime programming to come on the air with the news from here, dealey plaza, dallas, texas, largely untouched in the half century since that day. we must add a perfectly miserable day weather wise. 36 degrees. it is raining on this crowd. the rain moving to the side of 22 miles an hour. 5,000 people filling this plaza behinds us now. hearing prayers, hearing music, hearing from various speakers and coming up shortly, from the mayor of dallas, texas, a moment of silence to mark the moment 1:28 p.m. eastern time when the shot rang out from the book depository behind us, the sixth floor museum, now a place where millions each year come to see the window where lee harvey oswald, shielded by cardboard box

nightly news begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. >>> god evening. it's almost here, but a lot of folks are legally going to have to work for it these last few hours before thanksgiving. it's because of a powerful storm in the east take its time sliding to the north, seen here from space, and big enough and hitting enough airports in cities to affect air travel from one end of the country to the other. take a look at the number of aircraft in the skies, just about 6,000 flights. a lot of them running way behind. the rush is bad fluff without the storm. and to be sure, it has hardly affected everybody. this is phoenix, arizona. this picture won't help at all if your flight into philly just got canceled. we begin with tom costello at the airport in washington. good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. cold here. we've had thousands of delays. those numbers expected to build a bit throughout the night. but high wind, heavy rain, some snow, it's been a truch russ day of travel for many people. tens of millions of people on th

>> reporte nbc news, east canton,ohio. >> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. brian william will be her tomorrow. coming up next, football night in america. followed b the saints versus the cowboys. i'm lester ht reporting from new york. for all of us her at nbc news, go night. when our little girlas born, we g a subaru. it's where she said her first w. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! de a best friend forever. the back seat of msubaru is where she grew up. wh? (announcer) the subaru forester. (girl) wt? (annncer) motor trend's o thousand fourteen sport utility ofhe year. lo. 's what makes a subaru, a subaru. captions paid r by nbc-univsal television >>the view from high ave the mercedes-bensuperdome in new orleans the te tonight for a matchup offc division leaders with the 5-4, dallas cowbo taking on the 6-saints on sunday night footbal afr a season derailed by the bounty gate scandal, drew brees and sean payton have retablished the saint ace among the nfl elite. th despite two road losses in the last three games. new orlea

lyndon johnson is president of the united states. >> nbc news from november 22nd, 1963. just over six hours after the shots were fired from the building here behind us, meaning this place and this city and our country would never be the same. the cold and wind and rain here in dallas today was a sharp contrast to the bright sunshine of 50 years ago, weather beautiful enough to ride in an open car. today, one half century later, thousands turned out to remember john f. kennedy. >> the people of this city have been felled with a sense of industry born of tragedy. >> the place is little changed since that day 50 years ago. thousands were here then, too. people lined the motorcade route, the final critical moments captured by the film camera of abraham zapruder. >> hi, sir. how are you? >> across the street that day was pierce almon, then 29 years old, a local broadcaster. he heard the shots, heard mrs. kennedy cry out, in fact. he ran into the book depository building. in the doorway he passed and spoke to oswald not knowing he was the assassin. inside he used the only avai

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

this is "early today," we hope it's just your first stop of the day on nbc. >>> leading the news, border patrol rejects curbs on force. the head of the u.s. border patrol says his agents can continue using deadly force against rock throwers in vehicles despite a government commission's review that recommends ending the practice. >>> and in the "l.a. times" milky way may host billions of earth-sized planets. astronomers calculate in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars just like our sun with earth-sized planets that are not too hot or too cold. it's called the goldilocks effect. >>> some stories you might have missed developing overnight. denver police detained two 15-year-olds they say entered a middle school late monday armed with what appeared to be two long rifles. but police now believe they are more than likely bb guns. earlier authorities tried to use the school's public address system to communicate with the suspects in what they describe as an hours-long cat and mouse game. >>> overseas now, violence intensifying in iraq with 12 people killed monday alone in dou

. >>> on our broadcast tonight, our nbc news exclusive. president obama apologizes for promising if you like your insurance you can keep it. tonight he talks about how the health care rollout went so wrong. >>> cutting the fat. a major change coming to the american diet. the fda moving to ban trans-fats. the ingredients that make so many foods taste so good. tonight dr. nancy snyderman on what this means. >>> crippling disease. nfl legend tony dorsett goes public with a devastating diagnosis. what's happening to his brain after so many years in the game? >>> and the power of one man's compassion. dedicating his life to saving others as the guardian of the great golden gate. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. we are all about to hear the president of the united states apologize, and not just for the troubled rollout of the new health care website but for the fact that his promise to the american people that if they like their current health insurance they can keep it has not held true for all. our chief white house correspondent a

nancysnyderman, nbc news, homanham, the philippines. >>> this country, officials a princeton universi have approv an emergency vaccine for a potentially deadly outbreakf meningitis on campus. sevecases have been confirmed. therare fears it cld spread in closed i environment. there is noaccine in this country for this tbreak. a version that haseen proven safe ovseas will be available campu startg next month. >>> now to the public fight among o daughrs in a prominent american family th is ming waves from d.c. all the y west. the subject of sa-sex marriage is at the heart of t conflict in the cheney family. one sister who's gay, the other who's running for aenate seat, and their parts caught in the middle of this. we get the story tonight from nbc's andrea mitcll. >> reporter: they we a picture perfect sister act campaigning for their dad when he first ran for congress. in the office when he bame ief of staff. just an l-american political faly. conservativeepublicans who seemed to happily embrace mary cheney's longtime ptner and eventual spouse. senator in t gop primary knowledged their

we expect a special report from nbc news any moment now. officials at los angeles international airport report ag suspect in custody and there are multiple victims following a shooting. it occurred this morning, 9:30 pacific time at or near a tsa security checkpoint in terminal 3 of the l.a. airport. that will be the checkpoint for virgin america airlines. the gunman reportedly carrying a rifle. the motive unclear. we're told the situation is over right now. this is a picture -- these are pictures of the scene earlier. you see a tsa officer and another person who were taken into ambulances. we're getting late word now about casualties. i want to go to nbc's pete williams in our washington newsroom. pete? >> we're told now one tsa official was killed during this incident, a second one was injured, we believe shot in the leg, taken to the hospital, and there are reports that there was a third person who was wounded but it's not clear to us whether that third person was someone who was, in fact, the gunman or whether it's another person at the

"nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening. it is already tonight a storm that stretches from the southern tip of florida up to nova scotia, and at its core, which is a moving target right now, it's dumping a ton of misery on several states. the timing of this storm could not be worse because of what it does on the ground and in the air to the business of getting around. 700 flight delays already, and this storm is just getting started. the satellite picture of the nation from space shows the expanse of it. tomorrow is the busiest travel day of tea 43 million americans on the move. and while the storm is churning in the eastern part of the country, its effects, of course, will be felt all over. it's where we begin our coverage again tonight. nbc's tom costello is out in it in pittsburgh tonight. good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. in fact, in this area we used to have -- or did have snow earlier today. now we've got just the bone-chilling extreme rain and cold out here. you mentioned the

. >> robert mcneil, you were there for nbc news. take me through the day and how you first knew the horror of what had happened and your reactions. >> well, the day began gloriously in ft. worth and then when they arrived at lovefield, as jim said. glorious summer day. they looked radiant. mrs. kennedy in that strawberry ice cream colored suit, a big bunch of blood red roses held next to her. crowd rapturous to see them. then into the motorcade through the outskirts of dallas, into downtown dallas where the crowds were so thick that looking from the first press bus where i was over the heads of the cars in betwe between, they were seven cars away, you wondered how the motorcade could get through the crowd when it surged out into the street. then we turned on to the plaza. i was just thinking, i've got nbc radio news on the hour piece to do soon. then there was a bang. we all said, what was that? was that a shot? then there were two bangs closer to together. i said, those are shots, stop the bus. i saw people running up the grassy kn

ron mott, nbc news, stanford, connecticut. >>> when we come back here tonight, what can happen at 200 miles an hour both good and bad. >>> watch the wood frame house right there across the street. new surveillance video from a gas station camera showing just one of the tornadoes that tore up the midwest last sunday. this was diamond, illinois. they now believe a total of 1500 homes were lost in one day's worth of violent weather across 12 states. >>> the scene looked like a movie set in japan. an off-shore, underwater volcano. it blew rocks about a third of a mile into the air. results in a new volcanic island now. not for nothing. that area of the ocean is known ad as the ring of fire. >>> at the bonneville salt flats, the idea is you can drive as fast as you want to without wrecking anything. he came close to a very bad result during a recent run in a highly modified honda. he suffered a collapsed lung, was brused and cut up. but he's going to be okay. because the safety equipment in the car did its job along with the medical personnel on site. >>> not a good outing for the seattle

richard engel, nbc news, fire base torcom, afghanistan. >>> a developing story from overseas tonight. reports from scotland say a helicopter crashed on the roof of a pub in glasgow. they said it was a police helicopter, that there were multiple injuries and some people in the pub were trapped. witnesses described it as a horrible scene. >>> still ahead, a growing mystery on the west coast. what's killing starfish on the pacific coast. later, was it cheating, bad acting or both? read the lips of an nba coach to see what you think. ♪ [ male announcer ] for a love that never fades over any amount of time, there's iams. with 50% more animal protein than other leading brands... ...to help keep his body as strong as his love. iams. keep love strong. there's new iams woof delights. some wet food has gluten and artificial flavors. iams has real meat and eggs in our tasty chunks. now that's real love. new iams woof delights. shhhh! i have a cold with this annoying runny nose. [ sniffles ] i better take something. [ male announcer ] dayquil cold and flu doesn't treat that. it doesn't? [ male

andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> that is our broadcast on a tuesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. of course we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> good evening, thank you for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. >> i'm raj mathai. dry no more. a significant amount of rain for the first time in 11 months. this was the scene in maren. as for the evening commute, it's slick and sluggish. >> a look in emeryville. people were dodging the raindrops. nbc bay area chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is tracking the wet weather. we begin with jodi hernandez in the elements in walnut creek. >> reporter: it's hard to see on television, but it is raining lightly in walnut creek, for folks driving home on highway 24 at the 680 interchange here in walnut creek, they're definitely giving the windshield wipers a workout. while the rainfall may not be adding up to much, for the most part, it's a welcome sight. >> i love the rain. >> reporter: that's the reaction of many as the pitter patter of rain drops returns to the ba

>> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with lester holt and erica hill. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning everyone. welcome to "today" on this saturday morning. i'm lester holt. >> i'm erica hill alongside dylan dreyer and andrea canning in for jenna. so much attention paid to this helicopter crash which happened in scotland last night. devastating, some of the images coming out of there. >> the chopper crashed on to a crowded pub along the riverbank there. it is our top story. debbie edward is live in glasgow near where the chopper went down. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, scotland's first minister has described this a black day for scotland. we are coming to terms of what happened here in the center of glasgow last night. we're coming to terms what happened here. a very well-known pub on the banks of the river.

joining me now, nbc news legal analyst lisa bloom, former prosecutor faith jenkins, and defense attorney ken padowitz. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> lisa, he's out on bail. but his guns are taken away and we have new allegations of choking. do you have any question now that he's dangerous? >> i have no question that he's dangerous. you know, either george zimmerman is constantly surrounded by people who are, quote, crazy -- his word. he said trayvon martin jumped out of the bushes at him. now he says this woman went crazy. he said two months ago that shellie zimmerman was the instigator and causing problems. everybody around zimmerman by coincidence happens to go crazy. or he's lying and provokes people. either way, there's no set of

for "today," katy tur, nbc news, new york. >>> such a wild thing. when we started talking about it yesterday in our meeting, i just heard about it earlier. my son is 7, i should point out, on monday, where he take the tae kwon do. they were saying be careful and here are things to protect yourself. >> one more thing out there. what is going on? >> who comes up with such a ridiculous and terrible idea? >> and who goes along with it? >> makes you wonder. >>> we want to get another check of the weather now from dylan who has made her way outside on the plaza. dylan, you gave us a hipt of wh -- hint of what is to come. continue. >> 74 years your grandparents had been married. where do they live? >> pennsylvania. >> you said on a farm in pennsylvania? >> yes. >> that must be the keep. live on the farm and have a 74 years together. here is another 74 to grandma and grandpa in pennsylvania. >>> it is cool or here in new york city. lake-effect snow in and around the great lakes and could pile up to several inches in part of michigan and western new york but

nbc's kristen dahlgren joins us now from princeton, new jersey toxplain. kristen? >> reporter: good evening, lester. turday night after a big homecoming win here there are a lot of people on campus in tight quarters. the university is concerne enough they e considering that unprecedented step of admistering a vaccine still not approved here in thu.s. homecoming weekend at princeton. but there is more to wor about than whether the tigs beat yale. a potentlly deadly strain of meningitis is spading across campus. six studen and one visitor sickened since march. >> people are thinki about it. i had a frnd who had a fever yesterday and wento the health center. >> was actually home briefly last weekend. my mom sent me back with six hand sanitizer bottles. >> reporter: studes in dorms are required to have a vaccine but it doesn't cover theare meningitis b strain princeton. >> meningitis b i young adults in the unid states is very unusual. this is a stinctive circumstance. >> reporter: the cdc is no taking the unpredented step of impoingbexsero, a vaccine lensed in europe

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for nbc news, i'm tom brokaw. with him. for nbc news, i'm tom brokaw. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> now at 11:00 she survived a motorcycle accident and months of rehab but then a tragic twist of fate. >> she is the most giving person ever. >> reporter: how she lost her life on the first day she felt strong enough to leave home. >>> caught on camera. we'll show you how technology is helping a crime victim keep tabs on the person who stole her cell phone. >>> a new outlet mall opens in prince george's county. we have erything from the deals to the traffic and the expectations going into the to, people from california to colorado are getting hit with awful weather. it's heading our way. >> we'll have more on your holiday forecast in a moment but the big concern tonight is the falling temperatures. we could be in the 20s by tomorrow. let's go to storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug cammer to break it down for us hour by hour. >> it is amazing. the temperature over the last hour has gone up by 5 degrees. by this time tomorrow night i

nbc news chief for correspondent richard enfwel hgel has the det. >> reporter: nbc news obtain this had draft still up signnsi but it describes a sweeping long term relationship with the united states maintaining outposts in this country perhaps until 2024 and maybe beyond that. u.s. troops training and advising afghan forces and hunting al qaeda. movement off base would be severely 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. >> they're nervous about taking their first few steps without us. >> reporter: most afghan troops don't want americans to leave. >> we need strong support from international community, especially from u.s.. >> reporter: but why not just leave? the afghan government would likely collapse. afghanistan could again become a haven for terrorists. but 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 civil war has come back with a vengeance. afghans are gathering here in kabul this week to vote

m costello, nbc news, colleg park, maryland. >>> nbc news is debuting a new poll this ho. it givess a fresh look io at a head-to-head tchup of hillary clion and chris christie might look like come 2016. nbc's tracie potts is in waington with thosenumbers. od morning, tracie. what dohe numbers show sinus >> a clinton win if the race were hd today. take a look at our pol this morning. clton would win by ten points, 44%-34% over new jersey governor chris christie. when you break those numbers down and look at particula demographics, she wins among african-americans, amo latinos, she wins among youth also. christieins white voters, and he also wins wealthier voters. anwe also saw a big dference in their geographical support. ile christie's strong inhe northeast, not so much across the country. clinton wins in all geographic areas. no this also has some intereing information abou what's happening inside the gop. christie's got about one-third of his party, one-thd say they'd look at anoer republic. about one-third s they're undecided. so a fractured republican party. t, of cour

there is one hard pass for nbc news and i have it. there aren't going to be anymore for nbc news. it is a different -- they really restrict the number of heart passes that allow us easy access essenceourt, in guarantee us a seat, which is tremendously important for us because there's no other way to get that if you're not in the courtroom. you can't listen to the audio until friday. you can't do the transcript until late in the day. there's just no substitute for being there. that is valuable to us. somebodyn't mean that from the atlanta constitution can't come up and hear an argument because they do give out good for one day only paper passes as well, but i'm saying number one, the court has a different policy about press passes. they tend to restrict it. is, they'rehing saying ok if we give it to scotus blog, how do we say that scotus blog is different than every other jason in the basement in his underwear who wants a press pass? they're going to have to drop those rules. >> the court does not allow reporters to use electronic devices in the court room, so in this sketch we hav

nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker has more on that end of the story. good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. today's announcement is particularly problematic because it comes just a few days before the deadline by which the administration said the website would be working well for most americans. now on the eve of thanksgiving, a new problem. as official washington prepares to start a long holiday weekend against a stormy backdrop, the white house chose to release more bad news about health care.gov. the administration announced small businesses will have to wait a year before they can use the federal website to enroll their workers in health insurance through a program called shop. those with 50 or fewer employees will have to sign up the old fashioned way. >> small businesses will be able to enroll directly in a shop plan through an insurer, agent or broker and can get certified for a tax credit after they enroll. >> reporter: the administration said the delay was necessary to give its tech team time to fix the troubled website for individual

nightl news begins now. >>> from nbc news headquarters. >>> good evening. d we begin tonight with, ain, this desperate situation in the philippine as of no theood news is 33 nations have jned in the relief operation, pledging almost $100 billiono far. but e problem ireasingly is getting there with help, with supplies with people and then fanning out. new picture showhe area we've been concentrati , theity of tacloban befe and after this typhoon,nd pictures taken the airport just tod show the crush o people, all victims, all awaiting anirlift t of there or inomeases just freshwater or food. we're going to beg tonight with the reporng ofr. nancy sneiderman w today traveled by chper to the eastern edge of the philippes that we so f ha not seen since the stor and the people there have so desperate. as you can see, our crew was concerned eir helicopter would be mistaken for a relief flight. >> reporter: there's a sense of desperation. and we don't have any protection. so obviouslye're assessing how vulnerable we are. this town is for the most part gonend has esc

one telling nbc news, it's an endls path of misery. nbc's ian williams joi us live from manila. good morning. what progress is being made? reporter: good morning, richard. aid iseginning to flow, but it is frustratingly sl, unbelined by reports of fresh looting, a few mil up the coast from tacloban. that left eight people dead when a wa collapsed. we believe that mht have been the result of a stampe, desperate people wanting to get their hands on that rice. the government is on the fensive. emergency response offials saying today ty are doing their st,laming the ser volume of debris for holding em up. they also said they expect the fl of aid to improve fro now on. they also said that there is now a curfew in place in taclan in order to improve the law and order tuation. for eir part, the u.s marines are going to bring in equipment to enable the airport in taclan to operate4 hours a day, whichill help enormoly. on t other hand, weeard that the u.s.s. george washingto on its way here, aircraft, 5,0 personnel in amphibious landing vehiclesn board has been delayed. this aid effort j

>> nbc news arranges for brokaw to interview schabowski after the press conference. >> do i understand it correctly, citizens of the gdr -- >> i had an interview with him, ran upstairs, got him to reread the statement -- >> it is possible for them to go through the wall at some point? >> it is possible for them to go through the border. >> i ran downstairs, and some of my newspaper colleagues were standing there still puzzling over the statement, and i said, i think the wall is down. >> joe alacastro is one of nbc news's field producers in berlin during the week. >> we knew right there we were probably sitting on the biggest story of the latter half of the 20th century. >> then there was a competitive situation, you look around saying cbs is not here, abc is not here, cnn is not -- we've got it. this is our story. >> and the discussion was how do we handle this? and we agreed ultimately we have to go live. >> we interrupt this program for an nbc news special report. here is garrick utley. >> and good afternoon again. >> so we call the bureau and say set up, we're going live with "night

nightly news begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters, this is nbc nightly news with brie and