not mar. >> richard engel is the first network correspondent to report from kobani. eastern, richard is going to host an msnbc special on the u.s. battle against isis. richard engel live from the region with much more on that reporting, as well as an exclusive interview with the former cia director michael hayden. so it's going to be incredible. i've seen a bunch of what he's sent back so far. it's amazing stuff. set your tv watching plans now. required viewing tomorrow night at 9:00. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. at 9:00. "first look" is up next. >>> good morning, everybody, right now on "first look," it's an unusual weather phenomenon. thundersnow. take a listen. the relentless arctic invasion isn't going anywhere and a new cold outbreak begins on sunday. >>> half a world away president obama readies for political battle at home on immigration, keystone pipeline and pollution. >>> residents of ferguson, missouri are getting ready for the michael brown grand jury to issue a decision. >>> plus rokerthon continues with a few hours to go. a

not mar. >> richard engel is the first network correspondent to report from kobani.st an msnbc special on the u.s. battle against isis. richard engel live from the region with much more on that reporting, as well as an exclusive interview with the former cia director michael hayden. so it's going to be incredible. i've seen a bunch of what he's sent back so far. it's amazing stuff. set your tv watching plans now. required viewing tomorrow night at 9:00. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >>> well, it's official. mitch mcconnell was elected the new majority leader of the united states senate today, and the democrats elected senator elizabeth warren to a new leadership post. >> americans have trusted republicans with both control of the house and the snoot. >> today on capitol hill, they're picking the new leadership. >> new leadership teams which look remarkably like old leadership teams. >> any change in leadership? >> what is this about elizabeth warren being given a

tonight richard engel completing a hazardous journey through a hidden maze of tunnels to reach the front lines. >>> and tough sell. a huge gamble for the biggest selling vehicle of all time in this country. tonight we're there as a potential game-changer rolls off the line. "nightly news" begins now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. ferguson, missouri, the scene of so much violence is back in the news tonight because the top officials there today came out to say they are worried about trouble and asked for the news media's help in appealing for calm. they're worried about public reaction if a grand jury does not indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black man. it could come at any time. the missouri governor said today they will not tolerate any more violence in that community that's already seen so much. the problem is whatever you think of this case, the legal standard for an indictment is difficult. that may be why so many people appear to be planning for a bad outc

it all happen in the 700 block of engel street in chester. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt has the details. >> over 25 years or more. >> reporter: chester resident nate smith was shocked to wake up a and find out someone murdered his friend gwenn lynn williams just a few blocks from her house. >> she was one of the people out here. >> reporter: police said she had a run in with an unknown suspect outside of this home on engel street, just after midnight authorities say she knock on the door and she collapsed when he got inside. >> i was upstairs and when i came down, they told me that she had gotten stabbed. >> reporter: jackie logan lives in the engel street home and said she has known williams for years. she tells "eyewitness news" that the two spent a lot of time together. >> when the police came i tried to go back and they told me to step back. >> reporter: logan says just a few minutes later police came to this house and detectives are looking at all leads to try to find this suspect. >> i can't understand what took place. i don't

tonight the latest from richard engel who reports from inside one of the most dangerous cities on earth. >>> what really happened inside the medical clinic where joan rivers went into cardiac arrest? what investigators say doctors didn't notice. >>> and a household danger, the problem is those detergent pods look like candy. the new warning tonight about how many children are ending up in the hospital. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. and we want to get underway tonight here with a big change on the way. what we're about to witness happens every year, but not usually this early and not usually all at once. here is our nation now. and here's what happens by the early morning hours of thursday. very few parts of the lower 48 will be left unaffected as a sudden crush of cold air blows down from the north, envelopes much of our country. they're getting a preview tonight in minnesota where the snow scenes are positively mid-winter. and it's where we begin our coverage tonight with me

engel: mr. speaker, i'll close now and i want to again thank the chairman and thank mr. chabot. getting children registered at birth helps to get them off to a good start. this bill encourages governments to enact laws and policies that give all children, including girls, a chance to be full participants in society. so i strongly support this bill and urge my colleagues to do so as well. and i guess i'll reserve the balance of my time? thank you. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. royce: thank you, mr. speaker. before i close, i would like to also mention the contribution of congresswoman betty mccollum and congressman chris smith. chris smith is the chairman of the foreign affairs subcommittee on africa, global health and global human rights and international organizations. he is also an original co-sponsor of this bill and i'd like to yield him three minutes at this time. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the distinguished chai

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richard engel, nbc news, is stanable. >> coming up next. small businesses, reaping big reward small business saturday. how thousand in the bay area took part. in washington, d.c. the first family supporting small business. also, let us know, the sierra turning into a winter wonderland. we'll give you a look at it coming up. >> hurry up! >>> numbers are in. black friday starting to look like cyber monday. data companies report that online sale were up yesterday by 8% from a year ago. also, what's most surprising, 47% of that online traffic came from mobile devices. people doing a lot of shopping right there on the smartphone. also notable more online retailers rolled out deals on thanksgiving, accounting for a 20% jump in growth over last year. not all web sites were able to handle all the business. best buy site crashed several time throughout the day. small stores often live in the shadow of big box competitors. on this small business saturday. they saw a lot more foot traffic. nbc bay area's, maryann favro showing us how it paid off. >> r

richard engel joins me from along the syrian turkey border.de it into places never seen before. extraordinary thing you found. >> thank you very much, jose. for the last two nights on nightly news we've been airing reports that we shot inside kobani. we spent four days in this town, which is right along the turkish border. it's a syrian town. it's half occupied by isis. the other half is being defended by kurdish fighters, a lot of them are women. they're secular nationalists. they impressed us with their i are sill yens. they're refusing to give up. many other towns in syria and iraq surrendered as soon as isis showed up. the people of kobani decide they wouldn't let it happen to them. it was a dangerous place to operate. there are many snipers. because of the snipers, the kurdish fighters we found try everything they can to stay off the streets. >> avoid the snipe sers through burrowing through buildings. punching holes in walls so they can move from place to place without exposing themselves to the open air and exposing themselves to the sn

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the latest. >> reporter: unfortunately this graphic 16-minute video put out by isis has been authenticated, making peter kassig the fifth western hostage murdered by isis since august and the third american. president obama called his murder an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity. the 26-year-old former army ranger from indiana who served in iraq traveled to syria last year to volunteer as a medic. while delivering supplies, isis militants stopped him at a checkpoint and kidnapped him. kassig, who converted to islam, and changed his name to abdul rahman endured torture and the mental trauma as other western hostages at times his cell mates were taken, one by one, to be murdered. he knew his time would come. last month kassig's father, ed, read a letter written to the family by their son. >> don't worry, dad. if i go down, i won't go down thinking anything of what i know to be true, that you and mom love me more than the moon and the stars. >> reporter: the kassig family remembered his

filming incoming is much more difficult. >> before too long, engel and his crew find themselves in anm restrepo design 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. we could hear the soldiers crying out for help

nbc's foreign correspondent richard engel managed to make his way inside.ere's what he found. >> we decided to rick a trip into the besieged city to see for ourselves. we crossed no-man's-land and entered cobain eed kobani. we found a city undefeated. american air strikes are gradually reducing that area to rubble. mean whwhile on the free side o the city kurdish men and women outgunned and outnumbered are not just standing their ground, they're smiling. he leads us to city hall. in kobani, you never enter a building through the front gate or the front door. she walks us to the council room, describing a recent battle to take the building back from isis. she says there were about 40 isis fighters just in these rooms here. it's not that they're fighting between buildings and across streets but room to room. you can see some of the damage. you can see the bullet holes. this was real close quarter fighting. she shows us where the enemy is. we watch them all the time, she says, and make sure to shoot them before they get too close. >> extraordinary stuff. richa

nbc's richard engel is in turkey. what more can you tell us about the situation inside kobani right now? >> we've been speaking today. we're obviously back inside turkey across the border but we're still in contact with people in kobani. half of the city held by isis. the main front in the east and in the south. the other half is held by the kurdish defenders who are fighting street to street, holed up in sniper positions. in the clip you just played, that was from one of the sniper positions. to get to these sniper positions, you have to go through buildings. what they do is they punch holes through walls and then go from one building through the rooms in the building, out the back wall, through the next building and we had to go through five or six buildings, up stairs, up ladders. if you don't know where they are, you won't find them. that is part of the urban warfare. you don't know where the fighting positions are. and both sides have positions like these throughout the city which is one of the reasons that it's

its defenders are trying to claw it back. >> richard engel filed that dispatch tonight.ncredible reporting and very dangerous to get. richard joins us now live from turkey which is near the syrian border. richard, thank you for being here. what's going to happen in kobani, best as you can tell. why is it strategically so important? >> right now there is something of a standoff in kobani. i would say half of the city is held by isis. the other half by the kurdish fighters. and it's very difficult for either side to make advances because this is street to street fighting. even though there are some u.s. air strikes, it still takes a lot of skill to and a lot of bravery, frankly, to advance, to z< -- they don't want them to have weapons. this stage their biggest fear is probably not being pushed out on the battlefield but being strangled by the closure. >> richard, talking about the u.s. air strikes with ammunition and other supplies and the impact of the coalition air strikes. are those making any sort of difference and from your just tactical judgment having been there is

richard engel has the latest. >> reporter: this graphic video put out by isis has been authenticated making peter kassig the fifth hostage being. murdered and the third american. president obama called his murder an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world associates with inhumanity. the 26-year-old former army ranger who served in iraq travelled to syria last year to volunteer as a medic. while delivering supplies militants stopped him at a check point and kidnapped him. he changed his name and reportedly endured torture and the mental trauma as other western hostages as times his cell mates were taken one by one to be murdered. last month his father read a letter. >> don't worry, dad, if i go down, i won't go down thinking but what i know to be true. that you and mom loved me more than the moon and the stars. >> reporter: the family remembered his humanitarian work sharing an audio recording before he was taken captive. >> i was able to share a little bit of hope and comfort with some people. >> reporter: unlike other video,s this win did not end with a specific threat

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >>> back in this country the weather is making news tonight. there is more snow on the ground across our country than we usually see by christmastime. in some places it's been measured in terms of feet on the ground. you can see the sheer size of the storm right now clocking the eastern seaboard. by tomorrow parts of every state in the union will have temperatures below freezing. and this same system has triggered an outbreak of tornadoes across the south as parts of florida, for example, go from the 70s to the 30s in a day. our meteorologist dylan dreyer is covering it all. she's in erie, pennsylvania for us tonight, dylan, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. temperatures have been dropping fast here now that that first storm system is moving out. but this cold wind is going to turn on the lake effect snow machine. i-90 here, the main road to buffalo, could be shut down at times tomorrow because of whiteout conditions. it's not just here. bad weather is to blame for so many travel problems all across the country. record-setting col

carl. >> richard engel in istanbul tonight. richard, thanks. >>> when "nightly news" continues on this saturday, a young man who's making it his business to know a thing or two about toys. >>> and later, big changes on tap for a british institution. >>> on this black friday weekend, toys are serious business. but as most parents can tell you, not every toy is the right toy. so one rising internet star is offering up advice. and as nbc's miguel almaguer reports, he's made finding the perfect gift child's play. >> reporter: with families facing aisle after aisle of toy choices this holiday season, millions are turning to an expert to pick the perfect gift. yes, an expert who's only 8 years old who knows his angry birds from his simpsons and everything in between. how many lego sets do you think you've put together? >> 100. >> reporter: evan's toy reviews are a youtube sensation. the evan tube channel has nearly a million subscribers. his videos viewed, over 875 million times. >> i just talk about the toy and what it does. yeah. >

air campaign hasn't turned the tide on isis, at least not yet. >> richard engel who is back over the turkish border tonight. richard, thanks. tonight we should tell you richard will have an hour-long special airing on msnbc about the battle against isis. that's at 9:00 eastern time. >>> here in new york we heard today what it was like for those two men, the window washers, who found themselves dangling in their broken scaffold outside the 68th floor of the tallest building in the hemisphere, the new world trade center tower, earlier this week. they made it to safety after a couple hours when fdny rescuers cut through a window to get them. today at a news conference one of them, juan lopez, was asked what was going through his mind. >> in the beginning it was panic and pretty much survival, kind of instinct for a few minutes. after that kind of clear your mind and try to get hold of the situation. obviously got home to see my family for another day. >> as for getting back to work, lopez says they'll start by washing windows on the ground floor getting their head in the game before the

he's very ambitious. >> richard engel reporting from turkey tonight. thank you. >>> a lot of people are keeping a close eye on the weather tonight as these extremely cold temperatures we've been following for days are headed for an even bigger part of the country and so is the potential for significant snow. even though we're still more than five weeks from the start of winter. nbc's janet shamlian has the latest for us from denver. >> reporter: in denver, another record. minus 14 degrees. the deep freeze now bearing down on two-thirds of the country. >> bundling them up in jackets and hats and just layers and layers. >> reporter: it's brutal for anyone who has to be outdoors, like construction workers and electrician joe pancini. are you ready for three or four or five more months of this, joe? >> not really. if we continue with this kind of cold, it's going to be tough. >> reporter: in ohio thundersnow. from minnesota to memphis, roads are littered with accidents. the south is also under siege. little rock seeing its earliest snow in more than a deca

here is richard engel. >> after three days in turkey the pope left for rome. there were no security incidents or major protests in a country that is 98% muslim. so the visit can only be considered a success. the pope left sounding more convinced than ever that isis must be stopped, stressing it to reporters on his plane. >> i won't soften the phrase he said. they are forcing christians to flee from the middle east. on his last day in istanbul, the pontiff met with the leader of the world's 250 million orthodox christians. for over a thousand years, relations between the two churches have been tense, at times descending into war but now they both face isis which is giving christians in iraq and syria, a stark choice, convert to islam or be killed. pope francis and bartholomew said they cannot offered to themselves to a middle east without christians. some neighboring countries are scarred by a inhumane and brutal war, the pope said, calling it a sin against god. pope francis met with a small group of refugees, including some of the 1.6 million syrians here, now

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our report tonight from nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> reporter: the itinerary may say he's visiting istanbul, but for many christian ths will always be constant nope el. >> reporter: for thousands of years christians rule thd city and from it an empire called byzantium. built in the sixth century, its name means holy wisdom. but byzantium was ultimately conquered. muslim armies arrived and converted it into a mosque. five years later it was changed again turned into a museum. and today is one of turkey's most popular tourist destinations. but turkey is changing. a symbol of the deep struggle between those who want turkey to remain secular and others who want to revive its islamic past. and for now it's the islamists who have the upper hand. alid wants to turn back the tide of history. he leads a movement to turn it back into a mosque and plans to try and block the pope from entering. a mosque owned by muslims, he says. and if we don't reclaim it, we will be punished by god. already his supporters in the tens of thousands gather in front of aya sofia to pray. the is

richard engel was one of the few western journalists to see the fighting there.s richard's report from the syrian border. >> in kobani, sometimes the kurdish defenders of the city and the isis militants are just 20 yards apart. in some cases, just one street will separate the two. they'll be in one building, the isis militants will be in another. and the kurdish defenders know if they're captured, they'll be killed or tortured. or the women could be sold into slavery. many of the kurdish defenders keep a bullet in their pocket. they call it the bullet of honor. they would commit suicide rather than being taken prisoner. and it's that intensity that drives the people of kobani. right now it's unclear who has the upper hand. they each hold about half of the city. the defenders of kobani are not out of the woods yet. they are completely dependent on supplies from the outside world, ammunition, food, weapons, and if that supply line were cut, they could probably lose kobani in a matter of days. the u.s. has been helping with air strikes. without those air strikes, ko

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i'm joined by richard engel in i'm joined by richard engel in istanbul where he has been based to cover this war. richard, it seems as if the government is assuming this video is authentic. what do you know? >> well, i've seen the video. unfortunately, it does appear to be authentic. we see the same now familiar militant dressed in all black with a distinctive london accent saying that peter kassig has been killed. you don't see the beheading. you see the militant and then what looks to be peter's head at his feet. it was a long video. it shows the beheading of other hostages, a group that are allegedly syrian soldiers. if, in fact, it's confirmed that kassig was murdered, he would be the fifth western hostage killed by isis. the reason they said they killed him is because he was a former soldier who served in iraq before he changed his life and went to syria to help provide some humanitarian and medical relief to syrian victims of war. >> speaking of iraq, again martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs, he made a surprise visit to iraq yesterday. i think he is still there. he i

they will fight and die, as we saw on the richard engel -- for their own property.ontinue to batter us. >> one of the things the democrats were highly critical of president bush about and vice president cheney they were not clear and forceful asserting what interests we had at stake in the region. when it became clear there were not weapons of mass destruction they never backtracked from that. this president has not made clear what kind of timetable there is and what is needed to achieve those goals. i think whatever course of action we're taking, to make clear to the country and what we're doing. we talked about the powell doctrine before, apply that theology and thinking and conceptual thinking to how and what we're doing there and explain to the american people what we're doing. >> the answer is not invading the middle east, let me be clear. not sending troops to the middle least. >> there is lack of clarity. >> being aggressive and telling turkey, tough luck. >> before you explain it to the american people, you have to explain it to presidenter eredof turkey, yo

they were at engel street. that is where the stabbing occurred.he doesn't bother nobody. i can't understand what took place. i don't see. >>reporter:no one in the chester neighborhood at 9th and engel how a woman was savagely murdered overnight. her best friends let her in, stumbled to a chair, showed the stab wounds and died at the spot. >> every day we would call me. >>reporter:who would want to do this to her? >> i have no idea. jackie logan is baffled. she would walk out of the backdoor and visit at will.

richard engel has been embedded with some of the kurds. at the battle against isis. richard, extraordinary you were able to get the access. city hall now a hot spot for the fight for kobani. tell me what you saw. >> we went inside kobani and we went into some of the battle areas. kobani, right now, is almost entirely surrounded by isis militants. isis controls about 50% of the city. the other half of kobani is held by kurdish rebels. those were the fighters we were with. and they showed us their frontline positions. they showed us how they're keeping alive. there's only one bakery in the city. there's just a few field hospitals that move location every couple of weeks so that the hospitals aren't identified and targeted by isis fighters. they have very few medical supplies. they are also kept on the move. they keep the medical supplies in pickup trucks roaming around the city so that if an incoming air strike from artillery strike from isis destroyed one they would have other medical supplies they can rely on. it was an insight into an urb

joining us is elliott engel. do you believe the president has the legal authority to unilaterally allow up to 3.5 million people who don't have documentation to remain in the united states? >> well, let me say, first of all, i think it would be prem preferable to have the congress do it. the senate sent a house to the bill, 16, 17, 18 months ago and the house hasn't acted on it mainly because speaker boehner knows if it was brought to the floor, it would pass. congress still has a chance to pass that bill or some other kind of bill. but i think the president is frustrated that nothing seems to happen. we have 11 million people here who are undocumented or legal, any way you want to say it. and they're not going back. and so my way of thinking, it's ridiculous to have these people in limbo. we all know they're here. we all know they work. i think what the president's doing makes sense and i think he would not be doing it if he thought he didn't have a good, sound legal basis to do it. >> because for six years, he

>>reporter:no one in the chester neighborhood at 9th and engel how a woman was savagely murdered overnight. her best friends let her in, stumbled to a chair, showed the stab wounds and died at the spot. >> every day we would call me. >>reporter:who would want to do this to her? >> i have no idea. jackie logan is baffled. she would walk out of the backdoor and visit at will. unspeakable tragediage a >> any time i needed her she would be there. >>reporter:tonight in chester it's a bone fide who done it. the murder is still very much unsolved. live at the police headquarters in chester, vic vernon odom. >>> they confirmed the deadly family shooting. we have a breaking news news out the clifton heights. the fire was in the 200 block of east beakly street. you see the firefighters working hard. no smoke currently is seen. it has gotten dark. it is hard to see. no active flames. no word on any injuries. we'll keep an eye on the home in clifton heights. >>> now, the police have confirmed that the deadly shooting in tabernacle, new jersey was an attempted murder-suicide by the mother. the state po

chief national correspondent jim engel has the story. >> reporter: even though they say they're confident that healthcare.gov will work better this time, hhs secretary sylvia burrwell has given her final estimates for 2013. >> probably the market will grow 25% to 30%. >> reporter: the administration also reduced last year's completed even rollments from 7.3 to 7.1 million paying customers. and even though the administration is predicting a 25% to 30% increase for 2015 over 2014, that number substantially below projections from the $÷zvu(áuráp' constitutional budget office which predicted 13 million signups for 2013. one reason for the shortage is that the signup period is half as long as it was last time. >> if you're going to get your enrollment straight for january 1, 2015. you have to get all of this done, all the shopping, all the examination, all the signups done between when enrollment starts on november 15 and december 15. that's just one month. >> reporter: a much more crowded enrollment period on a website that was unveiled today. the administration says it open hopes it was read

richard engel reports from istanbul. >> reporter: pope francis made many symbolic gestures during hisit to this historic city rich with its own past of religious conflict and religious tolerance. and he stressed the need to separate faith from fanaticism. pope francis seemed elated as he gazed up at the dome of the iasophia, turned into a mosque over five centuries ago. it's now a museum. this rare papal visit to turkey with its population of 98% muslim isn't just about remembering the past, but improving relations among the faithful. the pontiff also toured istanbul's famed blue mosque and prayed side by side with muslim clerics. moderation and battling extremism have been the main themes of his trip so far. the pope urged muslim leaders to condemn what he calls barbaric violence being carried out by isis militants. for the pope, this is an important visit, his first to a large and populous muslim country and has the potential to be quite unpleasant. there were calls for protests, for demonstrators to block his movement. so far, that hasn't happened. he's been given a warm reception.

as richard engel reports, his family wants him to be remembered for what he did with his life, not how it was ended. >> our hearts still heavy, are held up by the love and support that has poured into our lives these last few days. >> reporter:a vigil in indianapolis, friends, supporters and peter kassig's parents remembered the young man who decided to dedicate his life to helping others, but paid for it with his own. the 26-year-old former army ranger who served in iraq traveled to syria last year to volunteer as a medic. isis militants stopped him at a check point and kidnapped him. kassig endured torture in captivity, along with the mental trauma of watching some of his european cell mates released after their ransoms were paid. these two shared food and a blanket with kassig and he changed his name. >> he wanted to have the people involved in the humanitarian drama taking place in syria. and he thought maybe it was naive, but he thought he could help. >> reporter: kassig also watched his american and british cell mates taken out one by one to be murdered. he knew his time would co

tonight richard engel completing a hazardous journey through a hidden maze of tunnels to reach the fronthuge gamble for the biggest selling vehicle of all time in this country. tonight we're there as a potential game-changer rolls off the line. "nightly news" begins now.

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >> we will have continuing coverage on the isis killing on air andhe top story on our u.s. and world section right now. we also have a link to a facebook group operated by kassig's family who have shared photos from his humanitarian work. >>> so far so good. the obama administration says that healthcare.gov, the website, is now working well and signups began for the second year. an obama administration official says about 100,000 people have already submitted new applications just since signup started on saturday. they're confident this year's signup season will be much more successful than last year. healthcare.gov has been revamped to handle last season's peak loads and more. the obama administration says they do hope for a total enrollment of just over 9 million people in 2015 that would be a 28% increase over last year. >>> and the latest hacking victim is the u.s. state department. the hacker apparently got to the department's unclassified e-mail system. the state department shut down its entire unclassified e-mail system on friday the make secu

we'll check back in with richard engel overseas covering the fight against isis in kobani. the ford f-150. as i need not remind anybody, greatest-selling vehicle of any kind for years in this country. undergoing a huge change. what a big gamble for ford motor. that and more when we see you tonight on "nightly news." >> you don't need to kill my son. over what? he was a good kid. >> next, a family tells news4 about the bullying a high school student endured. why they believe it may have led to his murder. >>> just minutes away from the concert for valor kicking off. we are live at the mall as excited concert-goers get ready for one of the washington's biggest events ever. >>> and people downtown right now. we're checking with security to see how efforts are going as we >>> you're watching news4 at 6:00. >>> now at 6:30, a team of reporters working new angles to today's top stories. >>> we begin in northern virginia, where prince william county police say they have what they call good leads in the murder of a 16-year-old boy. brendan wilson was found shot. somebody killed him