tonight richard engle with the service men and women on board the first flight to safety. >>> and making a difference. the woman who quietly saved up a fortune and did something that surprised the entire town. nightly news begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. >>> good evening. if you're watching us from the dallas ft. worth area in texas you can be prepared to watch. temperatures dropped 40 degrees in just about 24 hours. if you're to the east of there, this may be a preview of what to expect. and if you live where it's warm, you'll be the envy of the rest of the nation over the next few days as a big cold and crawling weather system is about to cause a whole lot of trouble as the weather is due when winter takes hold. it's already bad in the rockies. and we'll begin there in denver. good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. it never rose above 10 degrees in denver today. early this morning with the wind chill, it felt like it was negative 106789 bone chilling temperatures. and although it was bad here, there ar

stephen engle under, managing director -- stephen englander at citigroup. that point are like the people who buy gold. if you can figure out why you buy gold. they are distrustful of the government, what a store of value nobody else can get, that sort of thing. are they going to trade in tandem? not in perfect correlation. as you said, the people who like gold and people who like bitcoin -- they do not want to be inside the financial system. they do not want to be in a fiat currency. we have seen central banks balance sheets expand. one lesson i would draw is negative for bitcoin and goal. -- and gold. how forgiving people are of high it currencies -- of fiat currencies. whatever it you see hints of tightening, everybody rushes back. >> why? >> if fiat currencies are backed by trust in that paper. tom keene will say it is backed by the taxing power of the u.s. isfar as the dollar concerned. all central banks seem to be on a mission to do the currency that the issue. i am not talking about now, i am talking about all central banks, forever. why do we trust t

we're on the engle side. this checkpoint is located in order to intercept impaired drivers before they get to the freeway. tonight we crashed a company party and we found everyone well aware of the dui risk. >> more than friday's happy hour, these are happy attorneys. shedding their coats and briefcases for some bubbly as the law firm hosted the first holiday celebration out of the office in six years. >> what we would like to say, we appreciate the work you do. with the recession well done. we decided to step out and have the party outside of the office, again. >> reporter: hospitality workers are happy those hungry years are over. this party space is booked every night in december. >> you consumed any alcohol tonight. >> reporter: but another area booked up, dui checkpoints. >> it's important to think about that before you go to your event. >> i think particularly in this region. there's a very high degree of awareness of the consequences of driving drunk. >> reporter: those consequences are steep legally a

we're on the engle side.his checkpoint is located in order to intercept impaired drivers before they get to the freeway. tonight we crashed a company party and we found everyone well aware of the dui risk. >> more than friday's happy hour, these are happy attorneys. shedding their coats and briefcases for some bubbly as the law firm hosted the first holiday celebration out of the office in six years. >> what we would like to say, we appreciate the work you do. with the recession well done. we decided to step out and have the party outside of the office, again. >> reporter: hospitality workers are happy those hungry years are over. this party space is booked every night in december. >> you consumed any alcohol tonight. >> reporter: but another area booked up, dui checkpoints. >> it's important to think about that before you go to your event. >> i think particularly in this region. there's a very high degree of awareness of the consequences of driving drunk. >> reporter: those consequences are steep legally and

and nbc's richard engle reports from nelson mandela's childhood home. >> the service marked the end of nelson mandela's extraordinary live from political activist to prisoner to president. the man who helped end apar tied and become an icon internationally. for his stance on reconciliation, racial integration and harmony. there was a private ceremony today. only about 4,500 guests included royalty and members of mandela's exteblded family. and celebrities. and they eulogized his country's first black president and stressed how important it is to carry on his tradition and uphold his moral standard. >> we must lead by example and do something for people of south africa. >> perhaps the country's president and current president said it best, mandela's long twuk freedom in a physical sense has now come to an end. >> it is the end of 95 million tears. of the freedom fighter and humble servant of the people of south africa. >> and many south africans in his home village said for the first time, nelson mandela is finally free. richard engle, nbc news, south africa. >> and coming up next at 11

democrats also asking tough questions top democrat on this panel, elliot engle of new york, secretaryry for working on this interim deal, but said we have to make sure that iran sticks to its end of the bargain, and if they are not willing to stop the enrichment, how do we know they are serious. so secretary kerry hearing all of this, expecting these questions his push back was that we have to have this process, and the loosens of sanctions we are talking about is in his words fairly minimal. they are talking about six to $7 billion. he says that is small compared to the $100 billion even more than that that has been hit to iran's economy since sanctions were first imposed. get a sense of how secretary kerry is push back. >> once implemented and lit be in the next weeks this agreement halts the progress of iran's nuclear program. halts the progress. and roms it back in certain places for the first time. nearly ten years. it provides unprecedented monitoring. while we negotiate to see if we can conclude a comprehensive agreement. >> meanwhile, over in the senate, a couple of members in

jim engle live from washington. is this improvement big enough? >> it's the best news for the administration since the rollout began though that's a pretty low bar. with december enrollment seven times the two previous months. but one analyst told "fox news sunday" today they're still way behind. listen. >> they only announced 1.1 million. there were 900,000 december 22nd so we haven't seen the rush we thought we'd see. >> now, this is not including enrollment in state-run exchanges. nevertheless, the recent surge in ep rollments doesn't come close to covering some 5 million individuals' policies who were canceled because they didn't cover all that obamacare requires. each of those plans can affect a couple or a family, meaning 10 million, 15 million, or 20 million people had their coverage canceled and were trying to replace it. stale long way to go just to get back to even. >> jim, one of the key concerns here is also, you know, what kind of folks are truly enrolling. are they seniors? are they older, you know, sick people? are they young people

tonight richard engle with the service men and women on board the first flight to safety. >>> and makingrence. the woman who quietly saved up a fortune and did something that surprised the entire town. nightly news begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. >>> good evening. if you're watching us from

jim engle live from washington.

william engle and he believes it's likely the violence that erupted was bankrolled from outside the country i haven't ports from ukrainian ordinary citizens that the contact with the students and the unemployed are being paid something like twenty thirty euros a day who knows who we can only speculate to come in here and make the shot for us and then the fact that the target people one of the most outrageous new york conservatives are the bush era the former us ambassador to nato all comes and encourages the ukrainian people in the streets for freedom and joining the european union this is obviously a long line we've got some more on the situation in kiev including how extremist movements may be using the ongoing unrest for their own benefit do you head see r.t. dot com for the full story there. two detainees from the notorious guantanamo bay detention center have been sent home to algeria against their will one of them was hoping to be reunited with his family living in bosnia while the other wanted to return to canada or luxembourg where he once lived worked they both fear persecution and

. >> in hollywood park in engle wood. >> other races fold. >> back then the grand stants were packed. but the crowds have dwindled, the glory days have long forgotten, except forfor long time employees. >> it's got the fun gone out of it. >>reporter: lawrence abbott was at the turf club for 30 years. and bugeller jay cohen has played here for 30 years. >> you will still hear people yelling and screaming, just not as many of them. >> many old timers like betty ellis have returned. she first came to hollywood park half a century ago. >> if you don't support something it goes away. >>reporter: there was so much star power back in the day, the horses and those who cheered them on. >> you would see sinatra, and liz taylor. >> cary grant, gregory peck. >> jack lemmon, walter mathau, jimmy stewart. >> like those who came to watch, hollywood park will soon be only a memory. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs, 48 hours. for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york. for all of us here on cbs news, thanks for joining us and good nig

stephen engle is in beijing for us. is there a danger that we read too much into it? mean, we are drawing a lot of conclusions from a slight dip down in the flash number. this is the preliminary number for manufacturing pmi for december from hsbc and economics again. remember, this is a private survey, not the official survey. private companies in the manufacturing space in china, about 400 or so companies, where the official pmi am leslie looks at-- pmi mostly looks manufacturing. but it did sink down to a three- month low with this flash number. if the .5 compared to 50.8 for the final reading we got last month -- 50.5 compared to 50.8 for the final reading we got last month. it rants -- it represents about 80% of the final survey of couple of weeks ahead of the final result that we will get at the beginning of the month this time gender second. tenant -- this time january 2. january 1 is a holiday. it is the second month in a row where the month over month change fell. so this is why we are kind of reading into this. the government warned last week that the economy

stephen engle is with us from beijing. walk us through the whole thing. it is been a protracted affair. waiting.e been for those of the watching apple market said the client and china, they wanted to get it to china mobile but not to give up other concessions. china mobile demands that the falls work on their network -- of telephones work of their network. fruitiont is coming to with a multi-year deal. no financial figures are given up by either company. it will give apple access to customers. in addition, those using iphone on the competitors. china unicom, that they offer the iphone on its network since november of 2009. a four year head start. telecom has been offering since 2012. the big block has been the homegrown technology offered by china mobile. 3g and 4g is just been rolling out. for china mobile, it was a big prize for apple. it has 700 60 million plus wireless subscribers. million plus wireless hear and china, apple shares have dwindled. domesticvo and competitors outselling the more expensive iphones here in china. i think china is number si

it is going to be a small -- and what happened with jim engle and with fox and those few outlets who actually read the bill, and went into it in details, including the rise in deductible and including the fact that millions will lose plans unwillingly, including the fact that premiums will go up, and including the fact that you will lose choice, all of this was in the bill but nobody looked at it. the members of congress didn't even read it and pelosi said we'll learn what is in it after it passes and what we learned -- we learned what is in it as we learned with the deductible, it was a bill to redo all of american health care that would include everybody who liked this plan, as a way to socialize the system to get millions of americans subsidizing others in a way they never imagined. that is why you have to have the young and the healthies in the bill. so the perception was you will be left alone. it was never in the bill. it was an attempt to revolutionize and everything happening now is exactly what was written. >> but was it working? this is doctor ezekiel emanuel on what is hap

. >> this northern town is a place for mik migrants to get to engl.al town hall declined our request for be for an intervie. >> those people are here and bedon't feel safe in our own town anymore. >> it's a pit pitiful sight forr every successful sto stowaways countless fail. >> some migrants go it alone and some of them put themselves back in the hands of the people smugglers. >> the migrant's goa get one mea day thanks to the volunteers that run the soup kitchen when the date gates open it's a stam. the streets of europe are paved with misery and yet still they keep coming. >> and that is all the news from europe and now it's back to doha. >> selena thank you so much indeed. >> let's head to israel where anger over rehousing several bedouins. phil has visited southern israel and has spoken to some people that will be affected by the plan. >> they promised a day of rage and this is what it looks like. hundreds of israeli palestinian bedouin are fighting the police and plans to evict 40,000 from their homes. 34 people were invested during n haifa and

led by chairman ed royce, the republican of california, and elliot engle a democrat of new york, members congress pushed john kerry on just what would happen if iran doesn't go through with its pledges and their major concern is whether or not iran is giving up enough. if country is going far enough. so secretary kerry pushed back. he reiterated statements and sent them terrifically to members of congress, that this is not about having faith in iran, that this is an opportunity for the u.s. and its allies to get more access. he said this should get them closer to a nuclear free iran. >> the issue here is what are we going to do about so it we don't have a sudden break out that threatens israel and all the countries in the region and ourselves. now the truth is you said it is time to continue recall aspects of weaponnization, no they haven't, because in order to weapon nice you have to have highly enriched uranium, and in our plan they are going the opposite direction. libby casey for us, appreciate it, thank you. >> the los angeles skyline as we know it could be changing forever. dwarfin

so from our standpoint in congress, we passed my legislation along with elliott engles with a vote to increase sanctions until we get the kind of agreement that we need. give the iotola a choice between economic implosion or true compromise. we don't see the compromise at this point especially with the comments being made by the foreign minister and president rouhani at this point. >> he does indicate that things are boosted and better. clearing feeling that this has been a good deal for the iranian people or at least for iranian leadership. today, benjamin netanyahu spoke at the forum and talked about the fact that history will be altered if iran gets nuclear weapons and also said that history is going to judge all of us, american leaders, israeli leaders and others about how they handled this delicate situation. do you think we're on the right or wrong path as far as how history will view this? >> history will judge us. if you recall some years ago, democrats in the house and senate decided that apartheid -- an apartheid regime in south africa combined with a nuclear weapon state wa

the structure collapses in front of engle's eyes. >> it was terrifying.g to you if i -- i had never seen anything like this before. it was terrifying. the sound of it was panic. i think that's the best way i can describe it. panic. >> sam! >> sam! >> sam! >> 12 people are treated for broken bones and bruises at the nearby hospital. no players are injured but the cowboys' staff suffers a devastating blow. the most severely injured is 33-year-old assistant scout rich beam. his spine is severed and he's permanently paralyzed from the waist down. >> the initial reaction from me and everybody else is, wow, we were lucky and nobody really got hurt. but it was not much later that we realized that not everybody was so lucky. when we found out about rich, that changed everybody's perspective of all of it. >> the cause of the collapse is immediately investigated. at first it's thought that a tornado hit the facility but it turns out the collapse is caused by a microburst, an intense downdraft of air over a small area usually caused by a thunderstorm. the investigat

jim engle live in washington with the latest on this. >> reporter: hi. while the latest numbers are a huge improvement with the december enrollment, seven times the two previous months, one analyst told fox news sunday they are still well beyond. >> prepared to come our show. it must have been up to close to 2 million people and announced 1.1 million. they were up to 900,000. we haven't seen the rush we thought we would see. >> reporter: in spite of the recent surge it does not come close to covering more than 5 million individual plans canceled because they didn't cover all that obamacare requires. and each of those plans can affect a couple or family. meaning 10, 15, 20 million people is had their coverage canceled and trying to replace it. more concerning for analysts involves who is enrolling and how many young and healthy versus older and sicker americans. which will determine whether obamacare is financially viable. >> if you look at the demographic data and the trends including enrolling, less healthy. less healthy population in what the plans hop

stephen engle is in beijing with a look at this. what is the trend we're talking about here? it is below estimates. not by that much. >> yeah, no. this is the preliminary number that represents 85% to 90% of the final survey. it is a good indication of the private sector manufacturers and the sentiment. we had the severe slowdown in sentiment and capacity issues. can -- contraction. 50.5 is the reading and the flash number. it would be the fifth month of the row -- in the row for expansion and purchasing managers for several companies. trend and a a summer slowdown in expansions. thethe last two months, month over month change has been negative and the decline has been slipping back towards the 50 number. that is the threshold between contraction and expansion. the fifth month in a row in expansion. that is slipping a little bit and there are headwinds in the economy. there are downward pressures in this economy ande are in the middle of the rollout of economic policy reforms that know,have some, you provide headwinds to this economy. there are deteriorating environment and g

stephen engle is our china correspondent and he is in beijing. this is a long time coming. it is a pretty significant deal as well. x years -- six years worth of negotiation coming to fruition. accessll give apple to -- access to customers on china's biggest wireless at work. china telecom corp. the china apple have been offering since about 2009. telecom has offered it since march of last year. the big stumbling block for apple and china mobile has been mobile's insistence to have apple make a handset that could be used on the homegrown technology that china mobile was forced by authorities to use. 3g network. no other carriers globally have adopted china's own homegrown platforms and apple had resisted up until now. china mobile always the big prize for apple. it has 760 million wireless subscribers, 62% of china's total users. apple has seen its share in the chinese market dwindle. it is number six right now. cheaper models from samsung, lenovo, xiao mei and other domestic players have outsold the more expensive iphones. iphones are more expensive and they are higher-mar

richard engle, thank youo much. was by myself with him and i thought this is nelson mandela's birthday what a great birth right. >> and richard is right. he could have gonene of two ways. he could have taken the anger that built up over 27 years and used that in a negative way. instead, he was grateful to say the very least. >> it's a huge history lesson on w freedom can prail. >> for a lot of us of a certain age, we lived that history but for a younger generation, he's a pop culture icon for good and for positive message. >> he is. a lot of people know the film n invictus. morgan freeman in the movie. mandela striding on to the field in the rugby world cup wearing south african colors and bringing t overwhelmingly white crowd, more than 60,000 people to its feet. they cheer nelson, nelson, nelson. there's another film out now. mandela, long wa t freedom. he's a celebrity to a lot of people. it's important to look back at w he became one. >> the great actor pying nelson mandela who got rave reviews and william and k

you only have to remember the christine o'donnell, the shirin engles the joe millers of a uncanle years ago, to know that no republican incumbent senator is a sure thing anymore. plus i have rested my played jacket away from crystal ball. we've got a new stack of note cards, excellent questions to put both you and our expert political guests to the test. another challenging and exciting install. of our current affairs quiz show "up against the clock." you want to stick around for that but first, you know the story of the second half of president obama's first term. a republican-led tea party powerhouse committed to stalling, do fighting and to obstructing his agenda, not compromising or negotiating with him in any meaningful way. we had total paralyzeing gridlock. he ran for re-election last year, obama pitched his candidacy as a way of breaking through all of. the frustration i have is we still feed to break the fever here in washington so that this town operates and reflects those values that are shared by people all across the country. >> meaning what, break the fever? >> break the f

eliot engle of new york. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me thank our witnesses. thank you for being here. the three of you have what i consider to be some of the most complex and thankless jobs in the u.s. government and all of us appreciate your service. i share the frustration of my colleagues about the games that president karzai has been playing. he ought to sign the bsa and stop the nonsense. i just wanted to say that. let me ask ambassador dobbins, much of the resource planning is happening in the field, but i would like to know what how washington is doing similar planning. what is the timeline in which the afghanistan and pakistan offices are going to return to the bureau of south and central asian affairs and asian bureau and how our state and a id planning to address the new resource environment that will occur with these transitions? >> i would not say at this point we have a firm plan. there is an intention to look at the current bureaucratic arrangement and the state department in light of the transition at the end of 2014. i think even then, afghani

i now turn to ranking member engle for h-- engel for his opening statement. >> thank you, secretary kerry, thank you all for appearing today. thank you for an issue that's obviously important to national security. after taking this up five years ago, president obama inherited an almost nonexistent strategy of getting iran to limit nuclear probability. it became apparent when iran walked away from the p5-s1 negotiations in october of 2009. after that the administration shifted to a two-track strategy which coupled engagement with increasing economic pressure through sanctions, while making it clear that all options remain on the table. this is the policy i favored, and the president, succeeded without expectations. the u.n. security council and the european union acting in parallel with our efforts imposed tough new sanctions on iran. this committee took the lead on a bipartisan basis to pass fighting sanctions legislation, the royce-engel bill designed to kr cripple the iranian economy. that was a bill that passed unanimously out of this committee. i was very, very proud of it, to work on

i now turn to ranking member engle for h-- engel for his opening statement. >> thank you, secretary kerry, thank you all for appearing today. thank you for an issue that's obviously important to national security. after taking this up five years ago, president obama inherited an almost nonexistent strategy of getting iran to limit nuclear probability. it became apparent when iran walked away from the p5-s1 negotiations in october of 2009. after that the administration shifted to a two-track strategy which coupled engagement with increasing economic pressure through sanctions, while making it clear that all options remain on the table. this is the policy i favored, and the president, succeeded without expectations. the u.n. security council and the european union acting in parallel with our efforts imposed tough new sanctions on iran. this committee took the lead on a bipartisan basis to pass fighting sanctions legislation, the royce-engel bill designed to kr cripple the iranian economy. that was a bill that passed unanimously out of this committee. i was very, very proud of it, to work on

that he pushed and supported and, of course, you can talk about richard mooredock, todd aiken, shaern engle. you can talk about all of these candidates that were just unelectable in general elections. they are seen by many republicans in the senate and across the country as basically the creations of jim demint. >> right. now, christine o'donnell is the perfect example of the self-enflicked wound -- self-inflicted wound. murdock, aiken and also sharon engel he never backed in the primary. many people kind of remember it that way. tech nextally, he didn't -- owe technically, he didn't back those candidates. there were a number he backed in 2010 and 2012 didn't make it. you know, the demint people wi note many of the candidates were seen as the establish. candidates also didn't when in those seekleles. and if you do look, if you keep score in terms of which askeds from the establish him and from the tea party law, i think, you can point at some blame in both direction. it's not as one seemed as it often seems. >> very good. >> jonathan strong, thank you very much. glad to have you on this sho

new york democratic congressman elliott engle joins us right now in studio. holiday week. you know last year jobless benefits kept, what, some 1.7 million americans out of poverty. why hasn't this been a priority this time around? >> well, it's i priority for us as democrats. the republicans who have a majority in the house refused to bring it up. there was just this budget agreement which we voted on between the house and the senate and we very much wanted unemployment benefits to be part of the agreement and republicans refused. they seem to have an attitude that people who can't get work and need unemployment benefits to survive are ripping off the system. it's really disgraceful. these people need help and we should help them. >> could democrats have done more, though, in that give and take to get that budget deal done with not a lot of fan fare, which a lot of people are surprised to see. could democrats have pushed a little bit more for this group that needs so much more help? >> i think democrats pushed very, very hard. it was a matter of what can you

. -- engle of new york. you, mr. chairman. let me thank our witnesses. for being here. the three of you have what i consider to be some of the most complex and thankless jobs in the u.s. government and all of us appreciate your service. i share the frustration of my colleagues about the games that president karzai has been playing. he ought to sign the bsa and stop the nonsense. i just wanted to say that. ask ambassador dobbins, much of the resource planning is happening in the field, but i howd like to know what washington is doing similar planning. what is the timeline in which the afghanistan and pakistan offices are going to return to centralau of south and asian affairs and asian bureau and how our state and a id planning to address the new resource environment that will occur with these transitions? >> i would not say at this point we have a firm plan. there is an intention to look at the current bureaucratic arrangement and the state department in light of the transition at the end of 2014. i think even then, afghanistan is likely to remain a difficult enough and