lester? >>> turning now to politics, from the looming fiscal cliff to the ongoing con tro versus over the nra's recent comments following the sandy hook elementary strategy. a lot to discuss with david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." the president and congress have left town for the holidays. any chance they might come back early, any sense of a deal in the works? >> i think there is a deal in the works. it is just a smaller deal. they will be back next thursday. i have been talking to folks on capitol hill and the white house. i think they are going for a smaller deal that could put off some of the effects of the fiscal cliff and get a tax cut extension for those making $250,000 or less. wealthier americans would pay for. you would avoid the fiscal cliff for now. you kick the can down the road. this is washington dysfunction at its height but it would forestal the cliff >>> i wonder if we are seeing a change to speaker boehner that got his hand slapped by some members of his party. i

. >> reporter: lester, good evening. president obama played a round of golf this afternoon but white house officials say this is also a working vacation for him and for his staffers. that is little comfort for the millions of americans wondering what the uncertainty in washington means for them. president obama arriving in hawaii after leaving a washington in disarray. while the president put politics aside for his weekly address -- >> michelle and i want to wish you a merry christmas and a happy holidays. >> reporter: -- on friday the focus was on the fiscal cliff. mr. obama conceded a large deal may now be impossible but urged congress to at least prevent taxes from going up on middle class americans while extending unemployment insurance and laying the groundwork for deficit reduction. >> i expect democrats and republicans to get back to washington and have it pass both chambers. and i will immediately sign that legislation into law. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner also headed home after a bruising week. his o

lester? >> michael, thanks. here's erica. >>> in new hampshire, a group of kids who might not normally know much about lacrosse are learning a whole lot about the game thanks to one man's generosity. ron mott has more. >> reporter: michael garrett spent his fall pushing a sport these youngsters hardly know. he started inner city lacrosse for kids just like coby spence. >> i couldn't believe my ears when my mom told me you want to join lacrosse? i was like what? >> a lot of people can't afford to participate in extracurricular activities. sometimes you find yourself in that predicament. >> lacrosse, a lot of people think of it as an elite sport. >> it is. but let's change that. >> reporter: growing up in the shadows of an ivy league tower like yale university fueled a burning desire to overcome. >> i grew up in the section where they told the yale students not to go. >> reporter: single mom, youngest of six who jumped at the chance to get ahead. >> when i walked on yale's campus as a little boy going for enrichme

matt lauer and savannah guthrie along with lester for that. for our entire team. for my friend lester in new york, my team here on the ground in newtown, connecticut after a awfully dark day across this country. i'm brian

>> reporter: well, lester, it sounds trite, i don't know what there is to say. i don't know how you answer for this when you look at the president of the united states and he comes up short at a loss for words. we later learned he had longer remarks to deliver, but he himself couldn't get through it. the question, as we said, at the top of the broadcast lester as you have been asking on the coverage all day, who would kill these kids? where does this come from? how do we recover? it may be unanswerable. and the answer may be just to try to get through it. and a reminder to stay with your late local news tonight for the latest on this story. i'll remind all of you, my colleague lester holt will be joined tomorrow morning for a special live edition of "the today show." matt lauer and savannah guthrie will be there. from our entire team, on the ground in newtown, connecticut, after a dark day across the country. i'm brian williams, thank you for joining us.

lester? >> miguel almaguer, northern california tonight. thank you. >>> meantime, on this first day of meteorological winter, much of the country is about to feel record warmth for the start of december. meteorologist kim cunningham joins us from the weather channel headquarters. good evening. >> good evening, lester. it's typical a lot of times when you get that rainy weather in the west further east you get the warmth, the record highs. that's what we saw today. these are just some of the cities that did see records. oklahoma city, dallas 83. that was a record. houston 82. that was a record for you. we're talking about records that were broken from the 70s, corpus christi 86 degrees. now the reason we're seeing this is because our jet stream is so far to the north. notice the trough and the dip in the jet stream on the west. that's why we're seeing the storms. but in response we're seeing the ridge building in. that is when we see the record warmth. we'll see a little break in the pattern a

lester? >> that is good news. julie, thank you. >>> now to those comments of mitt romney's oldest son that got a lot of people talking today. it has been seven weeks since the election, there has been a steady stream of behind-the-scenes details coming from both campaigns. now comes the revelation from tag romney that his father had no desire to run for president again, at least at first. we get our report from nbc's ron mott in boston. >> i have just called president obama to congratulate him on his victory. >> reporter: as mitt romney, members of his campaign staff and top gop leaders continue assessing how he lost the election to a vulnerable incumbent president, the oldest son of the former massachusetts governor is raises eyebrows about his dad's initial reluctance to make a second white house run. in a story published in sunday's "boston globe," tag romney says his father "wanted to be president less than anyone i've met in my life. he had no desire to run. if could have found someone else to take his place,

>> reporter: good evening, lester. there was a 14-foot storm surge here on lower manhattan, completely submerging this subway station. the damage is so bad here, they don't know when ore if they'll ever by able to open it. swamped subways. >> a record storm surge here in the new york city area. >> reporter: massive power outages and beach front neighborhoods leveled. while officials say sandy was unprecedented, it wasn't entirely unexpected. for three decades, officials were told to prepare for a storm of historic proportions and a l law. >> nobody's taken the political courage to say, here's the standard for prepareness, here's the standard for recovery, we're going to help you fund it and then we're going to punish you if you don't get is there. >> reporter: three state reports since 1975 focused on preparedness, one addressed new york's preparability saying the sea level rise will progress regardless of new york's response. officials dealt with problems like housing, gas shortages and firings as they arose. congress

lester, your story is not uncommon.t hit, ir'moving along and suddenly you look at the paperwork with the record companies et cetera and you're getting the short end of the stick, right, isn't that how this all started? >> yeah, very much too short, stick got too short so i started to look around and see what was wrong. >> and what was wrong? >> well, what was rock, there were no reports, there were no statements, nobody saying you did this. they were just doing as they wanted to, as they willed. >> before the internet really it was so hard to try to get information from them because we're cold calling people who want to laugh at you and hang up and say get a lawyer and no lawyer wants to take this case because we have no money and it's like they know that it's a contingency case and going to take years so fortunately with the internet you're able to put something out that reaches millions of people and gets their attention. dad worked from 1967 to 1994, before he saw his first royalty check ever, of anything that they

. >> i'm cain for lester holt. just when you thought it was safe to go out, another storm is hitting the east coast. >> there won't be as bad as the storm that spun off tornadoes and dumped heavy snow across the northeast and the east this week. it could certainly impact holiday travel. we'll have the latest coming up in a moment. >>> also ahead, in the wake of the sandy hook school tragedy, a new plan from the controversial sheriff in arizona. he wants armed volunteers to patrol the schools there. we'll get into that debate. >>> then, we'll share with you a romance story 20 years in the making. it began with a simple love letter in elementary school. >>> plus, did you get the gift for the holidays that, well, just wasn't you? a record number of returns are expected this year. but did you ever wonder what happens next? we'll take you inside a warehouse where many of these items go and actually wind up getting resold at some pretty deep discounts. >> i like the sound of that, deep discount. we'll go shopping, too. >

only stayed up for the first quarter, i have to go to bed, some of us do need our beauty rest, paul lester. fans really were up all night party asking a lot of them aren't actually heading home for some much needed rest, we were here at the diner, talking to a lot of fans who were screaming out, but now they are home, hopefully get something rest. >>> let's look at video from the height of the celebration. finally something to cheer about. this is the first division title for the redskins in 13 years. fans say a lot was riding on this game. and the skins did not disappoint. we spoke to one fan outside of the diner here in adams morgan, here is what he had to say i don't i think it brought back you know the flavor of football to watch them. we have a long tradition of football and you couldn't ask for anything better. dallas cowboys, and rg iii and the rest of the young guys, they have exceeded everybody's expectations. >> jordan was a worker here inside a diner, came out to talk to us, even though he was excited and had lots to say, he looked like he was tired didn't he? i'm sure plenty of

he was dressed all in black, lester. we are told maybe perhaps a green military type vest with pockets perhaps for extra ammo. >> how did he die? >> that's i'm waiting to hear back. a self-inflikted gunshot wound or police responded and took him out. unclear. that part of the investigation continues but the two weapons were found near him. so -- >> but you have cleared up one of the issues in terms of new jersey connection. new jersey was where he currently lived. >> hoboken, new jersey, the address and the fbi and state police in hoboken police there assisting connecticut authorities in this investigation. originally there was confusion reports that his parents or a parent killed and the belief was that crime scene in new jersey was a result of that but then it was cleared up that, no, the mom was a teacher up in newtown and that is why he went up there and targeted that school. he, the suspect, lived in hoboken, new jersey. the mom worked as a teacher in that school, kindergarten. >> it is -- i don't know. i don't thin

lester is off. a surfer whose quick thinking got him out of a shark attack.t him a couple of different times. we will explain why he got away and why this attack will not keep him out of the water. >> which is always amazing to me that they want to go back in. we will get some tips from you for planning the perfect new year's eve party from the master. who better than the barefoot contessa. she graciously invited me into her home. a behind the scenes look at how she works her magic. one of the greatest days ever. we'll share more on that with you. >> have you ever read mad magazine? >> of course. >> it is still around. it recently turned 60 years old. i recently visited the office to find out how they keep their spoof and sat tire from getting old. they have incredible writers. we are going to bring it to you in a little bit. >>> this has been an unbelievable year in pop culture from the "50 shades of gray" to honey boo boo. >>> we are finishing off the year on the cold side. a very chilly morning. we are going to see new year's eve be a little chilly as well

. >>> 37 minutes past the hour in this week's office politics, alex talks with lester holt.tories that come from those places. but alex began by getting an update on the war in afghanistan. >> i've been there twice in the last two years, the second trip was interesting in the fact that everybody now talks about the mission, not going after terrorists per se, but training the afghan forces. that's the -- they all want to tell you how well they are doing, give you numbers and power points and flow charts. how many afghan police and army they have trained up. it's happening, we saw it there. but the reality is, a great fear of what happens after the u.s. leaves, a lot of the u.s. forces don't have the same technical capability. they don't have drones and night vision, don't have a lot of special weapons. >> but with our american forces there, how do they feel about leaving? do they feel they have accomplished what they want to do. do they feel good about leaving things in the afghan hands? >> they feel good that they have a mission that they feel they are accomplishing, and cer

alex has a conversation with nbc's lester holt.sked him about the recent stint co-anchoring with his son at chicago's nbc station and whether he is still a california boy. but first she asked for lester's take on the nature of capitol hill hills's fiscal cliff discussions. >> i think there's a lot of people who are obviously to the left or the right and they're very certain and the world seems very clear to them. then there's a lot of folks, probably folks like me who are kind of like, you know, i don't even know. i don't know if you raise taxes on the rich if that improves anything or if it hurts the economy. you get to a point, i think a lot of folks to this point do something. don't be paralyzed. find a way to work together. let's just move forward. i think people right now recognize that the country has a lot of problems. they just want to -- let's just move. let's do something. and not be paralyzed. i think there's a growing sense among people i talk to is that the political process is more geared toward winning than it is gov

but we're all in this together. >> and that was nbc's lester holt reporting from connecticut.g a police briefing at the top of the hour and the continuing search for answers behind this school massacre. also ahead, more on how america is reacting to this horrific attack. you're watching "weekends with alex witt." for those with visions of doing this... ...this... ...and this, dancing in their heads... ...we have these. home depot gift cards. give the gift of doing, in-store or online. [ male announcer ] jill and her mouth have lived a great life. but she has some dental issues she's not happy about. so i introduced jill to crest pro-health for life. selected for people over 50. pro-health for life is a toothpaste that defends against tender, inflamed gums, sensitivity and weak enamel. conditions people over 50 experience. crest pro-health for life. so jill can keep living the good life. crest. life opens up when you do. customer erin swensoniving bought so, i'm happy. today. sales go up... i'm happy. it went out today... i'm happy. what if she's not home? (together) she won't

. >> and i'm willie geist in this morning for lester, he is out on assignment. good to be with all of you. the nfl starts another sunday with heavy hearts dealing with tragedy. dallas cowboys player killed in a car accident, his teammate has been charged with intoxicated manslaughter. police say alcohol was a factor in the crash. the accident comes a week after the murder/suicide involving voeian belcher of the kansas city chiefs. we'll have details from dallas in a moment. >>> there is an emergency board meeting today for the australian radio station involved in the prank call about the duchess of cambridge's hospital stay. the meeting to address the mounting criticism and public outcry after a nurse who took the call at that hospital died. >>> plus, mtv well-known for its reality shows, some of them like "jersey shore" and "teen mom" have been very controversial and now one washington lawmaker wants the network to pull the plug on its new show "buck wild" before it even airs. >>> then we'll switch gears and talk about letters being written to santa this year.

. >> nbc's lester holt is here with more on the tragedy. good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. tough weekend. the community needed the president to come here. he met with the first responders, the families. the speech he delivered was not one that many expected. he offered words of comfort, he also laid down a political gauntlet. for the fourth time since taking office, president obama stood before a community shattered by mass murder to offer words of comfort. >> i can only hope it helps for you to know that you're not alone in your grief. >> the president called last friday the worst day of his presidency. and this time he came with more than words of consolation. the president, sketching the outlines of what amounted to a policy statement on gun violence. >> can we honestly say we're doing enough to keep our children, all of them, safe from harm? i've been reflecting this on this the last few days and if we're honest with ourselves, the answer is no. in the coming weeks, i'll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fe

i'm brian williams, lester ht will be here with you this weekend.course, we hope to see you back on monday night. meanwhile, please have a good weekend. good night. . >> announcer: nbc bay area news starts now. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. aim janelle wang. >> and i'm raj mathai. round two hit the bay area today and we got hit hard. right now nice break outside, but it won't last long. this friday commute has been surprisingly smooth. sheer aa live look at the 280/880 interchange in the south bay. around the bay area, traffic is moving relatively speaking. >> earlier today, several problems. the heavy rain led to scenes like this across the bay area. flooded parking lots, roadways and freeways, all around a giant mess. >> we have live team coverage, sheryl and mary ann, but we begin with our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri with the latest conditions from our weather center. >> the rainfall totals are unleel. that's what we'll see heading into the weekend's storm system, another round of had heavier rain and also gusty winds. right now m

>>caller: hi intelliwhite purchases cake lester microcurrent melded to me by fax at i got it smudged up and i did not know that you guys sold it because i was so excited it was so delicious even know was a mess which still aided and we had the cheesecake it was the absolute best cheesecake i had my life. to try the other two. >>host: c13 to order today joanne? >>caller: i ordered the tiramisu andocolate trouble cakes. >>host: a luggage joanne. >>guest: thank. >>host: you enjoy it whenever you receive and they give iran. >>guest: i have a great and she is my grandmother's sister and every year she would said can i have first and i know where progress was to start opening up my guess i opened them upmuch good stuff to enjoy so i start now enjoying christmas gifts. >>host: we do something that is delivery direct an you the paper this and send it to anywhere u.s. senate. this is a great holiday get if you wanna give someone a delicious dessert there is an opportunity right there and take advantage of the free shipping and handling we rarely get to do that because they are so expensive to

the fiscal cliff of american politics and just what it bodes for all of us that's up next well our lester. download the official ati application to cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is not required to watch all its hear all you need is your mobile device to watch ati any time of the. wealthy british style signs. on. the. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. if. soon which brightened a few nibbles from finest impressions. screens totty dot com. will fall into the true science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got the future covered. it all. skewed. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for tuesday december fourth two thousand and twelve the g.o.p. has made a counteroffer to the white house on the fiscal cliff and the endless conversation continues today with president obama giving

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just ahead for you laura lester with a global financial news roundup from our washington studios. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday nov thirtieth two thousand and twelve the fiscal cliff continues to drive the news cycle and washington politics meanwhile the wall street journal reports it's pushing us i.p.o.'s stock sales and mergers as sellers feared taxes on investment gains could go up next year now despite news like this and even if by efforts to promote i.p.o. bubbles the number of companies going public continues to be down significantly from highs in the nineteen nineties who why would we want this. why would we ever want to bubble party private equity advisor william janeway is here to explain why bubbles are sometimes good plus u.s. corporate profits hit a record high in the third quarter according to the bureau of economic analysis with these profits why are we seeing more business investment to fuel innovation will discuss and we hear about sovereign credit downgrade and warnings of th

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it may be won't be as robust as it was last year, lester was a pretty decent holiday season, better thand. this year probably a little more tepid given the environment we are in. ashley: when it comes to the week after christmas, how important is that so the overall picture? >> to account for almost 10% of holiday sales. if they do returns or exchanges and converts it into another purchase, oftentimes spending a little bit more, sometimes they see it as value towards another purchase actually wanted. and gift cards. that comes in and oftentimes one and a half to two times the value of the card spent when people come back to the store. with the sales on wednesday, the day after christmas, you will see some of that. ashley: who do you think some of the winners will be this holiday season with regards to the retailers? >> companies like macy's have done very well, tjx, costco, wal-mart. wal-mart sells everything, feed the family, put the deal on the table and get gifts. michael kors was a winner this holiday season. there are definitely some winners out there. ashley: jcpenney tried to rebr

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. >> i'm lester holt and this is "dateline." as they say in hollywood, the plot thickens.cz. >> action. it ranks second only to money as the single most important word in hollywood. and here in l.a. where life and art are often the same thing, there is a real life drama that rivals any action movie with a plot that includes all the elements of classic film noir. >> cut! >> a mystery featuring an assassin, a femme fatale, skpand an actor. let's start with joe peschi, with a name as famous as a cold-blooded killer. his ex-wife, a model and actress, appeared alongside peschi in the gangster film "casino." the supporting cast includes claudia's brother, manny, not an actor but an actual tough guy who did time in prison and who harbors a terrible secret in his past. and finally claudia's second husband, garrett warren, a hollywood stunt man and martial arts expert. a man very familiar with danger. fade in, early evening in the quiet town of westlake village, california outside of l.a. stuntman garrett warren heard a knock on his door and a voice on the other side asking about h

paul lester my photographer, one of them. i'm challenging you out paul, i am. he is one of the fans who stayed up late last night and woke up this morning. he is on his second cup of coffee by the way. everyone is so excited, and like fans are saying, this really has up lifted the whole town and has brought us back to our glory days as being known as a football town, diehard fan. what a way to ring in the new year, right? let's look at video shot last night of fans cheering and celebrating together at local bars. they were all over the place, there were tons of tailgating parties and parties just like this. it has been a long time coming for these fans who were celebrating. the redskins claimed their first division title since 1999 when the team stars were just kids, nine years old r.g. iii was at the time. he is 22 now and brought the redskins to victory. let's hear what the coach had to say post game. >> for him to play at that level for a full 60 minutes and get six yards a carry really is a testament to not only him but the guys blocking for him. i was very

first, in today's office politics, alex has a conversation with lester holt.s him how he became to be an aviation expert for the network and the huge role music plays in his life. we'll talk about two stories of haunting images he'll never forget. >> i traveled to somalia in the '90s. to be thrust in a situation where people are starving to death. you can't be more foreign to the world we know. it was extremely dangerous. it was then and still is a land of anarchy. it was a place that anything could happen and it did. but, you know, those are some of the images i saw. the other is the earthquake in haiti. i have never seen death on quite that scale before. i mean literally arms and limbs poking from rubble. the scene that will forever remain with me there was i can't even call it a mass grave. it was a dumping ground of bodies where they simply pushed bodies in a field. it was just, chilling. it was one of those scenes you look at and, you know, you are not sure what you are looking at. is that a pile of clothes? then you realize it's bodies. that was a kind o

i'm lester holt.ver someone is kidnapped it triggers a race against time as police often joined by the victim's family, begin a frantic search. that's what happened in this story which begins with a young mom abducted at gunpoint, but as you're about to see, though her family and veteran investigators spent desperate days trying to find out where she was, they never could have guessed who had her and why. here's josh mankiewicz. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is the sheriff's office. >> my wife made a phone call to me a minute ago to say that she was held by gunpoint. >> businessman reid gray was on the line with the sheriff's office in a panic. he told the 911 operator that his wife had phoned him minutes earlier to say she'd been kidnapped. >> i would say it's not. >> the call would turn out to be just the beginning of an unbelievable saga that would baffle investigators and turn this husband's life upside down. the next few days would bring one setback after another and no one could have predicted how it all

." >>> good evening, i'm lester holt.ld someone agree to spend months behind bars with the criminally insane and come out of prison a freeman? before he could do that, he had a special job to do and that was inside the prison. getting in was the easy part. getting out alive was much harder. two enemies who didn't trust each other faced off across a table. one of them in handcuffs was a clever con named jimmy keane. the other, a hard-charging prosecutor. >> in court he called me the john gardi. >> he suddenly wanted to talk. a top secret meeting no less. what more could he do to jimmy? >> he was the last person i expected to hear from. he was my biggest fear. >> but keane's fears went off the charts when prosecutor larry beaumont slipped an accordion file in his direction. the top document was the photo of a mutilated girl. >> and then there was another photo of another mutilated girl. >> he probably thought you were about to charge him with something else. >> yeah, because they were pretty rough on him in the initial pros

knocked by martell lester.e would come up limping, but breathe easy, warror fans, he came back later in the game. but golden state had a strong performance by klay thompson. 5 of 9 from beyond the arc. 23 points. warriors up 6. lee, back-to-back double-doubles. 23 points, 17 rebounds, this guy is so solid. 101-97, the final. warriors have won ten of twelve and this is the first time they have won the first three games an road trip since 2003. the 49ers hosting the dolphins. we will have all those highlights tonight at five. i'm mike shumann, have a great day. >> up next, for the second straight week another tragedy in the nfl. a player with the dallas cowboys faces manslaughter charges after an accident kills his teammate. how will it affect today's dame ♪ [ female announcer ] nature exists on the grandest scale... ♪ ...and in the tiniest details. ♪ and sometimes both. nature valley granola thins pack the big taste of granola and dark chocolate into one perfect square, under 100 calories. nature valley granola

nbc's lester holt talked to kids and learned things about st. nick. >> what can we do to help santa have an easier time? >> instead of reindeer pulling the sled, you can do dragons. >> one big dragon and then a lot of reindeer. >> a dragon and a bunch of reindeer. >> a baby dragon. of course. >> he could put a lounge in his place in the north pole. >> what would he do in that lounge? >> get massages. have a bunch of hot tubs. >> i don't think there's anything santa could do differently. his reindeer are very fast. >> faster than a jet plane? >> do you think a jet plane could make it around the world all in one night? answer me that question. >> would you want to go along? >> yes. >> the sleigh goes pretty fast. you wouldn't be afraid? >> no. >> how come? >> because i'm not scared of anything. >> how does he keep track of the names? does he write them down? >> he uses an ipad. he types what house number and then the name appears up on the ipad. >> is there a special santa app that he uses? >> yes. special santa app. >> what would you tell santa a

. >> lester? >> leslie. >> leslie? >> i have to do this now or i won't get through it. never did believe it not getting down to it. >> oh, oh, oh no. >> i know it's fast. take some time to think about it. >> please. >> if the answer is no, then i'll know you took me seriously enough to think about it. >> i just need to be alone. >> i had the honor of working with charles durning in the short-lived tv series in which he was playing a supreme court justice. i was lucky enough to hear his stories about show business, but there was so much more to his life, especially before show business. which i learned about only today reading his obituary, which rewrote my understanding of charles durning. i knew that he didn't make his professional debut as an actor until he was well into his 30s and that his big break as an actor came 40 years ago in the broadway hit that championship season when charles durning was 49 years old. the first thing that felt like success to him happened when he was 49 years old. as an acting student, he had been told he didn't have a chance of making it

curry gets his left knee knocked by martell lester. he would come up limping, but breathe easy, warror fans, he came back later in the game. but golden state had a strong performance by klay thompson. 23 points. warriors up 6. lee, back-to-back double-doubles. 17 rebounds, this guy is so solid. 101-97, the final. warriors have won ten of twelve and this is the first time they have won the first three games an road trip since 2003. niners hosting the doll minutes. -- the dolphins. i'll have those highlights at five. i'm mike shumann. have a great day! >> for the second straight week another tragedy in the nfl. a player with the dallas cowboys faces manslaughter charges after a car accident that kills a teammate. how will it affect the game scheduled to begin in a few hours. >> i'm nannette miranda in >> welcome back, everyone. in a few hours the dallas cowboys will play in cincinnati, one day after their defensive lineman josh brent was charged with intoxicated manslaughter. authorities say he was driving at a high rate of speed and los

nbc's lester holt spent some time with one such family. >> these children play like they don't have a that's the way it should be when you're 9 and 6 but things are not the way they should be nor necessarily as they appear. how are the kids going? >> they are go. they go through periods. they will be typical kids, you know, being silly or fighting, and then all of a sudden my daughter will get serious. >> reporter: the siblings were among those led to safety from sandy hook elementary after the shooting stopped. >> last night was tough. she was in bed, and she kept saying i can't get it out of my mind when she was leaving the school that she had seen some bodies on the floor. >> ben herstam raced to the scene after he heard the kids' school was on lockdown. >> i passed my daughter on her way out of the school, and i knew he was safe and i knew my son was still in the school at that time. turns out he wasn't. already safe in the firehouse. >> reporter: in the firehouse there were other anxious loved ones. >> in retrospect, looking back at it, the parent that were still there, and they

here is lester holt with more. >> reporter: devon and avin play like they don't have care in the world, that's the way it should be on a saturday when you're 9 and 6. but things are not the way they should be nor necessarily as they appear. >> how are the kids doing? >> they're good. they go through periods. first they'll be typical kids, being silly, fighting. then all of a sudden they'll -- my daughter will get serious. >> reporter: the siblings were among the children led to safety from sandy hook elementary after the shooting stopped. >> last night was tough. she was in bed, she kept saying i can't get it out of my head. she was saying she couldn't get it out of her mind. >> reporter: ben raced to the scene after receiving a text informing him that the kids school was on lockdown. >> i passed my daughter weith hr class on the way out of the school, so i knew she was safe. i was told my son was in the school at the time. he wasn't. he was safe at the firehouse. >> reporter: at the firehouse there were other anxious loved ones. >> in retrospect, looking at it, those parents still the

>> no, actually, all we know is that it came in response to a question from lester holt about e-mails or writings that adam lanza may have been left around or had been found by investigators and in response to that, lieutenant van, the spokesman for the state police, said there is a lot of good evidence that we've been able to collect. so we can infer that this might involve some writings or things that he's posted, somewhere online, but we don't know that for sure yet. >> michael isikoff, there are still so many, many, many questions that have yet to be answered here. so hopefully we get a little bit more information from police tomorrow. thank you, sir. do appreciate your work, as always, mike. >> okay. >> i want to go ahead and bring in nbc news white house correspondent, kristen welker, who's standing by at pennsylvania avenue. kristen, at this point, any indication of whether the president might be heading at some point to connecticut? >> well, craig, i think it's likely, whenever there is a national tragedy like the one that we have just seen in connecticut, he does go to the sc