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mr. roqueker tonight. he'll have more tomorrow morning on "today". that is nbc "nightly news" for this sunday. lester holthere tomorrow. for all of us here at nbc news good night. >> they asked, would anyone want to hurt him? i knew that my dad had been on match.com. >> this is not gonna end well. this is a crime scene. >> miles of nothing up here. it's an easy place for a man to go missing. what do you mean you can't find my brother? >> he was the school's superintendent. not the type to play hooky. >> he really loved teaching and working with kids. >> turns out, he wasn't missing. he was dead. >> this morning person case has become a homicide? >> correct. >> that solved one mystery but left another. why would anyone want to kill him? maybe it had something to do with a woman in his life.

mr. spock. remembering "star trek" legend leonard nimoy. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. we begin here tonight with a developing story. the federal agency responsible for securing everything from the planes we fly on to our borders and ports is in limbo tonight and on the verge of losing its funding just hours from now. a short time ago the house of representatives voted against extending funding to the department of homeland security, which has been a pawn in a high stakes partisan chess game. we'll get into the politics of how we got here in a moment, but first what it means to the american public and the hard choices homeland security officials are facing tonight. let's turn to senior white house correspondent chris jansing. hi, chris. >> reporter: good evening, lester. this is a stunning turn of events. speaker john boehner didn't have enough support for the republicans' own proposal. so now with a shutdown of homeland security just hours away, the next steps aren't clear. a chaotic outcome for thousands of federal employees. inside the government's

holt will fill in for williams during his suspension. >>> u.s. president sbroim urging russia's -- barack obama is urging russia's president to seize the opportunity for peace in ukraine. mrmir putin tuesday. the call came ahead of peace talks planned for wednesday in belarus between mr. putin and the leaders of ukraine, france, and germany. preliminary talks have already begun. >>> a verdict is expected today in belgium where 46 suspected jihadists have been on trial since september. they're suspect members of the group sharia for belgium and are accused of brainwashing young belgian men to fight in syria. most of the suspects are being tried in absentia. >>> police in sydney have arrested two men for allegedly planning terror attacks as revenge for incidents overseas. anna coren has developments live from australia. what are thoughts telling us now, bring us up to date on all that we know about this alleged terror plot. >> reporter: well the only reason police knew about this was from a tip-off that they received yesterday. so around 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon, they raided a home in western sydney where they found not just these two men, but also a hunting knife, a mach