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. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening, i'm natalie morales in tonight for brian. it is down to the wire now with about 80 hours until the fiscal cliff deadline. and on what is a holiday weekend for many, that is not the case for congressional leaders in washington. there was a sense of urgency today as the president met with house and senate leaders along with the treasury secretary and vice president a short while ago at the white house to try and forge a last-minute deal. the president says he is optimistic, but at this hour, the fiscal cliff still looms. we begin our coverage with nbc's white house correspondent, peter alexander who has been watching the developments all day. peter, good evening to you. >> reporter: natalie, good evening to you. after his first meeting with all of the top four congressional lawmakers since before thanksgiving, the president marched into the briefing room here at the white house and he said the time for immediate action is now. he called for a bipartisan agreement and sai

>> erica hill, nbc news, new york. >> oh, that is so sweet. well, coming up next, britain's queen elizabeth goes 3-d for her holiday message, plus go behind the scenes to see what it takes to decorate the nation's most famous residence. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. initiated. neural speeds increasing to 4g lte. brain upgrading to a quad-core processor. predictive intelligence with google now complete. introducing droid dna by htc. it's not an upgrade to your phone. it's an upgrade to yourself. be trading if dasher and dancer for a dumbo? elephants dressed in festive gear visited a group of school children to hand out holiday gifts. students jumped to catch presents and pet the reindeer who also danced for the audience. the visit was especially heartwarming as many locals lost their homes and belongings to a flood earlier this year. >>> here is your first look at some of the other news going around now. at homes, streets and churches were dotted with tens of thousands of luminaries christmas eve burning rightly in remembrance of the m

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening, i'm natalie morales in tonight for brian. and we begin with serious winter weather that is moving east. rain, snow and wind that is snarling a lot of travel plans for those trying to make it home from holiday travels. it is the same storm system that is responsible for at least three deaths and spawned record-setting tornadoes in the south over the past 24 hours. we have it all covered, and we begin with the experts who are always out in the middle of these storms. weather channel meteorologist mike seidel is just outside buffalo, new york. good evening to you, mike. >> hey, natalie. in buffalo, they're known for the snow. they average 8 feet of snowfall a season. but so far this year, they've only had 6 1/2 inches, leaving many to wonder, where's the white? that's all changing this evening. a major snowstorm has dumped over a foot of snow across parts of the midwest. indiana got hit hard. high winds adding to the misery there. >> it's a lot better with the four-wheel d

new york. here's nbc's ron mott with more details. >> reporter: police say the christmas eve ambush of four volunteer firefighters attacked as they arrived to battle a fire in new york. >> was a rage be interno out there. >> reporter: it was spell out in chilling details. >> quotes, i still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood i can burn down, and doing what i like doing best, killing people. >> reporter: authorities say 62-year-old william spengler who spent time for killing his grandmother more than 30 years ago, shot at firefighters. the. >> we're being shot at. multiple firemen down. i am shot. i think he used an assault rifle. >> killing people. >> reporter: officials say the gunman was well fortified. .38 handgun. .12-gauge shotgun and the bushmaster rifle. firefighters, tomasz kaczowka and mike chiapperini were killed. human remains were found in spengler's abandoned house. >> it's the question and we'll know know what was going through his mind. >> reporter: police are investigating whether the death of spengler's 91-year-old mother in october and donations she made to the fi

mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles. >>> that's nbc "nightly news" for this saturday.'m lester holt reporting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today" and right back here tomorrow evening. we leave you tonight with a look at the rockefeller center christmas tree and a lot of folks enjoying this evening. have a great night, everyone. >>> good evening. i'm diane dwyer. we are tracking another storm headed our way. experts say it could be the strongest of the storms to hit this wokthis week. as you can see the roads are wet. the biggest concern in most areas is flooding. we begin tonight with anthony slaughter in our weather center with a look at when this next storm is supposed to hit. hello, anthony. >> hey, diane. it's been quite a week across the bay area. we are starting to see the impacts of our next storm system make its way across the bay area. from the bay bridge toll plaza there is a bit of water on those lenses. we still have the flash flood watch in effect against the coast. now that flood warning for napa county primarily becauseth

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this just coming in, nbc news, the suspect from new jersey and a parent, one parent according to nbc news of the suspect has now been found dead in their home in new jersey. that is all the information we have on that, but a parent of the suspect also found dead in their home in new jersey. >> wow. that's a tragedy. >> it's basically impossible to go from the story we're talking about to the deal, but that's what we do so we're going to do it, right? this is tough and we know how hard it is today, so let's just do it, right? any progress on the fiscal cliff? >> no signs of it. if there's progress, it's been completely obscured. john boehner went to the white house yesterday afternoon, met with the president for 50 minutes. one of his aids told me as we discussed yesterday on air, that the speaker thought there was a need to shake up the talks but if there was a shakeup, it is completely been kept out of public view because all the signs we have is speaker boehner is headed home for the weekend. there are no talks scheduled for today. that we simply haven't had any movement on the stic

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our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. spite calls to run for president, pleas in some cases, secretary clinton would not commit in a brand-new interview. >> i really don't believe that that's something i will do again f. >> you know your husband wants to you in 2016 what do you say to him? >> he want mess to do what i want to do and he has made that very clear around some of what i want to do is just kick back. >> joining me now, nbc political analyst and former pennsylvania governor, ed rendell. once again with us, chris kofinis, democratic strategist. governor, thanks for joining us. we don't expect secretary clinton to say anything other than what she has at this point. but dare i ask this question, what do you believe will happen here? i hate it because i feel like we are still dealing with so many issues. the woman needs break. give her a chance to relax and everyone is already chiming in. here we go, what do you think? >> i genuinely believe what she said is the truth, if you injected her is sodium pentothal and ask

michelle franzen, nbc news, new york. >>> and now for a look at your holiday travel forecast we turn to nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. so did you get your christmas shopping done? >> i got most of it done. there's a part of my family i won't see until after christmas so, you know, i did decide to push that off. then i'll hit up all the after-christmas sales. >> so you're excused and you're going to save money? >> right. we just moved so we're surrounded by boxes. it's been a little overwhelming. hey, at least it is christmas time. the music is playing all over the radio and it certainly gets you into the spirit. and, in facts, oklahoma will get into the christmas spirit when you wake up to a bunch of snow on the ground tomorrow morning. there is the chance we could end up with some areas in oklahoma and northern arkansas picking up five to six inches of snow. it hasn't snowed on christmas day in little rock, arkansas, since 1926. so certainly a nice thing for the kids to wake up to tomorrow morning. the storm is actually still out here. we are in the meantime though seeing some rain

ron mott, nbc news, new york. >>> tonight, billions around the world are gathered with family and friends to celebrate christmas. at the vatican downlotoday, pop benedict called for peace. and today marks the 12th christmas in a row that american troops are serving in afghanistan. more than 66,000 u.s. service members are still there, many of them getting some time to attend church services and celebrate with a proper christmas lunch. >>> back in this country, amid neighborhood celebrations and family gatherings across the country, it's a somber christmas day for the folks in newtown, connecticut. just 11 days since the tragedy at sandy hook elementary. we get more now from nbc's john yang. >> reporter: in newtown, connecticut, it was a day of lingering heartache, empty stockings hung as reminders of loss, now filled with gifts. first responders from surrounding communities gave their time so the town's police could spend the day with their families. >> just the right thing today. it's why we're here. something needs to be done, glad to be here. >> it's a pleasure to help them out. >> pol

for all of us here at nbc news, have a great night.

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening, i'm kate snow in tonight for brian, and on this new year's eve, lawmakers may be watching the ball drop from their offices at the u.s. capitol. it has been a day of twists and turns in washington, both procedural and political as the white house and congress tried to find a way to avert those automatic tax and spending measures that kick in midnight tonight. the bottom line at this hour, we are headed over the proverbial fiscal cliff. we say that because the senate hasn't voted on any kind of deal. you see it there live. and the house has said even if there is a deal, they're not going to bring any bill to a vote on this new year's eve. so the big question tonight, what impact will it have on every american? we have all of it covered, and we begin with nbc's kelly o'donnell for the latest from capitol hill. kelly? >> reporter: good evening, kate. well, congress is out of time, and frustrations are really running over. and while democrats and republicans say they want to

tonight, pentagon sources are telling nbc news syria is preparing chemical weapons for their possible use against the syrian people in the form of aerial bombs. it is believed this specific intelligence is the reason why president obama took a hard line against syria just a few days ago, warning them there would be consequences if these weapons were used. let's begin here tonight with the very latest. >> reporter: good evening, brian, u.s. officials tell us that the syrian military is poised tonight to use chemical weapons against its own people. and all it would take is the final order from syrian president assad. as the fighting grows more intense and syrian rebels close in on damascus, the syrian regime has turned very desperate. u.s. officials tell nbc news the syrian military has now loaded the pre cursor for bombs, that could be dropped from dozens of fighter bombers. this week, u.s. intelligence detected a flurry of activity here, near homes. today, while u.s. officials confirm the precursor chemicals are loaded, they must still be mixed together to create the deadly gas. the a

nbc news. >>> and now for a look at your holiday travel forecast, here's nbc's dylan dreyer. it makes me -- i'm watching that and thinking it's all men saying, yeah, whatever, did it the last minute. that's every year. it's nothing new. >> true, but all men and me. i have a whole bunch of my family -- >> really? >> that i won't see on christmas. so i've been pushing it off because we were moving at the same time. >> i'm surprised. >> i know. normally i'm on top of things ahead of time. but i still have more christmas shopping to do. if you're out and about shopping or traveling today, we aren't seeing too many problems in the northeast and south. but the southeast, that's where we have heavier rain moving into tennessee, the western carolinas and georgia. eventually we're going to see some heavier rain, as well. you see the activity across the west coast, this is a storm that's going to move into the oklahoma area as we go into christmas day. it is still far away. but the area of low pressure is going to track eastward. and eventually we are going to see that snow take hold in

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. the wave of sadness and national reflection continues tonight as reality set in a bit today in newtown, connecticut, a town that laid two 6-year-old boys to rest today after the president's visit there last night. while we learn more today about these victims and sadly more information about the gunman, his possible plans and schemes and this awful thing he carried out. and so to start off our reporting on a monday night after such a sad weekend in this country, we go back to the town that remains the saddest spot in our country, nbc's anne thompson is in newtown for us tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. i'm actually in the center of the borough of sandy hook. every day brings new details about what happened inside that school. and today we learn that not one, but two people were injured in the attack. welcome news about survivors on a day when the funerals began. old enough to know, too young to understand. the heartbreaking sight of children mou

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when we were preede yesterday, rescued by the rebels, one of the happiest moments of my life. >> nbc news says it had no contact with the news team during that ordeal and no contact with the kidnappers. andrea mitchell will join us with more on this and more on the dangers that correspondents face in the middle east coming up on "news4 at 5:00." >>> we are following a developing story now. the accused slasher is being extradited to the u.s. from peru. he attacked several young women at shopping malls in fairfax with a boxcutter. he was arrested near a shopping mall in peru in january. since then the u.s. fought to have him returned here. none of the victims were seriously hurt. >>> 13 days to go now million the fiscal cliff deadline and will is new progress to report today. president obama and house speaker john boehner now agree on a tax hike for the very rich. there's a but. steve had an dels smndelsman sa not on agreement on who constitute it is very rich. >> that's right. that's the hang-up. the original obama plan to tax -- raise the tax rates on all americans making $250,000 or more

nbc news is reporting as many as 27 people may be dead from that shooting which broke out this morning shortly after 9:30. that's when police were called. as many as 17 to 18 of the victims are children. 7 to 8 adults including the gunman who authorities described to nbc news as a 20-year-old connecticut man who was dressed in black and was carrying two handguns. connecticut state police are set to begin a briefing at this hour. danbury officials and hospital officials tell nbc news that at least three people have been transported to the hospital. again, to as many as 27 people killed. we will bring you more details as they become available. back to you. >> thank you very much, bertha. we'll keep checking back with you and monitoring the situation. obviously an incredibly tragic situation still unfolding in newtown, connecticut. we will keep you up to date as new information does become available, but right now we turn our attention to what we do here at cnbc. our focus is the markets. we will be following the other story that is unfolding in connecticut. we're going to look at the eco

nbc news has confirmed that former south carolina governor mark sanford is planning to run for the house seat that congressman tim scott will be vacating when he becomes the state's new senator in january. sanford's ex-wife jenny is considering a run of her own against her former husband and she plans to make a decision after consulting with her family over the holidays. that could get interesting. >>> conservative republican congressman dan burton of indiana said if a fiscal cliff deal is not reached, the gop would be forced to accept higher tax rates for income above $250,000. support for new gun control legislation may be increasing but a new report says 51% of the 2013 house members have taken money from the national rifle association. and so have 42% of senators. >>> hints about hillary clinton and a possible 2016 run for the white house. she has plans to visit ireland soon along with key irish supporters who have raised money for her campaigns in the past. >>> scott brown is thought to be a strong republican candidate to replace john kerry if he leaves the senate to replace hillary

pentagon sources tell nbc news that syria is preparing chemical weapons for the possible use against the military people in the form of aerial bombs. jim miklaszewski reports. >> reporter: as the fighting grows more intense and syrian rebels close in on damascus, the syrian regime has turned increasingly desperate. u.s. officials tell nbc news the syrian military loaded the precursor chemicals for sarn nerve gas into aerial bombs. that could be dropped from dozens of syrian fighter bombers. this week u.s. intelligence detected a flurry of activity at chemical weapons sites like this one. while u.s. officials confirm the precursor chemicals are loaded, they must still be mixed together to create the deadly sarin gas. the development shook the world. president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton issued strong warnings to syria's president assad that there would be serious consequences if he used chemical weapons. >> it's the point of no return. they're going to lose any sort of backing that they had from the chinese and russians in terms of blocking the u.n. vote. and it's my

that's the box office preview, raphael seth, nbc news. >> now for another look at the weather, here is meteorologist dil condition drier. where was the jud apatow movie? >> you're so bummed about that, right? >> i was planning my mom to see it. >> i'm sure it's still out there. >> i didn't get to see the review you. >> make the review, veronica.

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening, i'm natalie morales in for brian. just how bad is the situation in washington with only five days left before we reach the fiscal cliff? in a highly unusual move, lawmakers are being called back to work during this holiday week. but if today was any indication, it doesn't appear congressional leaders are ready to play nice, as they continue to play the blame game and point fingers at each other. meanwhile, many americans are feeling high anxiety, knowing those automatic spending cuts and tax hikes will impact every single one of us if there is still no deal by monday night. we begin our coverage with nbc's capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell. kelly, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, natalie. the mood here really feels like resignation, that the fiscal cliff deadline will come and go, and no agreement reached. democrats and republicans say they want progress, but there is nothing to report. but there are plenty of recriminations about which party is to blam

nbc news chief foreign correspondent. what we're told from him is that he was actually crossing from syria into turkey when they were abducted. they were thrown into a truck and blindfolded and held at an undisclosed locationment engel coming out and saying thank you to everyone, these have been tough days and he's going to speak in the days ahead. i'm angie goff at the news 4 live desk. back to you. >> angie, thank you. he's no santa claus but a man in san francisco had to be rescued after he got stuck in a chimney. it happened early monday morning. he was stuck in the chimney of his apartment building which is seven stories high. firefighters had to break some of the chimney bricks to free him. it took about an hour. so far, not clear exactly why he was in the chimney but there's a report that he may have been trying o hide there. >>> looks like this scary scene outside a california mall may have been a stress reliever. police arrested marcos gurrola after he fired 50 rounds in a mall parking lot over the weekend. gurro

but for those of us at msnbc and nbc news, it is also an incredibly emotional thing. and i can tell you, it ends with good news. it ends with this news, which i can say personally was greeted by all of us as the best news in the world when we saw it. it's nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel, looking a little disheveled, a little less groomed than usual, but as you can see, looking like himself. on the left this is ghazi balkiz and john klooister, a long-time nbc news photographer. these three men were able to appear live on the "today" show, fife days after being kidnapped and held in captivity in syria. just hours before this shot of them this morning, they were freed by a syrian rebel group who rescued them from an unknown group that had taken them and that had held them for five, long, horrible days. the rebel group not only rescued these three, they then took responsibility for driving them to the border and getting them safely out of syria. they were in syria in the first place to cover the war there. this is footage of richard's last piece for nbc new

well, according to our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, the fans want it settled and want it settled now but what we have, at least publicly is like tonight's l.a. lakers/new york knicks game, former knicks coach mike d'antoni, consider him to be like boehner and some say star and real coach, kobe bryant, an eric carpet facing you carmelo anthony, man that drove d'antoni to defeat last year, let's say he represents the winning side. can i get an obama? all right. enough. we now bring in nbc news political director chief correspondent and host of the daily run down, chuck todd, armed with poll numbers burdened by the washington wizards and the miami hurricanes on the court so, chuck, what are the numbers telling us and more importantly, what are you hearing? >> on the cliff run, it is clear the president has public opinion on his side in an enormous way when it comes to the tax issue, but you also see there is a downside for him -- there already is plenty of down sfirtd republican but downside for him, if no deal happened, there is going to be sort of a collective public anger

it was nbc news who first broke the news today about susan rice. ining us now with the latest is nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. andrea, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you. good to be with you, rachel. >> the white house released a statement this afternoon praising susan rice but also condemning the political attacks that caused her to remove her name from consideration. is this what the white house was hoping for? do we know if they wanted susan rice to bow out? >> i think they expected her to. i don't think she was pressured to. but it was a very uncomfortable situation. the conclusion was that this was too painful and it was a distraction. as she wrote, she has an op-ed that she's already posted, has been posted by the "washington post" for tomorrow, and saying that it had become a distraction, that she wants to focus on her work and that clearly was not possible the way this had proceeded. i think that no one asked her to withdraw but they were unable, since she had not been nominated and the preside

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law enforcement sources tell nbc news two guns found on adam lanza had been purchased legally by his mother in january of this year. and back in 2010. they also tell nbc there's no evidence of lanza visiting the gun range in the past six months. jay gray has more now from newtown. >> reporter: good evening. it has been another rough day here as you might imagine. first graders from sandy hook elementary school, again, gathering today to bury two more of their classmates. that while students from other schools here actually went back to class for the first time since the tragedy. they are there with extra security and grief counselors on hand to help them with the transition of coming back to school here. thousands continue to pour into the small town. driven here by grief, they say, and just the need to be here and to try to help in some way, memorials are growing in this small town. so is the sentiment that they will get through this. everyone beginning to understand just how long that is going to take and just how difficult it is going to be. getting back to normal, don't talk about

nbc news said there was no claim of responsibility, no contact with the captors. no requests for ransom during the time that the crew was missing. >>> tonight russia is getting ready to evacuate its citizens out of the syria. russia deployed warships to the mediterranean. syrian refresh else claimed victory today over a palestinian group loyal to syrian president al assad. the syrian military stepped up its attacks with bombings in did a mass cass suburbs. syria's vice president says he hopes the rebels will negotiate for peace. >>> the former mistress of general david petraeus will not face federal cyber stalking charges. her name is paula broadwell. today the justice department announced it is dropping its investigation into whether she stalked a woman she perceived to be her romantic rival. an fbi investigation into the matter uncovered broadwell's appear with petraeus. he was forced to resign as cia director last month. law enforce many officials say it is also unlikely broadwell will face criminal charges for having classified information on her computer. >>

today, nbc news confirmed that worker is free and "said to be in good condition." doctors will evaluate him when he gets to turkey and all of the nbc news team now safe thankfully out of syria. >> armed. dangerous. a couple of bank robbers escaping prison from 20 stories up in the air. there is video. we will show you how they pulled this off. >>shepard: a horrible scene in pakistan, gunman have shot and killed eight humanitarian workers in the last couple of days according to officials in pakistan. those workers were vaccinating people against the crippling disease polio. militants say they cannot continue unless the united states quits the drone strikes. they claim the united nations program is actually an attempt to sterilize must hims. and a cover for espionage. the shootings have forced the united nations to suspend the program in parts of pakistan and pull workers off the streets. the world health organization reports the polio epidemic is a problem in three nations: afghanistan, nigeria and pakistan. the united nations reports 50 cases of the disease across