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captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with confronting russia. this morning the u.s. is challenging russia, questioning that nation over sending attack helicopters to the syrian government. secretary of state hillary clinton says the delivery of those helicopters will, quote, escalate the conflict quite dramatically. she wants the president in russia, vladimir putin, to stop the helicopter shipment. amateur video appeared to show heavy shelling in homs, a day after united nations monitors said syrian attack helicopters fired on rebel strongholds there. meanwhile in moscow, tens of thousands of russians are all across the political spectrum took to the streets to protest against president putin for the first time since he retook that office last month. they denounced the government for rounding up many opposition leaders on monday. >>> well, back here at home, wildfires are still raging out of control in parts of the west as tireless crews face stubborn winds and parched terrain. in just a few days, the high

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation, including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with all necessary measures. president obama and other leaders of the world's largest economies will wrap up a two-day economic summit in mexico today. they're going to be ramping up pressure on the european union to take bolder steps to resolve its debt crisis once and for all. nbc's tracie potts is in washington for us with the details. tracie, good morning. >> lynn, good morning. based on the draft that we are seeing we're waiting for a draft out of los cabos that essentially says government needs to spend more, not cut spending, to stimulate their economies and as a result the world economy. . the biggest countries say they are ready to do that. the biggest concern is the eurozone. those 17 nations whose economies are being affected by what's happening in spain and greece possibly spilling over to the world economy as well. those are all big iss

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> announcer: from nbc news nbc-universal television >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. tonight the situation is growing desperate in colorado. while fires are burning throughout the american west, the effort to suppress a big one moving toward colorado springs is verging on a combat operation tonight. the conditions sadly are perfect for fires. single digit humidity, 100 diagnosis plus temperatures during the day, high winds at night. the conditions are miserable for the army of firefighters trying to slow it down, trying to make a stand. the campus of the u.s. air force academy has been evacuated now because of this encroaching monster. 32,000 people are out of their homes, and many of those homes sadly are no longer there to return to. these are indeed desperate times in the rockies. we begin once again tonight with nbc's miguel almaguer in colorado springs. miguel, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. it was this time last night when t

what youtube is doing, what comcast did in buying nbc universal, we see it too. our audience has been growing terrifically in the last couple years. our digital audience -- this "washington post" social regard started in november is up to 18 million downloads, which is extraordinary in a few months. people are reading "washington post" content in larger numbers. >> let me pause there. there's another major shift that's about to be happening in what i would call internet or digital-based content, which is not only to social networks, but a way for desk top computers and web based to mobile, but more important to apps, which are not actually the same as a -- necessarily the same as a web-based application. where the apps have more functionality. they can be paid for and often are paid for. do you think the move to an app-based digital content is a major shift? >> not clear. i did for awhile. there's now a new technology that people are starting to write websites on called html 5. it works across platforms. and the app really became common place with apple's use of

captions paid for by nbc-universal television captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. it was the most important single effort of the obama administration, and today it became the most important supreme court decision of the past several years. the court upheld the obama health care law today. it wasn't a surprise that the more liberal members of the court voted to uphold. it was a surprise that the chief justice of the court crossed over and joined them and cast in effect a deciding vote, perhaps mindful that it's called the roberts court, chief justice john roberts gave the president the victory he wanted, though it was, immediately, enveloped in politics with republicans still vowing to kill it. we have complete coverage of all of it tonight starting with our justice correspondent, pete williams, who broke the news for us on the air this morning. pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian, it was a blockbuster decision, both in terms of what the court said and who said it. in upholding the law it was not the usual partisan split and it was not the usual swing ju

[ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.comelcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. thank you for being here, you guys. oh, man. we got a big show tonight. going to be fun. we're going to have a good time tonight. good time tonight. hey, here is a campaign update, you guys. mitt romney has gained more than 70,000 facebook fans in the last week. yeah, he's got an interesting facebook page, under political views, it says, "it's complicated." [ laughter ] yeah, it's very interesting to look at. some more election news, a new report found that president obama's campaign spent $6 million more than it raised last month. which explains why his latest campaign ad ended with the phrase, i'm barack obama and i'm selling some old cds on craigslist. [ laughter and applause ] i got some hootie & the blowfish, some spin doctors. [ cheers and applause ] good stuff. check this out. a new survey found that only 31% of americans would want to sit next to mitt romney on a flight. [ laughter ] romney was so upset, he is like, i don't u

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captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello, everybody. it's winesday wednesday, june 27th. and some days we just don't know how we get on the air. >> it's remarkable. >> yeah. >> it was weird yesterday because there were some news reports that nora ephron who we've had on our show passed away. it was one of those things so jarring because there weren't many reports she was even ill. >> the first one i read was just the other day. she's so beloved. everybody adores her and has a nora story, you know? then i strt started reading ther this morning, and there it was. life is just so brief. she was only 71 years old and leaves behind a treasure trove of wonderful films. we had her here at our show. how long ago was that, hoda? >> that was probably -- was it about a year ago? >> 2010. >> that long ago? >> she wrote a couple books. i love the book she wrote about i hate my neck and said at 43 your neck goes and stop fighting it. the other one was i've forgotten everything. she came and talked to us about that. >> because she wrote about truth an

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> hello, good morning. i'm lynn berry. all eyes are on wisconsin for just in the third time in u.s. history voters will decide whether to recall a state governor. by this time tomorrow morning republican scott walker should know whether or not he's been replaced by milwaukee mayor democrat tom barrett. tracie potts joins us from washington with more on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it is a race that's mirroring what we're seeing on the national scene, in this case the polls are tight. walker of late seems to have the edge and at a rally last night he made a final push to get out the vote to say this is an election about the truth and the fact that his opponent, the milwaukee mayor has been down in the dirt and gutter with the advertising, as he put it, this recall, after he stripped collective bargaining rights from public workers there and there were mass protests. meantime tom barrett in his final campaign event before this vote said that governor walker had divided the state and created what he called a

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captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with confronting russia. this morning the u.s. is challenging russia, questioning that nation over sending attack helicopters. secretary of state hillary clinton says sending the helicopters will escalate the conflict quite rapidly. she wants russian president vladimir putin to stop the helicopter shipment. amateur video shows shelling. meanwhile in moscow tens of thousands of russians took to the streets to protest against president putin for the first time since he retook that office last month. they denounced the government for rounding up many opposition leaders on monday. >>> well, back here at home, wildfires are still raging out of control in parts of the west as tireless crews face stubborn winds and parched terrains. in just a few days, the high parks fire has escalated and killed one person and engulfed more than 100 structures. officials say it's only 5% contained. >>> meanwhile a state of emergency has been declared in southern new mexico where the little be

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. e reporting. a lawyer tells nbc news the ousted dictator is still alive after reports spread of his death on tuesday. the 84-year-old has been moved to a military hospital in cairo where he's said to be in very critical condition, and as mubarak fights for his life protests have erupted in tahir's square as to who will succeed him. both claimed victory in last week's elections yet it's uncertain if the ruling military council will recognize either. the official vote tally is expected tomorrow. >>> as the g-20 summit meeting wrapping up in mexico, european leaders could not afree on specifics to fix greece and spain. nevertheless president obama is optimistic. nbc's steve handelsman has more from washington. >> reporter: two days at the g-20 summit in mexico left president obama convinced european leaders can solve their economic crisis. >> they understand the stakes, they understand why it's important for them to take bold and desoogsive action. >> reporter: that could speed recovery,

university, killing three people and wounding three others. two former auburn football players were among those killed. nbc's kurt gregory has details. >> reporter: a gunman open fire during a fight at a party held at an off-campus apartment complex near auburn university on saturday night. >> it happened so quick. >> reporter: three were killed in the shooting, including two former auburn university players. edward christian and ladarious phillips. three more were injured in the gunfire, one is a current football for the university. >> very sad time for the auburn community, auburn university, auburn university athletic department. >> reporter: head coach gene chizik released a statement in part saying, my thoughts and prayers are with their families and all those involved in this tragic incident. >> not only university students and athletes, but it's -- it's young people. it's six young people that have been shot. >> reporter: authorities are hunting for the suspect, desmonte leonard, charged with capital murder and considered armed and extremely dangerous. >> we won't rest until he's located. >> reporter:

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> this h is "early today" for friday, june 1st, 2012. >>> hello, good morning i'm lynn berry. today we begin with edwards walking. the judge in the john edwards campaign fraud trial declared a mistrial yesterday after deadlocked jurors were able to return a verdict on only one of six counts against him. chris clacken reports. >> reporter: the stunning fall from grace of two time presidential candidate john edwards was cushioned thursday when a jury acquitted him on one of six campaign finance fraud charges. and deadlocked on the other five. >> thank goodness we live in a country that has the kind of system that we have and i think those jurors were an exemplar for what juries are supposed to do. >> reporter: the decision comes after nine days of deliberations and rutted in the judge declaring a mistrial on the remaining charges. charges that almost $1 million provided by do nors to hide edwards miss strel, rielle hunter, while he ran for president amounted to ill legal campaign contributions. attorneys argued it was a gift and on one cou

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> this is "early today" for today, june th, 2012. >>> we begin with reports of another syrian massacre. two weeks after the world was outraged by the mass killing of more than 100 people, syrian activists say there has been a similar attack by forces loyal to president bashar al-assad. pro-government militia and security forces killed at least 78 people including women and children in the central province of hamas. the syrian observatory for human rights groups said army troops shelled the area and militiamen armed with guns and knives, carried out the attack. >>> in turkey, secretary of state hillary clinton told a meeth of foreign ministers a transition in syria must include full powers for interim government and free elections. >>> back here at home, opening arguments set for next monday in the child sex abuse case against jerry sandusky. yesterday the last of 12 jurors and 4 alternates chosen. several have connections to the university something the judge in the case called unavoidable in such a small community. brian mooar reports.

mp captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello, and very good morning to you. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm veronica de la cruz. today we begin with a sigh of relief for now. the historic elections have temporarily relieved fears of a global financial meltdown after an inconclusive vote had investors fearing the worse. the latest polls show the new democracy party with a close victory in sunday's parliamentary vote which should keep greece in the eurozone. the pro-bailout win was good news last night as president obama arrived in mexico where he joined the summit of 20 world leaders looking for ways to boost the global economy. >>> another pressing issue at the g-20 summit. russia's supporting role in syria's ongoing crisis. this is the first time that vladimir putin will be meeting with president obama since he returned to power. it's taken on a new urgency since the u.n. suspended its monitoring mission there. richard eng gallon reports from cairo. >> reporter: the syrian opposition is outraged that the united n

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with an up-and-down decision. the u.s. supreme court delivered a mixed verdict to both the obama administration and the state of arizona yesterday ruling it is constitutional for arizona police to check immigration status. however, other sections of the state's controversial imfederation law were thrown out entirely. nbc's steve handelsman has more. >> reporter: both sides had something to celebrate as the high court handed down the arizona decision. by 5-3 the justices upheld the most controversial part of the law, requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they stop and suspect is not in the u.s. legally. the court rejecting the claim that that's only the federal government's job. swing justice anthony kennedy sided with court conservatives, writing for the majority, the mandatory nature of the arizona status checks does not interfere with the federal immigration scream. confrontation between state and federal officials is an important feature of t

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with a landmark decision. republicans say the fight is far from over, but democrats are calling the supreme court's decision on president obama's health care reform law a major victory. in a 5-4 ruling tipped by the court's chief justice, the affordable care acted was deemed legal and constitutional. bc's steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: the court outside the court was surprised. the obama health care law was upheld. conservatives were outraged. conservative chief justice john roberts sided with court liberals to say the penalty in the obama law for not buying health insurance is a tax. because the constitution commits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it. the court did limit the federal government's power to force states to take more medicaid patients but the affordable health care alkt goes forward, guaranteed coverage, every american included, like it or not i was hoping the whole thing would come down. >> we have to unite and fight this. >> i'm very

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with back in jail. the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with the murder of teenager trayvon martin turned himself in to police yesterday. george zimmerman's bond was revoked friday after the judge said he failed to disclose around $135,000 he had set up three his website. jay gray reports. >> reporter: after six weeks george zimmerman is back in jail. >> he's quiet and cooperative. >> reporter: the 28-year-old who shot and killed trayvon martin turned himself in on sunday, two days after judge kenneth lester revoked his bond. >> i find good bond exists. >> reporter: the decision came after prosecutors argued that during his initial bond hearing zimmerman and his wife hid the fact that theyed that raised money through his website. >> it was misleading and i don't know what other words to use other than it was a blatant lie. >> reporter: zimmerman's attorneys countered that it was a mistake, not a lie. >> if it was therein tent, why would they disclose to m

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry, and today we begin with up in smoke. searing record-setting heat across the interior west is fueling worsening wildfires all throughout the region and forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee from their homes. in colorado alone firefighters are struggling to stop blazes across the state. in cog springs sheriff's officials have ordered an estimated 30,000 people to evacuate. more than 2,100 residents with told to leave a nearby air force academy as a number of homes have been torched in that area. nearly a week of 100-degree-plus days and low humidity have sapped all the moisture and that's creating punishing conditions for firefighters. officials say it's only 5% contained. >>> elsewhere forecasters say the lingering storm debby, now a tropical depression, will bring more rain and flooding to water logged florida today. after sitting off the coast for days, debby finally came ashore and could head out to sea later today. n nbc's jay gray reports from florida. >>

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with a summer scorcher. it may have only been the first day of the summer scorcher but across the country it already feels like the middle of a long hot summer. bc's jay gray has more. >> reporter: a heat wave continues to sweep across much of the country right now. >> it's sticky is how i'd describe it. >> reporter: sticky, stief ling, and likely to stay around for a while. >> mostly windy, sunny and hot again this afternoon. >> reporter: so hot teen forecasters are looking for a little relief. the more traditional dunk in detroit is at community swimming pools and charlotte water parks are parked while outside of boston hundreds are hoping to beat the heat at the beach. it's anything but a day at the beach for those that have to work in the blazing sun, whether it's laying bricks or cutting lawns, crews battling near 100-degree temperatures have to take plenty of breaks and stay hydrated. >> keep my water and my gatorade, and i'm all set for the day. >> reporter: in p

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with all necessary measures. president obama and other leaders of the world's largest economies will wrap up a two-day economic summit in mexico today. they're going to be ramping up pressure on the european union to take bolder steps to resolve its debt crisis once and for all. nbc's tracie potts is in washington with the details. tracie, good morning. >> lynn, good morning. more government spending, not government cuts may be the answer to preventing a financial crisis in europe and around the world. that is what we will see in a draft statement. we've seen the draft statement. the final statement expected to come out of the g-20 later today stating that the biggest countries are ready to spend more. of course, the biggest concern is the eurozone. the 17 nations in europe, and whether the problems in spain and in greece with those economies may cause that eurozone to falter. but there are other issues they're dealing with as well like egypt, the military trying to

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening, our lead story tonight sounds like a throw-back to the height of the cold war era. tonight the united states and russia are at odds over what is now being called a civil war in syria. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is calling out russia publicly for sending attack helicopters to syria, just like the helicopters they have been using to crush the rebellion and kill civilians from above. this fighting has been going on for 15 months. it's been brutal. it's estimated as many as 14,000 people have been killed and there are real questions about how this ends. our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, in our d.c. newsroom starts us off tonight. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. that battle in syria is fought in a diplomatic showdown between the united states and russia. it does feel like a return to the cold war, only days before president obama is having his first summit with president putin. t

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with shocking new accusations. after the jury in jerry sandusky's sex abuse trial adjourned last night two more accusers came forward with disturbing allegations including his own adopted sun. nbc's brian mooar has details. >> reporter: before the jury could finish its first day of deliberations in the jerry sandusky sex abuse trial, two new accusers stepped forward to accuse the former penn state football coach. one of them is sandusky's adomtsed son, matt sandusky who said through an attorney he had been abused by a former coach and had been ready to testify if jerry sandusky took the stand. the second accuser travis weaver was not included in the current case but appeared on nbc's "rock center." >> i told him if he didn't get off me, wi going to call the police on him and he just laughed at me and forced me to stay on the bed. >> reporter: the new accusations race the spectrum of more charges and more trials. >> it's whether the victims want day in court to be ab

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening, while the rest of the nation watches, washington has blown up into a caustic partisan fight and a showdown is coming over the power of the american president. just tonight, a house committee voted to hold president obama's attorney general, eric holder, in contempt of congress for refusing to turn over documents related to a badly botched sting operation involving guns and drugs in mexico called fast and furious. this contempt vote comes after the obama white house for the first time invoked executive privilege. charges of stonewalling and coverups are flying, the kind of stuff we first learned during the watergate era. for those not following the complexities of it, it just looks like more of our broken politics and vicious fights now out in the open. we begin tonight with capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell who was there to see all of it today. kelly, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. there were

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captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with a day of reckoning. all eyes are on wisconsin where for just in the third time in u.s. history voters will decide whether to recall a state governor. by this time tomorrow morning republican scott walker should know whether or not he's been replaced by milwaukee mayor democrat tom barrett. tracie potts joins us more from washington with more on that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. reports give walker a bit of an edge but on election day you never know. walker held his last campaign rally last night and he said this election will hinge on truth. he also talked about his opponent, milwaukee mayor tom barrett, who, as he put it, has been down in the dirt and gutter in terms of the ads that you'll remember that this is a race that gained national attention after voters there called for a recall election for governor walker as a result of collective bargaining rights that

captions paid for by nbc-universal television palestinian blip. >>> this is "early today," for wednesday, june 6thth, 2012. >>> hello, good morning i'm lynn berry. today we begin with staying alive. wisconsin republican scott walker still has a job this morning after becoming the first governor in u.s. history to survive a recall attempt. walker's win is not only a defeat for milwaukee mayor tom barrett but also the union leaders who rallied against his controversial cuts. nbc's steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: it was closer than many expected. but the win could make wisconsin's republican governor scott walker a gop superstar. for taking on the unions in his state. and surviving their countermove to take him down. >> tomorrow, the election is over, it's time to move wisconsin forward. >> reporter: the recall was born last year when walker stripped public employee unions of the right to bargain. some saw the vote as a preview of the presidential election. conservatives had pumped $47 million in walker's campaign, a record. mitt romney backed walker and said voters rejected runaway

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with accusations and denials. former penn state football coach jerry sandusky could take the stand as early as next week as the prosecution begins to wrap up its case. yesterday one of ten aleced victims told the jury sandusky threatened he would never see his family again if he told anyone about the alleged sexual abuse. nbc's brian mooar reports. >> reporter: the jerry sandusky sex abuse trial is moving so quickly the judge announced the prosecution's case could wrap up as early as friday. once the defense begins, sandusky is expected to testify, and it may be a critical chance to undo any damage done yesterday when jurors heard this interview with nbc's bob costa. >> are you sexually attracted to underage boys? >> am i sexually attracted toed up age boys? >> yes. >> sexually attracted? i love young boys. i love to be around them, but, no, i'm not sexually attracted to young boys. >> reporter: also on day three a janitor testified that a coworker now suffering fro

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with the rich and famous. president obama raised mump last night at the new york home of actress sarah jessica parker here in new york. wealthy celebrities from the film, fashion and music worlds all pailed $40,000 each to attend the exclusive get-together. earlier in the day the president and challenger mitt romney were both in ohio and both a little more down to earth talking about the economy and the middle class. nbc's steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: for the first time on the same day the president and the challenger went to ohio for dueling speeches. barack obama with students, worried about the economy on his watch. >> we're all just trying to get a job. we're all just trying to get a future. >> let's put some folks to work right here at home. >> reporter: no major new initiatives but a passionate repeat of famed obama themes, taxing the rich, not cutting, spending. >> in an age where we know high skills. now's not the time to scale back our commitment to e