tammy duckworth said "i didn't lose my legs in a bar fight - of course women can confirm in combat", and congress woman said it's about time >>> tonight is a grim milestone for an american journalist imprisoned in iran. jason rezaian has been locked up for 300 days. a petition was delivered, half a million signed it calling for his release. the reporter for "the washington post" was convicted in october of espionage and other charges, his family and the newspaper say he's innocent. >> president obama welcomed the holiday season in washington by urging americans to come together after the shooting. the president spoke before he and the first family lit the national christmas industry near the white house. actress reese witherspoon hosted the event. featuring several performances and the president hoping santa claus sing jingle bells. i'm antonio mora, thank you for joining us, for the latest news any time head to aljazeera.com. ray suarez is up next with "inside story". have a great night. [ singing ] >> the president raise dz eyebrows when saying no over development country has shoot

congresswoman tammy duckworth said i didn't lose my legs in a bar fight, of course women can serve in combat. congresswoman martha mcsally said it's about damn time. >> carter realizes there may be difficulties, but the decision's made and all the services will have to follow. >> that egyptian police are searching for three suspects after an explosion killed 16 people. attackers through molotov cocktails and a nightclub. officials said one man was an employee who had been fired, but an eyewitness gave a different account. >> three men came to the nightclub on a motorcycle, but they wouldn't let them in, so they come back with three molotov cocktails. they threw them and escaped. only two or three inside died. >> three others who managed to escape are being treated for burns and smoke inhalation. >> germany's parliament overwhelmingly approved a plan to join the fight against isil. lawmakers voted to provide 1200 support personnel, reconnaissance jet to the coalition. germany will not involve in combat. they pledged to help france after last month's paris attacks. >> the justice depart

campiagn trail, gop senator mark kiki of illinoisa&a& is blasting his democratic rival representitve tammy duckworth in a tv ad for voting against tighter restrictions on the syrian refugees."isis disguised as syrian refugees u.s." no date set for a senate vote on this issue. and some democrats are concerneda&but won't say *how* they will vote . i want to make it clear that weweave to have the most stringent security screening " most republians think the best way to pass the refugee bill is to attach it to the omnibus spending bill of 1.1 tririion dollarsa& needed to avoid a government shutdown by december 11th.mcconnell "the refugee issue is likely toe dealt with in some way.. an omnibusa& there are a lot of moving parts as you know."and pundits say *if* this volatile issue *is* added to the spending bill, it could be the game-changer in a *potential* government shutdown.im jeff barnd reporting. the state department's refugee processing center says roughly 22-hundred syrian refugees have arrived in the u-s since fiscal year 20-11. that's when the syrian civil war began. coming up in sports -- what

congresswoman tammy duckworth said i didn't lose my legs in a bar fight, of course women can serve insally mcnally said it's about damn time. >> carter realizes there may be difficulties, but the decision's made and all the services will have to follow. >> the mayor of chicago said the city will release the police video showing another fatal shooting by chicago police. activists have been pushing to see the video that shows the killing of ronald johnson last year. the release follows protests over the shooting death of a teenager by a different officer last year. in the johnson case, the father of five the police say pointed a firearm at officers. >> word soccer working on major reforms after a second round of indictments and arrests for fifa officials. >> it is just the latest development in the scandal has has rocked the soccer world. john henry smith has more. >> disarray at the top of fifa, as more officials are charged in a growing corruption scandal. >> for the second time in six months, officials were placed under arrest, including two top fifa vice presidents, and several more

mounting calls for mccarthy's dismissal, and emanuel acted after more and more came out, including tammy duckworth, a member of congress who was running for the senate, a democrat, calling for garry mccarthy to go. and today, there is increasing pressure on anita alvarez, the prosecutor in this case, appearing on msnbc earlier today, representative louise gutierrez withdrew his endorsement of alvarez and her bid for re-election in next year's election. he had said that he would support her and endorse her, but today, he said he called her and said he could no longer support her, because of the way she's handled the laquan mcdonald case. and in all of this, mayor emanuel was trying to move forward, trying to come up with a solution in appointing this board, overseeing the police reform, but his problems are continuing to mount. erica? >> nbc's john yang in chicago. let's turn to nbc chief legal correspondent, ari melber. a couple things we want to point out here. obviously, the violence and complaints about the police department in chicago are nothing new. they have made national headlines. for yea

representative tammy duckworth and i have introduced the seniors and veterans' emergency benefits act, the save benefits act, to give retirees, veterans and americans with disabilities a one-time payment of about $581. that is the equivalent of a 3.9% increase over the average social security benefit, the same percentage raise that c.e.o.'s received just last year. now, where would the money come from? well, we can pay for it by -- just by closing the tax loophole for the c.e.o. bonuses that exceed a million dollars. in fact, according to the chief actuary of the social security administration, closing just this one loophole will create enough revenue to give a $581 raise to seniors and vets and still have billions of dollars left over to help boost social security trust fund for the future. the save benefits acts will give seniors, vets and the disabled an extra $581 a year. $581 a year may not mean much to a c.e.o., but that money would cover almost three months of groceries for seniors or a year's worth of out-of-pocket costs on prescription drugs for someone on medicare. for senio

representative tammy duckworth and i have introduced the seniors and veterans' emergency benefits act, the save benefits act, to give retirees, veterans and americans with disabilities a one-time payment of about $581. that is the equivalent of a 3.9% increase over the average social security benefit, the same percentage raise that c.e.o.'s received just last year. now, where would the money come from? well, we can pay for it by -- just by closing the tax loophole for the c.e.o. bonuses that exceed a million dollars. in fact, according to the chief actuary of the social security administration, closing just this one loophole will create enough revenue to give a $581 raise to seniors and vets and still have billions of dollars left over to help boost social security trust fund for the future. the save benefits acts will give seniors, vets and the disabled an extra $581 a year. $581 a year may not mean much to a c.e.o., but that money would cover almost three months of groceries for seniors or a year's worth of out-of-pocket costs on prescription drugs for someone on medicare. for senio