The block at a landmark american restaurant closing its doors after eight decades. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im tamron hall filling in tonight for lester holt. We begin with president obamas unprecedented response to a cyber attack against this country. A strong strike back against russia for its hack of american political figures. Which the Intelligence Community says was meant, in part, to influence the president ial election. The late day announcement levies savetions on top russian government officials, companies, and hackers, and will force dozens of their diplomats to leave the united states. The administration also declassified information it says prufedz the methods russians used to hack. Congressional leaders of both parties are endorsing the move, but with three weeks left in an obama administration, will a President Trump back the decision . Just as i told russia to st
The s p 500 and the imm, the russell 2000. There you see it is a red letter day on wall street. Volatility index spiking. That would be green, folks. That is higher by 5 today at 1625. Lets take a look at the euro. Diving once again, and there you see the euro at 105. 08 down just a bit there. The tenyear note at 2. 1 . West texas crude at 45. 17. Down 4 . Gold up a little bit, an inch at 1152. I lost the number. Well bring it back. Mandy is out getting sunshine. Sarah is in the heart of the action at the New York Stock Exchange. Its good to see you, tyler. Busy day on the floor. The dow down a little less than 200 points. At one point we were down as much as 265. Lets get straight to bob ka san any on whats moving. The euro at the center. Its a choppy week. Ending on a weak note. A little about the dollar. The euro dollar relationship. Weak euro throughout the day. That caused pressure on our markets and increased pressure on the up side of european markets. Take a look at the s p 500
Bus station in tartus and another in the residential neighborhood of jabla. At least 78 people were killed. In fallujah, iraq, new exclusive video of the all out battle between isis fighters and Iraqi Security forces. Iraqs Prime Minister announcing the operation to liberate fallujah is under way and reportedly trapped inside the city and to the east near the pakistan and afghanistan border, new information about the death of Mohamed Mansour confirming he was in an air strike over the weekend and now hearing the Insurgent Group is meeting to choose a new top commander. Weve got full coverage of those stories from correspondents. Our pentagon correspondent, and jim sciutto covering the National Security angle and our Senior International Nick Paton Walsh. This operation to liberate fallujah in a decisive stage. No question. You could see how difficult it is with the first images there. Theyre clearly on the outskirts of the city. This is a big city and as they move inside, it would be d