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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 lateday announcement levies sanctions 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 proved 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 . Ron allen brings us the latest. Just as i told russia to stop
Good morning, it is friday, december 30th, im chris jansing. Theres new reaction this morning to the Obama Administrations decision to punish russia in retaliation for hacking attacks, that according to u. S. Officials, sought to interfere with the president ial election. The government has leveled sanctions against the fsb. Thats the spy agency that succeeded the kgb. They declare 35 diplomats who the u. S. Accuses of being Intelligence Officers to have 72 hours to get out of the country. Sanctions are also hitting the Russia Intelligence Services and three companies suspected of supporting it. Also targeted, two suspected russianbased hackers wanted by the fbi in earlier cyber crimes, including alleged attacks on banks and ecommerce sites, with one who has a 300 million bounty on his head. Its been there since february 2015. Two huge compounds shut down, one in maryland, one in new york, used by russian personnel for intelligencerelated purposes. To help other networks identify, dete