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
Port richmond 36, society hill at 35 and kensington currently at 35 degrees. So pretty mild conditions. Delaware seeing lots of 30s. Rudy point 36, odessa 37, glasgow 31. Lincoln 36. Redden at 35. And milton 35 degrees right now. So again, right now were seeing mainly 30s. Were going to stay about average for this time of the year. Were only going to top out in the low it to mid 40s for the most part with those westerly winds that will get gusty by this afternoon. Now coming up in just a bit i have your new years eve forecast. We will talk about what you can expect at 6 00 p. M. And, of course at midnight and were also tracking some lake effect flurries for the Lehigh Valley. I have that coming up in a bit. How is traffic . Erika, so far pretty good. You mentioned chillier conditions and im talking about having the car heater, not all that bad. The vine street expressway our camera at 8th street any traces of overnight construction has been cleared. Were seeing easy going traffic and w
Those wind speeds. I was talking about that earlier today at 11 00 a. M. , youre seeing 20mileperhour wind speeds out of the west. Great news, lots of sunshine by noon time. So something to look forward to. Right now still seeing partly cloudy skies but not bad for sky gazing. Otherwise wilmington seeing 35 degrees, 12mileperhour wind speeds, 21mileperhour wind speeds by 11 00 a. M. Notice westerly, 4 00 p. M. Seeing temperatures in the 30s with the strong westerly winds. Eastern pa seeing the similar trend. The increasing wind speeds and gusts throughout the day. 9 00 a. M. , lots of sunshine. Increasing clouds. By noon 38 degrees for you. Hour by hour forecast, picking up on light lake effect flurries into the region here. Starting at 6 00 a. M. And as we zoom in locally pausing it at about noontime we start to see blues on the screen here. Looks, again, just some light flurries moving through, lake effect push, thats all were seeing. Bottom of your screen you will see your local nei
She died from a stroke. She had a stroke after dealing with some of the stress from her daughters death and trying to make funeral arpths. Right now its 4 sln 31. Montgomery police want to speak to a woman seen using a missing mans credit card. John don hugh disappeared and this woman has been caught using his credit card. Police say she charged 700 we would luike her to come guard and speak with detectives. The contract credit card has been used and john is not here. We dont know what the link is and we need to find john. Police are also looking for donna ho ieex knoxs. Sharon that pittman is 13 years old, christmas. She was last seen in northeast washington. Wearing a red sweater, a green and blue koot and pink boot slippers at the time. Police consider her a critical missing person. If you know where she is, call d. C. Youth and Family Services or police. New details this morning in the res view of a 71yearold woman and her great granddaughter who went missing on christmas eve. Barb
Jennifer johnson is on capitol hill now with more on this breaking news. And the latest on the trump transition. President obama promise d he would go after russia for meddling in the u. S. Election and today he made good on that promise. President obama retaliated against russia for hacking u. S. Computers to influence the election. Along with economic sanctions and cyber attacks, a handful of people and organizations were targeted. 35 diplomats will be expelled and two russian compounds in the u. S. Shut down. All americans should be alarmed by russias actions. Putin is is a kgb thug. Any interference in our elections or anything outside the interest of america should be met with an appropriate response. The Obama Administration is convinced Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the president elect donald trump dismissed the controversy yesterday saying. Thats going to be very hard for the new team to say we totally disagree and were going to unwind everything that you have done.