od evening. california is getting pounded tonight by t most massive and relentless storm, coming in off thpacific and just pouring water on the west coast. it has caused a genue emergency and for now it shows no signs of stopng. meaning a t of people arnow heading into another nervous nigh ndreds of homeare threatened, thousands of people have been evacuated. it s been going onor days already. and a lot of records have ready llen. in some places, lives and property are in danger tonight, d we begin with nbc s miguel olmagar. he s in flintridge, california tonigh good evening. reporter: heavy rain has been pounding this area for fe consecutive days andesidents are trying tpush flood waters back. in fact, rightow they are still filling sandbags a more wet weather is on the way. the foothill communities outside loangeles are benning to look like a war zone. streets lined with sandbags, mes fortified with retaining walls. incheof record rainfall has pounded theshills. the me ar
quick agreement for republicans. it will require a comprise, but i am confident that we can get it done. with a tough concern, mr. obama touted a breakthrough, a new agreement with south korea on a tariff-lowering tra pack, the biggest of its kind since nafta. including the opening of the korean services market will support at least 70,000 american jobs. reporter: lester, that trade deal is want a done deal quite yet. it requires congressional approval and while trade is one area where republicans are expected to cooperate with the president, already one prominent democrat has come against the president. ken struckland is here to offer his insight. the votes are not there to limit x cuts to the middle class, so what happens behind closed doors now? we move from the public spectacle of partisan bickering and move into closed door, hard core negotiations. republican leaders are going to meet with democrats in this very, very small group wit two white house officia
good evening. we re going to begin tonight with two separate dramas, both of them taking place ithe waters off the west coast of the united states. first, the light in the skies last night. the trail all the way up to the sky and the reports from eyewitnesses who said they saw a missile fired off the coast of california. it s been a day-long mystery from the pacific all the way east tthe pentagon and the question is are people telling the truth about what it was? then there s the carnival cruise ship with thousands of people on board, crippleand adrift with a massive u.s. aircraft carrier steaming toward it to render assistance. we begin with those first two reports and first to the pentagon in this rumor of a missile. jim mclashevsky is on duty tonight. reporter: good evening. just who you believe is, indeed, the question. more than a day later u.s. military officials admit they don t know exactly what it was that lit up the skies near los angeles last night but they s
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. you could say there s two ways of thinking about this economy. first, the dark and daily grind of those out of work in light of these new numbers. here s what we learned today. employers cut 95,000 jobs in in the month of september, a much higher number than the experts predicted. the unemployment rate istill at 9.6%. the last time it went on like this this long was decades ago. then there s the political fallout as we approach this midterm election. the president and other democrats are trying to convince voters their way is the right way, but the numbers are headed the other way. so we begin with our white house correspondent savannah guthrie. savannah, good evening. reporter: good eveng to you, brian. this is the last monthly jobs report before the midterm elections where the stakes are so high the very control of congress essentially on the ballot. for so many voters, jobs is the motivating issue. the preside