This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Another american has been brutally murdered by isis thugs. The awful news of the beheading of aid worker peter kassig came in a graphic isis video released earlier today. We wont show you even a frame on this broadcast, but we can tell you like all of the others, it demonstrates the sheer lethalness of the group. This is over a year after he was taken prison. Tonight from the president on down, there are expressions of condemnation and from his family, the hope their son will be remembered for the good he was trying to do. Richard engel reports tonight from turkey. Richard . Reporter good evening, lester. Unfortunately this very graphic 16 minute video has been authenticated, makingthe fifth western hostage executed by isis since august, and the third american. Peter kassig made it his lifes work to help others but paid for that selflessness with his own life. Today the president called it an act of pure evil by a terrorist group
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This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Another american has been brutally murdered by isis thugs. The awful news of the beheading of aid worker peter kassig came in a graphic isis video released earlier today. We wont show you even a frame on this broadcast, but we can tell you like all of the others, it demonstrates the sheer lethalness of the group. This is over a year after he was taken prison. Tonight from the president on down, there are expressions of condemnation and from his family, the hope their son will be remembered for the good he was trying to do. Richard engel reports tonight from turkey. Richard . Reporter good evening, lester. Unfortunately this very graphic 16 minute video has been authenticated, makingthe fifth western hostage executed by isis since august, and the third american. Peter kassig made it his lifes work to help others but paid for that selflessness with his own life. Today the president called it an act of pure evil by a terrorist group
That is often how we get paid data pay data. But it is an open question of law to say, in your report you have to give us pay data and along those lines, we commissioned studies from the commission of science, if we decided to collect this data, clearly indicated that we may have that authority, what data do you recommend that we collect . How shall we collected . Collect it . That came in some time ago and we have not done anything with it yet. One of the things i learned when i came into the federal government things move slowly. It moves slower than i would like. Practically it is a different world. I shouldve gotten a passport and dictionary when i came into the government. And it is why i decided to give up my tenure at georgetown because there are things we started that needed more time. Stay tuned and i hope the commission continues acting in a bipartisan way, as much as we have in the past few years and wage should not be part of the issue. [applause] tonight, president obama a
Appeared on this campus all those decades ago that first mouse, that first message helped lay a foundation. And in the decades since, on campus uses like this, in Companies Campuses like this, in companies that are represented here, new people have come along, each laying down a block, one on top of the other. When future historians ask, who built this age, the answer will be, we all did. As americans. And im absolutely confident that if we keep at this, if we keep working together, in the spirit of collaboration, like all those innovators before us, our work will endure. Like the great cathedral. For centuries to come. And that cathedral will not just be about technology. It will be about the values that weve embedded in the architecture of the system. It will be about privacy and it will be about community. And it will be about connection. What a magnificent cathedral that all of you have helped to build. We want to be a part of that. And we look forward to workinging with you in the