President obama under scored the weight of the shift in a national address. [ speaking Foreign Language ]. Change is hard in our own lives and in the lives of our own nation we are making the change because it is the right thing to do. Today america chose to cut loose the shackles of the past and reach for a Better Future for the cuban people, the american people, the entire hemisphere, the world. Castro took over from his brother in 2006, he praised his american counter part. Translator this decision of president obama is worthy of the respect and recognition of our people. In the next few months the u. S. Will reestablish an embassy in half anna. Travel restrictions in place since the cuban missile crisis will be eased making it easier for exiles to see their families. In exchange 33 Political Prisoners will be released. Allen gross was released and a separate source. He was arrested in 2009 and later sentenced to 15 years in cuban prison for importing banned technology and trying to
Suburb of berkeley. Thats just two miles from ferguson, missouri. But the details do not appear to mirror the case of Michael Brown who was unarmed when he was shot and killed by a ferguson officer back in august. I want you to take a look at some of the Surveillance Video that cnn has. It was recorded last night outside of the gas station in berkeley. Focus on the upper lefthand corner of your screen by that camera stamp 29. You can see right there, an arm raised, you can see an officer way over to the right inside that red circle. He backs away from the armed suspect. You can see the suspect stepping toward him before pointing his gun. Here is how the chief of police of st. Louis county described how this went down. The individual produced a pistol with his arm straight out pointing at the officer from kind of across the hood of the police car. At that point the sister produced his Service Weapon and fired what we think at this point was three shots. George howell is in berkeley, mis
Joe cocker. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. It was so brazen and so scary coming as it did after weeks of antipolice protests in this country, the assassination of two new York City Police officers by a deeply disturbed career criminal has had a Chilling Effect on Police Departments across this country. And in new york its causing great tension as the mayor of the nations largest city is forced to defend himself against charges that he has not been supportive enough of those whose job it is to protect and serve. Its where we begin tonight with nbcs Stephanie Gosk in brooklyn. Stephanie, good evening. Reporter hey, good evening, brian. Tonight, the new York Police Commissioner says theres been a number of unsubstantiated copycat threats against police. Nbc news has learned that on the night of this murder the chief patrol reached out to all precincts and asked Police Officers to doubleup o
A bus crashes into a subway underpass killing at least four people several others have been injured police are now questioning the driver and investigating what caused this crash plus. Pope francis delivers his Christmas Day the last thing and his message he called for israelis and palestinians to come together and resume talks aimed at a two state solution the pontiff called this the path to peace and love holy land. Welcome to the show its good to have you with us. One critic alexina vali is urging russians to boycott next years president ial vote this comes as the countrys Election Commission board nepali from running against Vladimir Putin the vollies president ial bid was unanimously reject. By a vote of twelve to zero the Commission Says his conviction in a fraud case widely seen as retribution for his Anti Corruption campaigning makes him eligible to run he had been considered the most serious challenger to putins bid for a fourth term in office. Well just after the Election Com
Where the pope will lead the Christmas Eve mass moments from now and we will take you there live in a moment. Meanwhile President Trump celebrating the holidays at his private resort with his family and kicking off Christmas Eve with twitter attacks. One of his targets, fbi director Andrew Mccabe who plans to retire in the coming months. Another target is cnn. The president retweeted this photo shopped image. Take a closer look. You saw his tweet from earlier inside. If you look closer to that image. There is an apparent splatter on the bottom of his shoe and it shows the logo of cnn. As for this afternoon, it appears the president moveed from twitter to the golf course and the team spotted him golfing and shot this video. You saoey hsee him there with t cap. That is near the president s vacation spot. Sarah murray is live in west palm beach. Sarah, significant changes unfolding at the fbi and you learned the Deputy Director plans to retire and one of the top lawyers, jim baker is bein