Again, the lower floors were struck again. One member of Islamic Jihad was said to be killed. Thats confirmed by israeli and palestinian sources. A lot to tell you about. Heres what the day looked like. Reporter day six of the battle between hamas and Israeli Defense forces. Day six rockets crisscrossing the border. Despite efforts to broker a ceasefire, the spector of the Israeli Ground invasion is still very real. This strike occurred around 2 00 a. M. When we were live. Also two Media Centers whoa that was a rather large explosion. That occurred let me just look out here i cant actually see where the impact of that was. Its actually set off a number of car alarms. But that was probably the largest explosion that weve heard just in the past really in the past hour. Reporter by daylight, the results of that strike were clear. And this is the result of the explosion that we witnessed last night. Its the Police Station or a Police Station in gaza city. Local people say it was still bein
Veteran of guam and iwajima. During the battle of iwajima, he and his eightman patrol team came across heavy assault from the japanese and unfortunately his close friend and platoon mate was killed. During the attack, mr. Mayes was wounded and has undergone numerous procedures for more than 30 years. But through this all, he has still found time to help the American Veterans committee and the world war ii Veterans Committee start the James Trumble iii scholarship in honor of his fallen friend. And most recently mr. Mayes won the hero award recipient. Next i would like to introduce mr. Frank hall who served as the corporal in the United States marine corps throughout the Pacific Campaign of world war ii. Enlisted in 1942, he went on to serve in guam in the Solomon Islands and the epic battle of iwo jima. Without further adieu, mr. Donald mayes and frank hall. [ applause ] thank you very much. I would like some of our predecessors here went to school. I went to eight weeks of boot camp a
With their archrivals, if not enemies, the iranians. That also holds true, to a large extent, in iraq, even though it has a shia majority. Theyre not persians. Theyre arabs. Iraq fought a bitter, brutal eightyear war with iran from 1980 to 1988. Hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides. Most of those casualties on the iraqi side or iraqishia arabs. So again, it is a great phrase. Our enemys enemy may still be our enemy. We have to be very, very careful here. Thank you, sir, for that question. Id only add to the previous two comments that in syria, iran continues to support the regime of Bashar Al Assad and Bashar Al Assad needs to go and allow a transition for our instate end goals and security. So this is a problem. Thank you. I yield back. Thank you all for being here. Thank you, mr. Chairman. You stated isil was both formidable yet vulnerable. Can you list the top three things that make them that . Absolutely. They are very well funded. They have got some victories and that
Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Late today the stock market crossed over something of a mythic mark of the modern era and the Dow Jones Industrials closed above 14,000 for the First Time Since 2007. And we all remember what happened back then. The stock market has been on a tear of late, gaining almost 7 so far this year. S p and nasdaq also up. We started the day by learning the Unemployment Rate had inched up to 7. 9 again, while the economy actually added 157,000 jobs, not as many as hoped for or expected. Nbcs tom costello starts us off in our washington newsroom tonight with what all of this might mean. Tom, good evening. Hi, brian. The good news, anyone with retirement money invested in stocks has made back much of what they lost during the Great Recession and the wall street selloff, about 8 trillion. A big rally on wall street today, with the dow back over 14,000. A lot has changed since the last time it crossed that mark on
100,000 in construction and due to the Housing Market rebounding. And if retail gains holdover of christmas. Personally i dont want to go too far in the direction of, wow, this is great. This is where i dont want to use the word great but saying when you say more people confident. Confident. Yeah. This is still very, very slow job recovery. Still fewer than five years ago and fewer americans employed than ten years ago and some retirement but i think the fact is we know were stable now and dont quite know how we get to that point where were more than stable. Right. And we know to keep everything in perspective, the Unemployment Rate has ticked up 7. 9 so that keeps anyone from, you know, being too confident. Thats because more people looking for jobs and not more yeah. The number goes up there. Keith, the headline, i think the Huffington Post said here we are within a tick up of the employment rate and then 28 days from now, austerity measures or sequestration. The timing of all of thi