Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Good evening on this Independence Day. As americans across the country celebrate the nations 239th birthday authorities are focused on an unseen threat one that had them all on heightened alert. While there is added security around the holidays may feel like your new normal it is raising concern. We begin with a look at how cities across the country are responding. Nbcs ron mott starts us off. Good evening. Reporter erica, good evening. Especially in the larger cities security is tight, hightech. They are deploys radiation and detection equipment, for example. Officials tell nbc news, a lot of enhanced security will not be visible. Around america this fourth of july authorities are on heightened alert. Added fire power from new york to boston to maintain street. Barricades and check points at the national mall. In the countrys largest city a neverending terror
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Good evening on this Independence Day. As americans across the country celebrate the nations 239th birthday authorities are focused on an unseen threat one that had them all on heightened alert. While there is added security around the holidays may feel like your new normal it is raising concern. We begin with a look at how cities across the country are responding. Nbcs ron mott starts us off. Good evening. Reporter erica, good evening. Especially in the larger cities security is tight, hightech. They are deploys radiation and detection equipment, for example. Officials tell nbc news, a lot of enhanced security will not be visible. Around america this fourth of july authorities are on heightened alert. Added fire power from new york to boston to maintain street. Barricades and check points at the national mall. In the countrys largest city a neverending terror target 7,000 police on pa
Good morning to you, im richard lui. It was the oneyear anniversary at the scene of the terror attack. Tuesday a brazen hoax on the finish line of the boston marathon. The man you see here is in custody right now. Hes accused of dropping a backpack with a rice cooker inside. Police stopped him after an acting suspiciously. They say he was wearing all black with a veil over his face. He was walking down the middle of the street barefoot and in the pouring rain. Thats when he was stopped and told officers what was inside. Law enforcement officials tell nbc news a second bag was left behind by a media organization. Now, both were blown up in controlled detonations as a precaution. The drama unfolding just hours after ceremonies to mark the anniversary. Vice President Joe Biden praised the 36,000 who plan to run the marathon on sunday. We are boston. We are america. We respond. We endure. We overcome, and we own the finish line in washington, president obama remembered the victims with a m
Final act. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Good evening on this Independence Day. As americans across the country celebrate the nations 239th birthday authorities are focused on an unseen threat one that had them all on heightened alert. While there is added security around the holidays may feel like your new normal it is raising concern. We begin with a look at how cities across the country are responding. Nbcs ron mott starts us off. Good evening. Reporter erica, good evening. Especially in the larger cities security is tight, hightech. They are deploys radiation and detection equipment, for example. Officials tell nbc news, a lot of enhanced security will not be visible. Around america this fourth of july authorities are on heightened alert. Added fire power from new york to boston to maintain street. Barricades and check points at the national mall. In the countrys largest city a neverend
In spanish, his native language, and largely he will address americas hispanic immigrants. I want to bring in jim sciutto, cnns chief National Security correspondent at Independence Hall where the pope, were hearing, is just about ten minutes away. What are you hearing from the people around you about this message . What do they want him to say . Well, poppy, ill say one thing were hearing now, weve been hearing helicopters circling overhead, thats normally the sign the pope is on the move or about to be on the move. We heard that in washington and new york, as hes taken his motorcade from place to place. The crowd here, 40,000 to possibly 50,000 pressing up against the fences to get as close as possible to this pope. And ill tell you, because of the intense security in the city, really more intense than i saw even in d. C. Or new york, a lot of the crowd is kept well back from the podium where the pope will be speaking. A lot of the crowd here will be watching only on giant screens as