And good evening. Im lester holt in for brian. Here in washington, talk of war and peace at the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther king jr. Delivered his famous i have a dream speech 50 years ago today. President obama headlined a chorus of speakers saluting the Racial Justice that changed this country. A lot more on that in a few minutes. But first, the remmings in this city about a possible military attack against syria as early as this week over its use of chemical weapons. Tonight the pentagon says the u. S. Military is ready to attack but in an interview this evening president obama says he has not made a decision to order a military strike. And new pressure on the president. The speaker of the house is demanding he make the case for any military action against syria. We want to begin our coverage with nbcs chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell in our washington newsroom. Andrea, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. Diplomacy came to a dead end at the Unite
fstop123/iStock(BIALYSTOK, Poland) In a dark, cold Polish wood, Ahmad Al Hasan's coffin was lowered into a freshly dug grave. It was early evening but already pitch black in the cemetery outside the village of Bohoniki, a few miles from Poland's eastern border. The 19-year-old Syrian's final resting place among the birch trees was thousands of miles from his homeland. His family wasn't present, instead watching from a mobile phone held up by a local man. Those attending were a crowd of international media and two local women, who wept. Al Hasan drowned this month as he tried to cross from Belarus into Poland, one of the thousands of people, mostly from the Middle East, caught up in the migration crisis orchestrated by Belarus' authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, who's accused of funneling migrants to European neighbors in an effort to retaliate against the European Union for supporting Belarus' pro-democracy movement. Since early autumn, the
0 you re going to get dealt a hand you didn t want to play. that will happen to all of us. the question is how do you play the hand when you get dealt it? this is an example of people playing it to the max. gretchen: the former president plans to get back to his normal schedule tomorrow. 90 minutes from now the house where ariel castro held three girls, women for more than a decade will be demolished. you ll see it happen live on fox & friends. google already wiped the house off the map. it has been blurred out on google s street view. last week castro was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 1,000 years. he will pay more than $22,000 for that demolition. this is an amazing story. a guy locked in a coffin tossed from a plane 14,000 feet in the air. so what happened? let s take a look. anthony martin managed to free himself from the shackles while plummeting 130 miles towards the earth and then he pulled his right now. steve: thank you very much. meanwhile let s tal
you know, accident reconstruction team is stil on location doing som work and they haven t even got to that course of the investigation yet. mark brady with the prince george s county fire ems. thanks for joining us this morning. we know it s early. 4:31 is our time. that means it s time for weather and traic on the 1s. here s tom. another dry morning under way. we do have a time for some rain by this time tomorrow morning. we may have wet streets and roads and sidewalks. looking at temperatures around the region it s in the 60s from the shenandoah valley to the atlantic beaches. now 69 at national airport. the mountains of western maryland, west virginia, many locations in the 50s there. it s in the low0s on the eastern shore away from the waters and around virginia s tide water region up near upper 60s. over the last 12 hours we ve seen som increase in the cloud cover coming from a low essure system that s spreading some rain from michigan down through ohio, indiana,