Baghdadi eight days after the milttant group threatened to kill her son. Shirley demonstrates her knowledge of history, culture and morality. Ive learned a lot about islam . Trying to persuade stevens captors to release him, appealing to the same religion isis says justifies its violence. Ive learned that islam teaches that no individual should be held responsible for the sins of others. Reporter she even addresses baghd baghdady but his selfappointed title of caliph. You the caliph can grant amnesty. I ask you to spare his life. Reporter sotloff looking forward to a homecoming similar to Peter Theo Curtis earlier this week. Total strangers have come up to me and said hey, were glad youre home. Welcome home. Reporter cambridge in cambridge, massachusetts, with his mother held after two years of captivity by a different Jihadist Group. I say a huge thank you from my heart, from the bottom of my heart. Reporter this as were learning about more americans on the other side of the fight, re
And we begin with those deadly floods. Mothers and their children suddenly surrounded by those rising waters. The death toll growing as we come on the air, at least 12 now dead. The frightening images tonight out of utah. The raging waters. You can see how fastmoving they are. Two cars, families inside both of them, suddenly overwhelmed by the floods. Authorities say washed away by a wall of water 20 feet high. One boys body found more than six miles away from where the families were trapped. And abcs nick watt leads us off from utah. Oh, dear, theres two vehicles. Reporter in those vehicles, three mothers and 13 kids, the youngest just 4 years old. Cut off by the flash flood waters. There goes the fence. Reporter watch as the wall of water washes them away. Oh, dear, over the fence, oh, no reporter in just 30 minutes, a staggering one and a half inches of rain fell, flash flood, washing families to their deaths. Theyre getting everybody out. Reporter this afternoon, a 10yearold boy wa
Thanksgiving day table today. All right, were going to start this morning with the growing controversy over two politicians, congressman john conyers and Senate Hopeful roy moore. Its bipartisan this time. A new accuser says conyers was verbally abusive to her. Meanwhile, conyers attorney released a defiant statement. He says the 27term democrat has no intention of stepping down. Moore, equally defiant. The difference is, he still has a big supporter in his corner, a new one, president donald trump. Its a head scratcher for me. We have a great panel this morning to help us break down both stories. I want to go first to nbcs kelly odonnell. What is the latest on congressman conyers . Well, good morning and happy thanksgiving, were in palm beach of course covering the president and john conyers has some new developments. Of course, its important to point out he is a michigan democrat who is known as the dean of the house, which means hes the longest serving member of congress, 52 1 2 yea
Newspapers urging voters to reject moore. Rnc withdrew support for moore. Mitch mcconnell is withdrawing support. So is the young republicans, withdrawing support. A lot of women. I dont think a lot of people are going to be voting for roy moore. Roy moore should find Something Else to do, which is my way of suggesting he shouldnt be in the race. I think the president has talked about roy moore. Hes said he thinks that the voters of alabama should decide. Congressional leaders are hoping the president will shift his focus back to tax reform. The biggest miscatake was putting in a provision into the senate bill thats not in the house bill. I think the bills are reconcilable. The big issues, there are some things. With or without the repeal of the obama individual mandate. Depends where the votes are. I dont think anybody doubts where the white house is on repealing and replacing obamacare. We absolutely want to do it. Youd support taking the individual mandate out . Well, let me first s
His 14yearold daughter annabelle. Its not the church that it was to me before. However, its still gods house. To give god thanks for the blessings of freedom and for the heroes who really have this tremendous courage that you do to defend us and to defend freedom. Cooking thanksgiving dinner for almost 3,000 soldiers here in kandahar is its own military exercise. The officers serve the enlisted with all the trimmings. Happy thanksgiving happy thanksgiving is right. We begin, unfortunately, with the growing number of complaints and allegations about sexual impropriety and inappropriate behavior by members of congress. I want to start with veteran Democratic Congressman john conyers of michigan. Hes trying to fend off calls for his resignation after its been revealed hes been accused of sexual harassment. A third he was verbally abusive. That woman described her experience to nbc news. He became increasingly verbally abusive and would berate me loudly and over ridiculous things. There wa