Good evening. Today it was below freezing, at least somewhere in each of the 50 states. That doesnt happen often, and yes, even hawaii where it was 25 this morning near the summit of a volcano. In new york, it hasnt been this cold since 1896. In cleveland, youd have to go back to 1884. In asheville, north carolina, the old record was set in 1879. Again tonight its not just the 25 below zero temperatures in minnesota making news, its the dangerous cold in the deep, deep south making news, like 6 degrees in atlanta, georgia. Its been record shattering cold, straining power grids, cancelling thousands of flights and forcing people to find warmth. We have it covered again with Kevin Tibbles in chicago. Kevin, good evening. Reporter brian, it is day two here in chiberia. And across the frozen Chicago River behind me, and across most of this nation, this arctic grip is not letting go. Subzero, bone chilling wind whipping cold. Stomping down on much of the lower 48 for another frigid day. Fro
Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. What a crushing weight of responsibility to decide whether someone lives or dies. Tonight, a boston jury who saw every gruesome picture, heard every heartbreaking story of loss and suffering, has spoken on the fate of marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, unanimously voting that he be put to death for his crimes. Four people died in the attack and aftermath, over 200 injured. Some of those who survived are speaking out about the verdict. Nbcs Pete Williams has been covering this story from the start. Hes outside the courthouse now. Pete, good evening. Reporter lester, good evening. The jury deliberated just 15 hours after four weeks of testimony in this penalty phase of the trial, rejecting a plea from defense lawyers to send him to prison for life. [ explosion ] Dzhokhar Tsarnaev becomes the first person in the u. S. Sentenced to death for an act of terrorism in nearly two decades, since Timothy Mcveigh executed for bombing the Oklahoma City
Good evening. Today it was below freezing, at least somewhere in each of the 50 states. That doesnt happen often, and yes, even hawaii where it was 25 this morning near the summit of a volcano. In new york, it hasnt been this cold since 1896. In cleveland, youd have to go back to 1884. In asheville, north carolina, the old record was set in 1879. Again tonight its not just the 25 below zero temperatures in minnesota making news, its the dangerous cold in the deep, deep south making news, like 6 degrees in atlanta, georgia. Its been record shattering cold, straining power grids, cancelling thousands of flights and forcing people to find warmth. We have it covered again with Kevin Tibbles in chicago. Kevin, good evening. Reporter brian, it is day two here in chiberia. And across the frozen Chicago River behind me, and across most of this nation, this arctic grip is not letting go. Subzero, bone chilling wind whipping cold. Stomping down on much of the lower 48 for another frigid day. Fro
Lets talk about this nbc news that weve been able to confirm. Jordan has launched new air strikes today against targets in syria. Obviously we heard that they would seek revenge as a result of that death of the pilot and now were seeing more action. King abdullah who is a very close u. S. Ally has vowed to to take a relentless response against Islamic State after the murder horrific murder of the pilot and the day after the video was released we saw two being executed and the ramping up of the air strikes by the Jordanian Air force and hes following through on that vow. To your point, to the two executions already. Jordan is saying that it will perhaps execute another four individuals here but the targets within syria, do we know anymore about those targets . Very little detail on what exactly the targets were but the the strikes were very heavily covered in the jordanian press on state tv and kind of a notion about them. The king sunday a lot of pressure to respond. Theres been massiv
Investigators say they were likely lured by another young woman from the uk seduced by their warped ideology. The politics lead. This is the fabulous life of an illinois congressman, chartered flights concerts all documented on instagram. Now congressional investigators want to know if the congress ma paid for any of it with your money. Announcer this is cnns breaking news. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Well begin today with breaking news on our world lead. A few moments ago, three alerts were released telling americans defer any travel plans to algeria, pakistan and saudi arraignabia arabia. Citing ongoing security concerns in those countries or perhaps more importantly this is also issued a very alarming warning out of afghanistan. An Emergency Alert went out to all americans inside that country warning about potential attacks in kabul. I want to go right to Barbara Starr at the pentagon. Barbara, what is the state department saying specifically about this afghanistan alert as