From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin tonight with grim news out of the middle east. The video surfaced within the last several hours purporting to show the beheading of another japanese hostage by one of his isis captors. The victim appears to be freelance war correspondent kenji goto. He would be the second japanese citizen to be killed by isis in just a week. In recent days his fate has been tied to that of a failed suicide bomber held by authorities in jordan. Jordan is where we begin tonight. Our bill neely is outside the Japanese Embassy in amman. Reporter good evening, lester. Two nations united in horror here tonight. Isis has already beheaded five American British and japanese hostages. Kenji goto appears to be the sixth. Another journalist another father another innocence in syrias war murdered it appears in cold blood. Dressed for a brutal death, kenji goto behind him a man with a knife and british acc
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin tonight with grim news out of the middle east. The video surfaced within the last several hours purporting to show the beheading of another japanese hostage by one of his isis captors. The victim appears to be freelance war correspondent kenji goto. He would be the second japanese citizen to be killed by isis in just a week. In recent days his fate has been tied to that of a failed suicide bomber held by authorities in jordan. Jordan is where we begin tonight. Our bill neely is outside the Japanese Embassy in amman. Reporter good evening, lester. Two nations united in horror here tonight. Isis has already beheaded five American British and japanese hostages. Kenji goto appears to be the sixth. Another journalist another father another innocence in syrias war murdered it appears in cold blood. Dressed for a brutal death, kenji goto behind him a man with a knife and british acc
We have more, patricia, what are the numbers, and why the raising eyebrows. Reporter the numbers were talking about are new home sales. They dropped by more than 13 last month. Sales at their lowest level since september. Its about the construction industry. Retailers benefit because when people buy new homes they like to furnish them. We talked to an economist at asked him to put the numbers in perspective for us. It was a really low number, and thats disconcerning. Its true that you shouldnt pay too much attention, it just shows a loss of momentum in the Single Family structure market. That a little troubling because thats the linchpin to the housing recovery, to the economic recovery. Reporter higher Mortgage Rates are having an impact. Mortgage rates jumped a full percentage point since may, and it may start to wind down a stimulus program, but Mortgage Rates are still pretty low. Thank you. Todays news of a plunge of new homes sales come at a time when Many Americans are feeling c
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