Beast and comes out on top. Tonight, he tells the tale. It really amazed me what happened. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. As american warplanes once again came to the aid of iraqi refugees under siege from advancing isis fighters, president obama made it clear that the latest round of u. S. Military involvement in iraq will not be a short one. U. S. Transports air dropped more food and water to members of a religious minority trapped in the northern part of the country. Overnight, we get a look at the american air strikes against isis targets. Before leaving on vacation, president obama told reporters the isis advance on erbil where a number of personnel remain has been swifter than expected. The operation could go on for weeks. Tonight, the report from on the ground in northern iraq. First to pentagon reporter, jim miklaszewski. Good evening. Good evening, lester. The latest u. S. Air strikes were launch
Good morning. Theres some appropriateness to this bogey where it is. Oday is actually the spirit of 45 day. It was created by an act of congress back in 2012 to honor the everyday heros, the everyday heros of the world war ii heros. Rosie is here. Just the families, stateside that worked toward the war effort. Behind us now is an effort to bridge that era with the post9 11 era. This is going to be a living memorial, made up of thousands of flowers donated by home depot. What you can see, probably cant make it out, figures reaching over from the depiction of the iwo jima memorial to a family, civilian family, and the flowers represent a bridge between those two eras. Thats what this is all about here today. Hundreds of volunteers signed up to install the flowers and groups represented here from the military as well as civilian back grounds weve talked to someone from one of the civilian organizations represented here. What we want to do is bridge the civilian military divide so this wil
We hope so. I think chuck bell is in the Weather Center tweaking things around trying to rule out the chance of rain, right, chuck . I have it down to only about a 10 chance of a shower today. I would love to tell you not to worry at all. Good news, were not looking for severe weather. But theres the slimmest little chance at a shower today. I would not plan to cancel anything as a result of this tiny shower chance. Outside we go, its indeed a beautiful way to get your morning started. Temperatures are in the upper 60s to near 70. Its 73 now at Reagan National airport, but 66 in reston, 63 in manassas and there is a touch of light fog out there this morning. No rain on storm team 4 radar right now and 90 of us will be dry 90 of the day. Thats welcome news for the second half of your weekend. Generally clear skies, except patchy fog. By 9 00 a. M. , 75 degrees. Highs mid to upper 80s with more sunshine than yesterday in the lower rain chance. Rain chances increasing soon. More on that i
Top story. Two hours from now the writer behind a controversial Rolling Stone article on rain at the university of virginia is expected to apologize. Sabrina rubin elderly wrote about an alleged gang rain at a Campus Security party their fraternity was shut down. Its since been reopened and soon there were serious questions about that reporting. Police investigated they were not able to find proof of that gang rain happening that evening and they do say, though that that victim jackie likely may have been traumatized in another way. I spoke to the reporter of that article in november before the story began to fall apart. Its a situation where seemingly fraternities are calling the shot where Sexual Assault is rampant, where rain victims are afraid and discouraged from forward by both their peers and discouraged from administrators from filing reports. Tonight Rolling Stone is expected to release the results an independent outside review of the article by the review. Brian stelter, join
This german tabloid bild he says yes theres individuals owe and hes seen it. We saw the video with our colleagues. It was sort of disturbing upsetting material. Its shot in the cabin. It shows there was a lot of chaos going on that people were apparently very much aware of where this was heading. It also seems to document there was a metallic bang on what sounds like a bang on a door which is kind of in line with the previous investigation that say the pilot was trying to break into the cockpit. That is what we saw. This wasnt his only revelation. Hes am claiming this 27yearold copilot lubitz didnt just lie to the airline but he lied to doctors as well as telling them he wasnt flying at the time he was off duty. He wanted to get back in the cockpit but wasnt there. Will ripley has more on this. What exactly are french Officials Saying about these claims about the bild editor . Reporter certainly they are denying the leak came from them. These leaks, and theres been a lot of them, are c