Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Im lester holt sitting in tonight for brian. Anxious months and months of hope and worry has turned to unimaginable grief today for the family and friends of 26yearold hostage Kayla Mueller. They received the confirmation they had been dreading that kayla is, in fact, dead. Her isis captors first reported her death last week, claiming she died in a Jordanian Air raid but offered no proof at the time leaving her family back in arizona a glimmer of hope. Today president obama said about the young aid worker, how she lived her life, she epitomized all that is good in our world. But it is the written words of kayla herself tonight that tell us who she was and define her remarkable courage. Joe fryer reports from her home town, prescott, arizona. Reporter emotions are strong tonight in Kayla Muellers hometown, a year and a half after she was taken captive by isis relatives say
Baracking overnight, investigators say treacherous icy conditions may have caused this plane to skid off the taxiway, all 68 passengers and crew forced to evacuate from the emergency exit at the back of the plane. More than 1,000 flights cancelled from dallass International Airport where up to two inches of sleet an freezing rain fell on monday. Drivers losing control. Paralyzed by ice blanketing roadways. Theres a path that the cars have made. And i just kind of followed those paths. Officials closing all Dallas Independent School districts. As the Police Department says theyve responded to hundreds of ice accidents. I know that once you know your car gets out of control, you cannot control. Take a look at this big rig. Hanging precariously off of a bridge on a busy dallas interstate after hitting an icy patch, the driver making did out alive. But police say theyll have to use a crane to remove the 18wheeler. Meanwhile, the deadly roadways actually bring the communities together. Doze
Many consumers say they want companies to do good, something that new research published by the IPA this week found can often pay dividends for advertisers. But in spite of brand awareness, many consumers still buy from whoever has the lowest prices. In this column, edited from a keynote speech given at Comexposium’s One to One Digital Marketing in Biarritz, France, Samuel Scott shows how marketers can help both the world and their companies at the same time.
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