Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im Thomas Roberts in for lester tonight. Nbc news has learned new details in a dramatic u. S. Special forces operation killing a senior isis leader in syria. The man in charge of the terror organizations finances, this as were uncovering major new developments in the investigation of the brussels terror attacks including new arrests after a series of raids in the last 24 hours. We begin with nbc chief Foreign Correspondent richard engel. Reporter tonight weve learned at least two americans were among those killed in the carnage in brussels, and now the hunt is on across europe to stop the next attack with police raids, at least seven in brussels alone, nearly a dozen detained. Two more arrests in linked to the brussels attacks. Police in this country do finally seem to be cracking down. Witnesses say one of the Police Operations took place here at this tram stop.
And shakespeare mystery. Did someone steal part of the bard right out of his grave . Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im Thomas Roberts in for leverett tonight. Nbc news has learned new details in a dramatic u. S. Special forces operation killing a senior isis leader in syria. The man in charge of the terror organizations finances, this as were uncovering major new details in the investigation of the brussels terror attacks including new arrests after a series of raids in the last 24 hours. We begin with nbc chief Foreign Correspondent richard engel. Reporter tonight weve learned at least two americans were among those killed in the carnage in brussels, and now the hunt is on across europe to stop the next attack with police raids, at least alone, nearly a dozen detained. Two more arrests in germany, including a suspect reportedly linked to the brussels attacks. Meanwhile in f
Be an astronaut. I made it down there to work as an engineer for a few years. In 1990, i got selected by nasa to be an astronaut. Omissions,our space i was on spatial colombia three times and spatial tout discovery wants. Space, iose 44 days in got to go around the earth is 692 times. I can confidently tell you, i have seen your hometown, wherever you are from. I have seen it. We have a program tonight on space stations, a little bit about the history of space stations. I told you i flew on four Space Shuttle missions. I was actually assigned to four Space Shuttle missions, on one of the space station missions. On the sixth crew, number six going up to the space stations. Back in 2002. I trained for 2. 5 years, and two months before launch, one of the nasa doctors pulled me for medical reasons. I never made it to the space station but i trained extensively on it. I spent two years in russia in preparation for that. I also worked for three years as a space Station Program scientist. In
Captioning performed by vitac the first crew was expedition one and were up to 44. Weve got two americans and three russians and japanese astronaut up there. It truly is an international crew. Sometimes theres a canadian, a german, italian, its always swapping out there. And right here scott kelly and mikhail are doing a one year mission, spending a year up in space. Its 342 days. Its not quite a year but im going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Its a year mission there. Scott is has an identical twin brother mark kelly married to gabriell gabrielle dif fordse doing a twin study. And the iss is currently funded by nasa through 2024. After that time, were not sure whats going to happen. But nasas commitment runs out in 2024. Ive got to believe the russians arent going to want to give this up either. They dont like to throw space stations away. If nasa abandons it, i could see them jumping in there and saying well take it, well run it and maybe do something commercially with it. S
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , august 4, 2014. I hereby appoint the honorable thomas e. Petri to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. , ned, john a. Boehner speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend peter foaland, holy Trinity Catholic church, washington, d. C. The chaplain god of the unexpected, god who makes the weak strong, who makes the poor rich, who makes the dead alive again, dash our expectations as we begin this week of labor on behalf of the citizens of this country. Help us seek you, not in the familiar, but in the strange. Help us reach out to you, not in the comfortable but in the challenging. Help us realize your justice, not in the usual patterns that can shackle us, but in the new way you show us, the way that always frees us. Bless today the members an