First television interview. And a surprise in store this Holiday Shopping season, and how to make sure your packages arrive by christmas. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Theyre not dancing in the end zone yet, but republicans say the goal line is in sight to pass their sweeping tax plan and change your bottom line as soon as the coming week. Senate and house negotiators sweetening the pot at the last minute to bring a key holdout senator on board, appearing to give them the votes needed for passage. Republicans are trumpeting it as a tax cut for the middle class, but there have been some late changes this evening as to who will get relief and for how long. Our Peter Alexander has the final numbers and how theyll impact you. Reporter tonight on capitol hill, the pieces are in place and so are the votes. The Conference Committee has come together, and weve delivered for the american people. Reporter republicans making lastminute changes to the razor thin margin i
Year low today how low will it go first, the dow started off the week sinking, then soaring back to close before 26,000 for the first time to close right under that key level as volatility today the vix surging 20 even as the markets soared and the ten year yield hit its highest level signs 2013 s. Volatility back for good is this a sign we are starting to see cracks in this rally, guy. Are you grooving over there, guy. He is boogying. Im taking it all in. This was my wedding song. As it should be. Lot of people out there, crack, s p close at an alltime high, russ areal was up. Tuesday was a fake out it signalled for me the potential of a shortterm top. That lasted eight hours. What is interesting. Bob pass any was talking about unperformers and he mentioned materials. I love bob but i dont know what he is talking about because mack moran closed around 20 bucks thats tims trade for the last six to nine months continues to work i think materials. Banks reversed today i think the rally i
They had to use their weapons. That is an example of the applicability of this. If you combine the blindness with this broad reach. And we face a challenge if not seen before. This is not your grandfathers al qaeda. This is a very new threat that we face. Some people say you have all kinds of other information. We live in the golden age of surveillance. I think of it differently. I think with over the golden age of communication. Osama bin laden would never have dreamed that he could speak simultaneously to hundreds of americans, find them, and the task of them in ways that Law Enforcement could not see. The golden age of communication is posting enormous challenges for us. Im not here to scare folks for us. There is a problem. I do not know the answer. A whole lot of good people that said it is too hard. It will all fall down and we will have a disaster. Maybe that is so. My reaction is, im not sure we really tried. I think Silicon Valley is full of great people that were told their d
Well right now the Confederate Flag is no longer flying at the South Carolina state house. The honor guard took it down just a little while. It was a brief, short ceremony of huge crowds to watch the historic moment. Lets listen in for a second. [ cheering ] the flag coming down just a little after three weeks of the killing of people at a church in charleston. In that renewed calls for this moment, for the Confederate Flag to be removed from the South Carolina sit capitol. The flag was handed over to the director of the South Carolina confederate relic room where it will be displayed after 54 years of flying above the South Carolina capitol. Thank you christen. There will soon be a legal challenge to virginias decision to remove the flag from the license plates. It go go to court to keep the state from banning the plates. The governor asked the attorney general to work on phasing out the vanity plates. Breaking news right now. Former Virginia Governor bob mcdonald sentence up held. We
At keeping our country safe. It is due in no small part to f. B. I. Vigilance in concert with the Intelligence Community partners that our nation has enjoyed a peaceful and safe Independence Day celebration this past weekend. As you are well aware, extremists remain intent on inflicting harm on u. S. Interests at home and abroad. Over the past year, we witnessed the islamist state, also referred to as isil, agenda attempt to inspire a wide range of individuals to conduct attacks against innocent civilians. The number of u. S. Based individuals seeking to conduct attacks in the homeland or overseas has already exceeded the combined number of individuals attempting activities in 2013 and 2014. Unfortunately, the threats faced by our nation are not limited to terrorist actors. Foreign governments remain intent on stealing National Security secrets. The f. B. I. Is charged with confronting all of these threads threats as well and is continually challenged in addition to these fairly unique