Women across nigeria are marching today for more than 200 girls still missing. Teenagers abducted from their school two weeks ago. What we are now learning about the terrorists behind the attack and the young girls being held hostage. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. The l. A. Clippers fans today are celebrating victories on and off the court. The team took the lead in their playoff series against the warriors last night, just hours after the nba took its toughest stance yet, banning owner Donald Sterling for life. Using his silver hammer, nba commissioner adam silver imposed a 2. 5 million penalty. That was the most he could. And he urged owners to force sterling to sell the team. I will urge the board of governors to exercise its authority to force a sale of the team, and will do everything in my power to ensure that that happens. Sterling hasnt responded yet officially. But before yesterdays press conference, Sports Reporter jim gray says that sterling told him the team w
There will have to be some patience here and this will be a long struggle. We will degrade and destroy them. We better do it. Good day. Im ari in for alex wagner. An incursion that may demonstrate the limits of the u. S. Airstrikes against the terror group, after weeks of warnings the isis victory could result in death for thousands of kurds. U. S. Military forces have launched 23 air strikes in and around the syrian town of kobani. It it has not stopped isis yet. There are estimates that isis militants control about a third of the city and u. S. Officials openly acknowledge that air strikes will not be enough to save it. Today, secretary of state john kerry saying that setbacks in kobani do not define the strategy to destroy isis. Let me make very, very clear, kobani is a tragedy as it represents the evil of isis, but it is not the definition either of the strategy or of the full measure of what is happening with respect to isil. It is one town and there will be others where there wil
Williams. Good evening. Im tamron hall in for brian on this Christmas Eve. We begin with breaking news from atlanta. Inside a secure laboratory may have exposed a technician to ebola and other staff who may have had contact with that lab are being identified. Its the latest in a series of embarrassing errors for the cdc. The agencys director tonight saying hes troubled by this incident. An investigation is now underway. We get late details tonight from nbcs Gabe Gutierrez in atlanta. Reporter tonight, an internal investigation is underway at the centers for Disease Control to find out how one of their workers and possibly more could have been exposed to the deadly ebola virus. The exposure took place monday when scientists researching the virus mistakenly sent a sample from a highlevel security lab to a lower level lab at the cdc. The technician has no symptoms and is being monitored for 21 days. You have to get ebola into your body to be infected, so its likely that the risk to the te
52 women and children who were evacuated immediately after the blast and plus the seven who have been reported dead. But again, were still trying to figure out how many people were inside at the time. Are you hearing anything from your sources about the potential cause of the explosion . Yeah it appears to be and what officials have said this is an accident that happened when a gas truck was fueling the hospitals gas tanks. There appears to have been a leak from the hose that ran from the truck into the hospital and up to its tanks. So apparently there was an accumulation of gas in the hospital. It was somehow set off which is why were seeing such a devastating images with a third of the hospital collapsed. Michael o boyle of reuters stay safe. That building in very bad shape. Well bring you updates, everybody at home. A deadline passed just hours ago in the middle east is sis set the deadline for jordan to release a prisoner a woman on death row for attempting to blow herself up insid
Nightly news begins now. From nbc news world headquart headquart headquarter in new york, this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. Good evening, it is been a weekend filled with news. Democrats scrambling. We learn from the letter from fbi director comey, the fbi is reviewing a new batch of emails reulating r reulating to Hillary Clintons use. Donald trump calling this the biggest political scandal since water gate. There are still unanswered questions. How were the emails discovered or what did they contain and are they duplicates of emails known to the fbi. With few details made public, democrats accused the fbi director of playing politics. We have all angles. We begin tonight with kasie hunt in florida. Reporter democrats upping the anti on the fbi. Harry reid of nevada sending a letter accusing james comey of violating the hack act of so close to election day. Hillary clinton did not mention the fbi issue at all. Hillary clinton trying to stay the course in the face of the fbis bo