From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin tonight with grim news out of the middle east. The video surfaced within the last several hours purporting to show the beheading of another japanese hostage by one of his isis captors. The victim appears to be freelance war correspondent kenji goto. He would be the second japanese citizen to be killed by isis in just a week. In recent days his fate has been tied to that of a failed suicide bomber held by authorities in jordan. Jordan is where we begin tonight. Our bill neely is outside the Japanese Embassy in amman. Reporter good evening, lester. Two nations united in horror here tonight. Isis has already beheaded five American British and japanese hostages. Kenji goto appears to be the sixth. Another journalist another father another innocence in syrias war murdered it appears in cold blood. Dressed for a brutal death, kenji goto behind him a man with a knife and british acc
But the big story on action news is biting cold and a winter storm on the way. Taking a live look right here outside on sky six over center city, it is a quiet evening after a day of sunshine but wind of change are a blowing. Someone said that before. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is live at the action news big board with the first check of the forecast, melissa. It was definitely chill think morning as well was those biting wind out of the northwest. Checking out morning wind chills in the poconos you reached us, as far low as 21 degrees below zero this morning. 6 degrees below zero morning wind chill in allentown. Felt like two below in philadelphia when you factored in the wind chill felt like one in wildwood and zero in dover. Unfortunately with the wind out of the northwest not much recovery this evening. Most locations are in the lower teens feeling like 16 in the city. Currently feeling like 19 in trenton. 10 degrees currently in poconos. Seventeen in beach haven. We do have some
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin tonight with grim news out of the middle east. The video surfaced within the last several hours purporting to show the beheading of another japanese hostage by one of his isis captors. The victim appears to be freelance war correspondent kenji goto. He would be the second japanese citizen to be killed by isis in just a week. In recent days his fate has been tied to that of a failed suicide bomber held by authorities in jordan. Jordan is where we begin tonight. Our bill neely is outside the Japanese Embassy in amman. Reporter good evening, lester. Two nations united in horror here tonight. Isis has already beheaded five American British and japanese hostages. Kenji goto appears to be the sixth. Another journalist another father another innocence in syrias war murdered it appears in cold blood. Dressed for a brutal death, kenji goto behind him a man with a knife and british acc
Forecast, it is already raining. Reporter at least you dont have to shovel it. We have a shield of moisture stretching across the entire keystone state from pittsburgh to philadelphia. Doesnt matter where you are this morning its coming down pretty good. North and west youre seeing snow melting with the rain. Ponding on area roads, lowlying areas and areas of poor drainage. Past the poconos, theres sleet and freezing rain. This stretches toward the ohio valley. Today is looking like a nasty day, at least by the Morning Hours, this afternoon it will switch over to a few showers. Pennsylvania turnpike, west or eastbound, you can see the heavier rains indicated by the yellows, well see periods of rain some of it will be heavy at times. There will be areas of fog around, lunch time were up to 52 degrees. The big story today is the wet weather, mild temperatures as we head into the up coming week, temperatures get cooler as another arctic shot comes in from mother nature. This Morning Satur
To their destination. Well have updates on their condition and whats next for the passengers as soon as we get them. Pat, back to you. A longtime d. C. Fire official has admitted cheating taxpayers out of 11,000 worth of gasoline. Kimberly pinkney pleaded guilty today to fraud. Her story was first revealed in the news4 iteam investigation. Today she told a judge she was guilty of using a taxpayerfunded government fleet card to buy gas for her personal car. Shell be ordered to pay that money back. Though she could face prison time when sentenced in may. Attorneys discussed the possibility of probation only in her case. Pinkney has since quit her job. More now on a story we first reported on news 4 middaya house fire in calvert county. One person was injured and the house is a total loss. This is along lake shore drive not far from solomons islands road. Chopper 4 was over the scene shortly after firefighters arrived around 10 30 today. According to zillow the home is worth about 400,000