Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. With the grief still palpable in this country over the death of a young arizona Woman Held Captive by isis, president obama today asked congress to authorize the use of force against the terror group. The request at first glance may seem academic given that u. S. Warplanes have been pounding isis targets since last summer. But the president s request for a threeyear campaign against isis carefully spells out what the fight will and will not look like including under what circumstances american boots will step foot in the combat zone. Senior White House Correspondent Chris Jansing joins us now with full details. Hello, chris. Reporter good evening, lester. The president s critics have been calling for this more authorization since the first fighter jets went up over iraq. But the november election that gave republicans control of both houses of congress had lead
Is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. It brought days of rain to arizona, ending right before the super bowl. It then caught a fast ride across the country, hit the midwest hard before arriving in the alreadypummeled sections of the east where tonight the pummeling goes on. More snow in boston and enough to delay the patriots celebration until wednesday after the snowiest sevenday period in that hearty citys history. Chicago and detroit fell just show of alltime records, in fact, and travel just took another big hit. These repeat winter storms make it feel a lot like groundhog day, which in fact it is. We begin with all of it tonight. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer starts us off from boston. Miguel, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening. Boston was hit with 14 hours of steady snow today. Its the reason why Public Schools have been canceled tomorrow and why the patriots parade has been pushed to wednesday. Were on boylston street. This is the parade route. And this is the pr
In less than a week, donald trump will be the 45th president of the United States. Now were learning more about his possible plans for russia. In an hourlong interview with the wall street journal the president elect suggested that he is open to lifting sanctions on moscow. But he also said that he would keep them for a period of time. The u. S. Placed additional sanctions on russia for alleged hacking during the u. S. President ial election. A Senate Committee plans to look into russias alleged hacking and whether there were contacts between moscow and any of the political campaigns here in the president ial election here in the u. S. More now from phil mattingly. There have been a lot of questions across washington. Whats the next step in the wake of that explosive intelligence assessment that russia and its services meddled in the u. S. Election . The u. S. Select committee on intelligence, one. Most powerful committees on capitol hill will be holding a bipartisan investigation into
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