jake reese, day to feel alive brian williams here with you understand again from new york as we begin another hour of our coverage with the look at the hour s breaking news starting with a wonderful and welcomed sight. the skies over paris. the eiffel tower has been dark for several nights as they have observed a period of mourning. but as night fell in paris tonight, with e see it lit up in the tri color. the colors of the french flag. the search light visible there at the top. in new york, we are waiting to hear from the mayor and the police commissioner because it
since the end of the cold war and showcases some new productions. for a while after the fall, russia s army was a shadow of its former red army self. but putin has more flexible and mobile forces. there were fly well, planes configured in the shape of the number 70 for the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in europe. and formations trailing the russian tri color. later fireworks lit up the skies over the kremlin. earlier, as many as half a million people, including president putin whose father fought in world war ii, paraded pictures of relatives who fought in the war. and finally as regards to this patriotic sentiment that putin is now famous for whipping up here in russia, i asked someone randomly the other day about it here. a russian man who said that he thinks yes this heightened sense of patriotism lately is a good thing because if they didn t have that 70 years ago
on the five years. thank you so much. the first time i saw the show, i took three in the under. what does that mean? that means he didn t think we were going to make it. then again, this is a guy that wears a french tri-color. union jack. union jack. big story about the british pension system going broke in the new york times, so i thought this was an appropriate and i wore this in your honor. we can talk about that and the race for the white house, we re getting new poll numbers out from three battleground states. according to the nbc news/ wall street journal /marist poll, the president has reached 50% in all three states. in wisconsin obama leads romney 50-45. in colorado, the same, 50-45. and in iowa, it s 50-42. president obama won all three of these states in 2008. mike, the thing that we ve been seeing for a very long time is this president unable to get to 50%. karl rove wrote about it a couple days ago. if you re an incumbent, you re