Down a drug lord. Video shows the firefight that led to the capture of el chapo. The morning, there are questions over the role Actor Sean Penn may have played in the arrest. And rolling the dice, alabamas big bet in the Fourth Quarter helped the crimson tide win its Fourth National championship in seven seasons. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Its good to be with you. Ooim annemarie green. President obama delivers his final state of the Union Address tonight. The president is expected to layout his agenda for a final year. Focus on this pick and deliver an opt mick view of the united states. Reporter good morning, this is president obamas last high profile opportunity to reach out voting begins on february 1st for his successor. Hes not expected to endorse a particular ktd. But he will layout domestic and International Vision that he has already taken. That certainly lines up more with democrats than republicans. The president of the unit
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Right now fires are burning from one end of california to the other. The worst of them northwest of sacramento, where at least 24 homes are destroyed. 6,000 structures are threatened. And 13,000 people have been urged to gather up their belongings and head to safety. In all an incredible 9,000 firefighters are working more than 20 fires across the state. But the socalled rocky fire has proven the most dangerous and confounding, tripling in size over the weekend. Nbcs joe fryer is there with the latest. Reporter good evening, lester. You can see we are surrounded by smoke from the rocky fire. 2,500 firefighters are now on the ground here, and weve heard from veterans whove been doing this 10, 20, even 30 years who say they have never seen a fire behave like this one. The villain of Northern California is a massive agile wildfire that refuses to be contained. Conditions that w
Of the pack with a double digit lead over his closest rival, jeb bush. Bloomberg has trump with a 2 to 1 advantage over bush, and a new fox poll has trump at 26 , his best, his highest number so far. Altogether its pretty much guaranteed that man will be center stage at thursdays debate. Right now it also looks though that rick perry and these other candidates, they will be watching, not debating, on that main stage. Political reporter sara murray is here with more of a look at the polls and their impact. We feel at this point, sara, were drowning in polls. Make sense of it all, please. Its been kind of a tidal wave of polls in the last 24 hours, but you got the main takeaway right here. We have donald trump with 1 in 4 Republican Voters supporting him in a lot of these recent polls. Clearly not a fridge candidange anymore. The guys surrounding him are what we expected, jeb bush, scott walker, abobut it looks l rick perry is not going to make the stage. It looks like well get Chris Chr
Today. Both candidates got some crucial face time with iowa voters at a town hall last night. Here are a few highlights. There are very different visions, different values, different forces at work. You have to have somebody who is a proven fighter. Somebody who has taken them on and won. And kept going and will do that as president. Secretary clinton was secretary of state of this country for four years. That is a lot of experience. There is no debate about that. I was not secretary of state. But experience is important but judgment is also important. Im not capable of doing q and a in iowa from a seat. Our country is worth saving. The American Dream is worth saving. America needs new leadership and i need the omalley supporters on caucus night to move forward and hold strong like iowa does. Jenna i think henry will keep his coat on. Hes in iowa. Where do you start today . Reporter we are here in des moines as you mentioned, Steel Workers meeting with Bernie Sanders. He has been surgi