Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. It was so brazen and so scary coming as it did after weeks of antipolice protests in this country, the assassination of two new York City Police officers by a deeply disturbed career criminal has had a Chilling Effect on Police Departments across this country. And in new york its causing great tension as the mayor of the nations largest city is forced to defend himself against charges that he has not been supportive enough of those whose job it is to protect and serve. Its where we begin tonight with nbcs Stephanie Gosk in brooklyn. Stephanie, good evening. Reporter hey, good evening, brian. Tonight, the new York Police Commissioner says theres been a number of unsubstantiated copycat threats. Nbc news has learned that on the night of this murder the Police Patrol reached out to all precincts and asked Police Officers to link up foot patrols today Police Re
And soak it all in. Today for only a couple hours, well be in the 60s and then the bottom falls out. Well be right back to hard core january weather as we get into tomorrow. But for now, its a mild but rainy start out there, rain all over the news 4 nation this morning from Frederick County maryland down to fredricksburg, virginia. Everyone is wet this morning. Have your umbrellas ready to go. Temperatures not too terribly cold right now. Were in the mid 40s already above what would be an average High Temperature for this time of year. You will need at least a jacket and umbrella to get out the door first thing this morning, but it will be a very pleasant afternoon for a couple hours. Chilly and rain at 8 00 48 degrees, rain ending around lunchtime. Temperatures mid 50s. Breezy and mild. Briefly into the 60s for a time today before the colder air really starts to settle in. Chance for snow tuesday and arctic air later in the week. All that is coming up with the sevenday. See you in a f
On the fire. Very unfortunately, two pieces of fire apparatus were on the rear of the building. A shift occurred pushing the fire directly onto those piece of the fire apparatus. They have been lost. Theyre a total loss and burned. How about, mark anybody any injuries . To this point we have not noted any serious injuries. There are going to be some injuries in incidents like this but we have not had any serious injuries reported that the point. Thats good to hear. How large of an operation have you had to mount here . We heard twoalarm fire so, maybe 100 or so firefighters on scene . Yeah. We have sounded the third alarm bringing more than 100 firefighters to the scene, probably close to 50 pieces of apparatus. Are you worrying about this fire spreading, mark and is the wind causing problems iffer you . The wind is certainly a challenge for us. Its spreading the fire to whats on the outside of this fence where the fiber is burning is woods. And this is over toward Central Avenue. You
Afternoon. So what do you know about the family that has lived there . Theres a lot of unconfirmed reports here this afternoon, their worse fears were realized here when they confirmed four people dead, three adults, one child in this northwest dc neighborhood that we were talking about their Million Dollar homes here in this fire. The police chief says that all fourct viims were found upstairs on the second floor of the house. They were not able to confirm the identification of the victims. As well as the younger boy, that they were told that they were typically away at boarding schools. That this is where they have started to get fuzzy that the boy stayed home from school today. Im also told that the workers are regularly at the house. Were talking about the gardners, that they recently had some work done with the house and those sort of workers. And as far as who may have been home at the time of the fire that it is still a lot of possibilities. About how this started that the citys
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