Is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Officials in australia say theyve broken up an urban terrorism plan inspired by isis, which if you can believe it and were forced to believe it due to what isis has done so far, the terrorist group was planning to take people off city streets in australia and execute them for the benefit of video cameras. Australian police say this was prevented and put down in a series of raids. And this comes as national and local Security Officials here have stepped up their vigilance in light of the latest isis propaganda. Its where we begin tonight with our gist is correspondent pete williams. Reporter it was australias biggest counterterrorism operation ever, more than 800 officers in sidney and brisbane stopping what Authorities Say was a plot to kidnap people and videotape their executions for propaganda. Islam means sincerity and submission. Reporter police say they acted after intercepting an International Phone call from this man, mohame
Or the condition of the three. This happened at 9 30 in the morning at one of the Busiest Airports in the country. Right now you can see a situation where access has been restricted or shut down as main access roads in the terminal itself has been sealed off. Andrea. Mike, so far what we know is one suspect, a male, an eyewitness saw a rifle at a checkpoint to Virgin America. Is that correct . Thats correct. We dont know if the individual allegedly with the rifle got past the checkpoint. Many, many times. Where he was near the checkpoint when the shooting started. Among those who were injured reportedly is a tsa agent themselves. We dont know what the situation is or any reports. Youre right. Thats what happened and when it happened as far as we can tell at this point. Mike, stand by with me, Pete Williams our justice correspondent here. Pete, what do we know from tsa or fbi. Without saying where the information comes from at this point, talking to a variety of authorities, a large num
Officials in australia say theyve broken up an urban terrorism plan inspired by isis, which if you can believe it and were forced to believe it due to what isis has done so far, the terrorist group was planning to take people off city streets in australia and execute them for the benefit of video cameras. Australian police say this was prevented and put down in a series of raids. And this comes as national and local Security Officials here have stepped up their vigilance in light of the latest isis propaganda. Its where we begin tonight with our justice correspondent pete williams. Reporter it was australias biggest counterterrorism operation ever, more than 800 officers in sidney and brisbane stopping what Authorities Say was a plot to kidnap people and videotape their executions for propaganda. Islam means sincerity and submission. Reporter police say they acted after intercepting an International Phone call from this man, mohamed ali giving attack instructions. Originally from afgha
Washington. As horrible as it is. And he spoke about it for the same reason that we just carried it on our air, which is that talking about the economy is vitally important to him, as is vitally important to our network and i think the as far as the additional shooters go, that is still a little speculative. What we heard from kathy linnear, the washington, d. C. , police chief was potentially, so im not sure that is hard information, but in any case, the work of the government doesnt stop because terrible things because they happen all the time. This was intended, john, to be, what, a victory speech . The president did note all that has been done by his Administration Since the financial crisis, noting that in the past three and a half years you have a had the addition of 7. 5 million new jobs, the Unemployment Rate has been coming down. Is that what this was intended to be, a victory speech by the president . I dont think so, scott. When you look at the text and it unfolded the way y
Good morning to you. Craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in New York City. We continue to follow this breaking news. Potential Explosive Devices mailed to President Obama and Hillary Clinton. As you see there, cnn reporters and others have been evacuated from their headquarters here in New York City. This is a live look outside the Time Warner Center here in New York City. The Secret Service confirming a criminal investigation into the Explosive Devices mailed to the two democrats a short time ago, they follow a similar discovery of a device found, a very similar device that was found monday in the mailbox of billionaire philanthropist george soros. Lets start with our nbc reporter tom winter, nbc Investigative Reporter ron allen has made his way to chappaqua. This is a suburb of New York City. This is where president clinton and Hillary Clinton live. Hans nichols is at the white house. Tom, let me start with you here in the studio. I understand that you have some new reporting on the