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That air base is home to some 320 americans who are there training Iraqi Military pilots and the u. S. Says it has no plans to evacuate them. This huge strategic gain as the pentagon admits isis is now getting a foot hold beyond iraq beyond syria. Libya, yemen, pakistan and afghanistan now seeing a rise in isis militants. The reason . Deflections by the taliban. They realize flying under the black flag of isis will get them more money and more recruits. Lets go straight to phil black whos in Northern Iraq right now. When you look at the map and see how close baghdadi is to that u. S. Training base how close is isis to that base right now . Reporter pretty close earlier in the day, brooke. We understand from iraqi officials and the u. S. Military there are some eight isis members who plan to attack the air base. They say they were all suicide bombers. They were all stopped and all killed. They say this is a sprawling base a very large facility and that u. S. Personnel that you mention,
Middle of a rescue attempt to save them. Plus the politics lead. Bogey and bacall they are not but two Supreme Court justices who agreed on practically nothing are chums, even going on exotic vacations together. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We have breaking news in the politics lead today. Just in the last few minutes, a democratic governor has resigned after members of his own party said he needed to go. We will tell you much more about this story and how it came to this later this hour. First, we begin today with our world lead. Isis bearing down on a key iraqi base with 300 u. S. Troops stationed inside. Today, around the time of the noon call to prayer in the region isis terrorists rushed the gates of the air base. Eight wouldbe suicide bombers trying to destroy the perimeter to make a path for more isis terrorists. Iraqi and american Officials Say all of the wouldbe suicide bombers were killed by Iraqi Security forces but according to the pentagon most if n
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
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. Thanks for being here this friday night. The dead of winter isnt supposed to be a picnic, but lets face it, we dont often see them this harsh. Dare we say it . Yet another blizzard has its sights set on the northeast tonight. Boston once again in the line of fire. Some new england cities looking at close to two feet of snow later this weekend, but the winds may be the bigger story here. At times gusts reaching near hurricane speed. Right now 16 states are under Winter Weather advisories. This weekends storm follows on the heels of a dangerous cold snap with bitter wind chills being felt tonight in cities from the midatlantic northward. We begin in boston with nbcs ron mott. Ron, good evening. Reporter hey, lester, good evening to you. As we head into the weekend nearly 35 million americans are under a Winter Weather advisory. Nearly 6. 5 million will face blizzard warni