Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. The changeover weve been talking about has now arrived as we get you situated to head into the weekend overnight. This arctic blast has taken twothirds of the nation and tonight that includes part of the south where they broke a record in atlanta. The northeast is dealing with freezing precip. Full on ice in parts of the northwest while parts of wisconsin are dealing with 55, fivezero inches of snow. And none of this includes the next weather system expected to roll in across the country. We begin tonight with nbcs Gabe Gutierrez in atlanta. Reporter from coasttocoast today the unrelenting, bonechilling wall of arctic air kept marching. In oregon an icy nightmare. Cars and trucks sliding all over. It was so slippery. Like i could barely walk. Reporter record snow piled up fast prompting amazing images on social media. Huge snow drifts blanketing cars, burying backyards and almost reaching old glory. The frigid temperatures and ice proving to be a challenge for this tv reporter. The midwest, ohio and indiana, may be used to this weather, but not so soon. This part of wisconsin saw four feet of snow this week. And more november records were shattered today. Cities in south dakota and montana negative 17 degrees. North dakota minus 15. Love it. Reporter denver saw a record low 14 below this week. This kitten was rescued from the cold just in time. In oklahoma a sign of the times. A water main break left this icy mess. The polar plunge extending to the south. Two people died in this mississippi crash blamed on slick roads. In atlanta lee sells firewood. Today he was much busier than usual. Especially following last winters ice storm here that brought the city to a standstill. How worried are people here after last winters ice storm . Pretty concerned. They want to get all the wood ordered before the real cold weather hits. Were pretty much there now. Reporter tonight other parts of the south are even bracing for snow this weekend. For many its shaping up to be the coldest november in decades. Here in atlanta the temperature dropped to just 26 degrees. Thats just a few shy of the record. And more cold air is expected through the weekend. Brian. Gabe gutierrez starting us off from atlanta tonight. Gabe, thanks. Which brings us to meteorologist janice huff in the Weather Center tonight. Janice, what do you have for us . Brian, tonight atlanta will be back down in the 20s. Look at the areas shaded in pink down at the gulf coast. Places like new orleans, mobile and tallahassee will see their first freeze with temperatures down to near freezing, near 32 degrees, and maybe 20s in some of the suburbs. Keep an eye on this area of purple here as it moves across the Northern Plains and dips down through the ohio valley eventually moving back to the east coast again. This is yet another wave of arctic air which will start out this weekend and progress across the nation. By wednesday morning temperatures in atlanta could even be down in the teens by then as the cold air starts to move in once again. And, yes, there is another storm system coming with more snow. It will move out of the rockies this weekend and into the central plains. From minneapolis down to st. Louis spreading across parts of the ohio valley. Another wave will develop south of st. Louis. And that will shift to the east coast and parts of the great lakes by monday, brian. Always something to look forward to in your line of work. Janice huff in the Weather Center tonight as we head into the weekend. Janice, thanks. Tonight, the secretary of defense is ordering emergency fixes in the management of the Largest Nuclear arsenal in the world. A new and shocking report has come out revealing big problems in the way the system has been allowed to decay since the end of the cold war. We get our report tonight from our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. Reporter after years of decay, neglect and mismanagement, americas Nuclear Arsenal is in a serious state of decline, that according to two new pentagon studies. Defense secretary chuck hagel face bandsaged after a minor accident warned of potentially dire consequences. If we dont fix this, eventually it will get to a point where there will be some questions about our security. Reporter after the end of the cold war, the Nuclear Mission lost much of its urgency and funding. Aging missile silos fell into disrepair. Supplies so scarce the air force had only this one tool kit, essential a wrench, to lock Nuclear Warheads onto 450 ballistic missiles. When needed that single tool was actually fed exed back and forth among three separate nuclear bases. Thats not the way to do it. We now have a wrench for each location. Were going to have two wrenches for each location soon. Reporter the Nuclear Mission soon suffered from lack of leadership and cheating scandals broke out at several nuclear bases. Its reflective and indicative of a system thats been allowed to kind of slowly back down hill. Reporter the pentagon will spend an additional 10 billion and increase the Nuclear Force by over 1,000 Service Members over the next five years. For defense officials the alternative is unacceptable. Jim miklaszewski, nbc news, the pentagon. There is more promising news on the economic front tonight. Falling gas prices now at their lowest levels in years appear to be boosting Consumer Spending as we head into the Holiday Shopping season. Thats news a lot of companies were hoping to hear. Retail sales were up nearly across the board last month as americans with extra money in their pockets spent more at big tickets and small, car dealerships, malls and restaurants. And a potentially huge economic story playing out tonight on the west coast. And the timing is bad. Labor problems at dozens of ports including the biggest in the country, the port of l. A. In long beach, have caused a full stop of big containerized ships loaded with cargo just off the shore. We get our report on that tonight from nbcs Hallie Jackson in san pedro, california. Reporter thirteen ships wait to get into the countrys biggest port complex. Nothing is moving here. Reporter normally theres no line at los angeles, long beach, but con jengss building at west coast ports including tacoma where gary snyder says hundreds of his perishable Christmas Trees are stuck on the dock. He expects to lose 50,000 this season saying shipments wont make it to asia in time for the holidays. We had to cancel half a dozen containers going to singapore. Its because we cant get them into the dock. And if we did, its going to sit there. Reporter its not just goods headed out, its merchandise coming in at risk of going nowhere. Like rob feldmans glass jars from china used to package his gourmet popcorn. That would be a huge blow to our company. Reporter so why the port paralysis . Management is accusing the long shoremans union of staging an orchestrated slowdown at some point of truck drivers, rail cars and a surge in cargo volume. Is there a slow down on the part of the union . Weve got guys working around the clock. Reporter a coalition of retailers has asked the president to send a mediator calling these crisis levels of congestion saying a shutdown would be catastrophic. International economist jack o konl says that could mean a backlog that eventually leads to layoffs. I would very much hate to be the manager of the factory who has to send their work force home during the holiday season. Reporter and while many manufacturers work to ship Holiday Gifts in advance of the holiday season, there are some things you just cant send early. Containers are piling up here at the port of los angeles, which is seeing its worst congestion in at least a decade. Thats how long its been since the port last shut down, which is something nearly everyone hopes to avoid this time, brian. Hallie jackson at the port of l. A. , hallie, thanks. Flee days after our nation was declared ebola free, another doctor is on his way expected to arrive tomorrow at the nebraska medical center. Hes a permanent resident of the u. S. Originally from sierra leone where he was volunteering treating the sick when he came down with ebola symptoms. That same hospital in nebraska by the way has already successfully treated two americans, a doctor and the nbc news cameraman. Overseas tonight the u. S. Campaign of air strikes against isis has been underway now for months, but is it working . There have been some successes. Today iraqi forces, for example, supported by u. S. Air strikes took back a strategic refinery town from isis militants. But theres also new evidence that isis attacks have actually increased since this air campaign got underway. We get the story tonight from our chief Foreign Correspondent richard engel. Reporter the air strikes are easy to count. Each plume of fire and debris has been numbered. The pentagon says there have been 883 u. S. Air strikes on isis fighters, safe houses and vehicles in iraq and syria. The reported cost since air strikes began, 300,000 an hour. But the effectiveness of the air campaign is more difficult to quantify. New data obtained by nbcnews. Com shows that isis attacks are actually on the rise. Isis attacks have been increasing steadily. Particularly since the fall of mosul and then again increasing further since the beginning of the air strikes. Reporter the ukbased Terrorism Insurgency Center says there were just over 100 attacks in june and then again in july. In august when u. S. Air strikes began, the number actually jumped to 171 and stayed relatively high in september and october. In response to the air strikes its intensified its insurgency. Reporter as we saw firsthand in syria, air strikes have played a major role in the recent battle for kobani. But as u. S. Military officials have said from the beginning, without an Effective Ground force, they arent enough to stop isis. Air strikes alone are not going to do this. Theyre not going to fix this. Reporter u. S. Bombing has had an impact, forcing most isis fighters and all of its top leaders into hiding. But isis is still carrying out massacres. Lieutenant general mike barbero was one of the top u. S. Commanders in iraq. Like many of his colleagues he has doubts about the strategy. Youre not going to do that with the level of commitment we have now. Its too small, too late. And its going to lead to a stalemate. Reporter brian, the picture isnt totally bleak. There has been some progress, but the progress has generally been piecemeal and sporadic. And the u. S. Air campaign hasnt turned the tide on isis, at least not yet. Richard engel back over the Turkish Border tonight. Richard, thanks. Tonight well tell you richard will have an hourlong special airing on msnbc about the battle against isis. Thats at 9 00 eastern time. Here in new york we heard today what it was like for those two men, the window washers, who found themselves dangling in their broken scaffold outside the 68th floor of the tallest building in the hemisphere, the new World Trade Center tower, earlier this week. They made it to safety after a couple hours when fdny rescuers cut through a window to get them. Today at a News Conference one of them, juan lopez, was asked what was going through his mind. The beginning was panic, then survival. Kind of instinct for a few minutes. After that, tried to get ahold of the situation. Obviously got home to see my family for another day. As for getting back to work, lopez says theyll start by washing windows on the ground floor getting their head in the game before they head back up there again. While nothing youre about to hear should take anything away from the Audacious Mission to land a spacecraft on a comet while both are hurtling through space at 40,000 miles an hour, give or take, there are some issues. For starters, theyre not sure exactly where it is on the comets surface. It took a big bounce upon landing. It actually made a few landings. And while it has started drilling itself into the surface, battery life is now an issue. Think of your cell phone battery on a good day and then remember this lander has been flying through deep space for ten years. Still ahead for us on a friday night, shock and sadness as a teenage Fraternity Pledge dies. A Big University is now in crisis mode as parents once again confront a terrible fear. 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As we mentioned a Big University is in crisis mode tonight after a teenage student found unconscious in a frat house has died. And there are a lot of questions about the events leading up to his death. And whats happening right now at West Virginia university in morgantown is just the latest tragic incident involving fraternities at colleges all across our country. We have our report tonight from nbcs rehema ellis. Reporter West Virginia university is a campus in mourning. Nolan is so much to so many people, its hard to know where to even begin. Reporter 18yearold nolan burch, a freshman, died today after he was found Late Wednesday night unconscious on the floor of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity house. That certainly breaks all of our hearts because thats not what students go off to college thats not whats supposed to happen. Reporter according to the Student Newspaper a big brother ceremony was scheduled that night for Fraternity Pledges. Burchs final tweet that afternoon, its about to be a very eventful night to say the least. Last week another fraternity on campus was suspended after 19 pledges were cited for underage drinking. Yesterday the university suspended all fraternities and sororities. I think it starts with us. And we have to take initiative and change the culture for this whole school. Reporter nationwide greek organizations have come under close scrutiny following recent deaths of pledges. In september a 19yearold pledge died during a fraternity run at Clemson University in south carolina. This past summer a 19yearold pledge at california state university, north ridge, died on a fraternity trip. And last december a 19yearold pledge from Baruch College in new york died from head trauma at a fraternity retreat. Professor Elizabeth Allen is studying what colleges are doing to prevent dangerous behavior. This is about changing the Campus Culture and helping students rise to, you know, the occasion. There are Group Situations and peer pressure. And people end up doing things they wouldnt ordinarily do. Just two days before nolan burch was rushed to the hospital, the facilitys charter had been revoked to a National Organization due to an unrelated incident. Tonight, police are investigating what happened and whether anyone should be held accountable, brian. Our chief education correspondent rehema ellis, thank you as always. We are back in just a moment with the salute being seen around the world tonight and the story behind it. What if one push up couldcoli cprevent Heart Disease . Cancer . One. Wishful thinking, right . But there is one step you can take to help prevent another serious disease pneumococcal pneumonia. One dose of the prevnar 13 ® vaccine can help protect you. From pneumococcal pneumonia, an illness that can cause coughing, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and may even put you in the hospital. 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An operation that started humbly five years ago with three barbers and now boasts 37. I took guys who didnt have any kind of clientele and put them in a place where a lot of people needed haircut. Reporter after a career in the marines, williams went to Nursing School but was honest with himself and got out. I realized that you dont want a person in health care thats just doing it for the money. Reporter so he tried his hand at barbering. And with his personality and pension for wooing people has built a successful business behind the razors and scissors as those underneath them. The way he focuses on business and how he makes things happen. Reporter william isnt merely satisfied with giving opportunity, he mentors, teaching his crew the ups and downs of ownership. Ivan duncan has joined those ranks, partnering with williams in a shop that opened this summer at ohare airport. Jerome gave me that opportunity to work 24 7 so you could make as much money if you like. Reporter though williams clearly has financial goals for himself, seeing others reach theirs motivates him to keep jays growing one barber at a time. Its important for me to help barbers become owners because once youre an owner then you can help others. Reporter a philosophy he never wants to see out of style. Ron mott, nbc news, highland, indiana. Reminder, we are always looking for people who are making a difference. You can nominate someone in your life in your community, share their story with us on our website and then perhaps see it here on our broadcast. That is our broadcast for this friday night and this week, thank you for being here with us. Im brian williams. As always, we hope to see you right back here on monday night. In the meantime, have a good weekend. Good night. Its official. Miley cyrus making out with patrick schwarzenegger. What does arnold think . Now on extra. Miley catches a kennedy. Arnold and marias son patrick confirming his new romance. 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