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the next democratic debate is saturday, and today, a new cbs news/ new york times poll has hillary clinton far ahead of nancy cordes is on the campaign trail. reporter: clinton s 19-point advantage really only tells part of the story. she leads among democratic women by 28 points, among older democrats by 41 points, and 76% of democratic voters says clinton has the best chance of winning next november compared to 18% for sanders. thank you, senator sanders. reporter: he excels, though, with younger voters. sanders has a six-point lead among democrats under 45, even though he s the oldest candidate in the race. and democratic primary voters, who consider themselves independents, favor sanders by 27 points. you are not going to continue to have it all. reporter: clinton is seen as better equipped to handle an international crisis and to deal with gun issues. sanders has a slight edge when it comes to closing the gap between the rich and the poor, but she s seen ....
right now. in nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. we start with greig danger the sky which threatened nearly 2 dozen flights last night alone. the fbi is looking for potentially dozens of suspects who lit up the skies with laser pointers in 16 cities. one targeted the helicopter of our nbc station here in new york city which aimed its camera lens at the source catching the alleged culprit in the act. tom costello now with a rare pilot s view of this alarming threat from the ground. it happened 1,500 feet over brooklyn. a bright green laser light suddenly lit up the nbc 4 helicopter cockpit. don t look, george. reporter: the reporter and his pilot nearly blinded as they hovered above the city. on the ground, a man who appeared to be targeting not only the nbc chopper but nypd chopper, too. we can see him standing outside the building in the back with the lacer in his hand shooting at us. there ....
that the pentagon hopes will be a breakthrough against the islamic extremists who are occupying much of syria and iraq. iraqi kurdish troops, backed by 36 american airstrikes, moved to retake the town of sinjar, and they cut a highway that is used by isis to carry supplies from raqqa, its stronghold in syria, to mosul, the largest city that isis holds in iraq with more than a million residents. charlie d agata is with the kurdish peshmerga forces. reporter: the battle to reclaim sinjar began in the air. u.s. air strikes pounded suspected isis targets throughout the day. thick smoke hung over the city as isis fighters lit banks of tires to try to block the bombers visibility. dug in on the mountain side, kurdish peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u.s. advisers. this is one of the forward fighting position where s they re helping to pick targets for air strikes. soldiers here told us with aircraft overhead all the time, sometimes it s jus ....
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so if he can be tattooed by a single vote and that ruins all future opinions by him on this issue, why then is he right when he says you re wrong vote on iraq tattoos you for offering your judgment? hillary clinton: i said i made a mistake on iraq. and i would love to see senator sanders join with some of my colleagues, in the senate that i see in the audience, let s reverse the immunity. let s hillary clinton: let s go to the gun makers and tell on notice that they re not gonna get away with it. bernie sanders: let s do more than reverse the immunity. hillary clinton: cause you think that that s a mistake. bernie sanders: but let s let me hear it if there s any difference between the secretary and myself. i have voted time and again to for for the background checks. and i wanna see it improved and expanded. i wanna see them do away with the gun show loophole. in 1988 i lost an election because i said we should not have assault weapons on the streets of am ....