Beyond today for a live concert, friday, august 23rd, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1d in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im sorry, did you Say Something . I cant hear you over all the squealing fans that are here for one direction. Guys i have a little present for you. Ear plugs, because it can get rather loud. I gave you three. This crowd is massive. If you dont live in new york its hard to put in perspective but it goes from 48 street two city blocks to 50th street and down the side streets. If youre still thinking about coming in to see one direction head in the other direction. You wont get close. Stay where you are. You have the best seat right now. The biggest concert ever. We have a chopper flying above. We have ed hughes in that chopper looking down for us. Kind of give us a sense of the crowd. Ill tell you matt. Were about 2,000 feet
Suddenly you had the time to do all of the things you really want . Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening, brian is off tonight. Im lester holt. Theres word tonight the pentagon is drawing up military options to respond to this weeks atrocities in syria, as the white house is under increasing pressure to act. The horrible images of lifeless civilians as what the rebels say were killed by chemical weapons. As the u. S. Officials are trying to confirm the nature of the attack nbc news has spoken to one of the doctors on the ground treating the victims. He says the world is ignoring them. Lets get to chuck todd. Is america about to get involved in syria . Reporter looks like in some form we may do just that. The president seems to be on the verge of ordering some sort of military response in syria. The question is, what does that military operation look ke . Right now the president s closest advise
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Brian is off tonight. Im lester holt. There is word tonight the pentagon is drawing up military options to respond to this weeks atrocities in syria, as the white house comes under increasing pressure to act. Those horrible images of lifeless civilians killed by what the rebels say were chemical weapons has sparked international outrage. As the u. S. Officials are trying to confirm the nature of the attack, nbc news has spoken to one of the doctors on the ground treating the victims. He says the world is ignoring them. Lets get right to chuck todd at the white house. Chuck, iraq, afghanistan. Is america about to get involved in syria . Reporter well, lester, it looks like in some form. The president seems to be leaning every on sending some sort of strike. The question is, what does that military option look like . Right now thats unclear and the president s closest advisers are di