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From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. It was exactly one week ago today that two new York City Police officers were shot to death, randomly targeted for execution simply because they wore a badge. For others who wear the same badge it doesnt get any more personal than that and so today in an extraordinary show of unity and grief, more than 20,000 law men and women from around the country and beyond gathered shouldertoshoulder at a queens new york church to say farewell to a fallen comrade. The first of two funerals following an act of violence that has shocked the nation during a particularly divisive period. Nbcs ron mott joins us now with more. Ron, good evening. Reporter lester good evening. It was a very somber ceremony here at this church behind me today. A palpable sense of loss and grief in the air, ....
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. American war planes once again today struck isis targets near the critical mosul dam in iraq. The latest strike comes a day after the Obama Administration acknowledged it is considering expanding attacks against the Islamic State fighters into syria. And that has opened a vigorous discussion over just how serious a threat isis poses outside the middle east, more specifically the united states. The grisly execution murder of american journalist james foley this week underscored the brutal nature of the group. And just yesterday the white house said isis is more dangerous than it was six months ago, a telling admission from an administration that not long ago was downplaying the terror groups capabilities. Lets b ....
This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Another american has been brutally murdered by isis thugs. The awful news of the beheading of aid worker peter kassig came in a graphic isis video released earlier today. We wont show you even a frame on this broadcast, but we can tell you like all of the others, it demonstrates the sheer lethalness of the group. This is over a year after he was taken prison. Tonight from the president on down, there are expressions of condemnation and from his family, the hope their son will be remembered for the good he was trying to do. Richard engel reports tonight from turkey. Richard . Reporter good evening, lester. Unfortunately this very graphic 16 minute video has been authenticated, makingthe fifth western hostage executed by isis since august, and the third american. Peter kassig made it his lifes work to help others but paid for that selflessness with his own life. Today the president called it an act of pure evil by a terrorist group ....
At west 52nd street, just two doors down from scandalous. 11 30 we will be there. We are going to this studio and go running over there. Hopefully well see you at the matinee. Sad news to announce that we did post our closing date yesterday, we had to. Sadly. I was with the cast last night and im prejudiced, of course, im the mother of this show. They are the best they are the best cast on broadway. They are unbelievable. And i love them to pieces. Every you know, theres a sadness that comes with this but a good art tell in the post today, Michael Reidel writes the definitive theater article. He was saying so many of the brandnew shows this fall really really have struggled and already posting closings. Hurricane sandy was just devastating to everybody in the tristate area but broadway was badly hit. All the shows like jersey boys, that sort of thing, mamma mia they will be fine, advanced sales. Nobody really recovered, the new sh ....