Needless confrontation. At least 1,000 Police Officers in ferguson have gone through special training on how to deal peacefully with protesters and the mayor of st. Louis asked for an additional 400 National Guard troops for support. Scott broom joins us now from Mount Vernon Square in northwest with more on the ferguson protests that are planned for the area. Reporter its called dcferguson and the protests are planned for here at Mount Vernon Square 24 hours after whatever decision is made by that grand jury and, of course, the announcement of when thats going to happen still hasnt been made yet. As you can see from some video, protests posted by the d. C. Protesters themselves previous marches by d. C. Ferguson have been loud, perhaps disruptive but not violent and incident free. We do not know what the grand jury in missouri will do or when, but d. C. Ferguson announced it will rally here at Mount Vernon Square for a march to chinatown at 7 00 the day after whatever announcement com
Celebrate with her husband and kids after winning silver in the skeleton. Were going to talk to her and her family live today, saturday, february 15th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games with lester holt live from olympic park in sochi, russia, and erica hill live from rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt here in sochi with natalie morales, erica hill and dylan dreyer back home. Were going to check in with both of them in just a little bit. We also want to tell you, that crowd back there, theyre like [ cheers and applause ] huge crowd theyre going to probably leave us in a short order to go over to that u. S. Versus russia hockey just across the way. Thats right. Theyre getting warming up for a rivalry. Were in the middle of the action for now, though, and we need to chant along with them, usa. Usa i cant wait well get right to todays top story. We are in the middle of several olympic ev
Scored an invite. Sunday, january 19th, 2014. And welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. And im lester holt. Why do i feel like polar vortex is going to be one of those phrases at the end of 2014 it will be a banned phrase . Had. We dug it out from the meteorology textbooks. It is real. It never sounded bizarre because i learned about it. This will be a banned phrase. Right up there with hash tag and selfie. Well bring you an inspiring story thats featured in a duracell battery. I love that story. So excited for that. We do begin this morning, though, with our top story today which is governor Chris Christie getting hit once again with accusations of using his office to get revenge on political opponents. Michael isikoff is joining us with all of this. Michael, good morning. Reporter good morning. Legislative leaders in new jersey who already served Christies Office with 20 subpoenas say they may now expand their probe to look at new allegations that held relief money
This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin with an ominous new Terror Threat against next months winter Olympic Games in sochi, russia. With thousands of athletes, journalists and spectators from the u. S. And around the world soon arriving in sochi, today, a wellknown Islamic Militant group claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings that killed 34 people last month in the city of volgograd. And they vowed more attacks, making specific mention of the olympics and the tourists who will come for the games. Our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, is in moscow with more on this latest threat. Richard, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. Officials insist that the olympics will be safe. That may be so. This latest threat does, at least, appear credible. The latest Terror Threat to the olympics comes from two suicide bombers who are already dead. This video is the last testimony of the calm, young men. They documented what they were about to d
Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19th, commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in Texas in 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.