winds: nw 15-25 g 35+ mph feels: 5-15 tonight: diminishing winds. clear and very cold. lows: 10-18 winds: nw 5-10 mph feels: single digits friday: mostly cloudy and cold. highs: 29-33 winds: s 5 mph winds. clear and very cold. lows: 10-18 winds: nw 5-10 mph feels: single digits friday: mostly cloudy and cold. highs: 29-33 winds: s 5 mph the district is ready for today s winter overnight - the snow team spread salt on those first-freeze areas like bridges and overpasses, in case of any light snow. a 24-hour cold emergency plan will be activated starting at seven a-m. that means additional services will be availabe to protect residents from the severe weather, including emergency shelters. we have a list of warming sites and shelters on our website, wjla dot com. and right now school officials across the region are up early to make sure buses are running smoothly in this cold weather. ryan hughes is live at in greenbelt with more. stay connected with the stormwatch 7 you can f
from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. we begin with a follow-up to our exclusive reporting last night that u.s. intelligence has determined vladimir putin has a direct hand in the russian effort to disrupt our election. now today president-elect trump may be signaling he s giving some credence to the russian link, while raising questions about why the white house didn t act more boldly on his its findings about putin. tonight, we may have learned the answer. how the political climate apparently caused the obama administration to pull its punches against russia s mettling. nbc s cynthia mcfadden continues her reporting. reporter: tonight, president-elect donald trump seems to be pivoting a bit after our nbc news exclusive report last night that vladimir putin personally directed a russian clandestine operation to interfere in the u.s. election. some other entity was hacking, why did the white house wait s
in that christmas marketer rifti attack shot and killed during aa overnight confrontation.tation we ll have the latest from thefe investigation. busiest travel day ever.t ty millions of people are packing i airports and highways for the te holiday get away.. and mother nature could make ite miserable depending on where whe you re going. we re tracking the christmasyots weekend storms. the president-elect launch agnew arms race over twitter? whater donald trump tweeted that couldc shed some light on his nuclear policy.cy. plus a future first daughtertau removed from a flight aftert a getting harassed by a fellow passenger.enr and later, the burgundy anda gold holding out hope for a a christmas miracle.irac what will it take for therhe redskins to make the playoffs. . good day at 9a starts right now. good morning to you.o you we don t need to hear allison s private conversation. turn allison s mike off for she s got big plans later todayy she was saying how great goo
faith one of the hits we ll always remember george michael by his 1987 hit win of the first solo outings. and it put him on the map. he was icon of the 80s and pushed boundaries of male musicians, beard, hair, style, along with unmatched talent he was one of the top british acts of all time and along with dozens of awards on the way. caseless whisper and a well publicized incident in la bathroom returned him to the headlines in 1988 and the focus was back on music as he toured five years ago and also around christmas a tearfull michael spoke after a nearly fatal bought with pneumonia. i spent the l since the world cup literally thanking people saving my life. which is something i never had to do before and never want to do it again. george michael gone at age 53. other musicians and entertainers are reacting to the loss. heartbroken at the loss of be loved friend, me, loved ones, world of music and world at large forever loved and brian adams tweeted rip geo
it so good at spreading from host to host and why is it in some hosts and not in others. why is it not in any of us are fisher mammals. it is in some worms which come from a very different branch of the animal kingdom. perhaps also interesting to us because those worms kill diseases and if you go back there you might be able to kill those diseases, that s a different story, but there s a lot of biology that we don t understand. like why is it so good at jumping from host to host? is it just because it spreads vertically throughout the population like i talked about with mosquitoes? is it also because it s so good at jumping horizontally from one host to another. yes, these are all questions but there s actually a conference that happens every couple years or so.o. it s a very thriving area ofa lf research. so we have gone from cow poop to slime molds and fecal transplant and back again. thank you all for coming. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversation] that was ed