martha: excited to see the tree show up. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. right now on the story, this quote from the white house just moments ago, it s not the age, it s the experience. responding just a couple minutes ago to some reports of panic behind the scenes on the president s 81st birthday. a lot of people concerned and getting louder about it as it gathers momentum saying he needs to step aside, that he s too old to be president for another term. so meanwhile, there s numbers to back this up. he s just hit an all-time low in his job approval, this is an nbc poll that just came out. 57% disapproval number for president biden. for the first time in these numbers, he loses to former president trump in a hypothetical matchup. his support slipping while trump s numbers have stayed roughly the same. what is increasing are the number of people that say that they are not sure who they want to vote for. also, since october 7th, a new road block has emerged for this
emotionally spent. it s been a long, hard road for them, from november 4, 1979, when they were taken captive until today. so, it s a great holiday season. you know, the families, they were banned from suing the iranian government. that was a condition of their release. and therefore, they were never able to go to court, never able to get a judgment, so that they could get assets belonging to iran, assets that might be frozen in other countries. how frustrating was that to them? well, that s absolutely right, deb. and you couldn t you picked the right adjective. it was extremely frustrating they were barred and precluded. they were the only 150-odd americans who were barred and precluded from being able to go to court and obtain a judgment and to exercise on that judgment against iran, because of the courts.
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the u.s. embassy in trane on november 4, 1979. the rally will include a contest for best anti-american photograph, poster, video, or charter. thousands of catholics gather not guilty saint peter s square to celebrate family day with pope francis. during his homily yesterday, he told those in attendance to find joy in their everyday family life. good advice. less than two hours, ellis island is set to reopen a year after being submerged by super storm sandy. now more from ellis island, big doings there today, stacy. reporter: yeah, big day here today. 9:30, the first boat will arrive with visitors. for more than a year, when sandy came through almost one year to the date, it completely flooded ellis island. eight feet of water washed through the main hall here, it destroyed the electrical system. it destroyed the boilers. so things have been pretty out of commission. but finally they are able to
very high. on the morning of november 4, 1979, 10 months into the protests, rocky sickman, a 22-year-old marine security guard, gets a distress call that iranian students are storming the embassy grounds. over the gate came these individuals. i took off running back to the main embassy building. many of these students started to shake the main gate and to climb over or use cutters to cut the chain. sickman and another marine make it inside the building just as a group of students makes it through the gate. your adrenaline is pumping. but at the same time, you re trying to load your pistol. and you re sitting there thinking, here s rocky sickman