that became a popular thing in the republican party because people were hurting. when people are hurting at home the last thing they ll say we have to go around the world and do things. to me the fundamental element is to make sure we have strong families. we have strong families that are together and raising children. i think it was putnam in his book said it s more important for parents to read to their children the first four years of their life to pay for four years of college. i don t think that message is out there. that the message from either party about how important this public policy issue is of reknitting the american family. we re going to go to nicole from roll call. [ inaudible question ] well, obviously, i talk about the importance of targeting voters who have been left behind by this economy in the last ten years. that s why i announced on the factory floor. you look at stagnant wages and median income has declined. part of that is the recession but it ha
many of the 600 animals were being kept in what investigators describe as deplorable conditions. a variety of different environments. some of them are in individual buildings, some in outdoor enclosures. what we are seeing right now on the preliminary walk-through is a number of medical issues. reporter: the aspca has that s treating the animals at this location now. they were are also collecting evidence to build a case against the owners. we were quickly shifting into the next phase, getting the animals out of this environment and into a much cleaner environment where they start getting the care they need. reporter: this will be the last night for many of those animals at the haven. there are 140 responders from the aspca on hand to move those animals out of the shoulder. tomorrow into a big warehouse. that is where they will get medical treatment and health. and help. the animals will be adopted out across the country. an emergency meeting underway at duke to de
pro-regime media outlets see aircraft taking off from that base. this morning also word of brand new air strikes hitting the site of tuesday s chemical attack in syria. at least one woman was killed. three others were injured. at this point it s unclear who conducted these new air strikes. we re tracking these fast moving developments this morning. let s begin with ryan brown. tell us what we know now. that s right. so what we re learning is this air base may be operational again and what the military officials are telling us is the point of the strikes was not to absolutely destroy the air base. they did not target the runway. they did destroy some 20 aircraft and some of the hangars and radars and other elements of this base. that being said, it is the strike was intended to deter future chemical attacks and not incapacitate this air base fully and conventional attacks that may resume in this area that suffered that chemical weapons strike they seem to be reoccurring
possible money laundering. how strong of a campaign surrogate is donald trump? a trial balloon was seen floating near pittsburgh earlier today. the 11th hour gets under way on a thursday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. tonight at just after 11:00 p.m. eastern time, the government will shut down in less than 25 hours unless there is action to stop it on capitol hill. the house did its part, passing a measure to keep the government s lights on for another couple of weeks. the senate stands in adjournment. later in the broadcast, we will look at the chances of them going along with the house. there won t be anything on it tonight. with the deadline looming, 364 of the trump administration, russia remains the biggest thing looming over the trump white house. we have more tom to tell you about from glen simpson. he is the cofounder of the firm called fusion gps, a research and intelligence firm put together the now infamous dossier
earning his salary tonight at the big board and especially watching this has come down to absentee ballots, it s come down to exhausting the raw vote tonight. we are fortunate that they apparently are diligent bookkeepers in southwestern pennsylvania, steve. we ll have one holdout. it may not matter because we just got a big dose of clarity. we ve been sitting on these numbers for so long, we have to reset here, 579 votes. that s the lead for conor lamb in this thing. what is done and off the board, all of allegheny. i thought this was the case, this is definitely the case. westmoreland is all in, the absentee is in, the two outstanding precincts are in. all that s left in this district, we move down to washington and greene. greene is a tiny county. i love tiny counties. you re sitting at 200 absentee votes in greene and 1,195 in washington. we re sitting at 1,400 is all that s left. you re looking at saccone would have to get 90% or something in this. we just saw he pro