now the fbi is stepping up the fight. and best week ever? after a $20 billion payday, mark zuckerberg swaps the hoodie for a tie at a surprise walk down zuckerberg swaps the hoodie for a tie at a surprise walk down the aisle. captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. finding a way forward and a way out of afghanistan is chief among the pressing items at the table in chicago this evening, where president obama is hosting the leaders of nato, along with dozens of other heads of state. as anticipated, thousands of anti-war and other protesters have marched on the nato summit. and there is late word some of those demonstrations have gotten a bit out of hand. for police trying to keep the peace, it s made for high anxiety against a back drop of high stakes diplomacy. we have two reports from chicago tonight. we begin with nbc s john yang on the streets. john, what s happen
this scene in new jersey where big military trucks are having a hard time getting around. rivers and streams overflowing. some above record flood levels or soon to be. largely because of the damage could hit $7 billion making it one of the ten most expensive disasters in american history, as many as 5 million are still without people. lines are down nearly everywhere. several have been electrocuted. some have drowned. the death toll rose to 27. first how we got there, saturday, 7:30 a.m. hurricane irene makes its first landfall as a category 1 hurricane. waves slammed the north carolina coastline as the storm packs winds of up to 85 miles an hour. look this way. nothing but rain. the sea is absolutely white. awe churned up, whipped by this wind. and again we re getting hit with some of those strong gusts right now. what you re looking at here is houses that are about underwater in places, and this is the bogue sound. you can see that. you re looking out right now at the b
scotland, most of them americans. last week, some u.s. senators asked libya s transitional government to hold al-megrahi responsible and lock him up. but rebel leaders say they have no plans to extradite him. the fox chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live in new york. presumably there s skepticism about the claims about his health. shep, there s a whole lot of skepticism. essentially, people are saying that this is what family, this is what libyan officials have been saying for two years ever since he was released by the scottish authorities. frank dugan is president of the pan am victims of pan am flight 103 group. he said in a statement e-mailed to us today and i m going to quote here, part of it said give us a break. his family is trying to make a sympathetic character out of an unrepentant murderous monster. another whone to weigh in today was senator charles schumer of new york. he said as part of his statement about this, this wouldn t be the first time that libyan offic
thanks thanks, john huddy we keep getting incredible images of the aftermath, you can watch that, foxnews.com, click on the link and see the images from all over the east coast. it s online. martha: all right. let s get you to this story now. new reports says the lockerbie bomber is on his death bed once again. these came in over the course of yesterday throughout the day. his brother, abdel the brother to abdel al megrahi, the only man convicted of the death of 270 people in the 1998 pan am jet over lockerbie scotland, we re now told he is indeed dying of cancer at his libyan home. his brother spoke to journalists outside the home. listen to this. the lockerbie case is over. he came back to libya because of a decision from the scottish justice minister. he is a sick man. martha: all right.
his deathbed. we re going to need a lot more verification from the word of local libyan officials. shep? shepard: the whole world knows this is never what they said it was about. it was actually about an oil deal. no question. what is all of this new fight mean about extraditing him? first of all, the rebels have said quite plainly that they do not intend to extradite al-megrahi. the scottish and british governments, of course, as you rightly say, who released him as part of this oil deal for b.p. have now vested interest in getting al-megrahi back. that leaves just the u.s. now, the obama administration says it has asked the rebels to review his case. a state department spokesman said today, in fact, this is a guy with blood on his hands. a new free democratic libya should have a different attitude toward him. but they have not said plainly, shep, whether they would ask for his extradition more likely it seems they would put pressure on the new libyan government