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Rivers are on the rise. Ive never seen it that high even during the spring. Reporter a storm drain near sacramento wasnt cleared fast enough to save the home of michael jimenez. In californias wine country, when the water gets this high along the Russian River, people get worried. Its happened so many timeses and it does come, like, clockwork. Reporter victoria daly and her family know how dangerous this water can be. The Russian River has seen severe flooding in the past. The worst in 1986, whe...

Hundreds of children. We begin with the latest from National Security correspondent jennifer griffin. Live at the pentagon. Reporter at this point in time the only person that knows what the president is going to say in the rose garden moments from now is the president himself and his small circle of his National Security team. Here at the pentagon, again, those warships have been at the ready for days. You heard defense secretary hagel say days ago on his trip to asia that they were ready to go...

Getting pushback from overseas. We will tell you what one world leader is saying. And here in the u. S. , protests already springing up across this country, with more planned for today. Hello, everyone. It is high noon here in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Senior aides telling nbc news the white house is Holding Conference calls to brief senators on syria, possibly one of the last pieces of business before a military strike. Nbc news has also learned all memb...

Actions will be even more effective. I respect the views of these call for caution. What message will we send if f a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price . I know well that we are weary of war. But we are the United States of america. We cannot and must not turn a blind eye to what happened in damascus. We lead with the belief that right makes might. Not the other way around. Im ready to act in the face of this outrage. I am acting congress to send a mes...

Syria. Hes been meeting all morning with his Top National Security advisers at the white house. All this came earlier in the day, the signals were clearly there, even yesterday, officials started arriving at the white house today to go in the situation room, including the Vice President , the secretary of defense, chuck hagel, the secretary of state, john kerry. The National Security adviser to the president. The top military commanders as well. Theyve been meeting in the white house. There you ...

It could create a manmade crisis courtesy of congress and send prices skyrocketing. I certainly dont want to pay higher prices for whats basically a political game. Reporter because congress cant agree on how to create a balanced budget, its set in motion a meat cleaver approach known as sequestration. Instead of cutting with a scalpel, all departments face devastating cuts. The department of agriculture says all Food Service Inspection employees will face a 15 day furlough. Their absence will a...

To switch the blame, but president obamas weak Foreign Policy is the real problem. The debate starts right now. Tonight on crossfire a stern warning to Vladimir Putin. Russias on the wrong side of history on this. But republicans say president obama is mishandling russia. This is the ultimate result of a feckless Foreign Policy where nobody believes in americas strength any more. On the left, sally kohn, on the right, Newt Gingrich. In the crossfire Lawrence Korb who supports the president and D...

The hours just before a much larger asteroid slid by earth so closely. There are communication satellites that are actually farther away in that asteroid. In the museum here in d. C. , she has worked with meteorites over the past few years and specializes in these big rocks. How come we didnt see the one in russia coming . We knew about the one 17,000 miles away, but this other one caught us all by surprise. Yes, it really did. It was a good surprise to people like me that study meteorites. Actu...

The wall street journal combing through a new report showed a majority of americans who feared they would face steep fines for not having healthcare will be exempt. So chill out. You came back for more pain. How are you doing . Patti ann im Patti Ann Browne in for martha maccallum. This new report shows by 2016, 90 of them could be off the hook because of a recent flood of new exemptions. The headline first is what here . Reporter hardly anybody will have to pay the fine. That reduces the impact...

From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. One of those suspected at being behind the murderous september 11th, 2012, terror attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya, was whisked into this country early this morning on board a helicopter to face american justice. Ahmed Abu Khatallah was captured in libya two weeks ago, by u. S. Special forces, and was formally arraigned late today in a washington courthouse. He is charged with pr...