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Another military milestone. Today, the secretary of defense is expected to announce by unanimous recommendation of the joint chiefs of staff that hes lifting the ban that prevent s female soldiers and marines from serve on the lines of combat. Heres nbc News Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski. Reporter for the past ten years, u. S. Military women have served on the front lines in both iraq and afghanistan, but never allowed in direct Ground Combat roles. Lifting the 20 year ban against wome...

Washington with more. Good morning. Reporter this is a big deal. Its a ban thats been in place for nearly 20 years. After first rolling back the ban on gays in the military, now coming today this new announcement about new opportunities in the military for women. The formal announcement is expected today outgoing defense secretary leon panetta will end the 19yearold ban on women serving in combat. For those who have what it takes, its a chance for them to have equal treatment. Reporter the move ...

Interdisplin interdisciplinary. But the main differences i would make would be to require or recommend courses in the second year, to some degree in the third year such that the schools curriculum reflects a sense of what all lawyers should know and need to know. I would not depend on the school to fully train lawyers. Thats a popular recommendation these days. I think it is i think it is not well advised. I dont think its what law schools can covery well right now. If we refashion law schools t...

President joe biden are ready to slug it out for the delegates. Sanders leads in california and texas, moderate democrats are trying to slow his momentum and getting behind joe biden. Less than 24 hours before voting began, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and beto orourke all gave enthusiastic endorsements to former vp joe biden at events in texas last night, even as sanders was rallying his troops with his own take on the moderates coalescing. The political establishment is getting nervous. And ...

Brace for the very real possibility of more. At least 18 people are dead. More than a dozen are still missing. And in houston, where the storms killed at least five people crews continue to rescue those trapped in their homes. At least 2500 waterlogged cars line houstons roads and highways. Look at that. They were just abandoned by people caught in the deluge despite the warnings. Listen to Texas Governor greg abbott. Dont drive in the rising water. You know the common phrase turn around dont dr...

So i told you theyre not cigarettes. Lets move on. Ooh. A little testy. Lets move on. I guess. So lets move on. Cigarettes or not. Nicorette. He grabs it every 15 minutes without failure. He is always chewing it. Who knows, mika. What do you think . Im with mike. Really interesting article on the front page of the New York Times about michelle obama. Whats that . The speeches hes been choosing to make where shes been choosing to make them in terms of speaking to young people and opening up about...

Up the scent of either one or both of the men. The overall search is extending into neighboring vermont and Lake Champlain. The governor spoke with my colleague Andrea Mitchell about the investigation and whether they made it to vermont. Theres no indication of that. We have no evidence of that. What we do know is that the only intention that they expressed based upon good sources is that they thought if they headed to vermont vermont, it would be cooler. That new york was going to be hot with P...

They have left the state or they left the area. And we take you just as serious to search in the area around here as we are in the willsborough area the vermont area or anything else. Until we have them in custody, were not going to discount any of it. As the governor said they could have had a pretty good lead on us. But we cant confirm whether they took advantage of that or not not. We take every up with of these tips seriously. You dont know which one will lead you were doing two parts of the...

York, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. Day five, and a lot has happened in the hunt for those two killers who escaped from a new york state prison. Police are reaching out to family and those close to the prisoners. The search itself is literally changing direction. Some of the focus now turning to vermont. And interest continues to ramp prison employee. Sources tell nbc news she is still answering questions from investigators. Nbc National Correspondent Mi...

One more correspondent our justice correspondent pamela brown, let me bring you in to button this up. You know you were the one we were talking about, joe was mentioning the cameras in the Briefing Room were covered, many of them were the cameras were tilted down outside of the white house, theyve been allowed to return but still a lot of questions about this one. Theres a lot of questions and a lot of questions, brooke about the nature of this call but i can tell you in regards to what happened...