Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Good evening on this Independence Day. As americans across the country celebrate the nations 239th birthday authorities are focused on an unseen threat one that had them all on heightened alert. While there is added security around the holidays may feel like your new normal it is raising concern. We begin with a look at how cities across the country are responding. Nbcs ron mott starts us off. Good evening. Reporter erica, good evening. Especially in the larger cities security is tight, hightech. They are deploys radiation and detection equipment, for example. Officials tell nbc news, a lot of enhanced security will not be visible. Around america this fourth of july authorities are on heightened alert. Added fire power from new york to boston to maintain street. Barricades and check points at the national mall. In the countrys largest city a neverending terror
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Good evening on this Independence Day. As americans across the country celebrate the nations 239th birthday authorities are focused on an unseen threat one that had them all on heightened alert. While there is added security around the holidays may feel like your new normal it is raising concern. We begin with a look at how cities across the country are responding. Nbcs ron mott starts us off. Good evening. Reporter erica, good evening. Especially in the larger cities security is tight, hightech. They are deploys radiation and detection equipment, for example. Officials tell nbc news, a lot of enhanced security will not be visible. Around america this fourth of july authorities are on heightened alert. Added fire power from new york to boston to maintain street. Barricades and check points at the national mall. In the countrys largest city a neverending terror target 7,000 police on pa
Leading credit card processor, whose company just rolled out the biggest ipo of the year as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. And we begin this morning with the spotlight on the benghazi scandal. Hillary clinton set to face off with the House Benghazi Committee this upcoming thursday. It follows the closeddoor testimony this past week of her longtime aide huma abedin. Abedin questioned for almost six hours by committee members. She was an assistant to the former secretary of state of the time on the terrorist attack on our diplomatic compound in libya that left four americans dead, including u. S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Indiana congresswoman susan brooks is on the Benghazi Committee as well as the house ethics, energy and commerce committee. Thanks very much for joining us. Good morning, maria. Great to be here. Can you lay out what your are expecting to hear from Hillary Clinton . What do you expect to get from her . Well the secretary was in charge of the agency where we lo
To ask. What the hell are these people thinking. Isnt the president supposed to believe all american lives matter . Welcome to cashin in. Our crew this week, wayne rogers, michelle fields, ron williams and jessica tarlov. The question was do blue cross lives matter or do all lives matter. Were those the proper answers from people seeking to become the president . Not at all. Its ridiculous that here in america, all lives matter has become politically incorrect. Yes, there are lots of blacks suffering in america. There are lots of asians, caucasians, latinos, veterans, we need a president who will care about each and every one of the American People. And to work to try to make things better for them. Not just saying these people matter, these people dont. What do you say, juan . Shouldnt thaw say all lives matter . They should have. Michelle, you are missing a Huge Movement about excessive use of force by police against black people. Thats what the black lives movement is about. We have
Thats our show tonight. And now jon stossel. John im a big failure. I started facebook and it failed really . Well sorted. When i was in college i published a guidebook for guys that included a fresh picture girls from neighboring allgirls schools. Clearly this was the first facebook. Unfortunately al gore has suspended the internet so my facebook was an interactive and useful and also to the girls i was about to get publicity. 60s protests erupted stealing all the attention. My facebook had no publicity. Years later Mark Zuckerberg tried again improving on my idea and now he has 40 billion i dont. But i tried again. I became a tv reporter and that worked out. Turns out lots of successful people fail at first. Oprah winfrey, steve jobs come the author of dr. Seuss. Some argue that they were fueled by failure. Thats the title of a new book by jeremy bloom. Bloom has been a success. You were once an olympic level skier andy played profoot all for two nfl teams and yet you say you were fu