Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Im lester holt tonight sitting in for brian. Anxious months and months of hope and worry has turned to unimaginable grief today for family and friends of hostage Kayla Mueller. Kayla is in fact dead. Her isis captors first reported her death last week claiming she died in a Jordanian Air raid. But offered no proof at the time. Leaving her family back in arizona a glimmer of hope. Today president obama said about the young aid worker how she lived her life she epitomized all that is good in our world. It is the written words of kayla herself that tells us who she is and defines her remarkable courage. The report from her hometown, prescott, arizona. Reporter emotions are strong tonight a year and a half after kayla was taken captive by isis. They received a message from her captors confirming her death. Kayla has touched the heart of the world. The world grieves with us. The world mourns
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening, im lester holt sitting in tonight for brian. Anxious months and months of hope and worry has turned to unimaginable grief today for family and friends of hostage Kayla Mueller. They received the confirmation they had been dreading that kayla is in fact dead. Her isis captors first reported her death last week, claiming she died in a Jordanian Air raid. But offered no proof at the time leaving her family back in arizona a glimmer of hope. Today president obama said about the young aid worker, how she lived her life, she epitomized all that is good in our world. But it is the written words of kayla herself tonight that tell us who she was and define her remarkable courage. Joe fryer fryer reports from her hometown, prescott, arizona. Reporter emotions are strong tonight in Kayla Muellers hometown a year and a half after she was taken captive by isis. They received a message
Raising that issue. I will investigate myself. Indeed, when you have the Ferguson Police on the ground in ferguson, protecting one of their own as and suppressing the information coming out of that community with the strategies weve seen played out, indeed, what we have is a strategy of suppression. So, heres what were doing. Were going to go far beyond this case but were on this case, too. Its step by step. Justice has to be done for the brown family and Michael Brown himself. Secondly, the right signals have to be sent out that when these things happen to unarmed africanamerican teenagers in the streets, we will not stand idly by and say, oops. Another part of Collateral Damage being played out in this very militaristic manner in which were addressing whats going on in ferguson, missouri. It is not the first time. We were in cleveland, ohio less than ten years ago because a 14yearold kid was shock in the back by a Police Officer as he ran in the other direction. The question is what
To make sure that we connect the dots. [ applause ] thank you, sister. Brother jasiri, a fashion not young hiphop activist. Tell me whhow the Hiphop Community has responded to ferguson and what are they doing to keep the memory of ferguson alouf within the Artistic Community . First, the word was spread through social media, and really the word was spread by the young people in ferguson that witnessed what happened to mike brown and took pictures of it, that put it out. They began to organize on social media. Naturally when it began to be spread on social media, kind of hiphop artists stepped in. You know what im saying . One, young jeezy actually had a show in ferguson i mean in st. Louis the next day. He said he actually wanted to cancel the show or either wanted everybody to donate the money to the show to the family. Wasnt able to get to convince everybody to do that. He put a mike brown shirt on. He went to the kwik trip after that. J. Cole just went to speak to the community. The
Or was there more to justine . Shes an accomplished teacher and then she has a separate life. Clues they missed. Youre seeing your daughter come unglued right before your eyes. Absolutely. Premonitions theyd felt. I just knew with every fiber of my being he had killed her. Secrets she kept. She never told us that. But maybe only a complete stranger could reveal what really happened on that lonely road. It was a crazy night. Dennis murphy with shattered. Thanks for joining us. Im lester holt. As a dad of grown kids, out on their own, i felt the agony of the parents in this story. The call, the dreaded call in the middle of the night n. This case, its about their beautiful young daughter dead, killed by a hit and run driver. They were told. But to find out what really happened, they soon found themselves on a road of their own, one full of twists and turns that led to a place much darker than they could have ever imagined. Heres dennis murphy. The yellow buses pulled up. As the grade sch