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Good evening, the president will address the nation from the white house tonight. This speech was supposed to rally support for a military strike against syria. But this story has changed so much in the past 24 hours, it is now not clear how much he can say or how much he will say, or if there will ever be a military strike against syria over their use of chemical weapons. The polls show americans think what happened in syria is awful. And the polls also show most americans do not think the u. S. Should attack. So with that all as the backdrop, the president takes to the air waves tonight. We ...

And good evening from these olympic winter games where tonight is the eve of the popular event here, and there are some concerns about how it will go off tomorrow as scheduled now that much of the world is watching. There is a lot of news to cover from here, and we will do that in just a moment. But first, were going to begin with a report that is just in to us tonight, a situation that demands our attention. This comes from syria. It shows, as youll see, a desperate situation. Some very brave souls with the u. N. Are trying to evacuate the oldest section of the city of hmos during what is sup...

From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Brian is off tonight. Im lester holt. There is word tonight the pentagon is drawing up military options to respond to this weeks atrocities in syria, as the white house comes under increasing pressure to act. Those horrible images of lifeless civilians killed by what the rebels say were chemical weapons has sparked international outrage. As the u. S. Officials are trying to confirm the nature of the attack, nbc news has spoken to one of the doctors on the ground treating the victims. He sa...

Security, medicare, the military, Homeland Security and air travel. Theres no way to tell how long the shutdown will last or how it will end, but the blame game is in full effect. I think the appropriate thing is what the speaker is advocating. Lets go to conference. Lets sit down with the democrats and see if theyre willing to negotiate on anything at all. One note, one demand to eliminate the Affordable Care act, which i think most Reasonable Republicans dont think is either a good strategy or is going to happen. What we see happening with this republican strategy is a willingness to threate...

Administration during the debt limit negotiations in 2011. And now we in the house on behalf of our constituents are calling on the president to join us in replacing his sequester with better, more responsible spending cuts. Joining me now, correspondent for the garden, Anna Marie Cox and White House Reporter for the washington post, david kna knackmara. Whats going to happen . There was a lot of concern about taxes going up. You saw everything go down to the wire. We tipped over the fiscal cliff for a day but then they came to an agreement. This time, this is a big sequester is a big issue an...