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Brian anchors the broadcast tonight from Amman, Jordan, where President Bush is meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. While Brian and his camera crew gather stories in the field, NBC's Richard Engel, also in Amman for the summit, delivers today's vlog.
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Link to thisThis will have to be quick today, as my office floor is strewn with the detritus of a trip to Amman, Jordan, which starts the minute tonight's broadcast is over. We are hoping New York City traffic cooperates, allowing us to get to JFK in time for our departure. It will be tight. Much of the top of tonight's newscast has to do with the subject we'll encounter once we arrive: Iraq. The President's meeting is tomorrow, and the outcome is uncertain. Richard Engel has pre-positioned in Amman, and is among those we will talk to tonight, including David Gregory and Jim Miklaszewski. Additionally, Keith Miller is covering the Pope's trip to Turkey, and Robert Bazell has an interesting story tonight about a common piece of heart hardware that may actually pose a kind of danger: medicated stents. And we have a piece that we believe is unique to us tonight: could YOU pass the new citizenship test? It's brand new... no one has seen it, and yet there are protests about the effect it MIGHT have on who we allow into the United States. We'll have it all on tonight's broadcast.
We hope you can join us tonight from New York, and tomorrow night from Amman.
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Iraq will once again likely lead the broadcast tonight. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski has noticed a shift in the administration's language when talking about the fighting. In today's vlog, Brian previews that story and reveals where he'll anchor from tomorrow night. Click here or on the image to watch.
Discuss (2 comments) Email this | Link to thisHAVANA - While in Cuba on assignment to cover Fidel Castro's health, U.S.-Cuban relations and the politically complicated efforts to restore Ernest Hemingway's home (a story that will air on a future Nightly News broadcast), I took some time for a more personal mission and was quite moved by the goodwill of the people I met along the way.
My wife, who is Cuban-American, asked me to try to locate her childhood home in a village about two hours from Havana. Her family moved from there to the Cuban capital in 1960, after the revolution. She then emigrated to the United States alone in 1970, returning only once, in 1980, to retrieve her mother and two brothers during the Mariel boat lift. Quite understandably, her memory of the place had faded a bit.
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Discuss (2 comments) Email this | Link to thisI am posting today from a black van on the Jersey Turnpike, heading back from a memorial service for a member of the extended NBC News family. Some viewers may have noticed a small graphic at the conclusion of Friday's broadcast, marking the death of Jean Capus, the mother of NBC News President Steve Capus. We had a large delegation there today, in support of our friend and his family.
We have just concluded our afternoon editorial meeting, which our traveling delegation monitored by speakerphone from the road. The top of the broadcast is in a bit of flux, and some of it will depend on the readout we will get from David Gregory, who has spent much of the day on board Air Force One with the President. The aircraft has landed in Estonia, and the "en route" reporting is trickling out right now.
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On. Nov. 28, 1994, the notorious necrophiliac and cannibalistic murderer Jeffrey Dahmer was murdered by another inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage, Wis.
Dahmer was found guilty in 1991 of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 15 life terms - one of the harshest sentences ever imposed in Wisconsin's legal history. Dahmer met his fate along with inmate Jesse Anderson at the hands of Christopher Scarver, who beat both of the men to death while they were on unsupervised work detail.
Dahmer's remains were cremated and, because of an argument between his parents, were divided in half between his birth mother Joyce, and his father and stepmother, Lionel and Shari.
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Brian anchors the broadcast tonight, but NBC's Robert Bazell delivers today's vlog, focusing on the remarkable story he's reporting -- about an 11-year-old boy who is using an ancient technique to cope with the pain of cancer.
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Chris Botek and his parents, Francis and Margaret Botek, of Crystal Spring Tree Farm present first lady Laura Bush with the National Christmas Tree. The Botek's children and grandchildren are riding in the back of the cart with the tree. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
There is a rhythm in Washington as November slowly becomes December, and that rhythm is perpetuated by annual holiday events. Today at the White House a horse drawn wagon plodded up the northwest driveway and delivered for the Christmas season a 18 1/2 ft. Douglas fir that will sit in the White House Blue Room. Welcoming the wagon was first lady Laura Bush and White House staffers who will begin decorating the tree later today.
Similarly, the tree that will sit on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol was also delivered today, a half hour before the one for the White House -- not that there's any significance there. The Capitol tree, however -- is grander -- a 65-foot Douglas fir that was trucked in from the National Forest on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. It comes complete with 10,000 lights and 3,000 ornaments.
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