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I have to believe the title of today's blog will be the tabloid headline somewhere after the story we all woke up to this morning -- the story we will report on tonight. Bob Windrem has written a great post on this story below. We'll also cover the wrath of nature in various parts of our country. While we aired but a snippet of it last night, what a strange confluence of events it was when we learned that our NBC affiliate in the area had just done a feature on the very same Kansas town that twisters later destroyed.
By being in Washington yesterday (where my wife and I accepted an invitation to attend a party with the Queen and Prince Phillip at the British Embassy) I missed our first day in the new office space -- my co-workers toasted the construction crew, offering the thanks of the staff for the incredible work they did. Tonight we debut studio 8G, and the moment I'm done with this post it's off to the studio to take a look at how it all looks on camera.
We hope you'll join us for tonight's Nightly News.
The crew responsible for making the 'Nightly News' temporary offices very comfortable and workable and, most imporantly, right on time.
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Link to thisSix men described by federal prosecutors as "Islamic militants" were arrested on charges they plotted to attack the Fort Dix Army base and "kill as many soldiers as possible," authorities said Tuesday.
A former senior U.S. intelligence official tells NBC News do not lose sight of the role the Internet played in inspiring these prospective jihadis. The FBI affidavits note that among the materials used in organizing, training and proselytizing the jihadis were al-Qaida training videos, the video wills of two 9-11 hijackers, and videos of U.S. soldiers being killed in Iraq.
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Brian is back in New York and getting a glimpse of the new 'Nightly News' offices at 30 Rock where there are a LOT of peacocks running around. He also previews some of the stories we're working on for tonight's broadcast.
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Discuss (2 comments) Email this | Link to thisThe debut of our new television home that we talked about on Friday's broadcast will have to wait just one more night. Our broadcast will originate from Washington tonight. As the hour is late -- a brief rundown: the storm damage in Kansas remains a staggering story. As a former resident of that State, I have seen the storms that area produces -- and this tornado was a kind of hybrid freak of nature, and an entire town is gone because of it.
We have a piece of environmental reporting tonight that we're very excited about, because it applies to all of our lives: the paralyzing question in the checkout line at the grocery store: "paper or plastic?" What's the correct answer, environmentally speaking? Anne Thompson will tell us tonight.
We'll cover the Queen's day here in Washington, and we'll run some of the Matt Lauer interview with the recuperating Governor Corzine of New Jersey.
We'll be broadcasting from our NBC News Washington bureau, and we hope you can join us for our Monday night broadcast.
Discuss (10 comments) Email this | Link to thisLes just called the Washington bureau with tonight's breaking menu news. He dictated it over the phone, so any typos are mine. Here's what the Queen, the President and their 134 guests will enjoy tonight:
Spring pea soup with fernleaf lavender;
Chive Pizzelle with American caviar;
Newton Chardonnay 2004;
Dover sole almondine with roasted artichokes, pequillo peppers and olives;
Saddle of spring lamb with a chanterelle sauce and fricasee of baby vegetables;
Peter Michael Les Pavots 2003;
Arugula salad with savannah mustard and mint romaine in a champagne dressing;
Trio of farmhouse cheeses;
Rose blossoms;
Schramsberg Brute Rose 2004.
Discuss (28 comments) Email this | Link to thisToday was one of those rare Washington, D.C. days. This is a city that doesn't usually have a cloudless sky -- it's often either too hot or too cold -- but that was the backdrop as the Queen came to the White House and took part in an arrival ceremony that outdid other arrival ceremonies for heads of state. It's easy to get jaded in the White House press corps by all these events, but not this one. The audience was huge -- 7,000 men, women and children waving American and British flags and soaking up all the pomp and ceremony.
The President and the Queen reviewed representatives from all the U.S. armed forces who stood at attention on the South Lawn and later heard from the Old Guard Fife and Drum corps.
Discuss (8 comments) Email this | Link to thisBrian anchors the broadcast tonight from Washington, D.C. While he gets in position, Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent Anne Thompson vlogs from New York.
She gives you a tour of the broadcast's new digs and previews tonight's lineup -- including an answer to that eternal question: Paper or plastic?
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Discuss (1 comments) Email this | Link to thisGood day from New York.
The severe weather that has now killed 10 people in Kansas since Friday night is still very much a breaking story. Today there were still more tornado warnings after a funnel cloud was spotted about 65-miles from Greensburg, the town that was virtually flattened on Friday night. The story there right now is not of clean-up and recovery but of search and rescue. Officials are telling our folks on the ground that they still believe survivors may be trapped in debris-covered basements. As if the pictures don't already tell the story, we also learned from scientists today that the twister that hit Greensburg was about as big as they come. On the broadcast tonight we will have more extensive coverage of the disaster, and the continuing threat of still more severe weather across the central plains this evening.
It's election day in France, and the results suggest there could be a change in US-France relations. Ron Mott is covering developments for us from Paris.
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