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[0:00] before the season. Gosh, Danny Marino's

[0:02] co-host and former Dolphin Chris Carter

[0:04] added the Finn's offense was awful,

[0:07] which we knew. Number 12 FSU visits NC

[0:09] State for a special Thursday night

[0:11] edition of college football. Tonight,

[0:13] the Siminals have struggled now on the

[0:15] road with two losses and two close

[0:17] calls, but are still in the hunt for the

[0:19] ACC title.

[0:22] >> They need to win our game so they can be

[0:24] bowl eligible because if we beat them,

[0:26] they won't. And then of course we need

[0:27] to win it to stay in the fighting for

[0:29] the BCS because last week ma losing

[0:32] means there's only two there's only two

[0:35] teams in our conference that hadn't lost

[0:36] two games and they all play each other.

[0:38] So one of them definitely going down.

[0:40] What if if the right one beat the right

[0:41] one we could be right back in the in the

[0:44] running for the uh title of the

[0:46] conference.

[0:47] >> So Dan Marino, how do you really feel

[0:49] about everything that's taken place

[0:51] through the first part of the season?

[0:52] That'll do it for sports. Back to you

[0:54] guys.

[0:54] >> All right, Joe. Thank you. Did he say

[0:56] the offense was bad?

[0:57] >> Miami is one of just six cities setting

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[1:43] >> And that is our report for now. We thank

[1:44] you so much for watching.

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[2:14] >> Good evening.

[2:16] Good evening.

[2:17] >> Yaser Arafat. Mourning remembrances for

[2:20] a man seen as both a leader and a

[2:23] terrorist. What does this mean for peace

[2:25] prospects in the Middle East?

[2:27] Fallujah fallout. The US may be winning

[2:30] the fight for Fallujah, but is it

[2:32] winning the much larger war against

[2:34] Iraqi insurgents? [music]

[2:36] Social Security, the president's

[2:38] personal savings account idea. Will it

[2:40] save the system or put it at greater

[2:42] risk? The big fight over social security

[2:45] reform.

[2:47] and brothers in arms. On Veterans Day,

[2:49] the story of two Marines inseparable in

[2:52] life and death.

[2:57] [music]

[2:58] From NBC News World Headquarters in New

[3:01] York, this is NBC [music] Nightly News

[3:04] with Tom Brokaw.

[3:06] >> Good evening. Yaser Arafat, the

[3:08] Palestinian leader who for so many years

[3:10] seemed to be so indestructible and so

[3:13] much the obstacle to peace in the Middle

[3:15] East, is now returning to that embattled

[3:17] region for the final time for his

[3:19] funeral, burial, and the everlasting

[3:22] question. Is there now new hope? The

[3:25] body of the flamboyant and controversial

[3:27] leader of the Palestinian cause is in

[3:29] Cairo tonight where the funeral will be

[3:32] held before burial in Ramla in the West

[3:34] Bank. It's been a long and troubled

[3:38] journey.

[3:40] Arafat's life with the Palestinian cause

[3:42] began in earnest when he was 30 in the

[3:45] late 50s. By 1968, he was head of the

[3:49] Palestine Liberation Organization, the

[3:51] PLO, a dedicated militant who was always

[3:54] in uniform.

[3:56] To his followers, he was the shrewd

[3:58] military and political leader of their

[4:00] cause against the Israelis. To the

[4:02] Israelis, Arafat was the chief

[4:04] terrorist, but he was indestructible and

[4:08] a force to be reckoned with. And so it

[4:10] came to pass he stood on the south lawn

[4:12] of the White House recognizing Israel

[4:14] and shaking hands with Itsak Rabbine, an

[4:17] old adversary. Rabbine, Shimon Perez,

[4:20] and Arafat shared the 1994 Nobel Peace

[4:23] Prize. But for Arafat, no peace plan

[4:26] would ever be good enough. The last

[4:28] decade of his life was marked by dozens

[4:30] of Palestinian suicide bombings and

[4:32] dozens of fights with the Israeli army.

[4:35] On Saturday, Arafat will be buried in

[4:37] his Ramala compound. It is on

[4:40] Palestinian territory in the wouldbe

[4:42] state this Palestinian survivor failed

[4:45] to achieve. And NBC's Brian Williams is

[4:48] in Ramala tonight. That's Arafat's last

[4:50] headquarters, of course. And as we just

[4:52] said, his final resting place. Brian,

[4:56] >> Tom, that's right. And President Bush

[4:57] put out a statement today saying he

[4:59] hopes the future will bring peace now to

[5:01] the Palestinian state. He was one of

[5:04] many heads of state to put out such a

[5:06] statement today. Of course, nowhere was

[5:08] the reaction to Arafat's death as strong

[5:11] as it was right here.

[5:14] >> The people in his small town of Raala

[5:16] first learned they had lost their leader

[5:18] when at dawn they heard the Muslim call

[5:21] to prayer mixed with church bells.

[5:25] The end came at 3:30 in the morning in a

[5:27] Paris hospital. With all his other

[5:30] organs shut down, Arafat's steady

[5:32] heartbeat, which doctors had described

[5:34] as a miracle, finally stopped.

[5:38] The French government moved immediately

[5:39] to pay tribute. Military honors led by

[5:42] President Shira, who comforted Arafat's

[5:45] widow, Sua.

[5:47] Arafat's body made the journey to a

[5:50] nighttime arrival in his birthplace,

[5:52] Cairo. His lieutenants called an

[5:55] emergency meeting. The patriarch's chair

[5:57] sat empty. They picked a longtime Arafat

[6:00] associate, Makmoud Abbas, to run the PLO

[6:02] wing of the organization. That job is

[6:05] considered the Arab parent to take over

[6:07] for Arafat.

[6:09] Just yards from where they met, a

[6:11] backhoe dug a grave.

[6:14] The reaction to his death took on as

[6:16] many forms as this region's varied

[6:19] populations.

[6:22] The guns fired into the air representing

[6:24] the continuing struggle. Burning tires

[6:27] in the streets, a visible pungent

[6:29] reminder of the inifat in Israel. A

[6:32] prediction that this is a turning point

[6:34] from Shimon Perez who shared the Nobel

[6:36] Peace Prize with Arafat.

[6:38] >> I'm finally very optimistic, but I'm not

[6:41] blind. I know that they are going to

[6:43] have tough times and tough issues.

[6:47] >> Free candy for all. Arafat is dead.

[6:50] And the more militant Israeli view came

[6:52] from this vehemently anti-Palestinian

[6:55] Israeli settler.

[6:56] >> It's like Hitler would die. It's the

[6:57] same thing or Bin Laden.

[6:59] >> Thank God.

[7:00] >> And tonight on the streets of Ramala

[7:03] just outside the old Arafat compound. It

[7:05] became a living teeming memorial.

[7:08] Posters and candles everywhere. Families

[7:11] with children allowed to stay up late to

[7:14] be able to someday say they were here.

[7:16] Tonight, Palestinians are trying to stay

[7:19] joined together.

[7:22] You're looking at a live picture from

[7:24] Ramala tonight. And this is an eerie

[7:26] scene. Those are gravediggers and

[7:28] stonemasons. They will now work through

[7:31] the night. This is just behind the

[7:33] Arafat compound, just behind our

[7:36] location here. That will become his

[7:38] grave, his tomb. And this will become a

[7:41] sacred site now, a shrine for

[7:44] Palestinians going on decades into the

[7:46] future. Services begin in Cairo tomorrow

[7:49] morning. And then burial is here in

[7:51] Ramallah. Sunset on what happens to be

[7:54] the last night of Ramadan. Tom,

[7:56] >> thanks very much. NBC's Brian Williams

[7:58] who's been working around the clock in

[8:00] that part of the world. There are many

[8:02] pressing questions about what happens in

[8:04] the post Arafat era. One of the most

[8:06] immediate, of course, is the militia

[8:08] that have been loyal to Arafat. Will

[8:10] they now put down their weapons or rise

[8:12] to fight even harder? NBC's Martin

[8:14] Pleser tonight on a tense situation.

[8:17] Okay.

[8:19] >> Israel is imposing a total closure on

[8:21] the West Bank, setting up new roadblocks

[8:23] to prevent masses of Palestinians from

[8:25] streaming to Raala for Yas Arafat's

[8:27] funeral.

[8:29] But already small clashes

[8:33] here. College students heading for

[8:35] Arafat's compound

[8:37] running into tear gas and rubber

[8:39] bullets. They were supporting the men

[8:41] who hold the key to war and peace among

[8:43] the Palestinians.

[8:45] Thousands of gunmen in a dozen militias

[8:47] in the West Bank and Gaza. One of the

[8:50] most feared militias, the Alexa brigades

[8:52] are loyal to Yasa Arafat. He reportedly

[8:55] paid and sheltered them.

[8:57] >> They killed hundreds of Israelis in

[8:59] suicide bomb attacks and driveby

[9:00] shootings. Now the pressure is on

[9:03] Arafat's successors to take control of

[9:05] the militias.

[9:08] >> The top leader first priority is law and

[9:11] order and they will already order the

[9:13] gunmen to put away their weapons.

[9:16] >> But will they? To find out, NBC News

[9:19] tracked down two Alexa gunmen in the

[9:21] West Bank on the run from Israeli

[9:23] undercover units. We asked them if

[9:25] they'd obey the new leaders.

[9:29] >> Of course not. As long as Israeli

[9:32] settlers and soldiers have guns, we will

[9:35] never give up our weapons.

[9:37] >> But the bigger problem may be in Gaza.

[9:39] The Islamic militants Hamas, which

[9:41] controls most gunmen in Gaza, is now

[9:43] demanding a share of power.

[9:46] >> We do not want civil war. But in Gaza,

[9:49] Hamas are the strongest and they may

[9:51] fight. We have to be clever. Act slowly.

[9:55] If we are smart, we can avoid civil war.