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[0:00] Julio Franco on the ground out to second

[0:01] is 43rd save. Marlins win 3-0. The fish

[0:05] now four games out of the wild card with

[0:07] four teams in front of them. Red Sox and

[0:10] Yankees in a rubber match from the

[0:11] Bronx. The Yanks get on the board early

[0:13] and often. First, Gary Sheffield with

[0:15] the two-run blast to left, 2-0 Yanks.

[0:18] Then in the sixth, Yanks up 3-1, Jorge

[0:21] Posada

[0:24] slaps a long ball of his own opposite

[0:26] field just making it over the fence. The

[0:28] Yanks take two out of three from the Sox

[0:31] with the 11-1 win.

[0:33] Back to the NFL, a battle of last year's

[0:36] co-MVPs in Nashville today. Titans and

[0:38] Colts

[0:39] and Colts rather. First quarter, Chris

[0:41] Brown nice cutback takes it 20 yards for

[0:43] the score. 152 yards on the day. Titans

[0:46] up 7-0. Third quarter, Colts down seven.

[0:50] Peyton Manning play fake finds Marcus

[0:53] Pollard in the back of the end zone.

[0:54] We're tied at 17. Fourth quarter,

[0:56] Edgerrin James breaks it down the left

[0:58] sideline. 30-yard score, second on the

[1:00] day. Colts win 31-17.

[1:04] Packers and Bears from Lambeau Field.

[1:05] Former Gator Rex Grossman putting the

[1:08] Bears up 7-3 on the rollout to Ryan

[1:10] Johnson for the touchdown. The Bears

[1:12] defense checking in. Ahman Green fumbles

[1:15] and Mike Brown picks it up and he's not

[1:18] stopping. Gets to midfield, the 40, the

[1:21] 40

[1:22] I thought I told you that he won't stop.

[1:24] Chicago wins at Lambeau Field for the

[1:26] first time in seven years, 21-10 that

[1:29] final. Other NFL scores, Jacksonville

[1:31] moves to 2-0 with a 7-6 win over the

[1:33] Broncos. The Lions also 2-0 with a win

[1:35] over Houston. Carolina beats Kansas City

[1:37] and New England leading Arizona now in

[1:40] the third quarter.

[1:42] The Americans needing a major rally to

[1:43] catch Europe heading into the final

[1:45] round of the Ryder Cup. Some guy named

[1:47] Jordan lending some moral support. Match

[1:50] one, Tiger Woods on 12 putting for eagle

[1:52] from 25 feet.

[1:54] Money. Tiger beats Paul Casey 3 and two.

[1:57] US down 11 to six. 11-7, Sergio Garcia

[2:00] on 10, down one, lines up the 30-footer,

[2:05] nails it. Garcia beats Phil Mickelson

[2:07] three and two. Lee Westwood and Colin

[2:09] Montgomery make it official. Both

[2:12] winning their matches, the US handed

[2:14] their worst loss ever in Ryder Cup play.

[2:17] That's what I got for sports. I'm Guy

[2:18] Rollins. Julie, you back to you.

[2:20] >> All right, Guy. Thank you. And that is

[2:21] going to wrap it up for the NBC 6 News

[2:23] at 6. Stay tuned now for the NBC Nightly

[2:25] News, and I'll see you back here tonight

[2:27] at 11. Good night.

[2:35] >> War in Iraq. The deadline looms for

[2:37] hostages, while a Georgia woman pleads

[2:39] for her husband's release.

[2:42] Despite the violence, Iraq's interim

[2:44] Prime Minister promises elections will

[2:46] be held.

[2:48] Decision 2004. New polls in swing states

[2:51] as the president tours hurricane damage,

[2:54] and John Kerry continues to challenge

[2:56] the president on Iraq.

[2:58] New danger. The storm may be gone, but

[3:00] what threat did Ivan leave behind?

[3:04] And labor of love. Children going the

[3:06] distance to take care of mom.

[3:12] >> From NBC News world headquarters in New

[3:15] York,

[3:16] this is NBC Nightly News with John

[3:19] Seigenthaler.

[3:20] >> Good evening, everyone. As President

[3:22] Bush prepares to speak to the United

[3:23] Nations this week about Iraq, it's been

[3:25] another chaotic Sunday in that country.

[3:28] More kidnappings reported. Iraqi

[3:29] soldiers being held hostage. Video of

[3:32] Kurds being killed in northern Iraq. And

[3:34] today, an American woman pleading for

[3:36] the life of her husband, a kidnapped

[3:38] construction worker. The violence part

[3:40] of a continuing offensive by insurgents.

[3:43] NBC's Mike Curts joins us tonight from

[3:45] Baghdad. Mike?

[3:48] >> John, more hostages have been taken.

[3:50] Three Kurdish hostages reportedly

[3:52] beheaded. And tonight, the wife of one

[3:55] American kidnapped here makes an

[3:56] emotional plea for his release.

[4:00] >> The clock is ticking for American

[4:02] hostages Jack Hensley and Eugene

[4:04] Armstrong, threatened with execution by

[4:06] their captors for helping US efforts

[4:08] here. In Marietta, Georgia, Hensley's

[4:11] wife, Patricia, made this appeal to

[4:13] militants holding her husband.

[4:14] >> Please help me bring them home.

[4:17] All of them.

[4:18] >> Hensley, Armstrong, and a British

[4:20] colleague were grabbed from their home

[4:21] in the heart of Baghdad on Thursday.

[4:24] Another 10 foreigners snatched yesterday

[4:26] in the north. And tonight, even Iraqi

[4:28] soldiers kidnapped, 18 of them by a

[4:30] Shiite militant group. This just hours

[4:33] after Iraq's interim leader, Iyad

[4:35] Allawi, told British Prime Minister Tony

[4:37] Blair that Iraq's insurgency is

[4:39] weakening and that national elections

[4:41] will go ahead as planned in January.

[4:43] >> We are succeeding against the forces of

[4:46] evil.

[4:47] >> But the United Nations recently

[4:48] expressed doubt that free and fair

[4:50] elections can take place by then if

[4:52] violence around the country continues.

[4:54] The worst period of violence since the

[4:56] fall of Saddam Hussein.

[4:59] American forces are now being attacked

[5:01] on average 87 times a day.

[5:04] Four US soldiers wounded today after a

[5:06] car bomb exploded at a joint US Iraqi

[5:08] checkpoint in Samarra, the blast killing

[5:11] two Iraqis.

[5:12] Two weeks of daily suicide car bomb

[5:14] attacks in and around Baghdad targeting

[5:16] Iraq's security forces have left more

[5:19] than 200 people dead.

[5:22] The biggest challenge for the Iraqi

[5:23] government will be taking back

[5:25] insurgent-controlled areas before the

[5:26] election.

[5:27] >> To some extent, we're in a period of

[5:29] denial. If we want to get back security,

[5:31] we're going to have to do it with US

[5:32] Army and Marine forces.

[5:36] >> The concern here now is that so many

[5:38] more civilians will be killed in the

[5:39] crossfire between now and January that

[5:42] Iraqis will become too angry and too

[5:44] disenchanted to vote.

[5:46] >> John.

[5:46] >> Mike Crucian, Baghdad. Mike, thank you.

[5:49] Now to Decision 2004, the war in Iraq

[5:52] continues to be an issue in this

[5:53] campaign with John Kerry and President

[5:56] Bush preparing speeches on the topic

[5:57] this week. We have several reports

[6:00] tonight beginning with NBC's Carl

[6:01] Quintanilla with the Kerry campaign in

[6:03] New York. Good evening, Carl.

[6:06] >> John, good evening. Democrats believe

[6:07] the violence gives John Kerry an opening

[6:11] and tomorrow Democrats will launch a new

[6:12] effort to make the war this election's

[6:14] decisive factor.

[6:17] Kerry plans to accuse the president of

[6:19] mishandling the war and misleading the

[6:21] public about its progress. At a Boston

[6:24] fundraiser last night, he tried to rally

[6:26] supporters.

[6:27] >> Our young men and women are at greater

[6:29] risk today and dying because this

[6:32] president didn't have the patience to

[6:34] lead in the way that he should have.

[6:36] >> Even some Republicans today admitted the

[6:38] war has at the very least overextended

[6:40] the military.

[6:42] >> We are extended in more locations with

[6:44] military force structure than any time

[6:46] since Vietnam with the smallest army

[6:49] that we've had since World War II.

[6:50] Something's going to break.

[6:52] >> But other Republicans defended the

[6:53] president challenging Kerry not directly

[6:55] on Iraq but on the broader war on

[6:57] terror. On Saturday, House Speaker

[6:59] Dennis Hastert was quoted as saying

[7:01] terrorists would like to influence this

[7:03] election just like they influenced the

[7:05] election in Spain. Asked if al-Qaeda

[7:07] would operate better under a Kerry

[7:09] presidency, he said, "That's my opinion,

[7:12] yes."

[7:15] Today, John Edwards charged Hastert with

[7:17] fearmongering.

[7:18] >> When John Kerry is president of the

[7:20] United States, we will find al-Qaeda

[7:22] where they are and crush them.

[7:25] >> Making Iraq his central issue is a

[7:26] gamble for Kerry who's been repeatedly

[7:28] criticized for his conflicting positions

[7:30] over the war.

[7:31] >> John Kerry

[7:32] >> Today, some members of Congress in tough

[7:34] races like Senate Minority Leader Tom

[7:36] Daschle kept their distance.

[7:37] >> Didn't Senator Kerry vote against $87

[7:39] million dollars aid to the troops?

[7:41] >> He did. I disagree with that.

[7:43] >> Republicans say more state candidates

[7:45] may turn their backs if Kerry's new Iraq

[7:47] offensive doesn't boost his standing in

[7:49] the polls.

[7:51] >> The Democratic National Committee will

[7:53] also be out tomorrow holding a press

[7:55] conference with mothers of soldiers

[7:57] currently in Iraq, John.

[7:58] >> NBC's Carl Quintanilla, Carl, thank you.

[8:01] There are new polls out tonight that

[8:02] show the president making headway in

[8:04] several so-called swing states. NBC's

[8:06] Rosalind Jordan joins us tonight from

[8:08] the White House with the latest from the

[8:09] Bush campaign. Good evening, Rosalind.

[8:11] >> Good evening, John. The politic The

[8:13] president is getting that good political

[8:15] news at the start of a week where his

[8:17] signature foreign policy issue is going

[8:19] to be coming under intense global

[8:21] scrutiny.

[8:24] For the third time in 5 weeks, President

[8:26] Bush headed south to comfort the victims

[8:28] of a major hurricane.

[8:30] >> Hello, Mr. President.

[8:31] >> The visit, a reminder the president is

[8:33] in a position like no other politician

[8:35] to help. That power of incumbency may

[8:38] well be helping the president in a new

[8:40] poll of likely voters conducted for

[8:42] MSNBC and Knight Ridder. According to

[8:45] the poll, Mr. Bush is leading Senator

[8:47] Kerry in five of the battleground states

[8:49] which Bush won in 2000: Arizona,

[8:52] Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, and West

[8:55] Virginia.

[8:56] >> I can hear you.

[8:57] >> And voters say they're most focused on

[9:00] an issue which has come to define the

[9:02] Bush presidency. In all five states,

[9:04] about a quarter of those polled said

[9:06] they think terrorism and homeland

[9:08] security are the most important issues

[9:11] in this year's election followed by the

[9:13] economy and Iraq.

[9:14] >> Appreciate you guys coming out.

[9:16] >> The president's overall job performance

[9:18] rating above the critical 50% level in

[9:21] all five states 6 weeks before the

[9:23] election. And even though there's been a

[9:25] lot of discussion about what the two

[9:27] candidates did during Vietnam, only one

[9:29] in five likely voters says that's going

[9:32] to be a factor on election day.

[9:35] Meantime, despite the ongoing violence

[9:37] Iraq, the president highlights his

[9:39] policy at two events this week, before

[9:42] the United Nations General Assembly on

[9:44] Tuesday and during a Rose Garden

[9:46] appearance with Iraq's interim prime

[9:48] minister on Thursday. The message, the

[9:51] US is committed to helping Iraq achieve

[9:53] stability and democracy.

[9:56] Now, John, the White House has argued

[9:58] for months that helping Iraq