Working on deadline
Posted: Sunday, October 12, 2008 4:58 PM by Ian Sager
By Lester Holt, NBC News anchor

I'm beginning to regard the notion of a Monday through Friday business week as a thing of the past. The U.S. financial markets don't open until tomorrow morning, but for yet another Sunday, economic policy makers are busy trying to head off a market meltdown. Their deadline is not Monday morning, but tonight, when Asian markets open for business.
The flurry of activity is not just taking place in Washington, but in European capitals as well, as the global crisis is being met by a global response. We'll have late details on the plans to boost investor confidence when we go on the air tonight.
With John McCain and Barack Obama both preparing for the final presidential debate, their running mates and surrogates were keeping the fight alive today. We'll share the day's highlights on Nightly News tonight.
While you are on the Nightly News Web site, I hope you'll take a moment to watch a terrific piece of reporting by NBC’s Victor Limjoco. Today marks 10 years to the day that Matthew Shepard died following a vicious beating in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder of the 21-year-old gay student was a hate crime that shocked the nation. Victor traveled to Laramie and found a community still coping with the murder.
In the meantime I'll look for you tonight on NBC Nightly News.