Middle East Crisis: Williams To Middle East

Brian Williams is traveling to the Middle East this weekend. He will anchor the NBC Nightly News “from the region” beginning on Monday.

NBC is also deploying another wave of correspondents. Kerry Sanders will join Richard Engel in Beirut, Jim Maceda will report from Damascus and Mark Potter will report from the northern Israeli border.

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