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• Video: Crews struggle to slow huge fires
  July 4: Two massive wildfires along the California coastline are keeping weary firefighters busy this Independence Day. NBC’s George Lewis reports. (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86
  July 4: Jesse Helms, the blunt-talking North Carolina Republican served thirty years in Congress before retiring in 2003. NBC’s Martin Savidge reports. (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: 1990: Jesse Helms runs for re-election
  Oct. 30, 1990: NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports on Sen. Jesse Helms's run for re-election against Harvey Gantt. (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: New video recounts Colombian rescue
  July 4: Colombia released the first videos of the rescue of three Americans and a dozen others held by rebel forces. NBC’s Mark Potter reports. (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: Obama campaigns in GOP territory
  July 4: On this Fourth of July, the presidential candidates are celebrating in different ways. While John McCain is watching fireworks in Arizona, Barack Obama is campaigning in states that traditionally vote Republican. NBC’s Lee Cowan reports. (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: Troops mark their third Fourth in Iraq
  July 4: Thousands of U.S. troops are on duty across the world this holiday. In Iraq, NBC’s Jim Maceda spent some time with a unit he knows well, a group now on their third Fourth of July in Iraq. (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: A journey once impossible
  July 3: Tobha Nzima lost her 8-year-old son and two partners to AIDS and was near death herself, but after taking free antiretroviral drugs she got better. Tobha's story and many others are depicted by Magnum photographers in "Access to Life," a multimedia project funded by The Global Fund to document efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in nine nations. NBC's Ann Curry reports. (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: Independence celebrated across country
  July 4: NBC’s Mike Taibbi takes a look at some of the red, white and blue celebrations around the country. (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: Richard Engel interviews Iranian foreign minister
  July 3: Watch Richard Engel's complete interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: Inside the fires
  July 2: In this Reporter's Notebook, NBC's Mara Schiavocampo tells us what it really feels like to be near California's burning wildfires. (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: American history myths
  July 2: Do Americans know when their country actually became independent? Channel One's Chris Brown asks the red-white-and-blue question. (Nightly News)
  
  
• Video: 'Spangled Banner' hard to sing? Naw…
  Ahead of July 4, many Americans will be hearing, or even singing, our national anthem. But are they doing it right? Perhaps we should try changing the key, suggests NBC's George Lewis. (MSNBC)
  
  
• Video: The Bush fist bump
  July 2: Adding to the fist-bump lore, President Bush greeted a 12-year-old boy with a fist bump. NBC's Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)