Nightly News   |  August 30, 2011

US suffers worst month in Afghanistan

The month of August was the worst ever in terms of American losses in the war in Afghanistan. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

Share This:

This content comes from Closed Captioning that was broadcast along with this program.

>> we learned today, the month of august was the worst ever in terms of american losses in the war in afghanistan joined a total of 66 u.s. service members were killed in afghanistan this month. nearly half of them when the taliban shot down the chinook helicopter killing 30 american troops. most of them, members of the navy seals . and