{"id":900,"date":"2015-08-13T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2015-08-13T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:41:19","slug":"lester-holt-to-anchor-nbc-nightly-news-live-from-havana-cuba-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2015\/08\/13\/lester-holt-to-anchor-nbc-nightly-news-live-from-havana-cuba-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"LESTER HOLT TO ANCHOR \u201cNBC NIGHTLY NEWS\u201d LIVE FROM HAVANA, CUBA FRIDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Andrea Mitchell to Interview Secretary Kerry, Anchor MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAndrea Mitchell Reports\u201d Live from Havana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Holt and Mitchell to Join NBC News Special Report Covering Flag-Raising Ceremony at U.S. Embassy<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AUGUST 13, 2015 &#8212; A team of NBC News journalists will be on the ground in Cuba on Friday as the American flag is raised over the U.S. Embassy in Havana. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d anchor Lester Holt and chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell will join correspondent Gabe Gutierrez and NBC News Latino managing editor Sandra Lilley for multiplatform coverage on the NBC broadcast network, MSNBC, NBCNews.com, and social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Friday morning, NBC News will provide a Special Report to cover the historic flag-raising ceremony. \u00a0Savannah Guthrie will anchor from New York, joined by Holt and Mitchell reporting live from Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mitchell, who has closely covered the complex U.S.-Cuban relationship for decades, will interview Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday and anchor MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAndrea Mitchell Reports\u201d live from Havana at noon ET.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holt will anchor \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d live from Havana at 6:30pm ET.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gutierrez and Lilley have filled reports from Cuba throughout the week for NBCNews.com and MSNBC:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cubans Awaiting Better Economy As Relationship With U.S. Changes:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1NsWBRr\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1NsWBRr<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Havana Gets Ready for U.S. Embassy Flag-Raising, Hope for Future:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1P9O4n2\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1P9O4n2<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gabe Gutierrez live on \u201cAndrea Mitchell Reports\u201d Thursday: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1L9hEIA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1L9hEIA<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Mitchell to Interview Secretary Kerry, Anchor MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAndrea Mitchell Reports\u201d Live from Havana Holt and Mitchell to Join NBC News Special Report Covering Flag-Raising Ceremony at U.S. Embassy AUGUST 13, 2015 &#8212; A team of NBC News journalists will be on the ground in Cuba on Friday as the American flag is raised over [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2015\/08\/13\/lester-holt-to-anchor-nbc-nightly-news-live-from-havana-cuba-friday\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from LESTER HOLT TO ANCHOR \u201cNBC NIGHTLY NEWS\u201d LIVE FROM HAVANA, CUBA FRIDAY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nbc-news","category-nbc-nightly-news","tag-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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