possible msnbc / nbc confusion

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Reported this on IRC, and was told to file a bug.

$ youtube-dl -v 'http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/who-is-rex-tillerson-829947459593'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--restrict-filenames', '-o', '%(title)s-%(id)s-%(uploader)s.%(ext)s', '-w', '-v', 'http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/who-is-rex-tillerson-829947459593']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.12.12-gentoo_no_offensive_sites
[debug] Python version 3.4.5 - Linux-4.4.21-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5_CPU_750_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6, ffprobe 2.8.6, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ThePlatformFeed] 829947459593: Downloading JSON metadata
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.4/youtube-dl", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('youtube-dl===2016.12.12-gentoo-no-offensive-sites', 'console_scripts', 'youtube-dl')()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 444, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 434, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1791, in download
    url, force_generic_extractor=self.params.get('force_generic_extractor', False))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 705, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 763, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra_info, download=False, process=False)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 357, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/theplatform.py", line 373, in _real_extract
    return self._extract_feed_info(provider_id, feed_id, filter_query, video_id)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/theplatform.py", line 309, in _extract_feed_info
    entry = self._download_json(real_url, video_id)['entries'][0]
IndexError: list index out of range
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Here is what I was told by user sulyi:

NBC extractor misses the provider id
I mean it's hardcoded in nbc.py as '2E2eJC', but in this particular case it should be 'HNK2IC'.
The feed does have it:http://feed.theplatform.com/f/2E2eJC/nnd_NBCNews
There should be a problem with the ID then.
It might be a platform specific thing.
Any way: the correct link is http://feed.theplatform.com/f/2E2eJC/nnd_NBCNews?byId=829946947756
it might be just one odd page on msnbc.