Nightly news begins now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Substituting tonight, kate snow. Good evening and happy thanksgiving. On this holiday, another security scare at the white house, as a man draped in an American Flag was able to scale and jump the spiked fence before being stopped by the secret service, all while the first family was gathered for thanksgiving inside. The jumper made it over, despite new security put in place five months ago after a series of embarrassing security breaches. Clearly, it didnt deter this man. Nbc White House Correspondent Kristen Welker has details. Reporter video captures the chaotic moment. The secret service took down this man who jumped over the white house fence today while the first family celebrated thanksgiving inside. He was climbing like crazy. Reporter the jumper draped in an American Flag scaled the nearly 8 foot spiked fence, clenching papers in his mouth. Instagram footage shows terrorists scattering. Prompting the
Declare that she has not suffered brain death and he wants her death certificate voided. Jahi is doing so much better physically. Reporter a few months ago, her parents gave an interview to the Terri Schiavo foundation insisting tear daughter is improving. Remember late their is improving. Remember late last year she had a tonsillectomy and there were complications and she was declared braindead. Her family fought it and moved her to a hospital in new jersey that would keep her on life support. Theres no evidence that patients who are braindead can ever recover. Theres no recovery from death. Reporter david mag us is of the Stanford Center for biomedical ethics say the attorneys claim is sun precedented. He wants to see proof, independent proof. I would think that they would at a minimum need an independent courtappointed competent qualified neurologist to verify that all the previous, um, independent neurologists who have done an evaluation did so in error. Reporter joe vazquez, kpix
Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. This morning a hospital patient in hawaii is being held in isolation while doctors figure out whether or not he has ebola. The patient checked into the honolulu hospital yesterday. Its unclear whether the man had traveled to west africa. Ebola is just one condition hes being tested for. Meanwhile texas hospital officials admit they dropped the ball on the first confirmed u. S. Case of ebola. This morning the question is how many others have been put at risk. Omar villafranca is in dallas. Omar, good morning. Reporter good morning, annemarie. Now, weve learned that the patient is in serious condition here at texas health presbyterian, and while hes being monitored by doctors, there are new questions as to why he wasnt quarantined earlier. Some parents in dallas say they wont send their kids to school today after learning five students in their area are being monitored at home for signs of the ebola virus. Health officials believe th
In fog, bringing in wind as well as some light rain here and there. Currently our temperatures are into the low 60s from allentown to trenton, philadelphia as well and everybody else is in the 50s, this morning. So keep in mind you might still see patchy fog, primary spots for that will be your far, west and northern suburbs, so towards poconos you can see that. Or wise up in the mountains we have mid 60s under partly sunny skies and in the shore points similar scenario as well. See same thing in the city. Very much a carbon copy forecast here today, vittoria. Good morning, everyone. Traveling out and about on the roads youll find what you will usually expect during the rush hour. Look at 476 traveling on the southbound side of the blue route this shot here in the too far from the schuylkill expressway. You will notice it will set you back. Traveling as well on 422, this shot here not too far from trooper, saint gabes curve, if you are traveling on 422 eastbound we are seeing delays st
The girl, the man fired five shots one at point blank range hitting her in the right arm. And a bullet probing her arm. Reporter girl ran and man says they shot at her again, this time hitting several homes in the process. She ran to several houses, and a grandmothers house and two other houses next to her grand moms house trying to get in the front door while this male continue to shoot. Reporter shooter fled but police did apprehend the suspect. Fortunately these number just witnesses did cooperate with the police not only telling us a good description to apprehend this individual but positively identifying our suspect. Reporter were told the suspect was already wanted on a warrant. We did believe it was the intended target. We do believe that the shooter knew this 17 yearold female prior to shooting her. Reporter girl was taken to st. Christophers hospital, shes being treated for that gunshot wound and subsequently a broken arm. Man she was sitting with was not hurt. So far no word