And shocking blast caught on camera. A mans pocket suddenly bursts into flames. Tonight a warning for everyone who uses ecigarettes. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The death toll has risen even higher today from that Violent Storm system that tore through the south, and its on the move tonight. As we start here, cities from northern carolina up to the d. C. Area under the threat of tornadoes. At least four more people were killed this afternoon, some in waverly, virginia, where theres been significant damage from an apparent tornado. At least seven people have died from this time yesterday. Right now at least ten states are at risk for Severe Weather with the highest tornado risk this evening. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer reports from the storm zone. Reporter tonight fear, funnel clouds, possible tornadoes, a weather system still packing pounding rain and whipping winds with. With a
Time to grade and managers time to investigate. The incident only only happen in a staging area near maintenance a week reached out to bosses that fdot to find out why all 21 miles at a stop work. Wise the entire project shutdown . That was the determination that the joint venture made. As far as the Florida Department stamford, safety is important to us and if the joint venture feels this is what they need to do to make sure the corridor is safe for the public and workers, then we support them. Reporter we took kept pressing about the notion and asked when the project could start up again. I got safety statistics for the company here. We are putting that together now for Eyewitness News at 5 at the live in Orange County, and tim barber, channel 9 Eyewitness News. We turn to breaking news and winter park where police are investigating why an suv crashed into a Boston Market and caused a gas leak from sky suv sticking out of the restaurant. Police say neither the female driver nor resta
Is a felony and also with filing a false report to police. Clearwaters police chief had some harsh words for that mother after this entire charade went down. Unfortunately theres a ridiculous turn of events with some really irresponsible behavior today that really caused a lot of disappointing things to happen. Reporter this white ford fusion was reported stolen from the 1300 block of boylen avenue and clearwater this afternoon, but Police Believe it was never stolen at all. There is some indications that there may have been some type of drug involvement in this incident and whether the vehicle had been traded for drugs or the people that the car had been given to were related to some type of drug transaction, so thats what we are looking at now. Reporter after the car was involved in some sort of a legal illegal activity and that false report was made to police, the driver of the car began fleeing and Police Spent Hours searching for this little boy, 4yearold Ismael Badillo a day care
How you can get on board. We continue to follow news out of kansas where new details are emerging after yesterdays shooting spree. A protection order from abuse supplemental opened fire inside a factory. For the 90 minutes before you turn in southcentral kansas town firing off shots at the storming the excel industry factory you worked with the sheriff says the resolution usurped because there is violence in a relationship. We did not specify the nature of the relationship with the paperwork with an new ford say they are shocked. Never came off to be a bad guy. Salmon i could talk to about speculum is a nice guy. I wouldnt think he wouldve done that. Is a good guy from what i know. That plant and injured a dozen others. We had a lengthy criminal record in south florida. Police officer shot and killed him 20 minutes after the shootings. New information about the uber drivers behavior in the days leading up to the shooting spree in michigan has family revealing that jason dalton i told h
3 3 3 3 more now. On 3 that Severe Weather along the east coast. From florida. All the way up to new york. Tornadoes, thunderstorms, and hail. Leaving a deadly trail of destruction. And its now 3 three of those lives. Were lost in the small town of waverly, virginia. Thats about 50miles south of richmond. The storm killed a 50yearold man, a 26yearold man and a 2yearold boy, when a tornado destroyed their mobile home. The storm actually carried them about three hundred yards away. 3 and this is video out of charlotte, north carolina. Where wind gusts up to 30milesper hour brought down trees and knocked out power. At least three tornadoes were reported in that state. more 3 at duke university, some workers huddled together in a devils Basketball Team ducked into a tunnel under Cameron Indoor stadium while a Tornado Warning was in effect. The team even tweeted out this picture of them, trying to make the most of it. 3 and the storm just keeps heading north. More damage has been reported i