Katrina. Its hard to believe that something could do this much damage so quick. North of mississippi in tennessee, those same storms that caused tornadoes caused flooding. 8 people innankin county were rescued from their homes. Another this morning in ashland city. Back in mississippi, sunday i preached on how to handle storms if thats believable. I guess gods saying you know youre gonna practice what you preach. No major deaths or even injuries have been reported from these tornadoes. As for the First Baptist church, the pastor said had the tornado hit just 24 hours later, there would have been an entire group of children inside this classroom for bible study. David begnaud, cbs news collinsville mississippi. lets get to sherry with a look Sherry Swensk this line of storms has stayed alive for about 48 hours now. Leaving behind the destruction of the twisters. But also very heavy rains causing flooding. The storms are heading across the coast right now. Heavy rain and thunderstorms. B
Switch on the worlds most famous Christmas Tree today. Wednesday, december 4th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a. Good morning. Im matt lauer. And im Savannah Guthrie. What is tall and bushy . No, not matt lauer. It is the Christmas Tree. All four of us set to do the honors. We have a great show planned. And were glad youre back. No, thanksgiving hangover lasted a long time. Just kidding. I had a stomach virus. Im not contagious. We should mention the weather not too bad for the Tree Lighting. Upper 40s and 50 degrees. Perfect. The weather not so great in other parts of the country. The top story is a monster storm impacting millions of people across many parts of the country. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is in denver this morning with parts of that. Miguel, good morning. Reporter matt, good morning. 32 million americans are impacted by the storm, but it is not what you see which is the steady snow which is dangerous, but wha
male announcer live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kron 4 news. Today is one of the biggest traveling days. This is one of the longest lines i have seen. Let me show you. The line has gone down but travelers. They are hoping to get through these lines, quickly. With long lines and frustrations running high. Some are reading a lot at s f o. I was also back there. Some arewaiting a lot at s f o. Active now it has only moved about 50 ft. Memo going to the spokesperson, over 1. 2 Million People will flights through on the thanksgiving rush. Most have been prepared. It is a great holiday. We knew that it was going to be busy. Would you do anything different . My guess, relief earlier. This travel decent season as up. This is really busy. , according to aaa, 43 million americans are expected to travel over 50 mi. Wednesdaysunday. It is thanksgiving weekend. And it is not for a while. We do have tamed coverage on this with mike pelton spoke to coverage with ash team coverage. Thous
Touched down near a local tv station. There it is. Go inside. Go now. Get inside. A witness also captured this video of the funnel cloud right there. Its huge. All schools in nashville will be closed today. Officials say some polli inin is will open late. Theyre all supposed to be going to the polls today. This is nashville. This is tough. Well have more on this breaking news in just a moment. Lets begin with super tuesday. Voting is under way. Cnns brian todd is live at a tolling station in virginia. How is it going there, brian . Alisyn, getting through the rushhour push here in falls church, virginia. This is graham road elementary poll peep coming in and registering here, even bringing their children here, which we love. Weve talked to a lot of voters coming in and out of here about what drives them. Whats motivating them to come to the polls. A sense of civic duty. Passion for a particular candidate. Some of them are saying that they are just tired of the political discourse in th
Outages. What youre seeing now would be the 11th tornado so far, from the major storm system that is crossing into the east. For more on the damage from last night, were going to turn to David Begnaud in collinsville, mississippi. David . Reporter scott, good evening. The community of collins knows exactly what the people of georgia are dealing with right now. It was 24 hours ago at this very moment that a tornado came from this direction and ripped through the First Baptist church where we are tonight. And the only people here were the pastor, his wife and their son, and they hid in the safest place they know the church. This was the scene throughout alabama and mississippi over the last 24 hours. Its coming right at us. Reporter in collinsville, mississippi, Vicky Hartley took shelter with her neighbor in a basement right before her roof was blown off. It was shocking. You know, you dont really know what to feel, but i was thankful that we were all okay. Reporter the tornado continue