A foot of snow falls in the midwest and stranding travelers trying to get an early jump on thanksgiving. How bad will it get . Dylan has the forecast. Scare on the football field. High School Players, coaches, officials and fans forced to run for their lives after gunshots rang out. And early status update. A big announcement from Mark Zuckerberg about what he will do when his little girl arrives. A lot of likes for the daddytobe. Today, november 21st, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan eyer. Good to have you home. Nice to be home. We will talk to you about the top stories, terror attacks worldwide. We have correspondents across the globe. The headline, belgium under the highest terror alert today. Subways in brussels are closed. Armed police and soldiers in the streets. E belgian Prime Minister saying they have quote quite pr
Hampshire fell from the sky. Is. Reporter 911 calls were made minutes later. Search crews discovered the deb brained male victim later on in the night. A nerve wracking night, it was hard all night. Especially you got a lot of small planes, dont see many now, but you always have a lot of small planes flying over the beaches. Reporter the plane with a tail number n 622 nbt is a twoseater registered to a james mcgee from wry, New Hampshire it is believed the pilot was alone in the plane when it came down. Again, Police Believe james mcgee is the sole victim and the only again, on the one in the plane when it came crashing down. He was the one whose body was recovered by search crews late last night. Again, the search going on right now, nypd officials tell us they will be out here indefinitely. Live, catherine craig, news 4, new york. Thank you for the update. In new jersey, an 8yearold girl grazed by a bullet while watching tv in her own home is out of the hospital. The big question at
People. Reporter the pope will be speaking of freedom of religion and immigration later this afternoon. 40,000 expected to show up for that. 50,000 people expected here on the parkway tonight for a festival of families. And that outdoor mass thats scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, a Million People expected to be right downstairs from where were standing right now. Lets take you through now whats gone ing to happen here today. Pope francis takes off just before 9 00 a. M. In new york and arrives in philly at 9 30. He will hold mass at the cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul. And at 7 30 the pope will hold a prayer vigil for the world meeting of families. I know people half his age couldnt do half as much. Its been an impressive visit. Pope francis just left the papal residence on the Upper East Side within the last couple of minutes. Lets go now to sheldon. Reporter yes, the pope left a few minutes before 8 00 from the papal residence. A lot of excitement waiting for him to come
Isnt getting any easier for frierds and family. Ask everybody in new york city how good he was. The driver is in the hospital as of right now, hes not facing any charges. Were live tonight in the morris park section of the bronx, im marc santia. Thank you. New at 5 00 a deadly scene ought on camera. A customer made a move that cost him his life when two men held up a brooklyn market and threatened to shoot. Ida seagel is in new york for us. Reporter back open for business today, but still reeling from the violent robbery that happened here last week and it was caught on surveillance video. You can see two men enter the store with guns. Things get heated and a customer gets involved and just like that a gunman wearing a red hoodie turns and shoots, hitting 32yearold Damian Francis in the chest, who is out of frame. Next door spoke ty the managers the very next day. Innocent bystander standing there and pulled out a gun and, i guess, demanded or requested money or whatever and how they p
The unusually warm weather giving everyone some times a break they didnt want. We havent had snow in a while. So, yeah, i couldnt have reporter crews have 40 square miles to worry about overnight and with the real possibility of ice on its roads. You just never know what youre going to get in to. Could you trucks slip on the ice . Oh, absolutely they can. You have to be real careful. Reporter Truck Drivers o state roads are rolling out sp lray trucks filled with salty brine, but not everybody is looking forward to this. Absolutely not to be honest with you because im going to be out here pumping gas. But, you know, ill try my best to stay warm and bundle up. Reporter wont be cold enough to start making snow on these bare slopes we found a week ago in mountain creek. Im told the forecast suggests it will be this weekend when that happens. Meaning some slopes may be open in a week or so if all goes well. So, skiers are on notice. Maybe at this time next week or be skiing up there in vern