Than ever this monday night just how serious this Ebola Outbreak is. Today, the World Health Organization called the outbreak the most severe acute Health Emergency seen in modern times. While they acknowledge that fear of ebola is spreading around the world faster than the virus itself, it has so far taken 4,000 lives. And in dallas, texas, another american is hospitalized with ebola, a young nurse who was exposed to it there treating a patient who is now dead. Its where we begin tonight. Nbcs kate snow is there. Kate, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening to you. The cdc said today that the nurse is clinically stable but her family is understandably upset. This is a young woman were learning who used to care for patients here at this hospital and is now a patient herself. Her name is nina pham, a 26yearold nurse. Her friend tells nbc news her parents are struggling. A shock situation. They really dont know what to do. Reporter at her home today more hazmat teams removing barrels
Good evening, and we begin with that state of emergency, more than four feet of snow in 24 hours. Tonight 225 million americans dealing with frigid cold, drivers trapped on highways, part of a key interstate in upstate new york closed. Travel bans in effect as we head into the night. Look at this time lapse in buffalo, new york of the snow rolling in over that city, lake effect is not new there, but this is severe and early. Many saying the worst in memory. This image from the new york state through way covered in several feet of snow. You can see the tire tracks there. From the north in michigan, treacherous driving all the way to the south, record cold in georgia. The National Weather Service Reporting more than 1,000 records shattered with this system. Ginger zee is standing by with the forecast but we begin with gio benitez where drivers spent the day trapped. Reporter david. Good evening. This storm is dumping three to five inches of snow per hour that could take days to clean up.
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. In the blink of an eye, the the change as the post sent colder air. St. Cloud, minnesota, got more than 13 inches of snow, a record for november. Heres how quickly its spreading. Wichita, kansas, tie aid record yesterday at 77 degrees. It could plunge to 15 overnight. Sanford, texas, has gone from 85 to an expected low tonight of 12. We have more now from jamie yuccas of wcco, our cbs station in minneapolis. Reporter in nebrask aicy roads and stuck cars brought traffic to a crawl and put people power tout test. Curtis flowers spend the morning moving cars off the road. The secret, is put the vehicle in low, stop spinning, and let it roll. Reporter slick roads in minnesota caused a semistruck to jackknife overnight when another semilost control and slammed into it and the surrounding police cars. There were no serious injuries. The storm dropped almost 25 inches of snow in parts of michigan,
Missouri, who will not be charged in the shooting death of Michael Brown, speaking out for the first time. Darren wilson with our George Stephanopoulos today, revealing what he says happened while in that patrol car. The struggle. He describes this moment he first pulls the trigger and then what he says plays out. A country watched what played out overnight in ferguson. Buildings, cars set on fire. And today, the aftermath. The charred cars, some of the buildings, peoples of ash. And tonight, a nation now hears from the officer at the center of this case. Lets get right to george who is just back from ferguson tonight. And gege, you sat down with him for an hour and a half, nothing off the table here. He answered every question. We went step by step through those moments. He saw Michael Brown cauwalking down the middle of the street. He asked him to move over. So, the officer pulled his car beside him. This is what happened next. I had gone to open the door and get out of the car. When
Night. More on the frozen nation, and the new storm coming in right behind it. But first, planes tracking cell phone data and locations. Authorities saying its for catching criminals, but are they tracking you, too . Pierre thomas leads us off. Reporter tonight, new questions about whether the government is scooping up the personal cell phone data from thousands of innocent americans. An investigation by the wall street journal uncovering a secret Program Designed to track down fugitives, suspected killers, rapists, and other criminals. That allows u. S. Marshals to pinpoint the location of your phone from the sky, without you knowing its happening. Heres how it works. The marshals launch a small plane carrying a device called a dirtbox, which acts like a mini cell tower. Over a populated area, it picks up identifying pings from thousands of phones below, until it finds its suspect. Pinpointing that persons location within a threeyard radius, even in a specific room. When they put it o