More than half a Million People are without power after wind gusts approached 100 miles an hour overnight. Its really important that we get power restored as quickly as we can. Matthews eye is just off shore and moving parallel to the coast, meaning the powerful winds of the eye wall could impact hundreds of miles of shoreline while the storms flooding rains spread well inland. The weather is just starting to go downhill in northern florida and on the georgia coastline. Matthew is already a in haiti, hit hard by the storm earlier this week, the death toll is approaching 500. Here in florida, damage estimates are underway in towns south of the storm but forecasters say this may not be the last the state will see of matthew. It will transition to a category 2 we think somewhere around georgia maybe transitioning to a 1 as it pushes through the South Carolina coast and then does this big loop pushing back down toward the bahamas. Is it possible that the same places could get hit twice . R
Plain clothe officers were driving down broad street and brown and they were broadsided at an intersection, and then they took off. A white ford suv pulled up and the 33yearold driver told police saw the crash scene and got scared and exited his suv. He left it in drive and the suv was rolling and two people in the area saw it and took it. Was not robbed. He was not carjacked. Nobody said anything to him. He just jumped out of the car, we dont know why. The suspects fled in the stolen car south on broad and ended up going the wrong way on 15th street before crashing headon into a moving minivan with multiple people inside and then it hit a parked nissan. It was two males one wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, police went into the club to look for suspects and found a discarded red, hooded sweatshirt. Police are checking nearby surveillance cameras that could give them footage to give them more detailed descriptions of the suspects. A buck county woman is facing charges in the death of he
Criticism. Our Jetske Wauran spoke with some local gun sellers and owners who are reacting to the plans. 3 Gun Shop Owners in sioux city tell me they dont believe president obamas 10point plan is the best solution. Instead, theyre saying the president should focus on the real problem. You know it seemed pretty misleading in my opinion. Theres a lot of stuff he covered thats already covered by law. Chase cjeka is the owner of american brothers in arms, a gun shop in sioux city where customers can purchase guns both instore and online. Anytime you purchase a firearm anywhere online it is required to come to a dealer by law. Paul barrett, owner of shooting paradise in sioux city, explains that all licensed dealers have to do a background check for any type of gun. But he also says, guns dont cause violence, its the people who do. Its not the guns fault in all reality, its the person using the gun. Its not the guns fault. Moved to tears, obama recalled hook massacre, that claimed the lives
People are starting to gather in anticipation of more protests, more demonstrations and more marches tonight. It has been the scene repeated time and time again in the 11 days since Michael Brown was killed. And the evenings are the time of the day when things go from peaceful to chaotic. And were showing you pictures of the police throughout the streets here in ferguson, and a number of different stages areas, getting ready to respond to whatever set of circumstances develop tonight. Again, last night, if we show you some of the pictures last night, there were scenes of Peaceful Demonstrations, and then at one point in the evening no one can tell you why things touched off but they did, and there were bottling thrown and there was teargassing fired by the police. And that was last night. Youre looking at live pictures of west today, and theres devon johnson, the Missouri State highway patrol. Hes on the streets doing his best. And he has sent out new marching orders to us, the public,
Smithsonian. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with Jose Diaz Bell art. A federal judges decision to halt President Trumps order banning entry to people from the country from mostly seven muslim countries is gaining reaction tonight. The president promises a socalled judges decision. Those holding visas rushed to board planes to head to the United States and thousands protests with a demand for a permanent end to the executive order. Were covering all aspects of this controversy. We begin with tom costello in washington. Jose, good evening. A dramatic 24 hours, as of this moment tonight, the Obama Administration rules on immigration are in effect, not the trump rules. Today we saw thousands of people nationwide protesting the trump rules. Here in washington, they marched from the white house to the capitol to the supreme court. Out in force, across the country, and around the world. Trump is a missile ready to destroy himsel