good evening. one of the justices of the supreme court said the case they decided today was the most important of its kind in decades. what the court did today will drastically change the power we give our police officers. but those who are against what happened today warn us all we just gave away another right. this case is about dna. the court said today police can now take a sample of your dna when they arrest you for what s deemed to be a serious crime. dna has shown it has the power to convict the guilty and free the innocent. that will now be put to the test in police station lockups all over this country. our justice correspondent pete williams was there for today s ruling. pete, good evening. brian, good evening. today s ruling says taking an arrested person s dna is just like getting fingerprints or taking a picture to compare to crime scene video. the only difference, the court says, is that dna is more accurate. today s ruling said the nation s police can take a
even more severe weather is in the forecast today, saturday, june 1st, 2013. from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this busy saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m kate snow. erica has the morning off this morning. for the second time in two weeks people in oklahoma were waking up to devastation after strong storms and tornadoes ripped through their area. here s video from union city just outside oklahoma city. you can see twin tornadoes forming over an open field as the storm chasers took off, sheet metal hit the front of their vehicle along with massive bails of hay and other debris. we ll talk to them later this morning. we ll hear from the weather channel s mike bet tess who was in an suv thrown 200 yards by a twister. although he and his crew are banged up, thankfully they re doing pretty well. at least five people are confirmed dead this morning, 70
water is the rule of the day. area beaches have been packed, as well. sounds fun. if temperatures hit 90 degree form, we ll officially have our first heat wave of the year. that could very well be the case here in new york and boston. washington will creep into the mid-90s. and cooler weather in chicago where 70s are in the forecast after storms move through. typical june heat through the south, in atlanta, miami. but as we know, they re used to it there. and if we head out west where there are some massive wildfires burning, just north of los angeles, more than 200 homes have now been evacuated. the flames, 1,500 acres wide, and firefighters are far from getting all of this under control. diana alvear is on the ground. what s happening there now, diana? reporter: well, ari, as you can tell, the winds have picked up considerably. it s very hot. we re approaching the 90s today. that s the exact combination the firefighters did not want in
0 and we will be tracking this all afternoon. all right, dylan, thanks so much for that. we will certainly be back to you as conditions warrant. now, let s go to where the greatest threat is right now, expected this afternoon and evening. storm chaser tim sameris, national geographic explorer, is on the phone for us from alva, oklahoma, on the kansas line. tim, what are you seeing right now? tim? do we have tim there? oh, i think we lost tim. so we will continue with some more information about temperatures here in new york. yeah, we ll wait for tim to get back to us. back east here, we re in day two of 90-degree heat. air quality alerts are in effect throughout the northeast. that s not keeping tourists and locals like out of new york s times square. today is expected to be the hottest day of the week with 92 the forecasted high, courtesy of our friends over at wnbc. for now, people are making the best of the hot weather, lots of water is the rule of the day. area beaches have bee
let s not forget, you re talking about almost 30 stab wounds, slit to the throat. but murder is cruel. i want to play something i found, quite curious, after all this goes down she decides to do a slew of tv interviews. and the interviews that the previous jury was not privy to, obviously. this is what she said to our colleague, diana alvear, take a look. was it guilt or remorse that was an element, certainly, guilt, remorse, just, i completely f-ed up my life and hurt a lot of people in the process and i think i ll be doing everyone a favor. two questions, first of all, what is the motivation? what do we think the motivation might have been? and are those interviews now fair well, the prosecutor and