And plummeting 500 yards down a ravine. Why emergency crews say she owes her life to an app on her cell phone. And mrs. Clooney on the case. Amal steps into the spotlight weeks after the wedding without her husband to tackle a controversial case today, wednesday, october 15th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to wednesday morning. Im matt lauer along with natalie morales, tamron hall and al roker. Savannah continues on maternity leave. We start with unsettling news on this ebola crisis. Very frightening, indeed. Breaking news out of texas. Another worker from Texas Health Presbyterian hospital who cared for ebola victim Thomas Duncan now has been diagnosed with that virus. Nbc National Correspondent kate snow is outside the hospital. Kate, what can you tell us . Good morning. Reporter matt, good morning. We learned about this just before 4 00 am local time this morning. We had known that
We are still knee deep in the first wave of this. We went up, never came down to baseline, and now were surging back up. So its a serious situation that we have to address immediately. Now a series of circumstances associated with various states and cities trying to open up in the sense of getting back to some form of normality has led to a situation where we have recordbreaking cases. Right now 31 states are headed in the wrong direction with case numbers up from last week. 31 states. Nearly half the states are now rolling back or pausing their plans to reopen and icu beds in hardhit florida and texas are quickly filling up. Cnns nick watt has the latest. Reporter on Independence Day florida suffered more new cases than any state has ever. Still, the governor seems sanguine. Thiss no reason to be fearful of it. Reporter but some mayors are. Whats happening is whats happened across the country. When we opened, people began to socialize as if the coronavirus didnt exist. Reporter miamid
Disaster and an idiot. The president lashing out as he campaigns in arizona, forced to defend a longtime red state only 15 days before the election. A trump advisor telling cnn that time is running out for the president to turn things around and that attacking dr. Fauci is simply not smart. Well have an up to the minute look at the race at the state of the race. Thats coming up this hour. But first, i want to go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, tonight, the president has launched yet another line of attack, going after dr. Fauci and joe biden at the same time. Reporter thats right, wolf. President trump has been blasting dr. Anthony fauci all day long. The president told Campaign Staffers today that fauci is a, quote, disaster, even though the doctor is much more trusted on the coronavirus than mr. Trump is. Some inside the campaign are questioning the president s decision to pick on fauci with one advisor telling me time is running out. Quote, time is running o
Rain is soaking the bay area tonight. Flash flood watches and warnings and damage all around the bay. Trees down and roads closed. A live look outside tonight, where the rain is still coming down. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. The north bay was hit especially hard. Lots of rain and lots of flooding. A flood watch is still in effect tonight. Almost ten inches of rain has fallen on Mount Tamalpais in marin county since the storm began. We have Team Coverage tonight from the north bay to the south bay wp we begin with abc 7 news meteorologist leigh glaser. Reporter just in the last two days Mount Tamalpais over 12 inches of rain, and more is poised just off the coast. You can see live doppler 7 hd, and much of the moisture today has been feeding right into the north bay. Ukiah, cloverdale, santa rosa, right in this trajectory. And another big plume of moisture sitting just off the coast will slide in overnight tonight and tomorrow. I tell you, hillsburg, windsor
And much of the moisture today has been feeding right into the north bay. Ukiah, cloverdale, santa rosa, right in this trajectory. And another big plume of moisture sitting just off the coast will slide in overnight tonight and tomorrow. I tell you, hillsburg, windsor, moving all wait down toward santa rosa. Moderate rain there. We had flood warnings in effect earlier this evening for the petaluma area. Shellville, some heavy rain moving through there. Part of that roadway already blocked with high water. And now starting to see some heavier cells moving into the east bay. Concord, pittsburgh as well as antioch and down toward san jose. Very little in the amount of rainfall, but you will definitely get some tomorrow. Flash flood watches up for all of marin county until sunday at 3 00. And rainfall potential, folks, were looking in the higher hills of marin county tomorrow. Anywhere as much as three to five inches of rain. Mount tamalpais over eight inches the last 24 hours. Mount st. H