A Police Officer nearly killed in a car accident on the job walks for the First Time Since the horrific day. Im ready. The Futuristic Technology that is helping him get back to life as he once knew it. Today saturday, february 21st 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. After today, we can go to the prom. We are so connected. Lester taking his well deserved morning off. We are happy he is sleeping in. Good morning, lester. We are happy to have you back in studio dylan dreyer. Im happy to be here. It felt nice to put on a dress this morning. Actually i get to wear my hair outside the hat. Stay inside. This is what you were out in for most of the past few weeks. Scenes like this. This is the hudson completely frozen over. Some pictures are too incredible to believe. We may sound like a br
Children dead is almost unfate th unfathomable. The church is keeping their doors open and are not allowing the media to come in here. This search is open for 24 hours. They have lost members of their own church. Again, this is hard. I can speak for myself and deb feyerick, we will try to speak as calm and comforting as we can and sometimes we wont get things right. Were learning a lot of information just as you are learning it here. Were going to be try to be as respectful as possible. We did not speak with children on camera without the parents permission. As we say that, bear with us here and were going to try to go through this without breaking down. This is really tough for everyone involved and for everyone watching. So were learning new details about how this rampage unfolded and that man, who is accused of carrying it out. He is 20yearold adam lanza and we will try to say his name as little as possible but we have to say it for the record. Lanza tried to buy a gun three days be
Difficult conversation that as a culture we have not been happening with. But they also have an opportunity for being deeply spiritually satisfying and lessening the amount of suffering that people are going through in the last phase of their life now. Some say they want to die at home, but actually a quarter of us do. Most of the hospitals and Nursing Homes and they die in the intensive care units and this is about hearing a kind of death and i could imagine everyone inventing new because they either struck down or are drugged so they dont tear the tubes out that are binding them to this earth were. I think its very important for me to make it clear that im not arguing for neglecting the people that we love in the last phase of their life. We have a medical system that is by yes towards with juror and caring. For example my dad had a major stroke at 79. A year later he was given a pacemaker, which he was kind of pressured into. He needed Hernia Surgery and they wouldnt let him unless
Investigation has yielded so far, heather. Reporter frank the tanker of the overseas raymar has been ordered to remain anchored here indefinitely. Tonight as you mentioned the coast guard is telling us that those on board this vessel were told that trouble was ahead. Before the 750foot oil tanker struck a tower of the bay bridge yesterday morning, those monitoring its travels warned of the danger. According to information released late tonight from the u. S. Coast guard the Vessel Traffic Service on Yerba Buena Island tapped with helping ships navigate safely was in communication with the overseas raymara and alerted the ship to the hazard. But whether the pilot had time to react remains to be seen. The pilot is responsible for the navigation of their own vessel. Reporter guy kleess is no advantager to the bay. Having guided vessels through the tricky waters since 2005. The coast guard finished their interviews with the pilot and crew. Theyll have two radar, electronic gps, theyll have
Oh harold square. Somebody gave my mom that coat. Happy thanksgiving. Thanks to bass pro shop. Log on to our web site for our after the show show. A fierce storm hitting the east coast snarling thanksgiving travel as folks try to get home in time for the holidays. Im ed henry in americas newsroom. Heather im heather childress. Bill and martha are off. The storm stranded travelers for hours and the delays had ripple effects all across the country. I started down the runway and
we got shut down and we had to sit there and wait for them to open the air space again. Reporter that woman you just heard, it took her 12 hours to fly direct from austin, texas to newark, new jersey. And she was one of the lucky ones. Much of the east coast was hit with a sloppy, wintry mix making for a miserable commute on one of the busiest travel days of the year. 751 flights were canceled nationwide. There were nearly 5,000 delays. Put that in perspective tuesday. There were only 140 cancellations. The new yo