Tonight after that deadly highway crash that left him so badly injured. What he just revealed. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. We start here tonight with a developing story. The admission late today by the u. S. Military of a dangerous mistake involving the deadly bacteria anthrax. The pentagon fessing up and instead of sending inactive samples, somehow lethal live anthrax was sent to labs in as many as nine states and overseas shipped via fedex. Leading to questions about the safety of the workers who received those shipments. Our pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski has late details. Reporter the deadly anthrax came from the armys dugway proving ground in utah where the u. S. Military develops ways to defend against biological and chemical weapons. Defense officials tell nbc news dugway mistakenly sent live anthrax instead of inactive bacteria to as many as
In a west baltimore church. The funeral was somber as his family called for calm. An attorney for his family also urged the arresting officer to tell the public what happened. Baltimores Police Commissioner says the investigation will be finished by may first. Back here at home a neighborhood nightmare in Montgomery County. A road in audubon is still shut down this afternoon, 10 hours after a deadly accident spilled a mysterious substance across an audubon road and sparked a hazmat scare. It is monday afternoon. Im Shirleen Allicott. A busy day for sure. Im brian taff. Chopper six shows you the mess left behind after a tanker truck and a tractortrailer crashed head on ending in a fiery explosion. A live look now from the scene as viewed from chopper 6hd right now. , see whats left on that roadway and a cleanup is expected to take hours longer. Action News Reporter david henry live at the scene. David youve got the details right now. Reporter yeah, brian accident scene investigators and
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A three year veteran of his department. The charges this officer faces are deeply troubling to me. His actions are his own and not a reflection of the over 1 1 1,700 men and women that serve our Community Day in, day out. Reporter the victims ambushed as they expected the children to be dropped off for visitation. Grandmother Caroline Conway is accused of pulling the trigger. Her son, the young police officer, is suspected of supplying the weapon and trying to cover up for his mother according to court documents. The family highly regarded in their waldorf neighborhood according to resident leon michael. I always see the grandkids like very family oriented type seemed, you not. Reporter those kids very much part of their lives. Oh, yeah, yes, sir. Reporter conway and his mother showed up at a witness house about a half hour after the shooting at the mcdonalds wednesday where she allegedly confessed to the whole thing and said she did it with her sons work gun. Crystal mange and her unb
Oklahoma swallowed up cars and roadways. Highways are littered with abandoned vehicles. Homes were knocked off their foundations. At least nine people are reported killed. More than a dozen missing. 4,000 homes in the houston area are damaged or destroyed, and 1,200 in wimberly, texas outside austin. Omar villafranca begins our coverage. Reporter its the worst flooding this region has ever seen. This aerial video shows the remains of a bridge come completely washed away by catastrophic flooding from a raging blanco river. The river rose 26 feet in just an hour, uprooting home, snapping trees washing away cars and creating massive piles of debris up to 20 feet high along an 87mile stretch. Wimberly, a popular bed and breakfast getaway has taken the biggest hit. A dozen still remain missing. Will conley is the county commissioner. We have over 150 personnel continuing to scope the river through air, by boat and by land looking for any survivors. Reporter 33yearold laura macomb and her tw