Concerns growing over the zika virus. Doctors calling it scarier than they first thought doubling the number of states that have the virus carrying mosquitoes. A close call, a daring photographer looking for the perfect shot gets grazed by a plane. Good tuesday morning. Im diane macedo. Im kendis gibson. Well start with Severe Weather in the south causing flash flooding overnight and spawning dangerous hailstorms. Theyre clearly visible on radar. The rain is falling in parts of alabama and georgia and this morning the cleanup is under way after large hail pounded texas. Overnight powerful storms pounding the south. Wow. Reporter the weather system bringing dangerous storms to texas, leaves and branches flying across this yard knocked off trees from the wind and a barrage of ice hitting the grass bouncing like baseballs. A woman getting out of this truck bravely running for cover and look at this backyard outside of dallas. Huge splashes in the water as hail just pelts a pool. These veh
Im diane macedo. Im kendis gibson. Well start with Severe Weather in the south causing flash flooding overnight and spawning dangerous hailstorms. Theyre clearly visible on radar. The rain is falling in parts of alabama and georgia and this morning the cleanup is under way after large hail pounded texas. Overnight powerful storms pounding the south. Wow. Reporter the weather system bringing dangerous storms to texas, leaves and branches flying across this yard knocked off trees from the wind and hail. A barrage of ice hitting the grass bouncing like baseballs. A woman getting out of this truck bravely running for cover and look at this backyard outside of dallas. Huge splashes in the water as hail just pelts a pool. These vehicles were damaged in the storm. Doors and windshields smashed. More damage. This homes windows were smashed and we have amazing images on social media showing what caused all this damage. People holding huge hail the size of softballs. All that Severe Weather is m
Guard. On the today show this morning, one student described coming face to face with that child shooter. I thought it was because he was aiming his gun right at my chest and i looked at the gun and my chest he was going to shoot me. He was telling him to stop and put the gun down. And then the kid yelled out no, yelling at him. Then he shot him. Nbcs joe fry ar is in sparks nevada with more. Joe . Reporter at the News Conference today, Police Revealed more details about what happened at Sparks Middle School yesterday. When the student arrived, he first shot one student in the shoulder then had a confrontation with math teacher mike landsberry, ended up shooting and killing him. After that he shot another student in the abdomen before shooting and killing himself. At this point police are not releasing the name of the shooter and its unclear if they are going to release the name of the shooter. They do say they are trying to investigate whether theres any connection between the shooter
That area set to soar in the next few days, the rain in the forecast now. Suddenly the risk of massive flooding is becoming a top concern out there, too. And also the dustup over the president s new executive action on immigration continues. We he want to begin this morning with a surprising news breaking overnight. We now have word that president obama has reversed himself and decided to expand the role of troops in afghanistan. Theres still almost 10,000 american traps in thoops in tha and their role was supposed to be limited to Training Afghan soldiers. Under obamas new order they could now be involved in proactive combat missions against the taliban and other militant groups through next year at least. Nbc news has confirmed the information reported overnight. An important detail is president obama made this move quietly signing a secret order. To discuss this, the other top stories this week, joined by our panel Katherine Van pelt of the washington post, david of go pac and susan
Continue to pile up and george takei is the latest to be accused and how tinsel town will crack down. And President Trump is once again trying to pour cold water on the notion that russia meddled in the 2016 u. S. President ial election. Trump was seen speaking with putin while walking to a photo op at the asiapacific economic summit today. One of the multiple chats that Sarah Huckabee sanders said were informal on the way to hanoi, trump was asked by reporters aboard air force one whether he spoke to putin about u. S. Election meddled and he said, he didnt meddle. I asked him can, can you only ask him i can only ask him so many times. He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. For more details about the meeting this morning. Lets bring in chris jansing. They were so close, the president kept carefully on message for a week and then in the past few days he views off script. Reporter well you would think he would be talking about trade which is a big message he had here. Mayb