Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, trying times in the south tonight. Fire, water and tornadoes, part of twin deadly disasters that have struck over the last 48 hours. Violent storms spawned twisters overnight, killing five people in two states, including tennessee. Which is still reeling from the firestorm that exploded the night before in the great smoky mountains. And today we learned three more bodies have been recovered from the scorched ruins, bringing the death toll to at least seven. Weve got it all covered, starting with nbcs jacob rascon in alabama. Tornadoes reported in six states and nowhere was hit harder than here in rosalie, alabama. Im standing inside what used to be the towns only shopping plaza. The owner climbed out of the rubble alive. While several of his neighbors did not survive. Barrelling through the southeast, dozens of tornadoes reported from florida t
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan City health officials have sounded the warning bells over rising cases of dengue here amid the onset of the rainy season. Data from the City Health Office (CHO) on Tuesday, June 27 indicate that there have been 954 dengue cases overall this year. Dengue virus is transmitted…
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In a live presser, Dr. Dean Palanca, head of the Incident Management Team (IMT) of Puerto Princesa, said they swabbed 46 suspect cases of COVID-19 and nine out of this number were confirmed positive through reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR) tests at the Ospital ng Palawan (ONP).
Palanca said of the nine, two are imported or cases from outside Palawan and seven are local transmissions indexed to an 82-year-old patient from Barangay San Jose who died due to the coronavirus disease on Feb. 7 at the ONP.
“So, we again have seven new additional local cases and we are now in what we call community transmission,” he said.