Contacts of the infected nurse. She and one of her close contacts are both in isolation. Craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. In light of the first contracted ebola case in the u. S. , inova healthcare says it is increasing its level of preparedness above and beyond what the cdc recommends. Hospitals will hold more drills and increase the level of personal protective equipment. The hospital is also increasing its readiness as First Responders. Inovas Ebola Task Force says it will continue to evaluate its preparations and adjust its plans as the ebola situation evolves. A criminal investigation is underway after a horrible accident over the weekend in oxon hill that killed five people including two children and a mother of eight. Reporter it was a mercedes sedan screaming slickened livingston road friday night that caused this accident. The question is why . There were two kids and three women in this acura all from the same family coming home from home depot when the car was crush
She was willing to go on camera for us tonight to tell us her story. I realize that things like this happen all the time. Reporter you just dont think it will happen to you. It was surreal. Reporter this 20yearold Silver Spring woman was nearly raped. I dont think anyone should feel that scared. Reporter just a few feet from her front door. It was not late. It was 10 30. Reporter she walked into her Apartment Building at the hampshire West Apartments in Silver Spring. In the lobby stood a man in his 20s or 30s. I had never seen him before. Reporter he began talking to her thinks in spanish, though slurring his words. When he began smoking marijuana, she said it frightened her, but what happened next angered her. He then took out money from his pocket and offered it to me and my guess was that he was offering it to me for sex. When he had offered me money, that made me angry. Reporter that cocktail of anger and fear was then tested. At that moment he attacked me. He came at me very fast
The legal limit on this seeing. Police are not say how fast it was driving. my car got totalled over year as well. Reporter he now faces two charges of manslaughter while intoxicated. Reporter im going a step behind the camera and show you exactly where this happened. Right there on the sidewalk he was driving. Down that street. You chancy to trees and slammed to the back of this apartment. Reporter thank you emily. We are learning the man arrestedbrian jones is free tonight. He posted bail today. A preliminary court date has been set for tuesday. Reporter the east bay today. Five different quakes hit just south of downtown concord. 3. 6 magnitude. The others ranged from two point zero to two point seven. And in the last 24hours. A quake hit 2 miles northeast of three. Keith knudsen from the usgs joins us on the phone now. Keith a few of the smaller earthquakes in concord today hit before the bigger three point six quake. 1. Does that point to something unusual in this event . Reporter
Today, saturday february 1st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill along side jenna wolf and dylan dreyer. Big weekend here. Big weekend. We have the super bowl happening. Groundhog day. Thats tomorrow. Keeping us busy. Are you not going . Are you going . Ill be watching. Youll be there. Id rather watch it at home with the food and the commercials . Is that because i said im going . No, sorry. She had no shot at tickets. Or in other words. I couldnt go. Exactly. Were going to talk more about that coming up. Well, speaking of football, could its future be in trouble. More and more parents saying they dont want their kids to play the game at any age. That comes as super bowl great joe nammoth is speaking out about injuries that had lingering effects on his life. Now theyre on administrative leave after claims they refuse
[ theme ] stephanie hello representative John Yarmouth coming up right at the top of the hour to tell us about the fiscal cliff clayen. Jacki schechner healthcare geek. I ahead an article on the hill, we should warn the cockles leave medicaid out of the talks. Liberals are pressing to take medicate off the table in deficit reduction talks. You talked about this in our last jackis healthcare corner. The Medicaid Expansion is interesting because part of the way that were going to get everybody covered is expanding medicaid up to 133 of poverty. Thats part of the Affordable Care act. And the president and the administration are being very strong right now about insisting that states have to follow the law to a t and not be able to implement it incrementally or partially. So not only leave it out of the talk but the administration is holding firm right now and insisting that this Medicaid Expansion either take place in its entirety or not at all. Stephanie i wound up the healthcare bot. So