Year at this time weve seen three times as many flu patients as weve seen all of last year. Reporter more than 50 cases a day of flulike symptoms. Is it fair to say you are overwhelmed . Id say yes were at overflow right now, we definitely are, were very busy. Reporter patients like lawrence johansson. Yesterday morning, fever, feeling terrible. Reporter you look like you feel lousy. I do. Reporter at brigham and womens hospital, 50 more already this year than all of last year. Veteran e. R. Doctor, dr. Charles pazner. Patients feel like theyre run over by a bus, body aches, joint aches, feverish, oftentimes have sweats. Reporter in chicago hospitals are so overwhelmed with patients seven have closed their Emergency Departments diverting ambulances to other facilities. At a hospital in allentown, pennsylvania, theyre dealing with the onslaught of patients by triaging them in a tent in the parking lot. This influenza virus is tenacious. Dropless can be anywhere. How can you avoid the fl
Nightly news begins now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. The very first reports we got after a highspeed train crash in spain last night were from the first people to make it to the wreckage. They didnt want to talk about what they had seen. Today we can all see what happened. It is a fast, modern train like so much of rail travel in europe and the rest of the world. To the untrained eye it just seems to take the corner too fast. Well that may well turn out to be the official explanation as well. The death toll here is staggering, at least 80 dead. Still over 90 hospitalized. Here is another way of putting it, the train is feared to have been going faster going into that turn than even the fastest train in this country can travel on a straightaway. Nbcs keir simmons starts us off from the scene tonight. Keir, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. Behind me they are working through the night to clea
Have a history of ruffling political feathers into two Key National Security posts. President obama emphasized the two mens personal connections to the organizations he has tapped them to run. Chuck hagel would be the first vietnam veteran to head the pentagon. To this day, chuck bears the scars and shrapnel in the battles he fought in our name. Reporter and john brennan, who spent 25 years at the cia, would now run the agency. John has lost colleagues and friends. Reporter as demonstrators protested brennens connection to controversial interrogation techniques like waterboarding that date back to the bush years the president moved to head off that criticism. He understands, we are a nation of laws. He insists on high and rigorous standards. Reporter but its hagels nomination thats receiving a decidedly mixed reaction. His flexibility in negotiating with iran. His past statements about israel and about gays all have become lightning rods. Many prominent jewish leaders have been offende
Await the calls of duty from as far away as ohio. Im asking the general public to make decisions that are wise. Reporter officials again repeated warnings for people to stay home and out of the mounting mess. I guess Mother Nature is making up for last year. Reporter yielding to fleets of snowplows, making room for emergencies. In rhode island, a slow start for accumulations quickened by afternoon. Massachusetts and connecticut governors each order roadways clear at 4 00, a ban on traffic. For those still needing to travel, rail Service Ground to a halt, triggering a midday evening rush at new yorks penn station. Airports, including laguardia, were at all but a standstill. Im from minnesota. I know snow. But just dont want to be stuck here for a few days. Reporter the exodus turned hustle and bustle in providence and boston into what looked like movie sets, minus the action. This is coming right off the ocean here. And this is what has Emergency Management officials so concerned. Repor
Good evening. Last night the jury spoke and today it seems everyone else has weighing in on the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman seconddegree murder trial. From the streets to social media, even to the white house. The shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin in sanford, florida, almost 17 months ago, opened up emotional questions about racial profiling and about a persons right to defend themselves. It also sparked spirited demands for justice. Tonight now that justice has spoken, those conversations have maybe grown louder as thousands have taken to the streets in cities coast to coast. Our team remains in place in sanford, and Kerry Sanders was in the courtroom when the verdict was read, starts us off. Kerry . Reporter good evening, lester. Residents here in sanford and across the nation gripped by this trial may want to know what swayed the jury to reach their not guilty verdict. But tonight none of the six anonymous women from this community who sat on the jury has reve