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 are 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 he
What doesnt kill you makes you stronger and against the odds. The former star Football Player told hed never walk again, overcoming a devastating injury. Walking across the stage to receive his College Diploma leaving his wheelchair behind with help from his fiancee. They are both here live this morning, only on gma. Okay, show of hands. Who has goose bumps after seeing that video . What a jolt. Zplin credible. Chris norton was told he had a 3 chance to ever walk again. He proposed the night before. To his now fiance. And he said his mantra faith, family and friends. Theyre both going to join us live later. So great to see. Theyll be here lye. We begin with the anthrax scare. The deadly biological agent shipped in live forms to nine labs across the country and overseas too. Nearly two dozen military members may have been exposed. Reporter good morning, george. Anthrax is so deadly its disturbing such a mistake was somehow made. Today, an urgent effort under way to make sure no one gets
Cockpit at all. What doesnt kill you makes you stronger and against the odds. The former star Football Player told hed never walk again, overcoming a devastating injury. Walking across the stage to receive his College Diploma leaving his wheelchair behind with help from his fiancee. They are both here live this morning, only on gma. Okay, show of hands. Who has goose bumps after seeing that video . What a jolt. Zplin credible. Chris norton was told he had a 3 chance to ever walk again. He proposed the night before. To his now fiance. And he said his mantra faith, family and friends. Theyre both going to join us live later. So great to see. Theyll be here lye. We begin with the anthrax scare. The deadly biological agent shipped in live forms to nine labs across the country and overseas too. Nearly two dozen military members may have been exposed. Reporter good morning, george. Anthrax is so deadly its disturbing such a mistake was somehow made. Today, an urgent effort under way to make
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
10 minutes toward West Philadelphia then moving toward center city. Were talking about some very heavy rainfall. Rainfall rates one to 2inches per hour with this system. Heavy rainfall and gusty winds in excess of 60 Miles Per Hour. So the rain moving in right now toward the Philadelphia International airport. Paulsboro looking at very heavy rainfall as this continues once again to move on off to the north and east at about 35 to 40 Miles Per Hour. Also, we have some very heavy rainfall i was mound are you moth meeting moving into sections around the warminster area in sections of bucks county be on the look out for downpours that heavier rainfall has moved out of the pocono mountains right now. So youre getting a break. But as we time everything out you can see right now through about 7 00 oclock impacting the immediate i95 corridor. Then moving into sections of south jersey but it will rapidly dissipate so everyone is not going to see that very heavy rainfall. As we look at future ra