Good evening, and welcome to ted talks education. We are so excited to have a packed theater here at town hall in new york city. Thats right. Yes. And a special welcome to those watching on pbs. I would say we wish you were here, but that would make it really uncomfortable, crowded, and new york city rents are high enough, so why dont we both enjoy from where we are. Tonight we will be examining how we teach, marveling at how we learn, and celebrating the timehonored tradition of educating the next generation. The speaker were about to bring to the stage used to work for a hedge fund. Then to help tutor his cousin, he started uploading math lessons to youtube. In true entrepreneurial spirit, he turned these oneonone lessons and grew them into the khan academy, delivering over 380 million lessons in over 36 languages all across the world. Ladies and gentlemen, please, put your hands together for sal khan. [cheering and applause] iim here today to talk about two ideas that, at least base
Good evening, and welcome to ted talks education. We are so excited to have a packed theater here at town hall in new york city. Thats right. Yes. And a special welcome to those watching on pbs. I would say we wish you were here, but that would make it really uncomfortable, crowded, and new york city rents are high enough, so why dont we both enjoy from where we are. Tonight we will be examining how we teach, marveling at how we learn, and celebrating the timehonored tradition of educating the next generation. The speaker were about to bring to the stage used to work for a hedge fund. Then to help tutor his cousin, he started uploading math lessons to youtube. In true entrepreneurial spirit, he turned these oneonone lessons and grew them into the khan academy, delivering over 380 million lessons in over 36 languages all across the world. Ladies and gentlemen, please, put your hands together for sal khan. [cheering and applause] iim here today to talk about two ideas that, at least base
Crowds everywhere he goes. The polar prank that has everyone talking this morning. And good morning. A lot to get to this thursday morning including new details on that plane crash. Remember we saw it clipping that bridge before going to the river. Well some amazing and harrowing survival stories are emerging right now. Every time still when you see that piece of video. Well begin with that bitter cold moving across much of the country. Temperatures in a freefall plunging more than 30 degrees. Ginger is back and tracking it all for us. Yeah, not bad out there right now along the east coast but let me tell you in a couple of hours things will bottom out. Let me bring you to westchester where the front has made it and thats whats happening. So its about to snow here. Thats just north of new york city. And what well do is move that front through and then the arctic blast settles in. Chicago is already feeling it. 14 below the windchill this morning. 19 below for minneapolis. Look at st. L
Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. What happened in a residential area north of new york city last night turned into a mass casualty event. And its a huge warning about what can happen anywhere vehicles encounter Railroad Crossings in this country. This was a commuter train on the metronorth line out of new york. It hit an suv on the tracks in valhalla new york. The resulting flash fire consumed much of the first car and seemed to fuse the suv to the front of the train. The death toll stands at six including the driver now confirmed to be a mother of three. Its the third busiest rail line in the nation. The ntsb is there on the scene as is our own tom costello tonight. Tom, good evening. Reporter hi brian. Good evening. Just moments ago they moved the burned out carcas of that train just further down the train tracks just a little bit out of view. Meanwhile, the medical examiners now going th
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. It was thought to have been eradicated in the United States but now measles is making a comeback. And just tonight the centers for Disease Control issued a wakeup call to all of us. Public Health Officials are treating the return of measles. This outbreak very seriously. It has now spread to over a dozen of our 50 states including the state of arizona where they fear upwards of 1,000 people may have been exposed. This of course as thousands more are arriving there for the super bowl. This also brings sharp attention to the issue of vaccinating our children. Its where we begin tonight with nbcs Hallie Jackson in phoenix. Hallie good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. Officials say its not that the measles vaccine isnt working, its that its not being used. The cdc describe ths outbreak as a wakeup call and here in phoenix theyre listening. At this childrens clinic signs warn a run