Grip on the u. S. In new york, a colossal wall of snow slammed into buffalo. Governor cuomo deployed the national guard. Over 100 miles of nearby i90 closed. The Niagara University Womens Basketball team was stranded on their bus for over 24 hours. Overnight, salvation, new york troopers to the rescue. This tweet from the coach saying thank you for rescuing us. Their ordeal might be over, the bad weather will press on. Nbcs kirk gregory has the latest on snowvember 2014. Reporter the calendar may say mid november, but in buffalo, new york, it looks more like mid february. Snou mounds five feet tall have piled up, burying cars and stranding motorists. Were asking that people stay home, they dont travel unnecessarily. Reporter its just too much too fast, even for this snowprone city. This is a very, very intense storm, one of those record storms that were going to remember for a few years beyond this date. Reporter the snow has been falling at a rate of four to five inches per hour, at t
To nothing throughout palo alto. Montara picks up. 69. The loser is south bay. Trace amounts to. 01 inches. In terms of the next storm, this has a better shot of rain for those down in the south bay. Were tracking this storm system. Well have the fulltime line coming up. Take a look what the storm did in walnut creek. A tencar pileup. One of the cars flipped on its side. This happened on northbound 680 around 3 00 this afternoon. Paramedics rushed five people to the hospital. In terms of the backup in traffic, it went back for miles. From the east bay to the north bay, marin county got hit hard. Jody hernandez is there with more. Reporter marin county got quite a nice soaking today. In fact, it is still a little bit drizzly outside. It has been raining here for most of the day. In fact, it is causing a bit of a slowdown right now for the evening commute. Youre looking at highway 101. The roads are still quite slick. For most, most are grateful for the wet weather. I love it, its finall
He reported hearing nine or ten gunshots. Police were on the scene in minutes. A witness reported seeing the final showdown between the gunman and police near the entrance, saying about four or five officers repeatedly yelled for him to get down, saying it maybe six times. Police confirmed he shot at the officers, they returned fire. The student witness said the whole episode was over in about ten seconds. Three other students described what they heard. We heard the gunshot. We thought it was something, like out of the blue thing. But we did not know once we started hearing from friends, we thought that was at the library, the library was locked down, at first it just like we thought it was the hype of it, but we called our parents. Florida Police Confirm the male gunman was shot dead by campus officers. Three students were also shot, one received a grazing wound, was treated en scene and released. The local hospital says it is treating the other two. One is in critical condition. The
Among them sarah palin, who says she is ready to throw her hat in the ring. And remembering mr. Cub. Baseball fans in mourning with the death of ernie banks. We will look back at his life today, saturday january 24th 2015. 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. Im erica hill alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. Tough news overnight. You spent a long time in chicago. He is mr. Cub. Ernie banks. We woke up to the news overnight. What an incredible optimistic guy. I had a chance to meet him. He had the enthusiasm. The Chicago Sun Times with lets play two. That got the fans to go to the wrigley field. I was rushing around and started reading articles about him. Every word approachable and optimistic and all the positive words. He got the medal of freedom from president obama. Lets get to the top story. The huge storm making a big mess on the
Things in the letter are true. We had a slew of issues and we made significant mistakes. Reporter the owners hired Jonathan Glick to fix the problem. Community groups say low paying workers are often exploited. Have their tips stolen from them . Get yelled at . Threatened . Slapped . Shoved . Uhhuh. Uhhuh. It is the ugly side of the American Economy that many people dont realize. Oftentimes, these workers dont speak up because they dont feel they have options. Reporter the Labor Department worked more than a year to make corrections. It resulted in a whopping 4. 25 million settlement. We need support employers who do that and go above and beyond what the law requires. Reporter in fact, they agreed to pay employees above minimum wage, they will get holiday and vacation play and there are mandated rest breaks. Health benefits with no deductible. And finally, the changes in management. We lost a lot of our management staff and we have done a significant amount of raining with those who re