Crew on board came down four minutes after it took off in bad weather conditions wreckage was scattered across snowy fields near the village of water going over eighty kilometers southeast of moscow rescue teams were unable to reach the crash site by road and walked to the scene. I saw an explosion on the ground and i called Emergency Services they asked me many questions i told them there was a fire it was very visible and the debris of the plane is spread over radios of at least one kilometer investigators are using modern equipment taking into consideration the large territory there using quite a couple hours to get a view from the air the short hole set a lot of airlines jet took off from Moscows Domodedovo airport early sunday afternoon on its way to the city of or sc in the urals most of the sixty five passengers on board were from the region at the airport their family and friends of those on board the flight began to wait for news with little hope that anyone had survived. Or t
Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Good evening on this Independence Day. As americans across the country celebrate the nations 239th birthday authorities are focused on an unseen threat one that had them all on heightened alert. While there is added security around the holidays may feel like your new normal it is raising concern. We begin with a look at how cities across the country are responding. Nbcs ron mott starts us off. Good evening. Reporter erica, good evening. Especially in the larger cities security is tight, hightech. They are deploys radiation and detection equipment, for example. Officials tell nbc news, a lot of enhanced security will not be visible. Around america this fourth of july authorities are on heightened alert. Added fire power from new york to boston to maintain street. Barricades and check points at the national mall. In the countrys largest city a neverending terror
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Good evening on this Independence Day. As americans across the country celebrate the nations 239th birthday authorities are focused on an unseen threat one that had them all on heightened alert. While there is added security around the holidays may feel like your new normal it is raising concern. We begin with a look at how cities across the country are responding. Nbcs ron mott starts us off. Good evening. Reporter erica, good evening. Especially in the larger cities security is tight, hightech. They are deploys radiation and detection equipment, for example. Officials tell nbc news, a lot of enhanced security will not be visible. Around america this fourth of july authorities are on heightened alert. Added fire power from new york to boston to maintain street. Barricades and check points at the national mall. In the countrys largest city a neverending terror target 7,000 police on pa
P. M. Here on the east coast. This is live continuing coverage of Hurricane Sandy now post Tropical Storm sandy. Good evening, im chris jansing. Well be here with you all throughout the night along with meteorologist bill karins. At this hour, we have a lot to tell you. Lets get you caught up. Serious flooding across the midatlantic coast including new york city where water is entering the subway system and the bridge connecting manhattan and brooklyn. Con edison reports that almost all of manhattan all the way down to the battery, thats the lower tip of the city, all of it without power. More than 300,000 homes without power in new york city. 3. 6 million along the east coast. Already its been a deadly storm. At least ten deaths reported. New york, new jersey, connecticut, pennsylvania, West Virginia, we have video from manhattans east side. Lets get you caught up on what is going on here in new york. Michelle franzen is on the phone with us from Battery Park City. Thats the lower tip
Contain it while wading in anklehigh water. Its rarely seen in this city that never sleeps. Sandy set a 13foot high wall of water rushing through new york harbor and that water pouring into the subway tunnels. The head of the mta calling it the worst damage seen in the 100year history of Public Transit here in the city. In a most dramatic fashion, sandys winds caused a twisted crane to dangle perilously more than 70 floors up over midtown manhattan. Look at that. Emergency crews worried that it would slice through like a hot knife through butter. When i saw is the reports of the firefighters in queens or Downtown Manhattan i could see in my minds eye not only the buildings and the planes, but the people. Its a lot to get you up to speed on and we are waiting for mayor Michael Boomberg to speak, and we do want to get the latest from the jersey shore which as we told you took the direct hit from sandy as that storm came ashore near Atlantic City in the southern part of new jersey. Nbcs r