Erin andrews 55 against the stalker who secretly recorded her in her hotel room and the companies that own the hotel. Testimony, which included andrews herself and her convicted talker, the jury took only a matter of hours before finding in andrews favor, and as there was throughout the trial there was high emotion in the courtroom as the verdict was read. Nbcs Morgan Radford has late details. It was a tense day in court for erin andrews, but it only took seven hours for this. Was the defendant Michael David barrett at fault, yes. Was the defendant Windsor Capital at fault, yes . The jury awarded andrews 55 million. Michael barrett is responsible for 51 of that amount and the management and Hotel Company 49 . The decision was unanimous. The judge then order the the courtroom camera turned off so that andrews could andrews sued for 75 million for Emotional Distress after a video taken of her undressing in her Nashville Hotel room eight years ago went viral. I think what really hit home
Could get pregnant. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We start with late word from nashville where a jury has awarded sportscaster and network tv star erin andrews 55 million in her lawsuit against the stalker who secretly recorded her in her hotel room and the companies that own the hotel. After several days of testimony, which included andrews herself and her convicted talker, the jury took only a matter of hours before finding in andrews favor, and as there was throughout the trial there was high emotion in the courtroom as the verdict was read. Nbcs Morgan Radford has late details. Reporter it wassor a tense day in court for erin andrews, but it only took seven hours for this. Was the defendant Michael David barrett at fault, yes. Was the defendant fault . Yes, yes. Reporter the jury awarded andrews 55 million. Michael barrett is responsible for 51 of that amount and the ma
Good morning, im danielle serino. Breaking last night, several people are injured after a commuter train derailed. In happened in california just east of san francisco. The train left the tracks, and thats when it derailed, tipped over and plunged into a creek. That car, which is a corridor express train, weighs 120,000 pounds and has 130 seats. Luckily there were just six passengers and one crew member on board. The second car also derailed but didnt flip over. All of the passengers got off the train. One commuter in the first car who was on his way home described the accident to us. So well, i was in the first car that went down into the river. It felt unreal, honestly, because everything was normal. Thank god i didnt sleep or anything on the train so i was aware of everything, but it shifted the gravity all of a sudden and we were all just kind of there were two people hurt pretty badly. One member was just under the mudslide so we were trying to dig her out while the train was hang
Reporter truly amazing is how state Police Describe smiths survival. Whats more amazing, no one else was hurt. Fro the video itself, one has to look at how did he survive this because this is short of a miracle. Reporter seems it is short of a miracle. City manager i i miami released a statement saying theyre happy to know mr. Smith is doing just fine. They said to tm the video shows he wasnt distracted by his cell phone. He wasnt on the phone. He wasnt texting, but it did fail to mention the assertions that mr. Smith wasnt paying attention. As for all the damage, the truck, the wall to the highway, the jose marti park, the pool, the pool area, the community center, all of that falls, no pun intended, on the city in terms of the amount of damages thats not been released to state police yet. Nbc 6 news. New tonight, a south florida Miamidade Police say they were conducting an investigation when one of their officers fired at that dog. G. Laura rodriguez is joining us live from northwest
Major averages around half a percent. Take a look at my bloomberg terminal to see how the sectors are shaking out here. Materials are also declining. Telecommunication stocks now the only Group Trading higher. It has now come off as well. On the commodity complex, not just oil but some of the other commodities. Heres the percentage change on the date. Higher by 8 on the outlook for Colder Weather, but if you go down the line you see a lot of credit, whether it is metal. We see a lot of declines in that commodity complex. Got got asil high a 23828. That puts a next of pressure on stocks. Unusual december. Looks like we are setting up for the first december since 2002. We also had backtoback december declines. Usually people do their end of year portfolio shifting and intend to have stocks go higher. Take a look at my terminal. Energy stocks versus the s p 500. Here is the here is the energy index. The s p 500 is now in the red after today. Only a few days left to see how we end of the y