Search for those missing. Mark potter is in mississippi with the latest. A devastating scene just been christmas. Preliminary reports of at least two dozen tornados, including a possible ef 3 believed to have traveled more than a hundred miles. Mississippi was the hardest hit. Seven lost, including a 7yearold boy. Powerful winds flipped this semi. I already knew it was bad. 22yearold hillary hid under a mattress. Every house just about around us is gone. This is it is Still Standing but it is not going to make it. Search teams night and day going house to house looking for victims. Out here just going through the mess and the trees and just the disaster. The governor declared a state of emergency in seven counties. Families have lost loved ones. Funerals will be planned. This should be a joyous, Holiday Season. 18yearold michaela was killed shielding her sister, whose expected to be okay. Water cascading over this collapsed road. So many now spending this holiday rebuilding homes and c
Seven lost, including a 7yearold boy. Powerful winds flipped this semi. I already knew it was bad. 22yearold hillary hid under a mattress. Every house just about around us is gone. This is it is Still Standing but it is not going to make it. Search teams night and day going house to house looking for victims. Out here just going through the mess and the trees and just the disaster. The governor declared a state of emergency in seven counties. Families have lost loved ones. Funerals will be planned. This should be a joyous, Holiday Season. 18yearold michaela was killed shielding her sister, water cascading over this collapsed road. So many now spending this holiday rebuilding homes and coping with heartbreaking loss. Mark potter reporting. Meanwhile up north strong winds knocking out power to michigan and canada. And some places may not get power back until after the holiday weekend. And a Police Officer shooting and killing a man in North Carolina as people run for their lives. Gunfire
Mr. White is the coauthor of a season of slaughter the battle of Spotsylvania Court house, may 821, 1864. This talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our first speaker today is a man for whom i hold the utmost respect. Three years ago this again, in fact, we sat on the back porch of a little building next to the stone lodge action shrine and we were thinking, you know, what can we do to help people become more invested in these stories of the civil war . That is were the emerging civil war blog first came to be. Since then, over the past three to a, we have expanded publishing series that we will talk about this afternoon. Of course, the symposium and a number of speaking engagements, as well. We are continuing our outreach to help people become invested in these very important and engaging stories. Historian ander former licensed battlefield guide at gettysburg here he is one of those men who you could drop him on any battlefield, take off the blindfold, a
Her and her husband are about to find out if theyre having a boy or girl live right here on today monday, december 24th, 2012. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on this monday morning, Christmas Eve. Im Natalie Morales. Im willie geist. Matt and savannah have the day off. The treat is lit up. We couldnt resist coming out and spending time with all these people that came out on a chilly morning. Thats right. A the lot of folks, of course, traveling these holidays as weve heard. Unfortunately, there are storms out west and also down in the south that give travelers a cause for concern. Well go live to the nations Busiest Airport and get a first look. Congress is taking a break here and they have that fiscal cliff deadline looming and gun control. Two highranking senators saying over the weekend about the fiscal cliff more likely a deal wont be met in time. Well get into that. A pi
Man for whom i hold the most the utmost respect. Three years ago this weekend, we sat on the back porch of a little building, and we were thinking, what can we do to help people become more invested in these stories of the civil war . That is when it came into being. We have expanded from our blog to a publishing series. Of course the symposium and a number of speaking engagements as well. We are continuing our outreach to help people become invested in these important and engaging stories. Chris is a former historian. He is one of these men you could drop on any battlefield, and he can tell you how many people were there, who their kernel was, and what their shoe size was. He is a man i have learned a tremendous amount from, a man i have written all of my books with, and a man who continues to challenge me as a historian every day. I am pleased to introduce mr. Chris white. [applause] thanks, everybody. Thanks for that introduction. As a side note, the story of creating an emerging ci