authorities in kansas announced a sixth american has died from lung disease related to vaping. this week former new york mayor mike bloomberg s foundation committed $160 million to help stop the epidemic. kids are dying, people are dying now and getting addicted. a time line is yesterday, not tomorrow. the cdc says at least 450 possible cases of severe lung disease nationwide may have been caused by vaping. overnight we learned hawaii is investigating its first possible case. all right. breaking overnight, significant structural damage in sioux falls, south dakota, after a confirmed tornado hit. the city is setting up an emergency operations center. almost 20,000 customers in the dark right now. this used to be an auto parts store. one hospital is being evacuated. over ten tornadoes were reported in tupper plains tuesday. the same system set to bring
hunt for a killer. morgan chesky, nbc news. next tonight one in five kids at risk, oregon is making a major change to help young people face their struggles. it s become one of the first states to allow students to take mental health days as an excused absence. kate snow with the story. reporter: hailey and derrick were seniors when they lobbied. they ll be allowed to call in sick not just if they re physically ill but if they need a mental health day. i think the most amazing part of this whole thing is that it was student led. i m personally in need of mental health days. reporter: derrick told lawmakers he struggled with anxiety in high school. being marked absent, unexcused, and can t make up the assignment because i don t have the will pow tore go to school today was too much and there s no system set in place to help me. reporter: oregon has one of the highest rates of teen suicide in the country. it s the second leading cause of death
your interviews and work of putting together, three nights, six parts, i watched it, putting together this documentary on r. kelly? what i learned is that there s african-american women that, you know, when they tell or talk about their stories, they re not really believed so whenever i was talking to the survivors individually before the documentary, you know, during the process pretty much was just asking them exactly what happened, their relationship, and it was the similarity between each of them that didn t know each other, i was just like wow, there s a system set in place here. these allegations have been going on for decades, the mid 90s. do you believe that r. kelly will be at some point held accountable for what these women claim is a history of sexual abuse? well, i just believe whatever is done in the dark always comes to light. if that is true, you know, things are going to keep coming up, people are going to start
the national guard coming in to rescue drivers. and the planes being de-iced today at the charlotte airport. more than 2,000 flights canceled by the storm coast to coast. tonight, they are working furiously to get the power back on, and now, the new danger. the snow giving way to sleet and rain overnight. and a new system set to start yet again in the west and then move eastward. meteorologist rob marciano leading us off. reporter: tonight, millions reeling from the mammoth winter storm in the south. north carolina highways buried in snow. treacherous for drivers, cars careening off the roads. they are at a dead stop right now, waiting for crews to be able to move this tractor trailer. reporter: in virginia, hundreds stranded on the highway. across the storm zone, thrert60a 1,0 crashes. the national guard called in to help. that storm turning deadly, claiming at least three lives in north carolina alone. a driver killed after this tree came crashing down. this storm dropped sta
things so they could couple some of the budget of the city by criminalizing people. that s what we saw there. and it is a blaring example about what we re talking about, a system set up that really wants to be in total disarray just to support themselves financially. we are talking about an administration now, ben, that is going back to supporting privatizing federal prisons. absolutely, reverend al. and it s one of the things that is as ni is asenine when you think about it, putting people in prison, you make profit off putting people in prison on probation. so it is very important tupac shakur in 1994, so people can