Winter sports playground. Dylan is about to head to the top of the massive ramp. Today, friday, february 12th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a chilly friday morning. Even as a yankee fan, im happy to see whats going on at fenway park. Theyve transformed that place into a winter wonderland. You called it wicked big air, and id add wicked cold air. Itll be freezing or below freezing or below zero i i a lot of the country. 30 degreeselow normal. Al is tside on a frigid plaza. Good morning. Good morning. I have to tell you, this is rough. Heres what happens when you combine a broken water main in scranton, pennsylvania, and brutally cold air. Its an instant ice sculpture. Coating power lines and homes. They finally have g gten it under control, but it crereed a mess. Well see more scenes like this over the next 48 hours. Heres whats happening, again, as we men
A dream the family couldnt wake up from. Forced to celebrate life, and grieve death, at the same time. We would have to ask a nurse to go and get our daughters body from the morgue, or wherever they were keeping her cooled, Jeremy Cotter said. Precious time for a grieving family. But, that grief led to an act of generosity. Last month, the cotters started fundraising for whats called a cuddle cot. Made in the uk, the device allows a childs body to be cooled, at a mothers bedside, preserving the body so it wont decompose. Her back to the morgue. Every time we were visiting with her, lisa cotter said. The cotters hope they can help other families, dealing with a loss, by donating lukes, in sioux city. We would have been able to have her with us whenever we wanted to see her, Jeremy Cotter said. Mercy Medical Center already has one. And, the cotters hope, one day, theyll be available to every grieving family in their time of need. The cotters will donate the cuddle cot to st. Lukes, in el
Mothershed kept his head down during todays court proceeding. He was released from a hospital and booked into the Woodbury County jail yesterday. Mothersheds bond has been set at 300thousand dollars. Hes scheduled to appear in court again next friday. Coming up on ktiv news 4 at six, more details in the mothershed investigation. A Police Officer has died after an overnight shooting in fargo, north dakota. The suspected shooter was later found dead in his home. The shooting happened when officers responded to a dometic disturbance. After the officers shooting there was a standoff with the suspected shooter. Its not clear yet if the suspect killed himself or died from police gunfire. The incident has shocked the community, a city that rarely sees such violence. It has been more than 100 years since a fargo Police Officer has died in the line of duty. The armed occupation of a National Wildlife refuge, in eastern oregon, is over the four remaining occupiers surrendered peacefully today. N
Commute a little on the slick side. Today will also bbing some gradual sunshine that wont yield much in the way of warmth with highs only in the teens. Tonight is when the real cold arrives with lows dipping below zero and wind chills reaching into the 10s and 20s in most spots, so bundle up if youre going out tonight we wont get much relief from said temperatures tomorrow either as we introduce flurries and snow showers during the day. Its saturday night when the main snow system will move through mainly our northern and easternmost counties, so you folks could see anywhere from 24 inches of the white stuff. The rest of us including those in around sioux city will get a bit less than that as this completely exits sunday morning. The rest of valentines day will bring a brisk south breeze and finally some better warming into the 30s that will stick around next week and eventually warm into the 40s see graphics. Wx timer 40 the sioux city teen accused of shooting cop early sundy morning
In appomattox county, and waverly, virginia tomorrow. Those are two of the hardest hit areas from todays storm system. One person is missing in the evergreen area of appomattox county. There have been at least three deaths, and a centra spokesperson confirms three people are being treated for critical injuries at Centra Community hospital two others are being treated there two people with injuries are being treated at Lynchburg General Hospital. Tomorrow, appomattox county schools will be closed. And Patrick County schools will operate on a twohour delay. Some of the worst damage in our region is in appomattox county. Dozens of homes are damaged or destroyed in the community of evergreen. Wdbj7s tim saunders is live there tonight. Melissa, this is what were seeing all over this area. Trees are down and so are power lines. Virtually no one in appomattox county has electrictity dozens of homes are damaged, and a mobile home across the highway from where im standing was completely torn ap