15 million followers, many of them children. Tonight the backlash. Californias new gold rush, inside the Worlds Largest market for legal recreational pot. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening and happy new year. Great to be back with you. Millions of americans made the post holiday track back to work and schools today in the teeth of an arctic blast that has left at least 15 people dead. Triggered wind chill and deep freeze warnings from the deep south, state of emergency in georgia, to new england. Perilous travel, left firefighters battling fire and ice, turned Niagara Falls into a chilling still life. For some, the worst is still to come. Blake mccoy with the latest. Oh, my god. Someone just ran off the road. Reporter tonight 19 degre a massive pileup is snarling interstate 90, a foreboding look at whats to come with a major snowstorm set to move up the east coast. Wow. Look at that truck. Reporter much of the country already sits under a brutal deep fre
Morning, 8 degrees in clinton right now. Aside from this, were tracking snow in part of the area as we go overnight into early tomorrow morning. Ill show you the timing on that and well talk more about it straight ahead. What a relief to neighbors and anyone who commutes through silver springs. New hampshire avenue is back open this morning. Part of the road near the beltway was shut down all day tuesday for a broken water main. The water in that area is back on too, from bethesda to southeast d. C. The frigid cold caused several water main breaks on tuesday. The break on the road in bethesda turned the street into a virtual ice rink. That bitter blast were feeling could keep kids in fairfax waiting on their ride to school today. On tuesday some oe because of the cold weather and hundreds of students were forced to wait in the cold for nearly an hour. This morning you can track any delays from the nbc washington app. Just search bus delays. In southeast d. C. , Cramer Middle School wil
To stay ahead of the weather when we are not on air. Download it for your iphone or Android Device we ll send yu push alerts when rain is heading to your area and you can use our live radar to track the storm. Breaking news this morning. A breakup of epic proportions. Moments ago. The president of the united states. Blasting one of his closest associates, steve bannon. It comes after reports bannon accused President Trump s sons. Of treason. Scott mcgrew. Is here to explain what s going on. Good morning. Steve bannon. You ll remember. Was donald trump s top political advisor. They two parted ways amicably when bannon stepped down from the white house late last summer. But the two were still close. It was bannon who encouraged trump to back roy moore in alabama. That freindship appeared to spin apart this morning after bannon was quoted by a book author. Calling trump s son ad indeed the whole campaign. Treasonous. For a meeting it conducted with russians at the trump tower. A meeting d
And her mother is from turkey. As a muslim she is concerned about the trump travel ban. Making sure that we arent discriminated further. We are not excluded further from coming to america, trying to escape war that they didnt necessarily wage. Richard this is a diverse area. Students of race and religion organized the walkout negotiated with school officials. Ewant to allow civil engagement but stress there are consequences. My family is christian and also republican. Richard carly brooks who also came to the rally says this has been an interesting time for her and her family. Half my family is conservative. Half is liberal. I think they support me in what i believe in and i support what they believe in even if its not what i believe in. Richard so about 150 students here. They will face a tardy or a skip mark on their records. About a days a lot of passion on social media about all of this. Some folks saying that they should stay in school. Others supporting the student. A lot of folk
15 million followers, many of them children. Tonight the backlash. Californias new gold rush, inside the Worlds Largest market for legal recreational pot. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening to our viewers in the west and happy new year. Great to be back with you. Millions of americans made the post holiday track back to work and schools today in the teeth of an arctic blast that has left at least 15 people dead. Triggered wind chill and deep freeze warnings from the deep south, state of emergency in georgia to new england. There has been perilous travel, left firefighters battling fire and ice, turned Niagara Falls into a chilling still life. For some, the worst is still to come. Blake mccoy with the latest. Oh, my god. Someone just ran off the road. Reporter tonight 19 degrees and snowing in buffalo. A massive pileup is snarling interstate 90, a foreboding look at whats to come with a major snowstorm set to move up the east coast. Wow. Look at that truck