Whats on the banned list as the government gets ready to announce some tough new rules for the foods so many of us love. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, savannah guthrie. Good evening. There is a storm coming tonight. And for the parts of the gulf coast in the bullseye there may be no more frightening words to hear. This is the giant rainmaking system heading at this hour toward texas, louisiana, and the ozarks. Some of the very places drenched by historic rains just a few weeks ago. Now the National Weather Service Warning of potentially lifethreatening floods. And tonight another dangerous storm system were watching in the midwest. Tornado sirens sounding in chicago. Weve got it all covered starting with nbcs Janet Shamlian in houston. Reporter a tropical system targeting the gulf coast. Tonight, the rush to get ready. Want to be prepared just in case anything bad happens. Reporter pote
Blackstone has the latest. Medic two for medical emergency. Reporter at 12 41 a. M. Ambulances rushed to the building where a fourthfloor balcony broke away. At least ten people fell from the second or third floor. Reporter it happened during a latenight 21st Birthday Party with a group of irish students most of them visiting on summer work visas. Owen buckley is a student from ireland who heard the commotion from his thirdfloor apartment. Reporter at least 13 people were on the balcony, which appeared to peel away from the building, landing upside down on the balcony of the floor below spilling victims 50 feet on to the street. Jason biswas also lives in the building with his parents. I looked down. It was just death. I was in the presence of a lot of death. I didnt want to stay there for too long. Reporter the students are visiting on the popular j1 visa program, which allows foreign students to work and travel in the u. S. During the summer. In ireland, the deaths and injuries are s
Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. Tuesday, june 16th 5 00 a. M. In the east. Joyce mitchell the prison worker who helped two convicted killers escape from the prison in new york. Mitchell was sexually involved with one of the inmates and helped them break out and may have been involved in a plot to kill her husband. Here is what the local District Attorney had to say about that. In agreement between Joyce Mitchell and both matt and sweat as to whether they were going to harm Lyle Mitchell ill not comment. Mitchell is held in a six by nine foot cell. She is calm and cooperative according to authorities. The search for the escaped convicts may have gone cold. These two men have vanished. We get more from cnns miguel marquez. Reporter christine and john we know a sexual relationship was had between mitchell and matt and sweat. We are being told that the relationship between all three of them was somewhat more complicated than we understood at first. She befriend
Could according to chad myers get that way in ft. Myers. For tampa, which is further north, expecting 5 to 8 feet of storm surge. Im on the Caloosahatchee River roogt now, probably 7 or 8 feet over the river so this little area would not be able to we wouldnt be able to stand here 24 hours from now. Chris, i imagine in the same location where you are, youre not going to be able to be there tomorrow either. No. Similar dynamics that you were identifying. Getting a little gust now. Its picked up, no question. But this is not the real deal as you rightly point out. The water ootzly overwhelmed this area when we got that first moderate band of stormtype rain here. Even though we see the shift in the path of the storm, its projected path, nothings a certainty here no ma matter how much they model. The officials on the ground have said do not come back and if you are in an evacuation zone c, the time between these bands as opportunity, do what you were told, make the choice for safety. Lets
I understand you ran into some of the Public Safety officials there, what are you hearing from them . Reporter a lot of the Public Safety here is they are still here, but the infrastructure for the police and fire and Everything Else has been absolutely devastated, and thats why they are getting help coming in from the outlying communities. Getting here is difficult. We had a hard time. Water is overflowing many of the roads, many of the main highways to get in here, power lines down all over, and then theres the trees on top of that, so devastation on the outskirts of town, especially for trailers, but absolute destruction on the inside of town here, and the problem is, they are only just now getting organized to try to come about the First Responders. Take a look. You can tell this is very much a town that is still caught up in the shock of the storm. They are still trying to organize their first response. You got emergency teams that are starting to arrive, a lot of them have come f