f.a., we learn something about what can cause cancer, what can cause bone marrow failure. so our very, very brave patients and our very, very brave families are often our best teachers. ifill: then, we continue our breakthrough series with a look at one doctor s mission to change the way physicians treat patients, by using big data to determine what s most effective. what we re trying to do is use the data to really drive decisions in real time so that patients value systems can really be the biggest driver. he s got the power and as far as i m concerned that s the way it ought to be. ifill: and, one film boyhood, took 12 years to make, while another, selma took 50 years to tell. jeffrey brown looks back on the year at the movies. those are some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial is committed
f.a., we learn something about what can cause cancer, what can cause bone marrow failure. so our very, very brave patients and our very, very brave families are often our best teachers. ifill: then, we continue our breakthrough series with a look at one doctor s mission to change the way physicians treat patients, by using big data to determine what s most effective. what we re trying to do is use the data to really drive decisions in real time so that patients value systems can really be the biggest driver. he s got the power and as far as i m concerned that s the way it ought to be. ifill: and, one film boyhood, took 12 years to make, while another, selma took 50 years to tell. jeffrey brown looks back on the year at the movies. those are some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial is committed
something like this happening. reporter: it drew a neighborhood crowd. a few inches either way this could have been a disaster. house looked find. no puncture wounds from the inside. i think we are okay. you see the dent. he was smiling on his family. his pine crashed on his door step, inches from where children were about to go out the door. people could lose their lives very easily. we were lucky. reporter: not so lucky, the owner of this truck in this surveillance video. the owner told us his toyota is a total loss. two trees crashed across the street. again no one seriously hurt. police said they closed the road if 18 hours till pg&e could restore downed power lines. crews have almost completely restored the 201,000 bay area customers who lost power. reporter: coming up at 6:00 p.m. i will have the drama of a tree falling with kids around and why the tree is still here. back to you. a busy new year s eve. thank you, john. winds played a role in a deadly
millions are thawing out this morning after celebrations around the country to welcome the new year. philadelphia hosted its annual fireworks show over the delaware river. people also crowded around baltimore s chilly inner harbor ring, rather to ring in 2015, but wendy gillette shows us the biggest celebration in times square where about a million people watched the ball drop. reporter: the glittering waterford crystal ball dropped over times square ushering in 2015 for the estimated 1 million people on hand to watch. they came from all over the world. where are you from? i m from stos kariya. reporter: most arrived to secure their viewing spots earlier in the morning. after going through security they were confined to massive pens where they couldn t leave even to use the bathroom. officers and bomb-sniffing dogs were on patrol to keep everyone safe. the temperature felt like it was in the teens and there was nowhere to get warm. i am freezing. i m from florida, b
is nbc nightly news with brian williams. good evening. i m kate snow in for brian on this new year s eve. it s been exactly four days since the tower lost contact with airasia flight 8501 and despite intense efforts with poor weather in the area search teams don t appear to be any closer to finding the bulk of the wreckage in that plane. indonesian rescuers have recovered several bodies and debris floating in shallow water. but for many an awful wait continues. we begin with nbc s katy tur in surabaya. reporter: as many in indonesia celebrated the start of the new year this small group prayed for their lost loved ones. after four days searchers have pulled seven bodies from the waters. among them four men and three women including a flight attendant still in her uniform. like everyone else we are shocked. we never thought that reporter: despite it all families of the missing refuse to give up hope. we believe that our life and death are in god s hands, she says. w