her say babe, pretty women wonder where my secret lies. sam: oprah winfrey did not miss a beat. unable to read her script, she started reciting maya angelou s poetry from memory. first lady michelle obama was among those in the audience and she stayed in the dark through the end of the show. at this point, pepco is telling us that there are no other problems in the system. everything should be back to normal. reporting live from northwest washington, sam ford, abc 7 news. alison: the show must go on over there, sam. thank you. meanwhile, the outage forced the university of maryland to close campus today at 2:00 p.m. brianne carter continues our team coverage live from college park with the latest from there. brianne, what can you tell us? brianne: within the last five minutes, we ve learned that university officials say most of the power to the north campus has been restored. that includes a number of dorms there on the north campus and in talking to students, many were afr
phase, they are looking to return to that argument that the older brother planned all of this and now they have to decide whether he ll get the death penalty. leon: the jury in the aaron hernandez trial in boston returned today from the first full day of deliberation. he is charged in the 2013 murder of his friend oden lloyd. hernandez hernandez s lawyer acknowledged he was there but not the one who pulled the trigger. prosecutors said that he planned the murder and tried to cover it up. alison: we turn to breaking news coming to us from the district this afternoon. police have made a second arrest in the murder of david messerschmitt. he was the attorney found dead inside the donovan hotel back in february. brianne carter is in northwest with these breaking details. brianne, tell us about it. brianne: alison this is in the last 90 minutes we ve learned there have been another arrest made by metropolitan police. they tell us that 19-year-old dominique johnson was arrest the e
himself in yesterday. teeter is accused of striking and killing rick warrick as he changed a tire on the shoulder of the road. warrick s fiancee was injured in that incident. teeter is scheduled to go on trial in june. and now, let s lurnturn to the weather. we are seeing a bit of a repeat of yesterday. we have the rain and gray skies. leon: all right. same old same old, huh? what should we expect coming in tonight? doug hill at his post in the storm watch weather center. how does it look? doug: for this evening and early tonight, the same kind of stuff. cool, dark air with temperatures mostly in the 40 s right now. severe thunderstorm and severe thunderstorm watch. some violent weather out there. it s possible some of that could get here, too. cloudy and damp. no rain around the area right now. very little rain at all, in fact. look at the temperatures starting to change. 45 in baltimore and gaithersburg. 50 at reagan national. 46 at manassas. but the farther west you go the
so for this evening, we ll keep an eye open for scattered showers and thunderstorms. any storms developing could be heavy. current trend is south and east of washington for the potential of severe weather as we see it and eventual end tonight and weekend looks spectacular. happy to share that and keep you up to date on the storms in a few minutes. back to you. leon: the midwest has got a deadly taste of severe weather. the governor of illinois says a second person has died after tornadoes struck the northern part of that state. one of the hardest hit areas is fairdale. tornadoes flattened buildings there and the storms left devastation in the town of rochelle. search and rescue teams are continuing to dig through the rubble. looking for any survivors. just ahead here we ll have a live report from fairdale where victims are assessing the damage this hour. now, in central north carolina one man was killed after he was struck by lightning last night. several homes and apartment
of jfk jr., his relationship with his mother, and how she really felt about the women in his life. today monday, october 27th, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on monday morning. i m matt lauer along with hoda kotb, al roker and natalie morales. savannah returns a week from today. yes. little vale. meanwhile, we have there book coming up the good son about jfk jr. and his relationship with jackie. hard to believe it s 15 years since he died. he would have been 54 years old next month. wow. any new yorker will remember if you look back in that 1 knife years ago remember seeing him. i remember seeing him playing frisbee in the park. those times you remember. let s get to our top story on monday morning. it s the fallout over new measures in place by some states to try to stop the spread of ebola. a nurse just back from west africa held in a tent is now