to a decades-old fuel design still being used in med evacs and hundreds of helicopters. nightly news begins right now. good evening. on what is a dangerous weather night, in the next 24 hours more than half of the country will have experienced the most severe weather of this winter season so far. more than 75 million people in the path of heavy snow, blizzard conditions and ice, another 30 million on alert for flash flooding across ten states. this system has already spawned deadly tornados and it is not moving quickly. nbc s jacob rascon is in omaha, nebraska, where it has been snowing all day. jacob? reporter: good evening. tonight the deadly and crippling storm is prompting evacuation, states of emergency and swift water rescues. the midwest and plain states are taking a direct hit on an abrupt end to what was now an unseasonably warm winter. havoc across the midwest in plain states today. heavy snow, ice and gale-force winds spreading across 11 states. missouri unde
with scott pelley. i m jim axelrod. the deadly storm system that claimed 56 lives as it swept through the south and midwest is now dumping snow on northern new england. half a foot has fallen in maine. it s also producing historic flooding in missouri, where they re filling and stacking sandbags to hold back the surging mississippi river. bad weather is blamed for more than tin,000 flight delays in the past few days, and more than 4,000 cancellations. we have a team of correspondents deployed, beginning with adriana diaz at chicago s o hare airport. adriana. appropriate jim, all day long, we ve seen lines stretch across the length of the terminal as passengers try to get through security and to their gates, but many flights were canceled or delayed. crowded chaos took over the terminals here. check-in lines, six rows deep. security checkpoints, packed with passengers, running out of patience. i don t even know what to i m really nervous. reporter: 800 flights were cancele
flood, claiming dozens of lives and there is more pane ahead. a wintry mess moving into the northeast. same areas in the 70s, a few days ago, getting the first winter storm of the season. the manhunt for the affluenza teen is over. demonstrators marched in cleveland, where the grand jury decided not to indict the officers involved in the shooting of the 12-year-old boy. a huge security breach. a drone flewed a janet to the motorcade before acts forced him out. donald trump is taking aim at someone new. that hurricane, obama went to new jersey, he was like a little child, christie. disturbing video of a massive gas leak. it s causing evacuations for thousands of residents. they got to do something about it. rock n roll icon lemmy he started out as a road di for jimmy hendrix. stuck inside, a local fire chief was able pull him to safety. all that. another hoverboard going up in flames. this time, it was a part of a display, still in its box. the bron
be right back. [ vocalizing ] [ buzzing ] [ tree crashes ] [ wind howling ] now to ethan couch, the so-called affluenza kid. couch was wanted for possibly violating probation in texas after beating prison time in a fatal drunk driving crash with a defense that left many people shaking their heads. after a three-week manhunt, omar via frank ca says he has been arrested in mexico. ethan couch s newly dyed black hair didn t fool authorities who caught the teenager on monday despite looking very different than he did two years ago when he was first charged in the deadly drunk drying accident. tarrant county deanderson. we worked a tremendous amount of leads and learnrn through some interviews that they had planned to disappear, that they almost akin to a going away party. reporter: investigators say couch and his mother tonya drove a pickup truck into mexico and ended up more than 1200 miles from north texas in the coastal resort town of puerto vallarta. they fled shortly a
batters the nation. tornadoes, ice storms, flash flood, aiming dozens of lives and there is more pane ahead. a wintry messov ming iont the northeast. same areas in the 70s, a few days ago, getting the first winter storm of the se. ason he manhunt for the affluenza teen is over. demonstrators marched in cleveland, where the grand jury decided not to indict the officers involved in the shooting of the 12-year-old boy. a huge security breach. a drone flewed a janet to the motorcade before acts forced him out. donald trump is taking aim at onsomee new. that hurricane, obama went to new jersey, he was like a little child, christie. disturbing video of a massive gas leak. it sau csing evacuations for thousands of residents. they got to do something about it. rock ro n ll icon lemmy kilmister zooid died. he started out as a road di for jimmy hendrix. stuck inside, a local fire chief was able pull him to safety. all that. another hoverboard going up in flame