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[000:00:59;00] teeth clamped down on her leg, how she got him to let go. nightly news begins right now. announcer: from nbc nightly news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. we begin with stunning late breaking news. president trump has fired james comey as director of the fbi. it comes without warning and sending shock waves across washington this evening, the president dismissing the man who was leading the investigation into his campaign. comey, an obama appointee, with less than four years into a 10 year term when he became a political lightning rod over the last year between investigations into hillary clinton and into possible collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government. we get late details now from our chief white house reporter, hallie jackson. reporter: tonight, a stunning development that seemed to come with little warning. the president abruptly firing james comey, writing to ....
the gulf and tracks off our coast. some rain may be heavy, rain chance 70%. highs near 60. saturday is dry before the next system forms in the gulf and will bring us a chance of showers on sunday. position of this low and its track will determine how much rain we receive, will continue to watch. we re keeping an eye on a developing story out of iran 10 u.s. navy sailors who were aboard two small boats being held by iran are expected to be transferred to a u.s. ship this morning. the pentagon says the boats drifted into iranian waters in the persian gulf after one of the sailors were picked up by iranian forces near farsi island. we ll have much more on this story ahead on sunrise at 5am. top story of the morning. south carolina is once again in the national political spotlight with governor nikki haley s address following president obama s final state of the union address. the governor gave the address from the governor s mansion last night. she highlighted major turni ....
room friday. someone contagious four days before they get the rash and four days after they have the rash. there s an 8-day period of time. reporter: it s not known if the teen was vaccinated or if he s been out in the public. but health officials say he is self isolating at home. it s certainly something we don t want someone going to the movies going to the grocery store and really potentially spreading this to others. reporter: dr. john russell the director of family medicine says abington memorial hospital started implementing necessary precaution when a case was confirmed on monday in cumberland county. since then three cases have been found in central pennsylvania. while precautions are in place dr. russell says 95% of the public has had the vaccine is not at risk and shouldn t be alarmed. you should feel very protect protected. it s not 100% protect but it s in the upper 90 s and that s what s so important about being vaccinated. reporter: new castle ....
identified at a hospital in abington. diana rocco is live with developing details in the story diana. reporter: jessica that 15-year-old walked into the emergency room here at abington memorial hospital this afternoon afternoon. tonight he is following doctors orders at home in self ice laying. montgomery county health officials are investigating a physician suspected case of measles in a 15-year-old boy. while abington memorial hospital will not confirm or deny a source tells cbs3 that the teen was treated in their emergency room friday. someone contagious four days before they get the rash and four days after they have the rash. there s an 8-day period of time. reporter: it s not known if the teen was vaccinated or if he s been out in the public. but health officials say he is self isolating at home. it s certainly something we don t want someone going to the movies going to the grocery store and really potentially spreading this to others. reporter: dr. joh ....
at the present time in cape may. now, the clouds are there and you can see them on storm scan three. we will find precipitation but probably not during the the the day. there is only a tiny chance that you would see any precipitation today, most of it comes overnight and then as we go through the the day on monday. thirty-five in philadelphia right now. thirty-four in trenton. 35 degrees in wilmington. everybody starting to pick up a degree or two. as we look at the day finding temperatures by noon 43 degrees, by the the time we hit 3:00 p.m. we are at 48 and some areas you could be warmer than that to the north maybe cooler. future weather, thinks key so if you can look up, look up, and notice that this computer model would like to clear us out in some spots tonight the but tomorrow morning, we will start to see this precipitation coming in. the timing on this slow moving system could change but for now it says, that by 9:00 o clock tomorrow morning we will starting to ....