Wild weather. It all happened so fast. Heavy rain and strong winds cause major damages to parts of maryland. The scary moments for some homeowners. Hello, everybody. Im denise koch. Heres what people are talking tonight. Trees snapped like twigs in parts ever maryland in cecil county. Some say it sounded like a tornado. Wjz is live with first warning coverage. Bob turk has been tracking these storms all day. First heres Meghan Mccorkell with the damage left behind. Reporter those storms tore through cecil county this afternoon, leaving nearly 1,500 people in the dark. Trees uprooted, branches everywhere. Once a wellmanicured front lawn this now looks like a war zone. All the trees were flailing back and forth. It was scary at the time. Reporter the powerful storm pushed through this cecil county neighborhood snapping trees and bringing down power lines. I heard what sounded like a Freight Train and a helicopter together. Reporter sarah porter was in her bedroom and tried to run for the
History that was offending a sizable group of people, id think about changing it. D. C. s congressional delegate compared the r words to the n word. Dont you dare use those terms now. Because we are 10 of the population and the only difference between us and our native american brothers and sisters is they are 2 or 3 percent of postoperativulation. Discuss just how they got their high school to change the teams name from redskins. Still going to be the same team. Its going to be the same, have the same games, going to have the same rivalries. I dont know, just great atmosphere you can make, but without the racial slur. Leaders have been in touch with the nfl. They have heard back. There will be a face to face meeting. You also get the impression that Dan Schneider will not be a part of that meeting when it happens. A spokesman declined to be interviewed today. He confirmed a meeting with the Indian Nation has been set for november 22. He says that meeting will be moved to an earlier da
Celebrate with her husband and kids after winning silver in the skeleton. Were going to talk to her and her family live today, saturday, february 15th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games with lester holt live from olympic park in sochi, russia, and erica hill live from rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt here in sochi with natalie morales, erica hill and dylan dreyer back home. Were going to check in with both of them in just a little bit. We also want to tell you, that crowd back there, theyre like [ cheers and applause ] huge crowd theyre going to probably leave us in a short order to go over to that u. S. Versus russia hockey just across the way. Thats right. Theyre getting warming up for a rivalry. Were in the middle of the action for now, though, and we need to chant along with them, usa. Usa i cant wait well get right to todays top story. We are in the middle of several olympic ev
Hockey just across the way. Thats right. Theyre getting warming up for a rivalry. Were in the middle of the action for now, though, and we need to chant along with them, usa. Usa i cant wait well get right to todays top story. We are in the middle of several olympic events right now. So, here is what happened so far this morning. The americans failed to win a medal this morning in the womens superg. Austriana fenninger got the gold and Julia Mancuso came in eighth. And Eddie Alvarez was eliminated after separate crashes. There was a lot of action, though, last night from a roughandtumble night for mens figure skating to one of our favorite moments so far. Noelle pikuspace has that olympic medal she finally has it this morning, silvers never seemed so sweet. Oh, my goodness thank you, thank you, thank you so much 31yearold noelle pikuspace came out of retirement in the hopes of winning an olympic medal in womens skeleton. Friday, she did just that. And in one of the most memorable celeb
Trivia under his belt. Hes quickly gaining fans on line. Today, saturday, january 5, line. Today, saturday, january 5, 2013. Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television still feels weird saying 2013. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Nice to have you back. I was gone last weekend, youve been here every day. Im making up for you since you have three jobs. Nice to be here. I wrote 2013, first check of the year, did you mess it up . No, i didnt. I wrote it. Happy new year. Theres a blockbuster new report were talking about in the New York Times that claims that Lance Armstrong is thinking about admitting publicly that he used performance enhancing drugs and blood transfusions during his cycling career. As you know, hes been dogged by allegations for years, but hes always denied them even as he was stripped of his title. Well hear more including what his lawyer says. A lot of people talking about that. Plus, hes in hawaii now, but president obama is