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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 until 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 under a state of emergency as heavy rai
and this is our western edition. 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 10,000 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? reporter: 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 think. i m really nervous. reporter: 800 flights were canc
us that it happened very quick ly. that a lot of them heard it and really didn t see it take place. but two people who talked to israel radio describe this man as being all dressed in black. you see he leaves that bag behind. we re also hearing a clip behind from that gun. this is all crucial pieces of evidence going forward. he said they still don t know if this is criminal or a terrorist attack. but we have seen those. they re telling residents to go about their daily lives, be more precautious. the police are saying they didn t have intelligence leading up to this. a big manhunt under way. there s also been a frightening incident at a mosque in france. a driver tried to run over soldiers guarding the mosque. they opened fire after he rammed into them twice. the driver and a number of soldiers were injured. all of this happening as two busy train stations in munich reopened after a terror threat closed them new year s eve. senior international correspondent frederick pliek
History remembers the revolutionary leaders Zapata, Villa, and other he-men. The women, who lived in silence, went on to oblivion. A few women warriors refused to be erased: Juana Ramona, “la Tigresa,” who took several cities by assault; Carmen Vélez, “la Generala,” who commanded three hundred men; Ángela Jiménez, master dynamiter, who called herself Angel…