john yang, nbc news, chicago. >>> still ahead tonight, targeting cancer. when all else failed, the innovative treatment that appeared to have worked in one little girl. tonight what doctors are calling an exciting new development. >>> we are back with a fascinating new frontier in targeting cancer. a first success for a technique that appears to have worked in treating a little girl with leukemia. it involves a donor's immune cells that were genetically modified to fight the girl's cancer. we get details from keir simmons tonight. >> it is like a dream. >> this one-year-old girl may owe her short life to an exciting medical advance and her parents decision to take a risk. >> we saw it as the only decision. there was no other option. >> layla was dying of leukemia. mom and dad agreed to treatment in a london hospital never used before. it seems to have kicked her cancer into remission. >> so far, so good. she is just well. >> the technique is called gene editing. the cells are removed and tweaked to recognize cancer and attack it. when the super-charged cel

lester. >> john yang in akron tonight. thank you. >>> another deadly explosion caught on video. keep an eye on the upper part of your screen. the roof blown off a house in new jersey. one person was killed. 15 others were hurt. pulled from the two-family home. investigators are trying to determine if it was a gas line explosion. >>> tonight tens of millions of people are taking shelter from a huge storm churning across the country. triggering both blizzard warnings and tornado warnings. a wild mix as this powerful system slides from west to east. reported tornados already today and a dangerous night ahead. nbc's stephanie gosk is in the storm zone. >> reporter: a dangerous triple threat tonight. blizzard conditions, tornado warnings. >> the storms are moving fast. >> reporter: and powerful tropical storm force wind gusts are bearing down on much of the country. reports of several tornados already. as tens of millions are in the storm's vicious path. >> watch out for the west winds coming out of here across iowa this evening. i think gusts up to 60 are possible. >> reporter: wind

john yang, nbc news, zion, illinois. >>> that is "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm thomas roberts reporting from new york. thanks for watching and have a great night. right now at 6. we're watching the skies for >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >> right now, at 6:00 we are watching the skies for more rain. two storms in two weeks? look at our live picture of the golden gate bridge. the change that's coming soon. good evening, i'm terry mcsweeney. peggy bunker has the evening off. if you liked the storm we had on monday. how about another one starting tomorrow? this one not as big. but curing the drought we will take what we can get. you can see the green bubbling up along the coast. anthony slaughter joining us now. bubbling up is not necessarily a meter logical term. >> it's forming. that's the key. >> there we go. >> shower activity starting to develop. in fact, today hard to understand that the storm is moving through, look at this. clear skies all day long. blue skies, and now that the sun has gone down we have a few high thin clouds. that's the storm makin

john yang with the story now. >> reporter: four weeks after the gang related shooting of a 9-year-old boy stunned an already violence weary chicago, today, police announced charges in the case. >> corey morgan is a documented gang member, a convicted felon. and as you know, we picked him up just a couple weeks ago with yet another firearm. >> reporter: police are also seeking 22-year-old kevin edwards on a murder charge. a third suspect is in custody on unrelated charges. police say tyshawn lee was lured from a basketball game with friends and taken to an alley where he was murdered. targeted because of his father's alleged gang ties. investigators say they got lots of tips despite fears. >> if you have a monster who's willing to assassinate a 9-year-old what is that person likely to do if they know that someone is cooperating with the case? >> reporter: less than an hour later and five miles away, hundreds of marchers converged on the city's magnificent mile. the dozen blocks of historic michigan avenue where high-end retailers opened their doors to black friday shoppers. their focus

john yang, nbc news, chicago. >>> still ahead tonight, targeting cancer. when all else failed, the innovative treatment that appeared to have worked in one little girl. here at td ameritrade, they love innovating. and apparently, they also love stickers. what's up with these things, victor? we decided to give ourselves stickers for each feature we release. we read about 10,000 suggestions a week to create features that as traders we'd want to use, like social signals, a tool that uses social media to help with research. 10,000 suggestions. who reads all those? he does. for all the confidence you need. >>> we are back with a fascinating new frontier in targeting cancer. a first success for a technique that appears to have worked in eating a little girl with leukemia. it involves a donor's immune cells that were genetically modified to fight the girl's cancer. we get details from keir simmons tonight. >> it is like a dream. >> this one-year-old girl may owe her short life to an exciting medical advance and her parents decision to take a risk. >> we saw it as

john yang, nbc news, zion, illinois. >>> that is "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm thomas roberts reporting from new york. night.i'm robert lowe it was all hands on deck today at the methodist church in le mars, iowa. more than 50 volunteers came together to make 100 units that will provide clean drinking water for those in need. ktiv's tommie clark spoke with those volunteers. << nat pop of machine. it was almost 15 years ago that greg stout founded safe water international ministries. "to me it's just a way of showing and sharing my faith with others. i've sat for years in a church pew and felt like i was accomplishing nothing. i felt like god had something more for me to do," said safe

john yang, nbc news, zion, illinois. >>> that is "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm thomas roberts reporting from new york. thanks for watching night.084715 - its always a pretty quiet neighborhood, you never see anything exciting around here straight ahead tonight... homicide investigations... two different cases in two different parts of the metro... what we know about the suspects... and how long it's been since a murder in this suburban town 145521 - people who were like i'm thinking about adopting and maybe they will actual move towards it more after events like this adoption awareness... november is national adoption awareness month. the events held in the metro to celebrate those in process or those have been adopted. and why organizers say there is a need for foster parents comicon festival... the event is growing in popularity.... where you can catch all the action... and the famous actors you could run into there 21:20:12 "you know what, waukee is a safe place to live -

nbc's john yang explains. this morning yet another bizarre twist to the story of lieutenant charles j. gliniewicz... sot anne marrin / fox lake village administrator "it's very unsettling." investigators say he may have wanted to rub out village administrator anne marrin. sot anne marrin / fox lake village administrator :14-:20 "it's no surprise he would go to great lengths to keep secret his criminal activity secret and ongoing" he contacted someone he knew by facebook messenger: graphic: "close to entertaining a meeting with a mutual acquaintance..." s/ detective chris covelli / lake county sheriff dept. :28-:37 "the third party, she told us that it was for, he had contacted her to reach out to the high level motorcycle gang member for a hit. the gang member denied any involvement and investigators consider the matter closed. marrin was going expose his seven-year explorer program he ran. on august 31st, gliniewicz texted: "she has now demanded a complete inventory of exploder central and a financial said, g

john yang, nbc news, zion, illinois. >>> that is "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm thomas roberts reporting from new york. night.destorys an iconic clubhouse in amana? plus -- there's something for everyone in eastern iowa this weekend. and a terrible cough for dogs throughout the cedar valley. thanks for joining us tonight. welcome totothe k-w-w-l nnws at six i'm macleod hageman. the hawkeyes hit the field to take on university of indiana -- hoping their winning streak gains momentum. there's a lot on the line for iowa -- currently ranked at number ten. iowa was able to pull it off last week and get the win-- 35 to 27. they are now nine and oh. coming up later in n he show -- mmrk woodley explains what's in store for

more questions are being raised as john yang explains, over why the tapes can be seen but not heard. >> reporter: a new tape from indicted officer jason van dyke's car, shows him pursuing 17-year-old laquan mcdonald through a burger king parking lot, over a sidewalk and into the street. another tape from a car arriving after van dyke shot mcdonald 16 times shows no officers checking on him. van dyke's attorney says he acted in self-defense. officials have released video from five of the at least eight police cars at the scene. none includes officers voices. police can't explain why not. an attorney for the mcdonald family says it's happened before. >> in my experience, i've never had a case with an audio recording. >> reporter: today, the chorus of voices grew, calling for the oust of police superintendent and prosecutor anita alvarez. >> everybody involved in this is wrong. >> the bishop asked why it took 13 months for the policeman to be charged. >> officer van dyke was just as guilty last year in october as he was yesterday. >> hands up, don't shoot! >> reporter: for the second st

john yang, nbc news, fox lake, illinois. >> breaking news from the white house. any minute now president obama will be making an announcement there. he'll be joined by vice president biden and secretary of state john kerry. we expect him to formerly reject >>> earlier this week, a richard petty hauler was involved in an accident in louisiana. the motorsports hauler carrying two nascar sprint cup cars caught on fire. now we're learning of a second trailer hauling cars to the sprint series caught on fire on its way to the texas speedway. nascar fans this week have seen action on and off the track. you can catch the race at texas on nbc 4 on sunday starting at 2:00. >>> listen up, a taste of northern virginia starts on monday. a lot of you are sharing this story on the nbc facebook page. britney johnson is here with the scoop. >> you won't even have to think twice about what you want to eat for dinner next week, restaurant week begins on monday and lasts all week long. 50 of the best restaurants featured in northern virginia's magazine special will be featured. dins

john yang is at chicago's o'hare airport this morning. john, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, craig. the scene behind me really tells the story. the airline industry anticipating the busiest thanksgiving travel season since 2008 and the great recession. usually, weather is the worry as this weekend's midwest snowstorm reminds us. this time, with events unfolding in paris, there may be other things to consider. this morning, the airlines are trying to untangle the backlog of passengers left by saturday's weather-related delays and cancellations. as thanksgiving approaches, travel experts say there may be another reason for long airport lines. >> with all the travel warnings out there, literally, every airport has heightened security. >> reporter: the tsa is predicting its busiest travel season ever. they're recommending passengers show up at least two hours before flight time. amtrak riders can expect increased security, both at stations and on board trains. canine units and uniformed in midtown manhattan, terrorists -- tour

>> john yang at an already bustling o'hare this morning. thanks. >>> we're going to stay in chicago for the moment, as we turn to a scary situation. a fire in a high-rise. >> there in chicago, five people are recovering from injuries after an inferno in the john hancock center. the blaze was in the 99-floor tower. flames were shooting from a window halfway up the building. firefighters were able to put out the fire before it spread. >>> we're hearing from survivors of the terrorist attack in mali. 22 people died after gunmen opened fire at a tourist hotel in the capital city. keir simmons spoke to an american survivor, terry, who described the scene. >> i heard three terrorists come in. they started shooting in the room. they were standing right next to me. never seen me. the shell casings were hitting me under the table. i knew i was going to become a victim because all they had to do was look down. >> were they speaking? there was two males, one female. >> gunmen shot at random as guests barricaded themselves into rooms and hid under furn

john yang, nbc news, fox lake, illinois. >> police say they expect more shocking details to come out as the investigation continues. >>> a dying baby, desperate parents and doctors with a miracle treatment plan. why this little girl's story may be the next big breakthrough in the fight against cancer. >>> a boy with autism saves a seventh grader's life with the heimlich maneuver. why he's >>> going to be a busy holiday season for shipping packages, here's information to help you plan ahead. the post office is expected to deliver 15 billion pieces of holiday mail including 600 million packages between thanksgiving and new year's eve. that's 10% more than they delivered last year. to handle all of that, the extra load, the post office is hiring 30,000 temporary workers. will be delivered seven days a week starting november 29th, the busiest mailing days expected to be december 14th and the busiest delivery day is expected to be december 21st. >>> moms and dads, as you get ready for the holidays here is a reason to let your kids watch cartoons. a seventh grader saved a classmate from ch

let's go to nbc's john yang live. john, what more do we know about this hit and the investigation? >> reporter: kate, i'll tell you, that lead of the unbelievable development, you can use that practically every day of this story. this is an unbelievable development, that among the text messages that they recovered from glen know wits phone, that he deleted them before he killed himself, are messages to a woman trying to set up a meeting with a gang member to arrange a hit, as you say, on the village administrator. he was fearful in all of these messages that the village administrator was going to reshape, reform the village government and that this would threaten and perhaps expose what investigators say was his criminal activity, embezzling, skimming, looting money, whatever you want to call it, from an account of a police explorer's program. youth program that he ran here in fox lake. in the e-mail -- in the text messages that they gave us yesterday there was one reference to -- that seemed joking. he's messaging with someone named individual 2 and individual 2 says, hopefully sh

as nbc's john yang reports, lieutenant joe gliniewicz's life and son are now under investigation. >> reporter: this morning, the news that the wife and oldest son of lieutenant charles j. gliniewicz, known as g.i. joe, are reportedly under investigation is another shock for residents. >> my gosh, g.i. joe went from a hero to a criminal. >> reporter: two months ago, gliniewicz had a hero's funeral. he ran the explorers' program, teaching kids about law enforcement. now investigators say for seven years he stole from it. >> thousands of dollars were used by gliniewicz for personal purchases, travel expenses, mortgage payments, personal gym memberships. >> reporter: investigators released startling new details about how gliniewicz faked his own crime scene -- carefully placing his pepper spray, baton, and glasses to try to disguise his suicide as a death in the line of duty. they say gliniewicz, who had experience staging crime scenes for training, even fired a shot into his cell phone and bulletproof vest before the fatal shot into his upper torso. authoritiesreleased text messages tha

. >> nbc's john yang is in round lake beach, illinois. john, this is pretty shocking. >> reporter: it is incredibly shocking. not only was this whole story fabricated by this officer, the whole crime scene was fabricated by the officer. he left a trail of his equipment to make it look as if there was a struggle. he radioed in that he was pursuing three suspicious men. and also for years this 30-year veteran of the police force was seen as a pillar of the community. he was a mentor to youth through a program called the police explorers. youth who wanted to go into law enforcement. and now it turns out it's that very program that there is evidence that they took from his cell phone, from text messages, from e-mails and financial records he was stealing thousands of dollars from this program over several years and using it for personal purposes. that was going on the day before the suicide. the day before he killed himself, he called into the village administrators' office and said there would be a full and complete audit of that program, an

nbc's john yang is in chicago. john, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: well, the crowds behind me tell the story right now here at o'hare airport. a lot of these people scheduled to fly yesterday, but with the wind, the snow, the rain, the ice, hundreds of canceled flights. hundreds more delayed. the airline industry is predicting record travel this thanksgiving season, the most since 2008 and the great recession, and in addition to weather, security is a big concern after the events in paris. tsa expects to see heightened security at every airport around the country and they're advising folks to get to the airport about two hours ahead of their flight time and you will also see heightened security on amtrak, uniformed officers, k-9 units and not only in the stations, but also on the trains between the stations, but 89% of the 47 million americans expected to hit the road this week -- this thanksgiving week will do it on the highways. they'll drive. one big reason, the cheapest gas since 2008, $2.15 a gallon on average around the country, th

here's john yang. >> reporter: just two months after m officers from across the country mourn lieutenant charles joseph gliniewicz, the stunning announcement. >> this officer killeund himself. had been stealing from a police program for young people and laundering the money for seven years and he killed himself because he feared an oddt was about to uncover his criminal acts. investigators have poured through thousands of pages of records including text mesnl tt messages like this one.me officials defended the massive days long man hunt for the three men gliniewicz claimed he was pursuing, costing nearly a quarter of a million dollars the first day alone. they allege it was a carefully staged suicide. first dropping his pepper spray and a few feet later, his baton and then his glasses before killing himself. his semiautomatic weapon found. >> he had experience staging >> reporter: even the two gun shots were carefully planned. the first hit his bullet proof vest and the second was from a gun placed under the bullet proof vest, hitting a major artery. >> hear was my best friend. >> report

. >> nbc's john yang was there when the sister of that plane crash victim arrived and got the terrible news. john, what are we learned today? there was a news conference about the reasons for the crash. do we know anything more? >> reporter: well, the press conference is going on right now, andrea. we are hearing from the ohio state patrol, akron fire department, akron police department. they are now confirming that there were nine people aboard that plane. a pilot and a co-pilot, plus seven passengers. nine people aboard the plane. all nine dead. no survivors in the crash. and then we learned, also, from the family members that we just heard from of one of the victims that they were all working, the seven passengers, all working for peb enterprises which is a commercial property management firm from boca raton, florida. they were on a sight trip, sort of shopping around looking at potential purchases, buildings to purchase around the midwest. they flew on monday from ft. lauderdale to minnesota. they went to moline, illinois. st. louis, missouri. monday night, went to cincinnati to ov

john yang is following the latest developments, live at o'hare airport this morning. difficult time, difficult place to be almost any time but especially thanksgiving week. john, what can travelers expect? >> reporter: this snaking security checkline tells the story. airlines are anticipating the busziest thanksgiving travel since 2008 and the grae recession. they say that in addition to the weather delays shall the events in paris mean there may be other things on travelers' minds. this morning, the airlines are trying to untangle the backlog of passengers left by saturday's weather related delays and cancellations. but as thanks giving approaches, travel experts say there may be another reason for long airport lines. >> reporter: the tas is recommending travelers show up two hours before flight time. both exchanges and on board trains, k-9 units and uniformed officers, in midtown manhattan, tourists said fears of terrorism have made them more cautious. >> we're more vigilant, more aware and looking around and seeing where the cops are. >> if we give up and stop livi

nbc's john yang now with the stunning developments. >> reporter: just two months after officers from across the country mourn lieutenant charles joseph gleniewicz, the stunning announcement. >> this officer killed himself. >> authorities said he was stealing from a police program for young people and laundering the money for some seven years. that he killed himself because he feared an audit was about to uncover his criminal acts. police say some 150 investigators have poured through thousand of pages of financial records and tens of thousands of e-mails and text messages, including this one sent june 25th. you'll have to start dumping money into that account or you will be visiting me in jail. today officials defended the massive days long manhunt for the three men gleniewicz claimed he was pursuing. costing nearly a quarter of a million dollars the first day alone. they allege it was a carefully staged suicide. he first dropping his pepper spray. a few feet later his baton and then his glasses before killing himself. his semi automatic weapon found 2 1/2 feet from his body in a gra

for "today," john yang, nbc news, champaign, illinois. >>> good stuff. turning back overseas. we have so much powerful stuff coming out this week. one video is shared and watched millions of times. >> it is not what you expect. dylan is in the orange room with that. >> this week, we are seeing the power of hugs. starting with this video. you see a blindfolded muslim man holding a sign saying i'm a muslim and i'm told i'm a terrorist. do you agree? if not, hug me. if anyone knows about the power of a hug the best is elizabeth known as the hug lady. laird has hugged every soldier since 2004. she estimated she has given out more than 500,000 hugs. lately she was recently admitted to the hospital and battling breast cancer for the last ten years. now the tables have turned. when word got out, soldiers started lining up outside the door to give her a hug. one man came all the way from new york to embrace her. it makes you want to tear up. the power of a hug. for more on the story, go to today.com. >> there are so many times we need hugs in this world. >>> up next, having the whole