>> one that truly not just wants kids to get better at baseball. but to get better a being a person. >> > on this saturday night, mengitis outbreak at aajor university now the school a health oh officials have to decide whether to use a vaccine not appved in the u.s. to stop the spread of the potentially deadly disea. typhoon turml. as some finally t help, many others sll wait for basic reli more than a week afr the devasting storm in the philippine polar excess. we'll take youo the town where law and order is about keeping the bears in their place, even if it means hard time in the pen. thpower of one. how one man is making every minute count for the one who matts most. from nbc ns world headquarters in n york, thi

is "nbc nightly ws" with lester holt. good eveni. there is an increasing sense of urgency to stop the spre of a potentially deadly disease on the campus of one of the country's top univerties. this year seven ople at princeton univerty, all but one stent, have been sicked by a rare strain of meningiti the latest was diagnosed thi sunday. and now princon officials are trying to get the okay from the federal government to begin vainating others against the disease. but that is proving not as easy as it may sod. nbc's kristen dahlgren joins us now from princeton, new jersey toxplain. kristen? >> reporter: good evening, lester. turday night after a big homecoming win here there are a lot of people on campus in tight quarters. the university is concerne enough they e considering that unprecedented step of admistering a vaccine still not approved here in thu.s. homecoming weekend at princeton.

but there is more to wor about than whether the tigs beat yale. a potentlly deadly strain of meningitis is spading across campus. six studen and one visitor sickened since march. >> people are thinki about it. i had a frnd who had a fever yesterday and wento the health center. >> was actually home briefly last weekend. my mom sent me back with six hand sanitizer bottles. >> reporter: studes in dorms are required to have a vaccine but it doesn't cover theare meningitis b strain princeton. >> meningitis b i young adults in the unid states is very unusual. this is a stinctive circumstance. >> reporter: the cdc is no taking the unpredented step of impoingbexsero, a vaccine lensed in europe and australi but not y given fda approval in the u.s. the universitys meeting with trustees this weekend to the decide if it will make the vaccine ailable. something many parents sport. i think if it's been approved in europe, that's fantastic and they should definitely do it.

>> reporr: you wouldn't have a problem? >> i would dinitely have them have it. >> reporter: chris chrtie was seent the game today. his son is a student and membe of the beball team. new jersey's health department said it is working csely with printon and the cdc. according to the cdc, all strains of meningitis are deadly in 10 to15% of cases. lynn's son evan died in meningitist 20 in 1998. >>y life will never be the same. >> reporr: she's now preside of the national meningitis association. >> the disease is onlypread through close contt. that's the exchangof respiratory seetions such as cohing, kissing, sneezing. >> reporter: princeton sent e-mails to students reminding em they can contract meningitis if th come in contact th a carrier. urging students not to share things like drinking glasses. >> are you hanging onto that. >> i have my cup. i want to ite my name on it for that matter. >> reporr: one student is still in the hospital here. the university says not to

expect its decision on adnistering the vaccinbefore monday. it would only be given to students here. there really aren't concerns of it spreading beyond campus. >> krist, thanks. >> for more on this are joined by drmika roberson, chair of the emergency department and aistant chief medical ficer at repoint alth in hoboken, new jersey. thanks for joining us. we underand this is a rare strain but it's moving slowly. ven cases in eight mths. how concerneshould students and parents be? >> students should be very ncerned. parents should be concerned. seven cases in six months is not a rmal epidemic. it seems as though there must be a carrier on cams. that'shy getting all the children vaccinad is important. >> l's talk about the vaccine. not approved in thu.s. assuminghey go forward, how effective is it? >> t effectiveness in europe and australia now is about 73%. the concerning part is thathe

strain is the meniitis type b. we're not sure if what's going on now at princeton is the same stin they made the vacne for in europe. so that is a concern that we could vaccinate the children and it's not goi to be effective for them. >> dr. mika rorson, thanks for being with us tonigh apprecte it. >> thank you. now to what seems like the ever moreomplicated effort get the new health re law track after president obama announced insurance companies could contin coverage for those whose policies are being ncelled the company found a new challeng we get the latest om nbc white house correspondent kriste welker. >> reporter: new jersey insurance broker david oscar is scrambling to figure out what the presidens recent reversal urging iurance companies to restore canlled plans for a ye means for him and his clies. >> minitial reaction this week was this was like dante's inferno. >> reporter: he's been flooded

by pho calls by confused policyholders, ever nce the president announc the fix. now e industry is ting to figure out how to change course with the first enrollment deadline a month ay. >> we have to goack to square one. calculate and recaliate the system. >> reporte those concerns echoed by insurance ce who met with president oma on friday at the white house. after the diussion they struck a positive tone. >> verproductive. very good discussion. >> rorter: one insurance official sai this is still a lot of consion about how t implement the changeespecially as some states inclung washgton, vermont, rhode island and arkansas have already said no to theroposed fix. in oklahoma, officials are uncertain. >> this is going to be very difficult foconsumers and insurance companies to have to double back. >> reporter: t political pressure is mounti. on friday,9 house democrats broke th the president by voting for a repubcan bill to renew caelled plans indefinitely. most democrats are backing mr. obama. >> it's the only move toake.

a promise madeas to be a promise kept. >> reporter: milons of policy holders who got cancellation notices like debra persi are left to wait and worry. >> it's a shorterm fix if you want to call it a x. in my mind when the president promis that you can keep your plan, telling people that yo can ep your plan for a year is not a fix. >> reporter: some states have said ty will allow people to keeplans including california, corado and florida. meanwhile the president will try to rally his base on monday. he'lhold a conference call organized by his retooled campaignranch orgizing for action. lester? >> krist, thank you. there will bmore tomorrow on "meet the press." david gregory speaks to e use minority leader ncy pelosi. to the latest in the philippineshereuthorities say most 2 million people he been left homeless by the typhoon that struck more than

one week ago. while reli is reaching some, hundreds of thousandare attempting to flee the harhit area our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderma reports from bu. >> reporte an uneasy calm. nine days after typhoon iyan ma landfall, families cking through the debris of destroyed homes for anythi salvageable. >> we need food. >> we are still not seeing -- it's difficult to receive relief. >> reporter:till waiting for ng-delayed emergency supplies to reachhe most hard-hit parts of theentral philippines. today in tacloban we saw progress. roads cleared, power lines reored, airports openi up. cargo with packsf food and water arrived from around the rld. a eady stream of helicters tang off from the uss george washington airaft carrier distributing freshater coerted from sea water out of the ship's on board distillation plant. >> the first priority will be water. but then as we start getting the

water takecare of we'll try to do food and fuel. it's one of the ings they have beensking for. we are tryinto get them the things they need to self-staining. >> reporter: the u.smoved more than 380,000 pounds of splies into affected regions. the navy expects thr more ships to arrive in the next four days. while aid is increasinin some eas, it is visibly absent in others. the death toll now stands at more than 3,800. 12,500 iuried. more than 1,000 still missing. >> hope is still therehat he is still alive but with all these things, just a little ho. >> if anyby found him, please contact this number soe can get him back. >> reporter: aing to the chaos is the mass exodus of residents fr tacloban. >> there is no guarantee we'll get out.

there are a lot of pple lining since yesterday. we jt came in now. theyill prioritize thoseho lined yesterday. >> reporter: more an 600,000 pele now homeless, struggling to find shelter. fears are growing about the outbreak of disease. the top of the iectious diseases -measles. e u.n. will begin a massive inoculation program next week. the is concern of typhd and poo. there hasn't beea case here for 17ears. they want to keep it that way. lester? >> dr. nancynyderman, thanks. if you would like to helwith threlief effort in the philippines there are optis on ouwebsite. nbcnightlynews.c. in afghanian today, a deadly attk in the heart of e capital. a suicide car bomb explodejust outside a iversity killing at least ten people and wounding many more. it happed hours after the country's president aounced a draft agreement with the u.s., and allowing american troops to remain in afghanian after

combatorces leave at the end of next ar. i this country, part of a mystery may have been solved in florid today with the recery of a body miami. miami after two ys of searching p r a man who fell from a smalllane flying 2,000 feet above the ocean. the pilot radioed a may day saying a door the plane was open and a passenger had fallen. authoritie think of the revered body ihat passenger. why it happened remains unclear. an older myste has taken a dramatic turn in southern california after the remains of a missing faly were discovered in the desert. investigators want to know who murdered a couple d their young children. nbc's joe fryer has more on that story. >> reporr: a motorcyclist first spotted the remas. bones be buried in shallow graves n linked to a family that vanished in 2010. >> it's not rely the -- the

outcome we were looking for. >> reporter: dental records confirmed two of the victims are joseph and summer mcstay. it is believed the other remains longed to their children, 4-year-oldiani and 3-year-old joseph, jr san berndino county sheriffs says they were murdered, but isn't saying how. >> there is investigive evidce at the scene that will help complete thinvestigation. >> reporter:t's not clear why the fami disappeared from their home north of san diego four years ago their suv was discovered near the mexican border and grain surveillance photo showed a family of ur walking across e border. it was never clear if that was the mcstays. >> somhing in me said you are never going to see tm again. >> reporter: from s texas home, joseph mcstay's fher criticized how saniego investigators haled the disaearance of his son' family

>> hwas not just my son. was my best friend. >> reporter: t san diego sheriff's deparent says i has never stopped searching. >> this was prably one of the mo, if not the most extensively investigating missing persons case maybe in our history. >> reporter: this micide investigation shifts to a w locati. there is a facebook page onc dedicated bringing the family home turns into an online memorial, honoring four lives lost. joe fryer, nbc news, los angeles. >> we are eping a close eye on the possibility of severe weather in the middle of the country. the area extends from e great lakes to the midouth. severe thunderstorms, damaging wis and tornadoes are s able. the threat will move from west to east througut the day tomorrow. when "nbc nightly news" continues onhe this saturday, what's become an almost unbearable situation f one town that fis itself a magnet for those unwantedisitors. later the inspiring story of

a young man who is running fast beuse his time with those loves may be lited.

we are back with atory that gives new meaning to the problem ofnbearable neighbors. we are tking about polar bea that invade a northern canada town for years and have done so wi a vengeance this ye. it may have to do with climate chge. we get the story from nbc's chief environmental affairs correspondent, anne thpson.

>> reporter: where the polar bes roam in churchill, canada, the street signsre a little different. here, 800 people and some 900 bears try to co-exist from late june to late novber when the sea icdisappears in hudson bay and the bears comen land to wait for the ice to reform this yeathe animals that attract 10,000 tourists to the town are in some cases being anything but neighborly. >>he big difference thi year, we've had twoifferent attacks people. >> reporter: thr resident injured by bears in two incidents leavinsome to wonder if climate change is starvin the bears. here you can see a motr and cub. they seem to be feasti on the ke on the shoreline, but the polar bears' favorite meal is ring seal. to get it they need a ice. sea ice is the bears' hunting platform. instead of lastingight months in hudson bay scientists sayhe ice on lasts seven which means the bears are on land a month longer witut food.

>> the question is are they actuly seeking people as food. the jury is out on tha we're not sure >> reporter: the town of churchill is on the bears' path back to the ice. if they get t close, the bears are lured into giant traps or rounded upy conservation officers. the next stop, this holding facility. what the locals call par bear jail. >> prior thaving the holding facility the bears wermainly captured, immobized, flown out the same day. they were finding it was a race to get back to town. >> reporter: n the bears can spend up to 30 days in an attempt to kp them from beming repeat offenders. >> i would say on most yrs we hold more bearshan the police hold pple. >> rorter: a struggle to maintain relationship that works best when both parties keep their disnce. anne thompson, nbc news, chchill, canada. we are back in a ment with the video that milons are watching around the world.

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it's been said life is a marathon, not a spnt. night we want you to meet a man who has a keen sense of that than most of us. when doctors told him he didn't have a lot of time left, the young austintexas, probation officeset his mind on findg a way to spend as much time as possle with the person csest to him. he done it one step at a time. he runs like there is no tomorrow. >> it's therapy. it's where things feel normal. one foot in front of the other you don'have to remember how to do th. >> reporter: time is running away from hi

three years ago, doctors scovered a tumor in his brain. they took out as much as they safely could he's 33 years old. >> they said, odds areou won't make 40. reporter: i can't imagine somebodyaying you won't make 40. how did u process that? >> i think it took a while for it to hit me. joki around. i said, well, i n faster than anyone else. guess i'll dieaster than everyone else. >> reporter: your first inclination iso feel sorry for him. but spend time with him and yo will realize for the things taken from him -- his memory his ability to drive and hold a b -- he's discovered how simple life is and what's impoant. >> 98, 100 >> reporter: he's a single dad. >> i realid that i missed a lot of this from basic things like makinher meals, changing her aper to going to functions school. >> reporter: no more. he and his daughter are inseparable.

he's dedicated what's leftf his life to r. a bond strengthened by t simple joy of running. >> originally it was a way to get her to go to sep. she would come back so wired. that was a bad ia. ♪ >> ijust started becoming a fun thing. we'd talk. i'd play music. and she sings and i sing. ♪ wake me up when it'all over ♪ ♪ when i'm wiser and i'm der >> eventually, somsmall 5-ks let us in and we started doing longer races. >> reporter: theare quite a sight the race course. >> we just run. to whoever gets t medals. >>eporter: eram has wolots of medals. he, or should i say they, even won a maratho in beaunt, texas, earlier ts year. >> they gave me the winner's medal. i put itn her. i dn't take it. i got beat by a 6-year-old. reporter: putting kianna

first made wt's left of his li all the richer. >>f everything goes rit and all i did was hang out with my kid me more or things go wrong and i hung out witmy kid some more, th's as good as it get >> on two, three. >> reporter: kianna knows her father is sick. but not his prognosis. doctors are hopeful technology will advance to the point they can remove the rest of his tumor. until th, he'llocus on what matters now. >> these are the tngs my 6-year-old could teach me. have fun putting one foot in front of the other and hg out with people you love. reporter: he says rning is hiemotional therapy. it may be more. recent studies find exercise can positively affecthe outcome of of the dease itself in some cancer patnts. we'll tell you more of his story tomoow on "today." that's nbcnbc nightly news" for thisaturday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. i ll see you in the moing. then right back here tomorrow evening. good night, everyo.

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ife. the late on the investation. good eving, i'm ter mcsweeney. and i'm diane dwye. authorities are not relsing her name just yet. >> reporter: the invesgators have been out her since overnight. they're here processing the ene. a caller reported some suspicio noises. thatas just after midnight. the caller lated reported hearing the female suspect yelling and bangingn something. three deputies arrived and these when they were confronted by a woma armed with a knife. the deties order her to drop it and when she refused one of those