joe fryar, nbc news, los angeles. >>> powerful wind gusts near 70 miles an hour swept through chicago today. winds so strong some on the street like this woman needed help to keep from being blown over. it knocked down street lamps and threatened to blow bikes off their racks and factored into a construction collapse that crushed a car. flying debris from a high rise forced evacuationed, and the willis tower sky deck was forced to close. well over 100 flights were cancelled or delayed and more than 100,000 were left without power in northern illinois. >>> thousands paid their last respects today to justice antonin scalia as he lay in repose in the supreme court's great hall. among the mourners president obama and the first lady. replace scalia on the court, nbc's pete williams reports a new hint tonight about who the president may be considering for the seat. >> reporter: antonini scalia returned to the court for the last time, his casket carried past 100 of his former law clerks. inside the eight remaining just tises gathered with the scalia family for a prayer from his son paul, a c

nbc's joe fryar has the latest from california. >> reporter: with apple publicly vowing to fight a court order to create software that would unlook syed farook's iphone today federal prosecutors filed a motion arguing a judge should force the tech giant to comply. the government says apple's refusal appears to be based on its concern for its business model and public marketing strategy, something the company denies. earlier this week apple ceo tim cook posted an open letter government has asked us for something we do not have and something we consider too dangerous to create. they have asked us to build a back door to the iphone. prosecutors responded to that today, arguing the court order does not require apple to provide a back door to every iphone or hack its own users. prosecutors contend apple could maintain custody of whatever software it builds. the white house also weighing in. >> we don't want to al love terrorists to establish a safe haven in cyber space. >> reporter: senior apple executives feel today's filing is frivolous as the company hasn't even responded to the court orde

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an e-cigarette wasbattery is blamed for the blast and as nbc's joe fryar tells us it's hardly the first time something like that has happened. watch. >> reporter: a customer was simply stopping for snacks at a kentucky gas station when the security camera captured this startling moment. >> suddenly there was a blast in his pocket and there was fire, big fire. >> reporter: york hamilton suffered second-degree burns. he says the spare battery for his e-cigarette device exploded. the flames eventually doused by a clerk. it's the latest injured tied to electric vapor products, reports popping up from california. >> i pulled it away from my lips and that's when it exploded. >> reporter: doctors at harborview medical center in seattle have seen five different five months. >> the way that the battery is in the device it becomes a high-powered rocket that can cause significant force and injury to the patient. >> reporter: the problems center around lithium ion batteries that power the device which can overheat especially if the wrong charger is use. the american vaporing association says when c