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steve patterson, nbc news. >>> what an awful sight to see a crumpled school bus like that. a close call on the road today. this one at 200 miles an hour. spanish driver clipped the end of another car at australian grand prix in melbourne. his car careened off the track, flipped twice, went airborne and broke apart before coming to a stop at a safety barrier. the driver shaken up, but amazingly able to walk away from the crash. incredible. >>> on this first day of spring, we are watching a winter storm as it brings snow to the northeast tomorrow and into this evening. let's get the latest. >>> we have winter weather advisories and warnings across where we will see most of the higher snowfall totals. the storm will strengthen out over the water overnight. the mid atlantic brushed by the western side of the storm. we go through the morning. southern new england will see heavy pockets of snow. moves up into maine by early afternoon monday. new york area, just about an inch on grassy surfaces. farther east, higher the snowfall totals will be. 6 to 10 inches, southeastern mississ

now, as our steve patterson reports, her foster parents are fighting to get her back. >> reporter: the moment is tough to watch. a young girl sobbing. her foster parents pleading. >> it's gut wrenching. >> reporter: summer and rusty page knew the day might come, when they brought lexi into their lives four years ago. >> food isn't worth eating. sleep is overrated. it's all about what we can do to get lexi home. >> reporter: their adopted daughter is 1/64th choctaw indian. she falls under a federal law that keeps native american children with their ancestry. members of the choctaw nation have been advocating for lexi to live with her extended family in utah since 2011 and say these relatives have visited and called her during that time. the choctaw nation of oklahoma said, "we appreciate the concern for lexi and want to assure everyone she is in a safe loving home with her relatives and biological sisters." >> the law was passed to protect kids like lexi and to make sure that they have robust connections with their tribal communities. >> reporter: but the adoptive family continues to fi

nbc's steve patterson has more. >> reporter: today top tennis in the spotlight.irst round of play at the miami open, but the tennis world is distracted after controversial sexist comments by california tournament director raymond moore. >> in my next life rs when i come back, i want to be someone in the wta. they ride on the coattails of the men. they don't make any decisions and they're lucky. >> reporter: moore told reporters male stars have carried the sport. >> if i was a lady player, i'd go down every night on my knees and thank god that roger federer and rafa nadal. >> the state's top female player quickly took the offense. >> women have come a long way, and we shouldn't have to drop to our knees at any point. >> reporter: moore later apologized in a written statement, saying in part, quote, i made comments about the women's tennis association that were in extremely poor taste and erroneous. but the damage is done. tennis legend billie jean king, who once defeated bobby riggs in the famous battle of the sexes match more than 40 years ago, tweeted, he is wro

nbc's steve patterson is in the storm zone tonight. >> reporter: tonight the fury of spring storms slamming into the south. the thunderstorm threat, whipping winds, torrential rain, powerful gusts packing pounding pounding hail, already wreaking havoc in arkansas and missouri. now, 27 million people in the path of severe storms, a possible twister touched down near linndale, texas. tornado watches have already been issued in four different states, with the threat stretching from kansas to mid-mississippi through the night. >> this storm may have quarter-sized hail or larger, could even be golf-ball sized. >> reporter: anoer threat, flash flooding. heavy rains in arkansas making for a dangerous evening commute, so bad it swept away this dumpster in a nearby park. the ground in much of the mississippi valley already saturated from days of flooding in early march. communities in the south already taking several severe weather punches. the fear, a hay-maker is coming with the potential to be thrown from any direction. and tomorrow that threat area expands. 37 million people from the gulf coast

steve patterson has the details. >> how did you escape? >> reporter: convict capture. >> walking and running. >> reporter: this afternoon, police announcing the rearrest of the 29-year-old. >> he stepped out the front door and came out and surrendered. >> reporter: the man he escaped with also captured. the convicted murderer smirking, sneering, quipping with reporters. now back behind bars. >> i got busted. >> reporter: their capture ending a three state manhunt. they were described as dangerous and for a good reason. >> shots fired. >> reporter: claw defined by a history of violence including assaults and armed robberies seen here in 2007 shooting directly into a police car officers on a 95 mile an hour chase. they were last in custody before their escape wednesday night. the pair being transferred between two new mexico prisons. at the time, fully cuffed and shackled 80 miles from the texas border. somehow managing to escape. then just hours later, security images taken from a hotel. the men smiling in street clothes. >>murdered people.

now as our steve patterson reports, her foster parents are fighting to get her back. >> reporter: the moment is tough to watch. a young girl sobbing. her foster parents pleading. >> it's gut wrenching. >> reporter: summer and rusty knew that day might come when they brought lexi into their lives four years ago. >> food isn't worth eating. sleep is overrated. it's all about what can we do to get lexi home? >> reporter: their foster daughter is >>> native american. her case falls under the indian child welfare act, created to promote tribal security by keeping native american children with their ancestry. members have been advocating for lexi to live with her extended family in utah since 2011. these relatives have visited and called her during the time. they said, we appreciate the concern for lexi and want to assure everyone she is in a safe, loving home with her relatives and her biological sisters. an author has written about his experience as a native american. >> the law was passed to protect kids like lexi and make sure they have robust connections with their tribal communities.

nbc's steve patterson is outside o.j.'s former home with more on what police are saying about that knife. steve, good morning. >> reporter: hey, craig, good morning to you. so, the officer who originally received that knife decided to keep it for several years before turning it over to the lapd, leading a lot of people to ask, why? well, i spoke to his attorney, who said his client tried to do the right thing. >> o.j. simpson is inside the car. >> reporter: it's back, all the drama from the o.j. simpson saga. >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> reporter: the case already back in pop culture. the new ten-part fx miniseries getting big ratings. >> we need to bring in johnnie cochran and we need to do it now. >> no. >> reporter: now once again, the story in real-life headlines. a knife found years ago on the land where simpson once lived. >> so, it has been submitted to our lab. they are going to study it. >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell nbc news it is described as a small utility-style knife, commonly used in

steve patterson, thank you. >>> tonight a big chain of hospitals serving hundreds of thousands of patients in the washington, d.c. area is struggling to get back to normal after it was hit with what's known as a ransomware attack. the latest example in a string of such attacks on hospitals, hackers gaining control, causing chaos and demanding a big payoff or else. we get more on the story from our justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: this suburban washington woman was furious when the hospital cancelled three days of her husband's radiation treatments. >> other god love them. i hope they get it faster and gets the treatment somewhere. >> reporter: a cyber attack forced medstar health to shut down computers monday at ten hospitals in the washington area, and many patients got this voice message. >> our computer systems are still down, so we need you to bring a list of your current medications. >> reporter: medstar now says with backups it's returning to normal and that overall patient care has not suffered. medstar calls its computer malware, but investigators say it's the late

nbc's steve patterson has more.ood boy! there you go! >> reporter: this is tilikum, the killer whale. >> good morning, orter: believed to be 35 years old, he's lived here at seaworld for more than 20. but in a video put out by seaworld this week, say he has a respiratory infection they can't cure. tremendously optimistic about tilikum tilikum, and his future, but he has a disease which is c progressive. >> reporter: tilikum's life has been a symbol of the orca's majesty as well as their danger. in 1991, he killed trainer. in 1999, a seaworld trespasser. then in 2010, tragedy once again after killing popularwn brancheau, that led to the scathing documentary black fish. since the movie' release, profits have slumped. soon after, seaworld announced it was ending the controversial killer whale show in san diego. and animal rights groups sayhouldn't be forced to live this way. >> they're very social animals. they will swim up to 100 miles a what would be the equivalent of us living in bathtubs. >> reporter: tilikum's trainers in orlando say h

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steve patterson for nbc hollywood. >> no, if you want to see it, you're going to see it no matter whatecially for a super hero film. many took to social media to have a little bit of fun with the movie and the stars. >> we're here with a clip of the ben affleck that's gone viral. >> yes, the internet has done it again as batman himself takes part of an interview for the movie. watch what happens as he listens to an interviewers questions on handling the bad reviews. >> could it affect the film so much? >> well, the interesting thing is -- [ music playing ] >> i've come to talk to you again because the vision is softly creeping. [ music playing ] >> that's the sounds of silence playing under the clip. so now the fan resleviews. dc fan boys says still in shock for thursday night. not a bad movie but a serious disappoint lt. how about this one. it's a positive one. back from the second viewing and i absolutely love the film. so excellent and i came out loving it so much for the first time. some are showing the love for ben affleck and saying i must admit that he would be a bad batman, be