anne thompson, nbc news >>> so revealing thank you, anne. when we come back, the city of love the heartfelt tradition still going strong after nearly 50 years. ♪ >>> there's good news tonight about a legacy of love and the community uniting to make sure a treasured tradition lives on for nearly 50 years every february portland, maine was suddenly covered in these signs of love. who put the hundreds of red hearts up was a decades-long mystery. >> the valentine's day bandit throughout the portland area remains a mystery. it's been going on since 1976 >> reporter: but it wasn't until last april that the local legend, the valentine's day bandit was finally revealed, but revealed in an obituary for a man named kevin farman >> tell me more about your dad. >> he didn't like being in the spotlight, but when you got him going he was just the most fun person in the room >> reporter: so this february, the first without him, kevin's daughter sierra led the effort to keep it going. >> reporter: why is it so important for you now to keep this tradition go

anne thompson, nbc news, charlotte. >>> and coming up, six months after the devastating wildfires in maui, our investigation into what made one neighborhood a fire trap for so many >>> back now with a dramatic drone video, a pod of killer whales trapped in the thick ice struggling for air off the coast of japan, but good news tonight, officials believe they were able to escape as gaps in the ice grew larger. >>> also tonight, it's been six months since the deadly wildfires tore through the maui town of lahaina. now, an nbc news investigation reveals at least 43 of the fire's 100 victims lived in one small neighborhood trapped with no way out. here's steve patterson. >> you look, and, you know, you see that house on fire, that house on fire. >> reporter: above the ruined remnants of lahaina, anthony steele remembers those awful august flames. >> this was gridlock, this road. >> reporter: and for so many, the narrow escape >> go, bro. >> yeah, go, go, go. >> reporter: the lifelong maui resident lost three family owned properties, his job, and the only place he's ever called home on aug

anne thompson, nbc news. >> thank you for starting your president's day with early today.>>> a standoff in minnesota ends with three first responders dead. two officers and a paramedic gunned down. as they tried to save several children from a home during a domestic call. authorities say the suspect is also

anne thompson, nbc news. >> thank you for starting your president's day with early today.

anne thompson, nbc news >> toby keith was 62 >>> that's "nightly news" for this tuesday.e i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night this ad? typical. politicians... "he's bad. i'm good." blah, blah. let's shake things up. with katie porter. porter refuses corporate pac money. and leads the fight to ban congressional stock trading. katie porter. taking on big banks to make housing more affordable. and drug company ceos to stop their price gouging. most politicians just fight each other. while katie porter fights for you. for senate - democrat katie porter. i'm katie porter and i approve this message. >>> on "nbc bay area news tonight," more than two days in the dark. tens of thousands of people without power after a weekend storm. where the biggest problems are still tonight. >>> also sending reinforcements. the governor stepping in to help oakland with its rampant crime. 120 more chp officers headedo

anne thompson has a look back at his incredible career. ♪ how do you like me now ♪ >> reporter: as aing three decades at or near the top of the country music charts a veritable hit machine. ♪ red solo cup ♪ ♪ i fill you up ♪ >> reporter: over a 20-year period, writing at least one chart-topping single each year ♪ who's your daddy ♪ ♪ whiskey for my man ♪ ♪ beer for my horses ♪ >> reporter: keith was both popular and polarizing, wrappin himself in the red white and blue after 9/11, feuding with journalists and fellow performers, going after the dixie chicks in 2003, now known at chicks, for criticizing then president george w. bush and he formed at president trump's inauguration before he was a star, he was an oil worker and semi-pro football player in his native oklahoma. diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2021, keith kept performing. at last year's people's choice awards and then in las vegas in december ♪ oh, i should have been a cowboy ♪ >> reporter: defying the disease. >> this is what i do, and you can't let it define, you know, your future. >> reporter: controversial, his talent

anne thompson, nbc news >> toby keith was 62 >>> that's "nightly news" for this tuesday.e i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. i'm comin' home baby now (do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do) i'm comin' home now (come on home) comin' home baby now (you know i'm waitin' here for you) i'm comin' home now real soon (you've been gone) comin' home baby now (i don't know what i'm gonna do) i'm comin' home i know i'm overdue (since you went away) expect me any day now real soon comin' home now (come on home) i'm comin' home baby now (you know i'm prayin' every night) that everything is gonna be fine (please come home) i'm comin' home baby now (i want to feel you hold me tight) expect to see me now anytime (when i'm in your arms i'll be alright) when you're in my arms i'll be fine hey i'm comin' home (come on home) comin' home baby now (you know i'm counting every day) i'm comin' home now yeah-yeah-yeah (use the phone) i'm comin' ho-ho-home baby now (and let me hear you say) i'm comin' home you're hearin' what i say (that you're comin' home) and i never will go away i'

anne thompson, nbc news. >> toby keith was 62. >>> that's "nightly news" for this tuesday.lf and each other. good night. ♪♪ two leading candidates for senate. two very different visions for california. steve garvey, the leading republican, is too conservative for california. he voted for trump twice and supported republicans for years, including far right conservatives. adam schiff, the leading democrat, defended democracy against trump and the insurrectionists. he helped build affordable housing, lower drug costs, and bring good jobs back home. the choice is clear. i'm adam schiff, and i approve this message. >>> we are following breaking news. our sky ranger's overhead a deadly crash in contra costa county

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a new study is raising concerns about the potential risks to your heart anne thompson has details. >>his new study makes it clear, smoking cannabis is like smoking tobacco, dangerous to your heart. >> cannabis is not an innocent bystander when it comes to cardiovascular disease. >> reporter: the research published in today's "journal of the american heart association" found people who use cannabis every day primarily through smoking had a 25% increased risk of heart attack and a 42% increased risk of stroke compared to nonusers this is one of the largest studies to look at cannabis and cardiovascular events, reviewing data from nearly 435,000 americans. dr. robert page of the university of colorado school of medicine says it has an eerie ring. >> i feel if we're going to repeat history with cigarette smoking, these data suggests that this is a red flag it's looking like it could be just as bad as smoking cigarettes. >> reporter: cannabis is becoming more and more mainstream. 24 states now allow recreational use there are specialty stores, cannabis sommeliers in some cities the aroma i

anne thompson takes a look back at his life and legacy. music world warning one of its brightest stars ♪♪ i ain't as good as i once was. >> today keith passing away monday night at the age of 62 after a battle with stomach cancer. a statement posted on his instagram page saying the singer fought his fight with grace and courage. keith, a former oil worker from oklahoma first topped the country charts in the 1990s with hits like "should have been a cowboy" and "how do you like me now." later, he got the world's attention with this smash, "courtesy of the red, white and blue." ♪ brought to you courtesy of the red, white and blue ♪ >> keith telling "today" in 2019 about the impact of performing his patriotic songs on uso tours. >> every one of them is important. and made so many friends. >> reporter: and he continued with hit after hit. getting a new audience with "red solo cup" in 2011. ♪ red solo cup ♪ ♪ i fill you up ♪ ♪ let's have a party ♪ >> reporter: and performing at former president trump's inauguration. an unstoppable force in count

for "sunday today," anne thompson, boston. >> typewriter rock stars. love it.kingston, jamaica, was approached by a charismatic young reggae artist about joining his band the wailers. the partnership between barrett and bob marley would be felt around the world in songs like "stir it up." ♪♪ barrett and his brother joined bob marley and the wailers that year with barrett arranging and producing the band's music. and with his fender jazz bass proviing the hits "i shot the sheriff" and "jamming." ♪ we're jamming ♪ ♪ i want to jam with you ♪ >> the son of a blacksmith, barrett learned to play on instruments he built himself and kept the wailers going after marley's 1981 death from cancer at the age of 36. his nickname was family man or just fam. ♪ i shot the sheriff ♪ >> even through the occasional legal battle over rights to the iconic music, they were playing some 200 dates a year right up until barrett's retirement in 2016 when his son, ashton jr., took over the band. >> are you ready for bob marley? >> ashton jr. plays his father in the film "bob marley: one l

anne thompson reports, it may one day be used to fight other cancers, as well >> how was your workout? >> it was good. >> reporter: dan gave his daughter faith life she saved his 13 years ago. >> i had a brown freckle on my neck, and she told me i should go get that checked out. >> reporter: that freckle was melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, starting three years of surgery and radiation as it spread through dan's body. >> nobody can tell if something is going to move from your right armpit to your left armpit to any other lymph node. >> reporter: it also went to his brain. >> i was stage 4 melanoma, and at that point in time, i didn't even know what that meant. >> what did you think you would miss >> everything. graduation, being a grandparent. >> reporter: he would live because of a treatment called t.i.l., tumor infiltrating lymphocyte therapy approved today by the fda. it was developed in labs like this at tampa's moffitt cancer center. >> this is where we take the tumors. >> reporter: using a patient's own immune cells taken from inside the tumor, multiplied, and stored in t

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nbc's anne thompson is here with more in studio. good morning. >> good morning, hoda.nning news announced on toby keith's website this morning, saying he passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his family. this is a major loss for the country music world with thousands of songs and dozens of chart-topping hits. the bold and brash singer left an irreplaceable mark on music and culture. >> this morning the country music world mourning one of it's brightest stars. ♪ i ain't as good as i once was ♪ toby keith passing away at the age of 62 after a battle with stomach cancer. a statement posted on his instagram page saying the singer fought his fight with grace and courage. ♪ i should have been a cowboy ♪ >> keith from oklahoma first topped the charts in the 1990 with kits like "should have been a cowboy" and "how do you like me now ♪ later, he got the world's attention with his smash, "courtesy of the red, white and blue." ♪ brought to you courtesy of th red, white and blue ♪ >> reporter: keith telling "today" in 2019 about the impact of performing his patriotic songs

nbc's anne thompson has a look at a new program that could be a part of the solution. >> reporter: alenty of experience in the er. but stays in hospital hallways for 48 and then 72 hours for rejection issues last winter were frightening. >> i'm immunocompromised so i could like catch something in there and make things worse. >> reporter: disturbing for the 30-year-old and her dad, michael. >> we go in thinking that we're moving to a room or some level of standard of care. this is for a transplant patient in trouble, and literally we get stuck in the er. >> reporter: it's not just in los angeles where they live. in a recent national survey, 97% of emergency room doctors reported waiting times of more than 24 hours for a hospital bed. now a potential solution. hospital at-home programs. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> how are you, ma'am? >> i'm doing well, manny. >> like this one run by atrium health in north carolina. >> let me listen to your lungs real quick. sit up for me. again. excellent. >> reporter: typically, 80-year-old florence sparks would be hospitalized for congestive

>> cutie >> thank you i'm anne thompson. >> you are sweet as could be. >> double digits >> happy birthdayest. kara swisher has had a front row seat to the rise of the tech industry sitting down with the industry's biggest names. breaking major stories along the way, making some friends, making some memories. now she's out with a new mÉmoire, and she is not holding back she never would. kara, good morning you heard the mean girls book, right? you had me at the mean girls reference. so are you like the regina george of silicon valley just taking out the crash on the silicon valley high school >> i'll take it. especially if i look like rene rapp. sure. >> the book has a memoir feeling. >> it is a memoir. >> it has your trademark bluntness and fearlessness and cantankerousness and what i marvel at, which is your self-confidence. >> thank you. >> where does that come from >> i don't know why we ask that question savannah it's really weird how come you are so confident? >> most people aren't. not that it's negative, just that it's remarkable one has to remark on. >> i don't know. maybe my dad d

thompson murdered james bulger. and in 2014, will cornick, who was 15, stabbed his teacher ann mcguire to death as she taught him inann, i was standing over her body in a mortuary. with...with eight stab wounds. whenjames bulger�*s murderers were tried, the case against them was led by sir richard henriques. after being found guilty, they were also named. now he says it's right the public know who brianna's killers really are for the greater good of society. there is much, much good to follow if these cases are examined very fully and the public know what went wrong in that particular family. only then can we ask ourselves the question, could this happen in ourfamily? because at the moment we don't know what went wrong. not everyone's in favour of courts identifying young offenders. the naming of them and the shaming of them is a barrier to rehabilitation. we know that it creates troubles for their safety in prison, but then also upon release, because these are children at the end of the day. and they need to be able to be given the space to grow and to move beyond their crime. but when is the right time to conside