nbc's blake mccoy with all the weather whiplash details now. >> reporter: this is one of 15 possible tornadoes reported as a powerful storm moved across south florida. surveillance video captured from a condo complex shows heavy rain and whipping winds. >> just sounded like a big freight train coming through. >> it was going through like craze. storm damaging homes, capsizing boats and sending beach chairs flying into the ocean. fueled by el nino, it's part of a massive system spanning 1,600 miles up the east coast where further north is brought snow and ice. freezing rain made for a treacherous commute in washington, d.c. in eastern pennsylvania a jackknifed semi caused this chain reaction crash. >> folks just start running into the back of each other, five to six trucks behind us right now. >> in parts of new york the storm dumped snow and lots of it. really piled up on tuesday morning. here in buffalo how about six inches in five hours. >> both cities smashed daily snowfall records. >> and they said we're right in the bull's eye here so this is no sprays. >> on the west coast they

blake mccoy, nbc news, elgin, illinois. >> still ahead as we continue here tonight, good news in the battle against dementia. you can practice that may help prevent or memory loss. >>> also, will customers relish the >>> there is promising news tonight in the fight dense dementia. while it's been expected to skyrocket in the coming years as americans ages there are signs the trend cop stopped, especially for the most common kind of dementia of a alzheimer's, and as nbc's joe fryer reports doctors say the reason has as much to do with the heart as it does with the brain. >> reporter: for isn't yapt, dementia is a family bat. five years ago she was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment ago her mother claire died from alzheimer's. >> she loved music and loved the arts and she loved to read, and she lost that all little by little. >> reporter: follow her own diagnosis, cynthia made major lifestyle changes, physically active. >> let's review this. >> reporter: and engaging her brain by taking college classes. >> i'm trying to push off this disease, to run as fast as i can from it. >> r

blake mccoy, nbc news. >>> after a hard fight, bill cosby's wife is sitting right now for a deposition in a civil suit against her you feelsband. camille cosby lost her last-minute appeal to stop today's testimony. she is answering questions under oath about the sexual assault allegations that her husband is facing. seven women have filed a the attorneys want to hear from camille. >>> apple ceo tim cook would like his company's battle with the fbi to move to congress. the vingt ctims of the san bernardino shooter say they will support the fbi's court battle. that agency would like apple be forced to help them unlock the shooter's iphone. in a recent op-ed, comey wrote, we can't look the survivors in the eye or ourselves in the mirror if we don't follow this lead. >>> all right. to politics now. donald trump is holding rallies today in nevada ahead of tomorrow's caucus. trump appeared confident yesterday in atlanta even though right there the lights went out at his rally. he won is decisive victory saturday in north carolina. marco rubio and ted cruz came in now they're competing to be

we get more from nbc's blake mccoy. >> how are you? >> reporter: lois cooks has been driving school busses in elgin, illinois for 26 years. >> good morning. >> reporter: but this year her bus and the 353 others in this suburban chicago school district are actually saving money. cheap gas means transportation is coming in half a million dollars under budget, money that's being redirected to help fund all-day kindergarten. >> we're absolutely thrilled that we can save this money and put it back into the classroom where it belongs. >> reporter: almost every state in the country is now averaging gas below $2 a gallon, a handful of states below $1.50, and drivers today in tiny jetmore, kansas are doing a double take, 99 cents per gallon. did you ever think talking to me about 99 cent a gallon gas in 2016? >> just as possible as the cubs win is the world series, both long shots but now both seem possible. >> reporter: glut of oil on the market hasn't been good news for oil-rich north dakota where the economy is shrinking, or texas. 50,000 oi

blake mccoy, nbc news, new york. >>> in southern california today, an accused serial murderer is facing justice after a decades long mystery that has terrified areas of los angeles. the so-called grim sleeper trial is attracting attention from across the country not only for the nature of the claims but also the way this infamous cold case was finally cracked. nbc's steve patterson has details. >> reporter: accused serial killer lonnie franklin walked into court today nicknamed the grim sleeper because of a 14-year gap in his alleged killing spree. >> the evidence in this case serial killer who stalked the streets of south los angeles. >> reporter: starting in the summer of 1985, prosecutors say franklin murdered nine women and one teenaged girl. >> almost all of them were hidden under debris, behind bushes in, dumpsters or covered with dirty mattresses left in alleyways or other trash. >> reporter: an 11th victim survived and now expected to testify as a star witness. authorities say an advance in dna technology that seems straight from a crime scene drama broke open the case. >> this

nbc's blake mccoy was arraignment and has details. >> reporter: accused kalamazoo shooter jason dalton appearing in court via clickit tv this afternoon. >> i would prefer just to remain silent. >> reporter: 45-year-old father of two has been charged with 16 felonies, including six counts of murder. >> there is videotapes of these incidences. he walked up on these people and he shot them. >> reporter: a motive for the seemingly random killings remains unclear, but detectives say dalton has admitted to being involved. eight people shot in three separate locations over nearly five hours. it began at an apartment complex around 6:00 p.m. saturday where tiana carruthers, a mother of two was shot multiple times and managed to identify dalton as the shooter and is expected to survive. rich smith and his 18-year-old son tyler were killed at a car dealership about four hours later. rich's wife lori posting on facebook today saying my heart is shattered, literally and utterly crushed into tiny pieces. parking lot four women killed, including 67-year-old mary lou nye. >> i don't know how i'm goin

blake mccoy has our report from chicago. >> reporter: charles preston is a senior in african-american studies. but this year he's getting a crash course in politics. >> i feel like my government has failed me. >> reporter: preston and his classmates are in limbo, caught in the middle of a state budget battle, unsure if they'll be able to graduate. this year university hasn't seemed a dime from the state. neither have the state's other public universities. >> this is a tremendous distraction. a level of irresponsibility that i haven't seen in my year. >> this is horrible to me, my future, this community. i'm not the only one in this. i'm fighting for their future as well. >> reporter: preston has led heated demonstrations from chicago to the statehouse, where the government is deadlocked. a new republican governor wants to cut spending and weaken units. on the other side, a democratically controlled legislature, wanting to raise taxes and protect unions. the result, illinois has gone without a budget for eight months. would you call this a crisis for illinois? >> it's beyond a crisis.

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blake mccoy has our report. >> reporter: a shooter on a rampage randomly terrorizing innocent people in kalamazoo, michigan, saturday night. >> we have something just driving around, finding people and shooting them dead in their tracks. >> reporter: tonight police have identified the shooter as 45-year-old jason brian dalton. they say his spree of terror began at 5:42 p.m. a mother of three shot multiple times in a residential parking lot. she's expected to survive. then 10:08 p.m., rich smith and his teenage son tyler are shot a short time later, 10:24 p.m., four women shot and killed in a cracker barrel parking lot, on their way home from a play. among them, 60-year-old mary jo nye, who was kill add long with her sister-in-law and best friend, 62-year-old mary l. nigh. a 14-year-old girl with them was taken to the hospital, pronounced dead for more than an hour, when police tell nbc news doctors were preparing to remove her organs for donation, and she suddenly squeezed her mom's hand. still alive, they rushed her into surgery. michigan's governor met with the girl's parents this

nbc' s blake mccoy is in kalamazoo with this update. blake: good day to you. it is later this afternoon that we are expecting the suspect in this shooting, jason dalton, to make his first court appearance here at the courthouse in kalamazoo. the county prosecutor says he believes they have the right man and he is ready to file charges. this is a person who is accused of going on a shooting rampage across this city saturday night. three separate shootings, apparently choosing his victims at random. killing six of them injuring two others. those two remain in the hospital injuries this morning. last night, there was a vigil for the victims here in kalamazoo, and people are really hoping that those two who are seriously injured are able to pull through. mya hoke: you see this stuff on the news all the time. but you don' t really think about it because it doesn' t affect you. but then this hits not just your community, but your friend. blake: as for a motive, we just do not know at this point and that is what has been so puzzling about this all along. we are hopin

blake mccoy has our report from chicago. preston is a senior in studies. he is a crash course in politics. >> i feel like my government failed me. >> reporter: he and his classmates are in limbo, caught in the middle of a state budget battle unsure if they will graduate. chicago state gets 30% of its funding from the state. this year, hasn't received a dime. neither have the state's 11 other public universities. >> this is a tremendous distraction. it's a level of irresponsibility that have i not i have not seen. >> it's harmful. to me and my future and this to this community. i'm not the only one in this fight. i'm fighting for the future of others as well. >> reporter: he led heated demonstrations from chicago to the state house in springfield. >> we want to graduate. >> reporter: where the government is deadlocked. a new republican governor who wants to cut spending and weaken unions. democratically controlled legislature wanting to raise taxes. the result, illinois has gone without a budget for eight months. would you call this a crisis for illinois? >

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blake mccoy, nbc news. >> late word that sports reporter erin andrews is on the stand tonight in her $75 million civil trial. earlier in the day the man convicted of stalking andrews testified. he told the court how he altered the peep hole on andrews' hotel door and secretly filmed her. radford reports, it's andrews' turn. >> reporter: erin andrews still haunted by the video that she says has damaged her career. >> i feel so embarrassed and i'm so ashamed. >> reporter: her chance to look jurors, seven women and five men in the eye and tell her side of the story. >> my naked body was on the front page of "the new york post" and they put bars over my body parts. my girlfriend is calling me and telling me she was running around new york city throwing coffee on all the pains because she felt so bad. >> reporter: just hours earlier andrews left the courtroom as her stalker explained the sordid details of the day he secretly recorded her. >> i could hear the shower on in her room and i walked by. >> reporter: and michael barrett explained how he followed andrews to her nashville hotel roo

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