costello's staff say these accusations are politically motivated by democrats. >>> basketball is back in philadelphia. tonight the sixers host the celtics for their first home game of the regular season. jeff skversky live in south philadelphia now for the exciting preview. hi, jeff. >> reporter: hey, monica. you can feel the energy. you can feel the excitement building here at the wells fargo center. we are just an hour away from tipoff in the home opener for the sixers against the celtics. they're coming off that loss wednesday of course against the washington wizards. they're looking for that first home opener win tonight in four years. and guess what? it's going to be rocking tonight and joel embiid says -- >> first of all, philly fans are passionate and i love that about them. just me going out there playing hard and like making plays, just to get them off their feet to yell and like just go crazy. i just love that. and it gets me going, too. >> reporter: embiid coming off that double-double in the opener. what will he do tonight in only his 23rd home game of his young and hopefu

>> all right, tom costello with that. we noted they have taken steps to protect against truck attacks in many parts of new york, primarily large tourist areas. times square, where a car plowed into a crowd several months ago as one of the places where they have added these big concrete blocks. these critical response comma armor and heavy weapons often patrol in these areas on the look out for just this sort of thing. but as they note, even at 1500 officers, they can't be every place. in this case police were close enough, though, to engage the suspect after he apparently ran into something or another vehicle there, a little bit farther down this path. but not before running down several people. and again, six confirmed dead according to wnbc. 15 injured. this is the beginning of the rush hour in new york city. this is a time that path would normally be quite crowded with commuters. again, new york city has a very robust bike sharing program that has attracted a lot of people, not only locals, but also tourists. and it wo

tom costello, thank you. it's going to affect a lot of people, international travel a way of life for many in d.c. tom shares more details you need to know tonight on "nbc nightly news" as lester holt takes over from us at 7:00. >>> our fur family is just like the rest of us, right? >> it's possible to catch a glimpse of them around town. and here's a look at former first lady michelle obama. she was getting some exercise and did not appear to be seeking ou cap there. you probably recall the obamas decided to stay in washington after they left the white house because their daughter sasha is still in high school. their older daughter malia is up at harvard. >> mrs. obama ought to be able to get exercise on this beautiful fall day, right? >> that's right. >> i'd like to be out exercising on a beautiful day like this myself. it got a lot colder, though, today? >> yes. temperatures not bad if you're in the sunshine. but it's on the cool side for sure. a very chilly day tomorrow. temperatures from any of us, we'll

dave costello, his first career start for sanford and he was overshadowed by the running back. a healthy dose of love, price love, that is. score in seven straight games, ripping off a 50 plus yard run. 73 sanford in the third quarter, off to the races again for a 43-yard score to make it 14-3 for sanford. and stanford in the third, love does it again. love rushes for a school record, the tenth player to rush 1000 yards, 34-24 is the score. and justin wilcox played at oregon and now he is trying to beat the ducks. ross runs the defender for 75- yard touchdown. bears there's come within 10, they add a field goal and pull within a touchdown. the defense ran out of gas out of the stretch. 68 yards for the touchdown, 31-17, justin herbert is the starting quibec and running back freeman. seth bowers on the next possession. this when he fumbled in the goal line. funding the end zone of fuel plays later, they go go on to win the game 45-24. and the earthquakes also took down portland timbers 2-1. they are trying to get to the playoff spot. >> oakland raiders tomorrow at 1:25 in the fi

he's been speaking with the bbc‘s boxing correspondent mike costello.nd said he saw that carlos takam, ten weeks ago, get yourself ready because if anything happens we want you in line, do you know what i mean? that is thought he did and a p pa re ntly mean? that is thought he did and apparently pulev has hurt his shoulder or torn his bicep and he can't compete at the question is, is the show cancelled or go on and that's where i was at, what we doing, then? pulev cockfight, are we going or not? then we found out carlos ta ka m going or not? then we found out carlos ta kam was going or not? then we found out carlos takam was ready, he's game. i have known of takam and i knew he wasn't going to turn around on this opportunity. any chance you would not go ahead? why, because i'm not fighting pulev? no! i'd have had way too long out of the ring and i need too long out of the ring and i need to keep active, i need to pick up on what i have learnt from the wladmir klitschko fight and even after that fight takam is a good title defence soi fight takam is a go

our tom costello has details. >> reporter: the new security measures apply to every flight coming intohe u.s. from a foreign airport, from london to amsterdam to taiwan. 2,100 daily flights, 325,000 passengers. security upgrades both seen and unseen, including closer inspections of personal electronic devices, beefed up security in passenger areas and around the aircraft, and more thorough interviews with passengers as they check in hoping to identify terrorists. the changes were announced this summer after intelligence suggested isis was able to smuggle explosives into laptops. homeland security even required passengers flying from ten middle east airports to check their laptops until security at those airports improved, which they did. among the top concerns today, terrorists could travel through multiple countries before boarding a flight to the u.s. >> i think with european airport security, they are challenged because they -- they can't control as much access from one country to another from border to border. >> reporter: for 180 airlines flying to the u.s., including u.s. carrier

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> still to come tonight, it's already cost him one sponsor. what nfl star cam newton said to a female reporter that has him facing some backlash tonight. >>> back now with the controversy swirling around a big nfl star, carolina panthers quarterback cam newton who has been widely accused of sexism over his comments to a female reporter, thus far he hasn't apologized publicly, but the uproar is already costing him some money. nbc's kristin dahlgren has more. >> reporter: today cam newton taking hard hits off the field about a comment to jordan rodrigue. >> the physicality -- >> reporter: it's funny to hear a female talk about routes, like -- funny. >> reporter: unlike newton, rodrigue wasn't amused. i don't think it's funny to be a female and talk about routes. i think it's my job. an nfl spokesman calling the comments just plain wrong and disrespectful. today the team's coach said newton spoke to the reporter afterwards. >> cam made a mistake. i understand he had a conversation where he pretty much said that he shouldn't have said what he said

>> tom costello, thanks. >>> a big revision tonight to the las vegas shooting timeline. the company that owns the mandalay bay hotel now says stephen paddock shot a hotel security guard within one minute of when he began firing out the window at the outdoor concert. the police had earlier said the guard was shot six minutes earlier, raising a question about just how fast the hotel reported it. >>> we've got a lot more to tell you about as we continue here tonight. still ahead, the teen taking center stage after experimental therapy reversed his blindness. the breakthrough that could now be a life changer for so many others. we'll tell you about that. >>> just uncovered the new clue in the mysterious sonic attacks on u.s. diplomats in cuba. we'll give you an idea of what they heard. stay with us. >>> back now with a medical breakthrough. fda advisers today unanimously recommended approval for the first gene therapy in the u.s. to treat an inherited disease. in this case, blindness. scientists believe this revolutionary technique has the potential to treat so much more. nb

here's nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: at nation's oldest fire department, the alarm sounds 234 times a day, but what's killing boston firefighters is all too often a danger they can't see. glen preston undergoing chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant at dana farmer brigham & women's hospital, just 41, married with four kids and battling blood cancer. >> they are doing the best they can, but it's back and it's in the lining of my heart and tumors in the lining of my heart now. >> reporter: unfortunately, he's one of many. chicago, san francisco, houston, l.a. and seattle fire departments are all tracking elevated cancer rates. unique to new york, 163 ground zero firefighters and emts have since died. but in boston where it's illegal for firefighters to smoke, three new cancer cases are reported each month, twice the rate of city residents. >> certainly this is an epidemic in the fire service. this is something that will consume us. >> reporter: researchers say today's fires involving synthetics, plastics and chemicals can cover fire fighters in a toxic soot. >> i have kidney cance

>> tom costello, thank you, tom. >>> president trump says his nominee to be the next u.s. drug czar is withdrawing from consideration for the job. the move by congressman tom marino to pull his name comes after an explosive report that he played a key role in passing a bill that weakened the ability of federal authorities to stop the distribution of opioids, potentially exacerbating that epidemic. >>> and a new crackdown in the opioid crisis today. the justice department has charged two men in china with shipping tons of illegal opioids to the u.s., drugs that prosecutors say led directly to death here. and the trail that led to one of them began with a death in the heartland. here's nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: for first responders in grand forks, north dakota, it was an all-too-common call -- drug overdose. they found 18-year-old bailey henke dead of an overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic drug 50 times more powerful than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. police discovered that henke got it from a man in grand forks who bought his fr

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> up next, as we continue here tonight, an amazing discovery in space that may answer -- have an answer to one of the great cosmic mysteries. how much money do you think you'll need in retirement? then we found out how many years that money would last them. how long do you think we'll keep -- oooooohhh! you stopped! you're gonna leave me back here at year 9? how did this happen? it turned out, a lot of people fell short, of even the average length of retirement. we have to think about not when we expect to live to, but when we could live to. let's plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. prudential. bring your challenges. >>> there's been a guilty verdict in a bomb attack here in new york city. 29-year-old acmed rahimi was sentenced to a life in prison. he was convicted of planting two bombs, one at a marine corps charity race in new jersey, the other on a manhattan street, a blast that injured dozens of people. prosecutors say rahimi was inspired from propaganda of al-qaeda and isis. >>> in the midst of a historic storm season here

here is nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: at the nation's oldest fire department, the alarm sounds in times a day. but what's killing boston fire fighters is all too often a danger they can't see. glenn chemotherapy and transplant. just 41, married with four kids and battling blood cancer. >> they're doing the best they can. but it's back. it's in the lining of my heart and tumors in the lining of my heart now. >> reporter: unfortunately he's one of many, chicago, san francisco, houston, l.a. and seattle fire departments are all tracking elevated cancer rates. unique to new york, 163 ground zero fire fighters and emts have since died. but in boston where it's illegal or fire fighters to smoke, three new cancer cases are reported each month. twice the rate of city residents. >> surely this is an epidemic in the fire service. this is something that is going to consume us. >> reporter: researchers say today's fires sin thet iks plastics and chemicals can cover fire fighters in a toxic soot. >> i have kidney cancer. >> i have brain cancer. >> there is no cure for it. >> reporter: 190 fire

>> all right, tom costello for us. tom, thank you. >> we want to bring in now meteorologist bill karins who has been tracking the weather in california. the wildfires hopefully an end in sight. >> we were scared with the high weekends that were going to come in. it wasn't as bad as expected. no one is complaining about that. we have rain chances in the forecast at the end of this week so the beginning of the week the winds are light, not much in rain chances. here comes the green. as we go into thursday evening, northern california especially not much for southern california, but northern california north of san francisco and sacramento would really like this. with the winds relaxing that will help the fire fighters, too. not many weather headlines today. a little shower activity "early today". the mid atlantic and chance of showers in florida. the southeast finally your cold front is coming through. the one you've been waiting for for so long. that's a look at the big weather story today. here's a closer look at your

more from nbc's tom costello. >> it's a growing terror tactic used around the world. with devastating results. july 2016, truck on the boardwalk in nice, france, 86 killed, 200 injured. london bridge in may, eight dead. another five killed in march. around the world attacks in barcelona, stockholm, berlin and in the u.s. last year at ohio state university, 11 injured. for years isis and al qaeda called for this kind of low tech attack, using cars to mow down and kill as many people as possible. >> small-scale attacks using tools, not even weapons but tools widely available make suppressing this entirely not just difficult but truly impossible. >> in new york last may wasn't a terror attack but deranged suspect on drugs who killed a woman and injured 22 after driving through a crowd in time square. nypd commissioner james o'neill told lester earlier this year, threat of trucks is top of mind to critical command, using city trucks to wall off public gatherings, including thanksgiving. >> we had a ring of sa sand trucks around the whole route to make sure no unauthorized

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here's nbc's tom costello. >> get down. get down. >> reporter: veteran cops could tell from the sound of the gunfire that fully automatic weapons were likely involved. among the armory of guns, ammunition, tripods and scopes recovered from the hotel room were 0.223 caliber and 0.308 caliber rifles possibly illegally converted into automatic machine-guns used by the military, able to strike a target from long distances. >> it goes down the barrel with high velocity. that's why it's so deadly. it will go through a policeman's vest, through him, out the back and into the next person. >> reporter: federal law has outlawed the sale of new machine guns, semiautomatic weapons are legal in most if not all states. some gun enthusiasts and criminals use $50 kits available online to convert them into automatic guns. youtube clips show how it's done. >> a fully automatic capability by just replacing the stock. >> reporter: and police say the number of fully converted mi automated guns has risen sharply. firing off hundreds of rounds pe

here's nbc's tom costello. >> fasten your seat belts!reporter: panic at 34,000 feet as flight attendants screamed at passengers to don their oxygen masks. >> fasten your seat belts! >> reporter: airasia flight 535 from perth, australia, to bali, indonesia, lost cabin pressure. the plane descended fast, 22,000 feet in a matter of minutes. passengers said some flight attendants were hysterical. >> one of the stewardesses was running down the aisle screaming, put your belts on. tighten your oxygen masks. >> reporter: passengers held each other and texted good-bye messages. >> lots of people crying and people pulling out the life jackets pretty much preparing. we thought there was a good chance we were going to go down. >> reporter: chris had plans to propose to his girlfriend in bali but instead proposed right there. she accepted. airasia blamed it on a technical issue and said we will continue to ensure that we adhere to the highest safety standards. but the airline has a checkered safety record. 162 people died three years ago in a crash

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to buzz around here collecting nectar but two years ago all the buzzing activity around beekeeper costello shiela fell silent. take a look all the bees are dead all because of this chemical they sprayed on the fields my entire business is destroyed at some point i'll have to burn down everything. in the spring of two thousand and fifteen wheat fields here were sprayed with the insecticide five percent which contains the chemical fiber no known for killing ticks its use near domestic animals was already banned at that time says that people in the village of prejudged in one of eastern romania's poorest regions weren't even informed. it was a disaster for us beekeepers. we were robbed of our livelihood a beekeeper can't exist without bees these gentlemen calls that uncle logical disaster here. they didn't think about the people or the animals or even about us. all they're interested in is money. and they can't get enough of a. crush on the last twenty four beehives and with them his livelihood the same happened to other beekeepers. along with farming honey was one of the few sources of incom

our tom costello has some late details now. >> reporter: it started just before 9:00 this morning. >> multiple subjects saying there's a shooting at advanced granite. >> reporter: shots rang out at advanced granite solutions 30 miles north of baltimore. police say 37-year-old radee prince shot five employees with a handgun before fleeing. police were on the scene within four minutes and found three of five had already died. the two survivors are in critical condition. >> there's a individual out there on the loose who committed, you know, one of the most heinous acts we've ever seen in our county. certainly we consider him armed and dangerous. >> reporter: police say radee prince, who worked at the company for the last four months, had an extensive criminal background. 42 arrests in delaware alone, including 15 felony convictions. he was last seen driving a 2008 black gmc acadia with delaware plates. nearly two hours later, another shooting. this one in delaware. police in wilmington say the victim and the shooter knew each other. police chased the suspect's car but lost it. >> the la

of a bill that many say weakened the dea's ability. >> ryan costello was whipping the votes for a billty to stem the flow of these prescription narcotics and taking these big contributions from the pharmaceutical industry. >> now, in a written response this afternoon congressman costello said it was "sickening that democrats are trying to politicize this crisis." he dismissed the activists as paid political protesters but he said he's in the process of evaluating whether the purpose of the law that he worked to pass is being realized. if not he said congress will need to fix it. >> time now for the accuweather forecast. nice looking friday. >> the best. >> yeah, really. >> 74 degrees, 4:30 in the afternoon, meteorologist melissa magee standing by in for adam joseph today and we're in for a really nice weekend. >> really nice one, yeah. temperatures well above average and comfortable too. we'll show you the numbers across much of the delaware and lehigh valleys. they're in the 70's. 74 in philadelphia, 73 as you look over into trenton, down the 95 corridor in wilmington we're coming in

pre—fight press conferences were on thursday and joshua told the bbc‘s boxing correspondent, mike costellot motivates him. time. i know this doesn't last for ever. while i'm doing it, i had to stay focused and if i do not have the motivation, boxing is my motivation, otherwise i give up now. stay hungry and stay on top as long as possible. you have two of the most recognised belts at the moment, no heavyweight has ever held all four simultaneously, is that an ambition? it interesting. that can be, for sure. history is a great thing to chase. records are great to chase as well. it's very possible, it's a possibility, and a challenge... we will find a way. we will definitely find a way of making it happen. on to cricket... and pakistan beat sri lanka by seven wickets in the first match of their twenty20 series in abu dhabi. sri lanka batted first after pakistan won the toss, and they were bowled out forjust 102. hasan ali was the pick of the bowlers, taking three for 23. in reply, shoaib malik top—scored for pakistan with an unbeaten 42 off 52 balls. mohammad hafeez hit the wining runs as pa

he's been speaking with the bbc‘s boxing correspondent mike costello.where you need a good team. eddie looked down the list and saw takam was next in the list, ten weeks ago or eight weeks ago, and said to get ready, if anything happens we want you in line. that is what he did. apparently pulev has torn his bicep or hurt his shoulder, so the question is does show get cancelled or go on? i am like, what are we doing? pulev can't fight. we found out that takam is ready. i have known him for a long time and i assumed he would not turn down the opportunity. any chance you would decide you did not want to go ahead? because i'm not fighting pulev? no! because the issue i am way too long out of the ring and i need to keep active, i need to keep up what i have learned in the klitschko fight. even after the klitschko fight, takam is a good title defence, so i have been fighting guys a lot taller than me, preparing for a 6—foot something guy, now i am fighting a mini mike tyson — boom, boom, hooking. i will have to revert back to different training techniques and

tom costello, nbc news washington. >> we have been following the latest the deadly mass shooting in las vegas that killed at least 59 and injured over 500. joining me now is las vegas sun reporter. so, mick, as a reporter and somebody who lives there in las vegas, how have the past 24 hours been for you? >> it's just been a pretty crazy ride. basically been, woing nonstop for the past 24 hours. trying to catch a wink of sleep. couldn't sleep. police headquarters, it's just been a crazy, crazy 24 hours. >> a claez 24 hours marked by a loft stories a lot of people you've talked to. what are the ones that have stood out so far? >> so many. this one with the brother and the sister. she just moved to vegas and she's like hey, come down and hang out with me for the week of the so her younger brother came down and all of a sudden the gunfire erupts and they're running and jumping on the ground just like every one else bus she's shielding her brother each though he's a little bit bigger than she is. hey, you have a little bit more life to live and i like your aspirations, i'll gladly take a but

reality, it will push the limits of human travel, racing high speed into the future. >> that was tom costello reporting. for the hyperloop to become a reality, musk would have to overcome a lot of red tape. think of all the different states and municipalities along the eastern corridor. state and federal permits, not to mention the complications of building an underground in congested areas with multiple utility lines, subway lines. >> megyn kelly speaks out against sexual harassment on her show today. criticizing a corporate culture which she says often punish the victim. former fox news host bill o'reilly settled with victims for $32 million. here is kelly sharing her thoughts on "megyn kelly today" this morning right here on nbc bay area. >> women everywhere are used to being dismissed, ignored or attacked when raising complaints about men in authority positions. they stay silent often out of fear. fear of ending their careers. fear of lawyers, yes. and often fear of public shaming, including through the media. >> and lawyer for bill o'reilly says allegations of sexual harassment are false

it will push the limits of human travel, racing high-speed into the future. >> that was nbc's tom costelloeporting. >>> a super star will headline the halftime show in minneapolis for super bowl lii. >> excuse me, sir, do you have the time? >> i was going to ask you, sir, do you have the time. >> i do have the time. >> you do have time? >> i do have time. >> you do have time? >> justin timberlake posted this video on twitter to announce he's performing at super bowl lii. tmz reporting the rest of insync could join him on stage for at least one number. this will be timberlake's third super bowl appearance. during an interview broadcast at halftime last night during sunday night football, he shrugged off the infamous wardrobe malfunction in 2004. >> that -- that won't happen this time. there was a little bit of that, but, yeah, i think, um -- yeah, no, mike, that's not going to happen. >> you can follow timberlake's journey to the super bowl stage online. keep it right here on nbc 10 for super bowl lii. mark your calendars. that is on february 4th. >>> well, a couple in st. louis had a surpr

nbc ffs tom costello has more. >> reporter: the new security measures apply to every flight kmoog into the u.s. from a foreign airport. 2,100 daily flights, 325,000 passengers. security up grades both seen and unseen. including closer inspections of personal electronic devices, beefed up security in passenger areas and around the aircraft and more thorough interviews with passengers as they check in, hoping to identify terrorists. the changes was announced this summer after it was suggested isis would be able to smuggle oaks plosives into laptops. among the top concerns, terrorists could travel through multiple countries before boarding a flight to the u.s. >> i think with european airport security they're challenged because they can't control as much access from one country to another from border to border. >> reporter: for 180 airlines flying to the u.s. including u.s. car javiers the deadline is now to upgrade their security. many airlines are now telling their passengers arriving at overseas airport to get there even earlier, 30 to 60 minutes earlier. mean mile tsa tells us a vast

are safe to use and this research shows clearly that is not necessarily the case. >> that was tom costellome automakers require the vehicle to be stopped in order to type in those commands but aaa says 40% of cars tested allows drivers to type in those commands while the car is moving. the automakers emphasize that technology is meant to help drivers keep their eyes on the road. the question is whether all of this becomes too tempts and too much for the typical driver. >>> coming up, trying out a new tactic, santa clara hires a pr firm as the city fights with the 49ers. >>> spoiler alert, you're paying the bill. >>> plus -- >> i was very aware since it's a massage that there's no witness, there's no videotape. >> a bay area woman says her relaxing massage turned into a nightmare. we investigate how some massage therapists with a history of complaints continue to practice. who are these people? the energy conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something... humongous. a little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. who are al