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nancy snyderman with a cautionary note here. after our coverage, thank you, nancy, as always. >>> our weather continues to make news as millions are in the grip of a cruel kind of cold, clear to the eastern seaboard. many communities saw yesterday's highs cut in half still. parts of the northeast which saw a record number of snowfall over the last week have flash frozen, leaving the roads an icy treacherous obstacle course. nbc's miguel almaguer is in boston for us again tonight. miguel, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. this is one of three snow farms in city of boston. it's where they bring all the powder to thaw. our camera is 40 feet up on a snow pile that is four stories deep. i want to give you even more perspective. this snow farm runs the length of a football field. there are mounds of snow on both sides of this access road. tonight the city says there's no more room here, but another storm is on the way come thursday. today the desperate break from falling snow but no relief from bone-chilling cold. the arc

nancy snyderman, nbc news, haiti. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today," and right back here tomorrow evening. have a good night everyone. >>> right now at 6:00 the calm between the storms. some places drying out after yesterday's heavy rain. however, the rain has not stopped in certain parts of the bay area. we have complete coverage of this stormy weekend. good evening to you. i'm peggy bunker. >> i'm terry mcsweeney. on your left you see the golden gate bridge. dark clouds hanging out there. but it's still a beautiful bridge. on the right san jose. the sun peeking out. seems calmer. live team coverage for you tonight. nbc area's na net miranda has been on the road all day. christie smith live in san francisco with how the power company reacting to all this. first rob may yed da. when does the next batch of rain come to town? >> right now we are counting down the hairs of this had break between weather systems. heavy showers have pushed off toward the east. you see here th

nancy snyderman. i know your view is forget measles. the comebacks could not perhaps stop at measles. >> you and i have sat here for the last few months talking about whooping cough, mum ms and measles. these outbreaks aren't an accident because we've become rather lax, we forget what these diseases look like and we forget that they kill and that a simple vac sdeen these. we can protect those less vulnerable to society. what concerns me that this may be the canary in the coal mine. we see a break in public health in this country. there is no debate. vaccines save lives. what if a year two years from now, you and i are sitting here talking about the first case of polio in this country. i don't think we can be so cocky to say that can't happen. this should be the call to arms. >> dr. nancy snyderman with a cautionary note hireere. >>> our weather continues to make news as millions are in the grip of a cruel kind of cold clear to the eastern seaboard. many saw yesterday's highs cut in half still. parts of the northeast which saw a record n

nancy snyderman, nbc news haiti. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday.orting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today," and right back here tomorrow evening. have a good night everyone. >> the bobbi chris 10 a brown tragedy. hi everybody. welcome to "access hollywood", welcome to "access hollywood", weekend edition i'm shaun robinson. week ago whitney and bobbi 21-year-old daughter was found unrae responsive in her atlanta home under circumstances early similar to those of her late mother. >> rescue 4. possible card ybing arrest. 21-year-old female in the bath tub. physician down. en route. >>reporter: 10:00 a.m. last saturday rescue team race to bobbi kristen a home and brought her to the er at north fulton hospital in atlanta. the initial police report listed the incident as drowning listed the incident as drowning. on tuesday bobbi kristen a moved to 0emery university hospital which is

nancy snyderman, thank you so much. >>> when we come back, al roker giving us a preview to have night's oscars. >>> take a look at this video showing a successful effort to free a 45-ton humpback whale from heavy fishing line that became wrapped around its body. it happened off the big island of hawaii. rescuers on a small boat were able to make several cuts to the line. the entangled whale was first noticed nine days ago. >>> a sad note from the world of jazz. trumpeter clark terry has died. ♪ in a career that spanned almost eight decades, terry made it big in the 1940s and '50s playing with duke ellington and others. he became one of the first black musicians to hold a staff job at a network here at nbc. he also became known for mentoring younger musicians and commitment to jazz education. clark terry was 94 years old. >>> it's a big night in hollywood, the 87th academy awards. as usual, there is some controversy. al roker is keeping an eye on it from his place on the red carpet. al, good evening. >> hey, good evening, carl. well, i got to tell you, the big story right now is the weat

nancy snyderman at jackson memorial hospital in miami, where reminders are everywhere that cleanliness counts. >> it's really about accountability. everybody plays a role. >> reporter: kevin andrews is vice president of patient safety. his job, make health-care-associated infections a thing of the past. in a hospital where you have your most vulnerable, your doctors and your nurses are really the people who spread infection. >> that is absolutely correct. and so one of the things we've really worked hard on is really putting together a hand hygiene program. >> reporter: but it's not just about clean hands. keeping medical equipment and instruments meticulously disinfected could be the difference between life or death. the cdc estimates that on any given day about one in 25 hospitalized patients has at least one health care associated infection. there were about 722,000 of those infections in u.s. acute care hospitals in 2011, resulting in an estimated 75,000 deaths. in random testing, researchers at the university of michigan health system found that even when technicians follow instru

nancy snyderman who violated an ebola quarantine torching her credibility. >> good people can make mistakes and staffers have been reeling from a series of factual mistakes like the report that bowe bergdahl will be charged with dissertion. it still hasn't happened and then the management mistakes and turness sought a new captain, jamie horowitz brought on to right the ship as general manager, but just ten weeks later, this turness wrote in a memo to herself that she and horowitz have come to the conclusion that this is not the right fit. what? yes, he was dismissed, a head-spinning change that triggered new doubts about the executive competence and news president turness is not the only one with the weight of the peacock on her shoulders. she oversees two other troubled assets. cnbc and msnbc. they have both seen viewers turn away in droves. >> 2014 was cnbc's least watched year since the glory days of the '90s when they were the dominant financial network and just the last week, msnbc had its lowest full-day rating in close to a decade. parent company comcast stands to lose millions of ad

on air, trying to rehab nancy snyderman after ebola quarantine from west africa tornling her credibilitymistakes. >> reporter: and the network is regretting a series of reporting mistakes most recently saying bowe bergdahl about to be charged with desertion, something that hasn't happened. parent company comcast hates the drama because hurts the bottom line hundreds of millions in ad revenue but also it's got bigger business going on. a pending merger with time warner cable. >> it's a colossal embarrassment for comcast. comcast is trying to pull off a merger in d.c. and mergers are to a significant degree of pr effort to help the image of the company and to show that the company is dedicated to consumerism and good product and good management and having brian williams out saying blah blah blah doesn't help a bit especially given that this story is enormous inside the beltway and that's just precisely where comcast needs a healthy and receptive environment for their merger. >> reporter: at this point, nbc wants to stop being the news and just get back to telling it. >> you know i worked a

nancy snyderman who violated a -- >> good people make mistakes. >> factual mistakes like bowe bergdahl charged with desertion. it still hasn't happened. management mistakes. a new captain at the helm of the "today" show former espn executive jamie horowitz brought on to right the ship as general manager. just ten years later, this. she wrote in a memo to her staff she and horowitz came to the conclusion this is not the right fit. what? yes, he was dismissed. a head spinning change that triggered new doubts how the executive confidence. not the only one with the weight of the peacock on her shoulders. also oversees two other failed assets cnbc and msnbc. they have both seen viewers turn away in droves. 2014 was cnbc's least watched year since the glory days of the anyone 90s when they were the dominant financial network. just last week msnbc had its lowest full day rating in close to a decade. parent company comcast stands to lose millions of ad revenue. meanwhile $45 million merger with time-warner cable is still pending and comcast hates distractions. >> they sure do. this weekend the

nancy snyderman and bruce bartlett former george h.w. bush policy adviser.or rand paul just released a statement saying this. i did not say vaccine cause disorders just that they were temporarily related. i did not allege causation. i have them myself. mr. bartlett what's your response to that? >> obviously, he's trying to have it both ways. you have to understand when you're a member of a party that institutionally hates government they're going to blame government for everything that happens as their knee jerk reaction. if some new issue comes up and somebody sticks a microphone in their face and sizays what do you think about this their answer is going to be the government is wrong. we should do everything privately. one of the interesting thing about rand's statement is parents own their children. think about that for a minute. it is not just a matter of caring for them. they own them like chattle slaves. >> how dangerous is this anti-vaccination sentiment that seems to be all of a sudden a big problem for republicans? >> well it's growing and i worry th