and that information should happen sometime next week. >>> thank you, rehema ellis covering the story. >>> and today, the attention around the world is focused on the 14-year-old girl targeted for assassination by the taliban. she has become a worldwide symbol of the fight for freedom and the fight for all girls to get an education. we get an update on her condition today from nbc's amna nawaz. she covers pakistan for us >> reporter: good evening, less than three days after she was shot by the taliban coming home from her school, malala yousufzai is showing signs of improvement. doctors deemed her stable enough today to be taken from peshawar to islamabad. the new area, which is more equipped and has more equipment. she is not out of danger, she is still unconscious, but they are now putting her chances of survival at 70%. meanwhile, across pakistan, people continue to take to streets to condemn the taliban attack and support malala yousufzai. one demonstrator said if they kill her, ten more will come forward. >> thank you. >>> a sad update from the gulf of mexico tonight, the coast g

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rehema ellis has more. >> reporter: like many mothers, allison tate, a mother of four, was everywhereeir lives, but nowhere in their pictures. >> i knew i was not in pictures with my kids, not in front of the water fall. i avoid the camera, i know i avoid the camera. >> reporter: recently at a family party, she had every intention of remaining behind the scene. >> i was kind of a mess, and my five-year-old little boy ran up to me and said "mommy, come in the photo booth with me" i was like how do i look? but i did it. >> reporter: and that is when it dawned on her, of the thousands of pictures with her kids, she was almost in none of them. and she blogged about it. >> some day i want them to see me sitting beside them, me, the woman who gave birth to them, me, who cried when i dropped them off at school, when i read them bedtime stories. i want to be in the picture to give them that visual memory of me. i want them to see me, how much i am here, how much they are loved. >> reporter: the message went viral, viewed almost 6 million times. thousands of readers even sent photos and shared

his story, from nbc's rehema ellis. >> reporter: wrapped in a blanket and in his mother's arms, ten-year-old kyle kemp was carried out of the woods to the ambulance. >> it was just amazing how wonderful, how happy. >> reporter: lost for more than 18 hours, kyle, who has down syndrome, was found on the family's 20-acre property, about a half mile from his house in alabama. kyle was last seen tuesday afternoon watching tv at home. a short time later, his family noticed he was missing. and they began a frantic search for him. >> just, just getting really scared because it -- it was about to get dark. >> reporter: a community rallied, more than 150 volunteers and emergency workers searched a perimeter about a mile and a half on foot and in the air through the night. at daybreak, the first sign of hope. the family's dog heard barking in the woods, that mother dog led volunteers straight to kyle, and her four puppies. >> i heard the dogs barking again. and -- started yelling for the puppies and yelled for him, he yelled back, he was in the creek. probably the little puppies kept him warm. >> repor

our report from nbc's rehema ellis. >> reporter: new york university medical, one of the most respectedching hospitals in new york city, found itself in crisis at the height of the storm. flooded with up to 12 feet of water, it lost power, including its backup generator. dozens of ambulances from across the city lined up in front of and around the hospital and through the night and into this morning moved more than 200 patients, some adults and even babies in critical condition to other facilities, including julia alamone, who pregnant and in labor had to be carried down several flights of stairs. >> i wouldn't know what to do, where do we go? she's having powerful contractions every 30 seconds. they took her off the bed, got her on this med flat and proceeded to slide her really slowly down eight flights of stairs. >> reporter: they were told they would have to evacuate to mt. sinai medical center, four miles away. everyone was in dark, and julia in severe pain. >> just closing my eyes. >> i was holding a cell phone above her while they were putting in the iv and epidural. >> reporter:

nbc's rehema ellis is live at new york university medical center with the very latest. have they finished those evacuations now, rehema? >> reporter: as a matter of fact, chris, no, they have not. i was just at the front door of the hospital only moments ago and saw two patients being brought out on stretchers with oxygen masks on and being put into ambulances. and this is still ongoing. it's still interesting. it takes a long process to bring people who are in need of great care down from these floors of the hospital on these stretchers and into the ambulances. we have to say, it has been going very smoothly, very orderly. there's been no reports of any kind of chaotic behavior. what you see when you're at the front of the hospital is that there are only some emergency lights that are lighting up the lobby and then they have these portable generators -- >> i'm going to come back to you. i need to interrupt you because we want to show you we are getting these pictures in. this is breezy point, queens, and we understand there are a series, a row of houses that have been o

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rehema ellis is covering that story for us. has to do with what is going to be the tallest apartment building in all of new york city, a crane on top of the building that has been visible for miles that toppled late today and is just hanging above 57th street, rehema? >> reporter: brian this is a dangerous situation. police have created a collapse zone, no cars or pedestrians around the area, 57th street, where this building is under construction and this crane is now dangerously dangling over the street. they have also evacuated the apartment complex, the businesses, even the hotel, the guests have been moved to other places. authorities are going to try to get engineers up into this construction site to see if they can secure this dangling crane. but with the wind s gusting the way they are, nobody is sure they can do that i should tell you at 2 p.m. eastern time when they got the report, the national weather service said the winds were gusting at 40 miles an hour. theayor of new york city, mike bloomberg said we expect wind

for more now we go to rehema ellis who is standing just a block away. can you tell us more about the situation surrounding there? have the local people in the area been evacuated? have people been advised to move away? >> reporter: they absolutely have, martin. as you can see behind me, authorities and police and fire crews have blocked off the street. they have advised people who live in the buildings nearby to leave, particularly if they're on the higher floors, to move from there to a lower floor or evacuate altogether. there's extreme concern that if this portion that's dangling snaps, it could go flying into an adjacent building and who knows what would happen before it then hits the ground. so they are urging people to exercise extreme caution and stay out of the area if they can. a lot of people are standing around in disbelief. we talked to a man just a short while ago up here visiting new york with his wife on his 25th wedding anniversary, and they were walking in the area of that building around 2:30 this afternoon and suddenly something he sai

it's taking a long time but they're making certain they do the utmost care. >> rehema ellis, who has been up all night tracking this for us, thank you so much, rehema. >>> and joining us on the phone new york congresswoman yvette clark, a dmg from brooklyn, good morning, congresswoman. thanks for joining us. >> good morning, chris. >> there are quite a few who live in brooklyn whose families are in brooklyn while they're here helping to get the news out. what can you tell us about what's going on in your community? >> well, we were a bit more fortunate than some of my other colleagues in that in central brooklyn, our main problem were the high winds with the trees, and we had quite a number of trees down in the district, luckily, our electrical wires and central brooklyn are underground so we didn't have the blackouts that were reported in other parts of brooklyn, just outside of our district, however, an area that was outside of the flood zone that was identified for evacuation, the kanarsy area sustained substantial flooding and blackout so it's been a mixed bag in brooklyn. for the

rehema ellis is on scene. what's going on where you are? dozens of ambulances lined up in front of the emergency entrance to new york medical center, chris. it's an eerey scene. the lights are out but for the headlights you see and the red flashing lights that you can see coming from the ambulances. they are lined up to get to the entrance where they're going to evacuate some 215 patients. the statement that was released just a short while ago from hospital officials says something to the effect of due to the severity of the storm, they're having intermittent phone service, they did not expect that they were going to have the kind of calamity that they have in terms of these power outages. so for the safety of their patients, they are moving them to other facilities. also, because their phone service is just so intermittent, they are telling people that the hospital that will be receiving these patients will then notify their loved ones because they can't do it from new york university medical center. so, yet another instance of how manhatt

rehema ellis is there covering it for the last several hours. what's the latest? >> reporter: chris, i can tell you it's an eerie scene where you go up to a hospital and there's just row after row of emergency vehicles of ambulances, they're not there dropping patients off for care, but they have lined up to pick up patients. more than 215 patients and transport them, evacuate them from the hospital to another facility. transporting them because as you say, they have lost power in this area. new york city's mayor michael bloomberg talked about there are massive power outages and flooding in the area. you can see the lights behind me but when my cameraman will pan up a little bit, take a look, you can see the traffic light but the power is out. imagine what it will be like in the morning if we still do not have power and people decide to come out on these roads. they want to effect this evacuation tonight for the patients because it was the timely thing to do but you also want to get it done before you get so many more people out on the street and there is no power

let's go to nbc news correspondent rehema ellis who's there now. what is the latest from there, rehe rehema? >> reporter: the evacuation is continuing, chris. as you point out, 215 patients, some pediatric patients and critical care patients who had to be evacuated when the backup generator fail. we're on 29th street and 1st avenue. everything from here on down has been in the dark for many hours tonight as a result of the storm. we understand there was a transformer fire at a con edison station in lower manhattan which could have knocked everybody out of power. it's important to point out there has been no chaos, no panic. it has been a very orderly transfer of patients here from the nyu university medical center. they also had intermittent telephone service and they've been letting people know that they have not been able to contact the loved ones of these patients as they're leaving. but they're leaving that up to the hospitals that they are being transferred to. because the service here is so intermittent. so they're taking care of these patient

rehema ellis is there. thanks for joining us. this would normally be a local story but this is part of a much bigger story, this wacky, wacky, frightening storm that's hit us. >> reporter: it absolutely is, chris. i've been out here a couple hours and i must tell you that the wind gusts are picking up and becoming much more violent. police have created a collapse zone in the area immediately around this building that you can see where this crane is dangerously perched now in a place where they wanted to make certain they keep everybody as safe as possible. they have ordered people to evacuate the apartment buildings, the businesses, even the hotel that's right in that area because they don't know what's going to happen with this thing. authorities say at about 2:30 in the afternoon when they got the report that the crane had tipped, the wind was blowing at about 20 miles an hour then with gusts up to 40 miles an hour. that tipped this crane. i think the winds are much stronger than that right now. they want to make certain if thi

for "today," rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >> very interesting. you know, there was a time, in the '70s, when the whole family would gather at glamour craft or whatever and take that family picture. you don't do that anymore. for this mom she wanted to avoid the camera. but i love that she opened her heart and really sparked a conversation. >> nobody uses that little timer thing anymore. >> remember the whole family. and dad's not in it. dad's arm is in it but nothing else. >> half the face. >> i like that story a lot. >> there's a lot more to come "today" on a saturday. still ahead. remember this guy? the florida millionaire who adopted his girlfriend before being convicted of dui manslaughter? now he's back behind bars. we're going to tell you why. but first, "today" "today." on nbc. have you heard of the new dialing procedure for the 408 and 669 area codes? no, what is it? starting october 20, 2012, if you have a 408 or 669 number, you'll need to dial 1 plus the area code plus the phone number for all calls. o.k., but what if i have an 408 numb

rehema ellis is live at the scene. this has become iconic with what is happening with the situation. >> reporter: it really has. the crane is starting to sway with the gusting winds, the high, gusting winds that we have. if it was dangerous before, it is absolutely frightening now. police were afraid that this would happen so they created this collapse zone. no cars, no pedestrians. they evacuated the apartment building, the commercial buildings, even the guests from the meridian hotel. nothing is happening where the luxury high-rise apartment is. they want to get experts to see if they can figure out how to secure it. we're told because there's no power they would have to walk up 74 flights of stare. but with these winds gusting now, the mayor of new york city, mayor bloomberg says it could be upwards of 70, 80, miles an hour. it's anybody's guess as to whether or not they could do anything to secure it or they've just got to wait for the storm to pass. chris? >> can you tell us something about the warnings of the flo

. >> we were hearing maybe about 20 minutes ago or so from rehema ellis who was dispatched to nyu medical center where they had a backup jgenerator problem. now an evacuation. it would be hard to overstate the drama. you have patients, critical care patients who are being taken out of hospital when there's literally no light anywhere around. lower manhattan has been plunged into darkness. >> right. this is nyu medical center which is right along the east river. so it's right in that zone. just a few blocks down at 14th street con ed substation suffered an explosion, so it's unclear if that caused some power outages. >> there's the video. it's a pretty remarkable piece of video when you see that explosion going off in the middle of your screen. >> the hospital is 20 blocks from there. unclear if that's what caused the initial pow er outage or problems. the east river overflowing its banks on the east side of manhattan causing flooding. unclear if that's what caused the backup generators to go in the hospital. regardless, a major problem at nyu medical center that they have to evacuate 215