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good evening, after a relatively safe period for air travel, tonight, we are keefrg tragedy in wichita, kansas, where a twin-engine aircraft full of fuel went down on takeoff into a flight instruction building right there on the airport grounds. while the pilot was believed to have been killed instantly, the search all day and rising death toll had to do with the people in the building where the explosion took place. it's where we begin tonight with nbc's ron mott. ron, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. officials say the pilot was believed to be the only person aboard that small airplane which lost power shortly after takeoff. they say the pilot then tried to turn back to the runway, culminating seconds later in a fiery crash. thick clouds of black smoke billowed high into the sky, fuelled by a raging fire, a

harrowing scene this morning for those at wichita's mid-continent airport, minutes after a twin-engine it you are bow prop slammed into a flight training facility filled with dozens of people. >> heavy smoke on the horizon as you approached the airport for miles. >> reporter: emergency crews rushed to the scene, the aircraft's nose gear visible among the flames. air traffic control transmissions captured the crash. >> we just lost an aircraft. >> reporter: king air 200, a popular small airplane built by beechcraft headquartered here encountered trouble shortly after takeoff, that an engine appeared to quit, leaving the pilot struggling to regain control. the plane veered from the runway and into the flight safetity nearingal building where pilots were busy practicing maneuvers on simulators. hours after the crash, smoke can still be seen rising from the top of this building. as you can see, that black column of soot outlines the height and the width of this

fire. officials say that king air landed on four flight similarities inside. >> we are grateful at this point that a large number of people appeared to have gotten out of the building, but certainly sanded by the loss of life and anybody that might have been hurt. >> these families and these people in your thoughts and your prayers and certainly a tragic moment for our community. >> reporter: officials say three of those killed were killed in a flight simulator. the fourth, according to the mayor, was the pilot. we spoke to a gentleman just across the street here. he says he knew that pie lot, the pilot was well liked and well regarded here and this community is quite shaken tonight, brian? >> ron mott after a terrible day in wichita, kansas, thanks. a warning tonight from one of the humanitarian groups battling the ebola epidemic in west africa. doctors without borders says that mandatory car ran teens in some states here are, in fact, having a chilling affect on american doctors and nurses willing to go over terror to help. the group says it's thinking about cutting assignments short.

it adds that some workers are waiting out their 21 days in europe before coming home to "avoid the stigma." and the tonight, a nurse in maine remains in a hard-to-believe standoff with officials over her quarantine rules. nbc's stephanie gosk has our report from fort kent, northern maine. >>. >> reporter: this morning, kaci hickox took her usual morning bike ride work a state there were and the media not far behind, there was nothing usual about it. >> you talk about taking a step last night? >> this morning, chad and i said we wanted to go for a bike ride. >> reporter: maine's governor didn't seem overly concerned, even though just yesterday, his own health officials said she had to stay at home. >> as long as she is not touching other people or, you know, staying a distance from other people, then i don't see the harm. >> reporter: but in a statement, the governor said negotiations with hickox failed and she wouldn't agree to all of maine's

guidelines for people at some risk of developing ebola. so far, hickox has agreed to daily checkups and has not left the fort kent area. but last night, she said she is worried health workers are being stigmatized. >> when we let stigmatization win, we all lose. so, i think this is something we have to fight from the beginning. you know, i have been told that if friends come to my house, they can't hug me. they have to stay three feet away from me. >> reporter: hickox's favorite pizza play, the moose shack, the owner, becky long, has been getting calls from other customers. >> receiving phone calls, has she been here? is she here? you know, people wanting to come have lunch but are not coming because possibility she may be here. >> reporter: she wantses to send over a pizza, but she is waiting to fee the police will let her. while other lunchgoers criticized hickox. >> you think she is spreading anything, but why take the chance? why -- why make an uproar in the community when there's no need of it? >> reporter: at hickox's house

late today, there was little sign of an uproar, just a health worker coming for a checkup and some pizza finally being delivered. the standoff in the ebola battle goes on. hickox and her team have not responded to the governor's statement today and there's still no court order forcing her to stay in the house, which means that the state trooper who has been here the last few days can't arrest her when she leaves. brian? >> stephanie gosk outside what is the most famous farmhouse right now in the state of maine. stephanie, thanks. now to the announce am lot of us woke up to this morning from the ceo of apple, tim cook. easily, one of the most powerful business leaders in this country and around the world, for that matter, publicly acknowledging he is gay, while delivering powerful message about equality and making history in the process. our report tonight from nbc's cynthia mcfadden. >> reporter: today, tim cook did what no other fortune 500 ceo has ever done, came out as gay. in a written statement in

"business week" the am ceo said, "while i have never denied my sexuality, i haven't publicly acknowledge it had either, until now. so, let me be clear. i am proud to be gay. and i consider being gay among the greatest gifts god has given me. "why does this matter today, or does it? >> yeah, it's sad that it matters, 'cause it shouldn't matter, never have anybody saying i'm homosexual, but it matters because it is still not accepted all over the place. and now we have a major player saying i'm gay, which opens the door to many other things to come. >> reporter: cook's sexuality has long been the topic of speculation. he told brian in a 2012 interview, he values his privacy. >> i'm a private person. and, you know, i like being anonymous. >> reporter: he also appeared in an apple video promoting gay pride, but didn't speak. ♪ just a couple of days ago in his home state of alabama, cook seemed to edge closer to making

a personal statement. >> there is little, if anything, that matters more in our country than our basic tenets of equality and human rights. i have long promised myself to never be silent in my beliefs in regard to these tenets. >> reporter: today, cook made good on that promise. it's been tough and uncomfortable at times, but it's also given me the skip of a rhinoceros, which comes in handy when you're the ceo of apple. >> apple is gonna be apple, but i think now the leadership of apple will be a stronger leader. he is now totally lonnest with who he is. so, when off stronger leader, you have a stronger company. >> reporter: well, much has changed for gay people in the past few year, more than half the states in this country have laws permitting employers to firework officers they are gay. furthermore, in more than 70 countries around the world, many of them where apple does business, being gay can land you in prison. and five countries, brian, gays

are subjected to the death penalty. >> cynthia mcfad.at story with us here in the studio tonight. cynthia, thank you, as always. let's go all the way west to hawaii tonight. it's not difficult to outrun the lava flow there, but it is impossible to stop it the national guard today deployed 83 troops to a community in the path of that lava flown the big lined. they will set up road blocks and patrols now to keep people away. beyond that, there is little else anyone can do. and as it stands right now tonight, 40 to 50 homes stand threatened. back here in the lower 48, millions are keeping a close eye on the weather tonight. in parts of the northeast, people still talk about the halloween storm a few years back when snow falling on trees still full of leaves left some without power for days. nothing that severe, but there is weather amount watch meteorologist janice huff in the weather center. janice, how much? how bad? >> brian, it is going to be significant for this part of the country. we are talking about the great smoky mountains that usually see snow in the winter but not what

we are expecting across the area as two storm systems, one near st. louis and one over the great lakes merge together to bring the system and to bring the snow. it starts out as rain tomorrow afternoon, but then rapidly changes over to snow across the appalachians, particularly the smokys of north carolina and tennessee and back into western ken kentucky. this will continue most of the day on saturday. part of the great smoky mountains could end up with a foot of snow in the higher he will a ll see the latest sun dine

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his lawyers say fbi agent, to get a closer look, cult off internet service to the room, then claimed to be the repair men summoned to fix it recording it all on this video obtained by nbc news. >> is the wifi down, too? both hard line and wifi? >> reporter: once inside, the agents glanced at the screens of computers in the rooms, later claiming they you a evidence of illegal betting. >> i got the url for the site that they are wagering on. >> reporter: after the coming back with a search war rarngt the fbi arrested foi and his son, accusing him and six others of taking millions in bets on the world cup. now, he and his lawyers are asking the judge to throw the case out, saying the fbi's ruse was illegal. >> if the government can do this, it can also cut off your cable television, your electricity, your phone service and when you call for help, you always have to worry that the person who shows up at your door is actually an undercover agent with a hidden camera. >> reporter: he says police cannot trick their way into a house or hotel room unless they have something more solid than a

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operation, oral surgery in the tune of $25,000 he can't afford. you see, spinello was just a kid when he sold the rights to his invention for just $500. that became "operation," a monster seller and family room staple everywhere. >> professional game incenters are. >> reporter: when other toymakers heard of his plight, they rallied. >> we thought the toy industry would respond. we didn't know the world would respond. >> reporter: they showed they don't have broken hearts but big ones, contributing to a fund to pay for the surgery. spinello can't get over the letters and e-mails from well wishers. >> i had had people come up to me, you're responsible for "operation," i have become a surgeon. >> yes! >> what are you going to be when you grow up? >> a doctor. >> ah. >> it's like more fun when you play it with your family than when you play video games by yourself. >> reporter: john spinello says he is not birth accident getry. et cetera just happy he made so many people laugh. >> all the money in the world can't duplicate the feelings

that these people are throwing out to me. >> reporter: and the operation he can now have will give him his smile back, too. kevin tibbles, nbc news, bloomingdale, illinois. >> how about that to end our broadcast on a thursday night? thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we of course, hope >> fashion shock show. did miley and ria go too far at the fund-raiser? >> now on extra. >> miley and rihanna nearly

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