Crash Survivor: Retracing a 7-Year-Old’s Steps to Safety

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Boston Bombing Jury Selection Begins  The first of 3,000 potential jurors began filling out questionnaires today for the trial of accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who could face the death penalty if convicted. He sat in the courtroom, just two miles from where the city’s marathon ended in destruction two years ago. As the lengthy trial process begins, many survivors of that day just “want it to be over and done with.”     Learn More

Nation Enters Deep Freeze  Bundle up. Temperatures are about to plunge well below normal in much of the country, with drops of 40-degrees already recorded in some places. Chicago is bracing for snow and firefighters had to use steamers to thaw frozen hydrants. By midweek, it could be 20 degrees below average in the South.     Learn More

Combating the Flu  Hearing a lot of sneezing around you at work? The flu outbreak continues to spread -- it’s now in 43 states, making it twice as bad last year’s already. And once you have it, some symptoms could linger for up to six weeks. Get tips for avoiding it, including when sufferers are most contagious, plus what to do if symptoms begin.     Learn More

A Young Survivor’s Journey  Today, Sailor Watkins’ classmates left notes on her empty desk as the 7-year-old recovers with relatives. She survived the weekend plane crash in Kentucky that killed her immediate family and walked through the dark to find help. “It was sickening to think of how scared she must have been,” said one of the first people on the scene where the plane clipped trees as it crashed and landed upside down.     Learn More

Rewriting History?  With the Oscar buzz surrounding the movie “Selma,” also comes a bit of controversy. Rep. John Lewis, a former activist, said he thought the film was so real “it made me cry.” But some historians say the first Hollywood film about Martin Luther King, Jr. unfairly depicted President Johnson and point to a few key scenes. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports.     Learn More

A 28-Hour Flight Nightmare  Think you had a rough trip home for the holidays? Moments after passengers boarded a flight in Abu Dhabi bound for San Francisco, thick fog closed the airport. For the next 12 hours, passengers sat on the tarmac and waited. The delay dragged on hour after hour, despite announcements they would be “leaving soon.”     Learn More

Puppy Love  Photos of dogs of every shape and size are helping a 16-year-old boy with leukemia find comfort amid tough treatments. All because when a family friend invited a few people to share pictures of their pooches with him on Facebook it caught on globally. Now a million of these canine kisses have streamed in from around the world and the young man says “there’s not a single one that doesn’t make me smile.”     Learn More