good? evening to our viewers in the West
and thank you for joining us.
I'm Margaret Brennan, in for Norah.
Tonight it's Friday sO we go on the road with a story
about love taking flight.
Plus, we continue our series on being
retirement ready with the growing trend
of multigenerational housing.
We'll show you why millions of seniors
are moving back in with their children.
Now to the dangerous night of weather from the Deep South
to the Northeast.
At least seven people have died from a line of powerful storms.
Pounding rain flooded Alabama today,
along with hurricane-strength winds.
Three people were killed by falling trees in that state
alone.
The storm also knocked trees onto homes
in the Nashville area.
Kentucky's g declared a state of emergency
as the storms headed East from Louisiana and Texas,
where several tornadoes were reported last night.
This weather threat continues into the night. Let's get the forecast now from meteorologist Chris Warren
from our partners over at The Weather Channel.
In terms of severe weather.
A dangerous and deadly day followed by, still,a couple more hours of tornado possibility.
Across parts of the Southeast, into the mid-Atlantic,
some strong storms.
The tornado threat will be going down
as the storms do move east.
The same system that's been creating the severe weather
also going to bring a lot of snow
to the Northeast, possibly a foot
to even a foot and a half of snow
in some of the higher elevations.
And then, here we go again.
Once this goes out, coming to an end by tomorrow evening,
we're going to see another one, another winter storm moving
into the West Coast and with this, Margaret,
also, again, in the mountains, feet of snow.
While cleanup teams continue to remove wastewater
and contaminated soil at the site of last month's train
derailment in East Palestine, Ohio,
work began today on repairing the track.
Last night, frustrations boiled over
as residents confronted a railway executive
and g o? over their growing health concerns.
No one's coming to save us.
What's happening is not right.
--and desperation--
I'm begging you.
By the grace of G, please get our people out of death.
--erupted in East Palestine last night
as residents got a chance for the first time
to confront a Norfolk Southern representative over the train
derailment contaminating their town.
We're very sorry for what happened.
We feel horrible about it.
For what has happened?
The rail operator says today its crews
began removing part of the tracks
to dig out contaminated soil.
But since the disaster, many of the rail workers at the site
have reported symptoms like migraines and nausea.
They're still working?
That's correct.
U Chair John Long says none have had hazardous material
training, and they've been given little protection.
They were provided, I'm being told, only with N95 masks.
There were no Tyvek suits, no rubber gloves.
Heidi Paparella and her daughters,
who live near the site, are also worried
They told us 16-year-old Addison developed a rash
and now uses an inhaler.
What do you want people outside of East Palestine to know?
I want them to know that we're not OK.
The air and stuffis not OK despite what they might hear.
In a statement, Norfolk Southern tells c
News
it provides PPE equipment to all its employees on the site
and that it has not received any reports of illnesses.
State and f au expect
the excavation of the contaminated soil
and the relaying of the tracks to finish by the end of April.
Now to our continuing series, Retirement Ready.
With high inflation driving up costs on everything
from food to housing, retirees and their adult children
are feeling financially squeezed.
Tonight C's Carter Evans shows us
one multigenerational solution.
This is going to get all cleared out.
66-year-old Jennie Olsen was always
planning on a picture-perfect retirement with her husband
in their mountain home.
But fate didn't have it that way.
When you lost your husband what changed about that?
It was devastating.
It wasn't the same.
The house was just too big.
Expensive upkeep and isolation from c
led her to move in with her daughter and son-in-law
and their five kids.
open it up. Give me a kiss.
Olsen loves being close to her family,
and her daughter gets some much needed help.
I get to see the grandkids grow up.
I'm with them all the time.
An estimated 60 million Americans
live in households with two or more adult generations. Home shortages and high prices are forcing families
to combine resources, according to AARP's Rodney Harrell.
The economist side of me loves the fact
that it's just more efficient, that we've
got people that can have a family caregiver nearby.
There's a separate entrance around the corner.
Demand is so high.
You have your living room.
Builder Lennar's Next Gen homes come with a separate wing
and account for nearly 30% of the company's sales
in the Phoenix area alone.
To be able to have that privacy and the pride of ownership
of their own separate space, but at the same time,
it's connected to the rest of the home.
Another option, accessory dwelling units, or ADUs,
like this garage in LA converted into a mini-apartment
for the grandparents.
That sounded like a great idea to Jennie Olsen.
Right here is where my house is going to go.
She's putting a modular home in her daughter's backyard. Your family will be just a few steps away.
Yes, they will, but they'll be far enough away.
I'll have my solitude still.
And you'll have your beautiful mountain view?
That's right.
So it'll be like l'm back up in the mountains, kind of, almost.
Boston's subway system is getting a check up
after a falling ceiling tile narrowly
missed hitting a woman.
Boston transportation o are
vowing to check all ceiling tiles in the city's subway
system after one came within inches of hitting a woman. It happened Wednesday afternoon at the station near Harvard, and luckily, she wasn't hurt.
A new crew of astronauts arrived at the Space Station today. We'll have the details next. A SpaceX capsule with four astronauts
docked at the International Space Station this morning,
but there was an unexpected glitch.
A faulty sensor on one of the hooks that
connects the capsule to the space station
prevented the crew from docking for about an hour.
On the Road is next with proof that
what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Finally, tonight C's Steve Hartman goes on the road with a couple of lovebirds
you have to see to believe.
To me, some of the saddest tombstones
are the incompletes, the couples where
one has passed but the other still present, buried above,
under a mound of loneliness, such as the case of Blossom,the goose.
Last August, Blossom lost her mate, Bud.
They'd lived on the pond here at Riverside Cemetery
in Marshalltown, lowa.
And according to cemetery staff, after Bud died, Blossom's grief was as evident as any human's.
Her behavior was just--
it was quite a change.
General manager Dorie Tammen says
blossom started hanging out near the front office,
always staring at herself in the glass or the model tombstones.
She wanted company.
Even if it's just a reflection?
Yeah.
And that's when Dorie got a crazy idea,? a hysterically, lovely, crazy idea.
She posted a personal ad that read in part, "Lonely, widowed,
domestic goose seeks life partner for companionship and occasional shenanigans.
I'm youthful adventurous, and lively.
And what are the odds you're going to find
some goose, a male goose?
Oh, in lowa?
Apparently, this state is lousy with bachelor geese.
So the phone rings?
And what do you hear "Honk, honk, honk, honk"?
No,I didn'thear anything like that.
Instead, she heard humans, Deb and Randy Hoyt,
owners of a widower goose named Frankie.
He needed a mate. Yeah, and plus, he's so lonely.
I thought, well,? that would be great.
And so they set up a blind date, where Blossom welcomed Frankie
with open wings.
They started walking off together,
and they haven't really left each other's side since.
A loving reminder that until your last day
is etched in stone, don't ever give up on finding goosebumps.
Steve Hartman, On the Road in Marshalltown, lowa.