Scams defrauding the elderly through bogus promises of wealth are nothing new, but Jamaican scams have become so sophisticated and aggressive that officials are complaining it's hurting their country's reputation. NBC's Lisa Myers reports. (TODAY)
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"This woman's not breathing enough, she's going to die if we don't get this started," a 911 dispatcher told a nurse calling from an assisted living community. The nurse, following company policy, said she would have to wait for emergency personnel. NBC's Veronica De la Cruz reports. (TODAY)
A Missouri boy uses Facebook to help his elderly friend find his long-lost sister he was separated from six decades ago. KSDK's Anne Allred reports. (NBC News)
The very youngest and oldest members of the population are especially vulnerable to complications of the flu, which makes it especially important for those age groups to get vaccinated. NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports. (Nightly News)
Jane Rapp, a 65-year-old Lower East Side resident whose building was left without water or electricity after Hurricane Sandy, has been lugging buckets of water upstairs to residents who cannot fetch it for themselves. (Nightly News)
Home video shows bystanders in Maine jumping into a frigid harbor to save 84-year-old woman trapped in a sinking car. WCSH's Caroline Cornish reports. (NBC News)
Jack Haggerty has been flying for 70 years, but says he may cool his jets permanently after the brakes on his Cessna failed, causing him to crash on an airfield in Toledo. TODAY's Natalie Morales reports. (TODAY)
A teenage purse snatcher in Florida is turned in by his own father, who spots him in surveillance stills on the local news. NBC's Jeff Rossen reports on this and other outrageous crimes caught on camera. (TODAY)
In California, an 83-year-old driver was caught on video driving the wrong way on I-5 and crashing into a guardrail. As TODAY's Ann Curry reports, the driver luckily survived. (TODAY show)
Raiders on a jewelry store in England got more than they bargained for Monday when an elderly woman turned super-hero. ITN's Richard Pallot reports on the unlikely heroine with a handbag. (NBC News Web Extra)