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Video shows a California woman coming face-to-face with a mountain lion during a hike. NBC News' Marissa Parra has more on the close encounter.

From the first pulse-pounding notes of “Jaws,” sharks have hooked audiences ever since. Now, Netflix is testing the waters ...

NBC News' Tom Winter and Marissa Parra give the latest updates after at least four people were killed and nine others were in a school shooting in Winder, Georgia. NBC News Chief Political Analyst ...

Hurricane Milton is heading directly for Florida and could bring deadly storm surge. NBC News' Marissa Parra is in Tampa and NBC News' Dana Griffin is in Naples with the latest reporting. Jodie ...

NBC’s Marissa Parra reports for Saturday TODAY. A SpaceX rocket carrying the replacement crew for astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stuck in space for nine months, ...

Officials are investigating the death by suicide of an 11-year-old girl from Texas whose mother says she was bullied over her family's immigration status. NBC News' Marissa Parra reports more. If ...

NBC’s Marissa Parra reports for TODAY. An investigation is underway into a deadly crash off Florida’s west coast between a private boat and a packed ferry that has left at least one passenger ...