Diverted to nearby airports. The flights that were on the ground here, passengers, as the planes moved away from the terminals passengers had to deplane and come down and depart and make their way back. They spent the night at hotels. According to the local authorities a man that was here and made some sort of verbal threat. A man who is known to the fbi. The fbi and the joint Terrorism Task force are now investigating the details of what happened here last night. Reporter i pulled up and they said theres a bomb threat. Everybody started running to get up. Reporter tense moments at Jacksonville International airport. Shutdown by police because of two suspicious packages. A lot of people started ducking behind where the packages go. Reporter the airport was evacuated when a bomb squad found one package in the terminal and another in a nearby parking garage. The airport tweeting details about the incident in real time. Jso bomb squad on site conducting their investigation. Currently no i
And winters last gas . Heavy snow leading to accidents and Power Outages from the midwest to new england. While millions deal with a drastic blast of cold that has temperatures plunging by as much as 40 degrees today. Thursday, march 13th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. We welcome you to today on this thursday morning. Im matt lauer along with tamron hall. Savannah is off. Joined by Natalie Morales and al roker as well. Busy news day. Its so hard to believe so few answers related to that flight 370. Were almost at a week since this happened. Thats right. Well have much more on that story coming up. But our top story today is that tragedy at the south by southwest festival overnight. It was caused by an alleged drunk driver. Our nbc affiliate kxan is at the scene. Sophia, good morning to you. Reporter matt, police say a suspected drunk driver tried to escape police, but t
It. I saw her in the green room downstairs. Her name is jamie. Were looking forward to that. What . Yesterday was a day i picked for bambinos birthday because we know he was born in march, but we dont know the exact date. Okay. We have so many family, you know, birthdays in march. I picked one that somebody else didnt already have. So i just thought, all right, im going to pick march 12th. Last night sitting there in front of the fire with frank and me and bam and the doggies, i thought you know what, lets celebrate a little bit. Lets do your first selfie. So thats it. Oh, my it had been a long day. Hed been celebrating all day long. But i just said, you know, bambinos selfie. Fourth birthday. Thinking nothing of it. I obviously have too much time on my hands. Yes. And . You cannot believe the amount of people that wished him well. And their dogs and their cats wished him well. It was just you know what . No matter what you post on instagram or twitter, you put your dog up and everyone