Surfaces of members engaged in a racist chant. The chapter closed its members suspended as the school launches a full investigation. And apple watch. The tech giant set to officially unveil its newest device, but can they convince you that you need one . Today monday, march 9th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday 7 00 on the west coast. You had me at hello. I think you got to try this th i would like a watch that didnt spring forward this morn im buying. Thats very cool. Well talk more about that device coming u. Lets start with our top story, though, emotional vigil in madison, wisconsin last night following the Fatal Police Shooting of a 19yearold man. Nbcs ron allen is live with more on that. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. That young black man was Tony Robinson, killed by a white Police Officer in that house there, you can see there are
Nearby. Theres a small Church Actually the Forestry Office is right nearby as well. Right now no buildings are being threatened right now. Take look some video earlier. Helicopters aircraft making water drops from above to try to get a handle on this fire. That broke out shortly afternoon today. We arrived to flames shooting to the tree tops. We ran into one woman who was trying to get to her stable about a mile from the fire. She was concerned about her thoroughbred horse jack. She texted me a little while ago. She said there is smoke getting closer to the stable but right now those fire lines are holding holding. It does get really scary because it spreads so fast and we havent had any rain out here so its pretty dry back there. Overnight is what well do is well work on the fire and just strengthen the fire lines and just to keep the fire where its supposed to be and as far as the cause right now, it is under investigation. Thats as fast as im going with the right now. Reporter as yo
About. Jay gray is live outside the courthouse where jurors have just found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty in the Boston Marathon bombing. Jay . Reporter jim pat, guilty on all 30 counts, including the 17 which carried with them the possibility of the death penalty. That guilty verdict now triggering the next phase in this trial, which is the penalty phase. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated for just over 11 hours over the last couple of days before reaching their decision this afternoon. It was announced and they were released by the judge. They will return for the penalty phase expected to start sometime early next week. What will we see in that phase . More testimony. More evidence as well. And likely more of an exclamation from the defense team here, which has said all along that, while they admit Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a part of the bombing and he should be punished he was not the mast mastermind mastermind. They say it was tamerlan, his older brother, who planned, purchase
Oh, theyre still running and still shooting. Sandy hook school. Please. The family fought to keep the 911 tapes sealed. The father of one says theres value in letting them hear now. I think there will be less confusion. There will be less people making up stories about what happened. The audio files just released online a short time ago. Were going through them and will have the latest on a live report a 5 00. For now at the live desk. Im Scott Macfarlane. We are tracking a strange incident at the white house today. Uniformed secret Service Officers cleared the north lawn, closed the guard shock, evacuated the park and shut down pennsylvania avenue. The secret service says the man was arrested for throwing a package to the north end squad. Right now two lanes are blocked by crews working on a water main break. This problem is near the intersection with gorman street. Crews are installing valves of an 8inch main so waterservice can be restored to customers. Right now we are ready for bi
Gerri we begin tonight with new concerns over reverse mortgages. As the market grows and grows there is mounting criticism the way some banks handle the deals. Across the country people finds out hopes they thought were theres are taken away. It happened to laura when the bank sped up bidding on her fathers foreclosure. We have mark from stern cool school of business who studies the issue. Laura, i will start with you. A lot of folks dont know what a reverse mortgage is. It is exactly like what it sounds. Instead of you paying the bank for a house, the bank pace you. It is an arrangement more and more seniors are doing. Laura, your father had a reverse mortgage. What happened when you tried to buy back the house . Well, i was one of the lucky ones. I was there with my father when he filled out the paperwork and, right now, our issue is not buying back the house at this moment. We were promised that i would, he was promised that i would have 12 months to be able to figure that out. As a