New state, new controversy. Mississippi embroiled in a debate over religious freedom and gay rights. The governor signed a law allows groups to refuse service to samesex couples. There are already boycotts. Getting ridiculous. Tens of millions facing another morning of brutal, spring cold. Another arctic blast behind it, and its even bigger. Remember me for centuries perfection. Dynasty fulfills its destiny. The uconn women cap another flawless season, with the fourth championship, taking its place as one of the most dominant teams today, wednesday, april 6th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Its gotten to the point in Womens College basketball where it is uconn and everybody else. They crushed last night. Syracuse, im sorry, didnt even come close. Yes, it is the fourth time the uconn women have won the National Championship in the last four years. We will pay our respect
Now at 11 00, still a priority. The top cop weighs in on the homelessness crisis, what the nypds been asked to do. President obama becomes the first sitting president to set foot on cuban soil in nearly 90 years. But first, the snow is spring, setting us up for a sloppy morning rush. Thanks for joi ng us, im natalie pasquarella. And im rob schmid. The snow will start to stick. This was the scene just a short time ago in brentwood. You can see ste y snow falling, but it is not sticking at this point on the lie. Flurries coming down but making streets slick. R de blasio has issued a travel advisory. Were going to start with storm team 4 erica grow. This is the last snow event of the season. Temperatures are going to be consistently warmer as we head past this part in mid march. Were taking a live look at our sweeping radar. A light coating of snow coming down throughout the tri state. Numbers of precipitation rate. Were looking about one half inch per hour until you get into duchess, put
If not this evening, tomorrow. Expected to get to 140 Miles Per Hour and continue out in to the atlantic. Now the forecasts, they have kind of pushed that track a little further to the east as we were to watch that cone and the cone is from out here in the atlantic from bermuda to the interior and the State College of pennsylvania on monday and to tuesday. It would be a Tropical Storm as they blow through. Its the weaker side, but still a great possibility of a lot of rain and a lot of fresh water inland flooding from the system. The computer models, the spaghettis as we call it as they look like they have been sliding a little further out east. But as youll be hearing that it is way early for the storm and the models and the storm, they could possibly come back to the waste little bit and that we need to keep monitoring this. Well talk more about this, but more importantly you need to batten things down at home. And the winds will pick up from 35 to 45 Miles Per Hour. And that will bl
11 00 last night when police converged on the home. Inside they found a blood soaked scene from the kitchen, hallway and in to the living room. The mother and her 52yearold son mortally wounded. Neighbors never heard a thing. If there was something going on behind the doors of the white it. Family feuds, people get into arguments. Its been 50, 60 year of the same people. I can imagine, you know, some people can just lose it. But like i said, its devastating. I never saw it. Reporter a family friend told us keith knight was badly injured in a motorcycle accident several years ago that his brother had been laid off from his job as a chef and spent most of his time taking care of their held derly mother. Neighbors tell us they had never seen a police car in front of this house until yesterday. Keith knight is being held in jail on 2 million cash bail. Pat battle, news 4 new york. On Staten Island where loved ones and freds s prepareds s friends turned out to remember Marco Steven Cass see
The future is now. We need help. The zadroga act provides Health Benefits to emergency workers who are suffering from illnesses. But the program is set to expire next month unless Congress Makes a change. This morning, Hurricane Sandy victims have a little more breathing room. They have another month to have reviewed. Days. Some Insurance Adjusters have allegedly blamed sandy damage on other factors. So far more than 20,000 claims have been reviewed. Hundreds have been approved, totaling more than 7 million. Coming up on almost three years. A lot of people have been out of money for a long time. 5 05 right now. Time for a check of weather and traffic on the 4s. Wow, chris, who would have thought we would have august in september. Here. Temperatures this afternoon heading back into the 80s with sunshine, low humidity. Starting out in the 50s and 60s. Not quite as chilly in some spots as the last couple mornings. A day filled with sunshine. Warmer, upper 80s this afternoon. The humidity