Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore. 1am in london and 8pm in the evening at the United Nations in new york where a urgent meeting of the Security Council has been requested, and which is expected to take place later on monday. Its been called by the United States, japan and south korea in response to north koreas latest missile test. The official news agency in pyongyang says the military successfully launched a new type of medium range Ballistic Missile on sunday. The launch was widely criticised in the region and beyond. In washington, the white house said the us will reinforce vital pacific alliances to deter what they called the increasing hostility from north korea. Our tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. The launch was almost certainly timed so that north koreas dictator, kim jong un, could crash a Weekend Party taking place on the other side of the world. President donald trump and japans Prime Minister, shinzo abe, have been spending the weekend gol
Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore. 1am in london and 8pm in the evening at the United Nations in new york where a urgent meeting of the Security Council has been requested, and which is expected to take place later on monday. Its been called by the United States, japan and south korea in response to north koreas latest missile test. The official news agency in pyongyang says the military successfully launched a new type of medium range Ballistic Missile on sunday. The launch was widely criticised in the region and beyond. In washington, the white house said the us will reinforce vital pacific alliances to deter what they called the increasing hostility from north korea. Our tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. The launch was almost certainly timed so that north koreas dictator, kim jong un, could crash a Weekend Party taking place on the other side of the world. President donald trump and japans Prime Minister, shinzo abe, have been spending the weekend gol
[ screams ] mass hysteria at one of new york citys biggest train stations after an incident involving a taser sends commuters fleeing fearing a terror attack. The stampede leaving scores injured and shaken this morning. And the last jedi. The force is strong for star wars fans celebrating the 40th anniversary of the film franchise. A bittersweet celebration as fans remember one of their favorite princesses, today, saturday april 15th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im sheinelle jones. Glad to have you with us. Im craig melvin. Dylan dreyer with us as well. A lot of folks on this easter weekend concerned about the weather. Most years easter doesnt end up being that great weatherwise. This year, across the country, looks pretty nice. Good news this morning. Well talk about that coming up in just a bit. First, lets get to our top story this morning. In north korea a show of mil
Im rosemary connors. Its 6 00 on this saturday. Meteorologist krystal klei is tracking the easter weekend forecast. She has the most accurate forecast in the region. Krystal . This is a pretty good easter weekend forecast. Were starting out this morning, just a little chilly. 43, mt. Pocono. 41, allentown. Look at philly, almost 50 degrees right now and thats the same for wilmington. We are at 50 in dover and 49, Atlantic City. So overall, temperatures, pretty good to start. Theyre only going to get better as we go along. Were talking 60s by this afternoon. On your sedradar and satellite, pretty dry conditions, but we have clouds starting to sea breeze throughout the southwest. As we go through today, that pattern continues. More clouds thickening up, meaning we get to mostly cloudy conditions today. While its gray, its still pretty nice. 53, 9 00 a. M. By noon, 62 degrees. And what were going to see here is winds that start to pick up as well as they come in from the south, leading us
Citys biggest train stations after an incident involving a taser sends commuters fleeing fearing a terror attack. And the last jedi. The force is strong for star wars fans celebrating the 40th anniversary of the film franchise. A bittersweet celebration as fans remember one of their favorite princesses, today, saturday april 15th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im sheinelle jones. Glad to have you with us. Im craig melvin. Dylan dreyer with us as well. A lot of folks on this easter weekend concerned about the weather. This year looks across most of the country pretty nice. Good news this morning. Well talk about that coming up in just a bit. First, lets get to our top story this morning. In north korea a show of military force was on full display during the parade celebrating the birthday of that nations founding ruler this morning. It comes as tensions rise across the regio