at the family s retreat. how police were alerted to the intruder and why he said he did it hot hot hot and our 5-alarm firefighter challenge is getting hot. firehouses from around the country competing. down to the final two for the $10,000 prize. will your firehouse be the winner? all: good morning, america. it s getting hot in here. good morning, america. those firefighters have been so much fun all week. today the big finals. we want to welcome back amy, hope you had a great trip. thank you very much, i did. robin in l.a. for the espys. we will be crowning our champion in the 5-alarm challenge later in the show so do stay tuned. right now we ll get to that extreme weather. nearly 100 storms reported across the country. almost 2 inches of rain in one hour at that college campus in idaho. very dangerous conditions and ginger tracking it all. all it takes is one storm. this is the radar the storm that blew threw quick, 2 inches comes through rexburg,
intruder and why he said he did it hot hot hot and our 5-alarm firefighter challenge is getting hot. firehouses from around the country competing. down to the final two for the $10,000 prize. will your firehouse be the winner? all: good morning, america. it s getting hot in here. good morning, america. those firefighters have been so much fun all week. today the big finals. we want to welcome back amy, hope you had a great trip. in l.a. for the espys. we will be crowning our champion in the 5-alarm challenge later in the show so do stay tuned. right now we ll get to that extreme weather. nearly 100 storms reported across the country. almost 2 inches of rain in one hour at that college campus in idaho. very dangerous conditions and ginger tracking it all. all it takes is one storm. this is the radar the storm that blew threw quick, 2 inchescoulds through rexburg and you get scenes that look like this. an apartment complex, people wading waist deep at byu, ida
and our 5-alarm firefighter challenge is getting hot. firehouses from around the country competing. down to the final two for the $10,000 prize. will your firehouse be the winner? all: good morning, america. it s getting hot in here. good morning, america. those firefighters have been so much fun all week. today the big finals. we want to welcome back amy, hope you had a great trip. in l.a. for the espys. we will be crowning our champion in the 5-alarm challenge later in the show so do stay tuned. right now we ll get to that extreme weather. nearly 100 storms reported across the country. almost 2 inches of rain in one hour at that college campus in idaho. very dangerous conditions and ginger tracking it all. all it takes is one storm. this is the radar the storm that blew threw quick, 2 inchescoulds through rexburg and you get scenes that look like this. an apartment complex, people wading waist deep at byu, idaho. overnight a water invasion. raging floods rocki
and winter s 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. i m matt lauer along with tamron hall. savannah is off. joined by natalie morales and al roker as well. busy news day. it s so hard to believe so few answers related to that flight 370. we re almost at a week since this happened. that s right. we ll 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 dri
it. i saw her in the green room downstairs. her name is jamie. we re looking forward to that. what? yesterday was a day i picked for bambino s birthday because we know he was born in march, but we don t know the exact date. okay. we have so many family, you know, birthdays in march. i picked one that somebody else didn t already have. so i just thought, all right, i m 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, let s celebrate a little bit. let s do your first selfie. so that s it. oh, my it had been a long day. he d been celebrating all day long. but i just said, you know, bambino s 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 o