The elaborate proposal that had the wouldbe bride crying tears of joy. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. I am matt lauer. I am Savannah Guthrie. Everybody needs a personal fan today. If you look at the map its hard to believe, twothirds of the country with temperatures over 90 degrees, and isnt the heat wave getting longer now. Yeah, its into saturday. Its a heat wave we have not seen in about 16 years. And i was at the stadium last night, and it was an oven in the stadium. Lets get right to nbcs tom costello, who is sizzling away in washington. Good morning to you. Good morning. Already 81 degrees here in washington, and its 7 00 and we are headed to 97 degrees, and high humidity today, and orange air quality, and if you have asthma they suggest you stay inside. The heat wave has a huge grip on much of the country and its supposed to only get hotter. Summertime, and living is anything bu
More on protest problems in downtown oakland. [ yelling ] reporter within hours thousands of marchers had taken to downtown oakland. They stormed interstate 880 marching against traffic bringing cars to a stand still. Police moved in making several arrests. They forced protestors off the freeway but outnumbered, they were forced to call in Highway Patrol and Alameda County sheriffs deputies. Their reactions a far cry from the first night of protests. We have learned there were only eight officers on the streets in downtown oakland saturday when vandals broke off from a larger protest, smashed windows and set trash on fire in the streets. Were tired of people from mostly it seems like people from outside of the city just trashing the downtown every time they feel like they want to say something. Reporter we saw the Oakland Police chief patrolling the protests himself by bicycle. He admitted police were blindsided by the verdict. They didnt make one arrest that night. We werent expecting
Thank you. Breaking news in san jose. Dozens of animals are killed in an overnight house fire. Kpix 5 reporter sue kwon is gathering more details from the scene and sue, more than 100 cats were inside the home. Reporter yes. Thats right. Were here at 6900 block of [ indiscernible ] in south san jose. This is an unusual scene, captain reggie williams. What you found inside was surprising . Thats correct. When we got here we found a resident trapped in the rear of the residence. Firefighters made a valient effort and rescued valiant effort and rescued the resident. We found 100 cats also. Reporter the back area was locked off to keep the animals inside. What were the conditions . The conditions inside were lots of cats inside. The resident was woken up by the dog. When asked, she said there was 100 cats. Reporter five to six cats were saved, one dog were saved. The other cats were dead. Some of them were in a kennel. Others were not. Firefighters were able to go in and pull the cats out.
Officers are here surrounding city hall in case anything should happen. Pigs go home pigs go home reporter it got a little physical outside city hall when a few protesters confronted police. They didnt last long, but officers manned the streets should anyone get violent. Earlier at the city council meeting, neighbors showed concern about last nights violent protest. In fact, paul from the Oakland Police department cig they were prepared with a contingency plan when the George Zimmerman verdict came down saturday and that Police Presence has been growing each day. Even more assistance has been added now. It is very difficult in those situations to deal with the large numbers of individuals who fan out from the main group to engage in acts of violence and other things and vandalism that were occurs. Ones in accident, we had a group of officers that was being assaulted while they were taking someone into custody. That required a Significant Police response and we are very serious about mo
Kids. That could not be who they were after. Top stories that we are following this thursday, july 18th. This girl was shot and killed overnight after answering a front door. Two other kids and an adult are in the hospital right now, we will have a live report coming up. Police in berkeley are investigating the citys second homicide of the year. Here is a live look at the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. Erica says that a big warmup will start. We are dealing with a lot of cloud cover. It will be fairly fast clearing and most of us was seized sunshine before lunchtimewill se lunchtime. There was an incident on interstate 580. It was a overturned a semi truck. The good news is that because of a location it is not having an impact on the commute. There are a least two accidents that we are tracking. There is a motorcycle accident on 880 and tennyson road. Across the bay there is an injury accident northbound 101. Both of these crashes are only having minor impacts. We will now go l