The worlds most famous Christmas Tree just hours away from lighting up Rockefeller Center today, wednesday, december 2nd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome e today on a wednesday morning. Big day here in Rockefeller Center. Going to be an even bigger night when about00,000 people pack the streets behind us. They are all counting on one thing. Thats al rokers forecast for tonight, hoping there wont be rain when that Beautiful Tree gets all lit up. Al . Going to be nic were hoping that it is. Oh, not good. Uhoh. You know what happens if that switch gets wet. Yeah, a lot of disappointed folks. Well check in with al to get the forecast in a little while. Lets start with our top story on a wednesday morning. Days after the head of chicagos wake of that vididtaped Police Killing of a teenage suspect, mayor rahm emanuel has now fired him, and protesters say emanuel sho
Amazon. Com. Now, amazon will c crge of the sales tax. Lets meet our mom of the day now, she is linda, she is the mother of four, and she was nominated by her daughter virginia taylor. Virginia tells us her mother goes out of her way to help her children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren even when she is under the weather. She is always always willing to help others, and she deserves this honor. Congratulations to linda, and if you want to nominate the mom in your life or mom of the day, we have a website we have a banner, rather, on that website wltx. Com that you can click to [laughter] if you find yourself strapped for cash today, stick around, because, because we are going to tell you how cleaning out your closet could mean money in your pocket. That is right after the break. While you are digging around to grab welcome back, we know after the holidays, some of you ujght be strapped for cash, so why not combine your new years resolution to clear out your closet, organize a litt
Have deals in the stores before black friday. They show family plans to spend 450 on a family member. Its time to catch up. I have to do my Grocery Shopping for thanksgiving, figure what to do then, and maybe ill get my head around it. Youve got your priorities. I like it. Stay with us. News4 continues at 5 00 a. M. Good morning to you. Im eun yang. And im angie goff in for aaron gilchrist. Talking about the weather, a little cooler. Lets check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. What kind of morning are we going to have, chuck . Good morning, eun and angie. When have plenty of sunshine coming for us today. A texassized rainstorm coming our way for the middle of the week. Planning out your morning hour by hour. 46 by 7 00 a. M. 59 by 5 00 a. M. Your afternoon temperatures today hovering in the upper 50s and low 60s. Even your plans, temperatures back into the chilly 40s by 8 00 or 9 00. Gaithersburg, 50. Tom kierein has got your compm e commuter impact. Northbound here after
All today. I will be here the whole day. And there are a few other areas further inland, too, we would like to search. But ive mapped out a grid. I have it on facebook and a lot of people are going to be helping. It will be good. Searchers believe myrick is dead but they want to bring him home. And turning to our coverage of super bowl 50 and starting this morning for the first time commuters in San Francisco began to feel the traffic impact of playing host to the nfls biggest game. Allie rasmus shows us the street closure and the gridlock. Reporter from 7 30 a. M. On the traffic in the embarcadero area here at embarcadero and washington started to get heavier than usual and it has not let up since then. In fact, at around 8 30 this morning parking and Traffic Enforcement officers came down here and one of them shut down the lefthand turning lanes. This is from the northbound lanes of embarcadero over to washington. Cars were able to turn left from this direction, but the Parking Enfor
Temperatures are mile. The temperatures are not coming back and we have two more chances of rain after tonight. The umbrella is ready. Be careful on the roads. The oil building up. Coming to the bay bridge toll plaza it is going to take you approximately 15 minutes to make it from the maze to San Francisco and we have southbound nimitz at 16th where we have a stalled big rig blocking a lane with the traffic in the northbound direction. Thanks, leyla gulen. A starting revelation about the police force in the largest city, san jose ises thering officers so fast it can soon be at Staffing Levels not seen since the 1980s. Matt is in san jose with more. Matt . The San Jose Police department has faced many difficulties including mass resignation and retirement and it was hoped hiring more officers would fill the ranks but filling academies has been difficult. The San Jose Police Department Released a report ahead of the City Council Meeting addressing the staffing and the trends in the crime