Education classes and what is being left out. Thats a subject of tonights a deeper look. We have funnel forming to the north dramatic footage from storm chases as they capture a tornado forming, one of several forming throughout the nation for more on the weather lets go to kevin corriveau. How much longer before the folks are out of danger . Theres another few hours tonight and a big problem tomorrow. This is the big picture we are looking at now. If we look across the mountain stakes, notice the area of circulation. Ahead of that that is the area where we are looking at weather. Ill show you the storms anywhere from texas, oklahoma nebraska and minnesota. They saw one tornado. It has been down here across oklahoma, and texas, that we have seen some of the major city of the tornado, and some of the worst ones. Look at the video here as the tornado makes its way to the ground. It did make its way and caused damage along the ground. We saw debris associated with the tornado, to the east
March 18th 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 to today on a wednesday morning. You may be enjoying your coffee and if you like to get it from starbucks, you may be interested this this story. They are causing a stir online. There is a new campaign the coffee giant is offering something extra with your latte and it is stirring controversy. The people weighing in on both sides. The good and the bad. We will tell you more about that. Lets get to the top story. The phone calls to the u. S. Embassy threatening to kill ambassador Caroline Kennedy. Officials are not taking this lightly. Not at all, matt. The calls came in from somebody speaking english. Caroline kennedy, daughter of jfk assumed the post in 2013. He is obviously a very high profile figure over there. With the violent attack on another u. S. Ambassador just this month, police are investigating how serious
You. Ibm is holding the annual Analyst Meeting on wednesday. In an interview with the new york times, the ceo virginia ramedi says the computer giant is facing rocky times but the company has a clear vision in how to pursue another round of growth and transform ibm for the next decade. Last month ibm reported the lowest Quarterly Earnings in five years struggling with fallen demand for the software. Warren buffett made and big investment in ibm. A clear vision. A clear vision . Youre suggesting its a double no, im just saying i would like details on what the clear vision is. Its very hard but we have a clear vision on what we need to what is it that you need to do . Not that i would understand . Transition to a cloud base. Well see. Hopefully division is the right one that you can implement and you wonder about competitors. It is hard to reinvent ibm. It is not just medium old tech. For quite a while, you wonder is that the right strategy or a different one. Are they continuing to stay
All that and more over the next hour. First lets find out our headlines from our colleagues. Facebooks market value exceeded 200 billion today. Facebook rose to more than 77 per share. The companys stock has jumped more than 9 since late july when facebook reported secondquarter sales rose 61 thanks in large part to mobile ads. Twitter is testing a buy button. The consumer can purchase items directly. They are teaming to save a persons credit card information. Than shares climbed more 5 today. The company is set to get an 8 billion windfall from alibabas ipo. The giant kicks off the investor roadshow today in new york. Yahoo is selling 121 million shares and keeping a 16 stake. We are going to talk more on alibaba. Former sec capital manager was sentenced to nine years in prison. Patricia, give us the details of the sentencing. The lawyer asked the judge for sentence of two to three years. He had to factor in the fact , thethe amount of money in may 275 million. Patricia, is it possibl
Benefit the wealthiest individuals and corporations. Thats the choice. Are you willing to see a bunch of First Responders lose their jobs because you want to protect a special interest tax loophole . Are you willing to have teachers laid off or kids not have access to head start . Or deeper cuts in student loan programs . Just because you want to protect a special tax interest loophole that the vast majority of americans dont benefit from. Thats the choice. Thats the question. And this is not an abstraction. There are people whos livelihoods are at stake, there are communities that are going to be impacted in a negative way. And i know that sometimes all this squabbling in washington seems very abstract. And in the abstract, people like the idea, you know, there must be some spending we can cut. There must be some waste out there absolutely is. But this isnt the right way to do it. So my door is open. I put tough cuts and reforms on the table. I am willing to work with anybody to get t