And the king is dead. Blues icon bb king dies overnight. Well remember the man and his music today friday may 15, 2015. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1 a. Good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. For music fans around the world it is a sad friday morning. Bb king was a legend and he has passed. All of us saying he contributed so much to the world of music. I looked at my phone and my library of music. I have 63 bb king songs on there. We will talk more about his life and music coming up. We want to start with this breaking news. U. S. Marine chopper missing for three days has been found in pieces in the mountains of nepal. What can you tell us . Just moments ago in kathmandu lieutenant marine corps general john wiszler declared it is unlikely there were survivors in the Helicopter Crash and all eight passengers on board were killed. The u. S. Military is no longer calling this a search and rescue operation but a recovery op
Sweep next round. Conference finals and the finals. Its been a long time since weve been able to see a team like like this in the bay area. Its fun. The warriors looking for a clean sweep of the first round tournament. It turned into much less of a nail biter than the last one. That wasnt a nail it was a heart attack. Local versions scheerd on the real deal and sent them off thoo the second round with enthusiasm. Its a sweep, its going to be great. Were going to celebrate it but this isnt all we want. This isnt our ultimate goal. A long shot from here, but i hope we do it. Everybody has got that long game in sight. They say were going to take it all of the way. The warriors tickets as you know, are the most expensive in the league. The fans here tonight say they will do whatever they can, pay whatever they have to pay because they want to see the team win in person. All right emily now they get to rest up before round two and show us all of your warriors pride, send us your pictures he
Panel discussion. You are gathered here today to hear the story of the closing days of the civil war. The university of virginia has a small chapter in its story. For three days in march, 1865, the city of charlottesville at the university were occupied by union forces. Uva law Professor John miner wrote in his diary that he feared general sheridans men would destroy the university. His fears were not unfounded. Only a month later, union troops did indeed burn the university of alabama whose campus was designed on the model of Thomas Jeffersons academic village. Fortunately, this university had a measure of protection that alabama would not have. The uva administrators had long attempted to distance the university from the civil war conflict even seeking exemptions for military service for uva students. When the union troops arrived on march 3, local officials surrendered the town and University Leaders including faculty chair socrates molfin request a protection for the university usi
North carolina is already seeing high surf as Tropical Storm ana heads for the coast. Its projected to make landfall sometime on sunday. Meanwhile the midwest continues to deal with Severe Weather oklahoma still dealing with flooding in the streets. And the storms are expected to continue today. Dry weather conditions and slightly warmer temperatures can be expected through the weekend as weak High Pressure builds over the region. Temperatures cool early next week as another upper level trough approaches the pacific northwest. A slight chance of anny hong you this is getting a little better overnight as the head of Hurricane Season district and not from the Tropical Storms at the carolinas expected of the 2 4 in. Of rain today and tomorrow but isolated places could give up to 6 in. Of a client and strong winds all possibility and some flooding. Temperatures right now in the 54 San Francisco oakland 53 san jose the morning to you. Anny hong checkup highs for today at 3 00 p. M. We will
From injuries he sustained while in custody of the Baltimore Police. Today, his family overcome with grief. Trying to put aside their questions about how the 25yearold died. They want answers from the Police Department but right now, their primary concern is burying freddie gray. Karen todays somber scene was a far cry from saturdays demonstrations that turned violent. Thousands turned to the streets for what were mostly peaceful organized marches. By evening tensions escalated with the small group that smashed windows and looted a store. Baltimores mayor blamed the violence on out of towners. Many of the people who werent from our community were in essence trying to hijack the very raw emotions of some of those who live in baltimore and were expressing anger over the death of mr. Gray. Karen baseball fans were kept inside camden yards after the orioles game ended due to concerns about the clashes happening just outside the stadium. 34 people were arrested. Grays family said they were