And staging a comeback. The late Michael Jackson singing, dancing, and moon walking at the Billboard Music awards, an appearance that some call cool, others call creepy. Today, monday, may 19th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Nice to have you along on a monday morning. Weve got willie in for matt. All right, show of hands. Who thought it was cool, who thought it was creepy. I thought cool. I thought it was cool. A little helping of creepy. A pinch of very emotional. Whether you thought it was cool or creepy, you at least have to marvel at that technology. The technology is just incredible. It brought him to life for four or five minutes on that stage. And marvel at his timelessness. His music and his moves still so relevant today. We have a top story to get to, this new concern over the mers virus after a third infection is discovered here in the u. S. Nbcs tom costello has got
Yours and half a mile in napa so the fog is spreading. Our visibility is up at Half Moon Bay at the low clouds now starting to fill in the bay. We will have temperatures running around 55 this morning, with low and high clouds and in the mid60s by noon with high clouds and upper 60s by 4 00 and 6 by 7 00. The fog is in the north bay valley and it is clear in the east bay valleys, and we are around 70 at noon and high clouds and sunshine and upper 70s at 4 00 and the clouds are stubborn along the coast. The next 12 hours, sunny and around 60 degrees. This is a fatal hitandrun accident involving a pedestrian if san jose east capitol expressway is shut down right now between snell avenue and seven trees boulevard and nick is on the scene bringing us more details. It sounds like this will be shut down for quite some time. That is going to cause a problem in the commute. There are ways of getting around it if you travel 101 take 85 to 87 and 101 checks you to 87 which is the best way. Also,
Between vernon and waller avenues there. We have a live picture here as they continue to battle that fire on farwell drive. A live look at the morgan fire burning near mount diablo. This is from our dublin camera. The fire is active and covering a wide area. In fact, since last night, the fire has nearly doubled to 1500 acres. And we have Live Team Coverage of that fire this morning. Brian hackney is keeping an eye on the weather conditions in the area. Elizabeth wenger is at the Evacuation Center in clayton. But we begin with cate caugiran, who just spoke to fire officials. Cate, whats the latest. Reporter michelle, we understand the first air tankers will be going up in the next couple of hours because the fire right now is growing towards the summit. We can actually see it peaking right now. Maybe its just a glow but weve seen flares come up over the mountain just basically in waves as it comes up and down now. This morning, more families are waking up unsure of the safeties of thei
Ever one on one talks about Irans Nuclear program. The white house is denying it. The report came from the new york times. It said iran is waiting to negotiate until after the election, so it knows which administration its dealing with. There have been back channel discussions, and israel was aware of them. Diplomats told the times they were not kept in the loop. The National Security council said the president has made clear that he will prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and we will do what we must to achieve that. The election is a little more than two weeks away here, and in maryland the president ial race not the only election people are talking about. Questions six and seven continue to be contentious issues on the ballot. Darcie spencer spoke to voters at a debate about why these two initiatives are so important to them. Its clear many voters are undecided on these important ballot questions. One would provide for a casino, the other for gay marriage. Todays forum was m
[bleep] [whistle blowing] tucker that was america ride night. Milo yiannopoulos joins us for his first end of year since we spoke with him by phone last night. Thank you for joining us. Heres the reason i want to talk to, not to endorse your views, some of which i agree with, many but i dont, some of you were prevented by a violent mob. If you are an anarchist or scientologist or activist, it wouldnt matter. You are not allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights and that is shocking. Give us first a quick recap of what happened last night to you. I agree with you in the first place. Im not any of these things of these posters characterize me as an effort to legitimize the violence. Even if it were, it wouldnt matter, as you say. I went in to do my talk, we go in a couple of hours ago to set up our attack and put in a costume or something. I was going to go i was going to talk about Cultural Appropriation and a full native american headdress, a full, custom headrest with my name e