Treatment. And high on the hog. Bacon prices at an alltime high. Why it is costing us more to pig out. Today, monday, august 4th, 2014. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rock feller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. We have carson and dylan in for al. Boy, we have a big story out west. Thousands of people waking up this morning in california stranded. Two different towns are affected. Take a look. Heres why. Torrential rains triggering mudslides like this one have left roads buried under feet of debris. I want to get right to nbcs Miguel Almaguer, this morning. Miguel, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. The fire sparked by lightning. The gulch fire exploded in size over the weekend. A state of extremes. Just outside los angeles, a scene many could not believe. Monsoonal thunderstorms brought mud into oakland. The town of 1,500 cut in half. One person was killed when the car was washed away. Another
There. Reporter no, not quite. A wrench . Bunny . Is that like one of them sex places . Reporter the nevada ranch is better known for its moonlight bunny ranch,aka a brothel, featured on the hbo show cat house. Having a billboard promoting certain activities out of town is unacceptable. Reporter this is the first time he saw the sign less than a mile away from a Child Development center. Its inappropriate. Its a neighborhood with schools, homes and families and its not something that kids should be exposed to. Reporter parents were concerned about whether kids who might not know what the bunny wrench is so we decided to do a Google Search to see what would show up. This is what we found. To understand why this billboard ended up in oakland, we spoke to the smiling man on the sign himself. [ indiscernible ] reporter he says he is not advertising the brothel but the bar and cigar area. He says if parents are worried, they should keep an eye on their kids and not on his sign. Were not doi
They were united at this protest just a few years ago. Now mayor jean quan and a former ally are competing with each other to lead the city of oakland. Kpix 5s da lin reports, the oakland mayors race just got a big jolt today. Reporter Councilmember Rebecca kaplan changed her mind and decided to challenge her former ally mayor jean quan. While she is well liked in the city, critics claim that she lacks a backbone to make tough decisions. She chose a dirty corner filled with garbage in east oakland to announce her candidacy. I am running for mayor of oakland. Reporter its the same corner where a dead dog was left lying on the streets for a week. She said the lack of basic services is why she is challenging jean quan. I saw the need for the kind of strong leadership to get things done. Reporter she is focused on cutting crime and adding jobs while kaplan has a name recognition and is popular among voters, her critics say she often abstains from voting on controversial measures. If there
Accident. Its cleared. It was cleared to the Center Divide and now its gone. Southbound 680 at sunol boulevard no longer seeing delays out of pleasanton. Heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Eastbound roadwork is still there if you are leaving San Francisco hopping on the lower deck into oakland. In the commute direction bay bridge toll plaza very light for 5 01 this morning no delay at all getting into San Francisco. Up and down the nimitz, they should have cleared the overnight roadwork this morning. It was in both directions northbound 880 hitting broadway exits heading into downtown oakland and there was some in san leandro southbound 880. Caltrans told us earlier they were hoping to have it wrapped up by 5 00. And heres a live look at our sensors coming into and out of San Francisco. Sounds like theres a car blocking one lane southbound 101 near the cow palace. It looks like a stall blocking one lane but obviously, on our sensors, were not seeing any delays on 101 or 28
2009. Congress will rule back parts of doddfrank bill. Is this smart common sense good idea . And it does not in any way weaken the regulations we put in there for the bank or that were there to prevent the kind of crisis we had ten years ago. No, that barney frank talking. And new fears that china is becoming the greatest threat to the u. S. President trump is confident in his brand. In the end it will work out. Cant tell you exactly how or why. But it always does. Its going to work out, okay . Well, thats not true, it doesnt always work out. Were going to start with the legal game of connect the dots. The question is does that put pressure on trumps fixer to cooperate with the government. I have a great team here to figure it all out. First, let me break down exactly where we stand. You all know about Michael Cohen. Hes the guy at the president s side for over a decade. Serving as his personal attorney and very prideful unofficial fixer. On tuesday, we found out that one of cohens ke