The announcement that could come today. Friday, july 11th, 2014. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. What a crowd of tweens we have outside today. Wow. You can just hear them. You can see theyre crying. Ive seen several crying. Theres crying, fainting already out there. People are very excited to hear these five young women sing. I cant wait to see them in just a few minutes coming up on today. Fifth harmony will take our plaza and some fans have been waiting for days out there. First lets get to todays top story and dylan, youve got it. Violent storms in our south. Lots to talk about out west with the wildfires as well. You know, both coasts seeing different sorts of weather. We are looking now at the cleanup of some of the crazy storms we had in Virginia Beach yesterday. It pretty much encompassed a fiveblock radius. We had wind gusts near 70 miles per h
Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Im marlie hall in for annemarie green. Recovery efforts are under way this morning in Virginia Beach after a powerful storm caused extensive damage and injured at least ten people. The Severe Weather hit thursday afternoon. A possible tornado may have touched down. Homes in a fiveblock radius were damaged by the strong winds. Windows were knocked out and trees blown down. A wildfire in Central Washington is threatening more than 200 homes. The mills canyon fire burned 28 square miles in just two days, and fire officials fear it may double in size. Residents of about a dozen homes have been told to evacuate. And a severe drought has lowered water levels at the hoover dam to record levels. Levels at lake mead are the lowest since the dam was built on the arizona california border. Lake mead is the primary water source for las vegas. The dam is also affecting production of electricity. Meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz says while the
Its wonderful, you still call him daddy. Oh, yes, i always did. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The cross border war between israel and the palestinians in gaza escalated dramatically today prompting president obama to call israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer u. S. Help to arrange a ceasefire. Israels military says the palestinians fired well over 100 rockets into residential areas of israel today. The israelis say that their aerial assault on gaza hit about 500 targets. So far this week at least 80 palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed. Violence between israel and the palestinians in gaza has been going on for decades, of course. This latest battle was sparked by the kidnapping and murder of three jewish students in the west Bank Last Month and the revenge killing of a palestinian teenager. Holly williams is in gaza city. In broad daylight on a busy street in gaza today, this car was incin
Recovery efforts are under way this morning in Virginia Beach after a powerful storm caused extensive damage and injured at least ten people. The Severe Weather hit thursday afternoon. A possible tornado may have touched down. Homes in a fiveblock radius were damaged by the strong winds. Windows were knocked out and trees blown down. A wildfire in Central Washington is threatening more than 200 homes. The mills canyon fire burned 28 square miles in just two days, and fire officials fear it may double in size. Residents of about a dozen homes have been told to evacuate. And a severe drought has lowered water levels at the hoover dam to record levels. Levels at lake mead are the lowest since the dam was built on the california arizona border. Lake mead is the primary water source for las vegas. The dam is also affecting production of electricity. Meteorologist eric fish e of our boston station wbz says while the west is in for more extremely hot weather, the east is in for a summer cold
This thursday night and we begin with the news pouring in from texas where a gunman disguised as a deliveryman forced his way into a home. Six members of the same family were killed. Tonight we are laerng more about the alleged shooter as we also learned how a teenager did something that may have saved lives. Abcs ryan owens has been tracking the breaking news today. Reporter a suburban community shattered. After a dinnertime car chase wednesday paralyzing this quiet neighborhood north of houston. A murder suspect finally stops in the culdesac. For nearly four hours, a standoff. The suspect with a gun to his head. The police surrounding him in armored vehicles. 33yearold ron haskell ultimately gives up and tonight hes charged with capital murder, accused of executing six members of this family. I have not seen something this horrific. Reporter Authorities Say haskell tied up and murdered steven and katie stay and four of their Young Children. He also shot the couples 15yearold daughter