Workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected and actions counter to core values are met with consequences, no matter the offender. We are deeply saddened by the turn of events. We will face it together as a News Organization and do it in as transparent a manner as we can. That is from our chairman, andy lack. We just learned this moments ago, just this morning. Im sure you can imagine, we are devastated and processing all of this. I will tell you, we do not know more than what i shared with you. We will be covering the story as reporters, as journalists and learning details in hours and days to come. We promise, we will share that with you. Hoda, i mean, you know, for the moment, all we can say is we are heart broken. Im heart broken for matt, he is my dear, dear friends and partner and loved by many here. And im heart broken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell. We are grappling with a dilemm
Reported Sexual Misconduct in the workplace. Kris sanchez has been following the developments and joins us live from the news room with more on this. Kris, still a shocking to hear everything that happened. Yeah, for the fact his cohosts didnt know until this morning is surprising as well. In the last hour, we did learn more about the accusations against matt lauer. An nbsz Spokesman Says the accuser describes inappropriate sexual behavior throughout 2014 and it seemed to come as a surprise to matt lauers coanchor, Savannah Guthrie, who made a tearful announcement to viewers this morning. This is a sad morning here at today and nbc news. Moments ago, andy lack sent the following note to our organization. Dear colleagues, on monday night, we received a detailed complaint about inappropriate Sexual Conduct from matt lauer. It was a clear violation of standards. As a result, we have decided to terminate his employment. It is the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years at n
This is a live look in sunol. Despite the rain that we saw earlier this month, it is still dry. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist jeff raineri. We want to update you right now on the latest drought outlook. It has gotten worse across the north bay. Going from the severe category now to extreme. Again intensifying drought across the north bay and some of the worst levels of drought, exceptional levels for the east bay, south bay and also for the peninsula. Coming up well talk more about our possibility of some rainfall sitting out here in the pacific in that full forecast. Thank you, jeff. See you in just a bit. Just in to our newsroom a bay area connection to a series of bomb threats and these threats take place at a school in the state of montana. Police in helena tracked the calls down to a boy from dublin. A bomb threat was called in forcing classes for all schools in the district to be closed. Two other threats forced authorities to evacuate schools earlier had this week. No
Africanamerican student by several of his Residence Hall suite mates was wholly unacceptable. Our students deserve better. Reporter students say they have seen little change on campus since the incident. The University Administration for some reason is still insisting on moving as slowly as possible, and i just for the life of me cant understand why. Reporter according to the victim, he even signed a roommate agreement, a University Document that included a statement that he did not want them to use what he called the bike lock of shame. That was a red flag. I mean, the fact you even have to put that in an agreement, thats a red flag. Reporter assembly prspeaker pro tem nora kemp said while they didnt answer all the committees questions, she hopes this hearing will be part of an overall plan to make sure no student at any California University ever has to endure what one san jose state student did. When legislators asked administrators why it took so long to notify the president of the