Rapidly closing. Breaking overnight, manhunt. A prison worker dead, an inmate on the loose in tennessee. Residents on edge. Very scary. We are latest with the desperate search to find the dangerous convict. All that plus Severe Weather outbreak, including a tornado near new york city and the new threat al is tracking today. Fighting back he had one job and couldnt protect us. Simone biles blasts u. S. A. Gymnastics in a new interview. The challenge she says she still faces every day. Way too close. The alarming video of a man petting a bison which has park rangers warning the public, hands off. Today is august 8, 2019. Announcer from nbc news this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning. Nice to have you with us on a thursday morning we want to get right to our top story. What we learned about the red flag raised weeks ago to polic by the mother of the el paso gunman while families are beginning to hold the fir
Trucks, working to repair the highway here, after this fiery crash. Part of the highway, it looks like, was damaged. So theyve got the street sweepers and looks like crews out here. And looks like theyre doing some patchup work to the highway. So we dont know when this northbound part of 101 at Bailey Avenue will be reopened. But this all started 3 30 this morning. Thats when the crash was reported. And this was the dramatic scene the driver saw as they passed the four vehicles on fire. According to chp, it started with a single vehicle that spun out, hit the center divide. Three other cars crashed into it. One ignited and before long, all four vehicles were on fire on the freeway. We know one person was killed. At one point, firefighters and chp had to shut down all. Lanes of northbound 101, south of 85. Now, they have one lane open. I was just driving home from work. Man, i just saw a bunch of fire. And there was like three cars. And theyre just engulfed. It was a pretty bad accident
Which is the kind like. I dont know about not. That was an unusual video to open up the show with, right . Only in texas. Im thankful for the cooler weather. Tomorrow, we will be out at clayton. Clayton is gorgeous, but it can be hot i was there a week or so ago. It was 98 when i was there. Ready warm. Steve is going to show up and give us better temperatures, isnt that right . We are very fortunate, it will not be that warm at all tomorrow. In fact, quite cool for clean tomorrow. Temperatures inland can be very hot, they have been for the last couple of days but the trend is now taking those down, we had a couple 90s yesterday but now it is all 80s. From very warm to hot, actually just mild for were warm for some if youre inland but south at 60s and 70s and also 80s. Clayton is a little bit warmer. 80 four 8482 other. The coast staying in the 60s. Theres a ribbon of fog, a ribbon. Not much and is beginning to a road but the stage is set for a cooler day with 70s for many including can
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Test run of sorts to see how it goes. Good evening everyone. Day one of the threeday festival featured headliners lil wayne and blink 182. We get live coverage tonight from our reporter, it looks like people are leaving golden cape gate park priest to make the been 21 pounds just wrapped up their show. People coming out are telling me it was fantastic. Still to come this weekend, Childish Gambino and paul simon. Many people are also coming here for more than just the music. It was a rare sunny San Francisco summer day, no sign of fog as people crowded into Golden Gate Park for the first day of the outside lands festival. Three days of bigname bands and musicians are expected to draw more than 200,000 people. This man, first timer, brought his daughter for her birthday. She turned 17 this year and 21 pilots is her favorite group. So we had to come to that. You are a good dad. I try to be. To make another draw, the food and drinks. Festival fair with 85 restaurants representing local foo