Rules of the road today, friday, december 11th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Nice warm friday morning here in new york. Got to roll that footage again of a guy on a bicycle. When those gates are down, youre supposed to stop and he hits that train or that train hits him, one way or the other. Its amazing. The other Vantage Point even more disturbing. Whats amazing is that he walked away from that hopefully a lot wiser. Well tell you where that happened and show you more of that in a little while. Lets start on a friday morning with our top story. Its ow new nbc news wall street journal poll shows the majority of americans disagree with Donald Trumps call to ban muslims from the country and it is a different story when you focus just on republican voters. Nbcs National Correspondent Peter Alexander takes a closer look at the numb
For their children. School board says children can be legally excused for religious purposes. All right. 5 04 right now. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Good morning, chris. Good morning. In pretty good shape again as we finish up the workweek, which has been a beautiful weather week, certainly if you like summertime weather. Its a comfortable, beautiful start this morning. Temperatures generally in the locations. Were back to the mid and upper 80s. Yesterday, 89. I think today, 87 should do it. Night. 69 degrees right now. A beautiful morning. Weve got clear sky, lots of sunshine will greet us. Sun down. Degrees. In for lauren scala this morning, heres emily west. Those downtown subway delays on the 6 train. Just be aware of that as you head out. Also, some bus detours. Q46, qm6, s74, s76. Everything else looks fine. Commuter checklist is okay. We got a report of an accident off to the side the l. I. E. Doesnt seem to be a delay right now. Alternate side, meter rules in effect
What used to be considered a great tackle head on and violent game. The nfl has been implementing rules curtailing concussions. The u. S. Army corps of engineers is taking first steps to prevent the flooding of new orleans. The corps opened a spillway to divert water from the swollen mississippi into lake pontchartrain. The river is at its highest level since the record flooding in 2011. The spillway has opened has been opened just ten tes in the past 85 years. A crowd as you can see there gathered to watch it this time around. So the vikings and seahawks made history in their playoff game because it was the third coldest nfl game e er with thth tempererure at kickoff at minus 4. And the windchill making it feel like minus 22. Nice beard. It was also the coldest ever for the vikings. More details about the game later on. First the accuweather forecast from paul williams. Paul, good morning. Thanks, kendis, reena. Finally we can turn the page at storms thats been battering the west coas
Thats going to be there for a while. 78 eastbound between exit 7 to 11. Right now just the left lane is blocked. Also delays on truck route 19 near 440. Northbound, two lanes blocked. Southbound, left lane blocked. More weather and traffic coming up. Emily, thank you. Breaking news overnight in the search for a shoplifting suspect who escaped Police Custody. Just a little while ago, police told us they found him once again. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag is in tribeca with what we now know. What happened here, kat . Reporter for the nypd, this has happened one too many times. This is where that suspect made his escape, getting out of the back of a squad car. This is at the First Precinct Police station in tribeca. According to the nypd that, young man, a suspect, a shoplifting suspect, got out of the back door of an nypd squad car. We have video there showing investigators taking a look at that squad car. The suspect had on handcuffs but managed to make his way to the station, and
Images not only of times square but Harold Square and central park. A general threat that Law Enforcement takes seriously. The blanket of security covering new yorks landmarks. Sometimes square, radio city, grand central. In part because of this. The latest threat video from isis. Most of the video we wont show, a video that appears to call for suicide attacks. Times square among the images shown. At the same time, americans are asking are we the next target . Isis seems to be saying yes. Top Security Officials call the tape nothing more than a general threat. Propaganda. Some images recycled. But its release comes in the fallout in paris. The fbi quickly issued a statement saying there is no specific threat. The nypd issued one too there is no current threat to the scene at this time. We will remain at a heightened since 9 11, groups like al qaeda and now isis have threatened new york. And there have been numerous past plots, like the times squ be bomb plot and the subway case. To thi