And staging a comeback. The late Michael Jackson singing, dancing, and moon walking at the Billboard Music awards, an appearance that some call cool, others call creepy. Today, monday, may 19th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Nice to have you along on a monday morning. Weve got willie in for matt. All right, show of hands. Who thought it was cool, who thought it was creepy. I thought cool. I thought it was cool. A little helping of creepy. A pinch of very emotional. Whether you thought it was cool or creepy, you at least have to marvel at that technology. The technology is just incredible. It brought him to life for four or five minutes on that stage. And marvel at his timelessness. His music and his moves still so relevant today. We have a top story to get to, this new concern over the mers virus after a third infection is discovered here in the u. S. Nbcs tom costello has got
With some storm clouds lingering overhead, the impacts of our wet weather on this stormy saturday. Im heather holmes. Im ken waynes. Were on stormwatch. Mark tamayo is tracking the rain. But first, katie hue tess katie utehs is live in San Francisco where the rain brought down a big tree. Reporter a crane was just here to remove the stump of the tree. I want to show you whats left. That giant tree behind me. Its a trin to the one that fell and while we desperately need the rain, todays storm also brought some destruction. Im very sad. Reporter during the rain storm, this giant chinese elm toppled in San Franciscos castro neighborhood, taking out power and gas lines on its way down. Homeowner Neil Rosenbaum said work exposed extra soil near the tree base. My hunch, this heavy rain washed down the street, oversaturated the soil and the roots couldnt hold it. Reporter fromup and utility from cleanup and utility crews, habitat for humanity volunteers in concord, many drudged or drove throu
Months. This contractor hit the Hardware Store tonight for down spots to finish a roof tomorrow. The dry autumn, he says has been good for builders. Nonstop. Everybody i know is nonstop doing stuff. There was that little rain before that scared everybody. Reporter as bay area skies turned ominous, water districts are eased for the reservoir. Last year was a rainfall year, and we still filled it capacity. Reporter captured mostly in reservoirs. Levels right now look good, but theyre on borrowed time. Our rainfall year started july 1. We had just over 1 inch. An average for this same date is 7 inches. Were not seeing drought right now. Just three things. Slow down, slow down, slow down. That reminder from the chp as driving conditions will be getting sloppy. The last drenching in september lasted only a day. Still snarled bay area residents. Residents get slick. Drivers get too close. Its going to take but 132 feet to stop. Most people dont follow that fair back ever. Reporter with any l
29th. Im claudine wong. Good morning. Im mike mibach. A little breezy out there, the rain has been steady all morning long. Lets about to Storm Tracker 2. You can see the clean line of rain. Its sliding just a little bit, and well see where we have moderate rain falling. A few cells you can see just over the hills. East of santa rosa, a steady rain for a few hours. Its been right about here. It will shift to the south, but i want to take you south here and show you that most of us are still mainly dry picking up a little drizzle along the coastline, along the east bay. Here at the south bay youll get it less. This line will be moving from north to south. We will over the course of the morning begin to see the rain shifting to the south. Im tracking snow in the hills. The snow levels are still right about the 5500 feet above blue canyon. You can see up in areas along lake tahoe a mix of snow and rain there. Theres a winter storm warning in place. It will last until early sunday morning.
We have clouds but not were drizzle on the coast and 58 and clouds open up and not so much as yesterday but midtoupper 60s in the afternoon and dropping to the low 60s by the end of the evening. Breaking overnight a aftershock near napa striking at 2 1 2 miles northwest of american condition beyond at 3 56. Here is the grandfather showing the grandfather graph showing the impulse. Last night a 2. 9, hit the peninsula near palo alto. Less that is driving beyond california for nevada at 4 00 p. M. Today the governor of nevada will announce the tesla motors will build the highly sought after factory outside reno and nick is outside the electric carmakers fremont park. This will machine a big deal for the state of california, of course, that is because we know that nevada governor is expected to make the announcement this afternoon on the plant if i his state. Tesla will build the factory to make hightech batteries for the cars in nevada after months of working with several states. A press