And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im savannah guthrie, and it is an anxious morning for folks up and down the east coast. Hurricane sandy strengthened over the night. Want to give you the information we know right now. Sandy is a category 1 hurricane with wind speeds of 85 Miles Per Hour. Its located about 285 miles east of cape hatteras, North Carolina. Emergency officials in new york city and washington, d. C. Had taking unprecedented actions to deal with this storm. Thats righ the mass Transit Systems shut down, schools cancelled. The stock markets are also closed. The first weatherrelated closure in 27 years, and just take a look at this nasa image from space. This is one massive hurricane. 800 miles wide which means its impact is going to be felt across a massive region for a very long time. You forgot to mention one precaution. Starbucks in new york and long island closed this morning. Dont hear that very often. Weather
System usually to be in play this far north. We only have a week or two window of opportunity every year to get this. This is rare. I dont remember anything like this. You may never see this again. Lets hope so. Just an extreme, extreme weather event. Kudos for everybody for taking it seriously, for canceling schools, work, transit. I think thats easily the right call and calling the evacuations. Lets get you going with a look at our day plan other this monday morning. Weve got rain which has picked up. Moderate rain right now. By noon heavy rains and wind going on there. Temperature steady if not falling. Right now 53 degrees with moderate rain. Weve got Hurricane Force Wind Warnings from the midatlantic to the northeast. This is where i think the Hurricane Center blew it. They thought, you know, past cape hatteras, we wont issue hurricane or Tropical Storm warnings because we think its going to be an extra Tropical Storm. Well confuse everybody by going to another warning system. Thi
How long will stick around . It gives us a chance to where some of those which are close that we dont get a chance to wear too often. It will be with us another two or three days before it is out here. 50 in miami. Everyone else in the low to mid 40s. Normally 62 for morning lows and it wont be as cold as last night but still cool for south florida. Midnight tonight. 58 with a bit of a brisk breeze mostly cloudy and clouds thicken up will be in the mid 50s like we were in many areas today. I will let you know how long it will be around. The family of a man shot dead by make iti Miami Gardens cop lashing out with a decision not to charge the Police Officer. Gary nelson has the story. Today. Feel my pain in my suffering, it has been a whole year. Its not right. Tran20 for a year since her mentally disturbed son was shot dead by a Miami Gardens cop late last week the state Attorneys Office cleared the police were called to the home for help. Episode. Camera shows him wielding a broom a st
Still relatively dry. So we will be watching this as we go hour by hour across the area. But once again, a lot of what you see moving into south jersey not yet making it to the ground but around the dover area, also, moving into sections of New Castle County watching for a few light flakes. So right now through about 1 00 oclock tomorrow, thats where we have that Winter Weather advisory posted all of south jersey, all of delaware. The immediate philadelphia area, north and west suburbs. Impact on your friday morning commute. It is going to be high so allow for some extra travel time. Temperatures will be right around freezing. Its going to stick especially to those untreated surfaces. The grassy surfaces. Your car tops, your windshields watch out for that slick morning rush. So as we go hour by hour, you can see that snow starts to fill in. Its not going to be heavy snow or persistent snow. We might see a couple of breaks from time to time. Its really going to be out of here pretty rap
Employees cooked. A knock down drag out fight police say that ended in the brutal stabbing murder of a ch chef. Based on crime scene evidence, it appears that this 54yearold female was involved in violent struggle, not only did she have the deep cut to her neck, she also had some bruising to her face. There was lot of blood, and also some of the Kitchen Equipment was knocked over. A piece of Kitchen Equipment was actually laying on top of her body. Reporter now police are looking for this man who goes by the name knoll. Police say hes a person of interest in his late 20s and drives a white suv. Today stunned neighbors peer into the restaurant windows trying to comprehend the incomprehensible. Anthony is a frequent customer and even has lees op his facebook favorites. I was shocked. I was shocked. As a matter of fact, i was going to come here this week. Reporter on emily street where the victim lived true disbelief. Neighbors say she work long hours to pro void for her two sons. Im shoc