Bridge. What do you have for us . Reporter good morning, mike. The fortunate side of the story is this happened so early in the morning. It happened around 3 30 this morning. This is new video into the news room. You can see the burned out big rig on the westbound side of the san mateo bridge, just off the san mateo bridge, east of the foster city boulevard. It was a big rig hauling products before 3 30 this morning. It caught fire. The driver is out, able to get out okay. This was a solo vehicle accident. Other were involved. Chp had to shut down the entire bridge at 3 30, 3 35 this morning. The other sides opened at 4 20. The one and two lanes are reopened. The slow lane, the three lane and the shoulder still remain closed. As i mentioned, you can see behind me the traffic is going very smoothly on the toll plaza side in haywards as we are just getting into the morning commute. In hayward, bob redell, today in the bay. Nthanks, bob. Our top story, las vegas waking up to a new reality
Education secretary betsy devos gets booed at a historic black college. What was behind the anger and how the school is defending its choice to let her speak. And espn tragedy. Wife of sports casting legends chris berman killed in a deadly car accident along with another driver and this morning the tributes are pouring in. Its important to all of us on this show to make our love to chris and his family known. Investigators are trying to determine what caused that crash today, thursday, may 11th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody, welcome to today on a busy thu thursday morning. When we say mother of all storms were saying mothers day. Not storm of the century. A clever line. I saw what you did there. People dont go running for cover. Dont stockpile stuff quite yet. This morning were covering politics. Were hearing from President Trump and james comey as the fallout ove
Healthy, themselves and air crafts. Successful from that perspective and something that we are carefully preparing for. You talked about the significance of the five Sunni Arab States providing assets. Four of them ken etic action in the bombing, including reports that raptors, f22s, coming from the united arab emirates. Contributions . They were very significant, and on the third wave of the strikes, half of the aircraft that flew were from the arab nations, not the United States. There were significant contributions, and we are grateful for that participation. Continue . We certain hope so. I dont want to telegraph future operations, as you know. Not so much whether the u. S. Will attack on a daily basis or not. But do you expect the coalition to contribute that ken etic force that you talked about. We hope that that continues. We cant speak for other nations or what theyll contribute. We were grateful for the support continue. Lets talk about the strikes on the Khorasan Group, the A
Retaliati retaliation. Hi, im antonio mora, welcome to consider this, those stories and more ahead. United states took action to protect and remove the capability to act. All the people and governments of the middle east are rejecting i. S. I. L. The strength of the coalition makes it clear this, is not americas fight alone. Its an impress ishow of force. Theres always the day after. It risks inciting terrorists hating america, and blow back. Children pay the heavy price. 3 million children are out of school. Children with a horrified look of a marine returning from war. The center for december control says ebola could reach. 1. 4 million. If we dont stop it soon, it could turn from a disaster to a catastrophe. Change Christopher Gibson is a nears Climate Change is a serious threat. You can make history. We begin with the opening sal scros in an americanled campaign controlled by illinois, and the Khorasan Group, an al qaedaled group. More strikes were reported after pilots and warship
How about that tenyear note yield . We have eclipsed that 2. 5 number. That occurring yesterday. The dollar has strengthened. A lot of people talking about that, as well. We are going to be keeping a close eye on the markets, talking about what you can expect from here given that selloff yesterday. That move up in the yield, as well, in the ten year. We start with really a stunner in the bond fund world. Legendary Portfolio Manager bill gross leaving pimco, the Investment Firm that he founded to join Janus Capital effective monday. Janus says gross is going to manage a recentlylaunched Global Bond Fund and will be responsible for building out the firms global macrofixed income strategies. For those who may not be familiar with the fund marketplace, janus has always been an equityfocused house. Only recently having started a fixed income product, which i believe has about 12 billion or so in it, having started i think in the spring. This is stunning news. Monumental. In particular the m