The ceo slashing his own salary to give his employees a huge raise. Everyone in that Company Making at least 70,000 a year. Yeah hell tell you where you can send your resume when he joins us live today wednesday, april 15 2015. Announcer from nbc news,th with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. Savannah taking some family time this week. Shell be back next week. Ive got hoda kotb here. A lot of stories people will be talking about. The story of dan price the ceo is one of them. And the other are all the people out on the plaza looking to tickle you. I dont know if you saw the signs. The plaza is loaded. Ellen has made her mark. Remind me to thank her for that. Well talk about that and dan price in a second. But lets talk about our top story. A new wave of protests across the country condemning police brutality. Even as officials in arizona defend the actions of an officer who used his pa
Fate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev starting tomorrow morning. Closing arguments wrapped up today, and don dahler is covering the trial in boston. Reporter prosecutor Aloke Chakravarty told jurors Dzhokhar Tsarnaev led two lives one the mildmannered potsmoking college kid, the other a committed jihadi bent on teaming up with his brother to reek revenge. He wanted to terrorize this country, chakravarty said. He wanted to punish america. [explosion] the jury was reminded of the violence of april 15, 2013, when bombs set by the tsarnaev brothers killed three people and injured hundreds more. Once again they watched video of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev setting down his Pressure Cooker bomb. In front of him, the prosecutor said, he cant help but see a row of children along the barricade. Including eightyearold martin rifnard, whose entire body was shattered, eviscerated. After closing with a montage of horrific images from the bombing aftermath, accompanied by beyondy chants found on tsarnaevs mobile devices,
A gorgeous day for some baseball. Opening day and all that even if it wasnt exactly the outcome the home team was looking for. Opening day at nat park was a loss for dc but that didnt dampen the excitement for fans. Thats the sound of excitement here at Nationals Park for the home opener. Everyone dying to get inside the ballpark before the gates officially open. Snatheyre all ready. Ive been counting this day since the end of the world series. Reporter fans could not wait to hear these sounds again the food, and of course the home opener of the 2015 season. I love baseball. Reporter it was through metal detectors with this years enhanced security. Today though is about the 10th anniversary home opener, the 2018 all star game announcement and what fans say look to be the start of a promising season. So full of possibility its so exciting. Its a whole fresh start for the nats and its looking so good for them this year. See the players play and hit home runs. Best ballpark to go to in th
And what a life. When Frank Sinatra sang, you could tell. Hed seen it all. What do you think were the up gradient of your fathers success . Had an appeal to both men and women. I think that men could identify with him. And women wanted to meet him. Ahead, franks three children on a century of sinatra. Is. Osgood guides the hands of an artist who has been deprived of most of his sight by disease. Stress smith will share his story. Instead of complaining during chemotherapy junk jeff hanson would paint. His parents thought his work was, okay. To me nothing more than kid art. I didnt see any genius to it. Now jeffs art is big business. Note cards, paintings, even fashion. You wont believe what he does with the profits. Ahead on sunday morning. A sight for sore eyes. Hanson. Osgood jon cryer is an actor whose role in hit tv series gave him front row seat to headline making controversial. Our sunday profile. For 12 years jon cryer starred on the hit sitcom two and a half men now hes written
Winchester, downtown 65, finally made far north as frederick. Well keep the chance for showers and thunderstorms until 8 00. Well cancel the yellow alert about 9 00. The highest risk again east of i95 and south. Southern maryland is in the crosshairs in terms of the chance for heavy, maybe severe storms. Time frame now till 8 00 and the threat is still strong wind and also some heavy downpours. Well come back, talk about the cold front moves through later tonight, going to kick up some winds tomorrow and what that means for the Cherry Blossoms. Now the crime spree that we mentioned at the top of the show. Workers at the Census Bureau in suitland got back to work today. Bruce leshan has more on the suspect at the center of the crime. Reporter his name is Ronald Anderson and he is in Police Custody at the hospital tonight after taking several rounds in a gunbattle with police here. Court records show anderson was convicted of manslaughter in 1991 and that when he allegedly kidnapped his