Good monday morning, im Marci Gonzalez in for diana perez. And im john muller. We begin with another polar broadcast. By friday, the temperatures will be 30 degrees below where they were this weekend. Take a look at boston. Temperatures in the 50s. Runners hit the streets in shorts. By sunrise, highs only if the 30s. The weather did little to help these ice fishermen. The snow was fuhr to seven feet high. We had drifts from four to 7 1 2 feet tall. Our house was almost underneath a drift. Reporter in pennsylvania, the sun barely made a dent if the icebergs here in oil city. Theres concern about the possibility of widespread flooding hitting the area. In florida, heavy rain shut down the daytona 500 after 38 laps. The drivers had to sit around for six hours and 22 minutes until they were automobile to resume, finishing up under the lights. One more note about the weather. In the coming week, two pacific storms could drop as much as 2 inches of rain on california and several feet in the
Roared through. Rescue teams are working to save families on washedout roads. Hardest hit about 350 miles south of the capitol of manilla. It has no electricity or way to communicate communicate this is one of the most powerful storms on record. The highest winds were up to 190 miles an hour. Gusts reached 235 miles per hour. More now from al jazeeras craig leaseon in man ill a. This is the moment when the storm hit taclaban, a city of more than 200,000 people. Monster winds whipped in with gusts from around 300 kill meters an hour. With it came floodwater. People used mattresses to stay above the rising waters. I can feel the electricity in the water, guys. My legs are tingling. This is what rescuers are seeing. A tornado just passed us the tornado lasted for four hours. It was just crumbling, you know, at first, it, it was the ceiling that went off then the roofs just started to fly away in all directions, and then the water just started coming. The survivors are desperate. Looting a
Woody allen, his daughter from more than two decades ago. Moving on up. Im going to be missing your tv at 12 37. The battle for late night ratings and my fierce rival with ferguson and the veggie commercial. An emotional and humorous farewell to late might, and now he is setting his sights an hour earlier getting ready for his takeover of the tonight show. Today is saturday, february 8th, 2014. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games with lester holt, live from olympic park in sochi, russia, and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to a very special edition of today on this saturday morning. Im lester holt in sochi. Great to see you, ladies, holding down the fort in new york city. The Opening Ceremony last night was really something. Seven years in the making. You could really tell that a huge amount of time and effort went into making it. The spectacle that it was. Did you guys happen to stay up late enough to
Go to the Mayors Office education youll find applications for nominations in kphaoeu these, spanish so the next meeting of the rules policy and Legislation Committee will be on march 20 and starts at 6 30. I would also like to announce that our second meeting in march is cancelled, so the meeting of march 26 will not take place and notice of cancellation will be posted. Now miss williams, you have a small announcement. I just wanted to have it on Public Record to acknowledge the district staff, the families out in bay view on march 1 to me amazing they had 800 people turn out, father and mother hi members, students to go to the California Academy of science and to me those are the kind of things that need to be acknowledged from the ground work up and and the participation of that many people. 800 showed up, district provided the bussing and i think we need to see more of that. And in terms of reaching the African American community an where we wanna be heading. That is definitely wort
To take the pledge to end violence against women and girls for good. So lets do this together, are you ready for the pledge . All right. I just wanted to get you ready. We will be back in a very short second for this pledge. I have to listen to the women on this stage. You better, mr. Mayor. San francisco are we ready . Are we rising . Lets show the world that San Francisco can be counted on. Just think about it for a moment. One out of every three women will be sexually abused or assaulted in their lifetime. That has to stop. And we here in San Francisco are going to show no tolerance for abuse against young girls and women. Are we ready . Are we rising . I have to take a moment to thank some people. First i want to thank my beautiful wife. Who is just an incredible woman. Shes the anchor in my life and someone that i appreciate so dearly. And i want to thank you very much for everything you do. And for your commitment to ending violence against women. I also want to thank mayor lee,