More. And hot superstars maroon 5 gets ready to play the packed plaza with their big hits. Today, september 1st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And a good morning. Welcome to today on this rocking monday labor day monday. Im natalie alongside willie geist. Matt is off, savannah is on maternity leave. Look at that crowd outside. You thought Ariana Grande was a huge crowd, this is as big im told. Weve been hearing adam levine echoing through midtown. This crowd is huge. And dylan dreyer is giving her official guarantee the skies will hold and it looks good. There might be one drop. Dont let that fool you. Were going to be just fine. Great showing coming up later. First lets get to todays top stories. Severe storms continue to threaten large parts of the country. Dylan does have more on that. The last unofficial weekend of summertime and we saw crazy storms through the midwest. The rain came down
And hot superstars maroon 5 gets ready to play the packed plaza with their big hits. Today, september 1st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And a good morning. Welcome to today on this rocking monday labor day monday. Im natalie alongside willie geist. Matt is off, savannah is on maternity leave. Look at that crowd outside. You thought Ariana Grande was a huge crowd, this is as big im told. Weve been hearing adam levine echoing through midtown. This crowd is huge. And dylan dreyer is giving her official guarantee the skies will hold and it looks good. There might be one drop. Dont let that fool you. Were going to be just fine. Great showing coming up later. First lets get to todays top stories. Severe storms continue to threaten large parts of the country. Dylan does have more on that. The last unofficial weekend of summertime and we saw crazy storms through the midwest. The rain came down so har
34 million. Theyre traveling more than 50 miles from home. Then add millions more that are just going to see grandma down the street. Yes. Heres when you should not, not, not be on the road. I think people know this. 4 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Yeah. Well, sometimes you think, oh, ill go at 9 00. Thats late enough. Theyre saying the roads are going to be way congested between 4 00 and 10 00. Try to go before 4 00 or after 10 00. Heres the other thing too, though. Its so weatherdependent. If its been a beautiful weekend, nobody wants to leave. They ju want those last, last rays. Try to pull yourself away and get hfd the game. I always leave early on my last day of vacation. You do . Yeah. Because i like to have i dont like to get home late and then rush off to work. Too much can go wrong. Travelocity. Com says these are the three most popular cities to visit over on labor day. Here they are. Los angeles. Seattle. Number one the number one city to visit is new york city. Yeah. Theyre all
34 million. Theyre traveling more than 50 miles from home. Then add millions more that are just going to see grandma down the street. Yes. Heres when you should not, not, not be on the road. I think people know this. 4 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Yeah. Well, sometimes you think, oh, ill go at 9 00. Thats late enough. Theyre saying the roads are going to be way congested between 4 00 and 10 00. Try to go before 4 00 or after 10 00. Heres the other thing too, though. Its so weatherdependent. If its been a beautiful weekend, nobody wants to leave. They ju want those last, last rays. Try to pull yourself away and get hfd the game. I always leave early on my last day of vacation. You do . Yeah. Because i like to have i dont like to get home late and then rush off to work. Too much can go wrong. Travelocity. Com says these are the three most popular cities to visit over on labor day. Here they are. Los angeles. Seattle. Number one the number one city to visit is new york city. Yeah. Theyre all
At what used to be the home of kntv. There were some tense moments for firefighters, Debora Villalon has the story. Reporter two firefighters suffered minor burns and heat exhaustion here. Take a look here. Its just a charred ruin now. The two Story Building being fenced off. This was a difficult and dangerous fire fight with the possibility that people were trapped inside. We cant dell you whether or not there were people in there. We had a major collapse. Reporter firefighters had to pull out everyone though they knew Homeless People may have been inside. This is a big fire for us. Everything has been big about this fire since we showed up. Reporter this woman says about she and 30 other people lived in the building but she doesnt think a cooking fire got out of control. Like others who fled she says it was a good place to live. I had my own apartment. My little makeshift kitchen and all that. As the fire went to five alarms and sent choking smoke over it, people near by were afraid