Super sick . How are you feeling . I heard your wife was mad you missed a big dinner with a friend. How to keep your secrets secret from your coworkers. Mornings are better with friends. Its time for fox friends. Welcome aboard, folks. Brian, welcome back after a couple of days off. Good to be bad. I cannot believe what is going on in the news. I thought there were errors last week with the president using the word crusade and last night two things in television. Thats right. If youre a fake newsman, real good chance youre out of work. Two fake news men. We are glad you are here. Were going to start with this fox news alert for you. Nbc defending Brian Williams for embell lirk he will bell lishing his stories from the field. Williams yanked off the air and without pay. Nbcs top news man surrounded in controversy for the past week now and now the hammer has dropped. The nightly news anchor suspended for six months without pay after falsely claiming for years that he was on a Helicopter
Jackpots ever. People waiting hours for their shot at nearly half a billion dollars. So, is tonight going to be a good night for you . Good morning, america. Happy wednesday. Boy, that Powerball Jackpot crept up there, didnt it . It did. Cant win if you dont play. Yeah, thats it. Its getting up there, almost half a billion dollars and talk about that later. But were going to begin with the war on isis and the death of american hostage kayla mueller. She had been held for a year and a half by the terror group. This morning we are learning more about her life in captivity. Abcs brian ross is here with that. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning, robin. U. S. Authorities this morning say they are aggressively hunting for the isis leaders they hold responsible for the captivity and death of kayla mueller. Including one who they fear was given her as a kind of bride in the months before the heartbreaking news of her death. Kayla has touched the heart of the world. The world grieves wit
Williams 6 month suspension from nightly news. This morning how his comments about an experience covering the war in iraq led to williams temporary removal. And stewart stunner. John stewart says he plans to leave the daily show after 16 years. In my heart i know its time for someone else. The announcement rocking hollywood, washington and his millions of fans today wednesday, february 11, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Apparently when jon stewart made that announcement there were kind of gasps. Its hard to imagine the late night landscape without jon stewart. He has done so much. He should be proud of those 16 years. Well have more on that stunner. We start with our top story, a sad one. A tribute to american aid worker Kayla Mueller who died in the hands of isis. Tributes are growing. President obama is vowing to bring her captors to just
Going. Well show you where they are. First to san jose. Northbound 101 right before the mckee exit. That backup is still there even though all the activity is in the center divide. Its jammed from capitol expressway. And now well head all the way to berkeley in the east bay. You can see a tweet from kcbs traffic westbound 80 by university. Its a threecar wreck. So kcbs is sending out mobile 2 to see whats blocking and how bad the delays are. Meantime we can see the backups already in hayward, southbound 880 before a street. It jams up usually around this time of the morning folks trying to get to the san mateo bridge. But the delays are worse than normal. Thats your latest busy drive to work. Heres roberta with the forecast. Looking towards santa clara we have clear skies and an air temperature in the high 40s. Good morning, everyone. Peering outside heres a look at other notable numbers. San jose 44 degrees. It is colder than that in santa rosa. 48 in oakland. And 43 degrees with clea
Price audits. A sign of times in toe oil industry halliburton said it is cutting 5,000 jobs. The company said the reason is the Difficult Oil market and prices, as you know have dropped 60 since last june. Job cuts will come from all areas of halliburtons operations but no word when the cuts will be made. Home depot has a help wanted sign out. The Home Improvement giant started to hire 13,000 work withers for spring busy season. Home depot says hirings are about the same as the last few years. More than half of the Seasonal Work withers usually stay on. If you love to cook, no more tears in the kich. You may have your own reasons for crying over a bottle of wine but were talking an onion here. They engineered a no tearsing onnen. Supposed to hit shelves soon. It just hit actually. It is called some sweet r onion here to have lower pun jenscy levels. A british farmer has been working on it 20 years. All the problems in the world. Some people write a book and some grow an onion. It is on