it is wednesday, september 19, 2012. this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on wednesday morning. i am matt lauer. i am savannah guthrie. i go to bed at 8:00 p.m., huge storms in new york city. you didn t hear the storms? i didn t hear a thing. there were intense downpours. damage stretches up and down the east coast. in georgia, conditions so bad a corporate jet hydroplaned and crashed after landing on a rain soaked runway. al has more on the storms straight ahead. and new concerns over the safety of rice products, including baby cereal. do they have dangerous levels of arsenic? we will reveal testing from consumer reports and the fda that some experts call troubling. and a little later on, how is giuliana rancic adjusting to life as a mom following her long and trying journey to parent hood. she will be here since the arrival. let us begin with politics and fallout f
it s ignited a big debate today, wednesday, september 19th, 2012. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lawer. good morning, everyone. i m savannah guthrie. one of those days i m happy i go to bed at 8:00 p.m. huge storms in new york city. you missed the storms. i didn t hear a thing. man did, it rain. heavy downpours, intense winds. as we said, the damage stretches all the way up and down the east coast. in georgia conditions were so bad that a corporate jet hydroplaned and then crashed after landing on a rain-soaked runway. al is going to have much more on the storms and where they are now straight ahead. all right. also ahead, new concerns this morning over the safety of rice products, including baby cereal. do they contain dangerous levels of arsenic? we ll reveal the results of some testing done by both con
the body of the suspected gunman nearby, fox 5 s audrey barnes live at the scene. what do you know? reporter: a custodian found bodies of two women in the office here at st. peter s church. he called 911 and said both of them appeared to have been shot. one of the women was pronounced dead on the scene, the other taken to shock trauma with a gunshot wound. she is listed in critical condition tonight. as police were going through this church anded surrounding area investigating this case, they found the body of a man in the woods nearby. he appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. at the shooting here at st. peter s church it s 1/2-mile from howard county police headquarters. obviously it s a little unsettling. reporter: brad puttner has lived next to the church two years now and often waved and talked to the people who worked in that office. he s now wondering if somehow they may be involved in this tragedy. at first my thought was that the shooter is
saddened to see his retirement, i respect his decision to retire to spend more time with his family. i know he loved the job and was proud to serve with honest and integrity. in his written statement, commissioner bealefeld says this was a very tough decision for me and my family. but it s now the right time for me to bring my career with the baltimore police department to a close. i am very proud of the men and women of the bpd, for all that we have been able to accomplish together over the last five years. and i am looking forward to enjoying retirement with my family and close friends. reporter: now, the mayor s statement also includes intentions to begin a nationwide search for a replacement immediately. and she says commissioner bealefeld will be involved in the transition of office. his retirement after 31 years takes effect on august 1st. and one of the things that he ll be noted for as an accomplishment is the big reductions in homicides and in gun crimes. reporti
stories tonight. a woman on her way to church robbed by a man she thought was a police officer. how he got her to pull over. he ripped off $350,000 of d.c. taxpayer money. now a former d.c. councilman is hours from learning his fate. his lawyers begging for mercy. and a story that has plenty of people talking. a mom is charged with putting her five-year-old in a tanning bed. what she is saying to her accusers. a woman in silver spring, the target of this crime. i m brian bolter. and i m shawn yancy. he made her get out of her car and what happened next has montgomery county police asking for your help tonight. reporter: that victim says the police impersonator would not stop until she pulled over. honking, driving alongside her and when she complied, he managed to get her away from her car so he could rifle through it. that s so scary. here? oh my. yeah. crazy. silver spring neighbors stunned over news of a police impersonator. montgomery county detectives