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As scattered showers continue. Marin county received heaviest rainfall and reservoirs there are spilling over. Wayne freedman joins us live with the latest. Wayne . The creek is the place everyone thinks about when they think about big water in marin county. Flood stage is 13 feet they think if theyre going to see big water this is the place to go, after 17 ivenlgs of rain, this is nothing. To see a dramatic example of how much rain has fallen, it requires a bit of a still, that is not the impressive part. This is. Youre looking at alpine dam. The lake is so full, water touches the shore line. These areas are now spilling over. This system is that one reservoir is closed over to another. As of this morning marin county storage is almost 131 of normal for this date thanks to a December Christmas present in the form of rainfall. 17 inches for the month. The month is only half hour. It leads to a question, is the drought over, too . Marin benefits from a rain system built to catch rain, n
And got to hand it to him. A brave base jumper pulls off the most spectacular high five youve seen. Today, monday, december 15, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Got the gang all here willie in for matt boy, breaking news out of australia this morning. Well get to it. Its a tense situation at a cafe in sydney and its playing out on live television. Chilling images of hostages inside and the few who have made a daring dash to safety. Lets go to sarah james, she has the latest. Good morning to you. Reporter nbc news can confirm this morning that the identity of the gunman who is holding those hostages is sheikh man haron. This selfstyled cleric is an iranian immigrant to australia, the man who is believed to be behind this terror attack that struck at the heart of sydney here in the financial, political and media center of the city, taking
Husbands ambush style shooting saturday, this tearful message from the widow of wenjian liu. We would also like to express our condolence to the officer and the family. This is a difficult time for both of our families. But we will stand together and get through this together. Thank you. Were also hearing from the sister of the gunman. He was emotionally troubled young man. And he was suicidal. If you have emotional issues and youre going constantly going in and out of jail, you know, prison, and clearly somethings wrong, he should have been offered help in the system, right, but he wasnt. Meanwhile, mayor bill de blasio is asking antipolice protesters to stop demonstrations until after the officers funerals. And the major police union say they will hold off making more politically charged statements about saturdays shooting in brooklyn. Brooklyn borough president eric adams tolles msnbcs chris hayes, the tension wont Keep Police Officers from doing their jobs. Im extremely optimistic
And morally treasonous, heavyweight aaron sorkin weighs in live today, tuesday, december 16th, 2014. 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 Tuesday Morning. Were starting to get details from pakistan and an attack out there. And the details are shocking. It is our top story. Unthinkable attack of the taliban on school. Students and teachers shot one by one as gunmen went through classrooms. Nbcs katy tur has the latest on this. Good morning to you. Good morning, matt. 126 killed, mostly children. Were told the gunmen went in, wearing suicide vests and, as you said, shot some kids one by one. There are also more than 150 injured. These numbers keep going up as the attacks are still ongoing. They are going through each room of the school to make sure. This made only more complicated by reports of booby traps. Ambulances and police rush to a military school as at least six ta