And the voice. Josh kaufman wins it for team usher on a night packed with stars, the voice crowns its new champion, so whats josh kaufman going to do now . Hes making his way to our plaza today, wednesday, may 21st, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And, good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. And when we say josh kaufman is making his way to studio 1a we really mean it. Literally making his way. Took the red eye overnight. Expected to perform. He is the voice. You are not the voice this morning. Battling the voice a little bit, but looking forward to meeting him. It should be great. We want to get to todays top story, the intense storms wreaking havoc on the midwest. Al, they are on the move this morning. They absolutely are. Check out this video just out from chicago. Really amazing Lightning Storm going on. High winds, a lot of rain, a real mess. And in fact, some amazing Lightning Pictur
Vineland saw Lightning Strike homes and lighting up some of those homes, the biggest threat last night was the Lightning Strikes, they were very powerful as they pushed through and thankfully all is quiet as we go into the overnight hours. The severe storm that moved through overnight, knocked out power to thousands of people across the region and one community in Mercer County spent the day without power because of a Lightning Strike. Nora muchanic is live in tit titusville. Where the power is back on. It was 12 hours after the storm when the electricity was restored here. Now you can turn the lights back on and the Traffic Signals are working again and the power outage created headaches for residents and businesses around here. Hope its not going to be another summer of jcpl out arranges, people will lose their mind over that. It was a frustrating day for people in hopewell when their power when out this morning. It left homes and businesses in the dark. We are prepared with all of o
Quinones is live in Atlantic City for us tonight. Could this be another losing hand . Reporter jessica, it looks like it definitely could be another losing hand if a new Ownership Group does not come forward. Were looking at the possibility of Atlantic Citys newest cass zen know shutting down. Beyonce perform here during the opening moss, star chef jose garr sis set up a restaurant here and guests were allowed to bring their dogs to stay with them. All of it was meant to bring tourists flocking to revel. Its shame because its beautiful and sigh. Everything they have to offer is lovely. So i hope they do find Somebody Just that it days its. Very unfortunate. And my heart goes out to those people but at the same time economy is what it is. Reporter now its own are in ship files chapter 11 bankruptcy and seeks a new buyer employees are faced with the possibility of losing their jobs. The Associated Press reports employees were given letter by management explaining if a new buyer isnt foun
Lot of homes struck by lightning set on fire and wind damage, the focus of Severe Weather is well down to the south, in parts of southern virginia, in the carolinas, what is happening High Pressure is building in, this brings us beautiful weather tomorrow and this front sneaks back to the north and haunts us over the weekend and ill talk more about what areas will see showers and when coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you cecily. The rain did nothing to keep people away from Dover International speedway for the firefly Music Festival. Lets go live to action News Reporter, chad pradelli, this has become one bigtime event. Bigtime event jim. 80,000 people daily and the gates opened earlier, look at all of these people, thousands making their way into firefly, they go through the scaffolding and go into the festival and then seven stages are erected and listen to the many bands, jack johnson, imagine dragons, beck and outkast. Thousands streamed in to the firefly festival
Highs range from the low 60s along the coast to upper 70s. For inland areas. And satellite and radar, we saw some rain and also some snow. This area of low pressure continues its trek to the east. We are still dealing with a few snow showers right at the border. This is kind of stagnant over the area, so they continue to see some showers there. Here in other words, High Pressure building in over the bay area. Thats why we are talking about warmer weather today. In fact; i think 80s are back in the forecast for place like fairfield and ann, aock. Heres ing la at your seven day around the by a forecast. Temperatures heres a look at your seven day around the bay forecast. Perfect timing, opportunity to be outdoors. Mostly sunny skies. It looks like inland hagues approach the 90s as we approach the your sunday. Looks like temperatures will cool. Looks like dry temperatures will remain. Dry conditions will remain. Right now lets talk traffic. Not looking at any hot spots. I was a little cur