Came abruptly and has all the signs that she was pushed out. She was named head of the 911 center by mayor vincent gray. She moved to unified communications. A number of recent events including the dispatching of units to a fire inside a metro station raised questions about the unified communications. Asked about the resignation meir bowser used the phrase they are moving in a different direction. Mayor bowser, we are moving in a different direction. We have had months to evaluate the safety cluster. We decided to move in a different direction. Sam this comes as the new fire chief took over yesterday. A number of these high profile issues have involved the fire the harmon and the office of unified communications. An acting director has taken over and place of director green. Jummy responding to rising tensions between Police Officers in the community. Mary shea wants to change what it means to assault a Police Officer. She is introducing a Police Reform bill. When it could mean for the
Switch on the worlds most famous Christmas Tree today. Wednesday, december 4th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a. Good morning. Im matt lauer. And im Savannah Guthrie. What is tall and bushy . No, not matt lauer. It is the Christmas Tree. All four of us set to do the honors. We have a great show planned. And were glad youre back. No, thanksgiving hangover lasted a long time. Just kidding. I had a stomach virus. Im not contagious. We should mention the weather not too bad for the Tree Lighting. Upper 40s and 50 degrees. Perfect. The weather not so great in other parts of the country. The top story is a monster storm impacting millions of people across many parts of the country. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is in denver this morning with parts of that. Miguel, good morning. Reporter matt, good morning. 32 million americans are impacted by the storm, but it is not what you see which is the steady snow which is dangerous, but wha
Oh, theyre still running and still shooting. Sandy hook school. Please. The family fought to keep the 911 tapes sealed. The father of one says theres value in letting them hear now. I think there will be less confusion. There will be less people making up stories about what happened. The audio files just released online a short time ago. Were going through them and will have the latest on a live report a 5 00. For now at the live desk. Im Scott Macfarlane. We are tracking a strange incident at the white house today. Uniformed secret Service Officers cleared the north lawn, closed the guard shock, evacuated the park and shut down pennsylvania avenue. The secret service says the man was arrested for throwing a package to the north end squad. Right now two lanes are blocked by crews working on a water main break. This problem is near the intersection with gorman street. Crews are installing valves of an 8inch main so waterservice can be restored to customers. Right now we are ready for bi
January 6th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. Well be back at 7 25 with a e people are standing right now. Al, fast forward 24 hours, what will they be dealing with . About 8 degrees air temperature. Itll be about 15 degrees below zero wind chill. Thats whats headed in our direction. Its heading this way. This extreme cold is todays top story. Records could be set in some two dozen major cities from texas to the midwest. Lets get to nbcs dylan dreyer. Shes braving the elements in green bay, wisconsin. Good morning to you. Reporter oh, good morning, savannah. I can say with 100 certainty, i have never experienced cold like this in my life. It is 10 below here in green bay. But with this wind, it feels like its 40 degrees below zero. This is a deep freeze we havent seen in decades. And its only getting colder. And this is just miserably cold and extremely dangerous for anyone to be outside. The big question, how low can we go . Sub zero temperatures shattering records sendin
All that you know, all that appealing. Either he didnt know or he did know. Either one he gets in trouble. You mention the bush book, which is very nice of you to mention, it does go back to the Bush Administration. These are the same issues, right, for going on for more than a decade. To have begun in 2002 happened during the run up to the war in iraq. In that time we were bugging delegations at the u. N. Trying to get a resolution through about that. What president obama has done inherited surveillance structure he said he was going to change but, in fact, has kept broadly intact. Yeah. Indeed in the wall street journal it says officials at the nsa has so many eavesdropping operations under way it wouldnt have been practical to brief him on all of them. These decisions are made at the nsa. The president doesnt sign off on this stuff. That protocol is now under review, the official added. You better bet that protocol under review. It does not seem like good Security Policy to have the