Reportedly seeking revenge after a dispute about his bill. Out in force, the original cast of star wars reunites on the red carpet at the World Premiere of the most anticipated film in decades. Surreal. I mean can the film live up to its stellar expectations. And how sweet it is. 65 years with nbc. 35 of them with today. Hes celebrated thousands of birthdays, and now its time to honor him. We will host Willard Scotts legendary run with us as he heads off into retirement today, tuesday, december 15th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on this tuesday morning. Its a bitter Sweet Morning. Already said bring the tissues for the last half hour as we say goodbye to willard. Taking a look at some of the pictures we put up there. Going to be very nostalgic for a lot of us. Hes been a constant for us and for several generations of americans and well pay tribute
Student at millersville university. Police now charged gregoria rafaeletta charged with assault of his girlfriend 19yearold carly had hall of chadds ford. She was found dead in her dorm room millersville university. The exact cause of death is not certain. An autopsy will be done tomorrow. And further charges could be filed then. Well continue to follow this breaking news story from millersville university. Moving on to accuweather forecast after a mild day. Temperatures are tumbling. Mix of ice, sleet and rain on the way in some regions just in time for tomorrows morning and evening soon temperatures will dip. Meteorologist Melissa Magee at the big board with the details. Sarah, walter hard to believe were tracking wintry precipitation after coming offer a mild weekend. But were already starting to see beginning ever the change moving in right now. As we look at the temperatures outside 37 in philadelphia, 35 allentown and 31 poconos and 37 wildwood. The cold air is starting to funnel
Graffiti is a crime and it requires money and it requires attention from the officials, not just from covering graffiti . Is there an answer . Can you give me some sort of whats a good direction . [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. Basically the task force, theyll put together and try to convince the citizens something is happening, then it will go away. Its no longer a political issue. What turned the corner for us, we had a mayor go out during one of our zero tolerance on blight mayor. She went out on a clean up day. The people from the Better Business bureau went with they are and started dragging her through the streets and started showing her the [speaker not understood], showing her the graffiti all over and what an impact its having on them. Yeah, one person goes up, couple people go up, even the police go up and they believe it. You dont get a lot of interest from city hall on that. You get the Business Community and convince them the importance of dealing with
Rare lightening strikes hit loss los angeles beaches, and Power Outages. Good to have you with us. We begin with a crisis in gaza. President obama urges israel to accept an immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire. In a telephone call president obama said gaza must be disarmed in order to achieve a lasting peace. A United Nations plan in time for eid has failed. Hamas agreed to a 24 hour proposal, but israel did not accept it. Israel says hamas is firing rockets into its territory. Inside funerals were held for soldiers killed. One killed when hit by an antitank missile. Binyamin netanyahu defended israels rejection of the latest ceasefire. Israel is not obliged and will not let a terrorist organization, a ruthless Terror Organization committed to our destruction to decide when its convenient to stop and rearm. The number of palestinians killed since israel began its assault on gaza 20 days ago. Most are civilians. 6,000 have been injured. 43 Israeli Soldiers and three civili
Is diminishing, when you can show them how different it can be, that suddenly makes Good Business sense to them and theyll dedicate the resources to you. So, thats whats worked for me. applause anybody else up there . Everybody okay with that answer . I think were pretty grateful here in San Francisco that we have a mayor that was actually the director of the department of public works. So, we know hes totally on top of it and involved. Do you have another question . This isnt geared towards any particular speaker, but it is geared towards abatement. We have an annual volunteer event where graffiti is removed citywide. In an effort to encourage youth to participate we are considering a flash mob where all volunteers will abate graffiti at the same time on the same day along major thoroughfares. Is this a good idea or does it detract from the issue . Thoughts . Okay, yes. Thats a great question. Thank you. My experience is its really hard to paint while youre dancing. [laughter] but on