At least one person killed, others injured, emergency evacuations under way and were live with the very latest. Heir to terror. Osama bin ladens son and the likely next al qaeda leader dead. How did he die . Did the u. S. Play a role . All that, plus sex offender Jeffrey Epsteins reported plan to father dozens of chdren. Slash, the first cut to Interest Rates in more than a decade, what it means for your credit cards, car payments and your mortgage. And living large. Weve got a plaza packed with fans for a special concert from country superstar Dierks Bentley, august 1st, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning, nice to have you with us on a thursday morning. It feels a little bit like friday if you look at our plaza. Always nice when you come into work early in the morning and hear music playing, great music, a sound check from Dierks Bentley. In the middle of his tour, stop
Friday. Im scott mcgrew. Im kris sanchez. Laura and marcus have the week off. Theyll be back next week. Meteorologist kari hall has our forecast. In fog in San Francisco because the clouds are higher as we watch some rain off the coast. If youre planning to head to outside lands today its going to be perfect. Those temperatures reaching the upper 60s and sunshine, really doesnt get any better than that with our south bay temperatures reaching 81. No extreme heat in the near forecast. We expect a spike in temperatures midweek. Its friday at the bay bridge. Were talking about the light early friday commute. No problems right now. A busy weekend with outside lands. Well see more traffic, pete will talk about that. Youre at speed through the maze and Contra Costa County, the early drive for highway 4, no slowing out of antioch, brentwood, discovery bay. Mild slowing after they picked up most of the cones at the altamont pass. South bay, peninsula, easy drive at speed. Back to you. Thank yo
Forecast coming up. Lets check in on our main travel times. If you are hitting the roadways here bright and early or i should say dark and early. A 31 minutes ride. No problems there. You are smooth sailing. As well as this morning. Hopefully thats going to hold out for as long as we can. Not so great on the nimmets freeway. That lane closure is going to be in place until 6 00 and all this week weve really been seeing some significant slowing. Youre going need to give yourself about 10 extra minutes regardless of these lane closures. Off to the bridges where there is nobody and no back up at the bay bridge and the Richmond San Rafael bridge as well. We are keeping an eye on that bridge in lake county. At this point it is only 30 contained. Were hoping for an update in cal fire for hours. This is just northwest of clear lake. 19 acres have burned. So thats not huge. You can see the terrain theyre dealing with. It is very steep and a lot of brush and trees there. This fire still threaten
Delivered gas and failed to get around this taught tight corner of lucas valley road and slid down into the creek bed. The driver had only minor injuries, and, at the time, officials thought about 200250 gallons of gas leaked out. But, when the tanker was drained for removal, it turns out it was actually 10 times that amount. Will we estimate based off the amount of difference when they offloaded the tank, the estimated around 2100 gallons total was released. Reporter the truck is gone but the cleanup operation has already begun. Gas has soaked into the soil and private companies are here to getting the process of removing as much of it as possible. Reporter it wont be easy, the train is steve steve and getting digging equipment down will be a challenge. Even after they are finished, regulators like state fish and wildlife and the Regional Water quality board will be monitoring the area for months to come. I will deafly be here when he first rains occur to see what may or may not appea
Its tough to know what to say after Something Like this. There are no words that can make it easier all we can say is that the victims and their families and everyone in dayton and el paso are in our hearts tonight. And to anyone whose background has made them a target of prejudice or hate or violence, or anyone who feels that they may not be welcome in this country, know that you that are welcome. We support you and we love you and the cycle of hate needs to stop el paso and dayton have both set up funds to support the victims. So if you want to help, please go online and make a donation. No matter what side of the political coin you land on, we all agree this is happening too much and it has to stop. So please make your voice heard. You can call your local representative you can go to a protest march. You donate to a charity that fights for common sense gun laws and vote you can vote it all helps its the only way we can make things better and we can be better thank you. [ applause ]