Fleeing the scene and could be charged with murder. Outrage grows. More anger over a former Stanford University athlete who was sentenced to just six months in jail after he was convicted of sexual assault. Now more than half a Million People have signed a petition to have the judge in that case removed. This morning, the prosecutor speaks out to nbc news. And mother of the year. A woman fights valiantly to prevent her 13yearold daughter from being abducted inside a florida store. How her relentless struggle saved her daughter and put the suspect behind bars today, wednesday, june 8th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Well show you more of that video of that incredible mom in just a second. But we have a lot of politics to talk about this morning. I dont know whether we should say it was a late night or it was an early morning.
The driver arrested after fleeing the scene and could be charged with murder. Outrage grows. More anger over a former Stanford University athlete who was sentenced to just six months in jail after he was convicted of sexual assault. Now more than half a Million People have signed a petition to have the judge in that case removed. This morning, the prosecutor speaks out to nbc news. And mother of the year. A woman fights valiantly to prevent her 13yearold daughter from being abducted inside a florida store. How her relentless struggle saved her daughter and put the suspect behind bars today, wednesday, june 8th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, evne wednesday morning. Well show you more of that video of that incredible mom in just a second. But we have a lot of politics to talk about this morning. I dont know whether we should say it was a late night or it was an early morning.
Better flow toward the dumbarton bridge now. Still tracking the only issue aside of the bay bridge metering lights. Its the Treasure Island offramp. The offramp still closed from a mud spill. Its not muddy because its raining but we are worried about the weather because of the Holiday Weekend. Not looking at any rain. Could use it but it is the first of september as we get into fall. September 22nd. Official start of it. Well hopefully be tracking rainfall. Clear skies in the south bay. Few thin clouds. Fog is across the powell and San Francisco and even across the north bay where visibility is down to less than a mile in santa rosa. 65 is where youre headed in San Francisco. 70s and 80s for inland valleys. Comfortable day. Stellar weather. Back into the weekend, warmer weather as the unofficial close of summer wraps up with labor day. See you in a bit. Its not so stellar for other parts of the country. Its really a developing story were following this morning in several powerful storm
Reporter San Jose Police tell me the case was assigned to a detective who will investigate. The Police Department has been mired in a staffing crisis for several years now. On tuesday the city council declared a state of emergency, allowing the chief to pull more detectives out of their current jobs to put them in patrol cars to help answer 911 calls. That means even fewer detectives will be available to help victims like hemmer. I have a three year old and it is, you know, scary it has happened twice now, and our fears going to bed, you know, could he come back or could him and his buddies come back. Reporter the teacher tells me he had no bad blood, no runins with this former student, so hes baffled by whats been happening. By the way, he does have insurance, but because of the deductible hes been paying for repairs out of pocket. Live in south san jose. Thanks, damian. The woman at a center of a sex scandal involving dozens of Police Officer around the bay area is arrested in florid
Clouds in the sky today and as numerous as they were yesterday. What we are looking at as far as temperatures we will be warmer today and pus of that, we are going to see temperatures warm a few degrees possibly along the coast lowtomid 60s in San Francisco and mid70s around the bay and mid70s to low 80s inland. We will check the commute with leyla gulen. We have a closing on the great highway. It looks like it is automatically changing so i will try to talk fast. The great highway show as lot of wind and that blew sand on the road so they will have to clean that off. We also have drive time traffic, with high wind advisory westbound tracy to dublin is 34 minutes westbound direction and highway antioch to conquer is 14 minutes and 101 southbound from san rafael to San Francisco at 17 minutes. Okay. Breaking news a san jose couple is out of their home this morning after a fire ripped through their town house. In the middle of the night, the fire broke out on the second floor of theiredd