Ncaa basketball tournament, two number one seeds knocked out, villanova taking down kansas. Bridges is on him. Now steps up. And oklahoma dealing a crushing defeat to oregon. So who will join them on the road to the final four . Well find out today, Easter Sunday, march 27th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Glad to have you with us. Im craig melvin with sheinelle jones, dylan dreyer, happy easter, everyone. Were representing flowers. We didnt know it was easter, now you know. Our wardrobe, mr. Extraordinaire. We look like flowers picked from different fields. I can only wear this tie once a year. Wear it today. We want to get rig t here are the results, Bernie Sanders took Washington State with 73 of the vote. In alaska, he got 82 of the vote. And results coming in from hawaii, very early this morning, where he wound up with 71 of the vote. Despite the wins, senator sander
Of an impact. Traffic not too bad. This has been going on since tuesday. Were talking about the section between pooksville road and cedar lane. They had a water main burst on tuesday. There was flooding, major lane closures. They have repeated repairs to the pipe itself but they still have to repair the road. Apparently they had to take out a larger section of the asphalt. They had hoped to have all the work done by this mornings hour but they even not been able to complete the repairs in time. We have one lane getting by to the left in the inbound direction here right in the area of cedar lane. Now, if youre heading outbound in the northbound direction, all the lanes are open. Theyre making a lot of progress, but were seeing the lane closures, weve been here since about 4 30. Actually theyve made tremendous progress in that time filling in the hole with asphalt here. Theyre working as quickly as they can. Theyll reopen the road as soon as they can. Well be here all morning long and le
We have team coverage. Jeff chirico is live at Franklin Square and first we turn to meteorologist Melissa Magee. It was warm across the delaware and lehigh valley. Another record today. Yesterdays high 69 which was a record and today we climbed up to 71 breaking old record of 65 setback in 1923. So the last time we had temperatures in the 70s for the month of december was back on december 18 of 2006 it looks like this Warming Trends will continue. In fact, for the month of december so far if you include today temperatures have been averaging a good 8. 7 degrees above where they normally should be this time of year and that will more than likely continue for the start of the workweek tomorrow. Were dealing with southwesterly or easterly wind providing more in the way of cloud cover and mild at this hour. 64 in the city and 58 in the poconos and 58 along the coast in sea sea isle city. Stromtracker showing area of klo pressure over the plain states and the system words east ward as early
Take the new venues stage this april. April. I just keep on focusing on that opening. Its so close now. With the lights turned on and glossy wood ceilings throughout hancher the constructiti ttls covering the floor means work on the venue is in its final stretch. Stretch. Were down to ceilings, were down to flooringwere dn to paintingeven without old hancher for the past eight years staff and construction crews kept the Historical Mission to bring the best of the best to iowa city. City. The intimacy of the theatre is going to be unbelievevle. New hancher r will grab your attention as it shines bright outside but the show starts inside. Inside. Theres the theatrical piece of it to make surehe theatrical tuning takes place properly, which involves having people in the theatres, in the rehearsal halls, making sure that the sound systems work perfectly. Perfectly. From backstage all the way to the front of the fill eighteen hundred seats under elegant circles of led lights. But on a small
When british dragoons in december 1776 kidnapped Major General charles lee, then secondincommand of the Continental Army. They were confident the war would soon be over. But the americans decided to respond with a special operation of their own. This event from the National Archives is a little under one hour. Our topic is the special operations to capture general charles lee and Richard Prescott by Christian Mcburney. Raised in rhode island and graduated from Brown University, mr. Mcburney has been an attorney in washington, d. C. , for the last 25 years. His prior book to kidnapping the enemy was also on the revolutionary war. Please join me in welcoming Christian Mcburney to the National Archives. [applause] thank you. Before i begin my presentation, i would like to know if anyone in the audience is a hollywood screenwriter. A few days ago, i received a call from someone who professed to be a hollywood agent saying he wanted to submit the screenplay of my book to hollywood and belie