And winters last gas . Heavy snow leading to accidents and Power Outages from the midwest to new england. While millions deal with a drastic blast of cold that has temperatures plunging by as much as 40 degrees today. Thursday, march 13th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. We welcome you to today on this thursday morning. Im matt lauer along with tamron hall. Savannah is off. Joined by Natalie Morales and al roker as well. Busy news day. Its so hard to believe so few answers related to that flight 370. Were almost at a week since this happened. Thats right. Well have much more on that story coming up. But our top story today is that tragedy at the south by southwest festival overnight. It was caused by an alleged drunk driver. Our nbc affiliate kxan is at the scene. Sophia, good morning to you. Reporter matt, police say a suspected drunk driver tried to escape police, but t
It. I saw her in the green room downstairs. Her name is jamie. Were looking forward to that. What . Yesterday was a day i picked for bambinos birthday because we know he was born in march, but we dont know the exact date. Okay. We have so many family, you know, birthdays in march. I picked one that somebody else didnt already have. So i just thought, all right, im going to pick march 12th. Last night sitting there in front of the fire with frank and me and bam and the doggies, i thought you know what, lets celebrate a little bit. Lets do your first selfie. So thats it. Oh, my it had been a long day. Hed been celebrating all day long. But i just said, you know, bambinos selfie. Fourth birthday. Thinking nothing of it. I obviously have too much time on my hands. Yes. And . You cannot believe the amount of people that wished him well. And their dogs and their cats wished him well. It was just you know what . No matter what you post on instagram or twitter, you put your dog up and everyone
Her story was concerning about a masked man, shooting her husband and leaving her alive. Im worried, did she hire somebody . Then a revelation. The dead man had a dangerous dream. Ended up finding a lot of people related to the oil business. I remember him telling us, im going to make millions of dollars. A big money venture oozing with outlaws. A violent individual, been to prison for robbery. 250 pounds of steroid, rock muscle. Greed is what killed my dad. Greed is what caused all of this. A thirst for oil, an lust for blood. A sociopath. What can happen in a quiet Little Prairie town until oil comes around. Yeah. Among the green and pleasant landscapes of american privilege is the rise of historic land called the south hill. Its been the home of spokane, washingtons elite, in their queen anne and craftsmans homes and not the sort of story were about to tell. Ambitious men, dark plots and dames. I asked him. Am i just the dumb blonde who missed it . Or did everyone miss it . The one
Were all enjoying the subtlety of the music chosen by our producers on this sunday morning. Good morning, everybody. Bianna and ron both off today. But were very happy to have Sharyn Alfonsi and linsey joining us on her birthday, we might add. Happy birthday. Some sad breaking news. Former senator George Mcgovern has died at the age of 90. Mcgovern was a liberal icon. He ran for president in 1972. He lost in a landslide to Richard Nixon. Were going to take a look back at his long career in politics this morning. Also, we are just 16 days until the election. One day until the third and final president ial debate. This morning, so many questions. How will this big headline about iran play in the debate . And can this faceoff shift the dynamic in what appears to be an extremely tight race . The timing so interesting on that one. Well get to that in just a few minutes. Well begin, though, with that breaking news. The former senator and president ial candidate George Mcgovern die d today at
We have the forecast see if we can get that, that is gorgeous. And and we are waking up again to midand high level clouds, temperatures this morning and 44 degrees and 50 in san jose. And concord and livermore and chillier in santa rosa at 37 degrees. Well look at mps. Well talk about that in a bit. Were following a developing story of san jose unit. The police are investigating there assault incidents. Mining us is mike pelton. What can you tell us . This a big concern for the police as you have two Sexual Assaults and another in in the past that 12 hours. They took place here on the southern portion of campus, the first of which was here in front of the event center. It was around 6 55 last night at 9 21. Police say the suspect rode a bike behind them and touched them before riding of. He is described as a 20 to 30 year old whiteman with a black sweat shirt and mustache. Another around 1 00 outside of one of the halls. Two suspects one on a skateboard anotlong board attempted to touc