Theyre cohosting with us today, friday, november 1st, 2013. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside al roker and natalie morales. And next hour, were going to add four oscarwinning names to that little introduction. Pretty exciting. Do you have an oscar . Oh, is it required . We have emmys, but no oscars. Need a bigger mantle. No question, that should be fun when they join us. Also coming up, a today exclusive. For the First Time Since release from prison, former new York City Police commissioner and onetime nominee for director of homeland security, Bernard Kerik speaks out. Why kerrick says his time behind bars changed his entire look on the justice system. First, todays top story, and it is those powerful storms making a mess of the morning here in the northeast. Theyre also blamed for this. A school bus carrying a group of kids ran off a bridge into a flooded creek. They were safely rescued, but as
Area of light showers cover ago good portion of the eastern shore. The darker shades you see further south that is more significant rain. That is what most of it will be south of us especially down in the carolinas as a new storm develops along the coast. We have a rain chance for part of the day. Hour big story several lawsuits just filed for the obgyn who police say killed himself after learning he was under investigation for photographing patients during exams. News reporter has more. They contacted lawyers in the pursuit of justice and more information about the case. These lawsuits claim hopkins hospital should have done more to keep an eye on dr. Levy. His picture gave me chills. It is creepy. She is among the first former patients of dr. Levy to file a negligence lawsuit against johns hopkins. Levy committed suicide this week after police began investigating the obgyn foresee kretly photographing and videotaping his patients during exams use surge valence devices with a small ca
The car felt like it broke lose a couple times on the road coming in. So scary. Snow is so much bert than ice. I did not have to scape the windshield we had drizzle out there some of it is freezing drizzle. Especially i think your sidewalks. I can tell you Baltimore County side streets sheets of ice. That will fix itself rather quickly this morning. Nonetheless the first Step Outdoors speegsly before dawn could be a little tricky. Be careful. I wouldnt totally trust the road between black ice and wet pavement it is hard to tell the difference. At the moment all we have happening in the immediate metropolitan area is drizzle. We have a batch of slightly more moisture coming in. It could be slight rain. Some could freeze on contact. Moving quickly what you see on the radar is one hour of movement of this precipitation. So thats going to dash through the area in the next hour, hour and a half or so. Use some caution today. But the main story is rain. Most of that is going to be south and
Good afternoon. We begin with this hours breaking news. The trainee who was accidentally shot in the head during the City Police Academy tactical exercise has been released from the hospital. Shock trauma confirming the still unidentified man was released this morning. Sources tell wjz he has been transferred to a Rehab Facility and his progress has been and remains remarkable. Maryland state Police Continue to investigate the incident on the grounds of the old rosewood state hospital. Its the weather making head lines. A huge storm system is working its way towards the northeast this noon after blanketing much of the middle of the country with snow and ice. In chicago snow is still coming down. Plows are busy clearing streets. The storm dumped 14 inches of snow in northern oklahoma 10 inches near kansas city an area of the nation that also had thunder and lightening where the snow was falling. All that of course poses the question, is all or any of that headed this way . A live look o
His seventh dui . Did the fact he did it in a ferrari and is wealthy have anything to do with him getting off easily. We begin with a story weve been covering for months when president obama finally addressed the issue directly pledging to fix the problems nationwide to hold the right people accountable and redeem this countrys promise, the men and women who give body and soul to defend it. We begin with very tough questions about why the problems have been so longstanding and solutions, Real Solutions affecting hundreds of thousands of veterans have seemed so late and so lacking. After meeting this morning with secretary eric shinseki, mr. Obama said if the allegations of long waits and phoney lists are true he would not tolerate it. All the same he never announced secretary shinsekis immeant departure or immediate action until he knows more. Here is what i discussed with secretary shinseki this morning. First, anybody found to have manipulated or falsified records at v. A. Facilities