Stay wednesday, march 18, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. You may be enjoying your coffee. If you like to get it from starbucks you might be interested in this. They are causing a stir on line. There is a new campaign the coffee giant offering something extra with your latte. Its definitely stirring controversy. People weighing in on both sides, good and the bad. Well tell you more about that later on. Lets get to the top story on a wednesday morning. The phone calls to the u. S. Embassy in japan threatening to kill Caroline Kennedy. Katy tur has the latest on this. Officials are not taking this lightly. Not at all. The calls reportedly came in from somebody speaking english. Caroline kennedy, daughter of jfk, assumed the post in 2013. She is obviously a very high profile figure over there. And with the violent attack on another u. S
The fire. It started a few hours ago in campbell, just west of the 85 17 interchange. Bob redell live there now. Bob, investigators think a water bed of all things might be to blame. Yes. Good morning to you, scott and kris. Santa clara county fire tells us a woman who lives by herself was moving her waterbed in her secondfloor bedroom when the fire started around 8 45. A neighbor we spoke with believes the waterbeds heater mal malfunctioned and caused this. Campbell Police Video Shows just how bad the fire got. Flamed bursting through the windows of the second floor of her twostory unit. The woman and therneighbors in the attached unit were able to escape unharmed. Had the fire knocked down in about 15 minutes. The biggest challenge for them was keeping it contained to just the one unit. They did have to cut a hole in the roof of her condo unit to let the smoke ventilate and the fire ventilate out of the attic so it would not spread into the unit next door. There was some smoke that d
Story for today. Reporter 10 to the into the 40s and 50s heroes a live look for our studio here concede the bay bridge is very dark out still and we have to clear skies up there will continue on with his clear skies it will help the drop of the temperatures before the sun comes out in seven to this morning sentence of 53 daily city same for some sell fremont had 49 degrees and the temperatures are going to continue to stay cool until about 8 00 this morning and there will quickly one of litter on this afternoon. Reporter of our 60 to 07 days you ready to let light jacket tim to war to lure 60s the wins will pick up the to the afternoon it will rise in reference to the 20 mi. Per hour from the west to have any outdoor plazas afternoon plenty of sunshine for today and temperatures into the upper 60s to the peninsula one temperatures across the east bay and south they would soon lower to mid 70s the to the quick check of traffic this morning looking at the bay bridge traffic is very quiet
That alcohol and drugs have been ruled out as factors in the incident. One kayaker is dead. Another rescued after an accident in marin county. This video is from our helicopter partnership with a bc 7 news. According to police. Two men set out for a kayacking trip this afternoon from nicks cove. But ended up in a treacherous rocky area near dillon beach. Witnesses reported the kayakers hit the rocks around 4 30 this afternoon. Wave runners and boats searched the waters. They found one kayaker. A 55 year old man from sonoma county. Dead in the water. And transported him to shore. Paramedics treated the other man at scene. And he was then released. Caught in the act and caught on camera. Burglars in antioch. Stopped in their tracks after a neighbor reports suspicious activity at a home just in the nick of time. Today, two men were placed under arrest all thanks to some alert neighbors. As kron fours Philippe Djegal shows us those neighbors documented the tense encounter on video. Phillip
Only a kron 4 tonight kron 4 scott rates spoke to a woman who helped pull the children to safety. His live in Childrens Hospital in oakland with the young victims are being treated. Reporter the stabbing treated here at the hospital and one moment took action and your own hands when she saw the crash. It was a nasty mess afternoon crash near was gone i 80. The tax saying carmen the key attics seen. Velazquez jumped into action as people with the coming of taking video. will try and get a small seven yearold child on the back of the car that is bleeding perry and with no get this child out of the cards of a bill worst tragedy. So i jumped inside the car and pull the seven youre all out of this is either five or seven years all i get to our mother and shortly after that the pair met the pair met derive reporter according to the cac pay the card calls the call the crash rear ended the person that caused the crash jumped out of the vehicle and started on the and red hot oncoming traffic. T