A very big donation to a cause close to their hearts this morning. And winners . A thrilling finish at the National Spelling bee, and the event ends in a rare tie, the first in more than 50 years. The cochamps are celebrating with us today, friday, may 30th, 2014. Life is a highway 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 friday morning. Can we take that shot one more time . That is a concert crowd. Wow. So many. Eat your heart out, austin mahone. That was a big crowd earlier this week, but huge today. And there is good reason. This is the most awarded Country Group in the past decade. They have 14 number one hits, 22 1 2 million albums sold. They have a new album thats getting critical acclaim and theyre going to give us a great concert in a few moments. That crowd, its all ages. They, Everybody Loves rascal flatts. Good to have them here. Were going to get to our top
All on the side of the student. Student says it is tough to be here at school, that some students turned on him can they shout when they see him that the guard should be freed and some students were passing around a petition today at lunch if people to sign in support of the security guard. It was captured on the surveillance video, a School Security guard is seen punching a student in a wheelchair and shove him to the ground. That student Francisco Martinez says he has back pain and headaches from the attack that feels it is important to come to school with his head held high. I want to see justice. I dont think it is fair for this event to occur during school day. If a school where im supposed to be coming in, safe, and not be brutalized and thrown around like an animal. Not even in prison do they do that. He showed pictures of the injuries taken after the attack. Marcel mitchell has been charged. We are sorry one of our employee could betray the public trust and injure a student. A
6 00 if you are traveling eastbound you will find the problem. Watch out for construction crews in the west direction. Everything else is moving along fine. Our drive time traffic highway 4 to hercules is 27 minutes and westbound 80 from four to the maze is 15 minutes and to the san jose airport is eight minutes. It is 5 00 and billionaire check drop out is put his money where his mouth is for improving education in the bay area. Facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg and his wife will spend millions to help out local School Districts. Amy hollyfield is at facebook headquarters in menlo park. Amy . Are you ready for this . They donating 120 million to Bay Area School districts and spread it out over five years. Here is how the first 5 million will be spent. That money is going to go toward School Districts in San Francisco, ravenswood and redwood city. They are being pesk in how they want the money spent, toward training prescribes prince preliminary principles. They have an amazing opportu
Afternoon with heavy hearts as the department mourned the loss of sergeant tom smith, a 23year veteran of the force. Were in shock, disbelief, were numb. Were grieving, and please give us some time. Smith was one of seven bart police, five undercover detectives and two uniformed officers doing a search of an apartment at the park sierra complex in dublin. While the officers were inside the one bedroom apartment, one of the detectives guns went off strike and ultimately killing smith. Apartment resident got a brief glimpse of Sergeant Smith as he was rushed away by ambulance. He was in the bed. He wasnt moving. No one else was inside the apartment except the officers so how and why the gun went off during the search is the focus of an investigation by the Alameda County sheriffs office. Everybody has been interviewed so now we can go forward and try to reconstruct exactly what happened. The apartment bart police were searching was the home of 20yearold john henry lee. Lee was on probati
The commute is starting great at 6 00 with no accidents to report as we take you to san jose we are seeing a little bit of a. Up of traffic northbound along 101 at 37 Miles Per Hour away from the 280 and 680 split and it eases as you head up to the nimitz. If you catch a flight at san jose airport 56 Miles Per Hour on 101 pulling out you can see the traffic is moving along fine on 280 into cupertino and checking in at 8 is flow. At sfo, you can see 101 is in great shape and across the bay at oakland airplane at 64 Miles Per Hour. A billionaire whose job it is to connect people is putting his money where his mouth is for improving education in the bay area. This morning, we learned details of facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg and his wifes plan to spend millions to help local schools. Amy hollyfield is at facebook headquarters in menlo park. They are making their money here at facebook but they are sharing it with the bay area. Zuckerberg and his wife have decided to give 120 million to