Overnight, china expands the mass roundup of anyone suspected of being sick with the coronavirus. And back at home, we go to the cdcs war room in atlanta as another american turns up sick. Those stories, plus, swing and a miss. Im really sorry about the choices that were made. Houston astros players finally address the teams cheating scandal, but is sorry enough . Today exclusive. Craig with four nba legends on the loss of kobe bryant. I started crying when i got the news. Their fascinating conversation, just ahead. And love is in the air. We go big on valentines day. A surprise proposal live on the rock center rink. How romantic. Today, friday, february 14th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody. Welcome to today. And it is so nice to have you with us on a friday morning, valentines day. We love you. I love you. I love you. And by the way, this proposal on the rink is going to be epic
Support to the rest of ihss and to clients and providers. So thank you so much. [applause] on more of d. A. S. , you are our employee for the month. Thank you. May i say a few words . Of course you may. I have the copy in my hand. I dont want to miss anyone. So first and foremost, thank you to my heavenly father, my family and friends for being here today, a special thank you to the special someone who nominated me, my direct supervisor for endorsing the nomination, our management team, the executive director, of course, and our Deputy Directors, program manager, program director, thank you for your selection. Thank you to the commissioners for allowing us this time to present the employee of the month, 11 months of the year, and the manager of the year in december. And to all of my supervisors past and present, i have four, one direct and three. And our temporary staff and the clerk and lastly but certainly not least, my fellow Human Services technicians, because we have been through
Include reinstatement of the disproportionately deleted senior classes in particular, although i support a reinstatement of all of them. Its often said these days that sitting is the new smoking, and if so we all have done damage to our health over the past hour and a half. But there is new research that shows that another aspect of modern living is detrimental which is loneliness. Although it doesnt affect seniors only, it does affect them because of a loss of a partner or friend, because of more people being childless. The effect is so great that it is more dangerous to our health than obesity. Loneliness is the same as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. While i dont suggest restoring these classes will cure the issue of loneliness in our city, it is something that should be considered in addition to the benefits of lifelong learning. Speaking personally, when i returned to the sculpture class i had started just a couple of months before my husband died, i found the focus of turning a lump
Have to start with this new book entitle he the empower evidence university. What exactly is the empowered university . Guest thanks delight he to be here with you. The notification is this, that our universities should be empowered to look in the mirror and be honest with self, and wite as a way of talking about leadership and talking about our society that institutions that are healthy and that are secure should be willing to recognize whatever is going well, to acknowledge that, of course, but also to be willing to say, but we have a way to go, and so its empowered to be honest with self, and the subtitle which is shared leadership, culture change and academic success start width the notion its not but the one person, not just the University President. Its about all of us working together with the vision offed of indicating students and thats the notion of empowerment. Host i found the subtitle interesting, too because if you even look at the cover of the book you dont have one list
Has barned 54,000 acres, containment has dropped to 5 . Another 80,000 homes are threatened by flames. Firefighters believe it will take until november 7th to contain the fire. Schools are closed because of the smoke and ongoing Power Outages. We have a full list on nbcbayarea. Com and running them on the bottom of the screen all morning. And tracking new evacuation orders overnight into. Sharon katsuda is live at the frontlines. Firefighters are still on the scene there . Reporter that is right. And we just moved from a decision location so were now here right along spot road in the heart of this evacuation area and you could see behind me there are fire engines here. They saved this home. Im told that the flames came right up to the back side of this home so very good use here but the fire has moved on closer towards santa rosa. That is what im hearing. Now lets take a look at video of the flames. We shot this about 3 00 this morning just off the road here. Got very close to structur