Announcer 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 thursday morning. Memo to winter this better be it. Yeah, a lot of people are over. This you know, theres s house this morning. No school. My kids are happy. Take a look at some of the prettier images of a storm like this. Earlier this morning evan lysacek out performing on the ice rink. His performance will be beautiful when he joins us a little later. High degree of difficulty on that one too. The storm is our top story this morning. If this is winters final big one, not going without a fight. Tens of millions being impacted today, states of emergency declared and our weather team has it covered. Lets start with dylan dreyer in boston. Good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. The snow has returned in boston. But yesterday we hit 40 degrees for the first time in 44 days. But in other parts of the country, it was a
Winning tickets sold in the 400 million Mega Millions jackpot, one of the largest in history. The cities and stores with reasons to celebrate today, wednesday, march 19th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good to have you with us. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. And it is day 12 of this mystery regarding Malaysian Airlines. It has really captivated the country and the world, actually. So many people with questions. We actually put the call out yesterday right. Online, and said, all right, folks, send us your questions, and were going to convene a panel of experts to answer them. A lot of questions than answers right now. And you can send your question by heading to our Facebook Page or tweeting us with orangeroom. Lets get to the new information, though, coming out of this mornings news conference. It involves the pilots home simulator and files that were deleted, also when the plane act
And those numbers are expected to rise as information begins to come in from other areas of that disaster zone. Getting the relief there has also been a big obsticle with rows that are in as diagnose saysable and covered in debris. We are joined live from our phone bank where we are raising money to help the victims of the typhoon in the philippines. Hows it going guys . Hope the phones are ringing. Frank so far its been great. Were hearing chatter behind us. This front row is really busy all the time and the phones rollover to the second row, we have a couple people on the phones back there. We want the top tier working, dont we . Yes. Come on, top guys. Okay guys lets hear it. Get enthusiasm here. Remember the phone number 8885 help you. Weve got a new number, a new tally, 95, 108 so far, since 6 00 this morning. Id say we challenge them a little bit and get to the 100,000 mark in the next 10 minutes . Lets do it. These guys are busy, energy is hopping, its really great. Obviously th
Thats going to be interesting. I dont know what to do at the moment. Maybe tonight, i will put some sandbag up. This is the Goodwill Store called georgy and willow. The town has been diligent. And thats the thing, with any kind of warning, any kind of preparation and with the sandbags. At the ross fire station, even with a good soaking this weekend, the town should farewell cause the rain wont come all at once. Theres going to be breaks in between the storms which is really good news. Coming at 6 00, show you the rains positive impact on marine countys water supply. John sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. Fire crews were called to the scene after several large trees fell across the road. Fire crews in occidental used their chainsaws to clear the road. According to one fireman, toppled in wet and windy weather. He also said they were lucky the downed trees didnt pull down any power lines. The weather caused major problems with sfo. They are still trying to catch up tonight. Mike meback is at
Facebook, why the hell not . All of our friends on facebook join us at facebook. Com billpressshow. After his big lunch with hillary yesterday, after welcoming the world series San Francisco giants to the white house yesterday, president obama goes on the road today down to chattanooga, tennessee, to an amazon plant. Amazon fulfillment plant to talk with workers there and to talk about jobs and the economy. I just ordered a new book from amazon. I hope he doesnt interfere with the delivery of that book. Meanwhile, civil war has broken out among republicans. Chris christie is accusing rand paul of being soft on National Security by raising questions about the use of drones and about nsas big spying program. And rand paul is using Chris Christie of being soft on National Security by spending too much money helping the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Wouldnt you know it . They are both wrong. Chris christie and rand paul, they are both wrong. That and more coming up just for you on current tv