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
March 18th 2015. 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 wednesday morning. You may be enjoying your coffee and if you like to get it from starbucks, you may be interested this this story. They are causing a stir online. There is a new campaign the coffee giant is offering something extra with your latte and it is stirring controversy. The people weighing in on both sides. The good and the bad. We will tell you more about that. Lets get to the top story. The phone calls to the u. S. Embassy threatening to kill ambassador Caroline Kennedy. Officials are not taking this lightly. Not at all, matt. The calls came in from somebody speaking english. Caroline kennedy, daughter of jfk assumed the post in 2013. He is obviously a very high profile figure over there. With the violent attack on another u. S. Ambassador just this month, police are investigating how serious
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