Livermore. The westbound traffic was blocked all the way into tracy. Heavy traffic is still remaining near 50 minutes. That east shore freeway is at 25 minutes now it is twice the commute. There was an earlier our current accident that has now cleared. South bay freeway is already getting slow especially 85 in 101 on northbound from south san jose. The back up almost reaches all the way we have no complaints. Were waking up to blue skies. The frost advisory has been cancelled. The temperatures are mild and the 40s and 50s. We will see a range from low 60s to the low 70s. Tomorrow, will be the warmest day and the temperatures will start to slide. I will talk about the rain coming up. Police say that the gunman at the new jersey mall is dead of an apparent suicide. The body of 20 yearold Richard Shoop of teaneck, new jersey was found in the back area of the mall early this morning. Authority say that he killed himself with the same weapon that he used at the mall. The mall will be closed
Away a free man . We are there live. And the nation pauses to remember the worst terror attack in this countrys history, 13 years ago today, thursday, september 11th, 2014. 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 this thursday morning with al roker, natalat Natalie Morales and tom brokaw. Tom, its great to have you here. We have been friends and colleagues for a long time and i dont think any day has been more important to me, in either of those relationships than 13 years ago, we spent a lot of hours on this desk trying to make sense of what happened. I dont think the audience fully appreciate and we didnt later in how much we didnt say. It was the first time we were on the air without any indication for hours and hours without any indication of what was coming next. There was a big storm coming. We were about to go to war. That day we didnt. It was a memorable morning for
Now. Your elected officials trading insults, playing the blame game here as the clock is winding down on the fiscal cliff. Keep in mind time is awasting. In 32 days now tax rates soar, spending gets slashed. Oh, and dont forget, congress, yeah, they get to take a break for the holidays in 14 days. A recipe for recession. The president is pitching a plan that calls for 1. 6 trillion in tax heights and 50 billion in new infrastructure spending. Hell head to a manufacturing plant in pennsylvania to push all this. Republicans arent buying in. Listen to House Speaker John Boehners reaction. Despite the claims that the president supports a balanced approach, the democrats have yet to get serious about real spending cuts. Didnt take very long for democrats to hit back at Speaker Boehner. Senate majority leader harry reid got up, a little personal. I dont understand his brain, so you should ask him. I dont understand his brain. Lets go to washington this morning. Wow, just when we thought they
I am thomas robbeerts. Republicans are warning the white house to back off after the plan b was leaked. This draft bill which was obtained by usa today over the weekend allows for an eight year path to residency for the undocument already inside u. S. Borders and within hours of that plans release florida senator marco rubio fired back saying if proposed the bill will be dead on arrival in Congress Leaving Us with unsecured borders and a broken legal situation for years to come. The chief of staff defended the white house choice to be ready to go it alone. Were doing exactly what the president said we would do last month in las vegas which is were preparing. Were going to be ready. Lets make sure it doesnt have to be proposed. Lets make sure the group up there, the gang of eight, makes the Good Progress on these efforts as much as they say they want to. Republicans on the hill are upping the ante and accusing the administration of political games man ship that will backfire. Leaks dont
Now, thats no way to get it done. With both parties agreeing now is the moment to make this reform happen, will congress be open to obamas backup if the efforts fall short . It is a threat from the white house by saying, hey, if you dont do it, the politics get really bad for you very quickly, so hurry up and get something done. Say good morning to our president s day political power panel, contributor Jonathan Caphart and an opinion writer for the Washington Post and angela reid, principle of Impact Strategies and msnbc contributor susan dellpurseo. You come in on president a days. Lets dive in and get to work talking about this leaked proposal that came out. Angela, i want to start with you. We have the timeline here and if we look at it, the president was scheduled to go to las vegas on january 29th and give his first policy speech of the Second Administration but we see that on the 28th the Bipartisan Group of senators, they came out with their plan trying to trump the president to