Race . All that, plus banned, the major move by one state against flavored ecigarettes to combat americas vaping epidemic. Celebrating a pioneer, tributes pour in for legendary journalist and author, Cokie Roberts. This morning well remember our friend and colleague. And voice of change, pop superstar celine dion opens up in an exclusive interview about love, loss, and the exciting new chapter in her life. I know that this is what i was meant to do in life. Today, wednesday, september 18th, 2019. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody, welcome to today on this wednesday morning. Thank you for joining us. Savannah still under the weather. This bug will not let her go. If shes watching, get better, get well. Our top story, parts of the south braced for rain and heavy flooding after a system that developed into a Tropical Storm made landfall in texas. Dylan is tracking that, and also theres some other trou
Downtown oakland about 8 00 you can see a lot of people with umbrellas. There is a matinee at the coliseum today. Playing a getaway game here. A little rain for that . I think it will be done. Bad hair day weather. Thats what we have very light rain moving through and there is not a lot to this system but it is holding together. On the peninsula light rain hitting highway 92 right now and slowly moving south. You can see through the county picking up some intensity there off of San Francisco. The san mateo coast. We are not done yet. The system continues to work its way south and holding together. There wasnt a lot of rain with this motive is that Mendocino County but sausalito picked up 13 100. Point raised. 4. Napa valley a bunch of. 2. Most of that has gone through to the north. There is a line stretching across san pablo bay. 80. Hercules, rodeo, vallejo, american canyon. There is still a little bit and thats another low dropping in at the september pattern saying ralph. Ralph. Mil
Iran and moments ago in los angeles the president had this to say while standing next to the new named National Security adviser Robert Obrien. Just came out with a statement and well have an announcement. As we mentioned, Hostage Negotiator Robert Obrien was named this morning as the new National Security adviser. He will become trumps fourth National Security adviser replacing jerry nadler. He helped trump moderate the criminal case in sweden against rapper asap rocky and President Trump is now heading to san diego. Nbc news is on top of the breaking news and well keep you updated right here at nbc bay area. Just in, Current University u. C. President Janet Napolitano resigned from her post. She served for seven years and before that at the Homeland Security department from 2009 to 2012. While at u. C. She faced misappropriation of funding. Well have more later today on nbc bay area. Also testifying at this hour, the california strict admissions will be turned back in its if the Trum
Does not affect the 49ers authority. The agreement lets the team provide Management Services for the stadium. They will receive the dayto day operation and market and book nonnfl i havents. Last night, the Stadium Authority voted 60 to start the process to terminate the team as the stadium manager. The proposed change will also require all Stadium Authority contracts to be brought to the board for public approval. Per the agreement, the 49ers could execute contracts up to 250,000 without board approval. The Stadium Authority which includes seven elected members of the Santa Clara City Council says the 49ers mismanaged their authorities, violated state laws. Nonnfl event revenue you has dropped significantly over the years. This is about the numbers. The numbers cant lie. We are getting zero this year and zero next year. This means that the general fund will suffer almost a 6 milliondollar loss over the next two years. We have to tell our residents because the 49ers have miss blue faile
To that story in just a minute, but first the latest battle between the Trump Administration and california. The Trump Administration carried out its promised today to revoke californias authority to set admission standards higher than federal levels. In a series of tweets President Trumps that his action would create jobs, as he predicted americans would buy more cars. He said the new cars will make the air cleaner by taking older models off the roads. However the epas own estimates dispute that claim. Californias governor and attorney general say they will fight the row back in court. We cannot afford to backslide in our battle against climate change. For us, this is about survival. Our communities are screaming for help to address the climate crisis. Governor newsom said the administrations move is intended to benefit oil companies, he said many automakers are on board with the lower emissions and higher mileage requirements under a deal made back in july. To make a San Francisco wo