Michael phelps faces a familiar foe, ryan lochte, in his first comeback final. The thrilling finish today, friday, april 25th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. And im Natalie Morales along with al roker and tamron hall. Savannah has the morning off. What a way to make a comeback for a guy who basically took the last couple of years. Says he played golf, gained 30 pounds, but its nice to hear those two names in the same sentence again, phelps and lochte, phelps and lochte. Headtohead the whole way, but were not going to tell you how it ends just yet. Youve got to hang on a little while. But first, we want to get to todays top story. Frightening moments for the crew of a Virgin Australia flight headed to bali. A passenger now under arrest after rushing the cockpit. Nbcs katy tur is in perth, australia, with the latest on this. Katy, goo
Pure. Its already mixed with 15 of water from peninsula reservoirs. The ground water would add another 2 . We thought we were drinking pure hetch hetchy all along. We werent. For some people its going to be even less pure hetch hetchy water it turns out. I would not call it less pure. This is high quality water. If you look at the hetch hetchy supply, let me tell you, occasionally you find deer walking across the creek. You find bears walking across the creeks leading to hetch hetchy. Reporter but they dont drain the reservoirs. Plans have been in the works for years too add this ground water to hetch hetchy water. They have been sped up because of the drought. Reporting live in San Francisco, Don Knapp Kpix 5. Chief meteorologist paul deanno is in Half Moon Bay tonight and says rain is on the way. Paul. Yeah, muchneeded rainfall. We are still in a severe to exceptional drought throughout much of the state of california. We have a little bit of leaf over the past couple of months. We c
We are waiting for them to be turned on here any minute. In the meantime cash lanes are backing up the first indicator that metering lights will be switched on. Westbound 580 delays through the Livermore Valley until you get to vasco and then things loosen up a bit. Back to san jose where were still seeing slow sensors on northbound 101 especially from 280 and just past 880. And it is almost slow enough that there should be an accident or something reported in the area. Were not seeing anything. But just a heads up. Some streets are slow in the northbound lanes. Thats your latest kcbs traffic report. More on your west drive to work, heres lawrence. We are seeing showers outside now most of those fairly light although we have pockets of moderate amounts of rainfall. Still, the possibility of some thunderstorms as we head in toward the afternoon. The system slides through also bringing lots of snow in the Sierra Nevada maybe five to ten inches across some of the higher peaks. Our hidef D
A major drug bust in the heart of Silicon Valley. Tonight who is under arrest, the alarming accusations. And what comes next. Plus the many reasons Money Laundering could be considered a good thing. Well get down and dirty for this one. Im pam moore. The news at eight is next. Now at eight the call him el blanco federal agents say, he is responsible for supplying Silicon Valley with millions of dollars of cocaine and methamphetmanine. Whoosh high drama on a freeway overpass. Tonight you can hear from the man who helped to save this person on interstate 580 today. Whoosh californias drought deepens. We have the latest maps. And San Francisco is planning to tap into groundwater wells, despite concerns about contamination. This water is safe and reliable and will continue to be safe and reliable. Whoosh yesterday. Nearly a half century after the beatles final historic concert, Paul Mccartney makes it official. He is returning for the citys farewell. To candlestich park. This old broken do
Stadium is ready to generate revenue for local hotels. Within 5 minutes we started seeing movement with reservations. December 28, 3 days after christmas, normally would be dead, it will be full. And busy. Reporter it isnt just the events that we will see more business. They say the levi stadium effect will fill in low demand backs week in and week out. It is going to crazy during the week. Filling hotel rooms. Running 80 during the week. One of the many good things is it will fill the hotels on the weekends. The rates will go up with demand. We checked with websites and for one thing events like opening day requires a two night stay minimal, in the high 200s per night. It hasnt slowed down demand. That weekend is almost already sold out. Big win for the city, the hotels, restaurants, everything. Reporter the impact did start fast and spread fast. The Convention Center got requests to hold events around the 49ers home games. Robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. More details now on some o