This as the president tries to tackle the roots of the rising extremist threat. And murphys law. Why wasnt eddie murphy in any skit of the epic show . A former cast member tells all including the role that murphy turned down a why. Including today, thursday february 19th, 2015. 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. Matt has the morning off. I almost had the morning off. You did . I woke up an hour ago i overslept. You know . I was in the makeup room. We were like where is she . Shes not here yet. Look how well she put it in an hour. Lets talk about record shattering temperatures. How could ask . Heres a picture of Niagara Falls. Behind that ice and snow the falls are still roaring. They are the king amazing. Beautiful picture. Meantime that siberian express is of course our top story. If you are fought waking up to shattering temperatures this morning
And lets keep it moving. A 12yearold boy bravely hurries along the president at an appearance with children. I think you sort of covered everything about that. You think i kind of thinks im talking too long. How he showed the leader of the free world who is boss today friday, may 1, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on a friday. Savannah is in australia getting ready for a big show monday. Well see her then. We like fridays. Tamron hall here. This is a big friday for sports. You have the Kentucky Derby. And the fight and both could be over in minutes depending how the fight turns out. Most exciting two minutes in sports. Well see. Well talk about those two things. To our top story, key evidence now in hand and you can only imagine the pressure facing the baltimore prosecutor who will decide if criminal charges are filed in the freddie gra
And lets keep it moving. A 12yearold boy bravely hurrying along the president at a school event. I think you sort of covered everything about that question. Okay. You think ive just kind of he thinks ive been talking too long. How he showed the leader of the free world whos boss today. Friday may 1st 2015. Announcer 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. Savannah on her way to australia. Well see her on monday. Got tamron hall here. This is a fun friday because its a big sports weekend. Kentucky derby tomorrow. Got the fight on saturday. A lot of education for kids on sports betting. Well talk about those subjects coming up. Lets get to our top story. With key evidence now in hand you can only imagine the pressure facing the baltimore prosecutor who will decide if criminal charges are filed in the freddie gray case. And as she weighs her decision police are prepar
Of showers and thunderstorms move towards the appalachians and beyond. Lets take a look at the live super doppler 7 radar, thats the leading edge. You see the righthand side of the screen is the washington metro area. This stuff were watching is west of the i81 corridor. Still have a distance to go. Its moving pretty quickly. We think probably in the 6 00 to 7 00 hour in the western suburbs will start to pick up some effect of the rain. Again, part of the much larger cluster thats been dropping very heavy rain torrential downpours and severe thunderstorms across portions of ohio all day long. Temperatures are cool. Air is defrp. 50 degrees at reagan national. 51 degrees in fredricksburg so for tonight, well see through the evening hours cloudy skies. Showers possible. Isolated showers and storms to the west. Mostly rain will tend to taper off late tonight. Take a look at the rest of the week and the weekend for you coming up in a few minutes. Leon . Leon moving on now, grief counselors
Gone down somewhere in the french alps. Bill neely is in london. Anything more you can add . Yes, the fact that it has gone down in the french alps is not good. Its about 9,000 feet up with few roads leading to it. 142 passengers on board, two pilots and four crew. I suppose from a rescuers point of view thats very, very difficult terrain. At the moment it was not far into the flight from barcelona to d uss eldorf when it crashed. It is an airliner that is a subsidiary of the german airliner lufstanza. German wings is a low cost airliner. They were heading back probably from vacation in barcelona. Details are sketchy at the moment. The weather seemed to be fine. It was cloudy with just light wind. The pilot did send an sus urks srksstus urks srkss srkssuss sos message, but rescue teams are on the way. It is an inaccessible area. From a rescue point of view thats not good. Bill thank you very much. Tom costello covers aviation. You are just getting the details as we are. Talk about this