November 16th, 2012. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today on a friday morning, i am matt lauer. Good morning, i am Savannah Guthrie. We look at the statue of liberty live. Were going to witness something incredible on the plaza. If theres a dry eye left when the ceremony is over, ill be amazed. 30 people that worked so hard to become u. S. Citizens, a wait sometimes measured in decades will become u. S. Citizens on the plaza this morning. So many of us take this for granted. Those people on the plaza do not take it for granted. It will be amazing, their family members will witness it as well. We look forward to that. We start with sad news out of midland, texas. One minute theyre taken to a banquet to honor veterans, the next chaos. Witnesses say the float was almost across the tracks when hit by a double decker Freight Train. Investigators are still piecing together how this could ha
This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning everyone. Im Savannah Guthrie along side natalie morales. Where has al roker gone to . Two words. Miley cyrus. He is out on the plaza along with a few thousand of his dearest friends. Theyre here to see one of the biggest and most controversial stars in the world making headlines every day. Al, can you hear us . How is it going . Whats interesting is today kicks off nbc newss education nation. A lot of these kids are missing school but theyll get an education on miley cyrus. She is here as part of our Concert Series. Mileytoday if you want to be part of all of it. Guys, back inside. Thank you. That comes up in the 8 30 half hour but we want to begin on this monday morning with the top story. The daring u. S. Raids and what we know about the suspect in custody. Chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engle is here in n
Going to get things going so highdef Doppler Radar picking up on the rainfall right now. Its been fairly light but thats about to change as we are going to see that band move onshore. That one will come on this morning, then maybe a break, and scattered showers. Just for frank and michelle right here that band is going to come onshore with heavier rainfall and maybe even some thunderstorms. That sounds very exciting if you are heading out the door, we have mostly cloudy skies and temperatures fairly mild. Mainly into the 50s outside in most spots although we have 49 degrees into santa rosa. By the afternoon those highs running into the 60s. Elizabeth, dont you wish you could be there with them . Its going to be so much fun. Perfect ice skating weather. We love it thanks, lawrence. Outside right now, as you mentioned its still a little slick in some parts of the bay area. Heres a live look at westbound 580 coming towards 680 and the dublin interchange not too bad. Its getting a bit busy
As at all a live report on any potential delays from there in just a bit. The violence continues to escalate in the middle east and was explosion now in tel aviv. At least 10 people were injured. Secretary of state and Hillary Clinton arrived in the region. To make peace between hamas and gaza and the israelis. The bay area waking up to wet weather this morning on the busiest travel day of the year. We do see what roads to get to more news faster return to sole reporter Jackie Sissel will joins us live from oakland eyes to the rose is still wet. Traffic is a diesel is moving where you are. It is moving slowly the roadways are still with the rain has stopped on northbound 880. The thing that was surprising is how much traffic is out here. It is the day before thanksgiving at 7 00 a. M. The morning we have seen a steady flow of traffic coming down this wet 880 corridor. The last couple of hours of natural it is commute traffic or people headed out for the thanksgiving day weekend is the
Dozens of port of oakland workers at the main entrance to protest the new contract. In the meantime that count of fact your air travel as well as our shopping. I will tell you more about that later and they were full report. Thousands of bay area nurses are off the job today and on the picket line. This is the second strike this month by the california nurses association. The windchill wipers and a live shot of s. F. 0 foregoing. We are picking up some light rain this morning on Storm Tracker 4. Initially it was up north of the Golden Gate Bridge but we are seeing some stray showers in parts of San Francisco. Parts of the bay bridge and impacting some of the east bay as well. Around the bay area you will need windchill wipers the oneon one approach in san rafael into ocean beach over to you richmond district. Were detecting a dry break for the bay bridge right now. Some of the showers and pushed their way east and were seeing light rain on highway 13 over portions of the caldecott tunn