Now. Its wednesday, everybody. Just two days to the weekend. Good morning. Im y asm in. Im frances rivera. North korea fired another missile both the u. S. And south korea militaries are saying the launch failed. This followed north koreas waurning of a preemptive strike and release of a fiery propaganda video, a plane blowing up of the u. S. S. Carlson. Nbcs janet is in beijing this morning. Janice, thanks for being with us this morning. What more do we know . Reporter good morning. This is just the latest provocation from north korea. This missile apparently exploded seconds after being launched. That coming in the way of a confirmation from a spokesman at the u. S. Pacific command. They say they continue to monitor very closely for further actions from north korea. Its unclear at this point what type of missile it was or whether there were any u. S. Cyber warfare efforts that were involved in sabotaging it. Its just simply impossible to know. What we do know is that the signals step
Temperatures in the 30s this afternoon. Sol youll need your winter coat and will sunglasses today. Break it down hour by hour when i come back in ten minutes to show you how quickly it will cool down in your neighborhood. First, Jessica Boyington is watching first alert traffic. Thanks, bill. Start this morning out in Lehigh Valley. This is 78. Just around cameras at lehigh street. No problems reported now. Look like a good drive. Most of the majors still a little quiet. There is an accident. This is out in new hanover on big road around church road. 95 looks great. 14 minute drive time. Southbound from woodhaven road moving towards the vine street expressway. Average speeds into the low 50s there. Starting to see a little bit of a difference. Not bad considering the northbound drive time when we dont see a lot of traffic about 12 minutes. Only seeing about a 2 minute difference there. No problems north or southbound. Especially heading towards the new Jersey Transit train station. Bri
Jesuss tomb opened to the public after a yearlong, multimillion dollar restoration. This morning, we have an exclusive look inside one of the most holiest sites in the world. And entertainer. Chuck barris, dead at 87. The Television Pioneer who set the stage for modern day talent shows, like American Idol, is being remembered for creative and sometimes controversial life today, wednesday, march 22nd, 2017. Announcer 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 a wednesday morning. I mean this in the best possible way, youre too young to remember about chuck barris. I know his greatest invention, a gong. How many times do you wish we had a gong on this show . Well talk more about his life and career coming up. But talk about changing pace. Lets start with todays top story. The failed north Korean Missile launch detected overnight. This is the third since President Trump took offic
Negotiations are over. Vote for the gops Health Care Bill or obamacare stays. The president demanding a vote this morning on the republicans plan to repeal and replace president obamas signature Health Care Bill after failing to cobble together enough votes to pass that plan last night. And it was a day of chaos in capitol hill as lawmakers scrambled after canceled votes postponed press conferences and closed door meetings on both ends of pennsylvania avenue. It included a latenight session as gop lawmakers searched to find a path to get to the finish line. And here was House Speaker paul ryan shortly after that conference. For 7 1 2 years we have been promising the American People that we will repeal and replace this broken law because its collapsing and its failing families and tomorrow were proceeding. Ryan then spoke on the telephone for 45 minutes with President Trump, a call described by sources as, quote, entirely positive but no word if theyre any closer to actually getting the
Delaware. Each of these locations make accident it into the 50s today. Afternoon sunshine after we get some of those showers. Break it down hour by hour to show you when you may need the umbrella in your neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. Dont go anywhere. First Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Starting off this morning with a problem. Schuylkill expressway westbound ramp to the roosevelt boulevard. Now right here still the schuylkill westbound. Diverting off the traffic off. See road flairs behind our graphic here. All that traffic stopped from moving down offramp. Earlier crash. Few vehicles involved. One caught on fire. No access to the roosevelt boulevard. All of this diverted traffic heading this direction. To get you around that. Might be a little bit of a sticky situation. Especially if you dont realize whats happening on it. Either way you can get off on any of the exits beforehand. Montgomery drive would be a good one. You can take kelly drive on up. Ridg