This morning we lead with a story that has rocked hollywood, capitol hill and now the halls here at nbc. Allegations of Sexual Misconduct involving powerful figures. The stunning news, our today show colleague matt lauer was fired over allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior made by another one of our colleagues. It was a development that left millions of morning tv viewers and certainly many in this building shocked after lauers two decades in the today anchor chair. Theres been no comment so far from lauer about the accusation thats go back years. Even as variety reports on what it calls a pattern of Sexual Misconduct on lauers part. An nbc news spokesperson now says two more accusers have come forward since news of lauers firing broke. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk has the latest. Reporter the allegation of inappropriate Sexual Conduct was made monday night, roughly 24 hours later matt lauer, anchor of nbcs today show for 20 years, was fired. In a statement, nbc news chairman andy lack s
Buried her body. D. C. Police are investigating a fatal shooting. Were told it happened at 11 00 last night along forester street southwest. Not far from the bridge point hospital. We checked with police not long ago and they were still at the scene. You can see from this video that the scene is right in front of homes. Well update you as we get more information on this we could learn minnesota senator al frankens future in congress. Theyre calling for his resignation. Multiple women accused him of unwanted touching, groping and forcible kissing. Several Democratic Senators called for him to resign. Earlier this week, democratic congressman john conyers retired after accusations of sexual misconduct. A House Committee will discuss to preventing sexual misconduct. One thing is requiring them to complete antiharassment and antidiscrimination training. 4 32 our time right now. Most budgets are stretched to the limit. Not receiving a paycheck is not an option really. Time is running out fo
During a desperate get away. A shoplifting situation turned into this. Plus, would you drive through these flames to get to work . New footage from the fire burning from a california freeway. First at home, a cooldown is coming. If you think today is cold, you really need to bundle up this weekend. I see temperatures in the 29 up there. These are current temperatures and the sun is not up. Good point chuck. But we are. So whatever. You still have to walk outside in it. Unless we work from home. Take turns. Well take turns. Meanwhile, weve got breaking news on the commute. We have breaking news on the roads this morning. This is in chill em. We know this is an investigation and lanes are blocked. Between road. University boulevard. Live pictures from the scene here this morning. Another investigation down south in la plata. Between bell alton, and cooksey road. Youre able to get around with police on the scene. Around that one. Another situation, westbound 50. The crash there with all l
Saturday, something you wont want to miss coming up in my forecast. News4 midday starts now. Good morning everyone im molette green. And im erika gonzalez. We are falling news on ts west bank. Take a look at the clashes. The leader of hamas is falling for anger as President Trump decision. And Richard Engel takes us into the streets. Reporter this is in response to President Trump speech. Palestinian are taken to the streets and using fires as smoke screen to give them some sort of protection. And we are not just seeing this where i am in the west bank, several cities in the west bank that are seeing very similar ramallah and going on for hours and perhaps a great deal longer than that. A new uprising, new way of getting their demands. They say that the Peace Process which theyve been engaged in for decades is no longer working. They say with that speech by President Trump, the u. S. Has proven itself not to it be a fair mediator in the conflict. So now they are trying a different appr
Mollet. And im erika gonzalez. We are following breaking news at the walter reed campus on georgia avenue. Homicide detectives are on the scene after a man was killed. News4 tells us this appears to be a fight between two workers. Hi, amy. Mel lisa, erika, learned a man killed in his 20s. So they have arrested someone so no fleet to tthreat to the publ. One of them pulled out a gun and fight ended with one worker shooting and killing the other. Alleged shooter is a man in his 50s. D. C. Police say they are calling him a person of interest and questioning him. We came across him as we were coming up. So he was readily available. Hes been cooperating with us. Now as you can see, that shooting took place compound. This is the old walter reed medical campus. So in order to be on the grounds people would need clearance. Not yet clear who these people worked for. Police have not yet released their identity. That is the latest. Live in new york. Aimee cho news4. Aime, thank you. All right tra