and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. if you re living down south this morning, you may be bracing for severe weather. apparently it is coming from the same system that spawned at least 24 tornadoes in oklahoma and kansas on wednesday. so far we are only hearing of minor injuries and scattered damage to a handful of homes and businesses. al will have the latest on all of it in a moment. also a little later on, new details about the former food network chef accused of trying to hire homeless men to kill his wife. what was the state of their marriage? were there inn warning signs? this morning, an exclusive interview with a friend of the couple who was co-authoring a new cookbook with that chef. plus, as far as we can tell, there were no party crashers at the obama s second state dinner at the white house last night. but first lady michelle obama certainly turned a few heads. we ll have more on that coming up. we begin w
this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. if you re living down south this morning, you may be bracing for severe weather. apparently it is coming from the same system that spawned at least 24 tornadoes in oklahoma and kansas on wednesday. so far we are only hearing of minor injuries and scattered damage to a handful of homes and businesses. al will have the latest on all of it in a moment. also a little later on, new details about the former food network chef accused of trying to hire homeless men to kill his wife. what was the state of their marriage? were there inn warning signs? this morning, an exclusive interview with a friend of the couple who was co-authoring a new cookbook with that chef. plus, as far as we can tell, there were no party crashers at the obama s second state dinner at the white house last night. but first lady michelle obama certainly turned a few heads. we ll have more on that coming up. we begin with those tornadoes and th