Well be there live. And let there be light. After a starstudded celebration, the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is sheevening bright today, first, december 4th, 2014 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 this thursday morning the rockefeller Christmas Tree looking so great. How many years collectively have we been doing this . Its the first time they let us prets the button. They used to do it. We were always a part of the tradition. It was fun, we should mention as we were doing that, there were protests in the streets of the city not far from that event. That is our top story, demonstrations not only here in new york city, across the country. They were in response to another controversial grand jury decision tied to the death of a suspect at the hands of police. We will speak with eric garner. Steffi gosk is in times square with the latest on all this. Good morning to
Yelling from under the dirt. A second guide jumped down the whole and try to dig him out. We got him out and make sure it would not collapse more. Due to the time that is involved with rescuing an indivial, we almost knew immediately that it would be a recovery effort. First responders took 3. 5 hours to recover his body. A crisis team met with the firefighters and neighbors. A difficult scene to process. Very emotional and very distraught. Police have not released the construction workers name. They are investigating to find out what happened. A teenager is charged with abusing two children inside a Baltimore City rec center. The 16yearold allegedly abused the children in the 5000 block of east eager street. Incidents happened on august 6. The teen has been charged as a juvenile. A plea from the mother of a man stabbed to death inside his northwest of more home. Murdered. I need to the public to come forward. I need your help. Toine robinson died after being stabbed in the stomach. Po
A violent Train Derailment injured more than 140 as well. One of europes worst accidents in decades. It happened just before sunset on wednesday. Witnesses say the highspeed trainee merged from a tunnel, derailed on a curve and sent cars flying off the tracks. I heard an explosion. When i arrived, one of the carriages was already over the road that comes out from here. Smoke billowed from the wreckage. Crews worked to rescue trapped passengers. Distraught relatives were blocked there from the scene, forced to wait on the sidelines in safe areas. An investigation now under way this morning as crews worked to lift the wreckage from the tracks. Officials ruled out a terror attack as a possible cause there. A Sweeping Program that collects phone record data on u. S. Citizens is not going anywhere. The house narrowly stopped a move to slash that program wednesday. Tracie potts joins us live from washington. Tracie, what does this mean for our privacy . So much debated about it. A lot debate
Least 30 other bay area Law Enforcement agencies who now use this automatic license plate reader, which in palo altos case is four cameras mounted on top of just one patrol car. As that car drives around town, those cameras scan and read every license plate within roughly 30 feet and alerts the officer if hearn has come across a stolen vehicle or a car, lemon say, registered to someone with an outstanding warrant. Police say this is much more efficient and i lous officers to keep their eyes on the roads. Starting august 26th, Santa Clara Sheriffs Office will Start Holding onto the information at least a year that would be a database invaluable for investigators trying to lets say track the past movement of a known criminal, but not every car stored in that database obviously belongs to a bad guy. Most are innocent civilians, which raises questions about privacy. Thats obviously something we are concerned become why we are evaluating it now. I think necessary steps are going to be taken
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