you can feel it. delta breeze. the low in the four corners and replacing with another system and that is cogoing to carve itself out and be here for seven to ten days. 6:01, a little hiccup in the city. everything okay now? yea. i want to ask you a question. yes. sun or no sun? mostly cloudy, but always areas that get the sun. thank you, steve. just had my own personal weatherman i can ask questions to. we haven t had a lot of traffic. today is starting off a little bit better than norm. around the berkeley curve, you will see some delays. not a big deal, but traffic is going to be okay getting on to the city into san francisco. this is oakland, northbound and southbound 80 , not bad at all. northbound 101 after the 280 interchange and the pence lay the lins la is looking o the peninsula is looking okay. starting with breaking news, the wife of espn sports anchor chris berman has been killed in a car accident. she and another driver died in a two-car crash
after that reporters were ushered out of the room. the president said in a letter it was attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney general rob rosenstein who wanted to fire comey. they believe he was wrong to speak publicly about hillary clinton s e-mail investigation in july. he announced he would not seek criminal charges. because of that unconventional public announcement the fbi s reputation and credibility quote, suffered substantial damage. it s something vice president pence referenced today when he spoked about the firing. back to a place where we move past the difficult politics of the last year and we can move back to a place where every american can know that the fbi is able to do its job. comey apparently found out he d lost his job on tv. before actually receiving his official termination letter. and up until he was fired yesterday comey had been the top official leading a criminal investigation into whether there were any ties between the russian
really shiny. here comes the he finally got it all off and he shows us the mask works. look at how much he pulled off though. look at that. that s so disgusting. look, he s beautiful. my face feels so good right now, y all. pain is beauty, right? no. it s not. don t ever do this. ever. thanks for watching today, everybody. don t forget to enter your buzzword on rightthisminute.com. see you next time on an all new rtm. take a look at this. take a look at this. an investigation under way to find out why the crane collapsed on to a prefabricated section of a viaduct in northern italy. construction workers could only watch in horror as all of their hard work came undone. amazingly the crane operator was able to jump clear of the crane as it started to tip. police in north carolina believe they may have prevented a school massacre. minutes to spare, officers pulled a 16-year-old boy out of class found what investigators say was a stash of knives, gasolin
director james comey speaks out for the very first time since his abrupt firing. he released a farewell letter to employees after his stunning ouster writing quote i have long believed that a president can fire an fbi director for any reason or for no reason at all. it is done. and i will be fine. as reports surface the president ordered attorney general jeff sessions and deputy a.g. rod rosenstein to provide in writing the case for firing comey. multiple news outlets from the new york times to the associated press report comey had just requested more resources to pursue his investigation in russia s meddling in the 2016 election and possible involvement of trump associates before his termination. it is fueling questions if this is the true motive behind the firing. the white house deputy press secretary says the decision had everything to do with his handling of the clinton case. again like i said he lost confidence in director comey, and frankly, he d been considering l
education secretary betsy devos gets booed at a historic black college. what was behind the anger and how the school is defending its choice to let her speak. and espn tragedy. wife of sports casting legends chris berman killed in a deadly car accident along with another driver and this morning the tributes are pouring in. it s important to all of us on this show to make our love to chris and his family known. investigators are trying to determine what caused that crash today, thursday, may 11th, 2017. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everybody, welcome to today on a busy thu thursday morning. when we say mother of all storms we re saying mother s day. not storm of the century. a clever line. i saw what you did there. people don t go running for cover. don t stockpile stuff quite yet. this morning we re covering politics. we re hearing from pres