and the voice. josh kaufman wins it for team usher! on a night packed with stars, the voice crowns its new champion, so what s josh kaufman going to do now? he s making his way to our plaza today, wednesday, may 21st, 2014. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and, good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. and when we say josh kaufman is making his way to studio 1-a we really mean it. literally making his way. took the red eye overnight. expected to perform. he is the voice. you are not the voice this morning. battling the voice a little bit, but looking forward to meeting him. it should be great. we want to get to today s top story, the intense storms wreaking havoc on the midwest. al, they are on the move this morning. they absolutely are. check out this video just out from chicago. really amazing lightning storm going on. high winds, a lot of rain, a real m
let s take a look at the numbers. the new total of positive reported tests since yesterday, 11,458. the previous high was set earlier this week on thursday. that s about 1300 more cases than the previous high. testing was also up. about 65,000 tests yesterday. but researchers look at that positivity rate and, again, yesterday they saw about 14% of all tests coming back as positive. that s a number that troubles scientists when they want to see that number at 5% or lower generally. they reported 18 more deaths yesterday. far down from the day before so that s a good trend, day over day, however, over the past couple weeks deaths and hospitalizations have also been trending up. so some concerning news in the state of florida, florida now at 190,000 total cases or a little more than that making it the third highest state in the nation for number of positive tests behind california and new york. there have been many democratic lawmakers here in florida calling for the government,
boxes and whether searchers have been looking in the wrong place for weeks and weeks. the ocean shield is closing in on that same area, even as we speak. our experts are standing by. they re looking at all the new information coming into the situation room. let s get the very latest from aviation correspondent rene marsh. what are you learning? today, wolf, a u.s. navy source telling me reanalysis of critical data is happening right hi here in the united states. a couple u.s. ajeansys and consultants are taking a fresh look at the pinger data. we know crews have centered their search around the four pings believe ed to be from the black boxes. cnn learned in three to four weeks these u.s. agencies and consultants are expected to say whether they believe those sounds were from the black boxes or something else. bluefin-21 is about to return to the water on its 19th dive. i m still hopeful that we ll find something in that area. reporter: the underwater drone is going b
reporter: actions are speaking far louder than words right now, kate, and rockets are flying. in the three hours, four hours in fact since that truce was supposed to kick in. hamas and its allies, islamic jihad, have fired 20 rockets skywards towards israel and that being confirmed by the israeli military. moments before we were to come to hour, i guess with two miles down that direction, we saw a single rocket arcing its way towards israel. now, israel, yes, initially did accept this egyptian proposal and said it was prepared to call a truce in its nine-day offensive on the gaza strip, but also in the last hour or so across that way towards northern gaza we ve seen two plumes of smoke rising up in the air there. that is an indication to me that israel has retaliated with a couple of air strikes there. the israeli military so far though, not confirming that they have attacked new targets once again in the north of the strip here. also in the last few moments israeli prime m
and there you see the search continues for the man who ambushed state troopers. we start in virginia where it has been just over one week since hannah graham disappeared. hannah was last seen wandering outside a mall. witnesses say a man had his arm around her and police now say that man is jesse matthew. while he has been interviewed, he has not been arrested. hannah s parents pleaded with the public to think hard about what they may have seen saying no clue should be overlooked. i think that the reason that hannah has such support is that this is every parent s worst nightmare. i m certain that everybody in this room and those watching knows that what happened to hannah could happen to their child. we need to find out what happened to hannah and make sure that it does not happen to anybody else. you may have read that hannah was a second year student, a skier, a musician, a softball player. she likes to help people and she s interested in a career in helping others. jus