Kron. 4 news at 9. Im noelle bellow and im dan thorn. It is of course, wildfire season in crews are busy at work trying to put out several fires throughout northern california. One of them kubbed the mckinney fire. In siskiyou county. This, of time lapse here of the smoke is blowing through the area there because of this fire. The fire is around 30 to 40,000 acres. Crews say the cumulus clouds. In the area where the fire is burning isnt making the fight any better, rather, it could make matters worse. Now the fire is causing a chunk of that county to be under mandatory evacuations. Nearly 2000 residents have been forced to leave their homes. And today, governor Gavin Newsome declaring a state of emergency in siskiyou county. He says the fire is posing a major threat to Critical Infrastructure and destroying homes. Now were also following the very latest on the oak fire that was burning near Yosemite National park. Evacuation orders have been reduced to fire advise months there as crews
February 14, 2013. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer. This news coming out of south africa is hard to believe. Weve been shaking our heads the last hour or so. Oscar pistorius, one of the bright e brightest from the london games and inspiration to all. He was been charged with murder. They found 30yearold model reeva steenkemp suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and Oscar Pistorius was taken into custody. We have a reporter in pretoria. Good morning to you. What can you tell us . Hello. Rohit, can you hear me . Apparently he is having trouble hearing us. He was taken into custody and in court and taken for medical examination. According to the police in pretoria, we learned there had perhaps other incidents of violence at that home and called for domestic violence. I want to bring in our nbc sports analyst. First of all,
Noogies. Are you . So sweet of everybody to come. We love you too, everybody. Valentines day is such a wonderful holiday. It is. Not. How many of you actually feel like we have too many expectations, too high of an expectation for valentines day . Heres the worst thing about valentines day. If you are dating somebody and you are at work and you know how you see a dozen roses come in, and you are, like, are those for me . No. And then the guy comes again and again and youre waiting and youre wondering. You dont even get a cactus. Is your boyfriend going to send you something . Has that been you, hoda woman . Valentines day ill be honest is not my favorite holiday of the year because get out your kleenex. This is sad. I wish we had a drink. Theres nothing. Theres nothing. I knew something was missing. Ill explain why. Then hopefully the drink will come. I met my first husband on valentines day. Wait. It gets worse. And we signed our divorce papers on valentines day. No, that was a happy
Cocoanut, grapefruit, pineapple, simple and vodka. You like it . Cheers for the vodka. Thank you. Its refreshing. It tastes almost a little too healthy, if you know what i mean. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Enjoy your day. Thank you. Here they say that valentines day brings with it a lot of pressure, though, because its like new years. They say that most couples feel like they have to do the nasty on valentines day because they feel pressure because its valentines day. Its not nasty to all people. Some people view it as a gift from god. Okay. And a blessing. Anyhow some people like a lot of blessings all day long. Some people like to visit poughkeepsie. Thats going to be a metaphor through the day. A longrunning gag about going to close to poughkeepsie. And the little dog is barking. Thats poughkeepsie. Because we cant say it on the air. You get in trouble. Stuff like that. Everybody say poughkeepsie. There you go. Heres what you might want to try with your loved one, your husband,
Took a little bit too personally at first. Reporter the first amputee runner to compete in an Olympic Games against ablebodied competition. Hes been questioned by police after a shooting in his pretoria home. A woman did die on the scene of gunshot wounds. A 26yearold man has been arrested and has been charged with murder. The only two people on the premises were the residents and the deceased. Reporter Law Enforcement and paramedics arrived on the scene to find a female shot at least twice thought to be pistorius girlfriend, thought to be his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. A nine millimeter pistol has been reportedly found at the scene, pistorius has talked about keeping guns in his home for safety. Hes told journalists. Hes very well. Obviously emotional, but hes fine, guys. Reporter early reports pointed out it could have been an accident that a valentine surprise caused the alleged victim to be mistaken for a burglar. She tweeted hours earlier what do you have up your sleeve for your