In the center of lot of 70s rather and the Santa Clara Valley got that and were also check the tropics quite busy including down around texas with a new Tropical Storm. All right dave thanks a lot. We begin in the east bay this morning more accountability for the Oakland Police department thats the change. The City Councils putting. In the hands of the voters. The City Council Unanimously approved a ballot measure to make the Citizens Police commission more independent in its decisionmaking kron fours dan thorn reports. In an effort to strengthen oaklands citizen Police Commission City Council Members vote to eliminate what oversight advocates called a poison pill now that weve excluded wording of exigent circumstances. Well give the Police Commission more authority and more independents exigent circumstance would have allowed the open police chief to change policies without the commissions consent in relation to Public Safety mariano contrasts with the coalition and Police Accountabil
Swamp. He is successfully dominating the news cycle in a positive way. Now, look at the deal making. 200 billion dollars worth signed already. Energy, armaments, infrastructure in america, boeing, ge Power Generation equipment and another quarter trillion dollars in arms deals expected in next ten years, enormous dollar numbers. The media, not happy. They want to concentrate on the president s political troubles back home. Investors encouraged by the deal making and the switch away from political turmoil. The dow is going to go up just a little when the trading day begins. Maybe 30, 35 points, but remember, please, despite it all were only a couple hundred points away from the dows alltime record high. Varney company, monday morning, about to begin. All right. This coming in from the Auto Industry. That man right there, mark fields, ceo of ford, he used to be ceo. Hes out. Im going to say that he was fired. What youre looking at on the righthand side of your screen is the stock since,
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and natalie morales. Everybody is watching washington this morning. The u. S. Capitol open for business but for how long . A beautiful shot. Its not so beautiful inside. If you could be a fly on the wall. The big vote coming at 2 00 in the senate today. That will kick things off. A Chain Reaction following that. Well get a lot of perspective on this this morning. Including from bill oreilly. Hes here in our studio this morning. He has a new book called killing jesus. Well talk to him about that as well. That is our top story and its hours away now. Peter alexander has the latest on whats unfolding. Peter, good morning to you. Matt, good morning to you. Anything is possible, but it looks to be an almost uncertainty. That the government will shut down b
Suspect, 58yearold jenny su. She was booked on vehicular manslaughter charges over the weekend but has since bailed out of jail. There is a growing memorial of flowers, candles, and pictures at the crash site for 16yearold kevin sam. He died friday when a speeding car crashed into the back of the minivan he was riding in. He was riding in that minivan with his mother and sister who were both seriously injured. Today grief could belienselors meeting with sans classmates to help them deal with the loss. Right now a developing story outside of chicago in forest park where more than two dozen people right now have been injured after an outof of Service Train collides with another train that was stopped at a station. Now the mayor of forest park says the crash site is being treat the ased as a crime scene. Theres no indication of any criminal activity, but sources within that Transit Agency telling our sister station in chicago one of the trains may have been stolen from that yard. Right no
Berkeley. We learn that University Officials blame cooper thieves. And the damage is extensive. Ken wayne is now live at the campus, where hes been getting updates from Campus Police, ken. Reporter the campus is still closed. You can see behind me Campus Police are t parked right in between the campus plaza to keep people from coming on campus and using loud speakers to tell people to turn around. And the area is dark. This all started with a power outage around 4 30 this afternoon. About two hours later a tremendous explosion. Reporter heavy smoke and some flames sparked from an underground vent. One man said he was walking by when he heard a tremendous explosion. I turned around and i saw this unbelievable fire ball. It was huge. Reporter the blast caused several injuries and at least one person was taken to the hospital. And uc Officials Say all of the injuries are minor. Officials say that they believe cooper vandals are responsible for the explosion. The explosion knocked out powe