Morning. Outrage and an apology. I went way too far. Comedienne Kathy Griffin says shes sorry for posting graphic photos, holding a decapitated head in the likeness of the president. The secret service not laughing. Was her post technically a threat against the commanderinchief. And awkward incident. A professional tennis player banned from the french open for groping and forcibly kissing a reporter on live tv. What he an she are saying about one very uncomfortable interview, today, wednesday, may 31st, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. 7 00 on the west coast for and. Thank you for joining us. Unfortunately we start with a horrific story coming out of afghanistan. Theres chaos in kabul, as an explosion rocks one of the most heavily guarded areas of that capital city. Nbc chief correspondent Richard Engel joins us with morning. Good morning to you. Good morning
In Solano County and the central valley, that has been extended until friday. So our temperatures now already making it into the upper 80s for the inland valleys, while the coastline is now in the upper 60s. We have some low 70s but still going to see those high temperatures in the triple digits for concord, livermore and morgan hill. San jose will see a high today of 96 degrees, so still really hot. Well talk about how long this lasts and we have not yet reached the peak of the heat. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Kari, thank you so much. Of course, the main concern today is just trying to keep folks cool which is a problem when theres no power. Heres a look right now at the pg e power outage map showing you where in the bay area were seeing the largest number of outages. Right now its actually down to 100,000 pg e homes and businesses without power. That has peaked since over 12,000 earlier today. Places like walnut creek and fremont, those are new numbers just into our new
Does not look like that, but there is still a lot of time left to go. Sam, you described if perfectly, a lot of deal making going on, a lot of counting of those votes, and a lot of maybe fine tuning this legislation before it gets to the floor. Joining in that process, the president who now faces what is likely the biggest challenge since hes come to washington. A scramble on capitol hill, republicans working to reshape their health care plan, searching for support just hours before scheduled vote on the controversial measure. The president has been ape fantastic closer. Hes been getting votes. To me its really encouraging. Reporter President Trump continues to negotiate with gop lawmakers on the fence or against the bill and in a morning tweet urged voters to apply pressure as well. Also this morning, secretary of health and Human Services joined in the hard sell, touting what he calls the flexibility and tax savings of the plan. I think well get there. Hard things are hard to do and
It will be up to 76 degrees in the north bay and the peninsula. The east bay 73 degrees and upper 70s for the south bay. We will take a look at what else to expect as our temperatures continue to go down the rest of the week. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Lets head over to mike to see whats happening as the fire may affect your commute. Lets show you video here of this fire taken at 3 30. The fire is still going on. The shot of this shows you how large a fire is, the Apartment Building and adjacent building. Looking at the fire cruise on scene. 30 fire trucks from what chp reports. Huge activity in the area. Sharon will get us up to date but affect on the roadways itself. Because of the size of the fire, it could be visible from 580. 24 reports seeing all of the caldecott tunnel and east shore freeway. Immediate cloe hsure is onramp macarthur. Avoid the area if you can. Lets get back to that breaking news we have been following since 3 00 this morning. These towering flames could b
It cleared from the map and sensors. No major problems in toward the trivalley or east bay or the bay bridge toll plaza. North bay. And well give you the live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Pitts a tuesday but no major issues. The left approach goes back to the end of the parking lot. Back to you. Update now to breaking news. A destructive end to the fourth of july in vallejo. This as a house goes up in flames and fireworks could be to blame. Today in the bays bob redell is live at the scene. We talked with both firefighters and homeowners this morning and their stories are not in agreement. Correct, they believe its illegal fireworks that caused the garage at home here at griffin to burn last night. Were not far from discovery kingdom. You can see the Fire Department was able to keep this fire contained to the garage. So it did not damage the interior but the Fire Department did cut holes in the roof of the main part of the house perhaps to vebt smoke out of the attic. I did speak