is a rare move. can you give perspective, how rare are we talking? reporter: to give you some perspective, fbi directors are appointed for 10 year terms. comey only served three of those years. the last time something like this happened was in 1993 under president clinton who then fired the fbi chief over ethics concerns. kenneth craig, thank you. reaction is boring and as you can imagine from california and bay area lawmakers. allen martin follows that part of our story. reporter: senator dianne feinstein says president trump called her to indicate that he would be removing director comey, saying the fbi needed a change. now, as the ranking member of the judiciary committee, she wrote the next fbi director must be strong and independent and will receive a fair hearing in the judiciary committee. senator, harris wrote on twitter i said it before and i will say it again, we must have a special prosecutor to oversee the fbi s russia investigation. this cannot wait. an
d.c. we will talk with a local democratic congressman what disagrees with the decision. that is coming up at 6:00. there will always be grief like this. it will never go away. i era lamar s family reacting after a jury convicted antolin garcia-torres for murdering her. they re left wondering what would their daughter sierra say about the outcome. mom, the right thing happened, justice has come through. jurors deliberated for a little more than two days before reaching a verdict. jesse gary was at the courthouse when the verdict was read. jesse, what was that moment like? reporter: frank, you could hear a pin drop in both courtrooms. i say both because the main courtroom was packed so they opened an overflow courtroom down on the third floor. that was also filled to capacity, standing room only, everyone nervous with anticipation about what would happen. then the judge finally came in and said the jurors had reached a verdict. antolin garcia-torres sat motionless a
off an alligator opening up about her ordeal. i started punching its forehead. it still wouldn t let go. how she used a trick she used on a field trip to save her own life. and kicking it off in style. one of the biggest pop stars in the world, harry styles, takes over our plaza for our first summer concert for the season, and the crowd is massive. today s tuesday, may 9th, 2017. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. we re going to need more adjectives to describe that crowd. harry styles has a new solo album come harry, look outside. things are going to be just fine. we have six city blocks of crowd for him. let s get to our top story this morning. the possible expansion of the u.s. military effort against the tall ban in afghanistan. this is a plan that calls for the addition of several thousand more troops there. that s one of the th
house, both the deputy and the attorney general, both attorney general jeff sessions and his brand-new deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who has a bipartisan background, recommended to the president that the president fire james donald trump, the president, has sent this letter, made this letter public, that he sent to comey. he says, i greatly appreciate you informing me three times that i m not under investigation, but i concur with the judgment of the justice department that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. we don t know yet the reason for this, lester. they haven t said specifically what the reason is, but presumably it s because of all the public all the public criticism of james comey s conduct of the handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. the democrats haven t liked the fact that he put out information about it late in the campaign. hillary clinton has said she believes it was a factor in her defeat. the republicans didn t like it,
chilly start to the day. weather and traffic with tucker and erin. overnight lows in the 30s there. definitely chilly conditions and beautiful tuesday. details on the weather, erin. roads are in full swing. lot of congestion 95 northbound crawl there that s not a only slow zone. 66 eastbound closer look at those and look at metro with first full look at traffic, allison an steve. erin thanks very much a minute past the hour breaking over night we start with tram academy northern virginia violent crash. the car slammed into utility pole guardrail and free. two other people in the car went to hospital in non life-threatening injuries. airport after chaos erupted over flight cancellation after spirit airlines cancelled in my opinion flight because of legal dispute. and video posted to switer showing angry passengers at the spirit airline pilot association over labor negotiations union says that s not the case and several were taken into custody, the white house reporte