Weathers not going to be changing. Its going to be nice outside. Unfortunately, no rain to speak of but we have some pretty big breaking news coming to us this morning from new york. Lets start there. Breaking news at the jury in new york has just convicted the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in a Sexual Assault trial in new york. Well bring in Frank Mallicoat live in the newsroom to bring us all the news, frank. Good morning. Just coming down in the last half hour, weinsteins conviction solidified his dizzying fall from hollywood studios. The verdict followed weeks of harrowing and graphic testimony from a string of accusers who told their stories of abuse. The conviction was seen as a long overdue reckoning for weinstein after whispers of his behaviors turned into a number of accusations and destroyed his movie career and gave rise to the global metoo movement. He was found guilty on two counts but not three other counts that were more serious. The jury of seven men and five w
Mississippi, where mandatory evacuations are under way. And the record rain is far from over under fire more than 1,100 former Justice Department officials from multiple administrations call for the resignation of attorney general william barr over the roger stone sentencing scandal but the nations highest Law Enforcement official doesnt seem to be backing down. Were live at the white house with the very latest those stories, plus, to recline or not to recline . The surprising suggestion from an airline official on what you should do on your next flight. Royal realities. Kate middleton getting candid about mom guilt, as prince harry and Meghan Markle are seen together for the First Time Since the royal split. And allstar tribute nba legends gather to honor kobe bryant at the nba allstar game, as Team Lebron Wins a game for the ages today, monday, february 17th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza and
Daughters memorial as soon as it gets started. Omar is joining us now. Give us a sense of what its like in there. Reporter brianna, a lot of people are still filing in at the moment. We heard from the Staples Center that things would be starting a little after 1 00 eastern time. When you look at the stage and how everything is set up, basically everyone is seated around what would be center court in a normal basketball game, lots of roses surrounding. Were told a little over 30,000 roses are set up in place. There are instruments where we are likely to see a performance and choir earlier this morning. This is a chance for not just the family, for the bryants to reflect, but its for the public to get a sense of closure for an event that happened so suddenly that happened almost a month and a day ago at this point. When this gets going and you look around at people in here, there are some media members, people close to the family and things like that, but there are also many fans who pai
Stand by for that. The bryants died last month in a Helicopter Crash along with seven other passengers. In his final game of his career he scored 60 points. After he spoke to his adoring fans and thanked his family for support. To my family, my wife vanessa, our daughters, thank you for all your sacrifice, for all the hours i spend in the gym working and training and vanessa you holding down the family the way i have, i cant theres no way i can thank you enough for that. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. What can i say . Mamba out. The mic has been dropped. Joining me is Steve Patterson live outside the Staple Center in los angeles. If those were live pictures i was seeing large numbers of people streaming in. For Something Like this staples holds about 20,000 . 20,000. Filled to capacity. The 20,000 that were lucky enough out of a pool of about 0 80,000 applying online. Ten minutes ago you would have scene a parade of gold and purple waiting to get in. Most of the folks have cro
The new Nike Kobe 4 "Girl Dad" shoe draws inspiration from images of Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter watching the game they both loved at Staples.