Stay wednesday, march 18, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. You may be enjoying your coffee. If you like to get it from starbucks you might be interested in this. They are causing a stir on line. There is a new campaign the coffee giant offering something extra with your latte. Its definitely stirring controversy. People weighing in on both sides, good and the bad. Well tell you more about that later on. Lets get to the top story on a wednesday morning. The phone calls to the u. S. Embassy in japan threatening to kill Caroline Kennedy. Katy tur has the latest on this. Officials are not taking this lightly. Not at all. The calls reportedly came in from somebody speaking english. Caroline kennedy, daughter of jfk, assumed the post in 2013. She is obviously a very high profile figure over there. And with the violent attack on another u. S
The fire. It started a few hours ago in campbell, just west of the 85 17 interchange. Bob redell live there now. Bob, investigators think a water bed of all things might be to blame. Yes. Good morning to you, scott and kris. Santa clara county fire tells us a woman who lives by herself was moving her waterbed in her secondfloor bedroom when the fire started around 8 45. A neighbor we spoke with believes the waterbeds heater mal malfunctioned and caused this. Campbell Police Video Shows just how bad the fire got. Flamed bursting through the windows of the second floor of her twostory unit. The woman and therneighbors in the attached unit were able to escape unharmed. Had the fire knocked down in about 15 minutes. The biggest challenge for them was keeping it contained to just the one unit. They did have to cut a hole in the roof of her condo unit to let the smoke ventilate and the fire ventilate out of the attic so it would not spread into the unit next door. There was some smoke that d
Story for today. Reporter 10 to the into the 40s and 50s heroes a live look for our studio here concede the bay bridge is very dark out still and we have to clear skies up there will continue on with his clear skies it will help the drop of the temperatures before the sun comes out in seven to this morning sentence of 53 daily city same for some sell fremont had 49 degrees and the temperatures are going to continue to stay cool until about 8 00 this morning and there will quickly one of litter on this afternoon. Reporter of our 60 to 07 days you ready to let light jacket tim to war to lure 60s the wins will pick up the to the afternoon it will rise in reference to the 20 mi. Per hour from the west to have any outdoor plazas afternoon plenty of sunshine for today and temperatures into the upper 60s to the peninsula one temperatures across the east bay and south they would soon lower to mid 70s the to the quick check of traffic this morning looking at the bay bridge traffic is very quiet
Healthcare. Poultry workers try to unize while living in america illegally. And out of the blue. A new i would forms in the south pacific. Hear from one of the first men to set foot there. We begin with the new elections in israel. Between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his challenger, too close to call tonight. But its not stopping the men from delivering victory speeches. Netanyahu has secured 27 seats. And isaac herzog, also 27 seats. And the party placed 3rd with 13 seats. From the headquarters of the Zionist Union party dean joins us with more. Hi, john. Indeed we were at the zionist headquarters when the polls closed local time. And there was a lot of cheering and celebration and then you start looking at the screen, and you realize that a block away netanyahus headquarters, the same kind of partying was going on, and everybody starts to shrug their shoulders and this is israeli politics, and what happens now . The numbers dont give them a victory. Theyeach party has 27 se
Taxpayers or the biggest multinational corporations in the world . Amy will Congress Give president Obama Fast Track Authority to negotiate the secret trade deal . We will speak with lori wallach of public citizen. Then to how the fbi created a terrorist. The really dangerous guys are not being trapped in a sting operation, because in a way theyre not dumb enough to go to the local mosque or the community and talk to an informant about how they want to commit an act of terrorism. The really dangerous guys are not being deceptive by the fbi. Amy we look at the case of sami osmakac. He is currently serving 40 years in jail for plotting a terror attack in tampa that was put together almost entirely by fbi agents. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A shooting rampage at tunisias National Museum has left 22 people dead, 20 Foreign Tourists and two tunisians, nearly 50 people injured. Two gunmen began the atta