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returning to the force. and playground scare. without warning, a huge tree falls down on top of a group of children. two of them injured. that park shut down today, wednesday, may 6th, 2015. announcer: 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 a wednesday morning out on the west coast. and as we welcome savannah back from australia, we welcome you back with some really disturbing overnight news. yeah, and it s just come out this morning. it s our top story, chilling new information about that deadly plane crash in the alps. according to a report just released this morning, the co-pilot, andreas lubitz, practiced descending to 100 feet, on another flight just before the crash. we have more with tom costello and katy tur. katy, what are we learning? new disturbing evidence that andreas lubitz planned the crash, practicing what you could cal ....
speaks out about his recovery. why he says he s committed to returning to the force. and playground scare. without a warning a huge tree falls down on top of a group of children. two of them injured. that park shut down today. wednesday, may 6th, 2015. announcer: from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rock fellefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. good day to you. good day. i don t know if it s yesterday or tomorrow but it s nice to be back. we ve got some breaking news this morning. our top story, this chilling report just released by french investigators. they say the co-pilot of that germanwings flight 4525 repeatedly set the cockpit controls to do a slow descent on the flight just before the one that slammed into the french alps. it s incredibly disturbing. we ve got this covered with tom costello and katy tur in london. katy what have we learned? reporter: ....
good evening. we re coming on the air with breaking news. there is a tornado emergency in the oklahoma city area where there are reports of a tornado a half mile wide. tornado watches and warnings are in effect right now from texas to nebraska. several tornadoes have already been confirmed including one in central kansas. the threat level considered severe for up to 9 million people tonight. al roker is here with us. he s tracking it. al the big danger right now as we ve said oklahoma city. we were watching those pictures a moment ago. it looks bad. it really does lester. in fact, they are now evacuateing the oklahoma city airport to underground facilities. we are looking live from our kfor chopper and you can see that we are seeing a major, major tornado on the ground. we re watching this. this is looking toward norman oklahoma. so they are going to continue to track this. and as we watch this we can also see there is damage this is selena kansas. you can see a maj ....
good evening. we re coming on the air with breaking news. there is a tornado emergency in the oklahoma city area where there are reports of a tornado a half mile wide. tornado watches and warnings are in effect right now from texas to nebraska. several tornadoes have already been confirmed including one in central kansas. the threat level considered severe for up to 9 million people tonight. al roker is here with us. he s tracking it. al, the big danger right now as we ve said, oklahoma city. we were watching those pictures a moment ago. it looks bad. it really does, lester. in fact, they are now evacuating the oklahoma city airport to underground facilities. we are looking live from our kfor chopper and you can see that we are seeing a major, major tornado on the ground. we re watching this. this is looking toward norman, oklahoma. so they are going to continue to track this. and as we watch this, we can also see there is damage this is selena, kansas. you can see ....
good evening. breaking news as we come on the air tonight. we have been tracking a tornado outbreak across a wide area from kansas on into texas this evening, including a massive half mile wide twist they re roared through the oklahoma city area. several tornadoes have been confirmed across the region and there are reports of damage. nbc s jacob rascon is tracking it for us. power flash, large power flashes. reporter: late today millions of americans slammed by severe weather, including several confirmed tornadoes. it is really cranking down. we have tree damage. it is coming down right on top of us. reporter: in oklahoma, a storm chaser caught right in the middle. coming to the ground right now, this is it, folks. you got to be ready for it. mike, i ve got trees coming down on me and power flashes. i ve got to back out of here. reporter: the twister tearing away pieces of the norman hotel, forcing students at the university of oklahoma to shelter in place. ....