punishment. it s just a scary movie or is it? the threat to make it real in cities across the country and right here in philly. people crowd sourcing for everything these days. but would you pay for someone else s fertility treatments? why one local couple says their on plea is actually helping others. we begin tonight with new developments in the execution of an american journalist. the united states says special forces tried but failed to rescue americans held captive in syria. the news comes one day after militants released a video showing the beheading of james foley. good evening, i m iain page. i m lucy noland. other money s live hangs in the balance after isis terrorist in iraq give president obama an ultimatum. jim was taken from us in an act of violence that shock the conscience of the entire world. reporter: president obama along with many heart broken by the beheading of american journalist james foley taken captive in 2012 while covering the war in syr
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. it s definitely stirring controversy. people weighing in on both sides, good and the bad. we ll tell you more about that later on. let s 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 vio
march 18th 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 on a wednesday morning. you may be enjoying your coffee and if you like to get it from starbucks, you may be interested this this story. they are causing a stir online. there is a new campaign the coffee giant is offering something extra with your latte and it is stirring controversy. the people weighing in on both sides. the good and the bad. we will tell you more about that. let s get to the top story. the phone calls to the u.s. embassy threatening to kill ambassador caroline kennedy. officials are not taking this lightly. not at all, matt. the calls came in from somebody speaking english. caroline kennedy, daughter of jfk assumed the post in 2013. he is obviously a very high profile figure over there. with the violent attack on another u.s. ambassador just this month, police are in
numerous images went through my mind of where my babies were. older five and six years went to this academy. when they did not arrive home, her family got worried. she began frantically making calls. the only one who picked up the phone was a security person. she told me to call the police department. home, sheey reached said the daughters told her the bus broke down. i could not tell you where they was at, who they was with, did they change buses, was there a flat tire? i have no answers. a spokesperson for the public schools says that the substitute driver did not follow protocol. the substitutet bus driver became lost, and instead of calling the bus luck for assistance, return to the lot were another driver took over. i was a, something has to be done. i don t want anybody else have to go through this. they said there is a protocol in place that should notify the parents in case the system breaks down. they will fix this so it doesn t happen to another family. ab
yet rain will taper off into the evening. hear of the weather headlines. showers will decrease slowly. high temperatures 12 degrees below typical high. preconditions. we are going to be crazy for most of the day. looking at the radar, refined the rain swirling around a low pressure system it will be here through the morning. its heaviest right now to the north. just be on the lookout for the shower slowing you down me some cooling and some pounding. this system will exit the area today and would begin to try out. upper 50s rate now at o hare. 57 at the lakefront. 5644 waukegan. 59 important. today, a ticket to book a high 78 will be in the mid-60s. chancery diminishes to 30%. today we reach 66 showers and storms tomorrow. let s look of the roads. overall an easy start with the exception of the rain coming down causing slick road conditions. we have ongoing road work on the tristate we re down to three lanes in both directions. that interchange will be in place through octob