One of the vehicles, a selfdriving taxi. How the Company Behind the controversial vehicle says its car reacted at the scene. In less than an hour, the swearing in Laphonza Butler, making her the first ever openly lesbian black u. S. Senator. Were live with new words were getting from someone she knows well ahead of her making history on capitol hill. Good morning to you, thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. We begin in San Francisco with a crash involving a driverless taxi and a pedestrian. That Autonomous Vehicle might not have been the first car to hit the victim who was critically hurt. Nbc bay areas thom jensen joins us live in San Francisco this morning. From the cruise driverless taxis we understand it may provide evidence about what happened. Some video were getting in here. I understand you just got an update from police, thom. Reporter yes, good morning, and police are confirming what you just talked about and what the nbc b
And edwards. And later, the Senate Returns at 2 p. M. Eastern for general speeches followed later with debate on a vote for the judicial nomination of the 10th Circuit Court of appeals. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. This week the communicators has interviews from the cable show in washington d. C. Well look at issues facing the cable industry with analyst Craig Moffett and then learn about the Wireless Bureau at the federal Communications Commission with bureau chief milkman. Host well, we want to introduce you to Craig Moffett, managing partner of a group called moffett research. What do you do for a living . Guest i cover the equities, the stocks of the Cable Companies, the Satellite Companies and telephone companies. Ive just started my own firm. Host how did you get into that line of business . Guest i was a consultant at the boston consulting group, and i led the Telecom Practice there. After a s
The worst of it but long island and eastern maryland getting hit with snow. People brace for whiteout conditions. Massachusetts is under a travel ban. They expect up to two feet of snow in boston where its coming down faster than crews can remove it. Thats where molly is live right now. How is it going there, molly . Its actually a pretty incredible sight. The travel ban still in effect so cars are not supposed to be out on the street. Theres just the occasional pedestrian. Its really sort of eery to see all the businesses closed down all the coffee shops closed down this morning. But with any luck well be able to start getting back to normal as the day continues. The snow is still coming down. That doesnt make things easier. One thing that does the bright spot in all of this, despite the snow, its pretty fluffy. Its not all pactful stuff. Its really light and fluffy like this still 30,000 Power Outages despite that light fluffy snow. Majority of the nantucket, off the coast of massach
Lucky. Powerful punch still left in this winter storm and where its headed next. Plus terror in tripoli. A deadly attack on a highend hotel. Now, new reports that isis is taking credit. Is the terror group taunting the nations trying to eradicate it . And chilling details emerge about what wept on behind the doors of the Treatment Center where joan rivers spent her final moments. Now the estate is filing suit. Its all happening now. And we begin this hour with the terrorists of isis driven out of a strategic town on the syriaturkey border by fighters on the ground and war planes in the sky. Welcome. Im jon scott. Im heather childers. Weve been following the battle for kobani for months. Now the kurds are fighting forward after hoisting their flag and claiming control of the city replacing the black flag of islamic state. It is a big victory for the kurds and the u. S. Led coalition that carried out dozens of air strikes. Meanwhile turkish villagers trying to cross the border to kobani
NASA has lost two satellites after an Astra rocket failed during its test launch while attempting to carry the payloads into orbit. The satellites were part of the space agency's TROPICS project that will provide crucial data regarding weather forecasting.