All that, plus, wild weather. Damaging tornadoes and new flooding fears in the south and midwest, and the threat is moving east today. Online outrage. I have a little getting even to do. O. J. Simpson joins twitter and sets off a fire storm. And cinderella story. Got it pga veteran Gary Woodland stunned the golf world, winning the u. S. Open, his first major championship. The inspirational words from a remarkable, young fan that helped carry him to victory today, monday, june 17th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a monday morning. Lots of folks are checking the dial, wait, lester holt on a monday morning . You didnt oversleep. It is good to be here. I did this weekends for 12 years. I come today, and im like, where do you go for makeup . There are all these hours before noon and you have to be awake for all of them. I know. I
6 00, sal. How are things on a friday . Things are okay. I would say today we are going to just based on what i have seen so far going to have a slightly lighter commute. Take a look at what we have here. Traffic is moving along okay at the toll plaza, 15 to 20 minute delay, which is typical, but this shouldnt last for too long. Based on the rest of the traffic im looking at out there, take a look at some of these other pictures, 101 San Francisco looks pretty light, and the east bay commute, i want to go to the maps here because normally i show you these maps and theres red everywhere, at least by now we are seeing some of it. I dont see a lot of it. We see some at the bay bridge like i just showed you there, you see it there, but thats about it. Right now off to a good start in the east bay. Our Christien Kafton drove past a crash this morning on the bay bridge on his way over from oakland to San Francisco. Hes live at chp offices in the city where two vehicles were taken to after a
Police department. The rank and file must adjust to a new leader. Mayor lee had backed him for month but now has asked for his rest suggest nation. An African American woman was shot and killed behind a stolen car and apparently unarmed. We must move forward. Suhr has not yet commented about his departure, he is a 30 year veteran the Police Department and was appointed chief back in 2011. Taking over as interim chief, Toney Chaplin who has been with the department for more than 20 years, working in the Gang Task Force and ran the homicide division. Most recently, he establish add new professional stand starred and principled policing bureau part of suhrs plan to reform the sfpd. Ktvus Tara Moriarty has been closely following this report. Right time for a change at the top, tara . I guess depends who you ask reporter protesters, they feel that this is a really important step in the right direction. And sort of a peace offering in going forward. They said that there is still a lot of wor
He is suspected, the driver, not sure if its a man or woman, is suspected of driving under the influence. Stay with ktvu. Christien kafton is going to report live from the scene coming up and we will tell you more about what he finds out. Take a look at the rest of the commute here, the westbound bay bridge traffic looks okay. No major problems getting into San Francisco. And in san jose traffic on 280 northbound, not a bad commute here, a nice looking drive. In fact, its nice and light all over the bay area pretty much. 4 01. Lets go back to the desk. Or lets go to steve. You can go to me. Rather windy and cool the main message so far today and light rain up towards santa rosa and a few more scattered showers. Theres a pretty good gust there, west 24, sustained at the oakland airport, 22 at the napa airport and even hayward up the 25, san jose 32, 35 at sfo which has had 50 plus. 50s on the temps or upper 40s, even out towards brentwood they have cooled off dramatically compared to a
His tax returns because of possible mob ties. Abcs mary bce starts us off tonight. Donald trump reporter tonight, donald trump on the defensive, forced to explain this answer when asked if he condemns the ku klux klan and its former grand wizard, david dukes call to vote for trump. Im just talking about david duke and the ku klux klan here. I dont know david duke. I dont believe ive ever met him. And i just dont know anything about him. Reporter the backlash was swift. His rivals pouncing. We cannot be a party who nominates someone who refuses to condemn the ku klux klan. We cannot be a party that does that. Reporter tuesdayed cruz tweeting, really sad. Youre better than this. Kkk is abhorrent. Trump fired back, noting this previous response. I didnt even know he endorsed me, david duke endorsed me . Okay, i disavow, okay . Win big on super tuesday. Trump boosted eded by his huge endorsement from chris christie. The new jersey governor was challenged today. You endorse the ban of havin