Three people killed, two others injured, two homes destroyed. An investigation under way. And bad time to tweet . New information on that big flub at the Academy Awards. Theres a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. And the twitter post that may have led to one of the most embarrassing mixups in oscar history. Today, tuesday, february 28th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today, on the hill, with matt lauer, live from capitol hill, and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this special edition of today on a tuesday morning. Im matt lauer smackdab in the middle of the capitol in washington. And savannah sackdab in the middle of studio 1a in new york city. There you are. Ive been looking at your beautiful shots of washington, d. C. This morning. And i think, arent they peaceful when they sleep . It looks so good. Such a beautiful spot. It will be a busy night in washington. Im standing just above where t
The 2016 summer games come to a colorful close in rio. Americas breakout star simone biles carrying the stars and stripes as team usa racks up more gold medals. Claressa shields making history in the ring. Now joining us live and the Mens Basketball Team a head above the rest closing out the games on top for team usa. And good morning, america. Great to start the week in times square and what a finish to those olympics. There you see the fireworks, waterfalls as well at the closing ceremonies and 121 medals for team usa. Incredible and then simone biles carrying the flag for america in maracana stadium and president obama saying he couldnt be prouder of team usa. Your determination and passion inspired so many of us. Tonight, simone biles. Simone replying thank you, such a huge honor, go, usa. What a treat she was to watch during the whole olympics. Well have more on the olympics coming up. Also the latest from ryan lochte, but we begin with those massive wildfires in washington forcin
Workers Party Broadcast on state run tv. Kim also called on the country to boost prosperity while focused on Defense Nuclear weapons. And he assured the country will have Sustainable Growth by launching a fiveyear Economic Strategy this year. Regarding relations with south korea kim called for unification under a federal system. His grandfather north korean founder kim ilsung proposed such a policy at the last Party Congress in 1980. Kim also demanded that japan apologize for its past sins and not disrupt the unification of the two koreas. He did not say anything about the japanese abducted by north korea decades ago. The bbc says north korean authorities expelled a reporter and his crew after they were detained over their reporting. Tokyo based correspondent rupert wingfieldhayes, a producer and a cameraman were stopped friday. They were at the Pyongyang Airport about to leave the country. The officials held them for three days and they questioned wingfieldhayes for about eight hours
Good morning. Good morning. Breezy conditions outside, producing a brutal windchill. Right now looking at winds at about 10 to 15 miles an hour and gusts anywhere from about 20 to 30 miles an hour. When you factor in the winds, this is how cold it feels outside. Windchills in the Single Digits feeling about 8 in washington. 2 degrees in gaithersburg and 4 in hagerstown. 8 in fredericksburg. 13 now down in fredericksburg. It continues to feel cold throughout the day today with high temperatures only in the 20s and breezy conditions continuing on into the afternoon hours. So 3 00 p. M. A temperature, windchill temperature, around 18. 5 00 p. M. A windchill temperatures around 20. 7 00 dinner plans, only feeling about 24 degrees. Looking at colder air to move in over the weekend, and with that the winds also increase. A windchill watch beginning valentines day evening. Saturday at 6 00 p. M. That returns through sunday add noon. Windchills in certain areas, about 30 to 20 degrees below ze
Very quiet, 49 it is freezing cold inland, 31, poor air quality in the Santa Clara Valley, mid to upper 50s our temperatures this afternoon. Heres leyla. I only know how to say supercalifragilistic expialidocious. Its getting up the ante. Good morning, everybody. At 6 00, we take a look at our drive through berkeley we do have this fender bender, possibly blocking one lane, doesnt feel like a serious accident, westbound 80 at university avenue, not causing delays, pretty friday light, thankfully, everyone careful out there southbound along the nimitz, you head past 92, another accident there that is off to the shoulder. You can yee very clean conditions on most of our roadways, it is clear. Outside to the san mateo bridge. You are taking that trek out of the hayward, foster city, taillights out there it will take you 13 minutes to head out to the peninsula. Breaking news in east oakland, a family was able to escape after their hours caught fire early this morning. Firefighters are stil