And the voice. Josh kaufman wins it for team usher on a night packed with stars, the voice crowns its new champion, so whats josh kaufman going to do now . Hes making his way to our plaza today, wednesday, may 21st, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And, good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. And when we say josh kaufman is making his way to studio 1a we really mean it. Literally making his way. Took the red eye overnight. Expected to perform. He is the voice. You are not the voice this morning. Battling the voice a little bit, but looking forward to meeting him. It should be great. We want to get to todays top story, the intense storms wreaking havoc on the midwest. Al, they are on the move this morning. They absolutely are. Check out this video just out from chicago. Really amazing Lightning Storm going on. High winds, a lot of rain, a real mess. And in fact, some amazing Lightning Pictur
Oakland running festival about to get underway. Ktvus katie utehs there on the ground. Well have a live report in just a bit. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. It is sunday march 23rd. Im mike mibach. Im allie rasmus in for claudine wong. Lets get a quick look at the weather. A good morning for a run. A live look over the oakland estuary where were partly sunny skies this morning and the clouds back with us along the coast around the bay into the north bay as well as the south bay. Lets take a look. Ill show you where, hugging the coastline you can see along the peninsula as we head into the north bay, santa rosa, napa reporting, low clouds stretches through petaluma and novato. Livermore woke up mostly cloudy. Youre mostly sunny so you have the sunshine outside your door. The official sunrise will be in the next 9 minutes or so. You can see from oakland, hayward into fremont we have the low clouds with us again into san jose as well. I think its going to pull back. I think were
Cost begin counting the after floods that left dozens dead. The bill could cost more than the entire bosnian war. Also coming up this hour, what would you wear if you were walking up the red steps of the glamorous Film Festival in cannes . Find out how the stars decide just that. And as the countdown to the e. U. Parliamentary election continues, france 24 will give you a taste of the dolce vita in italy. Serbias capital city of belgrade is bracing for possible flooding as relief workers across the balkans are carrying out a massive cleanup campaign. The region has been hit with the most devastating floods in over a century at have left closeness close to 50 dead. Our correspondent joins us from a town 200 kilometers southwest of belgrade, one of the areas worst hit by these floods. What are things like there now . For the moment, things are dry. The rain stopped a couple of days ago and all the water went off, but you can see the damage. You can see the trees and houses. Metersvel of
186 and 192 goth street and weve been there 23 years and 25 years in rent controlled flats and we started out a month ago yesterday by being threatened with an ellis act eviction. We were given an opportunity, you have the letters there, to negotiate but i can tell you the negotiation lasted less than 48 hours. They went right to threatening us with an ellis act. Its clear that this is the intention unless something changes. The building across the street from us they have already cleared out the residents of the two flats that we look directly across at. There are two restaurants on the corner, that building is going for, want to guess . 2. 8 million dollars. Of course within a week our land lord, our owner, the owner of our building, sent us, contacted his attorney and had them send us this letter. So this is the heart and soul of the city. I want to share my time with jackie but certainly she has time of her own. Weve never been late on our rent, weve never asked for any big improve
If that was one minute or two minutes. I dont see any more kids in the neighborhood. I worry a lot about our musical community, especially since there are less music being taught in the schools and i feel like my husband and i really contribute a lot to that, as do a lot of artists in the city in terms of raising the artists of our next generation in this beautiful city we live in. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you so much for listening to me. If you can speak into the mic to make sure we hear you, thank you. I came to support jackie and beverly but i was prepared up here when i looked around and found that there were not many African Americans in the group and i know they are impacted by the situation. I have a personal story because i have a daughter who has Mental Illness and no one has addressed that today, unfortunately. Its a real crisis in the city. My daughter is my heart and im doing everything i can to solve my own problem. However, i am finding that in this city