Thursday, december 6th, 2012. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Gurthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a thursday morning, im Savannah Gurthrie. And im matt lauer. Nice images to see out of london over the past couple of days. Weve been watching duchess of cambridge. She seemed a little shaky as she held the railing. Were going to have more on that story and, of course, the ridiculous prank played out by the deejays later on. Good job, Prince William with the flowers. A story we covered a few months ago. Two bodies discovered in a wooded area in iowa on wednesday. While authorities believe they are the remains of two young cousins who vanished back in july. On a different note, an important rossen report investigates for travelers. How thieves can easily get past the lock on your hotel room door. And this is really easy. Very scary story. And then have you ever been to a restaurant and walked in and rea
I am a very fortunate Stephanie Ruhle. Y . Matt miller in here with you. We are sending you the best, but in the meantime we are getting you breaking news. Existing home sales are out. Michael mckee is on hand with the real deal. Rate it down. It down. Eak a reasonable news story with home sales. 4. 6 million at dollar annual rate, barely lower than it was in january. Five,ober we were in the so we have a long way to go. Whatever the weather effect, it has been relatively steady for the past four months and we expect a big spring rebound. Here, a drop in condo and coop sales, 1. 8 . Singlefamily home sales, just. 2 of 8 . One of the complaints about home sales in the past couple of months has been not enough homes for sale, so that may affect things. The other number we just got and here is some good news for people worried about the economy and the weather. February 6. 3, and it comes in a positive numeral mind. It looks like overall the Employment Index is lower, but the Overall Inde
Inland east bay down across fremont area into parts of the south bay and santa cruz mountains. In this area its raining along interstate 580. Some steady rainfall there. That is probably slowing town Late Afternoon commute. Over into the sierra some light snow that will develop into heavier snow. Four rainfall totals under a tenth inch. San francisco 16 100ths. 15 100ths in oakland. Now, here is a forecast animation at 7 00 this evening. During overnight hours, pockets of showers, periods of rain by 5 00 in the morning well see more areas of steadier rainfall. Heaviest rain arrives in mid Morning Hours around 9 00 or so with a possibility of isolated thunderstorms. There will be more to follow as a week of active weather lies ahead, weekend, i should add. Spencer, thank you. Todays rainfall isnt enough to makeup for the dry winter but it is a welcome sight for many. Tiffany . It wasnt a game changer but the rain did leave puddles on the ground and optimism in the air. Art yi artichoke,
Witness that could be called now into question. Jana. The public doffedders office told me today this really does call into question switzers cent in court cases where he was a witness or he had a hand. This could lead to trials, or dismissals of some cases he touched. Reporter Contra Costa County defender says his client was stopped by him in 2012. He was the officer who was the lead investigating officer. He was the officer who decided to pull over my client. The officer who decided to release a dog upon him. Reporter the Attorney Says his client received these dog bite injuries and had to be treated at a hospital after his encounter with switzer. The client claims he ran from switzer. The jury didnt believe it, and prosecuted the man in february. Switzer himself was under criminal investigation on administrative leave. My client was convicted without the jurors having this information, without the court having this information. His recore nows is to ask for a new trial, and we inten
680, 24 and that will billion about 25 minutes. Lets go back to the desk. We begin with a surprising story. Vandals are targeting a certain make of car in San Francisco. Ktvu Tara Moriarty is joining us from the area where three separate incidents happened over night. Tara. Reporter we are in the power tell low district where we saw a couple of officers leave about a half hour ago. They were investigating an incident with a car similar to this one. It was the third time that vandals struck this morning. This all started around 1 00 when a witness says a group of eight people came out of the dark and together lifted a smart car flipping it over. The first car targeted was in the Bernal Heights neighborhood. The second happened a couple blocks away on anderson and ogden. The last occurred here around 1 30. A witness says he saw a group walk up to his roommates smart car. All of a sudden you see eight hooded figures walk out from the corner and walk up to the car. I thought they looked li