Switch on the worlds most famous Christmas Tree today. Wednesday, december 4th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a. Good morning. Im matt lauer. And im Savannah Guthrie. What is tall and bushy . No, not matt lauer. It is the Christmas Tree. All four of us set to do the honors. We have a great show planned. And were glad youre back. No, thanksgiving hangover lasted a long time. Just kidding. I had a stomach virus. Im not contagious. We should mention the weather not too bad for the Tree Lighting. Upper 40s and 50 degrees. Perfect. The weather not so great in other parts of the country. The top story is a monster storm impacting millions of people across many parts of the country. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is in denver this morning with parts of that. Miguel, good morning. Reporter matt, good morning. 32 million americans are impacted by the storm, but it is not what you see which is the steady snow which is dangerous, but wha
Near the overpass to a 92 after 6 00 a. M. Police believe the man was jaywalking when two cars struck him. The second car didnt stop. Officers eventually located the car and driver after the accident. Both drivers are cooperating with authorities. The accident closed the street as well as ramps to highway 92 for a couple of hours during the morning commute. The victims identity has not yet been released. What a terrible tragedy for a bay area father. The father of a young man who police say was killed over a video game console tells nbc 7 news his son was home from college for thanksgiving break like so many young people. He was shot as he sat in his car in san Franciscos Bayview district sunday afternoon. He sold his playstation 4 on line and went to get money from the buyer. Instead, police say the buyer refused to pay, got into an argument, and shot him. The student attended Santa Monica City college and of the youngest among his two siblings. Thats my baby child. I cant begin to te
Every time the phone rings, is another chance that sparky holland may save a life. A childs life. Were dealing with teenagers often who are calling who really are desperate for help. Reporter help to get away from physical and sexual abuse. Harland says here at the center in santa clara where shes ceo, there are 38,000 calls to the hotline each year and 100 Response Rate from the three to four people answering the phones. For us, its like being a fire or police station, you answer though calls. Reporter the countys hotline is is staffed by about 18 people on each shift answering fewer yearly calls, the county hotline only answered 50 to 60 of its calls. If the call isnt answered, will that neighbor report again . Probably not. Thats probably it. Theres one chance to get some of these calls. Reporter bruce is the Top Department head overseeing the county hotline. He says the reason for the poor Response Rate was staffing. Was there ever any communication that there was a staffing proble
Her in just a bit. Thank you for waking up with us on this Tuesday Morning december 3rd im pam cook. Im dave clark. Lets check weather, traffic. Steve is saying get your jackets, blanket. And maybe some umbrellas. Around Mountain View over to fremont, union city, newark and maybe heading towards san jose and a little bit on the peninsula, not a lot but again its rapidly developing. Lows are held up. Some of the cold air still way to the north. You can start to see the leading edge of that moving in. A lot of 50s with the cloud cover and breeze, gusts about 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour. Again, from san jose or parts of the peninsula south could see rapidly developing showers. The system will give us cloudy skies in the morning. Here comes the coldest air. It will be arriving by tonight. We have lot of cloud cover here, everyone some light rain possible here, not a lot but a little bit. Snow getting starting to show itself up in the sierra nevada. Windy and colder. You can do all sorts of ico
Bridge, and the traffic continues to move along pretty well as you drive through there. No major problems. As you drive on the san mateo bridge, that traffic looks good. No problems on the dunbar ton bridge as you head over towards the peninsula. Through livermore and pleasanton its looking good into Castro Valley with just a little bit of slow traffic for construction. Nothing major on 880, 238 or 982. 4 31 lets go back to the desk. Happening today, supervisors in Sonoma County are expected to create a special task force on officer involved shootings. This comes in response to the deadly shooting of 13yearold andy lopez in santa rosa in october. Ktvus alex savidge joins us now from santa rosa with more on whats happening today. Reporter later on this morning the Sonoma County board of supervisors will begin assigning that task force which will be made up of members of the public and Law Enforcement. Its a 21member panel that will come up with an independent review process for officer