Very good morning to you. Im richard lui. Were going to start with breaking news out of hawaii this hour. Small private plane crashing moments after taking off from an airport on the island of maui last night. Officials saying three people were killed, and three were injured. Two critically. They believe everyone has been accounted for, no word yet on the cause there. Well continue to watch that on nbc. Back on the mainland, drought stricken california finally getting a double blast of rain with possible flooding on the way too. Heavy showers in the San Francisco bay area knocked down trees and caused Power Outages in some areas, and wind gusts up to 45mileanhour forced the cancellation of some airline flights. Following the rain, a potentially stronger storm on the way which could cause some severe flash flooding. But they need the rain there. Since 2013, californias driest year on record was last year. Residents are being warned to prepare for the largest rain event in Southern California in three years. And Downtown Los Angeles may get half of last years rainfall total in just these storms. Bill karins will have more details in just a few minutes. Stick around for that. Veto, arizonas governor striking down a controversial antigay bill. John mccain urged the governor to veto it and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton talking to students at the university of miami. Thankfully the governor of arizona has vetoed the discriminatory legislation that was pass ed, recognizing that Inclusive Leadership is really what the 21st century is all about. And the cheers also from demonstrators following the governors decision, that happened outside the courthouse. Nbcs jay gray reports more for us now. Reporter after six days of protest outside the Arizona State house, with the stroke of a pen, governor jan brewer changed the chants to cheers. Vetoing senate bill 1062, controversial religious freedom legislation that opponents call a thinly veiled measure allowing businesses to refuse services to gay and lesbian customers or anyone else for that matter. I sincerely believe that senate bill 1062 has the potential to create more problems than it purports to solve. I could divide arizona in i was it could not even imagine and no one would ever want. Reporter the center for arizona policy, the group that wrote the legislation, issued a statement after the veto saying it was a sad day and that opponents had distorted the measure intended to, quote, guarantee that all arizonans would be free to live and work according to their faith. Major corporations including apple, delta, american and southwest airlines, pet smart, major league baseball, the nba and nfl had all urged brewer to veto the legislation. I think that was a combination of both the business communities and activists being out here day after day after day that finally sent the message loud and clear to the governor. Reporter who in turn tried to send a loud message to so many watching and waiting for her decision. Jay gray, nbc news, phoenix. Now to shadows of cold war games. Now in the form of a provocative show of force from russia. President Vladimir Putin ordering 150,000 troops to test their combat readiness. The troops are there to conduct military exercises but it is also where that is causing a concern. In an area bordering ukraine, just a few days following the fall of kiev. Also, the French News Agency afp reports a russian warship is docked in havana, cuba. Putins show of military bravado is forcing a warning from john kerry. He said any military intervention in ukraine would be a grave mistake. He spoke to andrea mitchells. Were hoping that russia will not see this as sort of a continuation of the cold war. We dont see it that way. We do not believe this should be an east west, russia united states. This is not rocky 4, believe me. We dont see it that way. Well, that east west divide did lead to clashes wednesday in the south of ukraine in the crimea region. Nbc news learned exclusive details about an fbi informant planted inside of al qaeda. According to numerous sources, the fbi had a mole who actually met Osama Bin Laden eight years before the september 11th attacks. And this mole knew bin laden planned to finance terror plots, but the bureau opted not to disclose that information to the 9 11 commission. The informant acted as a, quote, driver and confidant for the man who planned the 1993 terror attack on the world trade center. Bin laden apparently told the mole about a planned attack on a Masonic Lodge in los angeles, that information in the end helping the fbi to prevent the attack from happening. The nutritional panels on all those foods that we buy are about to get a bit of a makeover. Today, Michelle Obama and the head of the fda will announce proposed updates as part of the first ladys push to help americans make healthier choices. Nbcs tracie potts is in washington. And tracie, as we look at some of these possible changes, how might they make things easier, some will be asking. Reporter well, richard, if the proposed labels go through, it would actually make it clearer what youre really eating without doing a whole lot of math. Take a look at the old label, and the new proposed labels that we expect to be announced at the white house today. One thing they want to do is make the calorie count in foods a lot more prominent on that label, adding a new line for added sugar, the manufacturers say some of the added sugars are natural. We may see some pushback on that. Updating the serving size, thats a big one when you consume one package and realize you actually had three servings of a particular item. Lifting nutrients by both the container and the serving size, and removing some things like calories from fats, but adding trans fats, thats a few of the things that advocates have suggested when we expect the government is going to take a look at. Now, the manufacturer says lets make sure this is based on real science, not confusing consumers. Fda saying they could end up paying 2 billion to change those labels. Ri richard . 2 billion, im often eating an entire package of cookies realizing it is a enough for a family of 15 or Something Like that. Tracie potts, thank you so much. Bill karins laughs as well because he knows that. The bag of chips, according to the serving size, i said a family of 15 as well. Hagagendazs, the ben and jerrys ice cream, thats not too bad and then you realize it is two to four everyboservings. Were getting what we need. We had the warm up take place last night and right into this morning. And the bigger storm is on its way. We look at l. A. X. Airport, wet roads for once, doesnt happen that often as of late. We got half an inch of rain at the l. A. X. Airport and same with Downtown Los Angeles. Here is what were looking at. The storm you notice is heading near the medford area, thats the center of it. It is dragging through some of the moisture. Well get a breakthrough in the day today. Green shows the light rain. Now over the los angeles area, heading all through Southern California. So thats good. Right down i5, to oceanside. Thats what we like. Not a lot behind it. Once this moves through, well pretty much be done throughout the day today. Then the bigger storm moves in as we go through mostly a friday, into saturday event. 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If you have if you follow in the ski season in the west, havent seen a lot of this. This is the white and the snow and the flow is moisture raisiig itself out of the mountains. Tahoe to mammoth lake, decent snows. As far as the next storm goes, were going to get a break a little later today. And tomorrow, the next storm moves in. Especially friday afternoon, friday evening and lasting into saturday morning. So there is still a chance of rain, especially this morning. And then chances of rain will taper off during the afternoon hours. Then as we go to friday, and this storm has enough dynamics with it that we could see a few thunderstorms with it. And some gusty winds too. I think the winds are more of a concern than the heavy rain. You never know, we could get some mud and debris flows. You can see this is what we want, we dont wa