And hot superstars maroon 5 gets ready to play the packed plaza with their big hits. Today, september 1st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And a good morning. Welcome to today on this rocking monday labor day monday. Im natalie alongside willie geist. Matt is off, savannah is on maternity leave. Look at that crowd outside. You thought Ariana Grande was a huge crowd, this is as big im told. Weve been hearing adam levine echoing through midtown. This crowd is huge. And dylan dreyer is giving her official guarantee the skies will hold and it looks good. There might be one drop. Dont let that fool you. Were going to be just fine. Great showing coming up later. First lets get to todays top stories. Severe storms continue to threaten large parts of the country. Dylan does have more on that. The last unofficial weekend of summertime and we saw crazy storms through the midwest. The rain came down so har
Afternoon we are talking about the possibility of record highs the record axiom the upper seventies today we received a seventh of the most part and for few locations climbing toward the upper 70s. Tempters are you leveraging the tree 59, and 64 degrees. Similar conditions temperatures will cool down just a little bit as we head into the president s day holiday. Erica to merge as well above average for the foreseeable future. Livermore today with high of 72 and a persistence for dennis city. It is gorgeous we have clear skies and all those calls ross said francisco here is a live look at ocean beach. Reporter is starting to fade away renown of the tech a live look as where tech look at the tail end of record dec. Ride over ocean beach this morning the entire sky and the bride early on the jaw and times it. You can see a couple of couples down here in ocean beach getting ready to celebrate today erica is shipping a to be a gorgeous day69 degrees the ocean beach. If reporter 16 people ar
Jedediah that is true. I felt like you couldnt see a good sunrise or sunset in places like new york. I always had to go to florida for that. Doing on this show we show a lot of cool scenes that happen real early in the morning. You have to be grateful. A great start. Great to see both of you today. I hope you guys have your seatbelts fastened. This is going to be a wild week. The rnc kicking off tomorrow. President trump is traveling to charlotte as previews a positive message. There was lot of talk about the dnc being a little gloomy, being depressing. They were trying to tap into a sentiment of empathy. But lots of themes were missing. What is the rnc going to look like . Lets take a sneakpeek. The theme is honoring the Great American story. Tomorrow, land of heroes, tuesday land of promise, wednesday, land of opportunity and thursday, land of greatness. The expectation there will be some tribute paid to the values that built this country. They will acknowledge some turmoil going on,
Temperatures and wind, with that combination, things can get out of hand. . We have to make sure that we keep our people in good shape and hydrated. Know being its a fire that didnt have to happen is definitely a step back for us. Reporter the heat isnt a set back for livermore residents who are used to the annual misery. They crowd yogurt shops which have seen a 20 increase in sales. This fountain is a local favorite when its hot. The kids obviously love it. We dont have an air conditioner at home. So im always trying to find ways to keep them cool and run some energy out of them so theyre tired. Reporter back to the arson, no ones been hurt, and no buildings or homes have been damaged, but of course, thats the fear. That could change at any moment. It is a very real fear. Another suspected arsonist is in jail tonight in santa rosa. Police took a 50 year old into custody today after several fires broke out and is facing eight counts of arson. How much hotter can it get . Things are ch
Violent bitter clashes between israel and gaza are getting more intense today and hundreds of gaza residents are trying to get out. The consulate in jerusalem helped 150 leave gaza and get into jordan today. Thats after they dropped leaflets into gaza warning them to move away from air strikes. Israeli says its forces have already hit what it calls more than a thousand terror targets, yet rockets from gaza keep coming. More than 800 have been intercepted and today israel intercepted two more over tel aviv. The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 68 people have died in gaza and most are civilians. Israeli Prime Minister netanyahu said today hamas is to blame. Reporter who is hiding in hamas. Hamas. Who is putting people in the hospital, hamas. Who is putting control centers in civilian residents and kin kindergartens. Hamas. Theyre using humans as a human shield. Benjamin netanyahu spoke with secretary john kerry. Kerrie said israel has the right to defend itself. Wolf blitzer has been t