Meryl davis and Charlie White take to our rink here in Rockefeller Center only on today, wednesday, february 26th, 2014. Announcer 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 the west coast at 7 00 a. M. And as unusual as it sounds, it is snowing. The plaza cam. Not sticking too much. But snowing well. Meantime out west, we have a rain. This is a doubleedged sword. The areas are so dry, they will not absorb. They are worried about mudslides and threehour delays at San Franciscos airport. It will be a mess. We have an interesting story coming up. Do you worry about your underage son or daughter getting their hands on alcohol . Using hidden cameras, jeff rossen found it can be as easy as asking an adult to buy them alcohol. His report is coming up in a little while. We want to get to the top story. Critics lining up about the bill in arizona to refuse service to gays. The decision to veto
Sprawled out on the street. And that was just afternoon time a week ago today. Well, today, tensions remain high amid more protests and calls for peace. Residents cleaning up today after another night of unrest. This is the latest in the dramatic week of protests. But it was the release yesterday of these images, this is the Surveillance Video. Almost allegedly showing Michael Brown engaging in a strong arm robbery shortly before the shooting. Last night, there was break away protesters who turned to looting at at least two stores last night. Members of the Community Stepped in to help prevent that from happening. Thats what youre seeing there. Young men who came out to block some of those looters and not let them in. This is an important part and an important image to give you the full picture of whats happening in ferguson. Well, in response to some of that looting, police did throw at least one can of tear gas. Then backed off for the most part. There were no arrests last night. Rev
This may turn out to be the most important and impactful video of Domestic Violence ever released in this country. Tonight, the nfl finds itself at the center of a firestorm. We came to the decision that we came to to release ray. Contract terminated. The Baltimore Ravens have terminated ray rices contract. Suspended indefinitely by the National Football league. After a video was released by tmz sports showing the football star knocking out his then fiance in february. He was charged with assault back in march. He accepted an Intervention Program in order to avoid jail time. He got a slap on the wrist, a twogame suspension. The punishment was in no way adequate. I apologize to my fans. I failed miserably. They held this press conference with ray rice and his fiance. I do regret the incident that night. Blaming the victim. By doing that, they are revictimizing her. They cared more about race playing on the field than they did about his violent behavior on the girlfriend. What did they k
Americas understanding of Domestic Violence. This may turn out to be the most important and impactful video of Domestic Violence ever released in this country. Tonight, the nfl finds itself at the center of a firestorm. We came to the decision that we came to to release ray. Contract terminated. The Baltimore Ravens have terminated ray rices contract. Suspended indefinitely by the National Football league. After a video was released by tmz sports showing the football star knocking out his then fiance in february. He was charged with assault back in march. He accepted an Intervention Program in order to avoid jail time. He got a slap on the wrist, a twogame suspension. The punishment was in no way adequate. I apologize to my fans. I failed miserably. They held this press conference with ray rice and his fiance. I do regret the incident that night. Blaming the victim. By doing that, they are revictimizing her. They cared more about race playing on the field than they did about his violen
Former federal prosecutor and law professor. Mr. Butler, listening to the prosecutor, we learned nothing that we had not already learned from leaks from the grand jury process a month ago. At that time there were some who suspected those leaks were in preparation for what happened tonight, absolutely no charges. The leaks were in preparation, the declaration of the state of emergency, the calling out the National Guard. It all sounds like this was a foregone conclusion. When i listen to that press conference, i wasnt sure whether the suspect was officer wilson or Michael Brown. Its almost like Michael Brown was the one on trial. We are, at the moment seeing in our live cameras from missouri some activity on the street, there was just a crowd rocking what looks like a police car. That has calmed down a little bit, but it is not a situation that looks under control at this moment. Theres a lot of pushing and shoving in the crowd there. Now we have a closer shot of people kicking or kind