Today, monday, july 18th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Republican National convention with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from cleveland. Thats right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning from cleveland, ohio. Were just down the road, just at the end of the block here from the q as they call it here. The quicken loans arena. Site of the Republican National convention on a rainy morning here in cleveland. You can see some rain behind us. It is not dampening it for the thousands of delegates. Theyre here for the fourday party leading to the formal nomination of deadly intent Donald Trumps official nomination. Its a big day that well follow here. Were also following the other big story down in baton rouge, louisiana. The shooter has now been identified as gavin long. Hes a former marine whose 29th birthday was sunday, the day of this attack. Police initially arrived at the scene after a 911 call about a man carryin
2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Republican National convention with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from cleveland. Thats right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning from cleveland, ohio. Were just down the road just at the end of the block here from the quickens loan arena. Were on east 4th street on a rainy morning here in cleveland. You can see raindrops behind us. Its not dampening the spirits of thousands of delegates here for the republicans fourday party leading to thursdays formal nomination of donald trump as the republican candidate for president. I get excited every time this happens. A Great American tradition, the convention. Its a lot of fun. A healthy combination of spectacle and substance. Well cover it all over the next four days. A lot to talk about here. Were also following that other big story of the morning. The Police Shooting in baton rouge, louisiana. Three Police Officers were killed. Three o
Monday, july 18th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Republican National convention with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from cleveland. Thats right, and good morning, everyone, and welcome from cleveland, ohio. Just at the end of the block from the q, as they call it, the quickens loan arena. Its kind of a rainy morning. Can you see rain drops behind us, and its not dampening the spirits for the delegates. Day party leading to thursdays formal nomination of donald trump as the republican candidate for president. I get excited every time this happens. A Great American tradition, the convention. Its a lot of fun. A healthy combination of spectacle and substance. Well cover it all over the next four days. A lot tok big story of the morning. The Police Shooting in baton rouge, louisiana. Three Police Officers were killed. Three others were wounded when they were ambushed by a gunman who was dressed in all black. That suspect who was killed by o
Firefighters in cleveland were denied the right to wear 9 11 polo shirts. Commemorating the attacks. By fire chief. The guys felt it was unkorbl particularly within the fire system. We lost 343 brothers that day. We do not that there was an order. Approved. For the for them to wear polos. According to to lieutenant gray. With the division of fire. The request was denied. Because there is a strict uniform and clothing ordnance. In place. There are two types of uniforms you can wear. In the division. Class a. Which is your. Or class b. Which is your fatigue uniform. Lieutenant says the polos break its a tradition that we have done for the month of september the past 14 years. So. I think that was response is disingenuous. If you were going to a funeral. You would not go to a fallen brother in a polo shirt. You would go with your best attire. Which be your class a uniform. The chief is asking that all firefighters wear their class a uniform to any 9 11 commemoration event. This weekend. H
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