Famous resort theme park dollywood. Theres no damage to the park so far but more than a dozen of its Smokey Mountain cabins have been damaged. Let me bring in brad kisserman. Thank you so much for your time. We look at these flames. I talked to my colleague al roker tracking the forecast and its a pretty rough situation for the folks affected. What are you told by your team . Worst possible conditions is what im hearing from my team on the ground and let me just say, thank goodness for the firefighters, law enforcement, National Guard and First Responders because this is a horrific situation. We had over 1200 people in shelters last night. 850 when i checked in a few minutes ago. We have over 70 red cross volunteers on the ground and were flowing people in from surrounding states. We expect a sheltering mission for at least the next two weeks. Right now when you look at how fast it seemed to take over this area, the conditions have been dry and just seems as if it was a perfect storm f
You, but we recognize there is a process that has to take place. Theyll give us their opinion on the probe into the president ial election. Lets begin with a couple of our reporters. Nbcs Peter Alexander is at the white house and Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is on capitol hill. Peter, are we any closer or any sooner to figuring out who exactly signed devin nunes into the white house last week . Reporter its a good question. The simple answer right now remains no. If you look at the visitors page, its not available. Theyre not providing those records. It does exist in a system, and in the past they would make that information publicly on a regular basis right now. Sean spicer was pressed on this issue once again to be clear it is person who may have cleared chairman nunes into the white house a few weeks ago is not necessarily the person that gave him that classified information. His secret source has the word. Nonetheless, its likely they have more information about that, maybe. Heres a convers
Facetoface with the president and the Prime Minister. Weve seen the president visit some of the holiest sites. She was at the church and then went to the western wall. You saw him place it hand on the wall and tuck a note. Note that he was there by himself, unsurprisingly. If he had shown up with Prime Minister netanyahu, that would have been eyebrow rising to the person hes meeting with tomorrow. Number one, whats happening in sort of the current sphere, the issue of President Trump sharing sensitive Israeli Intelligence with the Russian Foreign minister in the oval office about a week and a half ago, back in washington. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson was asked about this. He says, i dont think the president has anything to apologize for. But if your israeli allies have questions or clarifications, well provide that to them. Bigger issue is the issue of President Trump wanting to push the israelis and palestinians on a path to a peace deal. Jared kushner has been instrumental in tha
That they have behaved badly. And i dont know the answer to that. But i do know that this reckoning that so Many Organizations have been going through is important. Its long overdue. And it must result in workplaces where all women, all people, feel safe and respected. As painful as it is this moment in our culture and this change, had to happen. Yeah, it did. This is a very tough morning for both of us. I have known matt for 15 years and i have loved him as a friend and as a colleague and, again, like you were saying, savannah, its hard to reconcile what we are hearing with the man who we know who walks in that building every single day. We are bowere both woken up wit news predawn and were trying to process it and make sense of it. Lauer has been an anchor with today for 20 years. He has not responded publicly to his termination. Someone who has is President Trump. The president who will land in missouri to sell tax reform in a little bit, quickly took the opportunity to slam nbc new
Than 1 00 a. M. Tonight. We could resolve this much earlier if the democratic leader withdraws his procedural objection and allows the senate to proceed to a vote. Our constituents want us to end this. But democratic leader Chuck Schumer didnt sound optimistic earlier on the senate floor as he continued to lay the blame squarely at the feet of republican dysfunction. Not only do they not consult us, they cant even get on the same page with their president , the president from their own party. The congressional leaders tell me to negotiate with President Trump. President trump tells me to figure it out with the congressional leaders. This political catch 22 never seen before has driven our government to dysfunction. Americans know why the dysfunction is occurring. A dysfunctional president , hence we are in a trump shutdown. That was leader schumer of course earlier today. Now it looks like were going to get at least a morsel and perhaps more of new information when senator Mitch Mcconn