Count down 100 days to the winter Olympic Games today, tuesday, october 29th, 2013. Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer. Along side al, im thinking back to a year ago today, and you were talking about those competing european models and the United States model. The european model won out, and people up and down the east coast lost. Thats right. We were talking about it almost a week ahead of time, and the worst happened. Of course, it could have been a lot worse. Were going to look at the lessons that have been learned in one year. Guys. All right, al. Thank you very much. Meantime, we want to turn to todays top story. The renewed uproar over the nsas spying program, but the man in charge has his feet held to the fire later today. Nbcs chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell i
Together. We were looking at the film, not over your whole career, over the last year, do you know home films you did . Three. Five. You did five, including runner, runner with ben affleck and justin timberlake. Are you guys pals . We are home boys. We are home boys. You are . Yeah. Yeah. We hang out. Whats it like working with guys like that . Were not really friends. Its cool. They were really nice guys. We shot the movie in puerto rico. So what can go wrong in puerto rico. A lota mafungo. What is that . Dont get it wet. Dont worry about that. Go to puerto rico and get some mafungo. You are in captain america. You, my friend, are falcon. Yes. Okay. Now, its got to be a little weird. Youre a superhero. Youve got to look the part ooh was that you . Watch it, watch it brothers, be blind, yes brothers be blind, yes [ laughter ] now, look, i can feel by your bicep youre in good shape. What kind of shape did you have to get into for that role . Chris evans is built like a greek statue. So
Death, what does this mean for the president s trip to india, would he have to cancel that would he go to saudi arabia . The white house established Vice President biden would lead a delltation to saudi arabia and that the president s plans in india would continue. But then news broke in india from officials here that the president had cut his trip short. Not by a long period of time. In fact less than a day. Hell still be able to give remarks on tuesday. Once that broke, then the white house did release a statement early this morning saying that was the case that they they said they looked at the schedules of when the Vice President would land in saudi arabia versus when the president was scheduled to leave india and decided it was just too tight a window of time why not have president obama continue on to saudi arabia on his way back to the u. S. Again, not cutting his trip here short by much. Our question was, why decide that now . Werent these schedules known in the beginning when
nbc s jeff rossen is in boston with the story. jeff, good morning to you. reporter: hey, savannah, good morning to you. lots to tell you about this morning. we want to begin with a milestone in the city of boston. overnight, they rye opened boylston street. we want to show you the site of the first bomb. this is where the first bomb went off. and as we zoom in as the cameraman does here, you can see on the left, the orange cones marked off by the cope, it s an eerie sight, watching people walk to morning this morning, right around them. some of them taking photos. we also have new developments in the investigation. fbi have fanned out around the world from here in the u.s. to russia where they re interviewing the suspects parents. and we re learning much more about the suspects, closing if on a motive and how they may have built those bombs. just months before the bombings, tamerlan tsarnaev shop here at this fireworks store in new hampshire. the store owner said he purcha