Today, august 2nd, 2013. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a friday morning. I am Savannah Guthrie. Matt is on assignment, and so are a lot of other people, because i am here. Yes, you are here. Always good to have you. A little stubl. A little edge in the morning. Good morning, mom. We have a great show for somebody who comes from the voice. Theres a great show. They are ready. Were going to start with a drastic move by the state department. They have ordered the shut down of multiple u. S. Embassies and consulates. Andrea mitchell is our chief Foreign Affairs correspondent and has got the latest. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. This is highly unusual. The threat is from one source Officials Say related to al qaeda in the middle east. Mentioning a threat to diplomatic posts overseas. Vague but in the aftermath of benghazi the state department is not taking any chances. Announcing the closing of all u. S. Embassies normal
three girls kidnapped and held hostage for 10 years when they grow as women. was any one suspicious about ariel castro? anything odd about him? he says he played in a band with castro and get this, he was inside of castro s house. what did he see there? here is what tito told us. how long did you know him? roughly 20-years. during the 20-years anything seem odd anything remote likely what developed in the 20-years? not at all. seemed like a normal person a normal musician as i saw it. i never dug into his personal life. i respected that everything was pretty much music with us. you are in a band together. yes. you went into his house? the first couple years i met him he was in rehearsal and stuff. few years back i was in his
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first thought was what? my first thought, i thanked god because for a long time i was saying that ariel castro was a very dangerous man, he had the opportunity and the means to get those girls. he disappeared in plain daylight with no struggle whatsoever. i felt very happy for my ex-wife as you know, she passed and i took it as a revenge to her that everything that he did to her. fernando, thank you very much. thank you. now to the neighbor being called a hero. charles ramsey hearing amanda berry s chilling screams for help and racing to the rescue. i went to mcdonalds, i was eating at mcdonalds, i hear some girl screaming. my neighbor he come across the street i am looking at him across the street wondering
their field office and i was interviewed with them, yes. and were they asking you about the disappearance of gina? that is correct. they asked me if i knew gina and she ever asked me into the house was she in my vehicle did i ever spend any time with gina. why were you interviewed? who put your name in this? my thought is that mr. ariel it s troe had informed them. i was living with the girls they were friends and they must have been around me and they possibly had something to do with it at this point. ariel castro who gets caught with gina and the other two he s the one who sent the fbi out to talk to you? that is correct. did you ever tell the fbi they