Threatening a woman at gunpoint in his home. What the star is now saying about that incident. Fiery escape. The driver at a gas station backs into a pump, sparking a dangerous fire. The car behind him igniting with two children inside. How their mother sprang into action and helped save their lives. Today, wednesday, august 31, 2016. This is today from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. Big, surprising news from donald trump overnight coming on twitter. We knew he would give a big immigration speech today. Now we found out hes going to travel to mexico and meet with the president there. Donald trump sent out a tweet saying hes going to mexico to meet with the mexican president. That before the highly anticipated speech on immigration. That comes later on this evening. We are going to hear from his Campaign Manager about the surprise trip in a moment. Lets begin with nbcs hallie jackson. Reporter good morning. Already this
And good morning. We begin with a major announcement overnight from the donald trump campaign. The republican nominee is taking his campaign south of the border planning to meet with the head of the nation that was really front and center in his tough immigration talk. Trump accepted an invitation to sit down with the president of mexico. The meeting comes just hours before a major immigration speech and is already being criticized by the clinton campaign. Abcs Kenneth Moton has the details live from washington. Kenneth. Reporter diane and kendis, mexicos president extended the invite to donald trump last week to sit down for a meeting. Well, late yesterday trump confirmed in a tweet hes going to mexico city. This morning donald trump is heading south of the border, the same one where he plans to build that wall. We are also going to secure our border. Reporter overnight trump rallied in washington state, but today the man who climbed to the of mass deportations of mexicans theyre brin
This time around. [ laughter ] sorry. Thats okay. Thats all right. We just want to keep them guessing. That will wake em up. Hi, everybody. This is our live weather camera. You saw the view from Treasure Island looking to the west. Now were looking due east at the bay bridge. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s. Its now 64 degrees in oakland. Whoo what a mild start to this last day of the month in which temperatures, take a look at San Francisco, couple of degrees off its average mark, same in concord. San jose youre not at your average peak, either. Oakland you should be at 74 but instead 71. Youll barely feel the difference. 60s with some clearing at the beaches today. Wasnt it gorgeous yesterday at Rockaway Beach . 70s and refreshing around the peninsula jumping up to the mid 80s in morgan hill and in gilroy. Fremont youre at 75. 87 degrees. 60s, 70s and 80s to the north. Looking ahead to the holiday, we have that forecast 18 after the hour but right now lets hand it over to roqui. Than
The accident was caused by heavy brush. It is tough to see how deep the water is. Is about to end of the team across so it is hard to see how deep it is. But it is deep. Reporter this comes a week after two girls ages 4 and 7 when the car went hand and lost their life driven by their mother. Their full role is wednesday. Funeral youve bill that is especially hard. And there is nothing that you can do about it. You feel reporter their cars go out to the family and two girls dell lost their life. Their heart go out to the family. The two girls lost their life. We did talk about the wall. We did not talk about who would pay for it. Grant mexicos president saying trump did talk about a border wall today. And that he made it clear to trump. That whatever the u s decided to build, mexico would not be paying for it. Grant the republican president ial candidates flying trip to to his highly anticipated speech about immigration tonight. He is due to deliver that speech with the hour in phoenix.
5 weeks leading up to opening, they put trains on the line to test the system and kept to the schedules they have now, but with no passengers, the goal, explained in the contract with denver transit partners, was to get a testing score of 95 or above on 21 consecutive days. You didnt come anywhere nee that. No. Reporter spokesperson, instead of geting to the goal of 21 days of 95 or above like this, the aline delivered but 6 passing days in all. 6. That is it. And still, the aline opened up on time, on april 22. Reed said he knows what you are thinking, but. We knew that going in, it would be almost impossible. Reporter . Impossible, maybe, but a report suggests problems from a rescue train that broke down trying to rescue problems with crossing arms, that to this day require 2 people to monitor every crossing 24 hours a day. We are still not to the level rtd expects, it is not what our passengers expect. Reporter rtd said the goals were a stretch, and there were no requirements the al