Matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on friday morning. 7 00 on the west coast. We hate to say it but another week, another tragic shooting in louisiana. Were getting more information as we speak. Authorities have just released this new information about the gunman. His name, john houser, a 59yearold from alabama. Authorities describing him as kind of a drifter. We know that disguises including wigs and glasses were found in the search of his hotel room. Were going to get more on that in a live interview with Louisiana State police in just a moment. But lets start on this friday morning with nbcs john yang. John, what can you tell us . Matt, right now investigators are processing this crime scene. They say the theater is littered with personal belongings, shoes, purses, keys, cell phones, things people dropped and ran whether the shooting started. Were learning more about the shooter, more about the victim, and mor
Rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this friday morning. It seems another week another tragic mass shooting this time in louisiana. Well is have more on this in a second. We are following another big story. The administrations high stakes Nuclear Agreement with iran. In studio exclusively secretary of state john kerry. He was in washington yesterday selling the deal. Hell sit down with matt in a few minutes. Back to louisiana. The gunman identified as a 58yearold white male with a criminal history. Witnesses say he stood up about 20 minutes into a showing of the movie trainwreck, pulled out a handgun and started firing. Two people were killeded. At least nine others wounded. Their ages from the late teens to 60s. Overnight the investigation had to be put on hold briefly. The bomb squad was called this in when an officer saw something suspicious inside the gunmans car. Well talk to the police and two people who were at the theater complex in a moment. Lets beg
Rowdiest party of the year. And were so ready were already here in l. A. Today, friday, january 10th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today on a friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie up here in los angeles. And im willie geist along with al roker and kate snow here in studio 1a. Matt and natalie on assignment. You mentioned Chris Christie, savannah, i think he was hoping that press conference would put some of this story to bed. Not the case here in new york. Here are the front pages of the New York Daily News calling the performance pathetic and the New York Post saying ignorance is chris. This is a long way from over. And that is todays top story this morning. The political payback scandal that is raising questions about Chris Christies political future. He says he played no role in shutting down traffic as a means of political re
Broad 19th century way. So, our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with. The second half of our semester, one of the Big Questions we are picking up on is, what does it mean to be an american . All right, who cannot claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of take us through the end of our semester into, as we deal with the 19th century. So, in the upcoming weeks, we will talk about, you know, immigrants, we will talk about kind of the progressive era, things like that. But i think this is a good start point to think about who is claiming american status and what does that mean. So, we are going to build from some of the ideas we talked about with the manifest destiny. Some of the discussion of Political Violence and build into these other things. A couple key concepts that we need to deal with, first of, all its settler colonialism. Have you heard that phrase before . I see a couple of yes and a couple of knows. Some hands he
An evening celebrating musics past and its bright future. The highlights from beyonce to the beatles today, monday, january 27th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. And im Savannah Guthrie alongside al roker and tamron hall who stayed up for the grammys. I did. And i tweeted the whole show. You didnt see it . I watched the today show for the highlights. I stayed up all night. The best grammys, i think, since i was a kid and diana ross hosted. Giving out grammys for best hat. Thats good. Coming up. Weve got an exclusive with jay leno and jimmy fallon. Their first together to talk about the tonight show handoff, their relationship, also, if jay would ever consider returning to late night. Do you guys play poker . We did. But we will begin with todays top story. Here we go again, the historic deep freeze, a new blast of brutal cold is