hosts today on october 16, 2012. from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, decision 2012, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, liar from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. i m savannah guthrie. and i m matt lauer. here we go again. at any time s debate at hofstra university about a half hour from here on long island. it s going to be different, as you mentioned, town hall style, and the questions are coming from undecided voters. it s a different dynamic. tricky for both candidates. the president hoping to do better than in the first debate and mitt romney would love a repeat of his last performance to lock in momentum and we ll get the details straight ahead. first lady michelle obama opens up in an interview are ryan seacrest about the pressure facing her husband. we all know campaigns are about creating images. some are paying attention to this image, paul ryan, washing dishes at a soup kitchen i
if you really want to see the candidates, c-span s road to the white house political coverage takes you on the campaign trail. don t know who s going to come out and who s not. you are. i m encouraged by the crowds we re seeing. go to town halls, campaign rallies and meet and greets. thank you for coming. it was enjoyable. it s a pleasure to have a listening ear. thank you for giving one. i do have is a question for you. sure. what are some of the plans to do that? are you planning on taxing some of these big companies for shipping work overseas? i want a tax code that clears out all of the loopholes watch the new hampshire coverage on c-span television and on our website, c-span.org. next week, a look at online piracy legislation, the debate over spectrum and other key telecommunications issues expected this year. well, as 2012 begins, we thought we would take this opportunity on the communicators to look at some of the legislative and regulat
now, the young florida woman is charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee. today a woman, the defense claims carried on an affair with casey anthony s father testified. george anthony has repeated by denied the woman was his mistress. i didn t think that he could raise somebody that was capable of harming her child, and that s when he said it was an accident that snowballed out of control. security scare for french president nicolas sarkozy. in a flash, a man grabs sarkozy, almost yanks him to the ground. it happened while sarkozy was shaking hands in southern france today. guards quickly tackled that man. the united states honors robert m. gates for his extraordinary leadership and for a lifetime of service and devotion to our nation. this ask a big surprise for defense secretary robert gates today. his last day on the job, president obama awarded him the medal of freedom at a pentagon farewell ceremony. this is the highest award that the president can give
the death toll climbs in the fiery am track collision, as new details emerge about the crash and what caused it. and what caused the judge to abruptly adjourn testimony in the casey anthony trial? was a surprise witness really the reason for the delay. the flooding in north dakota reaches a critical stage while the city grapples with what could be a catastrophe. the surprise event this weekend for james bond. what daniel craig did, coming up. good morning. i m alex witt. ist msnbc sunday. let s get to what s happening right there. we begin with the historic flooding with minot, north dakota. they re struggling to hold back the souris river. janel klein is in minot, north dakota with the latest. waters look calm, but are they rising? reporter: they re not rising. they re holding steady, maybe even dropping a bit. that is the good news. the bad news is there s thousands of people displaced and thousands of homes under water. this isn t even the worst of it. many homes
job. am jon huntsman and i m running for president of the united states. the fbi finally nails the start of its 10 most wanted list. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org president obama says because afghanistan is no longer a threat to the united states, it is time to start pulling troops out and focus on nation-building here at home. in the last decade, we have spent $1 trillion on war time of rising debt and hard economic times. now we must invest in america s greatest resource, our people. we must unleash innovation that creates new jobs in industries while living within our means. the commander in chief as decided, and it has been the responsibility, needless to say, of those in uniform, to do everything humanly possible to execute it. that is worth thinking about. the president plans to take 10,000 troops out of afghanistan by this year, 20,000 more by next summer. the broad and continuing until the united states has over security to