The latest on ukraine. Michael mckee previews president obamas move to expand overtime pay. We begin with peter cook on capitol hill. And stanley fischers confirmation hearing. Good afternoon. Did he receive a warm welcome he did. Ho there is no doubt that he will be confirmed. By the full senate. Senators today particularly impressed with his resume. They have been since the president first nominated him. He is a legend in the economic circle. As centralears governor for the bank of israel and pressing senators appear on capitol hill. It is his resume that grew the most intense questions today. His time at citigroup. He spent three years with the bank on wall street and he was questioned about that by Elizabeth Warren. Of wallo big fan street. He defended his time at citigroup saying it made him a better central banker and regulator. Without that experience, i not have seen the inside of the bank. I thought that experience was extremely valuable. Toughestas about the moment for fische
Your dream come true. This is what it feels like. It is fun day monday, everybody. It is may the 5th, 2014, cinco de mayo. Billy bush and i are live from the voice stage in los angeles. Okay. This is a dream come true for you. Right . You love if i could sing, i can only imagine what it must feel like to be on the stage with the judges sitting in those four chairs right in front of us turning. Blake turning. Looking at you. Looking at me. By the way, getting you out of blakes dressing room this morning took a long time, but im glad we finally did it and here we are, because this place has history. They did scar face on this studio, in this stage. Theyre going to remake scar face. Can we agree you dont remake scar face . Yes, leave that alone. Kathie lee is usually here. Billy bush, such a great guy, came today. You know kathie fell down the stairs, she was talking about it and her knee was swollen and the doctor said to her, when you have a swollen knee and bruising and stuff, it is no
Nothing, hes joking, right . The hilarious sendup that has Andrew Garfield running for his life in an snl skit thats trending today, monday, may 5th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im savannah guthrie. Natalie morales and al roker are here. How many times have you watched that skit online . Probably about five times. Its hysterical. Its long, but were going to break it down in trending. A lot of people talking about that this morning. Were going to get to todays top story, and its that large wildfire racing through parts of oklahoma. The flames are being driven by unseasonably high temperatures and high winds, too. Nbcs jay gray is in guthrie, oklahoma this morning. Just north of oklahoma city. Jay, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. Were in the staging area right now. Hundreds of firefighters poring through here,
Well think our teeth into that question later in this cove at 19 special. But right now, come with us to the republic of congo, where research is studying the lives of guerrillas in the current pandemic as a risk that people will, in fact, the gray tapes. It is 5 oclock in the morning and Robbie Booker is already tracking through the congolese jungle. Early mornings are the best time for the young environmental scientists to search for and study the gorillas. After a one hour trek, he spots some. Under strict precautions, he tries to observe them study their behavior. Remarkably, with a mask is to avoid contamination of airborne contamination with the gorilla with corona virus. Its important that we protect the animals against the disease because we know that when the disease migrates from humans to animals and then possibly back to humans, it gets very complicated along that rid of and you can pick up the north of congo. Browser vall is home to the western lowland gorillas, thousands
Some places. Ginger has the new timing tonight. There is news tonight about the High School Cheerleader, six months pregnant, and found dead. The High School Football player in court today. There are new breaking developments as we come on the west tonight. The new surveillance of that missing mother, last seen on thanksgiving. Authorities were asked why her fiance was not at the news conference, answering, thats a good question for him. Tonight, right here, we ask him. Is it a startling sign of whats to come . Alarming news tonight on the arctic ocean. And made in America Christmas. The family idea we showed you last week here, and what you did. You have to see this. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. We have a lot to get to. And we begin tonight with the terror attack near that Christmas Market in strasbourg, france. The images coming in at this hour. It is being investigated as an act of terror. The deadly rampage began at the Christmas Market i