My brother kept us safe. Looks as though its hes an actor playing the role. Candidate for president. While on the democratic side, is this the week that Vice President biden decides if hes in or out . And first flakes. Snow sweeps from the midwest to parts of the northeast as the coldest air of the season blankets millions today, monday, october 19th, 2015. Announcer 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. Weve had a dramatic change in the weather. Its 38 degrees in the studio today. Yes, it is. Brisk in here. Not snowing, but its snowing in other parts of the country. This is the time of year where you say oh, its snowing and in january its like oh, its snowing. I know. Well talk more with al about that in a minute and breaking news out of l. A. X. In a minute but first lets start with the escalating war of words between republican president ial candidates donald
A good deal of sun by the afternoon. 52 at noon. Forecasting a high of 54 degrees. Its a monday morning. Hopefully things are moving nicely. How is it looking, lauren . We have some problems at this hour. We have a road closure on the saw mill heading southbound by exit 16, lawrence street. A multiple vehicle accident there. If youre getting on the d train, theyre bypassing 18th avenue in both directions. Thats all due to a fire on the street. Ill continue to keep you posted. Lauren, thanks very much. Today commissioner bill bratton and mayor de blasio will meet with clergy members from across the city. Theyre going to talk about the threat of terrorism and what the city is doing to keep everyone safe. Katherine creag is in Lower Manhattan with that. Reporter indeed, michael. What you said, the clergy event here at police headquarters, a huge event. Brattons reaction on what the prake esident said. As for president obamas remarks on terrorism, some political analysts have said that he
Then well get into what we know. Its a mixed report right now about exactly how many explosions. Anywhere from three to seven in jakarta. Witnesses say at least three suicide bombers blew themselves up in a starbucks. I believe thats what we were looking at right there. After police stormed that cafe, there was a reporter on the scene that said he heard an additional blast. Police also saying there were more than two hours of gun battles. As you mentioned, it all happened at a really busy shopping area of downtown jakarta. These explosions, these gun battles with police left bodies in the streets as some of these Office Workers watched from the highrise windows. There are also unconfirmed reports of explosions in other parts of jakarta. We do know there have been several warnings in recent weeks by the police that islamic militants were planning to attack. In fact, the National Police spokesman was just on local this attack is a copy cat of the paris attacks and most likely from an isi
Worked against those trying to escape europe certainly in the 1930s and during the war. , but like so much, we talk about the immigration system and how systems Work Together in other countries. It may depend on whether people come from. Where the people come from. Certainly those people in germany who were trying to get german exitject to requirements and at times germany might require you to have so much money to leave. Or you couldnt take as much money out of the country i think is a better way to put it. You could not take a certain amount out. U. S. Law required you to not be a public and required you to show so much money to qualify for a visa. Someone might be caught between a rock and a hard place when the one rule disqualifies a visa and beyond that the quota only allowed so many people care yearend if the quota is exhausted, then there is no more lisas until the next month or the next year. Host of your wants to know do we address the economy part of this guest we didnt reall
I told my mother that i loved being her son and i told my kid i love being their dad. Reporter 53yearold rich telling a packed ce roo reporters the Text Messages he was sending as the railcar he was riding on fill to the top with smoke. Ill tell you, i just didnt see any way that we were going to get out of there because the smoke was encapsulating and all you could see out the window was darkness. Reporte tomorrow morning d. C. Law firm cohen cohen says it will file a suit sloil against metro claiming negligent maintenance, negligent inspecti and a negligent respono an emergency situation. Attorney kim brooks rodney former assistant general counsel for metro, is hand thlg case. Why is it being file sodd so soon without all the facts on the table . Filing it so soon because frankly we need to know what the heck happened in that subway tunne reporter the ntsb still investigating, a preliminary report expected in the coming days. At this point everything points to a massive electrical si