Face heavy rain, hail, and possible tornadoes. And that brutal heat wave not over. Well have the latest forecast. All that, plus, survival story. A plane crash off the california coast, and the couple films the whole thing. There she goes. A rare, up close look at a remarkable rescue. Summer of sharks. How a string of sightings in one of the most popular beach spots in the nation is taking a serious bite out of business. And hot and bothered. The major coffee chain rolling out Pumpkin Spice coffee drinks in the heat of summer. It is so good. Im sweating my face off, and i dont want Pumpkin Spice. Leaving a nation divided. Today, wednesday, august 21st, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. At the top for us this morning, we have the story of the president deciding not to go to denmark after all. He called off his state visit
European equities everybody is keying off everybody. Again red arrows pretty much across the board and finally can you look at crude prices right now. Wti terrible session. When we were talking yesterday we were up 40 points in the morning. Funny way things happen. Theres sort of a premise and maybe its correct among democrats or people who favor hillary that trump would be a disaster for the stock market and sell off. Its funny when you see the market go down yesterday for whatever reason, uncertainty or whatever, it becomes oh, its uncertainty. You think its because maybe now trump can win . I wont go that far. Its uncertain. A Hillary Clinton win because more uncertain. Really in the past two days the likelihood of donald trump winning not two days. Five days. More than that. Two weeks. Whatever length of time you want to give it his chances have increased whether you think they are substantial or not clearly the market thinks they are substantial. And i have i know you disagree but
Country, delicate and strangely made proud yet thrusting perpetually under siege. Your arm struggles for profits have lest currents of debris upon my breast. Yet today i call you to my riverside if you will study war no more. Come clad in peace, and i will sing the songs the creator gave to me when i, and the tree and the rock were one. Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your brow, and when you yet new you still new nothing. The river sang and sings on. There is a true yearning to respond to the Singing River and the wise rock. So say the asian hispanic, jew, African Native american sioux, catholic, muslim, french, greek, irish, the rabbi, the priest, the sheik, the gay, the straight, the preacher, the privileged the homeless the teacher. They all hear the speaking of the tree. They hear the first and last of every tree speak to human kind today. Come to me here beside the river. Plant yourself beside the river. Each of you accident end of some passedon traveler has been paid for
Mystery going viral this morning . What he did for his brother and for a Department Store that has his family and fans saying yeah, baby, yeah. And good morning, america. Happy friday. So great to see mike myers back doing austin powers. We get to hear you do. Magma, yes. Dr. Evil will return. Hes making news for another reason. Well talk about that. We have a lot to get to this morning. Beginning with the blast of cold air and snow across the country. Most of the lower 48 states colder than parts of alaska. Our extreme weather team is tracking it all led by ginger, well start with abcs rob marciano. Hes in denver for us this morning. Good morning, rob. Reporter good morning. Another frigid start to the day in denver. Temperatures in the Single Digits again. Thats almost 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. After four database wing the thermometer is frozen behind me. This week ends the way it began, but now half the country is in the throws of cold snap. Its cold and dreary in erie, and
It is my great pleasure to introduce the chairman of the Kennedy Library Foundation Board of directors who gives endlessly of his time and extraordinary talents to both this institution and to our country. [applause] to welcome everybody here this morning. This is one of the great highlights of the year for this Great Library and we are honored to have all of you here with us today to celebrate a very special day. As we begin the ceremony, i want to acknowledge a couple of people who are pivotal and we are pleased that they are here today. First, my close friend and a man hisgives whatever he asked, vision, his work indispensable to this institution. Not do not know this but it is said that designed the tiffany lantern we will be presenting to our distinguished awardees. That is one of the many things that it does for us and i appreciate that. And rosewelcome Ed Schlossberg is here today. We are happy to have jack schlossberg. Shy in ourt deliberations. We will hear more about jack and