Savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. So good to have you with us on thursday morning. We have craig in for matt once again. For the first time in a week, for the first time in a week, the rain has finally stopped, but of course harveys fury is still being felt across the gulf coast. Lets get to the latest. Breaking news in crosby, texas, just outside houston. Thats where fire is burning at a Chemical Plant following two overnight explosions. Its owners had warned they were unavoidable after the facility lost power and its ability to cool those potentially volatile materials. Well go to crosby live in a moment. At least 28 deaths are being blamed on the storm, but that number is expected to climb sharply in the coming days. Houstons Fire Department is beginning a blockbyblock search of thousands of flooded homes today. In texas alone, 25,000 water rescues alone have been carried out since the storm started with Ongoing Op
Actually been in space and that is astronaut Leland Melvin and, mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Yeah, exactly. A dropped path, i pass. I block a lot and we were at a homecoming game. The ball was perfectly thrown in the game and i dropped a touchdown pass in my hands and the thing is a scout was there from the university of richmond looking to see if i could play football for the team. He walked out of the stadium, my coach green believed in me, this time i caught the ball, that one catch resulted in 180,000dollar scholarship to the university of richmond because the coach said he didnt give up, he kept going. That was the grits and the first and the second chance. How did you get from playing from the university of richmond spiders to Space Shuttle missions . I think the turning of season from 010 around to 38 in playoffs brought the College Scout and then all of the hard work and dedication and disc
And no one saw it. I started writing the book and i asked my question again. Why are you requesting that question . And answer became clear to me, for two reasons, the first happened just last year. I think 2016 was the year when we started living 51 of our lives in cyberspace. Thats where we went to get a news, buy a book, buy a car, meet with our friends, find a date, find a spouse, we are now living in the developed world at least 51 of our lives in cyberspace. My definition of cyberspace its a realm where we are all connected and no one is in charge. Its the ultimate god free realm, no stoplights, no police, no ethics code, no 1800please stop putin from hacking my elections. We are living our lives in a realm thats ethics and godfree. And at the same time because of these accelerated powers ive written about, we are now standing at a moral intersections we have never stood at before as human species. One country could kill all of us post hiroshima, im glad it was mind. I believe we
Good morning everybody. God to have you with us on a tuesday morning. Really picking up in the southeast this morning. No question about it. The further camera crews and reporters get into these areas, the worse it seems to get. Absolutely. The death toll rising. At least 11 People Killed by the storm in the u. S. And 29 in the caribbean. Heres a startling number. 8 million customers without power. Overwhelming majority, nearly 7 million in florida. At least one official is warning this morning of a potential humanitarian crisis in the florida keys. An Aircraft Carrier and other navy ships are being rushed to help with search and rescue. City of jacksonville flooding. Mayor says this could take days for the water to recede. Were going talk to him live. Lets start our indepth coverage with dillen dryer good morning. Good morning, savannah. This is the st. Johns river behind me which overflows its banks like never before. Its incredible that irma impacted all of florida, from key west to
A special edition of today the impact of irma. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Good to have you with us on a tuesday morning. Its picking up in the southeast. The more the reporters get into these areas, the worse it seems to get. The death toll is rising overnight. At least 11 people were killed by that storm in the u. S. Another 29 in the caribbean. Heres a number thats startling. Nearly 8 million customers without power this morning across the south. The overwhelming majority of those, nearly 7 million in florida. Thats almost a third of that states population. One official is warning of a potential humanitarian crisis in the florida keys. An Aircraft Carrier is going there. And jackson is dealing with recordsetting flooding. Its led to evacuations of people and rescues. The mayor says this could take days for the water to recede. Were going to talk to him live in a couple minutes. Dylan dreyer is in jacksonvil