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The howitzer fired. You can see the smoke. This is where it began. Inspiring start under the averages at Arlington National cemetery. That was the chute at route 110. Moments before that people took pictures of the parachutes coming down. Members of the elite parachute team descending on the start line delivering giant american flags. 7,000 feet for one of those flags. And one of those making that special entrance, Kyle Carpenter, a medal of honor recipient. He was one of the parachuters. That repep went saved a fellow marine during a grenade attack in afghanistan. Heres what he had to say. To fly over the capital and look at the reflecting pool and the Lincoln Memorial and just the white house and just everything our country stands for, democracy and freedom, to see the sun coming up over those historic places, its what we fought for, happy to do. Reporter Kyle Carpenter is also running the full marathon right now. Hes shooting for 12 30 to cross this finish line. The people youre see
Right now runners are arriving to get ready for the marathon. Were joined by news4 jim handly. Good morning, jim. Reporter adam, angie, they are up and about. We got a few stragglers already arriving at the runners village. Count on 30,000 participants here for this 39th annual Marine Corps Marathon. Im joined by the race director. Rick, come on in. Flawless event last year. What are the biggest concerns, challenges for you this year . Probably only one thing we dont control even though we have a navy chapdelaine that we impose on him because of the connections he might have is to control the weather. Absolutely gorgeous running conditions. A little windy for our jump because what we do today will have one of the biggest american flags coming in. Not only that, one of our american heroes, the marine corps has only six medal of honor recipients and one of them who received the medal of honor from the president back in june is running his first marathon well make him do his first jump in
And Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer alongside Natalie Morales and al roker. We have a lot of news this morning including new information about the abduction of 16yearold Hannah Anderson. Its coming from newly released search warrants in the case. Well get a live report from san diego straight ahead. Well start with that deadly violence in egypt and new fears it is far from over. Nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is in cairo once again for us. Richard, good morning. Reporter good morning. Many of the casualties happened here, this burned out area was the heart of the biggest protest camp and now is being controlled by the Egyptian Security forces. That death toll . Around 500, most demonstrators, but nearly 50 from the Egyptian Army and police. After egypts militarybacked government smashed two protest camps, today it was trying to erase that they ever existe