Pelley this looks like an arena concert, but its a private party for the super rich. The robin hood foundations annual fundraiser seats 4,000. Brothers and sisters of robin hood. Pelley billionaires, stars and athletes are here to lay credit cards at the feet of Paul Tudor Jones. The risk is not doing it. Pelley so, what is this modernday robin hood doing with all this money . Thats our story tonight. Simon this is called lung packing, and William Truebridge is doing it to attempt something known as a free dive, going down more than 400 feet, longer than a football field, on a single breath. He carries no weights, but hell go down quickly. At 70 feet, hell lose buoyancy and will be pulled by gravity alone. Medical scholars say theyre revealing human capabilities that make them rewrite textbooks on human physiology. Im steve kroft. Im leslie stahl. Im morley safer. Im bob simon. Im lara logan. Im scott pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. My asthmas under control. I get out a lo
2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im savannah guthrie. I am carl along with al roebgroebg and nationally morales. Matt has the morning off. Good to see you carl. We are going to start with syria this morning. Pretty disturbing reports coming out of that country. Richard engle is there. I know you have been talking to representatives from the rebel group there. What are you hearing about an alleged gas attack by the government . Reporter good morning, savannah. If this is confirmed it would be one of the worst atrocities of the war in syria. Rebels tell us, there was a series of chemical weapons attack this morning starting around 2 00 a. M. At least 10 different towns and villages to the east and north of damascus were hit by surface to surface rockets fired by the regime and they were tipped with chemical weapons. The death toll acc
Right here. You asked a question, im going to answer it. Its a false choice to stay its obama care or nothing. There are numerous proposals, including the one im a cosponsorof. I yield back, sir. Let me take the time back. Are you serious what you just said . Are you really serious . After what we have gone through. After what we have gone through in the last 3. 5 years . Have you you can sit there and say that you had a legitimate alternative after these years . Weve gone through 44 votes, 48 votes now of you trying to dismantle this legislation. You ka ul that cooperation . I dont. Yep, thats one way of putting it. Welcome to morning joe, everyone. It is october 30th, the day before halloween. Thats how harold and i were on education. It wasnt that, kill the mood. We have pulitzer please historian john meacham. Are you going to do the Jonas Brothers right now . I did it earlier. I proofread it. No one proofread the Jonas Brothers. Thats a shame. Msnbc visiting analyst. Former democra
Committed to earning your confidence back by fixing the site. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, taking the blame. Hhs secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the hot seat today, acknowledging the rollout is, in her words, a debacle, but facing new questions now about whether the website exposes millions of americans to a Security Risk of their personal data. Dont you think you have the obligation to tell the American People that were going to put you in this system, but beware, your information is likely to be vulnerable. Would you commit today, secretary, to shut down the system and do an endtoend security test . No, sir. If you read the memo oh, i have read it. It goes on to say that weekly testing of devices, including interface testing daily, weekly, scans are going on. This is a temporary thats not what the memo says, number one. Number two, the contractors will tell you its not happening. Mr. Chairman, point of order. I think witness ought to be allowed to answer. Spies like us, facin
Us, but publicly in a totally inexplicable way. That is ahead. But we begin with news from boston, in boston, this is a very fancy place. Named for this Handsome Devil who paid to build it in years past. Some of the planning for the revolutionary war happened here. It is a place in boston you choose to make an announcement if your announcement is big, historical, first time it happened in the history of the nation kind of announcement. And it was in this room on april 12th, 2006, that the then governor of massachusetts, willard mitt romney sat down to sign his first legislation of Health Care Reform law. Nothing like it existed in the country back then. But republican mitt romney and the late democratic senator ted kennedy and a bunch of other folks from the state worked very, very hard to craft a law that made universal coverage possible in the great state of massachusetts. Governor romney signed that law publicly with a big grin on his face back in 2006. Well, today, president obama