And good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist. Al is out in denver on a day football fans waited on. Its tonight the kickoff of the nfl season, a huge game, the super bowl champs come into denver. Thats right. When they knocked them out, the ravens knocked them out. Were here at Sports Authority field at mile high. And they have got the tarp down. If it rain this is is the largest slip and slide. But they are ready for football here. We are going to bring you all of the color, the pageantry. Weve got fans lining up. Its a very, very exciting day here in denver. All right, als going to have a lot more on the game. I think we know where your allegiance lies. I have a parttime job directing traffic after the show. That is the reason for this outfit. Dyed your hair orange too. Were going to start with the news were following. President obamas arrival in saint petersburg, russia, potential strikes on syria are expected to dominate. Chuck todd
Morning. Oh my gosh hollywoods hottest casting call is over. The new leads for one of the most anticipated movies of the decade finally revealed. Two littleknown actors catapulted onto front pages around the world. The frenzy this morning for fifty shades of grey. And good morning, america. Welcome back from labor day, and look at this. So great to have everyone back together again. Hey. How are you . Nice to see you. The bands back together again. But do you have your number 2 pencils because its like the first day of school and everything. It is. I have my protractor, and im ready to go. We know so many people who are heading back to school and heading back to work today. We have a lot of news to get to. A lot of things breaking this morning starting with the fire at the atlanta airport, one of americas busiest. Around 5 00 a. M. An area on the level of concourse t filled with smoke. Two firefighters battling it were injured. A number of passengers were impacted, unable to get to the
Devastation in the philippines. Right now, there is a humanitarian crisis of gigantic proportions, with thousands feared dead. Nbcs ian Williams Joins us live from manila with the latest. Good morning. Reporter were still trying to get together the precise information about what happened down there. We do know that the devastation has been widespread. But rescue workers are still trying to get to some of the more isolated communities, where communication is still down. Where roads are blocked. They have reached a major city on the coast that was battered when the typhoon came ashore. The local authorities estimate that perhaps 10,000 people died. Its hard to say for sure. The official death toll is just over 250. But thats certain to rise, as officials and rescue workers reach some of the outlying areas. The destruction has been massive. Cutting aswath across the philippines. A large area of the coast has almost been wiped clean. Supplies are beginning to arrive. Hundreds of soldiers a
Of the morning. We will talk weekly round up of all things. Hillary clinton is not exactly hunkering down and keeping a low profile. In case you missed it, she has an aggressive fall schedule. As impressive as any potential president ial candidate. Over the last ten days, a flurry of speeches and fundraisers has taken her from buffalo new york to chicago to beverly hills. This afternoon, pennsylvania. She key notes the conference for women in philadelphia. It ends a week where we learned every woman in the senate, democratic side is privately signed a letter urging her to run. Hollywood in the form of the once close supporter who had split with them to support obama in 2008 is wacking enthusiastic. Otherconfidants claim she is running. Im behind hillary if she runs. Thats up to her. If she runs, im in. Clinton seems to have a higher profile than the sitting Vice President as candidates carve out the places in the evolving 2016 field. We are still getting port mort em from the last camp
The irs says 330,000 americans are far enough into the process to find out how big of a subsidy theyll receive. A good indicator of how many people are signing up. But the site faced another glitch. Data system that verifies Applicant Information crashed. 36 states using federal exchanges and the 14 states that run their own. Friend of the show josh barrow is back, editor of business insider, he is a boston guy. Perhaps the answer came from what the healthcare. Gov website needs is a pep talk from david ortiz, referring to nice pep talk that big papi was giving the guys in the dugout in the game that led to that winning the game. Part of the problem is theres a big project giving the pep talk, part of the problem is we have folks in the Democratic Party that say we need to push the deadline back. But the problem with that the Way Insurance act wearies work, they start in the spring of 2014 to look at the pool and see what kinds of claims have been lodged and figure out what the rates w