A pilot arrested after crashing into a shed. His young son on board. How quickthinking air Traffic Controllers may have been prevented something even worse. And great white quest. Its the oceans most feared predator, and nbcs Kerry Sanders is setting off on a live journey to find one in the wild today. Thursday, may 28th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning, live dive with sharks. Apparently no volunteers at this table. Thats why we have Kerry Sanders. Hes going to go in search of those wonderful creatures. Were going to watch it. Exactly right. Get to that in a couple minutes. Lets start with our top story this morning. Problems from storm after storm, now mounting in texas. Rivers rising near houston and dallas. Some neighborhoods are being told to evacuate. And to top things off, there was a tornado outbreak. Our Gabe Gutierrez is
The study they are doing of 30 practices. I think it will be interests to a lot of doctors to learn a little bit more about what other doctors are doing to make that work. She is embracing change. Some people fear change. Some people welcome change. She is encouraging her membership. She talked about silos to change what can you do to make that change in how this has to change to become more efficient and help improve the quality. A thing she has a very interesting ideas. To help the policy reporter for the washington post. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. One of the points we make in didnt make any difference to have popular elections . We decided it did make a difference. Senators began to act like house members. This is not something any senator wants to hear. It means that were scavenging for votes. Bad to go out to the people. They had to go out to the people. All you need is 14 votes. You can easily pay off and they did in some cases. They paid off 14 senators. Paying off the
Taxpayer expense. The president meeting with his cabinet this morning to discuss his second term plan for smarter government. He then plans on delivering public remarks from the white house. We will have live coverage at 11 50 eastern this morning. Congress returns today from a weeklong fourth of july break. The house and senate meet at 2 00 eastern. Later this week, federal spending. The Senate Voting today on a traditional nomination. Judicial nomination. The key legislation this week is to deal with subsidize student loans. You can see the house live here on cspan. The house energy and subcommittee on health looks at the medicaid system and considers ideas for possible changes. You can see the hearing live on cspan 3 at 4 00 eastern. The cia director will be live discussing the u. S. Dependence on foreign and domestic oil and how it affects national security. No man needs a strong partner, honest partner, more than the american president , sheltered and cocooned in what harry truman
And then you have to come back, you are shaken up. Tax change. You do not know what to say, but you will have to say something. I cannot believe i am about to say this but dr. Kissinger you have have six minutes. Would africa be better off . It is a hypocritical argument. [laughter] you are finding it annoying. [laughter] you are all in this. The United States cannot pull itself out by running a surplus unless you find another planet. We remain totally unlike japan, a place where everybody in the world wants to come and the place where everybody wants to put their money. We created colonialism and fascism and every bad thing was europe. Nor are we in the house of commons. Big deal. He will get there. It is much more frightening to have a real gun barrel pointed at your face than watching it on cnn. The last time iran attacked a neighbor was in 1859. Imagine a World Without religious faith. No scripture, no place to worship, because of that faith dedicate their lives to others. It makes
And now john spos el. There are threeways to help people who need help. Government can try to do it give people money, start programs. Charities do that, too. They are better at teaching people how to sell teach a man to fish. Theres a third way the best way i will get to that later in the show. First lets debate the first two. When i was in college johnson declared an all out war for human poverty. I believe in them and then i watch his poverty programs create pore poverty. They spent trillions of dollars and people are still pour. People on the left say it was worth it. Look at this chart. The poverty rate fell sharply after the war on would have vert began. Thats great. But wait. He extends the chart back a faw years for when it was first kept the poverty rate you notice that it was already falling just as fast. But then it stopped falling about 7 years after the war on poverty began. The history professor said because government encouraged poor americans to be dependent on governme