Safe and continue to play. This morning the commissioners response to one star player who says the league failed to put health and safety first. Fatal encounter. A woman killed in whats believed to be maines first deadly shark attack ever while in new york several beaches now shut down. The latest in a live report straight ahead breaking overnight violent new clashes between protesters and armed federal agents in portland, oregon large demonstrations in other cities across the country. On the ground on the ground. This morning, the growing chorus of mayors demanding Congress Step in those stories, plus a heros farewell that saved a wretch like me a powerful rendition of Amazing Grace moves people to tears at the u. S. Capitol where congressman john lewis lies in state. Today, tuesday, july 28th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza hey, everybody welcome to today. So happy youre joining us on a Tuesday
From rockefeller senter in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring gym by fallon. Tonight join jimmy and his guests jesse eisenberg, Blake Griffin, musical guest gracie adams and featuring the legendary roots crew and now heres your host, Jimmy Fallon Jimmy wow. Oh my goodness thank you very much. Thank you very much. Hey, everybody, welcome to the show thank you for watching im jimmy fallon they are the roots right there thank you for tuning in. Its been a pretty crazy day with the storm hitting the east coast. Extreme winds and thousands of Power Outages so everyone out there, stay safe and were thinking about you guys all right. Lets get to some news and jokes. Well, guys, everybody is talking about this last night hbo aired jonathan swanns interview with President Trump and lets just say, it was so bad it made his coronavirus briefings look good. The interview was such a disaster at one point fema showed up and wrapped trump in a foil blanket you could tell things
Riot near the courthouse setting off fires and attempting to break into a police station. This as the president vows to send federal agents to more American Cities. On the brink, millions of americans about to lose their benefits this weekend. The latest on at extra 600 a week lifeline set to expire as Congress Scrambles to make a deal. Triple threat in the tropics. Tropical storm gonzalo expected to become the first hurricane of the season gaining strength in the atlantic. Another possible storm taking aim at the gulf and the third threatening hawaii. Ginger is tracking them all this morning. Kim kardashian west breaking her silence, publicly addressing husband kanye wests bipolar disorder for the first time following his recent troubling behavior. Why shes saying family members are powerless to help him. Lucky to be alive. Help the hiker stranded in Joshua Tree National park in the dangerous summer heat for 40 hours. How his son helped save his life. Hes telling his incredible surviv
Fighting, but its probably the air conditioner. Lets get to the news. When asked, in a new interview, if he had told staff to slow down coronavirus testing, President Trump said, quote, if we did slow it down, we wouldnt show nearly as many cases. The guy is so bad at lying thats like if your parents asked are you high, and you said, you know, marijuana is legal in several states. Following President Trumps use of the offensive phrase kung flu to describe the coronavirus, White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany defended trump yesterday and said trump is, quote, linking it to its place of origin. The same reason trump refers to mcenany as liar factory. President trump gave a speech today in arizona to a group of young republicans. Of course, in arizona, the term young republican refers to anyone whos only wearing one knee brace a megachurch in phoenix is facing skepticism ahead of President Trumps visit after it claimed to have installed a ventilation system that, quote, kills 99.
This morning the president s new defense for large scale events after two more Campaign Staffers test positive. Breaking overnight. Violent clash. Protesters try to pull down a statue of Andrew Jackson near the white house. Police responding with batons and pepper spray. Statues in other parts of the country vandalized. Some now set to be removed. Just ahead, the growing push across america to take down the controversial monuments of the past. Standing with bubba. The entire garage area has rallied around Bubba Wallace. A powerful display of unity from the entire nascar family after a noose was found in the garage of the sports only black driver. Wallace moved to tears sending a message loud and clear. I wanted to show whoever it was that youre not going to take away my smile. Those stories plus, back in business. Well take you inside the reopening efforts in upstate new york where local businesses are eager to kick off the crucial summer season. We lived through the hardest part and n