Choices, weve come to the center of the political universe today, monday, february 1st, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, iowa votes, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from des moines, iowa. And good morning, everyone. We thought this day would never come, but its finally arrived. Welcome to a special edition of today on a monday morning. We are, yes, in des moines, iowa, joined by a lot of enthusiastic residents of this state on a very pivotal day in the president ial election. This is so exciting. Its an Early Morning for you and will be a late night for the folks if theyre planning to caucus. It happens every four years. Finally time to vote. Its caucus day. In a few hours from now, iowa will be the first state to officially vote for who they the candidates have been crisscrossing the state for months. 60,000 Television Ads have aired here. Countless doors have been knocked on. After it all, the republicans and the democratic races are neck
Good evening on this wednesday night. And we have a lot to get to. But we begin with that seismic win for republicans. They had control of the house, they now have control of the senate. With help from millions of american voters. Late today, president obama appearing before the cameras, so many wondering, would he signal a fight or would he signal hope for compromise . President bush famed a similar picture in his second term, coming out and calling it a thumping. Now, its president obama. Late today, it was a question from our own jon karl and an answer about kentucky bourbon that was most telling. Lets get right to jon at the white house. Jon, bourbon . Reporter yes, david. Bourbon. The president offered the drink some bourbon with the new man in charge of the senate. He offered no sign that he has a mea culpa or a desire to change course. No apologies from the president today. In fact, he suggested democrats lost primarily because most people didnt bother to vote. To everyone who v
Good evening on this wednesday night. And we have a lot to get to. But we begin with that seismic win for republicans. They had control of the house, they now have control of the senate. With help from millions of american voters. Late today, president obama appearing before the cameras, so many wondering, would he signal a fight or would he signal hope for compromise . President bush famed a similar picture in his second term, coming out and calling it a thumping. Now, its president obama. Late today, it was a question from our own jon karl and an answer about kentucky bourbon that was most telling. Lets get right to jon at the white house. Jon, bourbon . Reporter yes, david. Bourbon. The president offered the drink some bourbon with the new man in charge of the senate. He offered no sign that he has a mea culpa or a desire to change course. No apologies from the president today. In fact, he suggested democrats lost primarily because most people didnt bother to vote. To everyone who v
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Saw springsteen, a clip of him. Weve been to an event before where they do these auctions. Springsteen donated a guitar, a lesson on the guitar, you get to ride with him on the guitar. All that stuff. About 300,000 for one of those packages. Pretty cool. What i want to see is the joint chiefs chair general Martin Dempsey sing new york new york. Do we have that . I hope why can find it. I bet his singing is better than mine. Oh, youre selling yourself short. No, im speaking matter of fa factually. I dont think he does country. Now to boston, where they are sanitizing an Elementary School after an outbreak of norovirus. 140 students and ten Staff Members. The contagious virus spread quickly especially where theres a high concentration of people. School administrators in boston say the bug has not spread to other campuses. Another school in the news. This one in ohio threatened by a slowmoving lava. The lava from the kilauea volcano is closing in on Elementary School which is now closed b