A Police Car Set on fire, students urged to stay inside. Well have the latest. Those stories plus today exclusive. Bill oreilly joining us live for his First Television interview since his fox news firing. Toys r us files for bankruptcy overnight and snooze you can use. With the cameras rolling, my night of interrupted sleep as we shed light on a problem millions of americans face, today, tuesday, september 19th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a tuesday morning. The Hurricane Season just seems relentless this year. And keep in mind as we take you through these storms well be talking about in a second, still nine weeks to go in the Hurricane Season. And let us bring you up to date at the moment. Two hurricane threats going on. Weve got maria charging into the Eastern Caribbean after tearing across dominica overnight as a dang
Courage and faith. He passed away in july. In 1936 competing in the Olympic Games, in 1941 enlisting in the air force and in 1943 in a search and rescue mission he crashes into the ocean leaving his family convince head was killed in action. But zamperini zamperini stuck on a life raft in the open ocean and captured by the japanese and held by a prisoner of war. Still suffering with depression and posttraumatic stress until he meets the reverend billy graham. And now to talk about this story of survival and revival, the president and ceo of the billy graham eadvantage listic association. Why what was his relationship with your father . He was a war hero and the whole country knew him. Torrance named their airport after him thinking he was dead because he was so well known as an olympian and his heroism in the second world war. My father was just a young preacher. But he was holding a meeting in 1949. He was asked by a group of christian businessmen and some pastors to come and hold a s