And winters last gas . Heavy snow leading to accidents and Power Outages from the midwest to new england. While millions deal with a drastic blast of cold that has temperatures plunging by as much as 40 degrees today. Thursday, march 13th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. We welcome you to today on this thursday morning. Im matt lauer along with tamron hall. Savannah is off. Joined by Natalie Morales and al roker as well. Busy news day. Its so hard to believe so few answers related to that flight 370. Were almost at a week since this happened. Thats right. Well have much more on that story coming up. But our top story today is that tragedy at the south by southwest festival overnight. It was caused by an alleged drunk driver. Our nbc affiliate kxan is at the scene. Sophia, good morning to you. Reporter matt, police say a suspected drunk driver tried to escape police, but t
And the mother we share will never keep your proud head from falling 6the way is long but you can make it easy on me and the mother we share will never keep our cold hearts from calling tonigh tonight on nightline family plot. Hiring a hit man to kill your husbands bad enough. But this mother of five is accused of recruiting her own son and brother to do the dirty work. I felt an odd sensation toward the back of my neck. The problem . He survived. And now hes testifying against her. Youre watching undercover video of two al qaeda terrorists intent on killing americans on american soil. The system failed here. We welcomed them to the country as legitimate refugees without knowing their dangerous secret. Tonight brian ross is with the fbi hot on the trail of the terrorists next door. We realized we had a man here with american soldiers blood on his hands. It took it to a whole new level for us. And premiere cast. The hungary games gang in new york tonight as catching fire mania heats up
Uninformative and unethical. Basically, its treating people Like Laboratory animals. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. A new day, it is, indeed. Top of the hour now, looking across the hudson river. Thank you for being with us. And this morning, the Postal Service is caupausing one of several controversial changes that critics say endanger mail delivery across the country. The post office said its stopping the removal of mailboxes in several western states but this is only after removing the collection boxes in several other states and cutting the hours of retail operations. In washington, President Trump is refusing to distance himself from the republican candidate in congress. Shes from georgia who has pushed baseless conspiracy theories. The government is facing pushback on a vaccine challenge trial. A former Harvard School professor calls it unnecessary, uninformative and unethical. And the economic crisis is hurting families across the country. A lot
United states and around the world. Im Natalie Allen. Cnn newsroom starts right now. 5 00 a. M. Here on the east coast, thanks so much for joining us. And we begin with sad personal news for the u. S. President. Word emerged late saturday that robert trump, the younger brother of president donald trump, has died. 71yearold robert had been suffering from an undisclosed illness for some time. No details had been released about his funeral arrangements, but the president is planning to attend. Mr. Trump mentioned that his brother was ill while speaking with the news media earlier this week, and he visited him in the hospital on friday. Cnns Kristen Holmes has been traveling with the president in bridgewater, new jersey. Shes got more about it. Reporter President Trumps younger Brother Robert trump passing away late saturday night, a night after President Trump had gone on an impromptu visit to new york city. The press had known he was going to new jersey, at the last minute they told us h
Postmaster general end the services that have slowed mail delivery. They say dejoy is trying to sabotage the mail system ahead of the upcoming election where more voters will mail in their ballots because of the pandemic. Among those voters, the president and first lady, who both requested mailin ballots in florida. That didnt stop President Trump from continuing his baseless attacks on mailin voting, tweeting this morning that the 2020 election will be a fraudulent mess and that we may never know who won. Cnns Jessica Schneider has more on this growing political fight. Reporter when florida holds its primary election on tuesday, President Trump and the first lady will be voting by mail, the couple requesting ballots as President Trump has repeatedly claimed mailin voting leads to widespread voter flawed. If you look at whats happened over the last few weeks, just look at the few instances where this has happened, its turned out toer fraudulent. Reporter cnns Fact Checking team has deb