At least 19 people killed. 25 others injured. This morning what the suspect says drove him to commit that countrys worst mass killing in decades. And hammered. Intense storms tear across the northeast while that wildfire near los angeles goes from bad to worse. Crews struggling to get the upper hand today, today, tuesday, july 26th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Democratic National convention with matt lauer live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza and Savannah Guthrie live from philadelphia. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a special tuesday morning. Day two of the Democratic National convention. Im here in philadelphia with a few of my closest friends. Matt, i know youre back in the studio. We said it last week at the Republican National convention. Lets say it again. Who said conventions are boring and scripting . Day ones theme was united together but from the sound of things at certain times last night despite the speeches of
Atlantic city. The Eastbound Strangler. Strangling prostitutes and leaving on a ditch behind the city hotel. The bodies were discovered behind the golden key motel. The media called the killer the Eastbound Strangler, and no one has been arrested. Demolished last summer. We went to check out the lay of the land. Hard to put your finger on. The background is important because of another case just two years later. On anti gun federal task force stockpile. Got to review some of the evidence. That took him. Full of male and female genitalia. Taken to the gun range leaving the deer untouched. Strangle himself with a piece of clothing. Nothing short of astonishing. Art and photography. And this profile even predictable what happened if the killer is captured. You would commit a final active control which would be suicide. This guy has obviously got some issues. They all do. Criminal profile was done , the Eastbound Strangler serial killer. After we had our story incredibly one of the most no
Just after 11. Was hit and killed. I spoke to the nevada Highway Patrol in december about these problems. Weve had boulder hwy on our sights for a number of years thats tony illia with ndot. And he went on to tell me ndot wwould be making changes. Including. Installing lights to crosswalks so drivers know where people are at night. Ndot said the project would take six to eight months to complete. And eight months later its not completed. Nats metro police say the man killed wednesday was walking in a crosswalk. But against a dont walk sign. Erin breen is the director of the vulnerable road users project at unlv. And thinks the 60 year old might of ran out of time getting across. So we wanted to try it. Its funny because we are so used to cars doing that we finished the walk. With no time to spare. So here we are in our 30 seconds boom right to the other side could we have walked faster yes but we are very able bodied pedestrians here get 30 seconds to the middle if they run out of time
Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. Did your reading help you in your work as a congressman . It does. History in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress they sort of think history begins with them, but youre really stepping into the flow and if you read particularly contemporary history, a lot of intere
President s . Guest quite a few. My taste is about the same as everybody else. Well, maybe not. I will grant you theres been about on him and eisenhower. Again, you do get some wonderful privileges. She was kind enough to invite me the chief of staff another dear friend to come out to gettysburg to get a personal tour of the eisenhower postpresident ial homestead. And it was wonderful. It was one memory after another. Here is where i met khrushchev and the house. We were talking and i actually got close to the plane and 59. My dad was a Master Sergeant in the air force base and i will bl never forget us going out there to look at the plane that had brought Nikita Khrushchev to the united states. He was the most Senior Master on the base. It was wonderful. What a treat. Their grandmother and grandfather and what it was like and see the things in the home but have a personal hunch this is where i used to sit when my grandmother was doing this, that and the other. Host i dont know if you