For inter hell in helen a biogf cosmopolitan editor telling gurley brown. This is one hour. Hello, everybody and thanks for your patience. We are excited to be celebrating the launch of enter helen by brooke hauser. Lets ge give a round of applau. [applause] we would appreciate if you grab one from us. A little bit about author and moderators. Brooke hauser has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and glamour among others. Shes also the author of victory and great journeys at the high school for immigrant teens which is the winner of the Library Association 2012 alex award. First moderator is jezebel. Com editor anna holmes whos written for the New York Times, washington post, newsweek, new yorker online and others and books including the book of jezebel which we have up at the registers as well. And she works as a columnist for the review. The last moderator rachel syme is an editor and reporter. Her work is in the new yorker, gq, wall street journal magazine, Rolling Sto
Chose to commemorate as history with a plaque were the unmemorable speeches of two powerful men. Think, explains why this museum is so necessary. Because that same object tellsed, put in context, us so much more. Americans, we rightfully pass on the tale of the giants who built this country, who led armies into battle, who waged seminal debates in the halls of congress and corridors of power. But too often, we ignored or millionse stories of who millions of others built this nation just as surely, whose humble eloquence, whose callused hands, whose steady drive helped to create industries, build the arsenals of democracy. Museumthis national helps to tell a richer and full her story fuller story of who we are. It helps us better understand president buthe also the slaves. Industrialists but also the keeper of the status quo, it also be activist seeking to overthrow that status quo. ,he teacher or the cook alongside the statesman. Story,knowing this other we better understand ourselves
A car with a woman and her baby inside plunges inhe water. And more bad blood . Anotherr kanye west taylor swift feud this morning over racy music. C. She says she gave her blessing. Her team says not true. It doesnt look like she is ready to shake it off. Today, saturday, february 13th, 2016. Because we got badad blood we used to be mad love romm nbc news, this is today. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welclce to today. Im erica hill. And im craig melvin. Not a person on the plaza. We have a a nch of hand warmers ready to hand out. And a bunch of airplanes. He needs to get somewhere quickly. We do have folol over here. We will see them in bit. Look at t t temperatures around the country. Minneapolis, 6 below zero right now. That is just the temperature. That is not how it feels outside. It i i understandably chilly here. Dylan checked the temperature in new york. Its whwh . Its 21 with the windchill of 11. That is it. It will not warm up. It will get colder. We
We have a new poll for South Carolina to talk about. Our top story, president obama plans to travel to cuba next month. Ron allen is on white house duty this morning. Good morning to you. Reporter the white house is expected to announce the esidents trip to cuba sometime later today. It has been just over a year since mr. Obama said he would begin normalizing relations. Many critics are saying it is much too soon to reward the castro regime. A Senior Administration official telling nbc news that president obama will visit cuba in march marking the first time in 88 years a sitting president will visit cuba. These 50 years have shown isolation has not worked. It is time for a new approach. Reporter warming relations began after facetoface meetings. The pair announcing in late 2014 that they would begin over time it is possible for us to turn the page and develop a new relationship between our countries. Reporter last august the American Embassy was open. Since then secretary of state joh
During an abuse investigation. The problem, officials had thead wrong child. So what happened . Your news starts right now. All right. Al we do begin with that maryland a state trooper who is in Critical Condition tonight following a terrible recollect on the beltway. We thank you for joining us, im tony perkins and im shawn yancy. The crash led to miles long backups in both directions for r hours right during the middle of the evening rush. It began in the outer loop in license hem. The trooper was parked on the shoulder in his unmarked patrolo vehicle investigating an accident. Thats when another car smashedn in the troopers car sparking a Chain Reaction crash. The trooper is now at shockk trauma in baltimore and tonight we are hearing from a tow truck driver who witnessed the accident and helped free thatel trooper. Fox5s Sarah Simmons spoke s exclusively with him. Hi sarah joins us with the latest. Reporter shawn, i want to wa talk to him and show him just im a moment, but to reite