Shots fired. The nras heated response to walmarts new move to ban sales of some guns and ammunition, and the pressure on Mitch Mcconnell this morning. Those stories, plus, billions pulled from the pentagons budget to help pay for the president s border wall. How democrats plan to fight back. Dislikes. Why some are worried facebook is about to get rid of its most iconic feature. And good news. The little boy thrown from a mall balcony is headed back home. Today, wednesday, september 4th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. Weve been watching the track of dorian and unfortunately weve seen what its done to the bahamas. The hurricane so large that watches now extend from florida all the way to North Carolina. And again, we are getting a clearer sense now of the damage in the bahamas. Just look at that. Those are
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For words following president Trumps Campaign rally last night were racism, fascism, and xenophobia [ laughter ] well, at the rally, that was the calendar of events [ laughter and applause the dnc the dnc has announced that the lineup for the upcoming Second Democratic debate will mirror the first debate with montana governor Steve Bullock replacing congressman Eric Swalwell who has dropped out of the race. So, basically they replaced Eric Swalwell with the faceapp version of Eric Swalwell [ laughter and applause the house of representatives voted today on a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour said trump, thats too high i mean, who works for a whole hour [ laughter and applause i mean, maybe if you broke it up over the course of the day. [ laughter ] a long island man recovered his missing nine foot long anaconda this week after finding it in the dashboard of his van [ laughter ] [ audience oohs but, you should still always say no if a stranger ever asks you to
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