december 18th 2017. glad you re with us. happy birthday to you. thank you. happy birthday to your daughter sidney ton all you statue tanners out there. happy happy birthday. what time is the party? well, you know the older you get the more parties don t mean that much. so we re not invited. right. [ laughter ] in other words. that s the bottom line. we re not invite. what happened was ing. still empty mix. maybe next year. 9:01 is the time. also a ahead a teenager with local ties made us history becoming the first ever black woman to made the olympic speed skating team we ll introduce to the 17-year-old talk to her coming up next. all right. that s exciting. very exciting. i m getting exciting. i love the olympics. i do too. i m an olympic junkie. i like all the stories. i m mad if i miss the opens stories. i like it all. let s take live look outside right now because it s pretty mild. gorgeous morning treat to do beautiful sunrise.
the morning until 9:15 last night. count the hours. we still love each other. yes, we i can t say that about most people. yeah, we did a nice little toast for matt for his 20th. a bunch of us were at the hunt and fish club. we go there for big outings. it s a beautiful, beautiful restaurant. we had a wonderful time. do we have a picture of the group there? no. okay. we were celebrating his 20th anniversary, 20 years here at the today show. what an impact he s had h. he s gracious and modest. we do have a picture. at the very end and certain people said certain things that cannot be mentioned. at all. more like a roast. he said at the table he said i m sick of me. it s been a whole week of all these accolades. he s not comfortable with it. we re at the table of all a bunch of people. matt has a great way of producer who was beloved here who is no longer working here but came back for the dinner. he said i want to say it s so good to see you.
there were other people and they were dismayed that this was happening in their community. they re basically destroying the place that they live. it ran the gamut ofi last nights unrest, that was just one part of what has been an unusually and tragically violent weekend. there are nineh shootings and five homicides friday night. how it all unfolded. we asked u.s. cellular customers to show us all the beautiful places they get coverage with our strong signal. you posted from the seashore. you shared from your hike. you showed us this sunset. you posted from the farm. and you adventured way out there. ?? u.s. cellular put towers where the other guys don t. so join our network, and start sharing your moments milwaukee police are investigating a homicide. police say they are investigating a homicide at north 27th and west lisbon. no other details have been released so far. but this is the 6th homicide in milwaukee. already this weekend. the other 5 homicides - came as part of 9
to tears. a police involved shooting saturday afternoon - leads to chaos by nightfall. looked like baghdad. you goin to war? for what from flames to charred remains.. tonight - city leaders plead for peace. last night was like anything i have ever seen in my adult life in this city. i hope i never tonight s big story - milwaukee unrest. a live look at a gathering near the bp gas station on sherman and burleigh.. it was just one of the casualties of last night s violence sparked by an officer involved shooting. we ll have more from there in a moment - but first - a break down of just some what happened last night. 4 officers were hurt. all have arrested. they all had prior criminal records. right now - 150 police officers trained in crowd control are on duty - so are 100 milwaukee county sheriff s deputies.. there are also 125 national guard members - they re in place to help tonight if needed. the mayor says he s prepared to enact a curfew if necessary. we have team coverage
by a piece of concrete and sustained a concussion and a laceration requiring seven stitches to close after a request from milwaukee county sheriff david clarke, governor scott walker has activated 125 members of the national guard to milwaukee. our intention is that they are not coming over to be immediately on the ground or on the streets, but that they would be available at this site if a request was made sunday, clarke and milwaukee police chief ed flynn clarke said they each have the authority to make that request. c burning down while we re out of resources and still trying to mobilize :29 this is insurance. that s all it is. this is insurance mayor tom barrett tried to calm the community by justifying the police shooting that happened hours before the unrest. the officer who fatally shot 23 year old sylville smith was wearing a body camera. the video is with state investigators, but barrett says he saw a photo lifted from it that clearly shows smith armed. that still ph