One of the epic performances in the sport. 21yearold Jordan Spieth wins his first major. The second youngest masters champion in history. A recordbreaking victory proving the future of golf is already here today. Monday, april 13th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Savannah and natalie have the morning off. Im joined by hoda kotb. Look whos here. Thank you for inviting me back. We appreciate it. We are here on a morning that even nongolf fans are talking about it. You watched the masters. There was something about this kid that was so captivating. How he was able to stay so cool 21 years old on that golf course. To be so talented and to already have a green jacket its a big deal. Well tell you more about spieth coming up. But lets start with our top story. Hillary clintons president ial campaign is off and running. And less than on
Good morning, everyone. Joining us today, ryan smith. I was going to call you ryan holmes. Ryan hoimslmes. People confuse me and t. J. Were two different people. The two of you guys. T. J. Says the same thing at gma. I laugh about it all the time. Thats good. Ill tell ya what a day for Hillary Clinton, a day that shes been waiting for. Its been a big day. Packed up now on the campaign trail this morning, hours after making her big announcement on social media. Interesting she did that. She got in the van and headed to iowa. While stopping for gas in pennsylvania, she tweeted this photo with a family from michigan. Aids say it was her idea to take the 1,000 mile trip to meet regular people. Abc has the latest on the announcement and campaign. Everyday americans need a champion and i want to be that champion. Reporter Hillary Clinton makes it official, laumpblnching the second bid for the white house on youtube and twitter, the number one trending topic worldwide. The run seemed inevitab
After a touch down they kick an extra point. Right. They usually snap it from the 2 yard line. It has to be moved back. Youre adding about 13 yards to the extra point attempt is what were saying. This is like adding three extra minutes to the game. Youre just making it harder to get the extra point. Thats all. Now to a real mans sport. Cliff diving oh my goodness. That was not my words. All right. I do love my nfl. College, too. These guys were diving from a cl i have. That what is this . They were jumping from a tower at the entrance to okay, thats impressive to a harbor along frances thoracic coast. Thats impressive. Wait that was a guy there, too. Spins, turns, flips, you see whats going on. You see why its a real mans sport. Jumping into the water . Looks good. If you couldnt tell this was a red bull sponsored event. Yep, they had a huge crowd. 75,000 people turned out to watch it. The next event on the tour is in texas. A week from this sunday. To go with that, a real mans sport,
We were like 2 blocks away. So we got into the car and then about 2 1 2 hours later instead he brang us here. Reporter 10yearold rafi and his 6yearold sister had been playing at the Silver Spring park and were walking home, but at 4 55 p. M. Police received a call asking officers to check on the childrens welfare. Somebody called 911. The Police Called cps and they brought the kids here and they didnt call us. Reporter cps finally called the meitev three hours later when they were frantically searching for their missing children. Youve got to tell the parents, especially when parents are being accused not paying attention where their kids are. Reporter parents may disagree when its safe to let children walk uncompanied. 6, definitely not. 10 with a group maybe. Reporter but after that incident many question the priorities of child protective services. I just hope that the authorities are also not using all their resources just on this case and that theyre looking at other children as w
Also new we are working to find out condition of two people hurt in the wrong way crash on the beltway. It happened early this morning, causing big delays as you can see, on the outer loop near the landover road exit. Maryland state police tell us the person driving on the wrong side of the road was hurt along with a passenger. Highway is open again now. New information to share about the death of a toddler in Prince Georges County. We now know that the child wandered into the street on early oaks lane in Capital Heights last night. The driver who hit the boy or girl had just left a Family Gathering there. Prince georges county police say, it appears what happened was a tragic accident. Theyve not released the childs name as of this morning. Developing story on capitol hill. Everything is back to normal this morning, following a shooting outside the capitol. Lawmakers set to return tomorrow following twoweek spring recess. A man shot and killed himself on the west front of the capitol