Bachelor star chris soules, one he made himself, before police say he fled the scene. Is he breathing, sir . I cant tell. This morning, a new twist, investigators trying to find out who drove him home. And up in the air. A woman casually takes a seat on a crane 12 stories high forcing a delicate and dangerous twoandahalfhour rescue. What did she say to you . Im okay, how you doing . Im doing good, just hope we can get out of this together. Now shes under arrest. Why she was up there, still in the first place a mystery today, thursday, april 27, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from stood studio isa in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. I guess you file that last one in the category of things you dont see every day. But luckily it ended okay. Yeah, but a dangerous situation there. Well have more on that in a moment. But were going to begin on this thursday morning with a real flurry of activity
The 911 call from chris soules, one he made himself before police say he fled the scene. Is he breathing, sir . I cant tell. This morning a new twist. Investigators trying to find out who drove him home. And a woman casually takes a seat on a train 12 stories high forcing a two and a half hour rescue. What did she say to you . Im okay. How are you . I go well, im doing good. I just hope we can get out of this together. Now shes under arrest. Why she was up there in the first place, still a mystery today on april 27th, 2017. Good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. I guess you file that last one in the category of things you dont see every day, but a dangerous situation there. Well have more on that in a moment. Well begin on this thursday morning with a flurry of activity at the white house. President trump is abandoning his plan to withdraw from nafta, at least for now. While the battle over his administrations massive tax reform plan is getting underway. Well talk to the
Commodity trading. Lots of damage to report in the new york city area, more than 50 homes were destroyed by fire last night in breezy point queens. Just east of cone any islands, more than 170 firefighters were on the scene. And separately more than 200 patients were evacuated last night from new york universitys Medical Center after power went out. Patients some on respirators operating on Battery Power were taken to other hospitals. And check this video out. A crane on this luxury high rise building, thats under construction, topping over on 57th street, the 90 Story Building looks over central park. Luxury apartments telling for tens of millions of dollars. The crane could be seen blowing in the wind for most of the night and officials there trying to figure out how to get that down eventually. To find out how much rain and wind sandy will be packing and where its heading next, jen carfagno has the forecast. Between morning. So we are still dealing with central winds of 65 miles an
No damages to the building. Of course, all morning, meetings with the Operations Team to make sure that things are possible to get going. A lot of issues concerning connectivity, for example, can they get data in and out of the buildings, not just the nyse but the nasdaq, other exchanges as well. The important thing is the systems appear to be working now, the thing we were waiting for. Nasdaq also says they are going to open as usual, bats says they are open as usual. Dont have a statement from direct edge, i assume they are going to be opening as usual. This is looking more like good news. Now, this is coming a little earlier than i had anticipated. Right. Because remember, there are some things they dont control like, for example, the ver ripz system downtown, they dont have. Theres no power downtown. They dont have necessarily control over the phone operation and the data systems that are going in there. They have been testing that all morning to make sure they can actually do it w
Doing. Theyre in close contact with federal, state, and local officials. Theyll make sure we get the resources to those families as swiftly as possible. Again, i want to thank everybody here whos doing such a great job when it comes to the disaster response. The final message i just say is, you know, during the darkness of the storm, i think we also saw whats brightest in america. I mean, i think all of us obviously have been shocked by the force of Mother Nature as we watch it on television. At the same time, weve also seen nurses at nyu hospital carrying fragile newborns to safety. Weve seen incredibly brave firefighters in queens waist deep in water battling infernos and rescuing people in boats. One of my favorite stories is in north carolina. The coast guard going out to save a sinking ship. They sent a rescue swimmer out. The rescue swimmer said, hi, im dan. I understand you guys need a ride. You know, that kind of spirit of resilience and strength, but most importantly looking o