Profile and encourage award. She will be here along with her son, jack, first live sit down ever. What is next for her and does he have a future in politics . And theyre almost off. The 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby just a day away as a horse with one eye emerges as a fan favorite. You cant help but root for him. What are his chances . Dylan is at Churchill Downs with all the horses, the hype and the hats. Today, friday, may 5th, 2017. 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 friday morning. I just want to say it again. I love this time of year. I love the triple crown races. My family is way into this. I dont know how to tell you this. Look at Kentucky Derby grounds right now. It is raining and it doesnt look like its necessarily going to let up. Al, al. How can a mother be does not look good. Rain today, more rain tomorrow. The track, at best, is going
Comey. He says it was time. Terry mcsweeney with more on that california congressman. He says he spoke with the president last night and mr. Trump told him that hed just lost faith in mr. Comey and until a few weeks ago comey felt the same way. House Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy supporting the firing of james comey. I personally think when the fbi director thinks hes become the attorney general and prosecutor hes over stepped. Reporter to all i have long believed that a president can fire an fib director for any reason or for no reason at all. Today senator Dianne Feinstein is saying at a minimum comey firing four months ago every democrat would tell you they lost trust with comey. Reporter while outside senator feinsteins demonstration office, they protested comeys firing. Reporter janet reno made a report about fbi director and he decided to change the fib. And this comes whether mr. Trufmr. Mr. Trumps associates colluded with russia. Kamala harris we cannot wait any longer to have
To come back to Prince Georges County public schools. Reporter members met with teachers and Union Representatives this week to talk about solutions. It was productive and i feel like those are the types of conversations and collaborations we need to have, it is a massive issue. Reporter theyre looking at ways to keep kids safe from abuse without unnecessary rely pulling teachers from classrooms i believe that principals and assistant principals and people from the Central Office should have the intellect and the ability to use common sense on judging these cases so that we dont have hundreds of employees out at one time. Reporter in his first interview on this issue we wanted to keep our children safe. Reporter schools ceo dr. Kevin maxwell is look i want to go adjustment to current practices but stood by overall standards. How we conduct ourselves professionally will not change. Reporter hes heard of praise despite his critics i get many people saying thanks for what you do and keepi
Weve been on the scene for nearly 12 hours now. Cornell. Reporter eric, this fire raising a lot of questions, a lot of suspicions as well. Firefighters you can see still on scene of in massive fire, watching hot spots and dousing flairups. And right nought big concern is this construction crane here melted by the fire now in danger of falling. Firefighters have backed off a bit because of it. Atf agents are also now on seen investigating yet another fire in the very same the fire was intense, a fierce wall of flames lit up the Early Morning sky destroying a Million Dollar condo complex under construction. Very same project that went up in flames last july. Its the second time they burn it down. Construction worker matt padilla in tears seeing the site where he worked turn to rubble. Its unbelievable. Looks like somebodys against us. Firefighters attacking the firealarm infern know from all sides with water. This smot from our camera shows just ow incredible the fire was. This was a win
Several town homes were damaged in the last fire, burned a second time. This was a winddriven fire. We had em bers that were traveling two blocks. They made it to 36th street where it caught the roof of this home on fire. I had to water my roof because the wind was blowing this way and it was like raining fire balls. Some evacuated neighbors were angry they were let back in to their home before they were safe. We just lucky to be alive. Thats all. It caused 23 million in damage and misplaced two dozen people. It was labelled suspicious a cause still under investigation. Based on that information we can consider it suspicious but until the firefighters complete their investigation we wont be able to say. He fears the project will never be completed. His livelihood in jeopardy. Inside the fire scene the twisted crane now in danger of collapsing. Were back live with a shot of ad line street which continues to be closed as well as half dozen other streets all around this fire scene. Luckil