And theyre what . Remember that break in at the socalled largest closet in the country . A man who claims to be the burglar now says the jewels, bags and furs he stole are fake. Both the victim and the thief are telling their side of the story today, monday, august 18th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt with tamron, natalie, and dylan. Good to see yowl you all. Good morning. Unfortunately we start the week with images nobody wanted to see especially the people in ferguson, missouri. Violence protests overnight. Images like this being seen everywhere this morning. Tear gas used, some of the people protesting using milk, pouring it over their face to get rid of the stinging in their eyes from that tear gas. It was an emotional roller coaster when you compare those images to the ones from the Inspirational Church service right afte
And theyre what . Remember that break in at the socalled largest closet in the country . A man claiming to be the burglar says the items he stole are fake. Both the victim and the thief are telling their sides of the story today. Monday, august 18, 2014. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt with tamron, natalie, and dylan. Unfortunately we start the week with images nobody wanted to see especially the people in ferguson, missouri. Violence protests overnight. Images like this being seen everywhere this morning. Tear gas used, some of the people gassed pouring milk over their face trying to get rid of the stinging in their eyes. It was an emotional roller coaster when you compare those images to the ones from the Church Service after the clashes resumed. This is our top story this morning. It comes after a private autopsy revealed Michael
Representatives for a district that is larger than the state of illinois. We need to continue to work to provide services to folks who do not happen to live any place close to where there is a v. A. Hospital. Over the course of my time in congress, working with the department of Veterans Affairs, we have had Outpatient Clinics that has helped. If you lived four or five hours from a v. A. Hospital, how do you get there, particularly if you are 92yearold world war ii veteran . If you are 92 when you live 2. 5 hours from the Outpatient Clinic, it doesnt make that much difference that you are two hours closer to a facility if you cannot get there nyway. One of the things i am pleased about and the legislation that is pending that i hope the Conference Committee reaches a result when we come back and vote about it, the idea if you live long distances from ava facility that the v. A. Will provide care for you. The v. A. Today has the ability to do that. They have the ability to pay for outsi
Everybody would say okay syrias done, were moving on, we dont want to spend anymore fuss over there and the issue of Bashar Alassad being there and the programmatic diplomatic engage ongoing 100,000 already killed, that that might eliminate the that goes on untouched. Need for a strike. Rose we conclude this hes on the proposal that evening with tony czuczka and Vladimir Putin sign up of the Alan Crawford wrote angela Chemical Weapons Convention and merkel, a chancellorship forged therefore obviate a need for a strike because there wouldnt be anything to deter. I think president obama is in crises. It feels like normallism, skeptical of this as anybody would be whose dealt with russia over the years. He and putin dont have a great finally, after the trauma of war relationship just a month or so ago he canceled a meeting with and then the push for years. Putin because he had so little to talk about. Having said that he was facing a its essentially assuming its pretty near certain defeat
Confirm that shortly after 8 40 p. M. Eastern tonight, 59 tomahawk missiles landed at the shea i cant tell air base inside syria in the far from homes, 120 miles from the site where the occurred in terms of. Is that is where the plane plane took off that was carrying those chemical weapons that struck that village earlier this week. In the we now have video from the pentagon of the tomahawks that were fired from both the uss ross and porter, which were based in the eastern mediterranean. Not clear how far off the coast of syria those two destroys we were. Tomahawks can fly 1,000 miles. These are 1,000pound missiles. So 59, one now pound munitions landed at one air base. You can imagine what kind of message that sent to president Bashar Alassad the Syrian Regime. We also learned from the pentagon that the u. S. Military contacted the Russian Military through an established hotline to warn them about the tomahawk strike because Russian Forces are based at that base. Its not clear if ther