All. The winning team is celebrating with us today, thursday, september 26th, 2013. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer. I dont care if you know nothing about sailing. This was cool stuff yesterday. All you need to know is that this team came back from an 81 deficit. Won eight straight races and retained the america cup. Thats cool. I hear theyre going to play pittsburgh next. Anthony from behind camera one over there. Thank you, anthony. I had nothing to say about sailing. People will be excited when they hear how they pulled this off. Todays top story and that is this looming government shut down. Nbcs Peter Alexander is in washington. Peter, good morning to you. Matt, good morning to you. Simply put, everyone is zeroing in on october 1st. Thats next tuesday. If congress doesnt reach a budget deal boy then, federal agencies close. Its also the first day when uninsured americans can sign up for the president S Health Care
There are two things that they can do to put a spark back in their marriage, what would you say . Plus, what is going on in this Television Commercial and what is it theyre selling, exactly . That and more as rock center gets under way. And good evening. We wanted to start off rock center in the thick of new york here tonight. As you may have heard there are blizzard warnings posted here in the east and theyre already getting all they can handle tonight especially along the massachusetts coast and in the city of boston they may get 30 inches of of snow to go with their high winds before this is all over. In fact, upwards of 50 million americans are being affected by this storm with snowfalls that could make history for this day and in the most densely populated corridor in the country concerning travel, travel has been essentially paralyzed. As we get ready to run inside for the hour, were going to start the broadcast off with an unforgettable story about travelers. This is a story few
Speaking out in his first interview since being declared virus free. Being as fortunate as a human being can feel. While a dallas nurse receives surprising news about her condition. Hear from her family. Facebook surprise. Mark zuckerberg speaks in china doing it entirely in mandarin. The secret behind his new found skill today, thursday, october 23rd, 2014. From nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and issavannah guthrie. Good morning, savannah remains on maternity leaves, and you see from that shot, stormy skies, and, boy, did it rain last night. It sure did. Moving north o new england, another day before it is out of here. Hopefully it passes soon. Thursday morning, top story, and that is the investigation in the deadly shooting in canada as we learn more now about the gunman responsible for the chaotic taetae scene. We are in ottawa with more. Good morning to you. Reporter this city and country awake a changed place after an act of violence took place here aimed at the seat of
Peter, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning to you. Simply put, everyone is looming in on next thursday. If congress doesnt reach a bug dell by then, federal agencies close. It is also the first day when uninsured americans can sign up for the president S Health Care law. With the clock ticking, here is where things stand. Its getting down to the wire. Lawmakers have barely 100 hours to agree how to keep the government funded or shut it down tuesday. Republicans remain deeply divided. Senator cruzs 100 hour talkathon, quickly dismissed by john mccain, which insisted it is not worth shutting the government down over opposition to obamacare. But we not as hard as we could in a fair honest manner and we lost. Reporter in northern virginia, people are being more contemplative about it. People will say they will think before they boy a volvo. Reporter a shutdown could mean furloughs, tense of thousands of workers have to settle for ious instead of paychecks. The National Museums
Average in terms of word count. The speech was interrupted 83 times for applause, according to a tally by the national journal. There was no notable disruption in the audience this year, no moment like a republican congressman yelling you lie the way congressman joe wilson did during the joint address to congress back in 2009 there was no moment like a Supreme Court justice muttering a rebuttal to the president from the rows up front the way Justice Samuel alito did in 2010. There was one moment of the speech, though, last night where you heard something from the room. You heard a gasp from the room in response to something that the president said. We should follow the example of the north miami woman named Desiline Victor. When desiline arrived at her polling place, she was told the wait to vote might be six hours. As time ticked by, her concern was not with her tired body or aching feet, but whether folks like her would get to have their say. Hour after hour, a throng of people staye