Will be our guest on the bus. Starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Now, federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator testifies at a Senate Hearing committee on the federal response to the hurricanes that recently hit the u. S. Territories. This hearing has come to order. On the one hand, it is nice to see senator carper acting as my Ranking Member. But the circumstances are unfortunate, to say the least. Senator mccaskills husband is in the icu. Senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We want to send her thoughts and send them our thoughts and prayers. I just mentioned, he had a massive heart attack, i think it was an internal did did you later that may have say defibrilator that may have saved his life. There is still blockages to worry about it additional surgery that needs to be done. To what the chairman said, keep them in our thoughts. Thank you. I want to thank our witnesses, not only for being here and your testimony, for what you are about to answer in terms of our questions
Glasswork. Nightly news begins now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. Good evening. Jose is off tonight. On this third day of summer, extreme heat has taken over much of the western u. S. Temperatures as high as 120 degrees in some places and 27 Million People under excessive heat warnings and advisories and the heat has been deadly. In less than a month, six children have died after being left inside hot cars. The latest, just last night. Katie beck starts us off with the danger and new pressure to change the law. Reporter terrifying moments this week. A child trapped in suffocating heat. An indiana officer rescued a 4monthold baby who they say was trapped inside a car for more than two hours. Scenes like this captured on camera so many times before. You left her in your car im sorry no sorry. She could have died reporter and too often they end tragically. Last night in houston, a boy died after his father forgot him insid
Moment, and president trumps first 100 days or so . David we are added bit of a pivot. The one thing i give credit to him is for understanding the debate. You and i grew up in a world where it was the government versus small government. Now the debate is open versus closed. Those who had the headwinds pushing in the faces, they want closed trade and closed borders. We see that in this country. The dutch are about to have an election and the french, same set of issues in all these places. We are at a moment where we have gotten into political debate which creates not necessarily new alignments, but the parties take different positions. We are in the middle of that. Bob where are we in this realignment . When we see the healthcare care debate, speaker ryan is taking a lead, he says hes working in court a nation with president trump. Mainstreams, it is a Republican Health care plan. It doesnt have the flashes of populism we imagined. Is trump moving towards the gop orthodoxy he has reject
Moment, and president trumps first 100 days or so . David we are added bit of a pivot. The one thing i give credit to him is for understanding the debate. You and i grew up in a world where it was the government versus small government. Now the debate is open versus closed. Those who had the headwinds pushing in the faces, they want closed trade and closed borders. We see that in this country. The dutch are about to have an election and the french, same set of issues in all these places. We are at a moment where we have gotten into political debate which creates not necessarily new alignments, but the parties take different positions. We are in the middle of that. Bob where are we in this realignment . When we see the healthcare care debate, speaker ryan is taking a lead, he says hes working in court a nation with president trump. Mainstreams, it is a Republican Health care plan. It doesnt have the flashes of populism we imagined. Is trump moving towards the gop orthodoxy he has reject
Jones as much as we already do. Today is saturday, october 4th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside dylan dreyer and Sheinelle Jones. Good morning. Welcome. That voice means it is official. How does the music feel . Its official. Im happy to be here. It is an honor to sit next you to guys. It is. Wait a half hour. You may feel differently. Awesome. First 15 seconds. We are always good at first impressions. Second and third. We will learn more about your journey here later. We want to move to the top story. The ebola emergency. In a moment, we will go live to dallas, texas for the latest on the high profile case there. We want to begin with the american journalist who tested positive in liberia while working with dr. Nancy snyderman and her news team. We will learn more about what he will deal with when he gets