A lawyer for President Trumps former National Security adviser, john bolton, hinting he could reveal neverbeforeheard details about ukraine. As the impeachment investigation prepares for the public hearings next week, were live at the white house. All that, plus vaping breakthrough. The cdc announces it may have pinpointed what is causing all those vapingrelated illnesses and dozens of deaths. Health scare. A wheel of fortune taping stopped after pat sajak was rushed to the hospital for an emergency. And rocking around the Christmas Tree. The spruce arriving here at Rockefeller Center this morning for the whole world to enjoy. And you wont believe how it got its start. Today, saturday, november 9th, 2019. From nbc news, this is today, with sheinelle jones, Peter Alexander and dylan dreyer, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hello and welcome to today. Thanks for joining us on this saturday morning. Its cold outside. With the tree coming to town, a little cheer coming here. Its t
A tanker car carrying chemicals erupting into an inferno a cloud of black smoke rising into the sky First Responders at the scene racing to stop the flames. The stunning images. The plane crashing into a building at an airport two people on board, a third involved on the ground amazingly, everyone escaped with their lives. And the big hug felt around the world. The two toddler best friends inspiring america. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone. President trump has parted ways with another critical white house player National Security adviser john bolton fired or exiting on his own terms, depending on which version you believe. The upshot, bolton, a hawk who clashed with the president on everything from dealings with north korea to iran becomes the third trump National Security adviser to be bounced from the job. Peter alexander was at the white house with more tonight. Reporter President Trump dropping the bombshell on twitter, saying about his National Sec
And the moment, the candidates polling between 1 and 2 , julian castro, cory booker, senator Amy Klobuchar. Can any of them seize on the opportunity provided by the National Spotlight. Lets bring in nbc News White House correspondent peter alexander. Hes made his way to houston, texas, to cover the debate. Peter, what should we expect to see in the matchup between biden and warren . Reporter you summarized the likely story lines pretty well. This is notable. The first time in the course of this Democratic Campaign that well see joe biden and Elizabeth Warren on the same stage together, as you noted. Ten candidates on stage, one night, three hours in all. Biden will be flanked by sanders and warren. Its the first time he and warren have been on together, they have sparred in the of the pa. It goes back 17 years, she called him out by name in 2002 in an oped specifically for his support of a bill that would have made it harder to pursue a bankruptcy for individuals. The two got into it w
extinguish. reporter: 22-year-old elijah mcclure almost didn t survive that fire. he spent 12 days on a ventilator, his lung severely injured by vaping including thc he warns parents about the habit that nearly took his life. don t be oblivious to the fact that your kids may try something out there. reporter: new evidence this week shows the number of teenagers who vaped doubling in the past two years. a habit e-cigarette giant juul is trying to contain, pulling the mint flavored pods, the favorite of high school seniors but menthol is still for sale president trump promised action next week. we have to take care of kids so we re going to have an age limit of 21 or so. the president talked about an age limit. what about banning flavors? that s certainly something public health officials want. they want all flavors banned including mint and menthol. the president is under heavy political pressure from vape shop owners and the industry itself because they say it will cost job
21-year-old elijah mcclure. he spent 11 days on a respirator in the hospital after feeling chest pain and nausea that had a suspected link to vaping. joined his his parents cedric and tammy mcclure, thank you for being with me. first of all, i understand he got off the respirator last night. how is he doing? he s doing well. as you might imagine, being on a respirator for 11 days, he needs to get his strength back. he wants some gatorade. it s a nice time. what did you say? it s a thrilling time for first step to recovery. i can only imagine. tammy, walk us through what happened when he started to get sick and how did you guys know something was wrong. sure. so he had ultimately started on