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 tuesday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m matt lauer. how about that video of the girl falling out the window. and how about the man there to catch her. incredible. then the story on the delta flights. needles found in turkey sandwiches on flights that originated in amsterdam and were headed to minneapolis, atlanta. can you imagine biting into those. one person did so and was injured. delta immediately ordered all its other flights from amsterdam to stop serving them. we ll have more on the criminal investigation that s getting under way. an exclusive and candid interview with music legend sir elton john. he s written a memoir about his struggle at the beginning of the aids epidemic. we ll talk to him about all of that and why he says he has somewhat of a soft support for former president geo
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 tuesday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m matt lauer. how about that video of the girl falling out the window. and how about the man there to catch her. incredible. then the story on the delta flights. needles found in turkey sandwiches on flights that originated in amsterdam and were headed to minneapolis, atlanta. can you imagine biting into those. one person did so and was injured. delta immediately ordered all its other flights from amsterdam to stop serving them. we ll have more on the criminal investigation that s getting under way. an exclusive and candid interview with music legend sir elton john. he s written a memoir about his struggle at the beginning of the aids epidemic. we ll talk to him about all of that and why he says he has somewhat of a soft support for former president geo
that lake to have a better look at the bottom. but, again, police saying as far as the missing girl s, those three clues, those are the police s three clues, shepard? the family says think think it s abduction are the cops offering any theories? the police have said this is more than a run away. they haven t gone so far to say abduction. interesting piece of videotape. scattered intersections around evans dale there were police positioned to stop and check trunks of vehicles. this seems to match up with that abduction theory. also today, we do have outfits finally that the girls were wearing. morsi is 5-foot tall last seen wearing light green top, shorts and black flip-flops. her cousin elizabeth a foot shorter and 4-foot tall. white shorts. black high at this point sneakers that s new information. days after the mysterious death of his oldest son, actor
in bahrain put out this statement, quote. the u.s. crew repeatedly attempted to warn the vessel s operators to turn away from their deliberate approach. when those efforts failed to deter the approaching vessel, the security team on the boat fired rounds from a 50 caliber machine gun. the injured are being treated at a local hospital while police in dubai inspect the boat, below deck they were uninjured. shepard: that s somewhat close to the straight of hormuz, right. not far at all. about 10 miles i m told off the coast of the united arab emirates southwest of the strait of hormuz near a port near dubai used by the u.s. navy. separately the pentagon announced this morning that it would be sending the u.s. aircraft carrier group to the region four months ahead of schedule it is supposed to arrive in the region later this summer. but the pentagon says it will not have more than two aircraft carrier groups in the persian gulf at any one time, shepard. shepard: jennifer gr
the secretary of state hillary clinton in egypt. [chanting] shepard: protesters pelting her motorcade with tomatoes and shoes. [chanting] shepard: were they really chanting about monica lewenski everything you buy online could soon get more expensive. tonight, why more states are forcing web sites to start collecting sales tax. but, first from fox this monday night, a u.s. navy ship in a deadly encounter in the persian gulf. in the same waterways at the center of a tense war of words between iran and the west. according to sources at the pentagon, sailors on the navy oil tanker rapahanak ownershipped fire on a smaller boat. officials say it was rapidly approaching the navy ship. its captain ignoring repeated twoorntion turn back. in the end, one person dead in the gunfire. three others hurt and we re told it lasted 15 tense minutes. it happened they tell us right off the coast of the europe nighted arab emirates south of dubai and strait of hormuz one of the world s mos