Investigation. The incident raising concerns about safety at zoos all across the country. And speaking out. The motorcyclists who survived this road rage incident telling their story to nbc news. I cant say that on tv either. Before we knew it, he was on top of it. Today, wednesday, june 1st, 2016. 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 this wednesday morning. We start with major news. It comes from the world of health. Disturbing. A pregnant woman with the zika virus has given birth to a baby in new jersey. The birth believed to be the first of its kind in the continental United States. Natalie is here with the details on this. A lot of people paying the baby not only has the virus, but a condition known as microcephaly, which stunts the infants growth and often causes severe brain damage. Its important to point out the mother was visiting the u. S. From honduras
In campaign 2016 the top two Republican Leaders in america, donald trump and paul ryan, had their longawaited peace summit today. A search for Common Ground in a deeply divided party. Heres major garrett. Reporter Donald Trumps whirlwind unity tour through washingtons republican establishment threw hordes of reporters, a raft of and a share of boisterous protesters. Stop the hate stop the hate reporter uncharacteristically, trump skipped the publicity bonanza and let twitter do the talking. Things working out really well, he wrote. I thought he was a very good personality. Hes a very warm and genuine person. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan called the 45minute meeting with the presumptive nominee encouraging but admitted he and trump still have their differences on policy. Those include trumps call to temporarily ban muslim immigration, deport all undocumented immigrants, oppose pending free trade deals, and leave medicare and Social Security intact. Arent you papering over these rathe
Breakthrough status by the food and drug administration. Results in early tests at Duke University have been so remarkable the f. D. A. Wants to fast track the therapy to more patients. The treatment is audacious using the polio virus to kill glioblastoma, a vicious brain cancer that can kill in matter of months. For two years 60 minutes has been following the patients in the Clinical Trial. Its a hell of a thing to be told you have months to live when youre 20 years old. In 2011, Stephanie Lipscomb was a Nursing Student with headaches. A doctor told her she had this glioblastoma tumor the size of a tennis ball. You had 98 of the tumor removed. Exactly. Pelley and then in 2012, what did the doctors tell you . Your cancer is back. Pelley with recurrent glioblastoma, there were no options except the one that had stephanie became the first volunteer for dukes experiment with the polio virus. The virus is the creation of molecular biologist matthias gromeier. Gromeier reengineered the viru
Speaking out for women taking on hollywoods pay gap. My question to myself was, why am i not askin for it . Well get the answer and more only on gma this morning. And good morning, america. Happy thursday. We are looking forward to welcoming diane sawyer back to gma. Of course, she has that interview with Jennifer Lawrence. Two kentucky women and theyre going to dig into tapeh gap issue, an important debate for women everywhere. That is a little later. Always great to have diane in the studio with us. We begin with that large storm sweeping across the country. Ten reported tornadoes, nearly two feet of snow in some areas and wind gusts topping 80 miles an hour. Abcs rob marciano is in chicago this morning and starts us off. Good morning, rob. Good morning, robin. The winds howling all night long in chicago. The flags along Michigan Avenue for the most part have been 0 horizontal. 49mileanhour wind gust at the airport. 53 in west chicago. Even the big skyway bridge, parts shut down beca
Seasonably cool, and then warmer in the afternoon. 41 degrees in orlando. It will want to about 70. Mild overnight. Right now, 41 degrees in ocala and 47 in melbourne. 48 degrees orlando. One of the things we will see today and even more so into tonight is a little bit of intermittent cloud cover. Not bringing any showers of any kind, but bringing clouds. A sunny morning, maybe even partly cloudy at sign morning. At times this morning. Topping out around 72, 73 degrees. Alex thank you. Right now, a portion of 1792 is still shut down in sanford, as detectives search for clues in one person remains in the hospital but is expected to survive. It is unclear at this time who fired the shot that person. We know that around 6 30 last night, police got a call about a suspicious man with a gun on 1792. They say they found someone matching that description near americana boulevard. Shots were fired, but police do not know if it was that suspect or the officer who hit the victim. The suspect was