Those metal Water Bottles. Theyre popular with children. It turns out there is a risk of kids getting their tongues trapped inside. Very serious. Can lead to a trip to the emergency room. So what, if anything, is being done about it . Then a strange phenomenon off the coast of southern california. Were talking about massive squid. They are being spotted and caught in record numbers. Well get a live report about that. But let us start on a wednesday morning in washington where the Obama Administration is getting ready to tackle a whole host of issues, beginning this morning with gun control. Nbcs Peter Alexander is at the white house. Peter, good morning. Reporter matt, good morning to you. Barely a week into this new year and the president , as you know, is already juggling a handful of familiar challenges. They are the looming fights over guns, confirmation of his National Security team, and as the nations fast approaching, borrowing limits. With the white houses self imposed deadline
Confident and comfortable in our working relationship. I think what did evolve was a friendship as opposed to just a professional relationship. Friendships involve a sense of trust and being in the fox hole together. President obama was asked by steve croft, who did the interview, why . Why did you request this interview . And he said frachingly i just want to thank her for her service and i am going to miss her. Some people wonder if Something Else is at work, especially followers of Vice President biden. You could hear him in the back knocking on the door. Let me in. You might think that Vice President joe biden might be interested in a little bit. He might be . He ran across pennsylvania avenue to say hello to al. Got the roker vote. If that doesnt say 2016 i dont know what does. That might have torpedoed the campaign. No, no, no. But some saw this as a vast endorsement of hillary clinton. I was looking at the body language a lot, rather than the words. They leaned in together. Havi
Interview. Also new information in the Jonbenet Ramsey case. Reports that a grand jury actually indicted john and patsy ramsey in connection with the death. Why did the prosecutor decline to try that case . We begin with that tragic nightclub fire in brazil. Mike taibbi has the latest. Mike, good morning. Good morning, savannah. It has been a dead lly combinatn in the past, a nightclub filled with revelers and pyrotechnics and few too ways to escape led to panic. In santa maria, it was packed with its usual saturday nightclub when, at 2 00 in the morning, disaster. A swiftmoving fire filled the Groundfloor Club with thick smoke. Witnesses said Club Security initially blocked several emergency exits, thinking p patrons were leaving without paying and that left only a few ways out. In the ensuing panic, some victims were trampled. Most died of smoke inhalation. Many witnesses told police this fire was triggered by the use of some incindiery device on stage. The band used fireworks and as
About details for the first time of her daughters death and the questions she still wrestles with every day. A candid conversation with Cissy Houston today, monday, january 28th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im Savannah Guthrie. Just a terrible story out of brazil. That country is declaring three days of National Mourning now for the victims of that deadly nightclub fire as the investigation gets under way. Its a huge tragedy. Consider the loss of life. It was apparently started, that fire, by some kind of an onstage stunt. Some kind of pyrotechnic device, many victims under the age of 206789 this morning we have new details on that tragedy, including reports that the bar was well above its legal capacity at the time of the fire. Well get a live report on that, straight ahead. Also ahead, a cia off
And we just had to step outside this morning to behold the beauty that is that tree. And why not. And to take a second, you guys did a great job last night. I got to see the show. Was it about this cold last night . Oh, id say it was colder. I have one question for you . Yeah. Is mariah carey is one big goosebump performing . Xhefs she was scantily clad. It was breezy. No question about it. That was great, trace atkins was great, mariah carey, rod stewart. When we said, three, two, one, the lights went on. Al confessed he always gets a nervous at that moment. Just before. Okay. Theyre on. Shes perfect. No question. The lighting of the tree lights a lot of people spirits. You know what else kept people warm over the last couple of days . The thoughts of being multimillionaires. Let me just say this if you are waking this up morning and dont live in arizona or missouri, you probably should not quit your day job. Thats where the Winning Tickets were sold. Arizona, i have not heard from my