And dangerous dilemma. The drama caught on camera as familys car catches fire. Inside the lion enclosure at a safari park. The decision that saved their lives today, monday, april 21st, 2014. 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. Welcome back from vacation. Back from vacation. In for savannah. In for natalie. That means youll bat fourth in the next inning. And youll move to right field. Im running the marathon. Yeah, exactly right. Good to have you all here. What about that story about that family in the safari park . Unbelievable. Can you imagine . I cant imagine. So why did i ask if you can . The bad news is your car is on fire. The worst news, the lion what could be worse . Were going to tell you more about that. We want to get right to our top story. Its an emotional day in boston for this mornings running of the Boston Marathon. Its the second l
Spoken thoz conversations have maybe grown louder as thousands have taken to the streets in cities coast to coast. Our team remains in place in sanford and Kerry Sanders was in the courtroom when the verdict was read, starts us off. Kerry . Reporter good evening, lester. Residents here in sanford and across the nation gripped by this trial may want to know what swayed the jury to reach their not guilty verdict. Tonight none of the six women who sat on the jury has revealed their identity. Outside the courthouse the reaction was immediate. How can you murder an innocent child and sleep at night . How can you . The verdict is the verdict and it cant be changed, but i think as a community we have to pull together and try to make sense of everything. Reporter and its not just sanford. The nation watched this trial closely. In the Early Morning hours in washington anger over the verdict. And in cities like chicago and new york, the verdict touched a nerve. I have a young daughter and i thou
Thank you very much. Have a good day. Bill good morning. Fox news alert. The first round of trumpordered sanctions against iran set to be imposed at midnight putting the ball in tehrans course. He is willing to meet with its leaders only months after pulling out of the iran deal. First, a crackdown in caracas. They make it clear the u. S. Had nothing to do with a public Assassination Attempt. Something else here. Bill hemmer, hope you had an awesome weekend live inside Americas Newsroom. Sandra always too short. Good morning, everybody. Im sandra smith. Chaos in venezuelas capital. Invest Gators Raiding hotels and seizing drones. Two drones exploded as president maduro spoke at a public involvement. John bolton denying any american involvement. There is no u. S. Government involvement in this at all. If the government of venezuela has hard information that they want to present to us that would show a potential violation of u. S. Criminal law well take a serious look at it. In the meant
Im zain asher. And im errol barnett. Thank you for joining us. This is cnn newsroom. We want to begin this hour with severe storms just hammering parts of the midwestern United States. Millions of people are being told to keep a close eye on the weather over the next 24 hours. Our meteorologist derek van dam is bringing us details because it is a dangerous situation for many people. Specifically we are talking about most as a line of severe thunderstorms has moved south and east of the kansas city area. In fact, Jackson County missouri there was a brief touchdown of a tornado, which is really a suburb of kansas city. We can get to the visuals of this to see this exact tornado from the air. You can just see some of that debris being pushed around. There was minor damage. Theres some transformers being blown out. Again, this is 20 miles or 32 kilometers southeast of kansas city metropolitan area. Snapped trees, power outages, damaging vehicles as they were sliding in to each other at a l
This may be the most complex counterterrorism operation ever put in place for this holiday weekend. And tonight, the nypd is deploying special forces tight police and bomb sniffing dogs. The u. S. Military on heightened alert taking serious precautions fearing its force maze bes may be targeted by isis sympathizers or terrorisms. Ill ask congresswoman Martha Mcsally what she is learning retired colonel, and our correspondents and analysts theyre also standing by as we cover all the news breaking right now. First lets get the very latest from our justice correspondent pamela brown. Pamela. Reporter well wolf intelligence officials are more concerned about this fourth of july because of how much of an impact isis now has on social media. The recent global terror attacks and how difficult it has become to detect attacks before they happen. That concern is leading to boosted security across the country. With heightened concern this fourth of july major cities like new york are deploying Ra