Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is seen as the republican front runner for the white house in 2016. Now hes involved in a local political fire storm tarnishing his national image. Emails suggest top staffers were involved in closing lanes to the George Washington bridge. It was payback against a democratic mayor who refused to support christys reelection. The stunt caused massive traffic delays on one of the worlds busiest bridges. Chris christie is viewed as a top challenger to clinton. Fall out from the scandal could impact president ial aspirations. We have a story of a traffic jam on a busy commuter brim. Who in their right mind would close down access to the busiest bridge in the world to send me a message . The mayor of fort new jersey says governor Chris Christie has explaining to do after documents revealed the shutdown of leaps was an act of retribution because the democratic mayor refused to endorse of the re
I do, my lady. And leader of the pack. A chimp uses a log as a ladder to scale a zoo wall, leading his buddies on an impromptu excursion. But they end up falling for the oldest trick in the book today, friday, april 11th, 2014. 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 friday morning. Im matt lauer along with al roker, natalie morales, and carson daly. Weve got savannah down in our Nations Capital. Hey, savannah. Good morning, guys. Beautiful morning here in washington. Ill tell you more about why im here later on. But weve got a lot to news to get to, matt. We certainly do. Lets begin with our top story on today. That tragic scene in california. A group of students involved in a deadly crash there. It happened on interstate 5 north of sacramento. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer has the latest on this. Miguel, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. Nearly 40 students were involve
General motors acceptance corp. Finally, a judge is accepted to rule on the we terrible settlement plea, also we should point out the Masters Tournament begins today in augusta, scarlet fu. Lets get straight to the front page. Weve looked through all the web sites and the front pages of newspapers, and tom, this is one that i know youll speak to really well because of where you are right now with the i. M. F. Meetings. Greece returning to the International Bond market. After four years, the government will sell 4. 2 billion of debt, more than estimated. This is a fiveyear bond issue, and it marks quite a turnaround after greece was bailed out not once, but twice, and had the biggest sovereign debt restructuring. Tom, this is going to be a point of discussion there, huh . Well, a huge point of conversation. Our conversation this morning with madam lagarde and jim yong kim of the world bank, and what i would suggest, scarlet, is this is a Spring Meeting, a victory lap for the i. M. F. An
Sanctions case. Lcome to Market Makers the set, erikd on schatzker is joining me from colorado. I am very jealous. What do you have in store . First of all, thank you very much for holding down the fort in new york city. I do wish that you could be here with me. As you can see, aspen, colorado is a golden gorges place. They are holding their 10th anniversary attract for very big names today. Today we will be talking with walter isaacson. The president of the Aspen Institute, also the former editor of time, a biographer whose biography includes henry Albert Einstein for example, benjamin franklin, and most recently and what people know him best for, steve jobs. He is uniquely positioned to evaluate the state of leadership in america. What that are topic to raise with him given the luminaries attending the aspen ideas gore,al, including al Hillary Clinton, a number of ceos he like david rubenstein, with whom we will be speaking tomorrow. Following walter the president of Harvard Universi
Police have been tackling a number of illegal raves across parts of the uk over the Holiday Weekend with one event on the edge of the Brecon Beacons in wales attended by up to 3,000 people. Hundreds of people have also gathered in Thetford Forest in norfolk at an event which looks set to continue on monday. West Yorkshire Police also broke up a street party in harehills, and fined eight people for holding parties around the leeds area. New rules that came into place on friday means organisers of raves could be hit with £10,000 fines earlier our correspondent andy moore explained to my colleague tim willcox how the fines will be imposed. These the fines will be imposed. New finds came into fort on these new finds came into force on friday, announced by the home secretary priti patel. Up to £10,000 for people organising these illegal events and west Yorkshire Police have been very quick off the mark, they have already find eight people. That full amount, £10,000, and 15 people the les