buried hours after his death at 86. we ll look back at his career and hear from his tv son ron howard today, tuesday, july 4th, and hear from his tv son ron howard today, tuesday, july 4th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television announcer: from nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome to today on this fourth of july morning. i m natalie morales. i m willie geist in for matt. happy independence day to all of you. most americans enjoying this holiday off. it will be another day of work for utility crews. temperature isn t cooperating with them. high temperatures remain in the 90s, the fourth of july celebration at the capital had to be cut short when storms rolled through. the forecast to help you plan your holiday straight ahead. also this morning new details on a strange scene that played out in an arizona courtroom. a man and to take something after he was convicted of arson. he then collapsed and later died. t
the beloved star of the andy griffith show and mat lock buried hours after his death at 86. we ll look back at his career and hear from his tv son ron howard today, tuesday, july 4th, and hear from his tv son ron howard today, tuesday, july 4th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television announcer: from nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome to today on this fourth of july morning. i m natalie morales. i m willie geist in for matt. happy independence day to all of you. most americans enjoying this holiday off. it will be another day of work for utility crews. temperature isn t cooperating with them. high temperatures remain in the 90s, the fourth of july celebration at the capital had to be cut short when storms rolled through. the forecast to help you plan your holiday straight ahead. also this morning new details on a strange scene that played out in an arizona courtroom. a man and to take something after he was
this is important to our culture. you know, today is the 225th birthday. it s not a coincidence, necessarily, that i m here in this place speaking about that. the civil war preserved the united states. kept the united states from collapse. the american revolution gave it its birth. as we celebrate the 225th birthday, i would like to point out to that you one thing we are accustomed to in this country and in this world is the permanentance of change. we are all used to that. my grandfather was born in 1899. the amount of change that man witnessed in his lifetime was unfathomable. yet, in that change, some things remain the same. no matter how many times and it s going on right now in the world, civil wars, boundaries are changing between nations. people are changing. in this country, in some ways, the demo graphics of ethnicity is changing. our culture is being shaped by the different kinds of people of different cultural backgrounds in this country. all of that is changing. w