Im in love. Im like crying. Hoda shines a light for special kids today, wednesday, september 24th, 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 wednesday morning. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb, al roker and natalie morales. I dont think were overselling to say that song well see is amazing. Im so excited. Sarah and cindy agreed to come together, mash up the two songs, their anthems, brave and true colors. Its magic. For a great cause. A terrific cause. That light comes out of your head. Whats going on there. Interesting. We will get to that. Lets start on a wednesday morning with our top story. This is an important day for president obama as he addresses the United Nations. On the heels of the first u. S. Led air strikes on isis in syria nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is in turkey. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. The u. S. Milit
Oh, my god im like crying. Hoda shines a light for some very special kids today, wednesday, september 24th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah going to r rr rry live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to a wednesday. Im matt lauer with hoda kotb, al roker and natalie morales. Savannah is still on maternity live. That ong is masong is amazing. They mash up their two songs, brave and true colors. It is magic, guys. For a great cause. That light started to come out of your head, it was like raiders of the lost arc. She really is shining a light. We will get to that. Lets start off with a top story. This is an important day for president obama as he addresses the united nations. On the heels of the first u. N. Led air strikes on isis in syria. Foreign correspondent Richard Engel is in turkey near the Syrian Border. Richard, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. Sencom has confirm twod air stri strikes against isis i
Plenty of reports drizzle, 60s on your temps. Here is sal. All right, steve good morning to you, we are looking pretty good. Tomorrow may be a different story but right now we still look good. If you are driving on the east shore freeway, the traffic moving nicely, heading up to the mcarthur main, dense fog out there, you might want to take note of that. Bay bridge toll plaza is light coming into San Francisco, that big crash they had that has been going for two hours, southbound 101 has cleared up, you may have heard about it, maybe you are ready to hit the road, its gone which is pretty good news, the lanes are open. Westbound 580 that traffic is off to a good start. 4 31, lets go back to the desk. Frustration over a canceled Berkeley City Council meeting fueled a fourth night of protests through the city. Around 7 00 a 7 00 last night hundreds gathered around city hall, they made their way down to telegraph, down oakland and highway 24. It took the chp about 10 minutes to clear the
Entry and were told hell be arraigned in federal court. Hes being held because the judge said he pose as flight risk and is a danger to the community. According to the sworn statement by the arresting officer, were learning more details about what went down last night at 11 38 p. M. When the secret Service Officer confronted the suspect. He said that tran was walking from the east side of the south grounds of the white house complex, he was walking close to an exterior wall of the mansion and was approaching the south portico. That is the door from the opposite side of the white house, the one that faces the washington monument. He was wearing a hooded jacket or sweater and was carrying a backpack. When he saw the secret Service Officer, he altered his course and began heading toward the south lawn of the white house. It appeared he scaled at least two barricades, one near the Treasury Department right behind me and then a road. As weve been reporting, tran told the arresting officer t
Diplomates in cuba. Welcome the to our viewers here around the states and around the world. Were live in atlanta. Im Natalie Allen and this is cnn newsroom. Our top story, u. S. President donald trump dealing with two major issues thweekend. One, the resignation of tom brice. Price came under fire for using private jets to fly around the country when commercial jets would be much cheaper for taxpayers. Then, there was the ongoing disaster had in puerto rico following Hurricane Maria 11 days ago. The president says the federal response has gone well but Many Puerto Ricans are saying theyve been waiting for help. Our jeff zeleny takes a look at the latest casualty on mr. Trumps team. The first member of President Trumps cabinet is removed from that position. Health and Human Services secretary tom price submitted his resignation late friday at the white house. President trump accepted it. This is all over about 1 million worth of airfare that raised questions. About half of that were pri