And a very funny lady, former snl cast member jan hooks famous for impressions of everybody from Sinead Oconnor to Tammy Faye Bakker dead at the age of 57. Well remember her life today friday, october 10, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this friday morning. Im tamron hall. Im willie geist along side al and natalie. Matt has the morning off. Savannah enjoying time with baby vale. We saw jan hooks, that was a gut punch to learn we lost her. I came up watching snl. She was one of the funniesfunni she always had this bright laugh and great smile. So sad. Were hearing some of the inspiration from amy poehler. Well talk much more. Straight to our top story. Announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize, two winners including Malala Yousafzai, nbcs keir simmons is in london with mere. Good morning. Reporter good morning. What a stunning moment for an extraordinary young woman, the youngest
Clang clang clang went the trolley jan hooks hilarious for her impression for everyone from Sinead Oconnor to Tammy Faye Bakker dead at the age of 57. Well remember her life today, friday, october 10th, 2014. Announcer live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Im tamron hall. And im willie geist. That was a deth punch that learn we lost her. She was one of the funniest people on the planet. She always had this bright laugh and a great smile. So sad. Young age. Some of the inspiration from people like amy poehler, talking about what jan hooks meant to her. Lets get straight to our top story. The announcement this morning, Nobel Peace Prize, childrens rights activists, Malala Yousafzai. Keir simmons is in london. Good morning. What a stunning moment for an extraordinary young woman, youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, two years almost to the day since she was shot at age just 15 because she was going to school. What a mess
The closest we have been able to get so far to the scene of that explosion. You can really understand why some folks who live in the area say it looked like a war zone right after that house was blown to bits literally. You see there is still debris scattered throughout the area. Stafford townships mayor tells me gas Company Workers are more than halfway through the process of restoring gas service to about 300 homes in this community. It is a slow process because they have to do it by going house by house. This morning, Gas Company Employees continue to go door to door in stafford township turning the gas back on for those who have been without service and in many cases heat since the blast. We have a wood burning fireplace, so we all bundled up and got downstairs and slept by the fireplace us and the dogs and the kids and huddled together. Reporter the explosion captured on a Police Dashboard camera on Tuesday Morning obliterated a house on oak avenue damaged others nearby and injure
Would create a diplomatic relations and that was the original purpose in the book. No one believed including my publisher thank you dan simon, i started to doubt it myself. When it happened i had to rearrange the book and i was fortunate to update it. Its arts with a detailed account of how it happened on december 17th, the beginning of normalization. The rest of the book is about the preceding 55 years or 60 years and i interviewed for many hours a former leader of the cuban revolution and government his daughter in havana said it should be called two old guys talking so i made that the initial chapter. Host tell us about ricardo. Guest you have to write this book because nobody knows him. If that is true, you are talking about a man who after many decades the Cuban Foreign minister, cute and United Nations representative in new york at the cuban head of Natural Assembly which is speaker of the house of representatives. He has been a public human figure, he knows more secrets, has bee
He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books every weekend on cspan2. And today we are live on the campus of the university of Southern California home of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. Today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies Publishing Industry, biographies of World Leaders and science, and well also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your calls. You can get sched