Miley cyrus catching everyone off guard today. Monday, august 26th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im Carl Quintanilla. Mike bettes has the morning off. Did you stay up to watch the vmas . No. I never felt so old in my life. Miley, wow. Wow. Well have a lot more of that including the reaction from inside the hall. A lot of people couldnt believe that shall we say, dramatic performance. Also ahead, a dramatic 911 call from a 12yearold boy who was home alone and kept his cool when two burglars broke in. But well begin with the crisis in syria and how the white house will respond to the governments apoeur pair apoeurant use of chemical weapons. We have two reports this morning. Well start with richard engle. She in turkey near the syrian border. Richard, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. We
President would face at home. Political pressure is coming from republicans and democrats. Officials say they are disappointed the meeting is often they say the invitation is still on the table. Defense attorneys have told the judge in the trial of the admitted shooter they want off the case unless they can offer a defense. Hassan is trying get himself represented the Death Penalty. Military law does not allow a guilty plea in a Death Penalty case. The fbi is investigating a suspicious sentence a substance found at elijah cummingss baltimore office. They found a partylike substance outside the front door. A bomb technician determined it was not explosive material and there was no active threat. Bob mcdonald has turned to controversyp repay loans from a campaign backer. The governor refinanced his private home and restructured loans on other properties. His offers his office said he 150,000 for a gift and loans the first family received. The gifts are at the center of an investigation t
Good evening and we begin tonight with a water world from colorado to the carolinas. This is what happens when a rain maker storm stalls over the middle of the country. Were seeing families stranded on water logged porches, a car turned into a kind of a noahs arc and there in missouri what looks like a lake is actually a highway. 12 states are facing threats of floods tonight, so much rain theyre measuring it not in inches but in feet. Abcs meteorologist ginger zee tells us whats to come. Thats the bank of the river there and all these houses under water. Reporter swallowing neighborhoods whole, shutting down highway 44, dismantling roads from beneath. The floodgates erupting on the osage river. The relentless rains leaving camp grounds, and soccer fields, hardly identifiable. In waynesville, missouri, they are still searching for a woman swept away tuesday. Her 4yearold son already found dead. In the last seven days, parts of missouri have had more than 15 inches of rain, the town of
Worlds markets . Are we headed into another recession . I will talk to two experts who have slightly different perspectives. And a very special treat. The great Harry Belafonte, star of stage and screen, activist and humanitarian on the whiteness of the Academy Awards and the blackness of the president and the state of Race Relations in america today. And finally, rolling on the red carpet in egypt and rolling and rolling and rolling, ill explain. First, heres my take. It is the line that might have sunk a president ial campaign. It came during last saturdays debate from senator marco rubio. He knows exactly what hes doing. Barack obama is over taking a systemic approach to make the country like the rest of the world. He repeated the phrasing almost robotically. What about the substance of what he said . The charge that president obama is attempting to change america fundamentally is a staple of right wing talk shows. As they point out, Rush Limbaugh glenn beck and others routinely ass
I will talk to martin wolf who has slightly different perspectives and a very special treat. The great harry. Star of stage and screen activist and humanitarian on the whiteness of academy awards, the blackness of the president and the state of Race Relations in america today. And finally, rolling on the red carpet in egypt and comikol rol rolling and rolling, ill explain. First, heres my take. It is the line that might have sunk a president ial campaign. It came during last saturdays debate from senator marco rubio. He knows exactly what hes doing. Hes overtaking a systematic approach to make the country like the rest of the world. He repeated the phrasing almost robotically. What about the substance of what he said . The charge that president obama is attempting to change america fundamentally is a staple of right wing talk shows. As they point out, Rush Limbaugh and others assert obamas policies are designed to transit form america. This rhetoric does raise an important question. Wh