Mccain enters its fifth day. Target texas. The remnants of Tropical Storm harvey, posing a threat to the gulf coast. Farther north, flooding leading to dramatic new rescues. Plus, what was she thinking. Why the wife of the treasury secretary is apologizing. And espn apologizing for pulling this announcer from a game. Are you feeling lucky . Powerball hits 700 million, with the crdrawing just hours away. Today, wednesday, august 23rd, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. As always, thank you for joining us. Our top story, the president s raucous Campaign Rally overnight. He started with a call for unity. Then, he quickly tore into his detractors. As he was speaking, protesters were on the streets outside of that arena. Kristen welker, get us started. Good morning. Reporter hi, matt. Good morning to yu. President trump is weeks up here in ariz
she texted me and said there s been a shooting and i m in a closet, but don t worry. i said, well, just keep texting me. so that s what we re doing. my son is over there. i have a daughter here in middle schoo school. more on the shootings throughout the morning as well. they are spending time in tennessee today. that s ahead of next week s big super tuesday contest. and more apparent retaliation for last week s burning of korans by nato troops. a suicide bomber detonated explosives, killing nine civilians. the taliban are claiming responsible for the attack and for poisoning food at another base. we have traces of bleach found in fruit and coffee. no troops were sicked. they re eating now prescreened meals. president obama s apology nor the koran burning has sparked criticism from those who are looking to take his job. i will remember during the eight years of president bush s administration when something happened regrettable, unintentional as this incident was, pre
might actually work? are critics at home being unfair to this approach? on the one hand, i think some of the criticisms have validity to it. there are uncertainties, but on the other hand, you have to weigh that against a lot of people alive today who wouldn t be otherwise. and another criticism made that has validity is that we re inconsistent. we intervene in libya and we don t in ivory coast. that s true, too. but i would rather inconsistently safe some lives than consistently save none. we want to thank nick kristof, of course. and up next, what on earth are steven segal and george arpaio doing in a tank together? we ll tell you.
tv series law man. some are criticizing arpaio spending taxpayer dollars to promote segal s reality show. that s a very fair criticism. while they were spending taxpayer money, it resulted in thousands of dollars of damage to the property. and 115 of the 130 roosters were actually euthanized. what was the point of busting up the cock fighting if you re going to kill the roosters in i w any way. the next movie title the gop violence is the answer. i forgot the question. news out today makes the republican fight much harder with hispanic voters. why that might eventually destroy the republican party. that s logistics a-di-os, cheerio, au revoir
today. france declared the no-fly zone, quote, under control. beginning tomorrow, a canadian commander will take over the mission in libya. president obama will address the american people, quote, in the very near future about the u.s. role going forward. the government met with the african union to hammer out a solution. there s violence in other areas of the region as well. in jordan, the associated press reports more than 100 people injured. clashes in ahman were the most i violent in that country in two months of protest. in bahrain, security forces fired tear gas and pellets at anti-government protests. thousands defied a ban on gathering followi ining prayers. and in yemen, the leader says h he s ready to step down, but only if he can leave the government in safe hands. gadhafi is now negotiating. the leaders of tunisia and egypt are already gone. yemen is on the verge of being knocked out, as you heard. these long-running dictatorships are on the ropes. why? because hi