Sweeping gun control efforts. The National Rifle association is vowing the fight of the century to block that. Well talk to the nras president coming up. An inside look at scientology. An exclusive interview with oscar winning director and former scientology member paul hagut says he thinks the religion is a cult. The church dismisses him as the hypocrite of hollywood. Well speak with him and talk to the author of a new book that explores the link between scientology and hollywood. We want to get to breaking news. Nbcs nichelle cokosinkski liven london. Reporter this has been changing by the moment. First, the report that a number of hostages has escaped. Now that algerians have raided the facility and a number of have been killed, including hostages. 41 people held, among them americans, british, norwegians, and they called this retribution for french intervention in neighboring mali against militant there. At this hour scattered reports out of the algerian desert. That large bp gas f
But now, its revealed she never existed. It was all an elaborate and unthinkable hoax. But was he the victim or was he involved . Big questions today thursday, january 17, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And morning, everyone, welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer. This story out of notre dame is astonishing. We are talking about one of the Top College Football players in the country, manti teo. He was the runner up for the Heisman Trophy. We talked about what happened here. He had been using his girlfriends death as inspiration throughout the season, he said. But now, after she was exposed as a fictional person in an online article, teo claims he was the victim of somebodys sick joke. Others arent so sure. Just ahead, we are going to talk to the reporter who broke this story coming up. Then president obama set to launch a campaignstyle push to gain public