Drug and alcohol use. Why is it all surfacing just now . The call of duty. A mother bravely fights off her childs wouldbe kidnapper inside a florida store. This morning, we hear from the offduty deputy who sprang into action. His accounts of the frantic moments as we learn more about the suspect today thursday, june 9th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today. It is a thursday morning. As you put it yesterday, to be a fly on the wall. We know what the message is going to be. I think theton is t tone is the question. The top story, that summit at the white house where president obama is set to meet with Bernie Sanders today. The big question would he strongly urge the senator to drop out of the race clearing the path for Hillary Clinton . We have complete coverage starting with nbcs Kristin Welker at her post at the white house. Kristin, good morning. Savannah, good morni
Like at a picnic table near the ocean. One of our favorite ladies, Jessie Mueller is with us, won the tony for best actress in beautiful. Shes in the running for another one. When i saw her as carole king, i thought i couldnt see her in another role. And shes so good. Lovely lily and a back with the looks for less. Everything she wears i want. Because it is size 6. And since it is try day friday. Leslie brought us some bottles to match perfectly with your summer cookout. All for under 15. This woman knows how to drink. You know the strange sounds your body makes, we will help you decipher them. They may mean something. You need to listen to your body. First of all, importantly the lead story of the show, National Donut day. Yes. In honor of you, hoda. It is strange how it started. The Salvation Army founded it, donut day in 1938 to pay tribute to the female volunteers that provided donuts and other supplies to soldiers in world war i. In honor of that, brought an assortment of supply o
Raymond and shes here to dish on her newest role. And hes a charming handsome family man who happens to be a hollywood hunk, did we mention he can cook, till too, freddie prinze, jr. , is here with us. And jill martin has filled her bag with all kinds of fun stuff. Plus, the latest god wink all about love. You know whats missing, speaking about love . Yeah, two kinds. Two different kinds of love. Two delicious glasses of wine. We love our wine and we love our wine deliverer. Eric dane, supposedly, has some wine for us. Hoda gets the red. Hi. Oh hoda gets the red. Yes, i do. Hoda gets the red and i get you. No, just kidding. Thank you for delivering that. Thank you my pleasure. How are things on that last ship . Have you found some people yet or something . Things are good. We found a lot of people, weve healed a lot of people. Were now our efforts are global and were having a good time with the pandemic [laughter]. A good time with a pandemic. As much fun as you can have in the pan dem
The nice guys, Russell Crowe is here. The very, very funny and i rarely put two funnies together, Mike Birbiglia is with us. And the reason that the whole place smells like Patchouli Oil and pot tonight, dead and company is here. [ applause ] a combination of the grateful dead, the almond brothers all together. Theyre going to play for a couple of hours. Theyll only do one song though. [ applause ] its nice to have the dead and company here right now. We need them right now. Because according to a new study, l. A. Has the most or best road rage in the United States. We are number one road rage wise. [ applause ] we have the unique ability to get blinded with fury on the the way home from a yoga class here. The study ranked American Cities with the number of instagram posts with the road rage. Maybe theyre mad because theyre posting to instagram on the road. Its a dumb study but its probably right. We just spend more time having it on the road in traffic. My favorite part about road rag
Jimmy thank you for coming. My fellow americans, i have a major announcement to make. But first, what an honor it is to be here in los angeles. The Natural Beauty of hollywood boulevard never fails to fill me with hope of a new tomorrow. When i first became a talk show host, more than 13 years ago, i had no idea where this journey would lead. Over the years ive laughed with you, ive cried with you, i made your kids cry on halloween. Ive done my best to serve you the only way i knew how. But today i stand before you not as a tv host or a father or an amazing lover, the best lover, for sure. But as an american. Our country is at a crossroads. The promise of america has been broken. The future of our democracy is slipping through our fat, buttery hands. Millions of people are scared, worried about what is to come, but no one ever has to be scared again because tonight, i am humbled to announce that i am officially running for Vice President of the United States of america [ cheers and app