Michael phelps faces a familiar foe, ryan lochte, in his first comeback final. The thrilling finish today, friday, april 25th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. And im Natalie Morales along with al roker and tamron hall. Savannah has the morning off. What a way to make a comeback for a guy who basically took the last couple of years. Says he played golf, gained 30 pounds, but its nice to hear those two names in the same sentence again, phelps and lochte, phelps and lochte. Headtohead the whole way, but were not going to tell you how it ends just yet. Youve got to hang on a little while. But first, we want to get to todays top story. Frightening moments for the crew of a Virgin Australia flight headed to bali. A passenger now under arrest after rushing the cockpit. Nbcs katy tur is in perth, australia, with the latest on this. Katy, goo
Abbott is announcing a series of executive orders and laying out a plan to begin loosening certain restrictions there. Governor abbott joining us now with more. Governor, we were just listening to andrew cuomo of new york talking about that testing is key to reopening his state. Do you agree with that . And if so, where is texas on testing . First, with regard to future strategies, testing is going to be so important. Remembering this, however, leland and that is the situation happening in new york is far different than what is happening in texas and other places. For example, there will be unfortunately more people who pass away in one day in new york than we will have in texas in the entirety of this whole pandemic situation and as the president made clear, there are different strategies for different states. Texas has not even come close to needing to use all of our hospital beds, all of our ventilators. In fact, all the prognostications about the potential dire situation in texas d
Hello this is bbc news. The headlines a senior aide to the uk Prime Minister faces calls to resign after he travelled hundreds of miles with his wife who had virus symptoms during the lockdown. The government defended him, saying he wanted to stay with family to ensure he had childcare if he got symptoms of coronavirus. Businesses will be expected to pay a quarter of the wages of furloughed workers from the start of august. And guernsey becomes the first part of the British Isles to remove nearly all its lockdown restrictions. The pakistan govenrnment launches an official inquiry to investigate the plane crash that killed at least 97 people, but the Pakistan Pilots Association says it has no faith in the official investigation. Spains Prime Minister, pedro sanchez, says overseas visitors can visit the country from july and top flight spanish football will resume behind closed doors next month. Now on bbc news, talking movies looks at the impact of the cancellation of this years Cannes
Killed. Eight others injured by falling trees. Downed pour lines have left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity this morning. Indra petersons is here with much more. What happened . It happened so quickly, indra. Thats the problem. We had fast moving systems. Six reports of damage from tornadoes alone. Severe weather system made its way from the ohio valley and eventually spread right into the northeast. Heavy wind and rain pummeled Central New York as severe storms sweep across the northeast spawning at least three tornadoes, destroying homes and killing at least five people, including one child. The powerful storms downed power lines, cracked utility poles and uprooted massive trees leaving over 400,000 people without electricity this morning. You cant even see out the windows it was raining so hard. Reporter in maryland the storm moved in quickly killing one child at a church camp who was trapped under a tree and injuring eight others as they ran for safety. Something
Fast. After republicans refused to even consider president obamas nominee for the seat. Merrick garland. The republicans wouldnt even hold hearings for nearly a year. Some democrats calling it a stolen seat. Both the president and judge gorsuch know they are in for a tough fight. As this process now moves to the senate, i look forward with speaking with members from both sides of the aisle. To answering their questions and to hearing their concerns. I only hope that both democrats and republicans can come together, for once, for the good of the country. And you hear him say for once, now that hes president now, its not president s nominee being discussed. So a different set of standards democrats would say there. Nevertheless, the first Courtesy Call from judge gorsuch with senators begin in just hours. Lets bring in Laura Jarrett live from the white house. The white house did a very good keeping this a secret. And the theatrics surrounding it very well orchestrated. Thats right, john.