Those piles of medal to get to this deepseated fire, and im told that crews will be here all night. The whole street was black. It was really bad. Was it smoke, or just the smell . Both. Both. Because it was really, really dark. It wasnt even like this anymore. You couldnt see . Couldnt see at all, and your eyes would hurt. Reporter he showed us in the cellphone video he took soon after the fire started. The burning of the metals and other materials sent out a strong chemical order, which led to a shelter in place order. It smells pretty bad. Its pretty hard to believe right now. Reporter this man said he smelled the fire and followed the smoke, and found that the fire that was burning at alco iron and metal, a place he dropped off old Battery Force his employer. It will fake a while to fight that fire with all of the chemicals and everything in there markets one woman came to pick up hire son at a golf camp, but it made it difficult for her to reach him. There are a lot of kids in the
Coming to america. Los angeles poised to host another olympic games. But will it be sooner rather than later . Those stories plus riptide rescue, courtesy of a human chain. A new twist in Amelia Earharts disappearance and this photo. And allstar heroics. All the way to right. Back at the wall. Gone. A thrilling finish to the midsummer classic, today, july 12th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Going to get to all those stories in a few. Lets start with our top story, a host of developments of controversy in donald trump jr. s meeting with that russian attorney. And this morning, President Trump is weighing in, as well. Well talk to the president s personal attorney. First, two reports from the white house, starting with peter alexander. Take it away. Reporter good morning to you. The swirling controversy around his son is personal. A team
Examine calfiand calfire, they plan to have about 70 men and women here and also nearby at alum rock. This is one home that was lost in yesterdays fire, and within the past hour, the family who lives here removed papers from their site and theyre still onsite sifting through the debris with shovels to see if anything else can be salvaged. This fire started about 4 30 yesterday afternoon and quickly traveled up the hills here in East San Jose. It burned 150 acres. The fire is out but firefighters only have a fire alarm out about 50 of the burn area. There are still things in it smoldering so today they wanted to extend that containment line to 100 . Given all the smoke here, they only lost one house. The man across the street was stunned the fire didnt spread to his home, too, given he was only 150 feet from this home. Im amazed that nobody was hurt, and two, that it skipped our house. Reporter how do you wrap your mind around that . I just want to say thank you very much to all the men
Was here. She has been performing in las vegas. Yes. People are going to see her. Okay. You would be open to a Britney Spears halftime show. Absolutely. I would like to see if she still dances the way she used to. It is a very she is in the best shape of her life. It is a glitzy show. Lets see if she brings that to the biggest stage in the world. Thats it. Im going to vegas. You and me, sal. Lets start with the news of the day as we always do. We will start in the south bay where containment stands at 50 for a brush fire that burned three homes and forced the evacuations of many in the south bay. It started late in the afternoon yesterday in the foothills east of san jose. Rob malcolm is in the neighborhood where residents still have no power. Right, rob. Reporter that is right. Were going to pan from right to left, left to right so you can see the damage in this home. There is still a burned out car inside of the garage. As we pan across the house here, you will see the front of the h
Hearing is containment is at least at 50 . This fire we know burned 101 acres. We have been here coming to you all morning from this home on crater way. This home has been completely gutted by this fire. And the fire crews right now are still making some kind of an assessment just to see if this home what can be savaged from this home. This home will be red tagged. The evacuations in this area at adam rock park have been lifted. Officials are working in a containment mode. We did talk with some of the homeowners this morning. They said no comment. They were able to salvage a few boxes from this home. A total loss for this home here and fire crews says given the conditions, this could have been much worse. We know this fire broke out at 4 00 yesterday. At the height of this fire, there were 150 crews from cal fire and san jose Fire Fighting this blaze. They used a combination of air drops, dropping retardant and also water. You can see hear as you look at the hills in the live shot, jus