To Howard Sterns studio today, tuesday, july 15th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Nice to see you on a Tuesday Morning on today. Look, tv is great, but lets admit, we love radio. We are so excited to be on sirius xm radio right now. Were going to celebrate that today. Go over and see howard stern. And before we visit him, were going to lay down a challenge all for a good cause. Well tell but that later on. We do want to start this morning with our top story and its a tragic Train Derailment in moscow. The death toll expected to rise as that investigation gets under way. Lets go right to nbcs keir simmons following the developments. Good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. This just happened this morning, so you can imagine the numbers of killed and injured are still emerging. Its possible even yet there are still people trapped down there. But we have just heard, sa
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Medicare Advantage is a success and can serve as the first stage ofreform, but Congress will have to change the existing paymentsystem and provide a system of premium support, properly adjusted,for each beneficiary. What is needed next is more robustcompetition for the entire program and parity in the payment tohealth care options that seniors choose.
We need to cut weapons spending, trim the bloated ranks of the military bureaucracy and reign in runaway pay and benefits Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the nation Saturday in his speech from the steps of the Eisenhower Library in Kansas. And that speech came a few days after Gates warned the Navy to rethink its reliance on a carrier fleet of the current size, on enormously expensive new nuclear submarnes and he urged the Marines to reexamine its amphibious mission and placed crosshairs on their Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. So we asked Mackenzie Eaglen of the Heritage Foundation what Congress needs to do and whether Gates is on the right path or is veering off course. Read on to find her answers.