Footage of the queen as a 7yearold making the nazi salute. And whoa, baby [ baby cries ] caught on camera. A texas woman giving birth in the front seat of her car as dad video taped the entire thing and its going viral today, saturday july 18th 2015. From nbc news this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im carson daly. Im Sheinelle Jones in for erica hill. Is that the mom screaming . Can we pull over . Put the camera down dad. By the way, you can take all the birthing classes in the world. Nobody prepares you for what to do in the car. We will have more on that coming up. Lets get to the top story. The ferocious fire in california. It is spreading at a rapid rate. Nbcs Scottie Schwartz has more. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carson. This is the interstate 15. A popular interstate. One of the main thoroughfares from los angeles to vegas. This morning, traffic ground to a halt. When people looked off to the right in tr
Yucky air for another 24 hours. And fire danger. If you are thinking about going out and starting a fire, think again. Dry gusty winds will continue. Super hot today. What happens tomorrow, for some parts of the bay area its actually going to be hotter. Well talk about that in a moment. The heat putting a strain on the states hower grid. This power grid. The state will be using a record amount of power to stay cool today. With the people whose job it is to keep the energy flowing and the next couple of hours are crucial. Definitely crucial for the next couple of hours. In fact, there was a little bit of a scare here earlier today. Apparently there was a grass or brush fire near some high powered transmission lines and that triggered the transmission lines to go off line for a few seconds. But they were able to get that line back online so it was not a major emergency but thats the kind of day its been for these folks trying to keep the lights on. The big board shows California Energy c
A lot of peoples lungs are probably hurting this morning. Heres a look at the current temperatures. Heres a live look at our dublin camera. Concord only already 74 degrees. 67 oakland. Livermore 71, San Francisco 77. Yesterday 106 in San Francisco was a hike yesterday. That is the all time hottest day in recorded history. 36 degrees hotter than average. Our average temperatures should be 70 degrees. Here are some other alltime highs we hit yesterday. Sfo reached 104 degrees. Moffett field hit 106. Salinas airport 105. That he is not over. We will deal with it again today. Excessive heat warnings now even along the coast. Yesterday was an advisory along the coast. Please find air conditioning. We will continue to a date you. The triple digit temperatures were only going to get more intense this weekend in the south bay. Youre looking at a live it was so hot yesterday many high schools had to cancel afternoon Football Games. Emergency alerts were sent out to cell phones. Warning people t
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We also have the collection of david valdez, he was george w. Bushs white house photographer. And we have diana walker, a Time Magazine photographer for 20 years. She is known for her work covering hillary clinton. She covered the Clinton White house really broadly and deeply. She also cover the Reagan Administration and george h. W. Bush. David valdez and diana walker are actively involved in our program. They both belong to our advisory council. What you hope viewers will take away . The importance of photojournalists and new documentary news documentarians. The value of their work, not only for the news but also as historical evidence. These photographs capture and document an amazing array of extremely important processes and event and personalities. I hope the public appreciates the work that they do. They see their work every day on television and newspapers and so forth, and i hope they will not only appreciate the work that the photographers themselves. Thanks for joining us. Y