One of his accusers coming forward with new evidence that contradicts his denials. The mast irof the invisible box challenge. Her gravitydefying skills. On today tuesday, december 5th, 2017. From nbc news this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on a tuesday morning. We just really start our scores. 9. 0. We got you. Were going to see you do more later. Were going to find out about this viral craze in a moment, but we want to start with this breaking news overnight. The fastmoving wildfire ripping across Southern California growing to more than 30,000 acres and now threatening the more than 100,000 residents of ventura. Jolene kent is on the scene this morning. Shes had the latest for us. Jo, good morning. Savannah, good morning. The wind swept in and brought in fire, and its destroyed already 150 structures here in the ventura area. One of them is right behind me. You can see it smoldering. It once was
Were not going to answer any questions at this point because as the chief pointed out, this is an active, ongoing investigation. We call the crime scene hot because were collecting information and evidence and it would be premature for us to respond any further. In an hour and a half, we will come back together and give you an update on what we can speak to and perhaps answer some questions. Were done right now. This is a stable situation at this point. Theres no additional threat. We consider this incident to be a closed incident under investigation. Thank you very much. Well be back in an hour and a half. Thank you. All right, that was Michael Brown there. He is the police chief in alexandria, virginia, giving us a few more details, telling us that all of this unfolded just after 7 00. He said they got the call at 7 09 of an active shooter. His officers arrived roughly three minutes later. They exchanged gunfire. Five people were taken to the hospital, according to chief brown there.
Were not going to answer any questions at this point because as the chief pointed out, this is an active, ongoing investigation. We call the crime scene hot because were collecting information and evidence and it would be premature for us to respond any further. In an hour and a half, we will come back together and give you an update on what we can speak to and perhaps answer some questions. Were done right now. This is a stable situation at this point. Theres no additional threat. We consider this incident to be a closed incident under investigation. Thank you very much. Well be back in an hour and a half. Thank you. All right, that was Michael Brown there. He is the police chief in alexandria, virginia, giving us a few more details, telling us that all of this unfolded just after 7 00. He said they got the call at 7 09 of an active shooter. His officers arrived roughly three minutes later. They exchanged gunfire. Five people were taken to the hospital, according to chief brown there.
Were not going to answer any questions at this point because as the chief pointed out, this is an active, ongoing investigation. We call the crime scene hot because were collecting information and evidence and it would be premature for us to respond any further. In an hour and a half, we will come back together and give you an update on what we can speak to and perhaps answer some questions. Were done right now. This is a stable situation at this point. Theres no additional threat. We consider this incident to be a closed incident under investigation. Thank you very much. Well be back in an hour and a half. Thank you. All right, that was Michael Brown there. He is the police chief in alexandria, virginia, giving us a few more details, telling us that all of this unfolded just after 7 00. He said they got the call at 7 09 of an active shooter. His officers arrived roughly three minutes later. They exchanged gunfire. Five people were taken to the hospital, according to chief brown there.
Family of business nan an attack on his daughter. Don jr. Is waying in. The conflicts here are off the charts. Plus, whiteout. A fast and furious storm dumping snow across the northeast. Morning commutes are stalled. Kids are cheering because the Biggest School systems in the country are closed. This is only going to get worse as the day goes on. We are going to begin this morning with President Trump 30 minutes away from his latest sitdown with top executives. Hes meeting with airline ceos to talk business and jobs. At 10 30 the president will attend the swearing in of Jeff Sessions as the u. S. Attorney general. We have the best team in the business here to break it all down. We are going to get to that in a minute. First, i want to focus on extraordinary remarks by Supreme Court nominee. This moing, b sasse said he asked gorsuch in a meeting about President Trumps comments regarding the judiciary. Here is how he described the response. This is a guy who welled up with energy and sai