To help. Lots of people prevailed upon me to do this. Lots of people who had events in their home, asking me to come and urging me to run for reelection. I really think, you know, that people feel the city is going in the right direction. Reporter the mayor did say he will start collecting signatures right away. Live at the board of elections, tom sherwood, news 4. Tom, mayor grays previous campaign, Mayoral Campaign has been under investigation for several years for possible ethics violations. Where does that stand . Reporter wendy, that is the biggest question hanging over all of this or whether the mayor is going to run. A lot of people thought he wouldnt run because they are looking into the 2010 campaign. There have been four felonies as recent lly as two weeks ago. People are wondering why the investigation hasnt been wrapped up. The mayor hasnt talked to prosecutors. Jeffrey thompson, the businessman who funneled money into the 2010 campaign has not talked to prosecutors, doesnt
Matt and ellecreate a parallelniverse today, wednesday noveer 13th, 2013. Nnouncer from nbc ns, thiss today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from udio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Lcome to today on wednesday morning. Im savannahuthrie. And im lester holt along with al roker and natalie morales. It says matt is assignment but i cant say that with a straight fe. Matt is spending more te as a woman than a man iseems. We should stage a intervention when gets back. He doesnt do hoda justice. Matt was leno last night anhell be on ellen later today. Well have more of that assignment. Exactly well get started with todays top story. The official dea toll in the philippines is cliing. Its rched more than 1,800 people as disaster officials work to speed up rief operations. Nbcs harry smith in manila for us once again. Good morning to you. Reporter the headlinhere todaeven as recovery effts are getting off e ground, a crowd of stormurvivors rushed a government ri
You get this kind of a surge and clearly that is on the increase. So in terms of Foreign Policy issues and, and i think this gets into some of what erica has been dealing with, we have more and more of these effects of climate, what we think are Climate Change. Were seeing, seeing droughts become more serious. Were seeing storms become more serious storms and how do you see this affecting us in terms of this Foreign Policy . I mean, one thing we have to deal with is often the United States is turned to help, people turn to us for human hahm aid and seeps that, that were running through that much more quickly than we used to in the past. Right. It is really interesting. We were all invited as part of the global thinkers event to a event at washington, d. C. As well and was focused much more on Foreign Policy and not specifically Climate Change but as a scientist who spend most of her day inside of a Science Building it was interesting to interact and hear from folks like current ambassa
Black list. That is a runaway success. This is rely her breakout role. Shes terrific. And were going to talk to her about her hair. Whether you le the wig she wears, or her own hair do. Well talk about i les talk about our matt. Out in los angeles, on his way back now. He was a very busy boy. He was. He was on no, which well talk about in a momt. He was on ellen, okay . We wonderelast time he was on ellen, he danced a little. Llenets somebody to d something you dont usually see them doing, which is why its such a great show. Which also is what happened yesterday with matt. Sexie accent on the globe is french. French. I like the brith. I like the southern. You do . Yeah, i like southern. Theres something about a southern she lived in the south for a long time, folks. There something about tha acnt that i just like. Its slow. Its sof ts seductive, yes, maam. We would like to apologize something. Apologize. Heres why. Theres a global wine shortage. Global ne shortage. Its coming. At was a
The summer. But everyone is wondering is jlos first love really her next love . Good evening. Tonight, there are an estimated 80,000 people locked up in solitary confinement in america. Youre about to meet a prison official who wants to experience it firsthand. Hes embarking on a radical, risky experiment, entering level six solitary confinement himself, undercover. Dan harris brings us this report no way out. Reporter you are looking at prisoner 106, on the books as a dangerous, armed robber. He is prepares to enter what many call hell on earth. Solitary confinement. Before you meet its residents, just listen to them. This is prison. You know, were not here for being nice. Moved into the unit i dont know that i have ever felt as vulnerable as i do right now. Reporter the thing almost nobody here knows is that this inmate is actually the secretary of corrections for the state of new mexico, a former cop who spent a career putting away bad guys, hes now going to try to spend 48 hours li