Live as a woman. What his friends and family are saying about this life change. And flying in the record books. Two hot air balloon pilots breaking two World Records with a trip that has taken them from japan to north america. We will tell you about their journey on saturday january 31st 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today at the super bowl with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza and al roker live from phoenix, arizona. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. I am erica hill with dylan dreyer and sheinelle jones. We have al roker in phoenix. Thats right. It is super bowl central. Its been raining off and on for the last three days. I mean they get over 300 days of sunshine guys. Will they get sunshine for the super bowl . We will let you know coming up. It has not dampened the enthusiasm. There are so many more people out there for him than i get for a snowstorm. We will have super bowl coverag
On deflate gate. Good evening, we begin with the super bowl and the battle off the field against the outbreak of measles. Tonight, even the white house weighing in saying the science is clear, recommending the vaccination. It was thought the illness had been eradicated in the u. S. 15 years ago. But hospitals in arizona, monitoring people for possible exposure. At the super bowl on sunday. Some fans will likely be asked if they had symptoms. And now, california 14 states the worst outbreak in decades. Heres cecilia vega. Reporter tonight Public Health officials are monitoring 195 children exposed to measles at this clinic. At hospitals all around phoenix doctors say they are in a race against the clock. You have 1,000 cases around the state. Is this a critical time . Without a doubt. I think if my children were unimmunized, nonvaccinated, i would get the shot today. Reporter dr. Randy christensen has vials of vaccines ready. He and his team now tasked with delivering the news to famili
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Control will be along for update on the now widespread outbreak of measles. Bob schieffer talks to former lbj advisor joe califano about his book the triumph and tragedy of johnson because this is face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs good morning, Bob Schieffer is off today. We begin this morning with the grim news of another execution from the terror group isis. Cbs news correspondent holly williams. The video released by isis does appear to show the beheading of kenji goto a japanese journalists captured late last year. Assessment of the japanese government. Isis had offered to release goto in return for a failed female suicide bomber what who is on death row in jordan. The jordanian government said it would release the woman but only in exchange for one of its own citizens. A pilot who crashed in isis territory during bombing raid back in december. In the end however there was no prisoner swap, kenji gofo is dead and the fate of the pilot is unknown. Isis was finally forced
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Jordans King Abdullah ii hurried to the white house tonight after what appears to be the savage execution of a Jordanian Air force pilot who was might fooiting in the u. S. Led coalition against isis. Jordanians had been holding vigils for the 26yearold who fell into the hands of the Islamic Terrorist Group when his plane went down in syria christmas eve. Today, isis put out this video showing the pilot in an orange jumpsuit. Then, hes murdered, not a beheading this time, but something equally cruel and inhuman. Hes set on fire. Were not going to be showing you that. We dont know when the execution was carried out, but isis chose to release the video just as jordans king was in washington. And Holly Williams has been covering isis from the beginning. She joins us tonight in northern iraq. Holly, what can you tell us about the video . Reporter well, scott its a highly produced video includin