Raid that killed the leader of isis, a rare look at the armys elite delta force in action. All that, plus not liking it, facebook under new pressure after twitter bans all political ads. A massive storm and record breaking cold set to impact tens of millions of halloween trick or treaters all across the nation. And nats incredible. The Washington Nationals rally to beat the Houston Astros and become world series champions. The teams first ever title setting off a celebration the Nations Capital hasnt seen in decades. Today, thursday, october 31st, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, welcome to today, thank you for joining us on this thursday morning. Halloween may be a little rainy but you dont who dont care, our crowd thats outside. Were going to go out and join them, weather permitting. It looks great. Were hoping to get outside. Nobodys celebrating like washington, d. C. This morni
that saw the highest number of votes in u.s. history. we re also following the latest on the capitol riots. two men now facing charges of assault in connection with the death of capitol police officer brian sicknick. why did it take more than two months to arrest these guys? and why aren t they charged with murder? we ll have more on that in just a minute plus, the latest on the covid pandemic. numbers continue to go down in the u.s. but they re spiking over in europe, leading to tighter restrictions in several countries. to make matters worse, the vaccine rollout is on hold in several places in europe after officials stopped using one of the approved vaccines. we re going to dig into all of that. but we have to start with breaking news connected to one of the big of the trials in recent memory, the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. as we speak, the judge is gaveling in and he s got a big question on his plate, whether to even move forward or put t
administration s week-long tour. but the focus today on aide for small businesses. in a few hours president biden takes his message to pennsylvania s delaware county. we have not had great vaccine distribution in delaware county and i m sure he will also those questions for all of the people. multiple headlines out for the coronavirus pandemic. moderna saying they started vaccine trials for children. one vaccine is ramping up and another is under the micro scope. they say there is no indication that vaccination has caused blood clots. it comes after 13 european countries stop the use of the vaccine. join me to hear what that means for the global vaccine rollout. carol, good morning what can we expect to hear from the president later this afternoon. this is the president s first stop. and administration officials are trying to sell this $1.9 trillion bill. from philadelphia where i am and going to a small business. there is provisions for small businesses and there is so
fantastic group here to help us understand all that s going on in the political news. kelly o donnell in the white house, the co-founders of punchbowl news and the editor of the nevada independence. kelly, what are the president and vice president going to say about this bill that hasn t always been said? a lot of it will be a focus on the real underpinning of this. the biden administration, president in particular, wants to sell to the public that government can work for them. that they can accomplish golds that were campaigned on, promises that were made. in the specifics today president biden will talk about the limitation phase. it s not the sexiest part of this kind of a law but it is critically important and also one of the areas where there s all kind of land mines and things that could go wrong. president biden knows this firsthand because he had been in charge back in the obama administration of implementing the recovery plan at that time so he knows there are a lo
Drawing. Collision. Terrifying moments on a tarmac in canada when two planes smash into each other. Passengers watching in terror when a fire erupts after the planes hit each other. Amazingly, just one firefighter hurt. How could this happen . All that plus Health Officials warn an already dangerous and deadly flu season will get worse. David letterman announces the first big get of his new talk show. Skating to south korea. We now know the three female figure skaters who are headed to the 2018 olympics to represent team usa. We will reveal them exclusively a little later today, saturday, january 6th, 2018. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with sheinelle jones, craig melvin and dylan dreye dreyer, live from studio 1a in rock feefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thanks for joining us. Im craig melvin. Im sheinelle jones. Dylan dreyer is here, as well. Big night out in california. Did you see any of the skating . You know what, i have to admit, i was in the air and i didnt get in unt