Sleeping. Prison attack. Colorado Movie Theater shooter james holmes jumped behind bars. This morning, the inside story. And royal flush royals win the pennant the Kansas City Royals knocking off the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League championship series, thrilling their fans. And that, of course, means the world series is set as the royals prepare to face off with the new york mets, today, saturday, october 24th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. And im jeff rossen. Happy to be here with you and alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. And youre tracking the top story this morning, this massive hurricane. We have our team fanned out across the country, both here and in mexico. Category 5 storm hitting overnight, the eye narrowly missing the resort area of Puerto Vallarta, where tens of thousands of americans were believed to be before the storm made landfall. And
Reports of any deaths. And just over the mexican border, much of texas, as we know, is under a flood watch with whats left of patricia, the concern there that it will bring, of course, even more rain to a state that has already been pounded. Our correspondents are on the ground in mexico and texas on storm watch. Want to begin with Nbcs Joe Fryer in ecstapa, south of where Hurricane Patricia made a direct hit. Joe, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, jeff. Hurricane patricia has weakened considerably with many breathing a sigh of relief up and down the coast, but the Mexican Government is warning people to not let their guard down as this historymaking storm moves through the country. With the grace of a sledgehammer, Hurricane Patricia reached land, winds swirling at 165 miles an hour. Images taken by tourists hunkered down in hotels showcase the driving rain, swelling seas damage reports quickly surfaced. Washedout roads, toppled trees and uprooted highway signs. Some of the
And footing the baby bill and by the United States is the worlds most expensive country to give birth in. We began in egypt where supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi have been staging more protests across the country. This was the scene in nasr city in cairo wednesday night. Thousands of morsi supporters have been demonstrating ever since he was deposed. They promised to keep protesting until he is reinstated. People also gathered at Cairo University and giza on the outskirts of the egyptian capital. And this was the scene in the city of alexandria. A probe morsi supporters have promorsirallying supporters have been rallying in other cities as Amnesty International released new reports about hundreds of arrests by security forces. Human rights workers say hundreds of peoples arrested by egyptian authorities are being denied their rights. Amnesty International Said more an660 Mohamed Morsi supporters have been detained since he was removed from the presidency three weeks ago.
Pretending that all individuals coming to this country as a family unit are in fact a family. We have to do our job, we will not doing for our job. We have sworn to do this job. This administration has a simple message, if you cross the border illegally, we will prosecute you. But, the secretary tweeted just yesterday, we dont have a policy of separating families at the border, period. Also, this morning, new criticism overhat policy, period. Former First Lady Laura Bush issue a scathing condemnation in a Washington Post opinion piece, writes this, this zero tolerance policy is cruel, it is immoral and it breaks my heart. Even the current first lady is weighing in a rare statement on policy that says this, we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart. Read into that what you will. More republican lawmakers are pushing back on the false claim that democrats are solely to blame here. Here is what senator Lindsey Graham said on friday. Presiden
The late author and motivational speaker Dr. Wayne Dyer said, “What other people think of me is none of my business.” I used to think this may be true, but