The little robot on a crosscountry journey to san francisco. The goodness of strangers supposed to get him all the way. Then this happens. How the happy little life of hitchbot came to such a sad end today, monday, august 3rd, 2015. From nbc news this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. You look so different, matt with your glasses. Well thank you very much. Matt is off this morning. Weve got carson here and breaking news at the top this morning. Its our top story. The severe storms moving east now, after producing dangerous hail high winds and tornadoes across the midwest. Heres nbcs john yang with the latest. Reporter Severe Weather turned deadly over the weekend when high winds caused a tent to collapse at a small festival in suburban chicago. We had one fatality three serious injured and 17 to 20 minor injuries. Reporter John Anderson says his van, southern jack w
Its crazy. Massive wildfires in california threaten thousands. Crews are battling 21 large wildfires throughout the state. The fire behavior that were seeing, its historic. Severe weather is wreaking havoc across the midwest. The tornado ripping through a field in iowa. Look at this. Oh, wow. A deadly tent collapse during a thunderstorm outside chicago. One person was killed. More than a dozen were injured. Into the sky and we heard screaming and crying. A massive manhunt for the suspect accused of killing a Police Officer in tennessee. He is considered to be armed and dangerous. In kansas, 9yearold Kaiser Carlile has died after he was accidentally hit with a bat during a baseball game. Saturday afternoon. I think the email scandal is going to be a devastating blow for hillary. Growing fallout over Hillary Clintons emails released by the state department. Theres a big story of what shes hiding, why shes not being transparent and following the rules. President obama calling for Carbon P
The popular locala palooza festival shutting down. Organizers ended the final day of the festival 30 minutes early when another storm hit the area. Here in grays lake, illinois, a day of cleanup. Parts of this building across the street. You can see that truck turned over. Carson, savannah, back to you. What a night. Jong yang in grays lake, illinois, thank you. Meanwhile, in california, thousands of homes are being threatened by a wildfire that nearly tripled in size over the weekend. Emergency officials stepped up evacuation orders. Joe fryer has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carson. This fire now at 54,000 acres, growing at a rate thats unprecedented. The flames have moved into a more remote area, which is good news. But in these conditions, they know things can change in an instant. The rocky fire is an unpredictable monster still growing this morning, even veteran firefighters say they have never seen anything like it. At one point, the flames tore through 20,00
It. Yes. I still have a lot i want to do this summer. Yes. Lets get to the number of the day, because it will be a great eight, for the day. Little more humid then it was over the weekend. Over the weekend we had heat but not really the humidity. Hopefully you enjoyed it. Is there bus stop buddy with muggy the dog. We have the water bottle there too make sure you you stay hydrated. Temperatures are in the 60s and 07s. We have 73 degrees in philadelphia 76 percent relative humidity. Bit of the breeze at 8 miles an hour. So yesterday was day number six, of the heat wave. Sunday as high 90. We think today will be 93, and plenty of sunshine. It is another hot one today and then tonight we will get widely scattered showers and thunderstorms, mostly north and west of the city, and that is what we have for for your monday. Some changes coming this week. I think we will break that heat wave before too long. We will let you know in the seven day forecast, hi there bob kelly. Good morning, every
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