Protect the environment and their future. And cedric the entertainer in studio 57. The star of the neighborhood talks about the cbs comedy and also gets into serious business. Its friday, september 20th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds lets go, guys. Weve got to go. A state of disaster has been declare friday parts of texas. Declared in parts of texas. Ive never seen this amount of flooding in this amount of time. Flooding turns deadly in texas. This is worse than harvey. Reporter worse than harvey . In every aspect. A whistleblower complaint about what President Trump said to a foreign Leader Centers on ukraine. I wouldnt care if he did. He had every right as president of the United States. Reporter canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing damage control after hes shown in blackface. The choices i made hurt people. Irans foreign minister said any attack on iran by the u. S. Or saudi arabia will spark an allout war. We wont wait to defend our territory. An e
things will get worse than they are right now. bottom line, it s going to get worse. we have the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. we have already lost 24 of our citizens. . we re heading towards an epidemic in the united states. the question is what the scope is going to be. tom hanks and his wife rita wilson, have both tested positive for coronavirus. . to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days. all right. exactly one year ago today when the country began to feel the full effects of the coronavirus. march 11th, 2020 was the day the world health organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. and in the u.s., shutdowns kicked in, cities began limiting gatherings. schools began to close. and major sports leagues started to halt play. everything seemed to stop. can you believe it s been a year, joe? i know. willie, it seems so much longer than a y
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Announcer from nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. We want to get to the top story. Accused gunman in custody after the shootout at the planned parenthood that left three people dead. The standoff went on for hours. We have nbcs National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer with the story as investigators try to pinpoint a motive. Reporter erica, police have Garrett Swasey in custody. An official tells nbc news the 57yearold is mentally unstable and killed three before surrendering. Attention all units. Working active shooter. Reporter when Police Arrived at planned parenthood in Colorado Springs, they were met by a hail of gunfire. Were pinned down. Active gunfire. Reporter the shooter, who Law Enforcement say says armed with an ak47 style rifle entered round after round on black friday in a Shopping Mall wounding nine and killing three. Ive bee
Suspected mastermind is a 27yearold pell jan man linked to previous thwarted terror attacks in paris, and an International Manhunt is now under way for possible accomplice accomplices, among them a 26yearolol brother of one of f the gunmnm who apparently rented a car used by the other attackers. And just two days after frances president called this an act of war, france launched air strikes in racca. Were told they were carried out in coordination with the u. S. Forces. All of this is covered for you this morning from across europe toresident obama overseas right now. Well also talk to former republic president ial nominee mitt romney who is urging the Obama Administration to step up its strategy against isis. I want to start here in paris with nbcs chief global correspondent bill neely. Good morning, good to see you. Reporter good morning, savannah. As you were saying, theres a this morning, not least because the french Prime Minister is warning more attacks and the mastermind behind