Beginning. And let the boonanza begin. Its halloween morning and exactly 20 years since today first dressed up and were marking the occasion with a reveal thats literally been decades in the making today, friday, october 31st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, halloween boonanza with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning on a friday morning. Happy halloween, everyone. Im matt lauer, along with hoda kotb, al roker, natalie morales. Savannah is back on monday. Indeed, she is. We have a band out there . What a way to celebrate halloween on the plaza. A lot of people are dressed up in their costumes. This is one of those shows that always starts one way and ends completely differently. Fun in our 8 00 hour. Were already thinking christmas. Weve moved ahead. Merry christmas, honey. Lets start on a friday morning with our top story. Twomonthold search for eric frein, suspected of ambushing two Pennsylvania
Whirlwind election campaign, tonight, Something Else deserves our immediate attention at the top of the broadcast. While the calendar may tell us were days away from halloween and the november election, for that matter, it is still hurricane season. And Hurricane Sandy has experienced what forecasters are calling a stunning increase in size and in intensity. This lateseason storm has already caused flooding in jamaica, damage in cuba, and haiti, and because it has the potential to affect more than 50 million americans along the east coast population centers, if it indeed combines with another storm and makes u. S. Landfall as is now considered likely, it deserves our attention. We begin our coverage with meteorologist jim cantore on Singer Island in florida, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian, this is a forerunner of what were dealing with along the area, we have been using words like hybrid, a winter storm, lets lay it out. First of all, the cone, friday it looks like it will
The storm that was shredded by dry air all day. Not much to look at, not very powerful as the center of it sits off the coast of miami. At this moment this is what is going to happen, the setup, the chemical reaction, when it takes a left hook, oceans will surge, trees will come down, portions of the coastline could be ravaged. We have it covered and want to talk to janice huff, how are we so confident it will blow up in size and make that left hook . Well, brian, there is still uncertainty with the track of the storm, but there is a certainty that it will intensify, moving into parts of the midwest and the jet stream helping to pick up, and energize the storm even more it is weaker now, the category 1 topping winds of 75. Moving away from the bahamas, there is a chance it could be weaker by saturday afternoon. But then they project it will bring it back up to category 1 status, but they found it all the way to virginia, and maybe even the outer banks will feel its effects by then. The
Both smashed the arena like thousands trapped in neighbos turned into lakes. Hurricane ian Hurricane Ian has a new target. Plus a chilling chain of eventsn the School Shooting that left six wounded. Questions about hoe suitors managed to breach the b. The building. How state lawmakers are bridg political differences to curb the California Fentanyl crisis. Hurricane ian is setting sites n the coast. Hundreds have been pulled from the floodwaters. Reporter it is a dark nightn southwest florida. Only 10 of the homes have power. Even intoe early evening, there were crews trying to move in and out of nes trying to make sure no one was unaccounted for. Crews across cl florida are searching for people for people trapped by the floodwaters left behind by ian. Paramedics used stretchers to get these nursing home residents home residents out of danger. John and james farr were taken to safety on a mere boat after crews said it was too treacheros to leave on foot. The storm camn shore as the cate
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