Break down this fourth wall between us and the crowd. Its like okay, now were on a whole other level. And for me, too. Then as baby boomers retire at the rate of 10,000 a day well introduce you to the 29yearold whos disrupting the American Health care system with a great idea, and an ipad. I think were building an incredible product, a transformative product and its able to grow quickly and serve a lot of families in the highest quality ways. Plus tom brokaw in paris with the gripping story of a survivor of the attacks there six months ago. What he saw and how he and his city are doing today. Has it changed the way you want to live the rest of your life . Of course. In what way . I want to live. For the moment . For the moment. Lets begin with some breaking news overnight. The u. S. Launching an airstrike saturday against the leader of the afghan taliban. Today, top afghan officials and the taliban are saying he has been killed. Jim miklaszewski is at the white house for us. Mik, who i
Full scope of the shooting still unfolding. To a scene of Mass Violence here is the latest. Orlando police say approximately 20 people are dead and 42 are injured after a gunman walked into a popular gay nightclub called pulse. Some running from the scene and others held hostage inside. The gunman has not yet been identified, but we do know he is dead, killed by police. Investigators again, describing a hostage situation and thats when they moved in. Authorities say the gunman was armed with an assaultstyle rifle, a handgun and some sort of device on his person. The fbi saying this will be investigated as a domestic act of terror. We have this in orlando with nbcs sarah dallof. Reporter good morning. A tragic scene in downtown orlando where Authorities Say the shooter entered the nightclub and exchanged gun fire with a uniformed Orlando Police officer who was working in the club offduty. The shooter retreated back inside the club and that is when he took hostages. We were being contact
Of. May have been working as a security guard. One question obviously will be where did he get the weapons, and were told that that process of tracing the weapons hasnt started yet. I think that thats understandable given that they had a very horrific scene inside that nightclub to clear first. Once they have done their initial forensic look inside, then they will get the weapons out of there, turn them over presumably to the local authorities who will then enlist the help of the bureau o alcohol, tobacco and firearms who is the federal agency that will trace the weapons and see where they were purchased. We dont know anything in omar mir mateens past that would have disqualified him from purchasing them legally and both could have been legally purchased. Thats one question and the bigger question is why . Whats the motive . Thats the open question. There are early indications that mateen had connections with people involved in radical islam. Whether he was directed by that or whether
Nightclub. Frankly weve heard conflicting information on that. I think the main point here to make is weve heard no confirmation that they did in fact find explosives. Some Officials Say that search isnt done yet. Others say no explosives were found. I think the best way to say it is theres no confirmation that there were explosives and it may turn out that there werent. I think there was initial thinking that perhaps he was wearing an explosive vest but it may turn out that that was more of a bulletproof type vest. Were still waiting to hear about that. Secondly, the authorities have said that he had two weapons, a handgun and ar15 assault style weapon. We have now been told that he had high capacity magazines or clips, if you will. These are the devices that you attach to the weapon that hold the rounds. Florida has no law restricting the size of capacity magazines for these weapons and there is no federal restriction on it either, so all the indications we have at this point is that
Driver of this car as they search for the suspect in the murder of a popular fitness instructor. This morning the latest on that investigation, including what authorities are saying now about the victims family. And the force is with her. Thats not me making that noise, its the mask [ laughter ] the woman who posted that video on facebook showing her laughing hilariously, taking the world by storm. Nearly 100 Million People in less than two days tickled pink by that infectious laughter. If youd like to own a mask of your own, good luck with that. Its sold out today, saturday, may 21st, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im craig melvin. Love that. Were all smiling talking about it. If you woke up in a bad mood, just watch that video. Infectious laughter, right . We just watched it for the first time about ten minutes ago and weve watched it probably four times since then. I think because