Student as new details e merge about the disturbing websites found on his phone, but the victims family is holding out hope. All that, plus Venus Williams gets emotional at wimbledon. The creator of the ice bucket challenge puts the rumors to rest and falling flat. Pa passengers aboard a hot air balloon get an unexpected ending to their joyride, today, july 4th, 2017. This is today qwest with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today on this Independence Day morning. Well help celebrate americas 241st birthday with some members of the band here. This is the United States ceremonial brass out on the plaza and theyll be joining us throughout the course of the morning. Busy morning. We begin with breaking news overnight. North korea says it successfully test launched an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Beginning with nbcs keir simmons in london. Good morning. Chanel, good morning. Defense officials tell nbc that they are a
Of a young female chinese student. But the victims family is holding out hope. All that, plus Venus Williams gets emotional at wimbledon. The creator of the ice bucket challenge puts the rumors to rest. And falling flat. Passengers aboard a hot air balloon get an unexpected ending to their holiday joyride, today, july 4th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this independence morning. Thanks for joining us. Craig and i are in for matt and savannah today. Were going to help you celebrate americas 241st birthday with some members of the band here. This is the United States air force ceremonial brass out on the plaza. Theyre going to be joining us throughout the course of the morning. Busy morning. We begin with the breaking news. North korea says it has testlaunched an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Our team is standing by with everything you need to know, beginning with
[inaudible conversations] every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2. Keep watching for more television for serious readers. Next to mark the papal visit to the United States we bring a program from march on the future of the Catholic Church. Historian gary wills questioned whether pope francis is capable of producing significant change within the Catholic Church. [inaudible conversations] [applause] good evening, everyone. The queue for coming out tonight. What an outstanding crowd. I am not surprised. You tricked a very good event to come to. Diane lissa muscatine, one of the coowners of politics and prose. My staff and co owner and husband bob grant and i welcome you to this event. Most of you know the drill but just in case you are new to our events, gary wills will speak for a bit and is happy to take questions. We have a microphone up here and do we the dyke if you could make it to the mic if you have questions. We videotaped these events a
Still closed. To get around this activity for this time being just to be safe you can pop a few streets over and take 60th street. Now an accident also out in Upper Providence on route 422 at south trap road at the south trap road underpass. Be aware of that being in the area. As for mass transit, running on time with no delays for septa, new Jersey Transit and the patco van line. Rioting after the death of freddie gray. Heres whats happening now. The National Guard troops are taking up positions in the city. Most rioting has stopped this morning but some fires started in the past two hours and theyre still burning. District courts are closed this morning. Nbc 10s matt delucia is live for us in the Digital Operations Center. Matt whats happened in baltimore in the past half hour. Reporter ive been keeping an eye on videos and tweets and our sister station wbal nbc station in baltimore. Heres video of what happened overnight. Some of what we have been talking about. You see massive fire
Stores. The movies. We were just at the ken der center. Reporter the americans with disabilities act allows Service Animals to accompany people with disabilities wherever the public is allowed to go. But she says she runs into problems when people pretend to have a Service Animal like the one she ran into in a local restaurant. And the lady had her dog in there. Big black german shepherd. And he got a look at arkin and went ballistic. Reporter its easy to pretend your pet is a Service Animal. Go to one of many websites selling Service Animal vests and i. D. S. Theres nothing in the law to stop the pretenders. The laws about protecting the rights of individuals with disabilities. Not penalizing individuals that dont have a disability that want to take advantage of having an animal accompany them places. Reporter arkin was trained for six months by a nonprofit called canine companions for independence. The blind Dog Foundation for the blind trains service dogs. But the disabled are not r