good morning, everyone. i m savannah guthrie. meredith is on assignment. you just think about the pressure those workers must be under, the sacrifice they may be making. they are being dubbed the fukushima 50, one of the last lines of defense against an all-out meltdown. imagine the concern when they were temporarily pulled from the plant overnight after radiation levels spiked for a shortle term. the second fire in number 4 today where spent fuel rods are stored. and japan s emperor delivered a televised address saying he was, quote, deeply worried, but urged people not to give up hope. sp latest ahead. people are still moving away from reactors. lester holt and the crew made it from sendai to tokyo overnight. they were screened for radiation and they fnd trace amounts on their shoes. lester will tell us about it in a few minutes. first he has the latest on the ongoing nuclear crisis. good morning, lester. reporter: good morning. you have to hand it to the 50 worke
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o donnell struggling for an answer. the suit shot outside a high school in utah speaks out as he is released from the hospital. we ll speak to him on today, october 14th, 2010. welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. you think about what this rescue operation achieved in chile. how long it took opposed to expectations and what the results were, it s flawless. did you watch last night? not up to the very end. until miner 31. i watched the last miner come out. as everybody said, it s truly as dramatic for the last as the first. a remarkable story. they thought it would take up to two days to bring the men to the surface. it actually took less than 24 hours when that last miner came out, a little past 9:00, i think. i amazing success. we were talking here yesterday morning, you had the rescue workers still there after the miners. imagine being the last rescue worker thinking, baby, don t break now. i m alone down here.
today, tuesday, august 10, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. what a wild story. we ve heard of out-of-control passengers on a plane, but this was a case of an angry flight attendant who apparently had had enough on that jetblue flight at jfk airport right here in new york. yeah, his name is steven slater. he apparently got into an argument with a passenger who was trying to get luggage from the overhead bin while the plane was taxiing. words were exchanged. that s when slater grabbed the intercom, let loose a few profanities, grabbed a couple of beers, deployed the plane s emergency slide and use it had to slide away. coming up, a man onboard that flight. by the way, one of my pet peeves when you re taxiing after landing and the flight attend apts say stay seated and people stand up and do things like that. we ll talk much more about that. also ahead, is there