Announcer 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 a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie. Details still coming in at this hour about that paragraowerful i in the south pacific. It sounds like it could have been even worse. Two waves, each about fivefeet high hit the west side of the Solomon Islands overnight, following an 8. 0 magnitude earthquake. Well have the latest in a report straight ahead. Closer to home, are we back to the brink in washington . Are those dramatic spending cuts that both sides say they fear closer to going into effect . Well have the latest. A frightening scene the a school in modesto, california, it was all a mock drill. But was it just a little too realistic . Well be talking about that as well. If you couldnt tell from the music at the top, a lot of attention on so muchchisochi, rs morning. The winter Olympic Games kick off in a mere 365 days
Lindsay vonn will be ready for sochi on tuesday. She had a bad crash in austria and needs surgery. What shes saying about her chances of a full recovery in time for the winter games. Let us start this morning with the decision by the Postal Service to end saturday mail delivery. Nbcs tom costello is in a post office in washington, d. C. Good morning. Reporter matt, good morning to you. This was a major move that the Postal Service is undertaking, losing 16 billion a year as it is forced to fund future Retiree Medical benefits. And Congress Still hasnt gotten around to addressing the issue. The Postal Service will act on its own to save money and heres the plan. Starting august 1st, the usps will stop saturday mail delivery and will however continue Package Delivery and we should say medical delivery, in other words, pills and that kind of thing. Mail delivery to post office boxes will continue on saturday. Post offices would remain open on saturday. The estimating savings here is 2 bil
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