And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome lindsay clemmens to the program. Her book heralded as the debut novel of the year. It explores race, family, identity and grief. It is an honor to have lindsay on this program. How are you . Thank you. It is an honor to be here. How are you handling the mad love you are getting for this . It is better than hot hate. Take it from me. It beats mad hate. Anxious to talk about, i did not know that your cousin was fight dog. One of the greatest groups ever. That is your cousin . Yes. Unfortunately, he passed away a little while ago. He was always a big important part of my family that he was from our family. My great grandmother, her house is basically where he grew up. It was always really this pretty magical place that obviously he was very inspired by and my mother is also a wonderful poet. I guess we have a little literary tradition. We have a rapper and a poet and now an author. Did that impac
Pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. So pleased to welcome martin sheen. The beloved actor of stage and screen best known for his roles in west wing. He just finished shooting the new season of grace and frankie and will be seen on pbs starting this thanksgiving in ann of green gables. Good to see you. You been all right . Been fine. Been busy. You were born ramone estevez. I still am. Earlier this week donald trump h had his say on daca. I want to start by asking you what do you make of the man that holds it now and what do you think of what he did this week on daca . So deeply disappointed. I just hope please god he comes to his senses about this one. This is the one thing that president obama really asked him personally not to change. And he like with many things that mr. Obama asked him to keep his hands off of he has grabbed with both of them. We are deeply disappointed but equally encouraged with the amount of support. We are seeing it in the streets with these kids that
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome lindsay clemmens to the program. Her book heralded as the debut novel of the year. It explores race, family, identity and grief. It is an honor to have lindsay on this program. How are you . Thank you. It is an honor to be here. How are you handling the mad love you are getting for this . It is better than hot hate. Take it from me. It beats mad hate. Anxious to talk about, i did not know that your cousin was fight dog. One of the greatest groups ever. That is your cousin . Yes. Unfortunately, he passed away a little while ago. He was always a big important part of my family that he was from our family. My great grandmother, her house is basically where he grew up. It was always really this pretty magical place that obviously he was very inspired by and my mother is also a wonderful poet. I guess we have a little literary tradition. We have a rapper and a poet and now an author. Did that impac
Took off for stanford aboard a marine helicopter escorted by three osprey aircraft andrew a crowd to the presidio. Before he returned to the city we had a chance to talk with people just passing by the mansion. Beautiful house. Very. 32,000 to ten grand and you can go to dinner there. Oh wonderful. Where is my invitation . Ten grand and you can go in and have dinner tonight and meet the president . Thats what we just thinking about that. Well lets invite him down for a snack. Reporter seems as though everyone we talked to thought it was great idea until we asked the money question. Have you got an extra ten k . Sorry, i dont. Not a cent on me today. Well ill speak to my banker. Reporter one neighbor who could certainly afford the price of admission, the vice chair of ce richard ellis. But he wasnt going. Do you think 20 times coming to the bay area that the president has gotten just about every nickel he could get out of this part of town . Apparently not. Its a deep pool. Reporter now
Nothing, hes joking, right . The hilarious sendup that has Andrew Garfield running for his life in an snl skit thats trending today, monday, may 5th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im savannah guthrie. Natalie morales and al roker are here. How many times have you watched that skit online . Probably about five times. Its hysterical. Its long, but were going to break it down in trending. A lot of people talking about that this morning. Were going to get to todays top story, and its that large wildfire racing through parts of oklahoma. The flames are being driven by unseasonably high temperatures and high winds, too. Nbcs jay gray is in guthrie, oklahoma this morning. Just north of oklahoma city. Jay, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. Were in the staging area right now. Hundreds of firefighters poring through here,