As so often is the case you have two choices you can curse the darkness or light the candle. At night we choose to light. Were mad as hell and were doing something about it. Id like to tell you a little bit of that. Values matter training matters so we maintain programs with scores of Journalism Schools as you see on the slides. And there are deans fellowships, knight chairs, new degrees, training in person and online. We funded hundreds literally hundreds of immediate experiments from prototypes from realtime news to open Source Community engagement platforms. We have turned Mits Media Lab and the Pew Research Center to help us understand how people use information technology. We dont pretend to have a magic bullet. Instead we work with the journalists who care about the present and the future. We funded News Organizations whose missions day in and day out is to do outstanding journalism, like texas tribune, propublica and the voice of san diego. In the short term weve also given brea
Footballs national championship. Tuesday, january 7, 2014. From nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. Its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer. 41 states. Everyone, but hawaii will have freezing temperatures. Well have more on that in a couple of minutes. Lets get to todays top story. Lindsay vonn announcing she will not compete in the winter Olympic Games in sochi. Natalie, you have the latest on that. She had the injury since her bad crash last year. She suffered a setback last month and now vonn said shell be cheering on the olympian, sadly, from home. The most recognizable winter olympic superstar is out. Lindsay vonn announced shell not be competing next month in sochi saying in a statement, i did everything i possibly could to somehow get Strong Enough to overcome having no acl, but the reality has sunk in that my knee is just too unstable t
Welcome to mornings on 2. Its saturday, january 11th. Lets get a check of the weather with rosemary. Good morning. Good morning. Its a cloudy start. We have wet weather on the way. Giving you a look here another where that front resides at moment over the north corner of california. If i slide in over parts of the north bay you can see we are mainly dry. We have cloudy conditions, even fog reported. This is going to be moving through. Right now im pinging up ping im picking up just a few returns. As we get into saturday this is going to slide south the north bay will get it first and then itll progress through the day. I will timeline had for you, show you when the best possibility will be to get wet and your numbers for today. How much rain i expect and some snow for the sierra. Ly have information on that coming up. And we start with developing news from san jose this morning where suspected arsonist may have struck again. We are live in the Downtown Neighborhood where crews have bee
So many crises in the world. Lets start with ukraine. After the Malaysian Airline tragedy, putin seems to be doubling down on his aggression. Firing across the border, sending personnel in. Russian sympathizers downed two more planes. What can we do to stop him . I think one thing that might stop him is if the International Community all way in. The question is if we can get europe and the International Community to go along. I think we might get the point where we can. Second, having been in Eastern Ukraine not too long ago, when i talked to russian speaking ukrainians, they have had about enough of the kinds of people that he is bringing into the conflict. On social media, the russians are recruiting every malcontent and skinhead who will pick up arms and bring them in two into Eastern Ukraine. You think sector wide sanctions may be imminent, and the europeans might go along . The dutch were dragging their feet before, now they are leading the charge. Now, with the russians opening u
Of it. We have had the Supreme Court rulings, but the federal Election Commission has issued regulations that basically have narrowed disclosure to a level that is almost absurdly impossible to meet. People giving money specifically for an advertisement. I know that you see it as a vote best the federal Election Commission. Youre a very litigious guy. And repeated instances you have and judges have rebuffed those regulations. But in this particular case the District Court judges so and then the panel of the d. C. Circuit sent it back. Did you talk for just a couple of minutes about the destruction of the federal Election Commission and its role in the problems that we had but also the state of play in that particular and let me start with the latter. You are right best, we essentially won the case at the District Court level. On appeal the court actually found against us in part but then sent the case back to the federal District Court level to look at the other piece of the case. In f