Korea. In a century after the panama canal opened, work is underway on a rival passage from the atlantic to the pacific. Good to have you with us. Peace in ferguson, missouri barely lasted 24 hours. Today, the community is cleaning up a mess from looting overnight. Peaceful protesters fought off people breaking store fronts. Investigations have begun, fbi agents going doortodoor searching for witnesses last week when a Police Officer shot and killed Michael Brown. Once again, we are waiting on a live brief from ferguson, missouri. We will bring that to you as soon as it happens. First, diane esterbrook is joining us live there. I know there has been a lot of activity. Whats been happening so far today diane . Reporter the cleanups have commenced today from some of the looting that we saw last night. We are, as you mentioned, waiting for this press conference to start with the governor and captain ron johnson from the missouri Highway Patrol. Earlier this afternoon, about two people tur
Synthetic pot that can be bought over the counter. Plus dog day revisited. An iconic film from the 1970s. If you think al pacinos performance was incredible. The man who inspired the classic. Were going to begin in ferguson, missouri, youre looking at live pictures. It is a day of calm protest but theres new anger as traffic makes its way along the street. As people show solidarity of the family of the man who was killed a week ago. New video shows Michael Brown robbing a Convenience Store just minutes before he was killed. There he is in the red cap. They say that is brown. Browns family says the police are mounting a smear campaign. Also today, police finally came clean about the shooter. Nearly a week after the Fatal Shooting of 18yearold Michael Brown and several days after the state law says the information is supposed to be released, this morning Ferguson Police chief Thomas Jackson finally released the name of the officer involved. The officer involved in the shooting was darren
Department will no longer be involved in the tent situation in ferguson that has seen days of protests following the teen. G of unarmed an lets here from florida. Go ahead. We will hear again from st. Louis, and, diane, we will welcome your call and wait for the governor. Caller good afternoon, how are you . Good afternoon. Caller im talking about the olice aren how peopl handling this. Anger is running really high do us a favor and just mute your television or radio and go ahead with your commentary he said anger is running really high. Please keep things under control. Caller anger is running really high. Last night was unnecessary. If people want to come out and protest to early in the morning, that is emphasizing your First Amendment. Exercising their First Amendment. With the police being there all you do that, i think that runs a lot more anger. I think that they should do a bit better, maybe back down and let these peaceful demonstrators them in straight what they are going to d
The rabaa massacre was one of the worst massacres in the demonstration in recent times, very much on a par with the massacres in tournaments where in china in 1989 Tiananmen Square in china in 1989. This is a crime against humanity. We will speak with Human Rights Watch executive director kenneth roth who has refused was refused entry to egypt to present his report on the massacre. We will also talk to Muslim Brotherhood member dr. Abdul mawgoud dardery, former member of the Egyptian Parliament. And we go to cairo to speak with democracy now correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous. Then to new mexico where the Obama Administration has opened a new Detention Center to hold hundreds of immigrant women and children who fled violence in central amera. So i went back to the detention facility the day after the to her and was interesting because in that moment, the show was over. Children were not eating. Children were getting very sick. Every child i saw looked incredibly emaciated, had kind of
Parents, welcoming a beautiful child into the world. Well share all the details and the first photos today thursday, august 14, 2014. Announcer from nbc news this is today is matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Take the scripts and throw them away. We have a baby we dont. But savannah and mike have a beautiful baby girl. Its a girl. Its a girl. Her name is Vale Guthrie Feldman, eight pounds, 5 ounces, 19 1 2 inches. Look at those cheeks, just the Perfect Little baby. Eight pounds, five ounces. Michael sent an email around saying most of those eight pounds and five ounces are in the cheeks. Vale is an old english word that means valley by a stream. They named her that because she was so calm and serene. I actually talked to savannah and mike on the phone and the baby was fussing. She was so peaceful. Until you called. But they are overjoyed and everybody is doing great. It is the best news. She t