Nbc news has learned Richard Simmons will file a lawsuit today against multiple publications for articles described as unflattering and hurtful. Will the fitness guru finally reenter the spotlight in court today monday, may 18, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. [ cheers and applause ] good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a monday morning, im savannah guthrie, we have craig melvin in for matt and, shh, people are sleeping outside. Folks waiting for harry styles who kicks off our summer classic series. Well reveal the lineup we have for the summer. Are you impressed . Its quite the lineup. Something on the list for everyone. Stick around for that. Well get right to our top story. We start in washington. This muchanticipated hearing on capitol hill on russian interference into the president ial election. Acting attorney general sally yates. She was fired by President Trump. Nbc National Corr
Do not forget your jacket. Youll have sun glare. By 5 00 p. M. , temperatures in the 60s. What you need to wear before you go outside. Youll want the warm jacket, especially the kids at the bus stop. The long sleeves. Sunglasses. Lauren is outside. Your jacket, actually. Thank you so much. Its chilly. I can see my breath. We have a frost advisory. Freeze warnings west of the shenandoah valley. Look at the temperatures. Update you again. 47 h in manassas. Temperatures dropped down to 36 degrees. On our way to the mid to upper 60s. Towards the end of the week well talk about your rain chances on thursday and friday. Lets talk about traffic. Good morning. Taking a look, live look. Northbound and southbound, going along fine. Heres the problem on 95. Northbound near the exit. That work zone is still clear from the west side. Taking a look here at the beltway from afar, everything looks quite good. As you zoom in a little bit, this is the only work zone remaining on the beltway. Inner loop
And that is why we are on the friend for the better part of the last two hours or so if you will notice that we continue to see rain showers across parts of bedford in pennsylvania counties dealing with a little bit of rain but the worst of the weather has shifted east of the viewing area. We do have some wraparound rain towards river valley but nothing we see from here on in obese severe. Lingering showers are certainly in the forecast throughout the full throughout the course of the evening. We will have a chance of mountain shows snow showers as we head into the day tomorrow. Lots and lots of Severe Weather reports getting into the Weather Center and also into the National Weather service. We have had many reports of trees down. We have had many reports of hail. Each tree broken is an indicator of wind damage. Each ice pellet that you see is an indicator of hail. And we do believe that we did indeed have a tornado touched down in appomattox county. Wind. This is going to be wind as
From police. Police chased him down and eventual hal to tase him after a confrontation with police. Hes in the hospital tonight and being look at as a potential person of interest in this investigation. Investigators have been here for about 4. 5 hours now. Several people in the area claimed to have seen exactly what happened including michael kendall. It was a domestic dispute. They were arguing back and forth i didnt think at each other. He was calling her all kinds of names. All kind of verbal names. Curse words and stuff of that nature. What did you think when you saw her walk behind the house. This is philadelphia, you know. People argue all the time on the street and i just continued minding my own business, and then they went back there. I kept walking. And then thats when i came back and i seen him come out and the girl never came out. Reporter now homicide investigators including their video Retrieval Team are here to look for Surveillance Video in the area see if that might h
Of goldbergs reporting. Here is some of goldbergs account. When President Trump canceled a visit to the American Cemetery near paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the lastminute decision, saying that the helicopter couldnt fly and that the secret service wouldnt drive him there. Neither claim was true. Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain and because he did not believe it important to honor american war dead. That is according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior Staff Members on the morning of the scheduled visit, trump said, quote, why should i go to that cemetery . Its filled with losers. In a separate conversation on the same trip, trump referred to the more than 1800 marines who have lost their lives as, quote, suckers for getting killed. The american president calling those who serve and protect our country and our freedom losers and suckers is tragically wher