Biggest night. This year, the glitz and glamour will be served with controversy. Well give you all the plot lines today, friday, february 26th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the today show on this friday morning. What a debate last night. They dont need moderators announcers. This got heated. Well have more on the debate but our top story is the shooting rampage in kansas. We know the identity of the alleged shooter who opened fire on coworkers before he was shot and killed by police. The shooting. Good morning to you. Good morning, matt. Four people dead here, including the gunman. Many of them apparently his coworkers coworkers. One Police Officer is being hailed a hero cop this morning. All of this comes as another community struggles to understand. Reporter this is video of cedric larry ford, posted on his Facebook Page. In his late 30s, allegedly went o
For weather and traffic. Good morning. Were off to a somewhat cloudy start. Were looking for sprinkles and showers. Theres another batch off to the north and well see how far south these manage to make. It looks like theyre probably going fall apart before we get here but maybe a sprinkle during the Morning Hours but obviously fairly cloudy. Later today well start to tap in some of the drier air and see the return of sunshine. Fairly mild this morning 45 degrees in philadelphia, 40 in allentown, 42 in wilmington, 43 in millville 46 at the airport and atlantic city. So, better than it was yesterday morning and the same goes for, as you stroll out to the bus stop, 42 by 6 00 and 44 by 8 00, milder. A fair amount of clouds to start out the day. As we roll through it, its a day of change. 45 right now down to 44 by 8 oclock be then by noon were up to 62 and that is very likely going to be your high at the midday hour. After that, the winds start to pick up and the temperatures drop. Were d
He and his partner jared cohen are authors of this book. I started by asking schmidt, what has changed in the year since the book was first written . It is interesting, if you read this book from a year ago, a lot of the things we talked about did happen. We talked about the dangers and issues. Maybe the most interesting thing has been the unpredictability of political change because of technology. At the time he wrote the book, were reasonably sure that the revolution in the Tahrir Square in egypt was going to produce a particular outcome. Now it seems were back to square zero. If you look at the ukraine today, no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. We have learned there is some kind of limit to technological optimism. But if you empower people, ultimately, the gun still speaks. Im not sure it is a good answer, but it is a true answer. One of the things we had written about in the book is that governments in the midst of conflict will become so concerned about empowered citizen
He and his partner jared cohen are authors of this book. I started by asking schmidt, what has changed in the year since the book was first written . It is interesting, if you read this book from a year ago, a lot of the things we talked about did happen. We talked about the dangers and issues. Maybe the most interesting thing has been the unpredictability of political change because of technology. At the time he wrote the book, we were reasonably sure that the revolution in the Tahrir Square in egypt was going to produce a pseudodemocratic outcome. Now it seems were back to square zero. If you look at the ukraine today, it is not at all clear what is going to happen, and no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. We have learned there is some kind of limit to technological optimism. But if you empower people, ultimately, the gun still speaks. Im not sure it is a good answer, but it is a true answer. I was just on the Syrian Border about three weeks ago. One of the things we had wri
World of startups. We want to talk about developments at microsoft trade as the new ceo puts his new Management Team in place, the bestknown manager arguably steve balmer passed hast the baton in terms of the ceo title is speaking out about some of his regrets about microsoft cost microsofts shifts into hardware. We are also getting fresh details from Bloomberg News on what was happening in the board room as steve balmer push to get that nokia deal done. Bloomberg News Technology editor and joins me here in San Francisco with the latest on the story. Ari, lets start with what we are learning about that process of steve balmer pushing for this bigger move into hardware, trying to get a nokia deal done. It sounds like Board Members were not so sure about it. The surprise would be if there was not a lot of debate in the board room about this. A 7 billion deal for a handset maker, for a company that is trying to shift into the next generation of software and devices. They are buying one of