Dont have a strategy yesterday to deal with isis military. Military strategy in iraq where u. S. Air strikes continued today. There has now been 110 since the beginning of this month. Josh ernest pushed back by saying the pentagon is not quite ready with the plans. Thats interesting because the pentagon spokesman admiral kirby pushed back on that and told reporters, wait a second. The military is always ready if the commander and chief says go, we will have the plans there seems to be a split within the president s administration, maybe with his cabinet. In fact, josh ernest got some questions from reporters today about whether not everybody is singing from the same song sheet. You know, there has has about been various accounts, white house officials about how severe that threat is from isis to the american homeland. You mentioned that british Prime Minister David Cammeron raised a threat level in britain today the white house says they are looking at it but so far have died decided n
Time to fit in all the stars. Well talk to the man behind it all today, friday, february 13, 2015. Announcer 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 friday the 13th. Boy, how would you like to be Lorne Michaels trying to gear up for the 40th Anniversary Special and fit all of that in a special broadcast. Tell a star you didnt make the cut. 3 1 2 hours, they had a half hour because there is so much there. The weather outside, it has soared to 9 degrees. A dangerous plunge in temperatures while the northeast braces for whats called the valentines weekend blizzard. Al is out on the plaza. What can we expect . More of these temperatures here in the northeast as you said. 9 now, a wind chill of about 5 below. And lets look and show you whats happening with this. Bitter cold, High Pressure builds in this arctic express pushes in. We have got wind chill advisories and wind chill warnings
Time to fit in all the stars. We will talk to the man behind it all, friday february 13th 2015. From nbc news this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on friday the 13th here in february. How would you like to be lord michaels gearing up for the 40th Anniversary Special fitting all those stars. Telling the cast members sorry, you didnt make the cut. They added a half hour because there is so much there. The weather outside has soared to 9 degrees already. This is our top story. A dangerous plunge while the northeast braces for a valentines weekend blizzard. Al is out on the plaza. What can we expect . More of these temperatures. A wind chill of about 5 below. Lets look and show you whats happening. This is bitter cold. High pressure builds in this arctic express and pushes in. We have wind chill advisories and warnings from new england down to georgia and back to the great lakes. It feels like 12 bel
Two years ago. Almost to the day, again on september 11 when Islamic Jihaddists targeted the american consulate. Not only burned it down, but also took the life for the first time in 30 years, we lost an american ambassador, chris stevens. What is so shameful is that two ars later, libya is in absolute chaos today. Just in the last month, we saw Islamic Jihaddists take over the r field in tripoli and i visited the American Embassy earlier this year and i went outside and observed a moment of silence in front of the memorial recognizing our ambassador chris stevens. Its right outside between the embassy and the Swimming Pool at the embassy. And shamefuly, about a week, two islamic , we saw jihaddists had so pressurized our embassy that the people in our embassy wisely abandoned the fortunees took off yeah and the terrorists came into the United States embassy and took over and had a party in our embassy. And made a video that they posted they made a video they posted on youtube that had
Foley by isis, a terrorist attack, the United States is considering more air strikes against iraq and possibly going into syria. Today, one of the president s Top National Security visors made it clear that foleys horrific murder was an attack against all americans. Clearly, the brutal execution of jim foley represented an affront, an attack, not just on him but hes an american. And we see that as an attack on our country, when one of our own is killed like that. We made clear if you come after americans were going to come after you, wherever you. Are and thats going to guide our planning in the days to come. Is the white house making a case for war . Barbara starr is at the pentagon tonight. This is beyond iraq. Jim foley was beheaded in syria, a place the United States has so far steadfastly avoided. Will the president strike syria . It appears to be headed in that direction. The words were hearing from the administration are both sides of the border. Theyre not restricting it or jus