Shot down three land attack Cruise Missiles and several drones. Im going to send to congress an urgent budget request to fund Americas National security needs, to support our critical partners, including israel and ukraine. Sandra brandnew developments, breaking moments ago, hamas has freed two american hostages. That is all we know at this hour as American Forces are coming under attack by iran proxies across the middle east. And that is a huge development. Welcome, everyone, im sandra smith in new york. John, great to see you. John holds out hope for the fate of other hostages held by hamas as well. John roberts in jerusalem, this is america reports. Good to see you. Several u. S. Bases in syria and iraq have been targeted by Drone Attacks, raising fearss irans proxies are more emboldened to expand the war between israel and hamas. Sandra all of this is happening as the Israeli Defense forces have been given the green light for a Ground Invasion in gaza. Hundreds of tanks and Armored
Department of defense announced the u. S. Government transferred 1. 1 million rounds of small arms ammunition for infantry units, and as i mentioned, central command, naval forces sees t the against resolution 216. We will continue to take actions to support ukraine in the fight against tyranny, and irans destabilizing activities in iran andnd i dont. Thats the commitment we will continue to have and also continue to support ukraine. The question about alternative ways to fund ukraine, was that the deal that the president was referring to again today when he said that the democrats had a deal with Speaker Mccarthy, maybe it was not to bring a bill to the floor on ukraine but maybe this other avenue to get aid to ukraine. Im not going to get ahead of the president or go beyond what he said, he will speak to this when hes ready to do so. The nature of President Bidens relationship with jim jordan. The president has been Vice President , senator, right, he has had many, many relationships
Overnight in asia, youre going to see whats happening. Well talk more about whats happening here with the futures. Overnight in asia the nikkei down by 1 2 a percentage point the hang seng up by. 2 . The shanghai composite down by a similar amount in europe this morning with the green arrows there, youre going to take a look and see that gains across the board dax up by 1. 25 . Cac up by. 9 . Crude oil prices, take a look at that, too. Last week for the week they were down by 60 cents down this morning another 55 cents to 57. 82 for wti. You think you can keep bringing things in here and yes. Driving your yes. To thats exactly what i think. Because you can. Because i can. That definitely is i try to spread cheer. Grat grasso messaged me, imt on youre trying to create tension. You bring me like back you know remember your thumb was sore and i got you some epsom salt. And today you brought coffee. Thats a way to do it. Hes the man. Im half italian, half sicilian. That means dont cross hi
Backdraft. Two firefighters inside a burning home when it suddenly explodes, sending insulation everywhere. This morning, how they managed to escape with their lives. And girl power the nation set to honor the world cup champion u. S. Womens soccer team with an historic ticker tape parade in new york city. But not before they make their way to the plaza to see the hottest girl band around, fifth harmony, live in concert today, friday, july 10th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to a friday morning. Savannah comes back from vacation on monday. Were here with hoda kotb. On your last day, we brought out a big crowd. Can i just say, this is my kind of crowd. A crowd of young girls, their moms and a bunch of other people some of whom spent the night overnight but theyre ready for fifth harmony around so am i thats in our 8 30 halfhour. But lets start on a friday morning with history being mad
Hundreds of patients including infants from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit after backup power failed. More on that incredible story in just a moment. First, lets go up to bill karins for the very latest on this storm. Bill, where are we right now . Were about 95 done with all the damage that this storm has produced. And, again, the majority of it was last night at about 8 00 p. M. As we had the high tide cycles right along the jersey coast. Of course, with those gusty hurricaneforce winds that we dealt with all yesterday afternoon and evening. But i still have concerns this morning. We have the next high tide cycle approaching areas that had the devastation last night. This will not be as high. The storm is a little weaker, a little further inland. It will be much higher than normal. Well have more minor damage occurring at this high tide cycle. The next one in new york city down by battery park is just after 9 00 a. M. This morning. It is not expected to be high enough this time to