Locker room. Harvey weinstein turns up at a public event in new york city d isonfronted by multiple women. Nobody is going to say anything . Nobodys really going to say anything . How it all went down from the people who were there. Walking free. Felicity huffman going to be released. And eddie murphy about to make his highly anticipated return to snl. They want to see me do buckwheat and mr. Rogers neighborhood. And he could finally land an academy award. Today, friday, october 25th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Nice to have you with us on a friday morning. Weve got two big weather stories unfolding as we speak. Wildfires have erupted across california, forcing Mass Evacuations this morning. And to prevent even more fires from breaking out, power has now been cut to hundreds of thousands there. Meantime, a tropical system in the gulf of mexico is set to bring soak
Hello and welcome to newsday. We start with russia, where president putin has hailed his predicted victory in russias president ial election, saying it would allow the country to become stronger. He had been the only serious candidate and now has a 5th term in office, after a landslide 87 of the vote. But there was defiance in the form of large queues at some Polling Stations in russia heeding the call of allies of the late Opposition Leader, Alexei Navalny who urged people to turn out to spoil their ballots or to vote for any other candidate. Mr navalny died suddenly in a penal colony in russia last month. At least 80 protesters were arrested. His widow Yulia Navalnya cast her vote at Russias Embassy in berlin. There were protests held and queues to vote in a number of other countries. In london there was a line a mile long outside the russian embassy. From moscow heres our russia editor steve rosenberg. For Vladimir Putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding
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