And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im savannah guthrie, and it is an anxious morning for folks up and down the east coast. Hurricane sandy strengthened over the night. Want to give you the information we know right now. Sandy is a category 1 hurricane with wind speeds of 85 Miles Per Hour. Its located about 285 miles east of cape hatteras, North Carolina. Emergency officials in new york city and washington, d. C. Had taking unprecedented actions to deal with this storm. Thats righ the mass Transit Systems shut down, schools cancelled. The stock markets are also closed. The first weatherrelated closure in 27 years, and just take a look at this nasa image from space. This is one massive hurricane. 800 miles wide which means its impact is going to be felt across a massive region for a very long time. You forgot to mention one precaution. Starbucks in new york and long island closed this morning. Dont hear that very often. Weather
Holt and billy bush about why we need the message of the olympic game and hoda kotb said it best. We said at times in life, you gist get a feeling that you need hope and any time you can turn on the olympics and see a moment that will give you hope. There was some las vegas conversation. Billy bush talked about what he loves about las vegas and letter holt reveals some of the ties you see on the National Network news, they come from las vegas. Take a usually like the bellagio guy. Why not . Dropped money at the maloof. Good ties. Maybe we can see some them. You probablery. Las vegas ties featured on nightly news. Thank you. You got it. Reporter i think lester dropitinthemall. Lets talk about tonight. I can tell you over to the left is the swimming venue. Its a barnburner. Screams and cheers, if they could raise the roof, they would be. The best swimmers go for gold. Michael phelps will be back in the shot for gold number 23. Hes in the 100meter well go back to the beach where kerri wal
Way, you need to find another route tonight. Fire and rescue says it is wrapping up the on Site Investigation in to the Silver Spring apartment explosion today. The atfs report should be out in a few days. Ntsb is opening an investigation. Today marks one full week since the blast at the Flower Branch apartments, 7 bodies recovered. We dont know who they are and if there could be more victims. The other big question lingering is what is going to happen to the kids that dont have a place to live when School Starts back in less than two weeks. Pta and volunteers are collecting supplies. Stephanie ramirez joins us live. Sounds like they could use a lot of help. Reporter a lot of educators and volunteers concerned about this, they want to make august 29th a welcome day as possible. Kids lost belongings, a lot of students may have lost a friend and 9 year old david was a rising second grader, one of the 7 missing people in the deadly apartment explosion and fire a week ago today. Allyson is
Dulles at 85, martinsburg at 81. Well let you know if anything pops up. Right now i think were on a pretty good t tract and maybean not as active as we saw last night. After 26 years on the police force and nearly 10 years as top cop, d. C. Police chief cathy lanier announced her retirement today. To lanier is taking her expertise to the nfl where shell be senior vicepresident of security. Fox5s paul wagner joins us life from Police Headquarters tonighe with the story. Paul. Reporter hey, tony as you know cathy lanier was a very Popular Police chief here in washington, d. C. Poll numbers usually above 70 percent. She was always known to go out into the community at all hoursl of the day and night. She would be at crime scenes. She would go to community co meetings and she was often seen hugging mothers and fathers who have lost sons and daughters to violence. But the chief is hanging up her handcuffs and handing in her badge after nearly ten years on the force. Its a very long time for
Doing so. Meanwhile, trump plans to return to wisconsin this coming week. He has a pair of fundraisers scheduled. One in lacrosse, the other here in milwaukee. Once again, the states Top Republican leaders wont be there. Governor scott walker is slated to be in colorado on tuesday as part of a Republican Governors Panel at the aspen institute. And House Speaker paul ryan will be on a trip with his only about 13 percent of wisconsin voters turnedout at the polls for last tuesdays pr unofficial results from county clerks. The Wisconsin Elections commission had predicted about 16percent turnout. More news now a mall in raleigh, north carolina, was placed on lockdown this afternoon after reports of gunshots. This cell phone video shows shoppers scrambling for safety. Witnesses say they heard one or two shots fired inside the mall. Police did not find anyone with gunshot wounds. And cannot confirm if shots arrested. An investigation still underway today into the cause of a deadly apartment