Stiller has died. This morning tributes breaking in. Breaking barriers. Both sound and gender. We are taking to the skies with the iconic blue angels firstever female pilot as we honor those who currently serve our country and those who gave their lives for it. Today, monday may 25th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this monday morning. It is memorial day 2015. Im willie geist. And im tamron hall along with she ned jones and dylan dreyer. We have men and women on the plaza keeping everyone company. Well say hello to them later. First lets get to todays top story. That damaging and deadly flooding in the south. The images coming out of texas and oklahoma are just unreal. Entire neighborhoods submerged. Crews using boats and helicopters to use rescues. Gabe gutierrez is in hardhit texas. Gabe good morning. Reporter willie good morning. This is some of the incredible damage we
O this is the meeting of the commission on the environment, today is tuesday may 26th. It is 5 03 00 p. M. , roll call. Commissioner arce here. Commissioner bermejo here commissioner stephenson here. Commissioner wald. Here commissioner wan here. We had a couple of meetingses, where we had vacancies, we still have a couple vacancies, we have one less vacancy. What i think we have done over the past year, when we have new members join is we do a nice little welcome, say hello, and have our colleagues have a chance to get to know them and a little bit about them. About and this is one of those times, im booeming because im exseethed about our newest commissioner, we will learn about here in a moment. Everybody in the meeting, please the newest member of the commission on environment elmy bermejo. [applause]. First of all, im sorry, i have laryngitis, im starting to get my voice back but i want b to say, im very proud to be a member of this commission. [laughter] sorry, i will push this c
Bash for Robert Mugabe. Good morning to you, welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford, live from new york city. After a day of political upheaval Opposition Leaders in ukraine are scrambling to feel a power vacuum. Viktor yanukovych fled the capital. Its unclear who is running the country. Viktor yanukovych said he is not stepping down and accused parliament of a coup. Hes referring to a vote that happened hours earlier, removing him from office, setting elections. Former Prime Minister Julia Tymoschenko has been released from prison, where she served three of a 7year sentence for abuse of power. Viktor yanukovychs decision to distance ukraine from the e. U. Is what sparked the protest in the first place. Jennifer glasse is the First International broadcaster to be live outside the Parliament Building today. Good morning. The parliament this morning charting a new future of ukraine. Making a lot of changes. The foreign minister is gone. The minister of science gone. They are lo
Life after war former fighters find new lives in the democratic republic of congo. We begin in ukraine where theres no sense of who is running the country. The president is out of the capital, after being impeached by parliament. No one is sure if he is still in ukraine. His arch rival tymoschenko is free after two years in gaol. She made her way to independence square, where she urged protesters to remain until the struggle is over. The camps from quiet, but many protesters remained. The main question now is somewhere the president. He has, in fact, abandoned his residence and was seen claiming he was the victim of a coup. Whelm talk to Rory Challands at the Winter Olympics in sochi, an event eclipsed by event in ukraine, first to Andrew Simmonds in kiev. Where is Viktor Yanukovych, do we know of his fate . No one knows where he is, but an incident in the east of the country has been described where a plane a president ial charter plane. It was stopped from taking off. Armed men, body
Reached. Three and a half months after that new bridge opened, just a few hours ago, caltrans announced the repair job on those giant safety bolts have been fixed and a permanent fix is in place. The steal saddles are functional and the temporary fix to let us open the bridge Labor Day Weekend have been taken out. Last summer about 30 of 100 bolts snapped or cracked as they were being tighted them. And tomorrow, the winds are picking up and thats easing concerns about the air were breathing. The south bay with some of the worst. Due to a fire in big sur and a scrap metal plant. We spoke with officials today. Theyre predicting the wind will clear the air. All of that sits in the bay area and builds up over time, it doesnt get blown out. We are expecting a wind advisory tonight. Bill martin will be here at 7 20 with the timeline and hell show us what else we can expect. Firefighters in big sur say theyre making progress, with 74 containment expected friday, at 100 . 22 buildings, 843 acr