This the today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Weve got willie in for matt. Kind of the middle of the night for al but still has his hawaiian moves down. He is ready for rokerthon 2. Always looks good in a hawaiian shirt. We know that about al roker. I would say im jealous of the weather out there, but its 75 degrees today here in new york and across the east coast. Weve got a little hawaii here this morning. More on that in a moment, but well begin with the newest fallout this morning over the downed russian plane in egypt. This is a crash that now has u. S. Officials ready to make changes to security procedures here. Weve got two reports for you this morning. Lets start with nbcs tom costello. He covers aviation for us. Tom, good morning. What can you tell us. Reporter savannah, good morning. As you know, the white house announced yesterday that in the wake of the metrojet
Hot and cold, a sharp contrast in temperatures dividing the country. Winterlike out west, summerlike in the east. Expect to be 75 here in new york city on the very day the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree arrives. And aloha. Al has made his way to hawaii to check off the first of all 50 states on his epic rokerthon 2 adventure today, friday, november 6th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this the today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, everyone. Morning. Weve got willie in for matt. Kind of the middle of the night hawaiian moves down. He is ready for rokerthon 2. Always looks good in a hawaiian shirt. We know that about al roker. Would i say im jealous of the weather here but its 75 degrees today in new york city and across the east coast. Weve got a little hawaii here this morning. More on that in a moment, but well begin with the newest fallout this morning over the downed russian plane in egypt. This is a crash that now h
Texans. Many of us waking up later as we turned the clocks back overnight. Dont forget to change the batteries in the smoke alarm also. I forget about the people who work overnight they had to work an extra hour. Chris likes the cold. Reporter its november it feels like november and it does this morning. We have windchills in the 20s and 30s. The wind whip around from 25 to 35 Miles Per Hour. Ment good news you can see where we lost the rain. It will be chilly out there today, well see a decent amount of sun as the after wears on. Numbers wise, were in the 30s, quakertown, 38. Manners creek 39 Martins Creek 39. Gandys beach 42. Avalon, 43, woodbine, 42 degrees, winds gusting anywhere from 25 to 35 Miles Per Hour throughout the viewing area well see the gusts exceed 35 or 40 Miles Per Hour later on always the coastal system right here continues to spin and push toward the north. Were on the backside of it, so the winds are out of the northwest and they will continue to howl later on. Ac
Wouldnt suffer the system as much as they do so there is a resistance from people on the left and progressive often making its progressive because it progressive because they worry that it would undermine support. Is that a fair representation tracks it undermines the support but i think that on the question of the progressivity i guess that you could look at and i agree with your point that it makes sense for the system to be progressive and it also makes sense that not everybody will get back what they put in or more but if we want the progressivity that in a clear way one could look on the revenue side and let everybody pay all year long and in terms of solvency that does a whole lot more trying to track down a few millionaires to make sure they dont get their Social Security benefits so just as the progressivity you get much more bang for the buck than on the benefit side. That makes one of my plants which is one of the interesting things if your objective is to make it more progre
Red cloud was somebody that nobody knows today because theres so much we dont know about American Indians in the 1800s. A lot of what this book is about is not just the fighting that went on but what was life like in 1840, 1850, 1860. Red cloud, crazy horse, sitting bull all these great leaders. What were they like as young men when they were fighting each other and fighting other tribes . That is a big part of the book, the excitement and drama of what the great plains were like in the early 1800s. One thing you should know too at one point right cloud, and he would never call it an empire that in our lexicon he had an empire that was one fifth of the contiguous united states. He controlled territory from canada down to the colorado, what was not then arizona and new mexico, east to minnesota and west to salt lake. So its a big we like to think its a big scope of the book involving manifest destiny and people moving in and the inevitable clash of red clouds empire and the nascent empi