Priests to marry. That is today on wednesday, september 11th. Good morning. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie. This is a solemn day in our history. The nation is remembering 9 11. There have been moments of silence that have been commemorating 9 11. There is a memorial in shanksville. We are all asking where our lives are. And we will continue with that coverage in a moment. We will begin with new developments on the crisis in syria. President obama telling the nation he is willing to hold off on air strikes for now. Nbcs Peter Alexander has the story from the white house this morning. Peter, good morning to you. Savannah, good morning. Today, you said congress will not vote on anything in terms of authorizing strikes in syria. The president asked them to delay that after a primetime speech that offered more of a reset. It could be weeks or months before possible strikes as the president explores the diplomatic option first. It was one o
From climbing fences to cars on the runway a disturbing new investigation reveals how many times people have made it past security and into sensitive areas of u. S. Airports. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following breaking news. A new witness account to that Shocking Police shooting in South Carolina. A woman who saw the moments leading up to it now speaking out for the first time revealing what happened exclusively to cnn. And state authorities have Just Announced they are releasing dash cam video that recorded key moments of the confrontation between walter scott and former Police Officer Michael Slager. We are expecting it in the situation room any time now. We will show it to you as soon as we get it. Stand by for that. We are covering all angles of the breaking news this angle with our correspondents and our guests including the president of the National Urban league marc morial. Brian todd joins us from South Carolina. Whats the latest youre learning over th
To be in his had head and there rare many good people here have taken a body bowl. Some have battled fatigue, and they want their streets back home, and off of the streets, and others fear that all that they have accomplished is going to be eclipsed and this is how people will remember ferguson. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com [ gunshots ] well, that is what it looked and sounded like in the chaotic hours overnight on the street and the shock from it is yett to lift lift. The governor is coming to see for himself, and the Highway Patrol a patrol, and the county patrol have taken over security from the Ferguson Police department. People have held a small vigil not far from here for all victims of violence whether it was directed at Law Enforcement or committed by the Law Enforcement or simply within the community, and this is the stated intention at least, and whether that spirit continues, it is too soon to tell. And we have been reporting with our correspondents since the first shot
Officers is in the spotlight and on the spot accused by Police Supporters and surrogates of rushing to justice and have having a conflict of interest and she disagreed and something people out here have been demanding, some suspect of accountability. When asked how she believed she will deliver accountability she answered you are getting it. Tonight well keep an eye on the courtroom and the facts of the case and another on the Bigger Picture in baltimore and beyond. I want to begin with our Jason Carroll on the streets of baltimore tonight. Jason, a very different scene on the streets of baltimore all throughout the day since the announcement was made today. Reporter anderson i have to tell you, several days ago it what a it was a much different experience than what we are experiencing here. Right now thousands of people are weaving their way watch your back watch your back weaving through mlk boulevard, weaving through mlk and chanting and honking in solidarity. And they marched past
Damage from yesterday. Lets go straight to our Jennifer Gray. She is on the ground in cisco, texas, where that tornado, jennifer touched down yesterday during this program, killing one person. How are things looking where you are now . Well these are okay right now. Most of the storms that we are seeing are off to our south and our east. You can see the skies just over my shoulder, a little ominous out there. We are seeing some cumulus clouds building outs to the west though so we will have to see if some of that could develop, we will get more storms here this afternoon. I do want to quickly mention though we still have some Tornado Warnings, tornadoes in progress around the sherman area. Had is north of the dallas metroplex it is traveling to the northeast about 40 miles per hour. Spot verse seen the tornado and so we want to you take cover, if you are in that area. We also have a new Tornado Warning, this is in the hamilton area south of dallas. This is just to the west of waco. So