Flames. We begin with bob live in dublin right now. Good morning. Reporter good morning. When you consider all of the fires burning in california right now, cal fire is giving this one high priority. You can tell here at camp parks in dublin just based on all the resources they brought in overnight. O more dozers. They brought in more air power to fight the fire that is several miles away from here. You can see the smoke emanating from mt. Diablo right now. Four tankers, two choppers, and one spotter aircraft dumping retardant right now to try and help the men and women on the ground. Power, a lot more man power. Over 700 firefighterszy2 workin this fire right now, hence the need for camp parks, this military facility allowing cal fire to use its vast open space. They have a tent city for firefighters to recharge and rest. They are going to need it. This mornings replacements just went up within the past hour. They went up the mountain for what will be a 24hour shift to try to better c
This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockerfeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Were so happy to have you back. Its really fall out. Its back to school here. My kids at home. Sorry about that. Back to school day. Did you get a new lunchbox. I did. I got the star wars one. Oh, cool. Dont leave him hanging. Meanwhile, this did seem like a good idea back in august, didnt it . Were waiting for our new set. I had a dream about it over the weekend. I had dreamed it had a jacuzzi. Did it . Nice. Well find out in about a week they say. Mean team, wooif got a lot of news to get to. Were going to begin with air strikes in syria. Intensifying in washington as Congress Ends its summer recess today and prepares to vote. Peter alexander is at the white house. Peter, good morning to you. Good morning. Within the last couple of hours secretary of state john ker
change that decision. the place for this question to be decided is the place where it was decided. by the electorate through the democratic process. reporter: prop 8 backers say it s in the best interests of society to support marriage that say can produce children without a third party and to support relationships that won t end with unwanted children and disinterested parties. it sounds like a good argument for prohibiting divorce. but how does it relate to having two males or two females marry each other? reporter: the three-judge panel was ready for the attorneys, firing off tough questions for both sides. it s not going to discourage heterosexual people from getting married, it s not going to keep them from getting divorced, it s not going to have any effect at all on their choice about having children. reporter: but the debate also focused on the fact that no one representing the state of california was present to argue the appeal. a positive outcome will ch