Psychologist who removed Jeffrey Epstein before he hanged hims f himself. All that and panic in st. Louis. Students running for their lives in fear of an active shooter. Across town, an 8yearold is killed by gunfire. Defeat down under. The u. S. Mens Basketball Team falls to australia. The first loss in the Major International tournament in nearly 13 years. And paradise bound. A town rallies around the High School Football team playing its first game since the community was wiped out by the devastating wildfires. A new reason to cheer today, saturday, august 24th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with sheinelle joins and Peter Alexander and dylan dreyer. From studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thanks for joining us. Kristen welker is here while sheinelle has the week off. How about the story from california . Players prove paradise is not lost. Incredible to see it. Well have the story in a moment. Lets get to the top story. That is President Trump arriving i
forces in yemen. search and rescue efforts are underway for two navy seals lost at sea during that mission. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning. last dance here in des moines, right? we re the last show out of here. i m bill hemmer. navy commanders boarding a smuggling ship in the sea finding cruise missiles. the same type used by the houthis to launch a series of attacks on ships in the red sea that disresults global trade. wall street journal reports shell is now the latest company to say we aren t going to go that way. we ll stop shipments through the red sea fearing a further escalation of attacks by the houthi rebels. dana: complex raid seizing the weapons took place last thursday while austin was still in the hospital and now released and working from home for a while. griff jenkins is live at the pentagon with an update on all this for us. good morning, griff. good morning, dana. the secretary will have a very busy
early. colon cancer surging especially among people younger than the recommended age for screenings. jacqui: study suggests cases could double by people under 40 by the end of the decade and could be the leading cause of cancer deaths for people under 50. researchers are baffled as to why it s even happening. john: do they have any theories, and what can you do to keep it from happening to you? we ll try to answer that question for you today. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts. great to spend friday with you. jacqui: happy friday, john. colon cancer impacting hundreds of thousands across the country. and medical analysis from dr. saphier. john: game time in a number of hours, los angeles dodgers are set to host a group of drag queen nuns during the team s annual pride night. sisters of perpetual indulgence will also receive an award, and it has many catholics upset. jacqui: faith leaders say it mocks catholicism, and the wee
tell joe biden to keep working for more jobs and less pollution. welcome to the next level. this is the lexus nx with intuitive tech safety radar detector: watch for traffic. and our most advanced safety system ever. there are challenges at the border, something the president has taken seriously since day one. the president would like to do more. he s using the tools in front of him. congress refuses to act. many want to make a political case out of this. john: the white house reacting moments ago to the crisis at the border and fears that it is about to get a lot worse when title 42 ends less than two days now. the pentagon set to address reporters minutes from now, this may come up. sandra: and we will be monitoring to see if the pentagon weighs in on the migrant emergency now that troops have been deployed to assist in the expected surge of migrants once title 42 is lifted. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. it s a busy one so far, sandr
much for the latest. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. we start this hour with the tears and the grief and the stories of terror from capitol hill today as people who have been deeply impacted by america s latest mass shootings testify to the house oversight committee. the youngest voice, just 11 years old, a 4th grader who survived the massacre in uvalde, texas. recounting the worst moments that she endured 77 minutes of living hell. she had to play dead. she had to smear her best friend s blood on her to hide from a gunman. there s a door between our classrooms, and he went there and shot my teacher and told my teacher good night, and shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates when i went back to the back. he i thought he was going to come back to the room so i got blood and i put it all over me. do you feel safe at school? why not? because i don t want it to happen again. and you think it s