Nuclear test. A magnitude 5. 1 earthquake was detected not far from the site the north used to conduct a similar test in 2009. Seismologists say the tremors are consistent with underground explosions. Now the condemnation from the International Community was swift. President obama called the test highly provocative and said it threatens u. S. Security and international peace. Lucy craft is in tokyo with more this morning. Good morning, lucy. Reporter good morning, annemarie. The u. N. Security council is going to be holding an emergency session today on measures to deal with the north Korean Nuclear test. And here in japan, Prime Minister abe, of course, coming out strongly condemning this as a provocative act. Hes called on his advisers to come up with possible unilateral sanctions that japan cant oppose. It was only two months ago that a missile was fired from north korea. It went over part of southern japan. So the concern is that this latest test moves north korea closer toward cre
It happened in the northeastern part of the country on a street google maps identifies as nuclear test rofd. Pong onreported it after activity was detected in south korea. They described it as a miniature size missile. Its the countrys third test since 2006 and the first under leader king jongun. President obama went ton say the move hurts stability in the region but promises to pursue firm action. The u. S. Security council has scheduled an emergency meeting for later this morning. And china has shown opposition to the test. Fugitive chris dorner is on the run from los angeles. The former lapd cop has been officially charged with killing michael caine. And dorner is charged with revenge killings. Meanwhile, large wanted billboards featuring dorners picture are now up in southern california. Theres a 1 million reward for information leading to his capture. Meanwhile, in chicago a manhunt has ended and two men are charged in the shooting death of 15yearold hadiya pendleton. 18yearold mi
Today, tuesday, february 12th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im savannah guthrie. And im matt lauer. Important news breaking overnight. U. N. Security council is going to hold an emergency meeting this morning to address north koreas overnight nuclear test. This is north koreas Third Nuclear test, but the first under its new leader, kim jong un. Well have a live report from the pentagon straight ahead. A Big Development in the story weve been following, two men now charged in connection with the murder of a 15yearold chicago girl who performed at the president s inauguration. Well get reaction to that news from her parents who, by the way, will attend tonights state of the Union Address with the first lady. Well also talk to a senior white house adviser about the pres address. Then well take a turn. You may have heard of snap chat. It
Now, the first such test to be done under north koreas young new leader, kim jongun. It was a highly provocative act, it violates nurpsresolutio. We have a lot to talk about this morning, and joining me is South Carolina Democratic Congressman, james clyburn. Sir, great to have you here. Lets talk about what we do expect to hear from the president tonight. We do have the information, he will be talking about the drawdown of troops in afghanistan, going down to 34,000. Thats half of u. S. Troops currently in afghanistan. But adding a wrinkle to the state of the Union Tonight is north korea and what we know happened there with their Third Nuclear test. The statement from the white house, i want to read it for everybody. The United States remains vigilant in the face of north korean provocations and steadfast to our defense commitments to allies in that region. However, though, there are already people on the right who are giving their, i guess, understanding of what the president is goin
Signed and refuses to get rid of. We learned the president will make a major announcement of afghanistan announcing that 34,000 u. S. Troops will return home from the region exactly one year from today. Thats about half the troops there now. Joining us now, maryland congressman chris van hollen, Ranking Member of the house budget committee. Thank you for joining us. Great to be with you, tamron. First, what are the expectations for the president tonight . Well, i think as you said the president s going to lay out his plan for xik growth, for job creation but focusing on the fact it is not good enough just to have Economic Growth for the folks already at the very top. That we need broad based Economic Growth where wages and middle class americans go up, where their incomes go up so that we can all participate in growing the economy and weve made progress. Weve had 35 straight months of job growth over 6 million jobs created but i think the president would be the first to say thats good