Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side Natalie Morales and al roker that just dropped a bomb on us. You say you have amazing video later. Amazing video. Of the aurora borealis. Youll want to stay tuned for this. Hell show you next week. Lets start with the top story. The suspicious packages that led to tense moments at the Jacksonville International airport. Kerry sanders is there for us this morning. What happened. Well it is now confirmed by the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office that one man is in custody. He has been arrested. Police say the zelko told the security checkpoint that, quote, ive got a bomb here. That setoff a response that landed him in custody. For unknown reasons, another man in the security line ran. He is manuel rivera. He was chased to the parking garage where he was arrested. The two men we
Games, back on the slopes after hurting her knee. Today, friday, november 29th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Welcome to today on this friday morning. The day after thanksgiving. I hope you had a great one. Im willie geist. Im kate snow along side Andrea Canning and dylan dreyer. Everybody have a nice thanksgivi thanksgiving . I had way too much food. I went to the parade. The rockets. Is this your first one in new york city . My first full one. Its fun being pregnant on thanksgiving. You keep shoveling in the food. We eat for two as it is. You ate for three, i guess. It is the black friday shopping rush. Bargain hunters spent hours in the cold waiting for the doors to open and an frenzy ensued. There arent too many malls in the country busier today than the mall of america near minneapolis. Lets check in with courtney reagan. She is in dayton, ohio. Courtney, good morning. Good morning to yo
And erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside dylan dreyer and Andrea Canning in for jenna. So much attention paid to this Helicopter Crash which happened in scotland last night. Devastating, some of the images coming out of there. The chopper crashed on to a crowded pub along the riverbank there. It is our top story. Debbie edward is live in glasgow near where the chopper went down. What can you tell us . Reporter well, scotlands first minister has described this a black day for scotland. We are coming to terms of what happened here in the center of glasgow last night. Were coming to terms what happened here. A very wellknown pub on the banks of the river. Last night it was packed with about 120 people listen to go a local band then around about half past 10 00, a bang and a helicopter came crashing in through the roof. Panic, of course, set in and people started runni
Series of demands. Meanwhile, republican infighting over the shutdown continued today. We have people in our party, the ted cruz wing of the party, i dont know if they are willing to make any concession other than defunding obama care. We want to see the government on shutdown and other is the Republican Leadership in the house that we dont go the way of the 30 or 40 people, they are going to disrupt whats going on. As this staredown continues, real people all across the country are feeling the effects of shutdown, in idaho, the family of a missing hiker issued an urgent plea for volunteers to continue the search after staff at craters of the Moon National monument were furloughed. A local tour company is losing 50,000 a day because of the shutdown of the uss arizona memorial in pearl harbor. While hundreds and thousands of furloughed workers wonder how theyll make ends meet. Right now, im terrified. Im terrified. They had to live on what most of us work at and live on, they couldnt ma
Diverted to nearby airports. The flights that were on the ground here, passengers, as the planes moved away from the terminals passengers had to deplane and come down and depart and make their way back. They spent the night at hotels. According to the local authorities a man that was here and made some sort of verbal threat. A man who is known to the fbi. The fbi and the joint Terrorism Task force are now investigating the details of what happened here last night. Reporter i pulled up and they said theres a bomb threat. Everybody started running to get up. Reporter tense moments at Jacksonville International airport. Shutdown by police because of two suspicious packages. A lot of people started ducking behind where the packages go. Reporter the airport was evacuated when a bomb squad found one package in the terminal and another in a nearby parking garage. The airport tweeting details about the incident in real time. Jso bomb squad on site conducting their investigation. Currently no i