Killing at least five people, flooding towns and triggering a tsunami alert in california and hawaii. White house bound. The 14yearold arrested after teachers confused his homemade clock with a bomb accepts the president s invitation to visit. You going to the white house, my friend . Yes. This morning, that young man is speaking to us. Duran duran, one of the most successful bands of all time. Yes, the guys who adorned my room as a teenager are making dreams come true with a Live Performance today. Thursday, september 17th, 2015. 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. I didnt get much sleep. It was this Republican Debate. It was a little duran duran, too. A little jitters for meeting them. It was a long debate. There was substance, sar ccasm between the candidates. Well talk to Carly Fiorina about her performance. Lets get a blow by blow of the night from National Correspond
Other information shows sweat and matt may have headed for vermont. Weve deployed Vermont State Police Marine Assets on the lake. We have information to suggest they thought new york was going to be hot, vermont would be cooler in terms of law enforcement, and that a camp in vermont might be a better place to be than new york. Those developments come as a spotlight continues to shine on Joyce Mitchell a prison employee and so called person of interest in the investigation wednesday. Heres miguel with more. In a show of force and fire power, the search for david sweat and richard matt going door to door. This is Joyce Mitchell civilian employee who worked at the prison tailor shop. Police say theres no metal detectors here. Even duffle bags are allowed in and out unchecked. Inmates are at times left unattended. Law enforcement staff notified me they had access for a month to the inner workings of the prison. They used power tools to escape and navigated cat walks and pipes. Theres no wa
Botha is facing attempted murder charges of his own from an accident dating back to 2011. He allegedly fired at a mini bus that didnt heed his warnings to stop. And the case against pistorius continued to unravel. Investigators lost track of illegal ammunition that was found inside the house. And botha walked through the crime scene without protective shoe coverses. He admitted that he didnt read the whole name on the container that the defense said contained only herbal supplements. Botha conceded that one of the witnesses lived at least 1,000 feet away. Several football fields away from the home. Prosecutors believe that pistorius put on his prosthetic legs, walked into his bathroom before shooting and killing his girlfriend. He was locked in an adjacent toilet room. Pistorius claims that he wasnt wearing prosthetic, that he was simply terrified of a burglar. Detective botha admitted that there wasnt enough evidence to disprove his version of events. We want to turn now to politics,
oklahoma city. reporter: violent weather ripped across much of the midwest over the weekend. storms lining up and lighting up the radar. spawning dozens of tornadoes. the most vicious hit sunday was in swawnee, oklahoma. the trail of debris stretches across several states now. homes and businesses ripped apart. no sooner had we gotten in the basement than we saw heavy wind and heavy rain and after it subsided, we came out and saw that we sustained quite a bit of damage. reporter: snapped power lines and stripped trees just outside of oklahoma city two 18-wheelers were pushed on their sides. one left dangling along the railing of an overpass. just like tens of millions across the midwest who continue to be on edge with forecasters warning severe conditions could continue for the next few days here. jay gray, nbc news, oklahoma city. and nbc s bill karins joins us now. what s the concern at this hour? are more people at risk? it s starting to die off thankfully for th
folks. let s begin with this. ntsb investigators have a very tough job ahead of them, searching for the cause of the train crash in southwestern connecticut. dozens of people were injured when the two passenger trains collided during rush hour yesterday. it created a nightmare situation for commuters and a lot of victims, a lot of injuries. our national correspondent susan candiotti is on the scene. good morning to you, susan. tell us what is happening now. i understand the ntsb is having a press conference as we speak. they are, and some key information we re getting right off the top, poppy. we now know that three people remain in critical condition. but the vast majority, the vast majority of passengers who were injured as a result of these two trains colliding have now been released from hospital. that news coming to us from the governor of the state of connecticut saying that, while 70 people were taken to hospital, a large majority of them have now been released. thre