Successful in the tech world. All that, plus a houseswallowing sinkhole in florida, triggers a new emergency. The star witness takes the stand at the top chef trial. And the countdown begins. The olympic winter games six months away. How is the usa shaping up . The athletes you need to watch, today, tuesday, august 8th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. So nice to have you with us. So nice to be together. Its like running into a High School Sweetheart years later. Its kind of wonderfully awkward. Yeah. Like you really let yourself go, havent you . No. Its great. Good to see you again. We havent been together for three weeks. We have a busy morning to start with. The Trump Administration weighing its options for north korea, after the regimes harsh response to the new u. N. Sanctions. They may be the toughest sanctions ever. But could they pla
Significant event in philadelphia with amtrak. I want to make sure i pass along our sincere thoughts and prayers. Hopefully have a speedy recovery. The other thing important for us to recognize, 1st responders were on. Immediately. Our deepest thanks. The other thing this is really bad always silver lining. We have the significant events in the United States. Up. You see people helping each other trying to recover can help people get out of the wreckage. That is inspirational. Talking about her experience she looks at her shoe and said, these are my shoes. That is what we need to be doing its. I just wanted to recognize that. Infrastructure week us dot we would hope that infrastructure week was a really. Linda solomon a lot of things. In todays world the whole package is important for us to recognize longterm importance of investing. Investing. We have been working hard for part three or four years now trying to get the country to push it up to look at Infrastructure Investment. Recent
Are right good, i will leave. [laughter] anybody have a question . Of course, have to get funding somehow from the paul ryan ways and Means Committee but as a know from past experience with shuster at the helm riding shotgun good things can happen. Also for the record for the 10 billion he got back and he was secretary that is the great airport with 100 million for that one. But we want to move right along first average just like to get each member of the panel to be recognized. First of all, of the president and ceo and regina who was president and ceo of the society of america. And the congressman from utah the knowledge of his house on a lot of good things including trade in then we have Michael Lewis president and ceo of the deputy secretary of transportation got a few things going but then allowed him a to ease out with the panel. But i think the timing is significant as a leadership in the senate with the infrastructure funding we need to do what is necessary with though whole pa
Going to happen. So that would be kind of my report. I appreciate. I appreciate. Thank you very much. A quick question because i no you have so many. Since the congress eliminated earmarks on special projects projects that are essential to being authorized and approved come back to allowing those type of endeavors . I think that what happened with the earmark debate is it got out of hand numerically and they got out of and in substance, board it really is traditionally when shuster held the gavel they would use of the individual members of the house. Already heard from mayors and county commissioners and governors and state legislators so you had an idea. It adds up to about 125 million. The state was ready to go for it. Well, your not going to get that. That is that. That is where i think a lot of the leadership came from because suddenly that county commissioner, the city council everyone had by an. Right right now it is sort of an academic thing. It gets fuzzy. Not sure who actually