Out. I feel we had a chance to get kayla out. This morning her familys heart wrenching story, the way they are honoring her legacy and the last letter kayla wrote from captivit and the never ending winter. Yet another storm takes aim at millions in the south as half of the country braces for yet another bone chilling arctic blast, today monday, february 23, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today, todays oscar afterparty with matt lauer live from los angeles, and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to this split edition of today on monday morning. Im matt lauer along with al roker here in los angeles. Savannah, natalie and tamron in new york city. Were going to start with an award of our own, the award for least sleep. You tell us how much you got. I was going to start with the award who stayed up latest. Tamron wins. I watched the whole thing. You guys, you had to hit the parties, al roker, right . I got tw
So weird. Its probably something you never thought youd catch on a police dash cam. Usually we show you brutal stuff, but watch this. Shake it off, shake it off a hardened Police Officer who loves taylor swift as much as your teenage daughter does. Fox friends begins right now. Hi, this is kristi yamaguchi, youre watching fox friends the best show on ice. Nobody knows the whole song. Whoever leaked that to us thank you. Well, good morning. I want to get to that fox news alert. Overnight, pope francis lands in the philippines, cutting his trip to the typhoon city short. The winds are already so short they knocked the popes hat right off his head. The pontiff did get a chance to meet with survivors of the 2013 typhoon that left thousands dead and he apologized to worshipers for having to leave early. We have new video showing a private plane carrying filipino officials nose down in the grass after overshooting the runway. This happens just minutes after the pope took off in another airpl
On cubas north coast. And now the storm is about 24 hours from striking the florida keys. Now, within the past few hours, it cranked back to a category 5 storm. Sustained winds winds of 160 miles an hour. It is not expected to weaken before hitting florida early on sunday. A very, very unusual event to hit land at cat5 on the u. S. Mainland. Now the window to evacuate, meanwhile, quickly closing for the countless drivers who did heed the call to get out there. Is only one way out, and that is north. But its slow going. Bumpertobumper traffic stretching to the horizon. Now flying out of miami is no longer an option. The last commercial flight to leave the International Airport was several hours ago. Airports in orlando, ft. Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach will all Halt Operations saturday. Now irma is one of the largest of landing storms ever recorded. And those who stay behind are taking a massive risk with their own lives. Emergency shelters already filling up with those who cannot or
Carolina, into North Carolina. Al rocker is standing by with a brandnew update from the National Hurricane center in just a moment. First, though, roughly 200 miles south of here this monster of a storm left the unimaginable. Left unimaginable devastation throughout most of the bahamas. You see the pictures there. It shows literally miles of homes and business without their leveled leveled cars cars scattered around flooded cars tossed neighborhoods. Cars tossed about like matchbox seven cars. Seven people have died so far. Officials there warning that thats a number that could rise dramatically as search and rescue efforts are under way. This before and after, this before and after of the nearly twoday hit, it shows the you devastation. You see it on your screen right thats there. Thats grand bahama before and this is after. Whole parts of the Northern Islands now under water. Meanwhile, here in the United States hurricane watches, mandatory evacuations now extend along the entire sou
Breaking news. Hi. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Thanks so much for joining us. Im robyn curnow. So at this hour we are following two big stories in the uk, a major blow to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson after a Rebel Alliance of lawmakers seize control of parliament. But we also begin with the very latest on the destructive path of Hurricane Dorian. For almost two days now, Hurricane Dorian smothered the bahamas. We heard reports of utter devastation. Well, now we get to see the destruction. Parts of the island are in ruins. As you can see from these aerial images, many, many areas underwater, homes ripped apart, communities gutted. Flooding is a threat to rescue efforts as well and the rescuers themselves, in fact. Every day people are using boats and jet skis, putting their lives at risk to save others. At the moment, the storm killed at least seven people, but the Prime Minister expects that to rise, and hes called dorian a historic tragedy. We