Nbc news has learned Richard Simmons will file a lawsuit today against multiple publications for articles described as unflattering and hurtful. Will the fitness guru finally reenter the spotlight in court today monday, may 18, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. [ cheers and applause ] good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a monday morning, im savannah guthrie, we have craig melvin in for matt and, shh, people are sleeping outside. Folks waiting for harry styles who kicks off our summer classic series. Well reveal the lineup we have for the summer. Are you impressed . Its quite the lineup. Something on the list for everyone. Stick around for that. Well get right to our top story. We start in washington. This muchanticipated hearing on capitol hill on russian interference into the president ial election. Acting attorney general sally yates. She was fired by President Trump. Nbc National Corr
Involved in some sort of Sexual Activity . Yeah, thats correct. Reporter now, there was an eighth man arrested in this case, i cant tell you who he is. At 6 00, ill explain why. Also at 6 00, tips from the police to parents to protect your children against these predators. Ill see you at 6 00, live in fairfax, im pat kcollins, news. Some of us could be waking up to frost on the windshield. Doug, whats going on . Its kind of hard to believe, doreen. Right now, temperatures wise, not bad. But in the shade, definitely on the cool side. In the sunshine, its a very nice day. Once the sun goes down, its going to get cold real fast. Average high, 73 degrees. Right now, no one in the entire mid atlantic even close to 70. Were at 64. D. C. , 56 in elkins, west virginia. You know we have cold air. Frost advisory for light blue. In the purple, thats a freeze warning, including petersburg, west virginia, and parts of the shenandoah. D. C. Eastward, not having to deal with that. But the coldest nig
Ceremo ceremony. This is about 25 minutes. Good to see everybody. How about a round of applause for these great guardians up here . Arent they really something . Great job. Today it is my great honor on behalf of the first family here on National Military appreciation month, to welcome so many heroes to this special place. And on behalf of the president of the United States of america, welcome to the white house. [ applause ] also thank you for that great introduction, thank you for the job youre doing day in, day out to help americas hero and meet the obligations we made to our veterans. Would you join me in thanking the secretary of Veterans Affairs for bringing about transformational changes to the va . [ applause ] can i invite you to give a big round of applause to the second lady of the United States of america and a marine corp man, my wife. Its humbling for me to be gathered here today. I especially like you to give a round of applause to the president of this great organizatio
Hello. What a friendly, beautiful group. You can even sit down, right . Well, thank you. We love you very much. You are very special people. Thank you for being here. So bright and festive. It is an honor to welcome to the white house activeduty servicemembers, military spouses we have a lot of spouses. And mothers of our men and women in uniform. I especially want to thank the spouses of the military ei aides. I am dealing with them all the time and they are incredible people. Gretchen, jessica, kelly stand up, please. Stand up. [applause] incredible people. Great job. Really, a great job you do. It isnt easy. It is a lot of work and we appreciate it. Thank you. I have to say to all of the folks that work almost as hard can they work harder . I guess, maybe. We want to thank you. We want to thank you. To all of the military families here, thank you for the service. To ourally important great nation. We are getting stronger every day. I can say this to the military folks that our natio
Parents. Their son is an officer in the so they know firsthand the sacrifices required by military families across the country. We are so grateful, so incrediblywe are so grateful, so incredibly grateful to our service men and women, for keeping us safe and protecting our freedoms. [applause] ivanka it is also critical to note that our heroes in uniform could not do their jobs if it were not for the love and support of their incredible families. So please give your self a round of applause. [applause] ivanka friday is Military Spouse day. Courage andof the strength of our Military Spouses. When a Service Member is away, Military Spouses assume increased responsibilities at home, and their commitment and dedication is just as Critical Service to our country. Today, we must also think about the military families who have lost loved ones in service to our nation. This administration, my family, and all americans you and our hearts and prayers always. Sacrifices, and we will never forget y