Oh, my god im like crying. Hoda shines a light for some very special kids today, wednesday, september 24th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah going to r rr rry live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to a wednesday. Im matt lauer with hoda kotb, al roker and natalie morales. Savannah is still on maternity live. That ong is masong is amazing. They mash up their two songs, brave and true colors. It is magic, guys. For a great cause. That light started to come out of your head, it was like raiders of the lost arc. She really is shining a light. We will get to that. Lets start off with a top story. This is an important day for president obama as he addresses the united nations. On the heels of the first u. N. Led air strikes on isis in syria. Foreign correspondent Richard Engel is in turkey near the Syrian Border. Richard, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. Sencom has confirm twod air stri strikes against isis i
Good morning, everyone. Right now springs biggest storm marching through the country with 65 Million People in its path. Part of the danger tornadoes. The National Weather service says two of them touched down in kansas yesterday. This one formed right next to a rainbow. Hail was falling and the rain was apparently coming downside ways there. It was a downpour that caused major flooding over in missouri. An auto center got 2 feet of water inside of just 40 minutes. Elsewhere windchill damage caused by baseballsized hail. From the air you can see the devastation to building and power lines. Its all leading to a big day ahead. Nbc meteorologist bill karins is here to tell us whats next. A lot. Flash flooding hail wind damage. The question is how many tornadoes will it deal with . Yesterday 10 reports of tornadoes, a beautiful picture. It was over a farmers field. It wasnt doing any damage southern portion of kansas. In all we had about 300 storm reports. A lot of those were large hail. I
Concert like this. Thousands lined up for blocks, all night in the freezing cold. Waiting all night for you, one direction. We love you. Get ready for the fab five, live in central park, in just moments, only right here on gma. Lets start this party right now, gma. All good morning, america. And good morning, america. Lets go right to central park right now. Look at that crowd right there. Wow it may be wintry weather. But that hasnt stopped the biggest crowd weve ever seen in central park, for one direction, right there. And inside the one direction bus right now, liam, harry, niall, louis, and zayn, all ready for this huge concert. It was something to see the crowd swell throughout the night. And this is what we have. They were out so very, very early, as you said. Lining up for the tickets to get inside the park. Thats where well be shortly. And another sign of just how big this band is. Their new album came out just 24 hours ago. And its already number one in 96 countries. Of cours
Good evening. Diane is off tonight. As we come on the air a ferocious storm system with very bad timing is creating all kinds of trouble. Look at the countdown clock, one of the busiest travel days of the year hours away and this is the storm, power up and on the move, arctic air, downpour, strong winds and tornados. The National Service issues watches, warnings and advisories in 20 states tonight and so many wondering will they make it home for thanksgiving. Abcs weather editor sam champion starts us off. Good evening, sam. Reporter good evening, george. There is a light, cold rain in central park. This prethanksgiving storm has made it on the east coast. Look at the radar. Its the entire east coast, every eastern state from the gulf coast to maine is getting something outs of this storm. There is still the possibility of Severe Weather in north florida all the way to coastal a carolinas. Lets head south a little bit though because thats the area that took the brunt of the storm durin
The widows, the elderly and the doctors on main street. A whole new address and a totally gift gambit. Thats how stocks reported high with the dow climbing 223 points, s p shooting up 2. 8 and the nasdaq soaring 2. 6 . The democrats have listened and addressed wall streets concerns about what happens to bondholders in the event of the treasury default. Oh, no, what would the big hotshot wall street bond owners do when their precious interest didnt get paid . The chinese, who own 1. 2 trillion back and forth of bonds get fed up with us and dump their holdings . Sell, sell, sell eventually causing Interest Rates to go higher. Ooh. Really scary. I was amazed this was the size of the debt ceiling ledger the democrats seemed to care about. Think about it. You imagine less sympathetic characters than the gangster bankers who took the bailout, lined their pockets and arent in jail. Dont we actually want to stiff those guys . [ buzzer ] or how about the chinese . Those rap patients capitalist