The story behind their amazing moves today, wednesday, october 30th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer alongside al roker and natalie morales. Savannah is out in los angeles this morning after what she told me to describe as a triumphant appearance on the tonight show last night. She must have trashed you. No, no, i said so many nice things about you guys, but they cut it all out. Im sorry. Oh. The editing, right . We understand. Did you have a good time . It was really fun, really, really fun. But an allnighter here in los angeles. All right, well, you look none the worse for wear and tear. Great. Well check in with you in a couple of minutes. Let us start with our top story today, a new problem for the president and the federal Health Care Website that report of advanced warnings before its troubled launch. Nbcs
And we come on the air with news almost impossible to believe. Another plane tragedy, the third in one week. And at this moment, we have breaking news on that passenger jet that seemed to have vanished over a vast desert, north of timbuktu in africa. Right now, reports are streaming in that search teams may have located the wreckage, amid questions about powerful storms near where the plane was flying. Abcs david kerley, who covers aviation, has the new clues coming in. Reporter the race was on all day to find wreckage. Two french fighter jets looking for any sign of this plane, or survivors, in the Sahara Desert in mali. It was the red eye taking off just before 1 00 a. M. From the small country of burkina faso heading to algeria. The md83 was about 50 minutes into flight when a call came in from the pilots to change course because of the strong storms. According to the french, at 1 47, the jet drops off radar, disappearing. This is what the jetliner with 110 passengers and a crew of
Position. With just the congress at stake, the white house as well from now theres a lot going on. According to abc News Washington post new poll, the picture is clear among democrats. Hillary clinton leads all over names tested when it comes to the house by more than 50 points. And for the moment, the primary would be hers to lose. Mitt romney is ahead of the republican field by 10 points. Hes winning with women and voters that identify themselves as very conservative. But look at this. Jeb bush is edging out rand paul and mike huckabee. And meanwhile an nbc news poll shows voters prefer a Republicanled Congress by a fivepoint spread and they fanned out across the country for both sides. We have former president bill clinton and senator Elizabeth Warren. They were in arkansas and iowa over the weekend for democrats. But throughout most of the cycle, president obama hes been noticeably absent. That same Washington Post poll shows why. His approval is upside down everything from the eco
Well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. I recognize the contradiction in a contradictory land and a contradictory circumstance. Are we saying that we are not going to stabilize syria under the rule of assad. Because the sunni areas inside of syria view assad as having carried out terrible atrocities. The world has seen them. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. Millions have been in an interview on 60 minutes the president said american intelligence agencies were surprised by the Rapid Advances made by isis and that the iraqi armys willingness to fight them is a lot weaker than originally thought. Meanwhile in an interview with abc, House Speaker john boehner said the president s plan to take on isis is insufficient. I think its going to take more than air strikes to drive them out of there. At some point, somebodys boots have to be on the ground. Thats the who
Minutes. President trump today said he reached out to americas allies for help in syria but when nobody answered the call he turned responsibility over to turkey. Signing an important trade agreement this afternoon, president drums that he is taking steps to ensure that turkey does not initiate a bloodbath. [applause] the event was decide with the trade agreement and it quickly turned to the president s decision to bring troops home. Once we captured isis, i dont want to stay there for the next 40 years. The president defended the move to turn northeastern syria to turkey sank he warned the president not to go after the currents and to protect isis prisoners and their families. I told turkey that if they do anything outside of what we would think is humane, to use the word the second time. We talk about hong kong and this. They could suffer the wrath of an extremely decimated economy and have done it once and i did it with past year. He insists he has support for the withdrawal but sev