But can they stop them . And a surfer nearly attacked by a shark on live tv. As we look at fanning on the rankings oh sh [ bleep ]. Today squuljuly 20 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Cast back together for the first time this a while. Can can we put up that footage again . That shark attack we have talked about shark attacks on this show so many times. To see it happen and know it was on live tv is unbelievable. He goes under for a couple of seconds. Especially when the wave comes up and you cant see him. More amazing is the competitor in the water who swam to try to save him. Our top story, a major interstate in Southern California closed after part of the roadway washed away. We have latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, matt. A wild weekend for weather extremes after a kriping drought. The area is seeing historic rainfall that brought
Talk up infrastructure. Hes got a trillion dollar plan that doesnt get a lot of attention because a lot of you dont know how hes going to fund it but hopes it will be largely privately funded and hes going to tip his hand in ohio and give us an idea how that will all go. As i promised, we have Charlie Gasparino here. The fun begins, but no more so than when we kick things off with blake burman who now has people who have people. Hes become such a rock star at the white house events. All right. So blake, the president , this trip to ohio, whats it about . Reporter neil, the highlight of my day is being on this very show right here. Fort the people that have people. Neil cuckoo catch oo, you are the walrus. Reporter a concerted message as it relates to several legislative priorities. They have dubbed this, the white house has infrastructure week, that is part of the focus, so much so that the president left the white house a little while ago and he will be in ohio in about half hours tim
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Inaccurate accusations and putting out misinformation about me. Av you may h e noticed thated tha there little breaking news. Ns. Hillary clinton the a pressn ths conference today. Tod its the first time in 278 278 days. Da she did the she had a little gaggle press gaggle when they unveiled the newe n plane. Pl this is the closest weve haded to one in a long time. Te. Late this afternoon donald an trump fired backly he took onon the issue of education andcati a slammed clinton and democrats ad for what he called their failed policies. The Democratic Party hasartys strapped millions of africanamerican and hispanic hc youth in failing government schools that deny them the the opportunity to join the ladder r of american success. Its time to break up that monopoly. Monopoly have to do it. O dot. Its simply a matter of putting students first, not the education bureaucracy and things that Donald Trumpthat came under fire for was when wae he was talking about africanamerican outreach doing i
A bit more on that later. Donald trump goes on a long rapt. Much of it directed at dr. Ben carson. He says his pathological anger is similar to a child mow letters. Hillary clinton says she tried to join the marines in the 70s. The marines have no record of her application. And whats with the Department Stores, is nordstrom on the skids . A retail guy is in for a retail ice age. Lets get going. Its a friday. Jihadi john is dead and Varney Company is about to begin. Oh, yes, we are indeed top of the world. Varney company had its best day ever on wednesday, the highest rated 9 to 12 time slot in fox history. And beat the other guys, too, the after glow of the debate. And we thank you as always for watching. We do appreciate you every one of you. And all right, to the markets, were going to get there to look at dow futures. And by the way, right now, the dow industrials are negative for the year. And of course, were coming off a very big drop yesterday that took us down to 174. Somewhat s