Sophia vergara to court to try to start a family of his own today, thursday may 7th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning, a lot of people want to hear what nick loeb has to say. The story he is in the middle of i think fascinates a lot of people. It deals with legal issue, medical issues and ethic issues in the mix. Lets start with this rough one, the nations midsection really dealing with a lot of tough weather. We are starting to see a lot of the videos coming into us of those damaging tornadoes. Cars are overturned rooves ripped off homes. There is major flooding from these storms as well as turn to al with what we can expect today. Oklahoma city got. 1 inches of rain more than dunl double their record last night. Its not done yet. This will be a multievent into the weekend. Again, up to 50 tornadoes reports from Nebraska Kansas on int
Deadly wildfires race through southern california. Two people are under arrest, accused of trying to start a new fire in the san diego area. Carlsbad and san marcos are the hardest hit area. A lot of destruction going on here. The l. A. Clipper season came to an end but the new battle is just getting under way. Donald sterlings lawyer told the nba he will not pay his fine and he will sue. Flooding, downed power lines reported all over miami. And in raleigh durham. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki faced tough questions on capitol hill from lawmakers angry over reports of a coverup at v. A. Hospitals. Would you explain to me after knowing all this information why you should not resign. The charges are piling up for aaron hernandez, indicted for a double homicide in 2012. Rare videos showing president Franklin Delano roosevelt walking. And footage of a car crashing and hitting an 8yearold girl. Shes going to be okay. And all that matters. When it comes to an entertaining debate, n
We have been pushing against that ceiling this week. Currencies, yesterday it was the ecb decision that got things moving. The euro is slightly higher at 1. 362. Thats because the euro was so much weaker ahead of the news yesterday. Lets get over to andrew. He has some top corporate head liens for you. Good morning, andrew. Thank you, becky. I dont call these corporate headlines. Its like wall street fine headlines. Bank of america this morning reportedly now in talks to settle mortgage probes. The wall street journal reporting that the bank giant could pay more than are you ready for this, joe . 12 billion with a b. They did robo signing on people that were two years in arrears. To settle with the Justice Department in several states. The probes involve the handling of mortgages before the financial crisis. 5 billion of that number amounts to what is expected to go towards helping home owners in reducing principle amounts and monthly payments. Bank of america and the doj are not comme
It did have two things in it you may not like at all. One was anger, practiced or inability to deal with the teleprompter, i think that was the latter. Inability to continue through with the cadence. Ivanka, her elocution was speech school. Every word was pronounced beautifully and exquisitely. She understood the flow of the words, the paragraphing and she worked it as a professional. I again will go back to john voigts reading. They should use him in their commercials. His voice was spectacular, calm, incredible. Trump spoke with such anger you have to wonder was it purposeful or was it something he was doing to try to avoid getting out of cadence. Ill tell you one thing, if anybody talks about Hillary Clintons yelling, they have to talk about trump. If you go after hill try for yelling, you have to go after trump. Chris matheus in cleveland. Steves here with us trying to monitor and Pay Attention to some of the reaction tonight. One of the thick that gets a lot of reaction on social
I again go back to jon voights reading. They should use him in all their future commercials. His looping of those commercials was spectacular. It was confident. It was calm. It was credible. Trump spoke with such anger, you have to wonder was it purposeful or was it something he was doing to try to avoid getting out of cadence. If anybody yells about Hillary Clintons yelling again, they got to defend trumps yelling. Because that was the speech of yelling. And it had no charm most of its way through. You can go after hillary for being charmless and yelling too much. Always think if youre a republican or trump guy, youve got to defend trump. Because he was yelling. The whole time. Chris matthews in cleveland. Steve schmidt here with us, just looking, monitoring, paying attention to some of the reaction tonight. One thing thats getting a lot of traction on social media is the response to Donald Trumps speech from david duke, the former klan leader who is thinking about running for congres