Well be there live. And let there be light. After a starstudded celebration, the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is sheevening bright today, first, december 4th, 2014 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 this thursday morning the rockefeller Christmas Tree looking so great. How many years collectively have we been doing this . Its the first time they let us prets the button. They used to do it. We were always a part of the tradition. It was fun, we should mention as we were doing that, there were protests in the streets of the city not far from that event. That is our top story, demonstrations not only here in new york city, across the country. They were in response to another controversial grand jury decision tied to the death of a suspect at the hands of police. We will speak with eric garner. Steffi gosk is in times square with the latest on all this. Good morning to
Scientists are trying to recharge its batteries. Whether it will work remains a mystery. Today, saturday, november 15th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. It is a little hot in here. Im happy to be warm. Nice to have you back out of the elements. When you show up in town, people think oh, no. No one likes it. People know somethings coming. Lets begin this morning with the top story. A new video in the police radio calls that have just been released from the day unarmed teen Michael Brown was shot to death by a Police Officer in ferguson, missouri. Ron allen is following it all from ferguson this morning. Ron, good morning. Reporter good morning, lester. The local newspaper here, the st. Louis gazette has the sunshine law to make the records public. Documents say the fatal en
Biggest rain event youve seen since february. A severe storm slams the coast. Heavy rains caused a mudslide. Theres more rain to come. Today president obama meets with his cabinet and civil rightsde lears to discuss the situation in ferg, usonmissouri. Meanwhile, protests by st. Louis rams Football Players. Police is found the body of ohio state Football Player Kosta Karageorge. The security line at chicagos Midway International airport was reportedly over a mile. Long meanwhile new york jfk airport has extra trouble to deal with. A bomb threat. No explosives were found. Shoppers hit the web in search of the best Cyber Monday Deals deals. Were going to see record deals through the week of onlein purchases. Police have clashed in hong kong with protesters in some of the worst violence. A silenkho that opened up in the middle of a business intersection in kai na was sad ne orws f one driver. All that. A formula one driver escapes serious injury after a hipeghsed crash. Green bay packers
Logistics providers and requires suspect and ill legitimate products il legitimate products to be appropriately apy handled. Ike like to thank senator harkin and senator alexander for their leadership on this bill. Id especially like to recognize senator bennet who has been a Strong Partner throughout the crafting of this legislation. For more than a year weve worked on this Bipartisan Legislation with our colleagues and have finally achieved an important balance with this bill. And i might adhere, madam president , we were told this couldnt be done. We were told this is too difficult. But for a year and a half, we have tackled this objective. Congress has the opportunity today to proactively put in place uniform, workable standards that will allow stakeholders Greater Regulatory certainty and give patients the confidence they deserve in the safety and security of our nations pharmaceutical drug supply chain. Congresss opportunity today are twofold. This is legislation this legislation
President obama commemorates of veterans day with a wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National cemetery. The show obammachel obama also attended the event. During his speech the president honored a man believed to be the oldest American World war two veteran. Richard over 10 as 107 years old. He also had breakfast in washington this morning. He still drives and cut his own grass and has a much younger ninth yearold girlfriend. Veterans day ceremonies also being held around the chicago area today. We are told. Many of the others will be putting together these care packages. This is athat we pay tribute to our veterans. That helped make this country safe and sound. There are also people here working to help veterans spiritually. Working to try to stop the unusually high incidence of suicide. 22 per day. That is under reported. In addition to that 69 percent of those are 50 years old. The grande room at Union Station is backed out in red white and blue. The giant American Flag that ador