Of our shine a light series hoping to shine a lights on health and wellness in baltimore. Today, sunday september 21, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Im erica hill. Im lester holt along side jenna wolf and dylan dryer. This is jennas last day with us and weekend. Youre going to make us cry. Shes not going anywhere far. Your office is two doors down which is good. Shes just moving on from weekends to a more prominent role on the today show and net work. Not before a road trip yesterday. Theyre always fun. Were dressed up and look great now. When dressed down, we dont look great. These are my very best friends at nbc. Trust me. Later in the broadcast, well do a small, low key send off like we do. Just like my personality. Perfect. Okay. Well get to that. We want to start with todays top story. Thats the growing threat in california. Gusty winds are spreading the fire. 81,000 acres have burned.
Northbound at san leandro davis street is a mess right here. You dont want to be caught up in this and so of course liz will get you around that. But well continue to give you updates from here and at the same time stay in contact with chp but this is a cig alert going to be a mess cig alert, going to be a mess for a while now. Police have arrested more than 20 people and Six Police Officers are in the hospital. Ryan nobles is on the ground in baltimore. Reporter just hours after the Funeral Service for freddie gray. Rioting and looting on the streets of baltimore. [ chanting ] protesters threw bricks and rocks at police. More than a dozen officers were injured in the violence. Six seriously. Cars and businesses were set on fire. Marylands governor declared a state of emergency and baltimores mayor said they were deploying every resource to regain control. This is one of the darkest days as a city. And i know that were much better than this. We know that the world is watching. And we c
Look at the car. It looks like a war zone. Are you watching this guys . Are you watching this . Riots rage in baltimore. Looters and owners of businesses. Threw bricks at police. This was a Police Shield that was broken. The National Guard rolls into the city overnight after the governor declared a state of emergency. Beginning tonight, a curfew takes effect. I am simply pissed off. It ruins our city. Rescue crews and more survivors in nepal. And rapidly rising death toll. Coming to 4,000. Mt. Everest, tried to rescue climbers. We saw avalanches from everywhere. In louisiana, a train is thrown off the track. North of l. A. Wildfires threaten the suburban neighborhood. The samesex marriage debate goes before the Supreme Court later today. People have been lining up to secure their arguments. Near disaster in Washington State when the doors open, an suv passs it illegally. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to our friend john mellencamp. This is the number for the surgeon general. [ laughte
Look at the car. It looks like a war zone. Are you watching this guys . Are you watching isth . Riots rage in baltimore. Looterds an owners of businesses. Threw bricks at police. This was a Police Shield that was broken. The National Guard rolls into the city overnight after the governor declared a state of emergency. Beginning nitoght, a curfew takes effect. I am simply pissed off. Itns rui our city. Rescue crews and more survivors in nepal. And rapidly rising death toll. Coming to 4,000. Mt. Everest, tried to rescue climbers. We saw avalanches from everywhere. In louisiana, a train is thrown off the track. North of l. A. Wildfires threaten the su burban neighborhood. The samesex marriage debate goes before the Supreme Court later today. People have been lining up to secure their arguments. Near disaster in Washington State when the doors open, an suv passs it illllegay. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to our friend john mellencamp. This is the number for the surgeon general. [ laught
Before the paris terror attacks. One of the brother who is shot up the office of the magazine Charlie Hebdo was buried overnight. Said kouachi is now in an unmarked grave in his hometown in rural france. The towns mayor had no choice. Theyre required by law to bury him there since he was a resident. Across europe the terrorist threat is higher than its been in many years. This is brussels today, soldiers with weapons patrolling the streets and standing guard at many tourist sites including jewish centers. Troops are deployed to antwerp. Security officials all over europe are still trying to get a handle on how many extremists may be preparing violent attacks. Intelligence sources telling cnn terrorist sleeper cells may be activated especially in belgium and holland. Joining us a former jihadist and author. Thank you all for being here. Let me begin with you. Bob barrett, a lot to digest when you look at the scope of the growing investigation into all of this. If we look bob, at the par