The 68yearold democrat known for his devotion to civil rights passed away overnight. Well look back at his life and legacy. Wild and windy, more than 63 Million People from North Carolina to maine feeling the effects of a dangerous noreaster. Heavy rains and winds up to 90 miles an hour, causing damage, Power Outages and travel delays and it isnt over yet. Al has the forecast. All that plus in the hot seat, the ambassador at the center of the ukraine controversy set to face tough questions on capitol hill. On strike, a massive teacher walkout in chicago, cancelled classes and leaves tens of thousands of parents scrambling. And remarkable rescue. A hero trooper springs into action to save a driver stuck on the tracks. Weve got a train coming. Weve got a train coming. The heart stopping save with just seconds to spare. Today, thursday, october 17th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody,
Morning. Good morning. Sue is on her way down the shore. Sue is on her way to stone harbor. Beautiful day there we are looking at a great day here. Not quite a ten like it has been. Cloud started to increase and humidity climbing a bit. Way up there the scale of just a nice comfortable day humidity still relatively low you step outside buddy down the shore already 68 to 72 nice and comfortable. Surrounding suburbs are cooler then that but they will warm up quickly with unshine. Expecting plenty of sunshine very few cloud out there this morning. The just a light breeze, 68 that is in philadelphia but surrounding suburbs is just five or 7 degrees cooler. Eightyfive today. We are holding it down a bit. We will see 90s for a number of days in the seven day forecast, not to day though. Nice and comfortable with just a few cloud. Cloud will increase overnight tonight. Temperature drops to 73. Not nearly as cool as it has been. Ninetys with humidity and storms. All in the seven day forecast.
Good morning. I wanted to give you lay of the land so you could come, find us and visit us in stone harbor. This is third avenue, one of the main drag, in stone harbor and right down the the street from the fancy hotel. I think jen will be visiting there later on. So turn at 97th street and walk right down here to one of the most popular spots in town, which has been here for 21 years. It is coffee talk, or coffee talk as we have been calling it affectionately. This is one of the cutest coffee shops i have ever seen in my whole entire life. So this will be our headquarters this morning. Our sponsor mazda will have the mazda six down here. You will have a chance, starting next hour, to take a chance, on tickets to see maroon five on august 16th in Atlantic City courtesy of live nation. All that is coming up from here plus, the forecast. So lets get to it ape start with our number of the day which is a nine out of ten. The only reason it is not a tennis we will have a few more cloud toda
Its 1908. Cleveland, 1948 all over again. As we say good wednesday morning. The final push is on for votes after an explosive october. As the candidates scrambling from state to state donald trump is making a pitch to early democrats voters who may have had a change of heart and Hillary Clinton is not letting voters forget trumps most incendiary remarks. Abcs lana zak joins us with the good morning, lana. Reporter good morning. So much at stake and the polls narrowing we are seeing a flurry of campaign activity. 3100 vents today alone. As the candidates and their surrogates are really trying to bring the message home. The two candidates are making their final appeals to america. Donald trump on obamacare. I will ask congress to convene a special session so we can repeal and replace. Boy for everything thats wrong with our economy. Reporter nearly 28 million americans have voted and donald trump is hoping to change some of those Hillary Clinton votes. You can change your vote to donald
Theyre hoping to party like its 1908. Cleveland, 1948 all over again. As we say good wednesday morning. The final push is on for votes after an explosive october. As the candidates scrambling from state to state donald trump is making a pitch to early democrats voters who may have had a change of heart and Hillary Clinton is not letting voters forget trumps most incendiary remarks. Abcs lana zak joins us with the good morning, lana. Reporter good morning. So much at stake and the polls narrowing we are seeing a flurry of campaign activity. 3100 vents today alone. As the candidates and their surrogates are really trying to bring the message home. The two candidates are making their final appeals to america. Donald trump on obamacare. I will ask congress to convene a special session so we can repeal and replace. Donald trump is the poster boy for everything thats wrong with our economy. Reporter nearly 28 million americans have voted and donald trump is hoping to change some of those Hil