Were there as investigators try to piece together what caused this crash. All bets are off. Two of the countrys largest Fantasy Sports websites ordered to cease and desist in new york. The companys vowing a fight. Is it the beginning of the end for an industry already with tens of millions of players and growing every day . The. And 30 down, 20 to go. Als crosscountry quest to hit all 50 states in a week goes south, literally, and with eight more states on the rokerthon to do list al is swamped today, wednesday, november 11th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning its veterans day. Willie is in for matt this morning. Good to be with you. We have some of the countrys great veterans groups represented out on the plaza and well spend a good deal of time with them. Al will be, too. Rokerthon 2 has a veterans day theme, too. And hes starti
To understand what their side of the equation is. And to be honest with you, some of the things they have done arent really clear today. So you know we always get in a debate about whether we should continue mill to mill if were unhappy with the things theyre doing. Im a proponent of continuing to take some risks there because there is benefit in us continuing to have dialogue, to try to establish those types of frameworks that allow us to communicate with each other in crisis. Weve had some good work with the prc lately of building some confidence Building Measures that allow us to understand how to operate with each other in these constrained waterways so we dont have a bunch of lieutenants and captains and commanders of ships out there making bad decisions that might escalate us to something we didnt escalate us into the trap. So we need to i think continue engaging them. We need to be forthright about how we feel about these things and what the u. S. Position is on behavior when it
The breaking news this hour Hurricane Sally is barreling across the gulf coast. Several states affected. Its bringing torrential, lasting rain and as a result threatening catastrophic flooding for miles and just sitting over that area there pumping down that rain. Sally now a category 1 storm was still 90 mile per hour winds. Some areas already seeing close to two feet of rain, over three feet predicted for parts of the southeast. Reports of highwater rescues already under way in gulf shores, alabama, that is near where sally made landfall just a few hours ago. We have reporters across the ghost and lets begin with our gary tuchman in Pensacola Beach, florida. Gary, tell us what youre feeling. We certainly see it. Reporter poppy and jim, Pensacola Beach, which is a Barrier Island south of the city of pensacola. Pensacola the city has about 53,000 people. This Barrier Island has about 4,000 residents, but lots of tourists come here, too. We are still in the midst of this. They got the u
Picked a running mate. He had picked california senator Kamala Harris. That announcement was greeted very positively across the spectrum except by the president. So, that seems like a good sign off the bat. The Biden Campaign received a record surge of new donations after the harris announcement. There were signs in the polling that the choice approved his chances of winning the general election all in all. This was seen as a very successful Vice President ial announce. It has continued to be a successful choice by all visual measures. They won the general election after all. Bidens choice of harris gave him a measurable burst of momentum and good will and additional financing on the way to that goal. All good. Right after the harris announcement was made, which among other things drove a big burst of new traffic to the Biden Campaign website, among other things, lots of people wanting to donate to biden for the first time. Right around that time, the tech website mashable right clicke
Election after all. Bidens choice of harris gave him a measurable burst of momentum and goodwill and additional financing on the way to that goal. All good. Right after the harris announcement was made, which among other things drove a big burst of new traffic to the Biden Campaign website. Among other things there were lots of people wanting to donate to biden for the first time. Right around that time the tech website mashable right clicked on the Biden Campaign website. Do you ever do that by accident . If youre a tech literate person, if you speak computer code, im sure you do this sort of thing on purpose. But if you dont speak code, if youre sort of a technical ledite like me and i think like most people you only ever do this by accident. Because this is what it looks like when you do it. This is the website for madoblog. Com. This is what it looks like when you go there normally. But if you right click on it to inspect the source code this is what pops up, right . Which is neat.