From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie with al roker and Natalie Morales and a bird. We have to address a little wildlife issue we have. Going to change the theme song to the show to born free. We have a bird that has taken up residence in our studio over the last day and a half and refuses to leave. If you hear chirping in the background. Now you know why. But hes tweeting. Yeah, twitter handle now. I wore this dress so the bird would feel completely at home. Hell either land you on or my head. We did have animal control here overnight trying to get him out. Humanely. Exactly right. We have a busy morning in the news. A lot of politics to get to including new twists in the Anthony Weiner cscandal. Republicans are facing issues of their own with a war of words with Chris Christie and rand paul. Well get to that in a few minutes
Monday, august 5th, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side natalie morales. Clearly the u. S. Intelligence officials are taking these threats very, very seriously. This morning were learning more about where theyre coming from. Lets get right to Richard Engle in cairo for us this morning. Richard, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. The u. S. Embassy behind me is closed today like so many embassies in this part of the world because of this Terror Threat which is described as specific enough to be credible yet too vague to know exactly where an attack might take place. The u. S. Has extended the closures of 15 diplomatic posts and added four more. All to remain shut, at least until the weekend. Until the muslim holy month of ramadan is over. The announcement itself may also be designed to inter
The new crime targeting women. Thieves stealing purses inside your car as you fill up at the pump. How to protect yourself from socalled sliders today. Wednesday, august 7th, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today. Its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast, on wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Take a look at this house. Michelle knight was there to watch it happen. She released several yellow balloons in the air, and we will have complete coverage of that in just a few minutes. And then we have a lot of news this morning, including a cautionary tale of addiction. Lets go to the story out of cleveland. Reporter good morning, matt. Dump trucks are lining up to take away the rubble of the house, not only to watch Michelle Knight here to watch it, but also dejesus aunt was here. It did not take long at all to erase the house, but it
And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist along with tamron and al. Matts been kind enough to yank himself away from the black jack table to join us. I was on a losing streak anyway. The press conference mike tyson had last week was exceptional. He was supposed to talk about his career as a boxing promoter. Instead he started talking about his demons. He said he was a vicious alcoholic, that he hated himself and was trying to kill him. It was a stunning public moment even for a guy whos had a number of stunning public moments. I sat down to talk about what appears to be the fight of his life. Well have that in the next halfhour. Back to you. We will look forward to that. Well begin with the breaking news tied to possible military action against syria. We have more from the pentagon. Good morning. Reporter good morning. This is clearly a new twist over the tensions between the u. S. And russia over potential u. S. Military a
The rescue mission that kept commuters on hold, friday, august 30th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. And im tamron hall along side al roker and willie geist. Savannah has the morning off. A big concert as well. Big crowd on the plaza. Well get to that in our 8 30 half hour. Chris brown out there. We look forward to that. But we have a lot to get to this morning. We want to start with the breaking news in syria. Richard engle is joining us now from turkey near the syrian border. Richard, what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, matt. Undeterred by threats of u. S. Military action the regime carried out yet another attack using a chemical agent, this time on a school. And these images come with a warning. They are graphic. We are human beings. We want to live. Reporter another horrific attack against children in syria. Op