Safe and continue to play. This morning the commissioners response to one star player who says the league failed to put health and safety first. Fatal encounter. A woman killed in whats believed to be maines first deadly shark attack ever while in new york several beaches now shut down. The latest in a live report straight ahead breaking overnight violent new clashes between protesters and armed federal agents in portland, oregon large demonstrations in other cities across the country. On the ground on the ground. This morning, the growing chorus of mayors demanding Congress Step in those stories, plus a heros farewell that saved a wretch like me a powerful rendition of Amazing Grace moves people to tears at the u. S. Capitol where congressman john lewis lies in state. Today, tuesday, july 28th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza hey, everybody welcome to today. So happy youre joining us on a Tuesday
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is facing mounting pressure from within his own cabinet, from the israeli public, and from the relatives of the hostages, who over the weekend stormed a parliamentary session injerusalem to demand more action to secure the release of their loved ones. live now to doha nawaf al thani is qatar s former director of defence intelligence operations and defence attache to the united states. hejoins me now. thank you for being here with us. what are you hearing about the framework of some sort of new deal? thank you for having me. i think first there are two parts of this. the first is the qatari statements in the past days and weeks that they have continued their efforts to restart negotiations and have not stopped their efforts. but the second part of this is also, at least from the qatari perspective, they ve played very close to the vest when it comes to negotiations, it s very sensitive and they don t talk a lot about it before it happens, but all reports indicates we are hea
putting out a statement that is that information from the israelis alleging that it had several staff involved in the october the 7th attacks and the us state department issued another statement talking about what unwra were saying and i2 about what unwra were saying and 12 staff and extremely troubled by the aggravation of further funding to unwra in a significant move and what unwra in a significant move and what unwra have said and they have sacked his 12 workers and full investigations and or people accountable with criminal prosecutions and his allegation standup and putting out such a strong statement and turning the contracts and the fact that the us sorting funding is suggestive of substance to the claim albeit investigation still going on. but unwra is a organisation of 30,000 people and an absolutely critical role in providing health and and welfare services to palestinian refugees pointing gaza but in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem and further out gettin
You. Four, three, two, one,. [cheers and applause] happy new year it is officially the first day of 2018. Confetti new and fireworks went off at midnight as the crystal ball dropped in times square ushering in the new year. Tens of thousand of merry makers braved the frigid temperatures i can talk. Tradition. It was the second coldest new years eve in times square on record. The temps only 10 degrees in new york city at midnight. Foxs Lauren Blanchard is in new york with more. Reporter temperatures in times square not keeping revelers away bitter cold and unprecedented blanket of security marking this new ye year. Reporter keeping all these people safe a major concern. The more than Million Party goers going through patow theres so much police around and they checked us pretty well when we came in here. So, i think i think it will its safe enough. Reporter following the terror attacks and concerns here in new york and octobers shooting in las vegas, cement barricades and trucks filled