Move, move tourists scramble as a whale watching boat heads right for the pier. [ honking ] no serious injuries, but a lot of frayed nerves, and the coast guards now looking into why it happened, today, friday, april 1st, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Great spring day. Welcome to friday. Willies in for matt this morning. Busy day. Weve got weather, politics, and part two of our continuing series get to know your today show anchors. Yesterday we gave you savannahs email address. Today, date of birth, Social Security and atm p. I. N. Code. If youre wondering where matt is, hes in the penalty box for giving out my email on live tv. Well have all that, but first, our top story. Powerful storms spawning tornadoes across the south for a second straight day. We want to get right to nbcs steve patterson. Hes in mississippi this morning where one of those two tornadoes tou
Im gonna go with california. Is that your final answer . Thats my final answer. Actually, it was b, hawaii. Yeah. You find a lot of the guava, the passionfruit, all that. Thats all right, man. William, it was great to meet you. Huge congrats to jen awe, such an inspiration today. So happy to give her a nice chunk of change. Thanks for watching today. For everyone whos been a part of this one, im chris harrison. Well see you next time. [cheers and applause] closed captioning sponsored by how fast are allegra® gelcaps . Were going out in an hour. Fast. For allergy symptoms, allegra® is the fastest nondrowsy relief you can buy. Allegra® gelcaps. Not just fast. Allegra® fast. Action news was there, as alleged baby kidnapper Cherie Amoore had her First Contact with the wheels of justice. They spun hard, and fast, for this three twoyear old woman who was remand todd jail, on a half milliondollar bail. It is friday night, and the big story on action news tonight is the latest on the abduc
[000 00 58;00] nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Its a major American City dealing with an epidemic of violence. The shooting of a man in broad daylight in the streets of chicago apparently captured on his own camera phone have brought into jarring focus a surge in shootings that has made this the most violent start of the year that city has seen in two decades. The jump in shootings close to double the number from this time a year ago. Noobss blake mccoy has details. Come. Reporter this cell phone video making the rounds on social media appears to show the moment a man is shot in broad daylight. Chicago police say the man shot is a known gang member in Critical Condition tonight. While the video is shocking, shootings in chicago are increasingly not. A whopping 677 through the end of march compared to 359 shootings this time last year. The violence in these streets is blamed o
Half milliondollar bail. It is friday night, and the big story on action news tonight is the latest on the abduction and return of this seven week old baby. Tonight, we are hearing from the babys mother. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live at the king of prussia mall where the kidnapping happened. Dann, you have talk to Malika Hunter what is she thinking and what is she saying tonight. Well, jim, Malika Hunter is telling me she has not been able to sleep since her ordeal. Shes still in the state of shock and now fear about taking her children out in public. That was like one of the worst nights of my life. One of the worst nights. Reporter twentyfive yearold Malika Hunter describing her horrific nightmare at king of prussia mall where this woman three twoyear old Cherie Amoore of tredyffrin township is accused of kidnapping her seven week old baby ahsir simmons. Our cameras was there when hunter was reunited with her unharmed son. Crazy. He is doing great. He is doing great. He i
Democrat, did the same thing. So its something that came up and you will see congressional action early, in particular in the senate where theres been no action on these or really any other issues for the last two years. What about the public that will take questions in a minute but im cure use on the nsa intelligence issue some of your colleagues excuse for what voting for what they knowledge are excessive constraints or not well throughout through provisions in the programs and the public is up in arms and i need to give them something youch both had tough campaigns this year and your campaign was a central issue in the primary and came up in arkansas as well what is your sense of that . It was a central issue. We debated it. My part never had the problem he voted for it four times himself, so it was interesting. But suffice to say, ill have folks express concerns about provision inside the American Action here, domestic surveillance issues. We have to do this well. Our National Secu