Reckoning of so Many Organizations that so Many Organizations have been going through is long overdue and it must result in work places where all women, all people, feel safe and respected. Harris Senior Correspondent rick levinthal joins us outside nbc headquarters. Rick . Reporter harris, matt lauer was nbcs highest paid employee, making a reported 25 million a year. He was the face of the today show for just over two decades. But his boss said the allegations against him were simply too detailed and a clear violation of company standards. And other news outlets including variety and the New York Times are reporting today theyve been working for weeks and months on stories of Sexual Misconduct by lauer. Variety said nbc knew about it. Well, before mondays meeting with the accuser said lauer sexually assaulted her during the Winter Olympics in 2014. In the statement from nbc news chairman he said, quote, this may not have been an isolated incident. Our highest priority is to create a
Twitter shows a bearded man crumbled on the ground crumpled on the ground, i should say, his shirt apparently blown off and the Police Officer holding a mans hands behind his back. While acknowledging this could have been much worse, new yorkers must not bow down to terror. If the reality turns out better than the initial expectation and fear this is new york, the reality is that we are a target by many who would like to make a statement against democracy, against freedom. Lets go back to work, we are not going to allow them to disrupt us, thats exactly what they want. And that is exactly what they are not going to get. Harris Rick Leventhal joins us now live from the streets of new york city where this happened, we are just a few hours from another rush hour point here in new york city, people still on edge. What more have we learned about the suspect . That rush hour should be a little smoother this afternoon then it was this morning, the suspect has been identified as akayed ullah,