East after turkey shot down a russia warplane. Warplane. Russia announcing they will deploy antiaircraft missiles to syria. Ill take that up with Major General robert scales and the president of the foundation for defense of democracy cliff ard may. Chicago braces for more possible backlash with the release of dashcam video of a white believe of Police Officer shooting a plaque teenager. Our top story, conflicting messages from dodge on terrorism. Administration on terrorism, president obama playing down fears of terrorism as we head to this thanksgiving weekend, president holding a News Conference he said it is understandable that the public is worried. But the public should go about their normal activity. But that does not scare with what the fbi square with what the fbi is saying, warning us to be on look out for suspicious characters, james rosen with our report. Reporter pardoning a 42 pound turkey, president obama said we live in challenges times, hours earlier, president sought
East after turkey shot down a russia warplane. Warplane. Russia announcing they will deploy antiaircraft missiles to syria. Ill take that up with Major General robert scales and the president of the foundation for defense of democracy cliff ard may. Chicago braces for more possible backlash with the release of dashcam video of a white believe of Police Officer shooting a plaque teenager. Our top story, conflicting messages from dodge on terrorism. Administration on terrorism, president obama playing down fears of terrorism as we head to this thanksgiving weekend, president holding a News Conference he said it is understandable that the public is worried. But the public should go about their normal activity. But that does not scare with what the fbi square with what the fbi is saying, warning us to be on look out for suspicious characters, james rosen with our report. Reporter pardoning a 42 pound turkey, president obama said we live in challenges times, hours earlier, president sought
From Hurricane Sandy, tehe jersy shore is once again losing a seaside attraction. And we begin with syria, and the effort to force syria to destroy its chemical weapons. Talks began today in geneva. Negotiations will continue tomorrow. Kerry has made it clear a promise to destroy the chemical weapons is not good enough. Mike viqueira is live this evening in washington with that story. Mike any progress . John, they met briefly in this first day of talks in geneva, secretary of state kerry and his russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. Tomorrow they get down to the it ine gritty. But as they sit down they cant agree on two fundamental points, number one who was responsible to begin with . And secondly, should the threat of force be even held out as a tool to get syria to comply with any deal . Going into crucial talks in geneva with the Russian Foreign minister, secretary of state john kerry laid out americas goal. It has to be real. It has to be comprehensive. It has to be verifiable. It h
Today, thursday, august 1, 2013. Good morning. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. We will take you live to cleveland in just a moment. But first, Edward Snowden almost a year after receiving asylum in russia. Good morning to you. Well, Edward Snowden was expecting a permit to leave the airport and get some space really while he waited months, he thought, for a possible temporary asylum. But he got something much better than that. An official tast track passport. This is Edward Joseph snowdens terrific to freedom. His new passport, granting him temporary asylum for one year. Snowdenstranded for more than five weeks while russian authorities reviewed his asylum request. And within minutes of the news, snowdens lawyer confirmed that snowden with passport in hand left the airport. But citing security reasons, the lawyer refused to say where snowden was going. Snowdens release comes just y days after eric holder sent a letter to russia au
Getting americans out on commercial flights. Officials today said driving them out under the cover the two f16s and several v22 aircraft end with a destroyer in the mediterranean was the best approach available. With me now is cnn military analyst lieutenant Mark Hertling and cnn correspondent Barbara Starr. Reporter good morning, michael. It was about a five or six hour mission to drive the americans out of tripoli, libya and across the border into tunisia. The state department this morning making the case that the u. S. Embassy in libya is not shutdown. Their mission will continue from other locations, but make no mistake, the embassy complex is shuttered now. At least temporarily until and if the security situation in that country improves. What happened over the last several days is the shelling by rival militias in that area, which is close to the airport, had intensified. It had become the new frontline. The airport shutdown due to shelling, virtually destroyed and shelling happe