driving before the arrest. first tonight, the dangerous heat, surging temperatures across at least 20 states and into the northeast. temperatures in the 90s, the heat index, the feel-like reading above 100. tonight, new york s governor calling up the national guard. in the west, crews battling at least 19 wild fires. the emergency playing out right now in new mexico. and the tropical storm warning tonight, the first of the hurricane season. ginger takes us through it all. tonight, president biden s major move on immigration, protecting immigrants married to u.s. citizens who have been here for ten years or more. it comes just weeks after president biden s crackdown on the border, shutting it down between legal ports of entry. in new york city tonight, the nypd making an arrest in the horrific daytime sexual assault of a 13-year-old in a park. don t,tonight, boeing s ceo grilled on capitol hill after that door plug blew off a plane at 16,000 feet. tonight, russia s v
White house reportedly gets set to tell the pentagon how to implement the controversial ban on transgender people in the military. All that plus the painful video that has parents of cheerleaders furious and police investigating. The driver behind this frightening parking garage plunge now suing and speaking out. It was just the most horrific thing. And why Gwyneth Paltrows company goop is coming under new fire today, thursday, august 24th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on a thursday morning. If youre waking up this morning and youre getting ready to check your Powerball Ticket, youll be much more excited if you bought your ticket in the state of massachusetts. Lets get even more specific. If you bought it at this store in watertown, which is just outside of boston, because that is where the lone Winning Ticket was sold makin
Good evening, and you can see it right over my shoulder here tonight, that massive Tropical Storm hitting the coast today and traveling north at this hour, bringing torrential rains and dangerous flooding. Heres another view from space tonight. Its not just the rain, a tornado watch across parts of texas, flash flood watches from texas all the way up to illinois. Further north 24 hours of brutal weather, a water spout over lake michigan. In cleveland, look at this, i90 under water. There were rescues today, a wall cloud rolling in over chicago. And the path in the next 48 hours, 70 million americans will feel these storms. Meteorologist rob marciano leading us off from texas. Reporter barrelling ashore, Tropical Storm bill pummeling the texas coast. Winds to 60 miles per hour. In nearby galveston, rough waves crashing onto beaches, spilling onto streets. Tropical storm bill now coming ashore, nearly hurricane strength. A formidable storm no doubt. The storm surge turning coastal homes
Obama and defense secretary ash carter laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns at Arlington National cemetery. The president also delivered remarks praising the heroism of the fallen soldiers. Those who rest beneath their silence, not only here at arlington but veteran cemeteries around the country and the world and those who remain missing, they didnt speak the loudest about their patriotism. They let their actions do that. Whether they stood up in times of war, signed up in times of peace, or were called up by a draft board they em bodied the best of america. Our Barbara Starr is at Arlington National cemetery today. Barbara, i know youre in the section known as section 60 there. Can you tell us and our viewers whos buried there. Reporter well, jim, here in section 60, this is the place where so many iraq and Afghanistan Military members are buried. Those who fell on the battlefields, now familiar names to so many americans, fallujah, ramadi, kandahar, jalalabad, this is a place, i