Republican push to repeal obamacare, and one of the senators behind it. He either doesnt understand his own bill, or he lied to me. It is as simple as that. Senator cassidy not laughing. It was a personal attack, and i cant help that. Do republicans have the votes to get their latest Health Care Bill across the finish line . All that plus the agency in charge of protecting your investments hit with a massive cyber attack. Look out. Oh, my goodness. A child struck by a foul ball, reigniting the debate over ballpark safety. A today exclusive. I got through this before, and i can do it again. Olivia newtonjohn speaking out about her new battle with Breast Cancer, today, thursday, september 21st, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody. It is a thursday morning. Were glad to have you with us. We certainly are. We want to start with our top story. Once again, it is Hurricane Maria. That s
Its colder outside. A live view of the art museum. The tree is lit there. A little breeze blowing the flag in front of that building. The wind is wloeing. We have windshield readings in the lower 30s. Philadelphia feels like 34 degrees. Feels like below freezing in allentown. 1 degree above freezing for wilmington this morning. Its a cold start but well see clear skies all day long. Sunshine will warm these temperatures up. 37 in the suburbs. 38 degrees in delaware. Lehigh valley at 35 degrees. Warmup about 10 degrees in the Lehigh Valley with sunshine. 50s for delaware. Low 50s for philadelphia. Near 50 degrees in the suburbs. At the shore, while inland hit 52, a degree warmer this afternoon. Sunny skies and a nice warmup. Ill go through the forecast hour by hour in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. Good morning, everyone. Around route 29, no problems or delays. Drive times, seven minutes northbound from 29 to the schuylkill. Speeds into the 60s. Wer
Midnight but the next couple of hours just a few light showers and the heavier rains are expected later tonight and during the day tomorrow. Well have much more on that in your forecast. Keeping students healthy is important especially at this time of year. Why door or a Health Experts hope to see declining vaccination rates turn around. Reporter going back school can also mean back to gems, vaccination rates across the state have been on a decline and exemptions are on their way up. In the state students are required by law to be vaccinated against 7 common illnesses unless a student has an ex systems. In iowa wedonothavea philisophical exemption so you can not not get immunizations it. We do you a slight increase in those religious exemptions so that is concerning because immunizations are not only to protect the health of the child receiving the immunization but its also to protect all those other people at that child comes into contact with. Coming up we speak with a local school w
Deal, but he wont reveal his decision, apparently fought even to his own secretary of state and this morning, there are some major developments in this russia probe from both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Is the investigation getting closer and closer to the white house . Weve got the reportert from both those papers who broke those stories and President Trump has continually said hes done more in the first months of his presidency than practically any president in history. But a new poll out this morning shows people dont quite agree with that. I guess it depends on what you mean. We begin with the latest on Hurricane Maria, though, now, lashing the eastern Dominican Republic with its destructive category 3 winds. All yesterday, the storm pounded puerto rico throwing the entire island of 3. 5 Million People into darkness. The island is also without water and Cell Phone Service t. Monster hurricane smashed into the already struggling u. S. Territory as a category 4 storm,
Table. Their focus right now is just trying to get to them. And keeping them as safe as they can as they do. Every few minutes or so crew members arms go up. You can see their fists in the air. Thats an immediate call for silence as they listen for the kids. Reporter they are call the school the miracle in the rubble. Reporter what theyre trying to do is pull the debris off. But they have to do it so carefully, so delicately. Reporter the scene here got very intense, weve seen doctors go inside. Asking for right now, theres oxygen tanks being rolled inside. When those fists go up, that means theyre listen for something. Reporter there are three children underneath a table that have been communicating to First Responders. Is this a positive sign. This is the first time in the last hour were seeing active drilling like that. As these fists go up, the entire country, the world really, is looking at these images. Lets go to msnbcs mariana atenc atencio. You spoke to a student who was trapp