Enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons. So now an organization just starting its most crucial work has been recognized with a major prize. The opcw will inevitably be judged on its work in syria. Some may ask the notice Belle Committee acted too soon. Now to chew over some of the issues brought up by this award of the notice belle peace prize, im joined by professor paul, a former director of arms control at british manipulate industry of defense, and also by bruce kent, one of britains most prominent peace campaigners, a former chair of the campaign for nuclear disarmament. Im going start with you, professor, if i may. Youve long been intimately involved with disarmament efforts. Do you think the opcw deserves this prize . They are a good institution. Theyre an important enhancement to what the world can do with weapons of mass destruction, but so far what theyve done has been relatively routine. Yes, its true, 80 of the worlds arsenals have been destroyed, but they havent d
House republicans met with president barack obama 90 minutes last night. On the table is a possible temporary deal to raise the debt ceiling. The president is happy they seem to be prevailing in the house. The fiscal standoff may soon end. Closing up 300 points. John kerry arrived hoping to make progress in the stalled security deal. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is. La jury has handed toyota a major victory. Cleared of the death of a woman whos car sped up and slammed into a zbleechlttree. As the boat got closer, we saw the guy waving. We got goosebumps. Police are trying to determine what caused the crash of a school bus and tractor trailer. Facebook getting rid of a privacy setting, one that lets you control who can find you on the site. All that going back to the championship series. Final score theres 2721. All that matters. Paul mccartney surprised fans with a pop up concert. He tweeted the details. Thought i was going to fainted. This is the 11th day of the government shutdown. L
We have seen a lot of rainfall announced. More than six inches at Carroll County and it is still raining out there. We still have some drops to come drainsd xm areas, storm caused some minor flooding. Workers had to clean the storm drains to keep the water running. Clear the Fire Department had to rescue a woman who tried to drive her car through the water. With the rain expected to continue into the weekend what do marathon runners think is tamara better rain that hot. I like the rain. It is better than hot. Much better. I am worried about slipping but i will do my best. Arrived inelson maryland yesterday morning and has been writing in the rain ever since. I was it was raining the whole time i was biking. It was not very fun yesterday. You want to get out of maryland to get out of the rain. I am trying to go south and hopefully the rain will stop here soon. When will all this and western mark over the weekend instead of it being the moderate to heavy rain we have been seeing it shoul
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Well answer the age old question, what does the fox say . And well answer the question how long will it be before you get that song out of your head. Two to three days. Sunday. Exactly. Well get to that later on. Well get right to todays top story. Theres controversy around the Nobel Peace Prize being o warded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and not to Malala Yousafzai. Andrea mitchell has more on that. Good morning to you. Good morning. It is surprising and controversial. It effects politics and the concern that she was too young to be awarded the most prestigious prize. She might win it in the future. It set off anger and disappointment. She has made a profound difference for women living under the brutally of
Friday, october 11. Happy friday. Im betty nguyen. It is day 11 of the Government Shutdown and the American Public is beyond frustrated. New polling says a majority of voters would fire every member of congress. Chuck todd has more on the numbers. Reporter in our wall street journalal poll 65 believe the Government Shutdown is doing quite a bit of harm on the economy. Politicly republicans are the losers by a 5331 margin more groups claim republicans than the president. 70 believe they are putting their own political agenda ahead of what is good for the country. The political damage to the gop brand doesnt end there. 53 have a negative view in the survey. And thats giving democrats a boost. They lead the gop by eight points on the question of which party should control congress. That was chuck todd reporting. While poll numbers continue to plummet they dont seem to be helping congress and the president broker a deal. The Government Shutdown is approaching the third week. There was caut