We have olympics coming up. When are you going to rio . Leaving saturday. We start monday doing the shows. Everything from what matt and hoda were showing looks great. Hoda has your drink ready. At the end of our 8 00 hour, hoda didnt know we were on. Its 9 30 down there. Going to be a long day for wheres the song . A little lauryn hill. Shes so good. I thought she would put out a new album. I love her. Her and Missy Elliott. Have you seen the commercial with Missy Elliott and alec baldwin . Her video she has that and do todays take as a puppet show. We all have bobbleheads. We want to start with incredible news this morning. Part of our extended family, ellie kemper, our dear friend and her husband, michael, welcomed their first baby. Congratulations. Ellie was here a month or so ago. She was already to go. I interviewed her. We talked about shopping for baby clothes and that stuff. Shes going to be an mom. We dont have information yet. I texted her. I suspect shes busy at the moment.
Possibly do to top that . Well ask him in his first live interview since that remarkable stunt. Defending the decision. The president of the International Olympic committee explains why he did not ban all russian athletes from the games. You cannot punish a human being for the failure of his or her government. As more members of team usa arrive in rio and the countdown is on for the games to begin, today, tuesday, august 2nd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today countdown to rio with matt lauer live from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and savannah guthrie, live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to a special split edition of today on a Tuesday Morning. Beautiful shots of rio. Boardwalk just off copacabana beach. Fridays Opening Ceremony just three short days away. I see you with the jacket there. We have to remember, this is winter in rio. It is winter. Were dead in the middle of winter. Temperatures during the day can get up into the 80s whe
Staff 40 by first chief of staff was asking me questions like who we going to pack it . I dunno what does a chief of staff to . That doesnt happen in the restaurant business. [laughter] thanks to you for being here. We will talk about the book way of the reaper. Thanks for heading out for the storm will waste too much of your time but if you have questions and will give you some insight on whereof the stories came from that did make it inside or whenever you want to ask. I will open with that definitely. U look like du have any questions . I will tell you the back end of the story, a 2009 in Helmand Province afghanistan. We were tasked with going around the province to eliminate as many bad guys as we could within an eight hour time period before the report came they were the first ones there but it everyday we would average 120 operations and that is right accumulated most of my kills. We averaged a few thousand kills of the total time in combat so that is the time this whole thing ca
He brought 60,000 guest, the union army. Sherman had previously been to savannah and lost savannah. There was no burning, looting or destruction. Savannah was spared. Sherman just left savannah about four months later with those 60,000 troops. A significant amount of marriages occurred between savannah women and northern officers. So we come up past the American Civil War through the reconstruction period ending in 1876. By the 1920s cotton had failed because of overgrowth and lack of fertlization and in gave the weevil and savannah was back to being poor. Lady aster said savannah was a beautiful lady with a dirty face. By the 40s and 50s the old houses in downtown savannah were worth more dead than alive just to get the bricks to build new houses. One city planner said savannah was so poor she was not able to destroy herself unquote. Progress did make some hideous inroads in putting highways through one part of the old town and a street through three of the pressures squares. At one p
The founders are. In 1954, come to the rescue was the Historic Preservation society who had enough when the Old City Market was destroyed and they built an incredibly hideous looking parking lot. So, they band together and formeded what some called it hysterical save savannah foundation. Literally seven old ladies, some in tennis shoes, went around throwing their bodies in front of the wrecking ball to stop the progress and a Revolving Fund started to buy a house for 5,000, restore it to what it was and sell it for 25,000 or something. You got 20,000 and you do it and do it until at some point savannah now has the largest restored Historic District in america which is quite an accomplishment. What has been done since 1954 is an accomplishment. And i will not name any of those seven little old ladies. They are not twittering old lady. They have clout and it showed. Historic savannah is sometimes nogs meaning north of gaston street. My wife and i live on gaston street. We live on the sou