Breaking news overnight, president obama announces that the u. S. Is lifting the longheld arms embargo with vietnam. The news that came during a press conference just hours ago. The president arrived in vietnam overnight for his first day in a threeday visit before he heads to japan for his historic trip to hiroshima. Nbcs tracie potts is in washington. Good morning to you, tracie. How big of a deal is the u. S. Lifting this arms embargo with vietnam . Reporter its a really big deal. It erases one of the last elements of the cold war, even though the two countries are not on the same page, including human rights. Despite lingering concerns about human rights, this morning president obama announced the u. S. Is lifting its near decades long arms embargo against vietnam. This change will ensure that vietnam has access to the equipment it needs to defend itself. Reporter against china, claiming disputed islands in the south china sea, and it eases vietnams reliance on russia. The presiden
Savannah, charleston, wilmington, all in the storms path as it creeps up the east coast. Mug shot. Prison officials release a new photo of o. J. Simpson, the first public image in nearly three years. Together again. A reunion 30 years in the making as Swedish Group abba gets together for a performance no one saw coming. Today, tuesday, june 7th, 2016. 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 on a Tuesday Morning. I cant believe you, abba. You had a reunion concert and didnt call us . This is a big deal. Knowing me, knowing you, were going to have a lot to say about that. So true. Lets start with politics. The race for the white house is our top story. After reaching that magic number of delegates, the presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton, has another reason to smile this morning. A brandnew nbc news surveymonkey online poll shows 48 of respondents would vote for clint
Crashed in hayward. A. The crash happened here at this hayward maintenance yard for b. A. R. T. Take a look at this video shot by our helicopter a few hours ago. A single engine plane with a 20foot wing spran crashed on the b. A. R. T. Tracks then caused a small fire. The pilot was killed. The crash forced b. A. R. T. To stop service on the fremont line. And later, there was a tenminute delay. But at 2 45 this afternoon, b. A. R. T. Trains started running once again. We talked to witnesses who saw the plane go down. We saw him going down and we saw the propeller wasnt working. We saw that he was trying to keep clear of the homes is what he was doing. Yeah. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. I dont know who they are, but we hope that theyll be okay. Other witnesses we talked to reported seeing an explosion when the plane hit the grund. According to the faa, the piper pa23 crashed under unknown circumstances about four miles east of hayward executive airport. The pilot was the
Were involved in about five different schemes which they allegedly transferred and stole money from various grants and funds in order to pay back an illegal million loan. That loan goes back to fattahs failed 2007 mayoral campaign. The money came back from federal grants, taxpayers and Nonprofit Organization founded by the congressman himself. According to prosecutors, the four people on trial, former aides of fattah, each made every single move with the knowledge of fattah and at the direction of fattah who this morning stopped to talk to reporters on his way in to court. Well, first of all, i am thankful and grateful for the strength of my family and im extraordinarily appreciative of the great legal team from the firm that will be leading my effort here. I want to say thank you to the voters and the citizens who have supported me and for their prayers over these many, many years. Reporter the defendants in this case are facing multiple charges including racketeering and money launde
Age 54. Nightly news begins now. Good evening. Our new nbc news wall street journal numbers out today echo what many recent polls are suggesting the race for the white house is tightening. Our poll has Hillary Clinton leading donald trump in a general election match up by just three points, thats within the polls margin of error. Trump and clinton are the most unpopular candidates in the history of our poll. 54 of voters have a negative opinion of Hillary Clinton. And 58 have a negative opinion of donald trump. Which has analysts wondering tonight what voters will do if theyre faced with two options they dont much like. Kristen welker starts our coverage. Reporter the likely fall fight shaping up to be a dead heat between donald trump and Hillary Clinton. There is no evidence he has any ideas about making America Great as he advertises. Just bad judgment. She suffers from bad judgment. Reporter nbc news wall street journal poll shows clinton leading trump by only 3 points. Down from 11