War ships. The white house calling that a claim of absurd. Island of desperation. Gas, food and water in short supply in puerto rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Are tens of thousands of residents who lost everything getting ready for a mass exodus to the mainland . Those stories plus a fast moving wildfire in california prompt evacuation emergencies overnight. How would you feel if your dentist were a robot . And hand in hand. Prince harry and Meghan Markle make it official. Today, september 26th, 2017. 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 being with us on a tuesday morning. We want to start on this tuesday, all eyes on monday night football and what happened before the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Arizona Cardinals. Thats right. The cowboys knelt, as a team, before the anthem. But the players rose and sang with the National Anthem. Todays Nat
Luther strange, backed by Senate Republican leadership and by President Trump. Let us know what it all means. Phone lines are open. Host we want to show you a couple of headlines this morning. The headline, the former chief justice finishes a dominating , winning almost 10 Percentage Points last night. More momentum is the headline there. From the state of kentucky this morning abandon and one other front page to show you this morning from alabama. This is the messenger inquirer out of them out of alabama. The front pages of kentucky papers on the day Mitch Mcconnell will certainly remember and probably not fondly after losing the effort to push through a repeal and replace legislation. Abouts up first to talk it from alabama, birmingham. Independent. Who did you vote for . Or did you vote . I can tell you why he won. He has integrity. The minute the campaign started attacking his integrity, it was over. What do you think happens in the general election . Democrats perhaps thinking mor
Weekend. Crews will be replacing a bridge. This is a project that usually takes a lot longer than one weekend. It usually takes about 18 months of construction. They will get it done in just 55 hours. Everybody traveling north will have to get off right here. This is where drivers will pick up part of that detour. It could add more than an hour to your drive. We want to show you why this is being done. A bridge at mile marker 57. Lehigh county will be replaced over the weekend. Saturday morning im told crews will fly that new bridge into place. We already covered the time line. Usually 18 months construction now down to just 55 hours. One thing you want to keep in mind, this starts at 9 00 p. M. For more on detours and how we need to get around this traffic this weekend well have more coming up at 11 30. Nbc 10 news. Once again, it will close at 9 00 tonight. Northbound drivers will have to exit at the lemy valley interchange. If you need a closer look log onto nbc10. Com or open the n
Quality to grant. Sunday night on cspans q and a. From washington journal, this is 20 minutes. Congressman tim ryan is back at our desk. Hes from a region particularly hard hit from the Opioid Crisis. And President Trump last week declared the Opioid Epidemic a Public Health emergency. What will be the impact of him doing that on the ground . Its welcome, but theres no money there. If you look at some county, portage county, my district, you need money. Money on the ground for law enforcement, money for the First Responders addressing a lot of these issues. And mostly you need the money for treatment. This is not alcohol addiction. These drugs are very potent, a 30day or 60day stay in rehab is not enough. You need maybe three, four, five months to get yourself off of this and get yourself well. And i think sometimes a lot of people just dont understand the level of devastation in some of these communities. Youre talking money nation would, how much would you like to see going to this c
Declared the Opioid Epidemic a Public Health emergency. What will be the impact of him doing that on the ground . Its welcome, but theres no money there. If you look at some county, portage county, my district, you need money. Money on the ground for law enforcement, money for the First Responders addressing a lot of these issues. And mostly you need the money for treatment. This is not alcohol addiction. These drugs are very potent, a 30day or 60day stay in rehab is not enough. You need maybe three, four, five months to get yourself off of this and get yourself well. And i think sometimes a lot of people just dont understand the level of devastation in some of these communities. Youre talking money nation would, how much would you like to see going to this crisis . We sent a letter to the president to fully fund all the programs and comprehensive recovery act we passed a few months ago, it was a bipartisan bill. We had democrats and republicans working on it. We need about 10 billion