Destroyed. An iconic landmark tipped over. The incident caught on tape and the search is on to track down those vandals, today, september 6th, 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 this its september 6th. Its after labor day. I want to tell myself theres another side to that story with those people knocking over that ancient rock sculpture. If our show can accomplish one thing today maybe that tape will help authorities figure out who those people are. Well tell you more about that coming up in just a while. Hard to fathom. Our top story, crunch time in just 63 days to go now. Hillary clinton and donald trump locking into a fierce battle to the finish beginning the postlabor day push by barnstorming key battleground states. We have it all covered. Lets start with National Correspondent peter alexander. Good morning. Good morning to you. Here we finally are
New developments in a plea shooting in king man. An officer and self were shot and we just learned the suspect has died. It happened this morning near the highway near stockton dale road. He shot an officer was investigating stolen property. Officers shot back hitting and killing the suspect right now the officer is listed in serious condition. To kids two kids are behind bars after robberies. They were wearing clown check out the surveillance video. It first happened on tuesday night at taco bell and the second at a dominos. While police were responding the suspect fired shots. It was a tragic accident and now we know the name of the fiveyearold boy who was shot by his dads gun. Police identified him as savier jones. No arrests in this case. He found his dads weapon and she heard it. Video that sticks in your mind, a man carrying a woman over his shoulder before he sexually assaulted her. Jason valentine found out that multiple people questioned the sky in between this guy in between
The search and rescue efforts in after georg afghanistan and pakistan and focusing on remote areas where the impact of the mondays 7. 5 magnitude earthquake are unclear. 340 have been killed, most of those who died were in northern pakistan, india, iran and forces in afghanistan all of them offering to help but so far local authorities have not requested any assistance. Good morning, welcome to your world this morning im del walters. And im stephanie sy and rushing to deliver aid to quake victims and thousands spent the night outdoors in near freezing temperatures afraid to sleep inside because of the potential for aftershocks. Al jazeeras Jennifer Glasse is in kabul. Jennifer talk to us about some of the challenges in this search and rescue effort there. Reporter stephanie really one of the Biggest Challenges is the scope of the operation here, the earthquake effected people in 11 of afghanistans 34 provinces, nearly a third of the country and terribly remote and villages you can get
Reaction to west virginias coal mine Chemical Spill puts the governor in the spotlight. Plus the legacy of dr. Martin luther king, the celebrations of his life across the country, as americans keep his dream alive. And we begin tonight with a diplomatic drama over talks to end syrias civil war. The question, who should be invited to participate in those talks . The answer from the United Nations today, not iran. Here is how it unfolded. The u. S. Said iran should not participate unless the iranians agreed to certain conditions. Iran refused, and the un withdrew his invitation. John terrett joins us tonight from the ushsn. Why did the un make this decision . What a day of draw, john. It all goes back to yesterday, sunday when ban kimoon extended the list to include the iranians, and wakes up to find out state department is unhappy, britain is unhappy, mainly because iran wont sign up to the main points of these talks. So pressure grew throughout the day to withdraw that invitation to ir
Then we beat the nra by having universal background checks and o outlawing highpowered machine guns. Recipients of the documents request include people from the trump foundation, the Trump Organization and trumps businesses. Also among the recipients . The president s 2020 Campaign Manager brad pascal, and the gatekeeper, allen weisselberg. The goal . To find the president s attempts to obstruct justice, what the committee calls abuses of power. The white house this morning says yes, it has received the committees letter and will process it through the white house. He says the committee will work carefully and that means to slow the talk coming from some of the democratic left. Do you think the president obstructed justice . Yes, i do. Its very clear the president obstructed justice. Its very clear. If thats the case, then is the decision not to pursue impeachment right now simply political if you believe he obstructed justice . No. We have to do the investigations and get all this. We