Successful in the tech world. All that, plus a houseswallowing sinkhole in florida, triggers a new emergency. The star witness takes the stand at the top chef trial. And the countdown begins. The olympic winter games six months away. How is the usa shaping up . The athletes you need to watch, today, tuesday, august 8th, 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 on a tuesday morning. So nice to have you with us. So nice to be together. Its like running into a High School Sweetheart years later. Its kind of wonderfully awkward. Yeah. Like you really let yourself go, havent you . No. Its great. Good to see you again. We havent been together for three weeks. We have a busy morning to start with. The Trump Administration weighing its options for north korea, after the regimes harsh response to the new u. N. Sanctions. They may be the toughest sanctions ever. But could they pla
Successful in the tech world. All that, plus a houseswallowing sinkhole in florida, triggers a new emergency. The star witness takes the stand at the top chef trial. And the countdown begins. The olympic winter games six months away. How is the usa shaping up . The athletes you need to watch, today, tuesday, august 8th, 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 on a tuesday morning. So nice to have you with us. So nice to be together. Its like running into a High School Sweetheart years later. Its kind of wonderfully awkward. Yeah. Like you really let yourself go, havent you . No. Its great. Good to see you again. We havent been together for three weeks. We have a busy morning to start with. The Trump Administration weighing its options for north korea, after the regimes harsh response to the new u. N. Sanctions. They may be the toughest sanctions ever. But could they pla
Before they meet up for another time in geneva, we understand from the governor that the evacuation process will begin on friday. We understand that first there will be a cease fire at 6 00 a. M. For gmt, three hours later. At 9 00 a. M. , the evacuation will begin. And they will first start by evacuating up to 200 people. As well as over the age of 55. They will be evacuated to a safe part according to the governor, and that would be a wide neighborhood. They are also welcome to go to other safe areas to the governor. The hope, of course, is this cease fire can be extended. But when you know that a previous cease fires have been short lived in syria, is that realistic . Is there really hope this could be expended to other parts of the region . Well, the hope plan now is to go ahead of plan. For around 200 people to be evacuated first, and then start receiving medical aid, and much needed food supplies. And we understand this from the governor that this process will continue, they will
And its such relief for me as well and lots of other mothers that were like me. Reporter her story of great personal loss was documented in an awardwinning movie and the woman who was forced to give up her son shares her story with the pope. All eyes are on russia as the sochi olympics are officially underway. The most expensive Olympic Games in history began smoothly on thursday and qualifying events took place and the olympians arrived and the Opening Ceremony is coming soon and they talked about gay rights and security and promising a safe olympics and rolling out 37,000 police and Security Officers and good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America and im stephanie sy and we are in sochi and good morning and a pretty routine start to the games despite the weeks of anxiety leading up to it. Yeah, well stephanie i suppose as routine as any large Opening Ceremony can be in the most expensive Winter Olympics there has ever been. But, yeah, the Olympic Games always start with a huge gre
Now the highlycharged trial begins. Plus, play it again. A stolen strait various is recovered, tonight we talk to the man who young restored the 5 million instrument. With begin with the developing story on iraq its from Human Rights Watch the in a report the organization documents widespread abuse of thousands of women and girls. The charges include allegation of systematic torture and the threat of sexual abuse, arrests, based on coercion and secret testimony, and the an women and chirp held for months even years before seeing a judge, some of the women who have been freed are speaking out and telling stories of brutality and injustice. Translator all in all i was tortured for seven days. They tied my hands, stripped my clothes. And covered my legs with ice. It was during the month of february, so it was very cold. I felt like my fingers were broken from the cold. The beating. The cursing and the insults. And joining us now on the testifying is the director of global initiatives at H