An incredible feat as a blind athlete takes on the toughest competitions in the world. The ironman. She is hours away from history. Today is saturday, october 11th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good saturday morning. Welcome to today. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. Dylan is following the typhoon off the coast of japan. High tides being seen. Dylan will update us on the path. Busy in the pacific. Nothing in the atlantic. This is getting a lot of attention online as reaction comes in after microsofts ceo said that women dont really need to ask for a raise at work. We will have the latest. And dylan has another great story. We are putting her to work this weekend. This was hard to work. She went to meet baby cheetahs on the endangered species list. They purr. I love it. People can get involved in naming them . Three dont have names yet. You can help name.
Government should take note, instead of throwing money into an 18 trillion black hole they call our debt. The fact of the matter scott, they dont do that in fact quite the opposite. Lessons to learned here . What do you think . I think so. Thats the tough part. And lets be fair the government is not being run like a business, and maybe thats the problem, because if the government were in business the way its doing business would basically have it if it were on the stock exchange, it would be close to zero because when you have the government in current position neil, where they have the taxpayer the slush fund full, of last resort they can just keep hitting up and businesses too over 100 billion in fines on the banks alone. So the financial crisis, guess what in the government doesnt care if it manages money well like apple does because it can always get more. Neil think about it, the government cant give money out they are knee deep in debt. If they werent hogging all the money we wou
For her to step down. She tried to give defensive speeches instead of answers. Theres something just deeply wrong here that needs to be fixed. Lock the front door . Theyre going to leave the tv on. Yeah, yeah. Are things actually going to get fixed . By mid afternoon, Julia Pierson delivered her resignation to jay johnson. In an interview, pierson said i think its the best interest of the secret service and the American Public if i stepped down. Congress has lost confidence in my ability to run this agency. The media made it clear that this is what they expected. The president s family woke up to this headline this morning in their local paper. Man with gun was feet from obama. That was the latest in a series of stunning revelations by the Washington Post. This mornings Washington Post front page was clearly the last straw for the white house. The White House Press briefing was delayed three hours today and began immediately after the secret Service Director submitted her resignation.
His family. Dont let them get in the white house, ever. If they have to take action that is lethal, i will have their back. Lawmakers want to know about false secret Service Incident reports. So in fact the federal complaints were not accurate, yes or no, please. It is accurate that mr. Gonzalez scaled the fence. Maam, i have very little time and im not the American People want to know if the president is safe. I want to know if we can rely on reports from your agency. Demanding democracy. Through waves of tear gas and pepper spray. Breaking through the great wall put up by chines leaders and inspiration. Joan lunden a week after her surgery joins us live to talk about her fight to defeat Breast Cancer and push for pink power. 20 years ago, women didnt talk about this. Women wouldnt get a breast exam because they were so afraid of losing their hair or losing their breast. That is still going on today, but whats the alternative . Its losing your life. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in new
Theres something just deeply wrong here that needs to be fixed. Lock the front door . Theyre going to leave the tv on. Yeah, yeah. Are things actually going to get fixed . By mid afternoon, Julia Pierson delivered her resignation to jay johnson. In an interview, pierson said i think its the best interest of the secret service and the American Public if i stepped down. Congress has lost confidence in my ability to run this agency. The media made it clear that this is what they expected. The president s family woke up to this headline this morning in their local paper. Man with gun was feet from obama. That was the latest in a series of stunning revelations by the Washington Post. This mornings Washington Post front page was clearly the last straw for the white house. The White House Press briefing was delayed three hours today and began immediately after the secret Service Director submitted her resignation. This afternoon, the president had the opportunity to telephone director pierson