A thrilling Double Overtime victory for the Los Angeles Kings over the new york rangers in game five of the stanley cup finals and now the kings are nhl champs once again. Today, saturday, june 14th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Verom studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. We do want to get straight to todays top story, the growing crisis in iraq. There have been a number of overnight developments. Lets get you caught up at this hour. Two of iraqs biggest cities, mosul and kirkuk have now fallen. Mosul is in the hands of islamic militants while kirkuk has been taken over by kurdish forces. Hundreds of iraqi men are joining the fight to protect their country. They have come to volunteer centers answering a call to defend iraq. Just a few hours ago, irans president offered his countrys help to iraq. Our chief
Whos on the chopping block . And how a vp pick could shape this race. Shark attacks a florida swimmer and wont let go. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. President obama puts on a cap and gown and commences a beatdown of the candidate trying to succeed him. It was clear who mr. Obama was talking about as trump faces new criticisms over how his treatment of women worked and socialized with him comes under scrutiny. Cnns Phil Mattingly is here on that. Good morning. Good morning, carol. White house aides have been very clear, president obama is more or less champing at the bit to go after donald trump. Tiptoeing around it, yesterday he went all in. Not the only one criticizing donald trump. Being hit from all sides. New reality as the presumptive nominee, he will regularly be under scrutiny and regularly under attack. In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. Not so subtle critique of the man who wants to replace him.
Poll was done september 11th. Hillary clinton led by one point. Donald trump remained steady at 40 . So clearly hes trying to get out of the low fourths. Hes been struggling to and weve seeing this. And that scientific instant cnn orc poll done after the debate. You had 21 people saying Hillary Clinton bested donald trump and of course that included a lot of republicans who thought that. And beyond a national poll. Obviously what matters really are battleground state polls and i think there are a document of those out now. And shes seen success interest as well. This is nevada and you see she has a six point lead over donald trump there. The reason this is significant is because weeks ago donald trump was leading Hillary Clinton. So now she has a pretty decent lead here. And shes looking forward to next week when Elizabeth Warren is going to be heading out there trying to build enthusiasm for her that she needs. Lets check out michigan. Shes up 7 points here. This is a place where dona
Very dangerous situation. He will get out and try to evade police. He will be tackled from behind. He is down. Looked like they taseed him. State of hawaii has announced Trump Administration revise the executive order. Right at the beginning i should hit an issue that i know is on the minds of many and that is controversial so i should speak to it directly. I am a new york giants fan. [laughter] rock in the u. S. A. Rocking in the u. S. A. Good morning, ted. Steve ted the cameraman. Welcome to rainy new york city live from studio e. Thank you very much for spending your day with us. We have a lot to talk about. Brian big news about james comey being a giants fan when you think for the longest time he might have been a jets fan. Now suddenly thats exposed. Steve fbi stands for football. Ainsley um not baseball. Steve not fbi. Ainsley im adding a not. B for barvelg. Brian besides james comey being a giants fan. Hacked to a level it has never been hacked before. Revealing whats worse. Not
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