This city on rock and roll. Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll come on. He says that in an interview with rolling stone. He says its the worst song of all time. Thats a shame that he said that because this song is legendary i feel. This would make a lot of peoples worst song lists. It was voted the worst song of all time. He was asked about it and said i dont necessarily disagree with that. Thats bad. I think its great. I love it. Which raises the question, what do we think is the worst song of all time. Al, do you want to go first . I think this song is so bad i love it. It was get dancing by discotheque disco techs. I should have told them to queue it in a little bit. Its a guy talking and singing and he has a chorus going. Do you think its number one. Im not sure. Its fantastic. Its good. Im downloading this after the show. Okay. Its not that bad. All right. Well, you have to hear the youre trying to be too cool for school. Its not bad. Once you get into the lyrics
Well show you more of the video. We begin with todays top story and thats the Emergency Landing by a united plane in bosie, idaho. Tom costello, what can you tell us about this. They said he suffered a heart attack in flight. This was united flight 1603 from houston to seattle. A boeing 737, 900 with 161 passengers and a crew of 6. The cockpit told air flight controllers of an in light medical emergency and made a landing at 8 10. United is not confirming the captain was involved. United flight 1603 houston to seattle diverted to boise, i had i had because a crew member experienced an emergency. They met the plane among arrival and transported the crew member to an area hospital. There was a doctor on board and she was working to help the patient. United says its working to reaccommodate the passengers as quickly as possible but we dont have word on the patients condition. Tom costello with latest. Thank you. Now to avoid a government shut down. With three days left things still very m
Friday, september 27th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. Its 7 00 on the west coast. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist with al roker and tamron hall. Matt and natalie has the morning off. We just saw the video. Mariano rivera. That was one of my favorite if not my favorite moments in yankee history. His teammates go out and pull him off the field for one last time. I dont think you have to be a yankees fan to love this. No. You have to have a heart. If you have a moment watch the whole thing. Youll need an entire box of tissues because its truly touching. You know its a big moment when im getting tweets from red sox fans saying thats a big moment. We begin with todays top story and thats the Emergency Landing by a united plane in bosie, idaho. Tom costello, what can you tell us about this. The hospital in boise confirming that the captain of the plane
High capacity magazines for ammunition . I think thats something we definitely have to take a look at. Take a look or vote for . Lets see what it is. Sir, in your opinion, do you think that right now the best approach is going to be agreement on both sides of the aisle on small steps and that small step being potential for universal background checks as opposed to talking about the assault style weapons ban and magazine clips . Well, first, i want to give president obama high marks for continuing to make gun control a top priority of his administration, especially so early on. Whenever you talk about gunrelated issues, it gets my attention. I was a 16yearold police cadet when i was in the Police Locker room one afternoon getting ready to go on my shift and a Police Officers gun accidentally went off and the bullet went through my neck and severed my spinal cord. I have been paralyzed ever since. My accident happened in what should have been the safest of environments yet it just goes t
[ theme music ] stephanie hello. Happy friday, everybody. Jacki schechner chris can you get your organ out for me. Jacki schechner im in two thruples with you as you know. Yes. I went out with one of our thruples without you tonight and that was a big mistake. I went with Melissa Fitzgerald to a dinner party that i could walk to, and drank entirely too much red wine. [ applause ] i knew you were going to have a drink. Stephanie yeah it was a big, big huge stephanie you know how i am going to remedy that . Were all going out tonight. All right. Here she is the deeply sober Jacki Schechner. Good morning, everybody. Ed koch passed away. He died this morning at the age of 88. He serves the city of manhattan from 1978 to 1989 and was a congressman before that. He became a regular media figure, and was a judge on the Peoples Court. A new documentary on the mayor run opens date. A suicide bomber a and caused a blast in cur i can outside the u. S. Embassy. At least one other person has been se