there has been outages on line. here is what some of you are saying. bill says heck yes. they should never bow down to anybody. it s a comedy. get over it. yeah. kathy on facebook says, sony should have shown it from the getgo. with that being said, go, america. i will watch it. another says, sounds like a publicity stunt that worked. it looks like it brought people together. they showed their love for america and sony made some cash. sounds like a win-win. yeah. possibly. still only shown in a few hundred theaters would have initially been shown at many more than that. absolutely wonderful that it s out there and the people are going and seeing this. speaking of movies, another nugget for you today. the n of health is spending a half million dollars to find out what your children think about movie characters and television characters who are overweight. your newsy nugget.
the high winds also caused damage to crops as well as buildings. and a father s day tragedy in newark, new jersey. six family members died when their home went up in flames early sunday morning. neighbors rushed to the house but were forced back by intense fire and heavy smoke. among those who died were a 15-year-old boy and his mother who were visiting from georgia. also an 11-year-old who had come to spend the night. meanwhile, three children were hurt when a cannon malfunctioned during a parade near salt lake city. a civil war re-enactment group had the cannon and a spark set off a chain reaction of ekts mroegss, which left the children hurt. they were treated at a nearby hospital. radio legend casey kasem has died. kasem hosted american top 40 for 34 years since its inception in 1970. he was also the voice of animated television characters like shaggy in the scooby-doo cartoon. kasem suffered from dementia and
with that rollout, we re fighting over a government shutdown and the aftermath of that, a lot of americans are saying washington isn t solving my problems right now and that creates a very angry electorate. mark murray, you re the best. thank you very much. and chris cillizza, thanks so much. it s halloween, my favorite holiday. unfortunately it s trick for many treaters this year because of weather. weather is putting a damper on the festivities today in large portions of the country. a massive storm system expected to bring high winds and dump buckets of rain. sounds like it s already dumping from texas to the northeast today. several cities in indiana, kentucky and ohio have already postponed trick or treating until friday. in new jersey, by the way, two years in a row with big storms, now trick or treating. the today show was able to fit in fan favorite extravaganza on the plaza. they did not disappoint. calling on classic television characters for this year s customs. take a
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marriage. so, organically it s happened. laura: i don t think all people born after that year have no problem with it i don t think that s accurate. many. laura: we have 41 states in the united states of america today that either banned same sex marriage or provide for domestic partnership. interracial relationship was banned. laura: we argued that at the supreme court and we are not arguing the merits one way or another simply the idea, sandy, we will go to you that this is established, again, the culture has spoken. we have popular television characters. we have popular television hosts. they are gay, nobody seems to care. gay marriage has spoken. it s done the culture has spoken,. i don t believe that i remember when i was old enough to remember what it was like in when abortion was popular. media all over the abortion issue. everybody loves it, the supreme court has passed it they never talked about anything about what was happening in abortion clinics. what was happeni