From nbc news, this is today with with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Sleeping on National Television were a lawsuit, we would have a case. He must have gotten serious grief. Heres the front page of the new york post. They are calling him a snore loser. Front page news in new york. I think a lot of people have done it, falling asleep in public. He said he suffered humiliation. Could you fall asleep at a game . I could fall asleep anywhere. Thats another story. A flood of immigrants flooding in by the way. The president s push for big money from congress today. And the controversy over his decision not to visit the border when he is in texas this week. Peter alexander has all the news from the white house this morning. Reporter that request will be sent today. And specifically im told that president obama will ask for significantly more than 2 billion to deal with that flood of unac
But first lets start with traffic and weather together with katie and torey, good morning, ladies. Good morning, everybody. We are still dealing with the sluggish frontal boundary and it will keep things active in our atmosphere, especially today but for next two days there may be wet weather to dodge. We will talk about that. We will talk about a cooler air mass trying to settle n full details straight ahead, vittoria. Traffic wise, things look great, very quiet outside, we dont have to worry about too many delays. Ben franklin bridge a beautiful shot heading in to new jersey or philadelphia will not be a problem but you know how it is, when sun comes up, rush starts to come in and we will talk about how slow we will get in i will say a half an hour or so, erika. A teenage boy and a man are shot within minutes of each other in the same northeast philadelphia neighborhood. Police are working to see if the two cases are connect. Eyewitness News Reporter Nicole Brewer joins us from north
Police are investigating two separate shootings, two blocks and ten minutes apart. We are not sure if they are isolated incident or if they are related but we know each of these victims was shot at separate locations. Reporter first happened just after midnight near darrah and philmore streets. When offices arrived they found 15 spent shell casing from his two guns but no victims. Immediately thereafter they learn and realized that a 22year old male victim who was shot at this intersection ran after being shot to aria Frankford Hospital. Reporter while on the scene officers heard multiple gunshots from the 4600 block of frankford avenue. They found a 20 years old male victim suffering from two gunshot wounds to his groin. Reporter he was taken to aria torresdale hospital in Critical Condition but is expect to survive. In addition to the victim three unattended vehicles were struck by gunfire. The intersection of darrah and philmore streets is mainly a residential neighborhood with row
Underequipped facilities at the border, at least as we have been checking thus far. At this hour, no word of a diversion of his schedule, which includes two Political Fund raisers and to add to the proverbial turbulence here ahead for the president , he will be meeting with governor rick perry, republican, texas, who has been very vociferous here when it comes to criticism against the president. He has been dubbed the chief antagonizer, especially when it comes to immigration. Lets turn to our white house correspondent, Michelle Kosinski for us today. As we are checking, the president scheduled to land there in a couple hours, michelle. Do we have any indication at this moment that he will head to the border . Reporter no, we dont. And really seems like thats not going to happen right now on this trip. I think by now we would have heard something about that. Of course, thats always subject to change. But the white house has said, again and again, every single day, well, you know, well