three reasons at least to watch msnbc saturday right now. taking a stand. president obama for the first time weighs in on that controversial mosque near ground zero. fight for survival. fury of the flood waters, it is courage to the rescue. and the great escape. new exclusive video of the flight attendant s exasperated exit. welcome to msnbc saturday, i m alex whit. let s get to what s happening right now. for the first time, president obama s weighing in on the fierce controversy surrounding the planned construction of a mosque near the site of ground zero in lower manhattan. good morning, jeff. what s the president saying? well, first of all, it s unusual the president would even weigh into a situation like this when robert gibbs just recently said this is a local issue in new york. the plan to build this mosque as you know has sparked passionate debate at times, angry debate across the country. president obama addressed this controversy last night during the ann
shirley sherrod, speaks out. and red-faced sumner redstone, the 87-year-old chairman of viacom, bribed a reporter trying-to-give up a source. we re not going to kill him. we just want to talk to him. we will protect you completely. give us the name and you will be well rewarded and well protected. and all his spokesperson can say, it was just sumner being sumner today, wednesday, july 21st, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m meredith vieira. we ll get to that frightening experience on the united airlines flight. did the obama administration make a huge mistake forcing an agriculture department official to resign for comments she made in an naacp event? part of shirley sherrod s remarks were released by a blogger. cable news outlets pounced on the remarks and quickly interpreted them as racist. even the naacp condemned her, and she was quickly forced to resign. but
johnston have gotten engaged. talk about family drama. there s new video of bristol saying her mom disapproves of her plans to marry levi johnston, the father of her son. levi s family apparently not happy about the marriage as well, or the possible marriage. the question is, will they call it off? will they put it on hold and will sarah palin attend? we have the latest from bristol s new interview. you said this is like a modern day romeo and juliet. reading the interview, it is. let s hope it ends differently. yes, yes. all right. okay. maybe a midsummer night s dream. in any event, tonight s money 911 team is here to answer your questions about hard financial choices a lot of folks have to make. a lot to get to. let s go inside. ann is standing by at the news desk. she has a check of all the headlines. matt, thank you so much. good morning, everybody, at least 25 people were hurt last night, one critically, by severe turbulence over kansas on a united
another hot and sticky weather system. for a look at today s complete weather forecast, let s go to nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, it is super hot out there. this is a duration. i feel like we re shattering record highs every day. it s relentless. we haven t gotten a break from the summer heat, especially on the east coast. and now in the middle of the country. and just now our friends on the west coast, they re jumping into the mix. the first time this summer the heat has really expanded the coast. we re at 87 in d.c. easily going to get up there in the mid 90s. yesterday was 98 in d.c. the heat index already feels like 92. the east coast so far, of course you re an hour ahead of the sunshine. we re already experiencing that heat pretty much from new england all the way to the south. d.c., right around 92 degrees. 86 in new york. a little heat in the summer. 8 6 in boston. i just turned my boom box on for the weather cast. 95 in washington, d.c. 96 in new york will b
day. hope you join us tomorrow morning. we begin at 4:55 a.m. the today show starts right now. bye. good morning. nevermind? the nation s top health official tells women to keep doing what they re doing, despite those new recommendations about breast cancer screenings, but is health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius only adding to e confusion? this morning we ll hear from her. strike three? police say the florida woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to murder her husband tried to kill him twice before. this morning, new, undercover videos and an exclusive, live interview with the woman s soon-to-be ex-husband. and twiligh time. new moon hits theaters at midnight to the delight of twi-hards young and old, who wait made it line for days. and the star of the show, robert pattinson, is here with us live, thursday, november 19th, 2009. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira