Its chaos democrats and some republicans laying the blame directly at the president s feet members of his own administration resigning, and growing condemnation from both sides of the aisle, including some of trumps once closest allies. All i can say is count me out. Enough is enough i, among above all others in this body, need to say this, joe biden and Kamala Harris are lawfully elected we gather, due to a selfish mans injured pride. The best way we can show respect for the voters who are upset is by telling them the truth. Straight ahead, the urgent questions surrounding the days security failures, and how the nation can move forward, today, thursday, january 7th, 2021. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, with savannah guthrie, from washington, d. C. , and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to a special split edition of today. What a sight sun is coming up in washington over the beautiful United States capitol. Im here
Being closely watched as the clock ticks down on the ballot count clicks up before we go any further lets go to come out has the latest on the numbers come up thank you adrian yes so 300 hours g. M. T. It is now which means 10 pm on the u. S. East coast and these are the polls that are closing at this hour 4 of them for you montana nevada utah and iowa im not going to go through any projections just now because we dont have any at the moment too early to call in all 4 of those states the one swing state will be keeping an eye on is iowa in the midwest so with that in mind its a good chance just to step back and have a look at some of our swing states as well so lets start in ohio with nearly 60 percent of precincts reporting donald trump is edging further and further away from joe biden his latest 130000 out of 4. 4 almost 4400000 votes counted so its close but the gap widening for donald trump in ohio lets move on to michigan one of the important ones that donald trump picked up. 4 ye
Ive never seen it empty like this. Reporter dozens of structures have been destroyed by the fast moving and more. S hard to tell how clos it is. Its horrible. Reporter just down the street a team of volunteers from the equine evac making rescues for those who could not save their animals. Its hard because you want to pick what you can. Its been exhausting but happy to be out here and have the equipment to be able to remove some of the animals and get to them. How would you want to be treated if you had something happening like this . Youd hope your community would step up and take care of your animals. Kenny, we know youre near the road closure. What have you seen nearby . Reporter so juliette, the road closure is behind me. Weve seen a steady stream of cars heading south towards santa cruz. The fire that is burning to the north of us and the northeast. The only cars heading in this direction northbound are the First Responder vehicles. Chp officials telling us they may take off and th
Years ago well ceremonies are taking place at locations across the city throughout the day it was exactly 30 years ago on the night of november 989 that east germanys communist regime surprised the world by lifting all travel restrictions on east german citizens the move allowed ordinary people to cross freely to the west for the 1st time since the wall was built in 1961 it enabled friends and family to reunite after being separated for decades and it paved the way fluent german reunification just a year later. Well the w. Will be covering events throughout the day taking us through this mornings activities r. T. W. Thomas aspira the berlin wall memorial here in the capital and in the studio im joined by john beric great to see you both thomas id like to start with you then because tell us what is in store where you are. We are right here as you said in the wall memorial in the center of. The wall divided this city you can probably see part of the memorial behind me on a such this was
The bay area with a heat advisory until this evening, bay area wide, it includes the sacramento and san joaquin valleys is a look at the afternoon highs, 86 San Francisco, 92 at oakland and 105 in livermore i will have a look at the cooling trend and extended forecast coming up in a little bit and how are the highways this morning sal . Rosemary right now things are doing pretty well i do have one thing i want to tell you about and that is a deadly crash that happened early this morning. On 101 southbound, this is a video from a little while ago and the scene has been there for hours although they are making progress in getting the lanes southbound 101, there was someone clearly distraught who is also somehow involved, southbound 101, the activity is confined to the right shoulder. Moving along, looking at westbound 580, slow traffic on the altamonte pass and 205 and 580 starting slow, coming in to livermore looks alright and into haywood traffic moving along okay if youre driving on i