Treatment. And high on the hog. Bacon prices at an alltime high. Why it is costing us more to pig out. Today, monday, august 4th, 2014. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rock feller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. We have carson and dylan in for al. Boy, we have a big story out west. Thousands of people waking up this morning in california stranded. Two different towns are affected. Take a look. Heres why. Torrential rains triggering mudslides like this one have left roads buried under feet of debris. I want to get right to nbcs Miguel Almaguer, this morning. Miguel, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. The fire sparked by lightning. The gulch fire exploded in size over the weekend. A state of extremes. Just outside los angeles, a scene many could not believe. Monsoonal thunderstorms brought mud into oakland. The town of 1,500 cut in half. One person was killed when the car was washed away. Another
Planned as well like biden today in georgia and trump in nebraska. So we will dig into why theyre going there. Joining us now, chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta and cnn political analyst, David Gregory. David, i cant tell you how happy we are to have you here having just recovered or still recovering yourself from a bout with covid. Well talk about that in a second. Sanjay, first i want to talk about the 42,000 davids out there right now, the ones who are hospitalized or battling this virus. Its getting worse. Appreciably worse across the country. Were seeing the hospitalization rates rise at an alarming level. And dr. Deborah birx, remember her . Shes still out there warning people to be careful. And you get the sense shes beginning to feel like people arent listening. She went to bismark, north dakota, and she was lecturing people there. But i actually think she would have been talking to a much wider audience there. She told them, quote, over the last 24 hours we were her
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