This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockerfeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Were so happy to have you back. Its really fall out. Its back to school here. My kids at home. Sorry about that. Back to school day. Did you get a new lunchbox. I did. I got the star wars one. Oh, cool. Dont leave him hanging. Meanwhile, this did seem like a good idea back in august, didnt it . Were waiting for our new set. I had a dream about it over the weekend. I had dreamed it had a jacuzzi. Did it . Nice. Well find out in about a week they say. Mean team, wooif got a lot of news to get to. Were going to begin with air strikes in syria. Intensifying in washington as Congress Ends its summer recess today and prepares to vote. Peter alexander is at the white house. Peter, good morning to you. Good morning. Within the last couple of hours secretary of state john ker
Other top story, World Championin giants just landed at sfo. Sky 7 is live over the airport here, im trying to take a look at who is first out of the plane. Its tough. There are shaddiy figures there. Gmen still celebrating after sweeping tigers last night. We have Live Team Coverage of the giants. Carolyn tileler isive at the ballpark. Lets begin with heather live at sfo. Yeah. The team and families and staff making their way off charter united 747 charter that landed just about 10 minutes ago. Theyre being greeted by airport employees, the only people will be allowed up this close to the aircraft. And it is a little bit tough to identify players. Oh, getting off we think we see the panda, big home run hitter, important pointer and madison balmgartner coming off now. Theyve got about seven buses here waiting to rans f transport everybody back to the ballpark. The plane taxied in, they were given that water salute. Can you see the people getting off the plane now . Yes. We just had a s
This about . They are still trying to establish the framework for the senate trial, this is just a debate about the arguments. They havent had that key vote on a proposal by the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, that might come sometime in the next couple hours. We were told it would be a late night, this could come in the middle of the night. Right now sylvia garcia, one of the House Democratic impeachment managers, she is from texas, she is presenting a case. The sixth amendment that Chuck Schumer has put together to try to compel the testimony of two white house officials, Michael Duffy and robert blair about how they handled the ukraine aid. They are in this debate right now, what we have had here, shannon, is a series of what we call motions to table. These are not actually up or down votes on the issue itself, but the Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer has moved to try to set these aside or kill them, what they have been doing is not actually voting at the issue at hand b
To re open from monday. The announcement comes a day after the government abandoned plans for all Primary Schools to return before the summer. The same voices that last week were basically supporting, you know, people who were saying, do not open up the schools, are this week criticising us for saying, well, well take it deliberately carefully. A warning from National Health Service Leaders in england ten Million People could end up on hospital waiting lists by the end of the year. More than 30 years after the assassination of swedish prime minsiter olof palme, Police Identify the main suspect as a man who died 20 years ago. After another slave trader statue is removed, Labour Councils in the uk plan a review into public monuments. And theres a warning that almost 300,000 children in india could die, due to severe malnutrition and a lack of essential services, amid the coronavirus lockdown. After another slave trader statue is removed, Labour Councils in the uk plan a review into publi
President from time to time shall give Congress Information on the state of the union. That time is now. It is the biggest night of the year in american politics. Tens of millions of americans expected to tune in tonight to see what president obama has to say and what will be his first state of the union before congress in which both the house and the senate are controlled by the opposite party with big majorities. Since the election the republicans won all of those seats in Congress President obama has newfound eagerness maybe even glee in getting stuff done. We are expecting to hear more tonight about what the president might have up his sleeve. I agree with that. I believe the president holds the edge tonight. He can set the course for those who think and feel about the country the way that he does. He can and will say that through executive action or with the help of the republican majority in the congress or what he would like his successor to do. He can do this. As stuck as they