Good morning, oots 4 30 on this wednesday. Lets go to david and karen. Good morning. Fog is improving in some parts. Theres a couple lingering sprinkles and very light showers down to the south of philadelphia pushing through dover and parts of south jersey that is on its way out. A little bit more out to the west so we might be in and out of that sort of thing. Dense fog advisory lifted in the i95 corridor but we still have it down in counties closer to the shore and also in the northwest where in some cases visibility has been below a quarter mile. Looking at current visibilities you can see how its immoving through wilmington and trenton. Wildwood still aped mild visibility. Allentown at last report only a quarter mile visibility. Here goes the rain from yesterday. Couple of more sprinkles over the next few hours and then after that clouds will start to give way to some sun and we will start to zoom with those numbers. Already were not bad. 46 degrees in philadelphia. Up to 37 in al
Studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today on this tuesday. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer along side al roker and tamron hall. Did we do something with the set . Did i miss something . We changed something. Sorry i missed the House Warming Party but it looks good. It looks good. We are excited. Good. We are going to start in washington at the scene of the deadly shooting at the navy yard. After conflicting reports on monday, confusing information, investigators now believe the gunman acted alone. Natalie morales is there with the latest. Natalie, good morning to you. Good morning to you, matt. We are starting to learn more about the alleged gunman and possibly aa motive here. According to officials, the man identified as the alleged shooter, 34yearold aaron alexis had been experiencing mental problems and had a checkered past. He was a computer contractor, a former Navy Reservist who was honorably discharged in 2011. Alexis did have a valid pass to en
Among their claims, they say that officers knew about jacob blake before they got to the scene. They say jacob blake fought with officers and put the officer in a head lock. They say that jacob blake was not unarmed. He had a knife which officers were not aware of until he was on the passenger side of the vehicle. Many of the narrative comes out are inaccurate. However, they acclaimed that their account of what happened. Have blakes attorney responded . Yes, blakes attorney responded and basically said and what came out of the association is over blown. For starter he says he posed no threat. Body association logic that if there is a knife anywhere in the vicinity theyre using that to apply deadly force. We did hear from an eye witness who says he did hear the officer say drop the night and he also says he did not see the knife. While we are hearing things coming out from the attorney and police association, it is important to keep in mind the Wisconsin Police department of justice is
View of the iraqi area. We did see helicopters flying overhead. While we were here we got to meet the head of the Paramilitary Force who told us yes, its no secret that iran is helping these forces that they have advisors on the ground. As a matter of fact i had an opportunity to speak with some of them. He says they have provided assistance and support in a way the americans have not been able to do. Once again we see the large role being played by iran in supporting the iraqi forces. Speaking with the commanders here, they stress that the fighting is being done by iraqi forces and that they are surprised in fact that theyve been able to make such Good Progress driving isis out of this area. Theyve covered an area of about 40 miles just in the last three days pushing toward tikrit. As we were driving on the road, we saw isis vehicles completely destroyed. There were bodies by them some of them in pieces. It does appear the iraqis are making Good Progress in heading toward tikrit. The
Communications device when they blew up the bomb, it blew up the gunman. In the meantime, investigators say they found rifles, ammunition, bulletproof vests and bomb making materials at the killers home which is in a suburb outside of the city. They also say they found a journal and in the journal, the army veteran wrote about combat tactics. One of them called shoot and move. Investigators say that may explain why the Police Originally said they thought there was more than one shooter. So far, police say there is no evidence, none at all, that the killer had any direct connection to militant groups. He did like, in a facebook way, he liked a militant group. Friends say he wasnt very political at all but he was, quote, very affected by police shootings. Lets get to Casey Stegall now. Casey, what more are we learning about the search . Well, shepard, it was conducted at a home in mesquite texas. We understand that he lived at that house, but who, with is still unclear. We heard police s