Last night. So where was the front runner. And cold war. No its not our imagination ladies we are freezing at the office. The new study that shows its outdated thermostat science from the 1960s thats to blame and might just have the guys feeling the heat today, tuesday, august 4th 2014. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. If your alarm didnt wake you up this morning the lightning may have done the trick. A major storm came through. Lots of thunder and lightning. Beautiful images captured here in new york city. Well tell you more about that storm in a couple of minutes and our top story is related to the weather as well. A severe storm and second deadly tent collapse in as many days. This time during a crowded circus performance up in New Hampshire. Ron, good morning to you. Good morning to you, matt. The circus big top lies flat as a pancake t
These are fairly substantial structures when theyre put up and we havent had any issues in the past. The accident comes just one day after a man died and more than a dozen were injured when high winds caused a tent to collapse during a sudden storm at a festival in the chicago suburbs. Now here in New Hampshire today theyre still trying to learn the seriousness and magnitude of the injuries suffered by the spectators and perhaps circus performers as well. We reached out to the operator of the circus, Walker Brothers international based in florida. So far nothing from them. No comment or response to what happened here. Matt and savannah back to you. Ron, thank you very much. From dangerous storms in the east to raging wildfires out west, crews are being pushed to the brink of exhaustion battling the rocky fire in Northern California and conditions there are not helping. Nbcs joe frier has the latest for us this morning. Good morning. Good morning, savannah. This fire now burned about 10
Host we have been talking about the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts this morning. Take a look at the front page of the local newspaper in beaumont, texas, the beaumont enterprise. The headline across the front water whater when when. That is because water pumps have failed in that city. Water thatmping residents have to boil. Daca the other thing we have been talking about this morning. This is from a New York Times reporter, storm halts the decision on whether to keep the dreamers program. Texas, the state with the second highest concentration of Daca Recipients after california. John kelly argues that mr. Trump didnt take his time on the paxtonn given that mr. Is unlikely to follow through on his threat in the short term given that parts of his state is underwater. That is the threat state attorney generals have given to take up a legal challenge to daca. It is not lost on the president now manyng the Program Dreamers impacted by Hurricane Harvey would appear particularly hardhearted
My voice saying the single sentence that i was a little bit shaky and he was going to put him into the game right away and as somebody challenges you, you have to stand right back. And that is what happened and it turned out fine. Watch more with Supreme Court Justice Kagan tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Mode we take a look at anthony clarks book the last campaign, how president s rewrite history and run for prosperity. Every single comment i have received has been one of two topics. How angry people are learned of what is happening or flabbergasted to learn what is happening. I have not received any kind of mild, i read it and it was ok. Why are they angry . Because we have these president ial libraries to house records and records will not be open for 100 years and were paying for celebration and legacy building. Sunday night on cspans a q a. Ted poe for business in the Second District of texas and he tweeted this morning congressman poe we tweeted this abc news video that shows a
Expect the total price tag to be . Guest last night the White House Office of management and budget sent out a letter, and what they are asking for is 7. 85 billion immediately. Most of that is for fema to replenish the Disaster Relief fund. Some good reporting from my colleagues, fema is burning through their disaster might have a stunning rate. Money added stunning disaster money at a stunning rate. The white house is expecting a longer resolution on spending. They also want to . 7 billion in cr. Their official and unofficial ask in the neighborhood of 14. 5 billion coming in the next week or so. These things are always tricky. I think the initial 7. 8, i think the white house will get that. We have not heard much so far. The key thing to look for is to go back and look at the Hurricane Sandy relief bill that became really political. It took a long time to get through. Conservativesse will want this emergency spending to be as clean, meaning nothing in the bill that they think is not