murder rape burglary robbery. it s considered the murder capital of the united states. the worst ghetto in all of the united states. after decades of terror in the big apple, rudy giuliani rode in like a white knight and took care of business. he made life better for his residents and cleaned up the streets. guess what? it worked. he tackled crime and laid out the big city blueprint for safety. enforce your laws, keep criminals in line. and above all, support your police. seems like an easy recipe for success, right? yet, somehow, 30 years later, every democratic big run city has screwed this up. the left has worked tirelessly to defund police and put criminals back on the streets. stupid ideas like eliminating cash bail have put us all at risk. you are officially on your own. nowhere is that more evident than lori lightfoot s chicago. the same lady who tried to cut her police budget by $50 million two years ago has seen a nearly 40% jump in crime in the last 12 months.
The little robot on a crosscountry journey to san francisco. The goodness of strangers supposed to get him all the way. Then this happens. How the happy little life of hitchbot came to such a sad end today, monday, august 3rd, 2015. From nbc news this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. You look so different, matt with your glasses. Well thank you very much. Matt is off this morning. Weve got carson here and breaking news at the top this morning. Its our top story. The severe storms moving east now, after producing dangerous hail high winds and tornadoes across the midwest. Heres nbcs john yang with the latest. Reporter Severe Weather turned deadly over the weekend when high winds caused a tent to collapse at a small festival in suburban chicago. We had one fatality three serious injured and 17 to 20 minor injuries. Reporter John Anderson says his van, southern jack w
The popular locala palooza festival shutting down. Organizers ended the final day of the festival 30 minutes early when another storm hit the area. Here in grays lake, illinois, a day of cleanup. Parts of this building across the street. You can see that truck turned over. Carson, savannah, back to you. What a night. Jong yang in grays lake, illinois, thank you. Meanwhile, in california, thousands of homes are being threatened by a wildfire that nearly tripled in size over the weekend. Emergency officials stepped up evacuation orders. Joe fryer has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carson. This fire now at 54,000 acres, growing at a rate thats unprecedented. The flames have moved into a more remote area, which is good news. But in these conditions, they know things can change in an instant. The rocky fire is an unpredictable monster still growing this morning, even veteran firefighters say they have never seen anything like it. At one point, the flames tore through 20,00
In prime time tonight. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening from brazil and from barra olympic park after another very good day from team usa. l the action here ahead. But we want to start here at home with donald trump and a potential new controversy simmering tonight, starting with what was alleged a joke, but implied violence. Note that it comes as our new poll shows trumps efforts to regain lost ground have expose new weakness among what has been his stronger core of support. Halle jackson has late under fire for this. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, i dont know. Reporter the Clinton Campaign believes trumps suggesting violence. Saying, quote, what trump is saying is dangerous. Democratic senator chris murphy calling it an assassination threat. Listen again. If she gets to pick her judges,
Through over night. Just mostly cloudy skies at the moment. Here is the dopplar 12 radar network. Thunderstorms redeveloping going soo the afternoon. It is warm, very muggy outside this morning. You will want the fan or the ac on. Take the umbrella with. There is ad showers and thunderstorms today. There could be heavy downpours this amp and evening. Overall, very good news with the rain. We need it. We are watching out for too much rain in the afternoon. Now to matt inhouse due to the rain. Matt . We have a fender bender out there on the freeway system. It is northbound on the bypass, and right now it is at lincoln the delays start a little bit after beloit, around oklahoma avenue and up past lincoln with the crash. So Pay Attention when making your way there through. Travel times. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Thank you, matt. Breaking news, Milwaukee Police are searching for a missing tenyearold boy and he was laying with friends outside of the home fwlendale las