Riot after gang members confess to the murder of 43 students kenneth bae and Matthew Todd Miller are expected to arrive back in the u. S. Tonight. Kenneth bae was sentenced to seven years and forced to serve if a labour camp. Mill rer was sentenced to miller was sentenced to 7 months. Allen schauffler is standing by. What is the latest . We expect the men to arrive in the United States within the hour. Theyll touch down at joint base louis mccard, an army and air force base outside of tacoma. Theyll be accompanied by james clapper. He is the one who went to north korea and brought these two men back. Again, kenneth bae has been in captivity for two years, accused of spreading christian material in north korea, and accused of trying to hatch a plot to bring down the north korean government. Matt miller was held for seven months. He went to north korea, tore up his visa and demanded asylum. He was accused of trying to be put in a prison camp in north korea so he can come back to the outs
Lets give a welcome to mr. Jay leno. Former tonight show host returns to the show he hosted for decades. A look at the laughs for saturday, november 8th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside sheinelle jones. We are missing one at the desk. That is because dylan dreyer is over at citifield. Also in new york city in the borough of queens. She has a sneak peek at the macys thanksgiving day parade. We will check in with her for a little inside scoop. I cannot stand it all. The tree going up. Its time. Lets get to the top stories. This Winter Holiday related. Cold weather. This is dangerously cold weather getting set to grip the country in the coming week. It is due to the storm pounding alaska today that is changing the course of the jet stream. The weather channels mike seidel is in minneapolis with more. Mike, good morni
Is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Two americans being held in north korea are on their way home to the United States tonight. Freed this morning after a secret mission by this countrys top intelligence official. Kenneth bae in prison for two years and Matthew Miller held in north korea for seven months are flying back to the United States with u. S. Director of National Intelligence james clap who are made the trip to pyongyang earlier this week to secure their release. Clapper is the highest ranking american official to travel to the reclusive nation in 14 years. While todays news is cause for celebration for both mens families, the exact nature of the talks that led to their release remains in secrecy. We have two reports beginning with nbcs Chris Jansing at the white house. Reporter good evening, lester. The official u. S. Government statement said simply theyre on their way home. Quite an understated admission. Adding to the intrigue the man who helped win bae and
Outlook. Ill have the details in a few minutes. Chris . Now to that breaking news. Two americans who were being held in north korea are free this morning and on their way back to the united states. Kenneth bayh and miller were the last americans held by north korea following the release last month of jerry foul. Miller, who is from bakersfield, was serving a sixyear jail term on charges of espionage after he allegedly ripped his visa in april and demanded asylum. Bayh who is from Washington State is a missionary with health problems. He was serving a 15month sentence. Police in richmond are investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another injured. It happened in the area of sixth street and pennsylvania avenue at around 10 00 last night. Responding officers found a vehicle that crashed into a parked car. Police say a man in the drivers seat had been shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A female passenger suffered minor injuries. We have been told that no arrests hav
Arrested. The man arrested for kissing, caressing, even swimming with gators. Was he trying to get others to join him for Close Encounters with the dangerous beasts . That was great. Good morning. Also coming up on gma this morning, big movies by two giants of the american breakfast scene. Millions of us get our morning caffeine hit at starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. Paula cannot function without it. What they are promising now. You didnt take that personally, did you . No, im a caffeine con know sure. Im intrigued by this. Also, a mystery solved. A family of four vanished in ten, bodies found years later. This morning an arrest in that case. And the breaking news overnight, the apparent terror plot in london right at the start of a busy weekend for the royal family. Scotland now looking into whether the queen was a potential target. Arrested were made in several parts of the city. And lama hasan joins us from london. Good morning. Reporter and good morning to you, paula. This Morning Pol