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we ll talk to his friend and attorney today, wednesday, we ll talk to his friend and attorney today, wednesday, august 17th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning, i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie. ann is on assignment once again this morning. and texas governor rick perry has only been in the race a couple of days and already controversy. a lot of cameras around him. we ll tell you what he said during a campaign stop in eye this week that has drawn some criticism. and normally wishing someone happy birthday doesn t get you into trouble but that s what happened during michelle bachmann during one of her campaign stops. we ll get the latest on that. and the 18-year-old australian who spent ten hours with what she thought was a real bomb strapped to her neck is speaking out this morning. we ll be live with what she had to say about the arrest of a suspect in this country, and new details o ....
this morning. rebekah brooks arrested. reported friday she had resi resigned. she s been released on bail. it s not clear if she ll testify tomorrow. last night in a shock move that has left scotland yard for accepting almost $20,000 in hospitality from a private health clinic after he had yound yund gone surgery. that health clinic was represented by a p.r. firm owned by former editor of the news of the world. this picture is building up. this cozy relationship between the police and senior executives at news of the world. that made his position very difficult. he decided to step down last night. insisting all the while he had done nothing wrong. the issue of my integrity, let me set clear that i the the people that know me know my integrity is completely intact. i may wish we had done something differently but i will not lose sleep over my personal integrity. reporter: the problem was, though, this kind of web of connections just seems to be getting ever great ....
york. glad you re with outside this monday. it s july 18th. a lot going on. nice to see you as well. nice to see you. christine s still off, i guess. two more casualties in the uk hacking scandal leaving rupert murdock s empire reeling this morning. rebekah brooks arrested. reported friday she had resi resigned. she s been released on bail. it s not clear if she ll testify tomorrow. last night in a shock move that has left scotland yard for accepting almost $20,000 in hospitality from a private health clinic after he had yound yund gone surgery. that health clinic was represented by a p.r. firm owned by former editor of the news of the world. this picture is building up. this cozy relationship between the police and senior executives at news of the world. that made his position very difficult. he decided to step down last night. insisting all the while he had done nothing wrong. the issue of my integrity, let me set clear that i the the people that know me kno ....
the situation room. a lot of pain and not enough gain. a new snapshot of employment in this country. 18,000 jobs were created in june. that s far short of the 125,000 new jobs some economists were predicting. another setback, the unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to 9.2% last month, up from 9.1% in may. president obama says the steal mate over the rising debt is contributing to the problem and he says it must be resolved by the august 2 deadline. the sooner with eget this done, the sooner that the markets know that the debt limit ceiling will have been raised and that we have a serious plan to deal with our debt and deficit. the sooner we give our bhizs the certainty they need to make additional investments to grow and hire, and will provide more confidence to the rest of the world as well so they are committed to investing in america. the american people sent us here to do the right thing, not for party, but for country. we re going to work together to get thin ....
meteorologist scott williams joins us now live in the studio. good morning to you, scott. another storm? absolutely, veronica. this is the eighth named storm of the 2010 season and its name is hermine. it could bring some problems along the texas coast. right now, as we take a look at the slaert perspective you can see the deep convection right now in the southern gulf of mexico. that will bring heavy rainfall, flash flooding as we move into the lone star state. not only for your labor day but as we move through the middle part of the week as well. you can see the rain bands continuing to come in around corpus christi and eventually into houston. not everything you see making it to the ground. as we expand the view across the nation here on this labor day, a few light sprinkles around the great lakes and also into the northern plains. as we move into florida looking for some scattered showers and some thunderstorms for today. so over the next 48 hours, look at the hea ....