A gunman opened fire at a school in russias council on city u. S. Regulators have approved the fines a buy and take over 1000. 00 banks in for use in children as young as the age of 12 and chinas demographic crisis the latest census shows the slowest population growth in decades. And its for Manchester United have it stepped up security had a very upcoming game found protests against the club owners falls to the spine months of the last home fixture. So in the space of 24 hours all the violence and unrest from occupied East Jerusalem has switched to the gaza strip in fact in just the past few hours israels been firing more rockets into the besieged palestinian on clive that will only likely continue as israels defense minister has approved more air. Attacks and called up about 5000 reserve soldiers has also been firing more rockets into israel all up the israeli airstrikes and missile strikes sorry have killed at least 26 palestinians 9 children as well weve seen funerals being held th
Killed also coming up on the program a teenager opens fire to school in the russian city of cazan killing at least 9 most of them students and dozens of dead bodies float down the ganges river is indias Coronavirus Crisis right his own. And have all the sports tennis star rafael nadal says hes still not sure whether he will take part in this summers Olympic Games in tokyo. Welcome to the program of course our top story calls for international the escalation of israel and Palestinian Armed groups have ramped up their attacks on each other the most Intense Exchange of fire since 2014. An israeli as strike brought down a residential tower block in gaza city the Israeli Army Says it informed residents of the tower to evacuate before it was targeted it says hamas has an Office Inside this building well this was the view on the ground as the tower fell. The. Rescue workers a searching for survivors by flashlight now that of course its night there no word yet on casualties across the strip th
again ask the question, are we alone today, friday, august 16th, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie along side natalie morales. al is having fun today. he s at the iowa state fair. we ll check in with him in a few minutes. he s missing a great concert on our plaza. we just asked the question, are we alone today? not on the plaza. a lot of cowboy boots in that crowd. luke bryan is here in our 8:30 half hour. looking forward to that. also ahead, 16-year-old hannah anderson made her first public appearance. she did it last night since the abduction ordeal. more on that return coming up. first, the calls on nationwide marches today. nbc s richard engel is in cairo. once again, richard, good morning. reporter: good morning. i am now under a bridge in cairo with several protesters. they
you guys, thank you so much. thank you so much. hello. it is try day friday, august 16th, 2013. and happy birthday, kathie lee gifford! i always remember it s the day that elvis died. and now i know how he feels. look, we ve been building to this day no, we ve been building to this moment when you turn 60. yeah? okay, just drinking. oh, this could be fun. we re going to take one final look at the countdown calendar. oh, where are my boobs today? and yes. all right. so we ll take a little stroll down memory lane so we can have a look at how things were with you. this was your birth announcement we dug up out of the archives. the pride of the epsteins starring the glamorous kathryn lee, august 16th. you don t have to in paris. i told you i wasn t lying. produced by leon and joan epstein. here s you and your mom right after you were born. yeah. oh. and this is you when you were a few months old. oh, my god, i ve never seen that. that s my re