[cheering] it s great to be back here. i want to thank president leblanc for welcoming all of us. our family loves coming here. we were speaking and chelsea was dancing. not nearly the range we could stay for the weekend to talk about all of them. it s an amazing book and so important to have stories of so many women in one place and people talk about that in a second. so we should get going because we don t have time. the process of the joined by line writing a book or anything else with someone is incredibly rich because of the different experiences and points of view that the co-author brings to the project and virtual c. and d. if was especially exciting because it comes out of a conversation we ve had since she was a little girl talking about people especially women who inspired us. that s what is so great about iit is the stories are deeply personal. to most of you in some cases across the cultures and generations into geographies and backgrounds it s an extraordinary
fifty years on russ muslims in the southern philippines vote in a referendum on autonomy we ll talk to rebels who have been fighting all their lives. our brian todd thanks so much for joining us the british prime minister treason may is set to announce her plan before breakfast today to try to keep britain from crashing out of the e.u. without an agreement now this comes after lawmakers rejected her deal with the e.u. last week it is unclear how and if the prime minister can end the stalemate or go to our correspondent to live in london after this about her options. and the deadlock brett said battle polman is teresa mayes biggest opponent her deal was overwhelmingly rejected by both remain and leave m.p. s. the nose to the left four hundred and thirty two. and frustration the u.k. is building. unfortunately i think we re a bit we re looking a bit late across right now as a nation because we don t know how to sort our selves out of this problem i think the politicians have ca
we ll [ bleep ] kill these people if we have to. mystery solved. a potential breakthrough in the 12-year old disappearance of natalee holloway. this morning her father speaks out in a live interview. all that and eclipse fever breaking out coast to coast. this may be the biggest we ve ever seen. honoring elvis, 40 years after his death. he broke the mold. he broke the mold. we re live at graceland with priscilla presley. and the new necklace that live streams your life. today, wednesday, august 16th, 2017. 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 this wednesday morning. we have got an awful lot to get to, so let s start with our top story. president trump at the center of a new firestorm after pivoting back to his original wake on the weekend violence in virginia. the president saying both sides of protesters were to blame and that
nationalists. we re not nonviolent. mystery solved. a breakthrough in the 12-year disappearance of natalee hollow holloway. her father speaks out. and eclipse fever breaking out coast-to-coast. honoring elvis, 40 years after his death. he broke the mold. we re live at graceland with priscilla presley. and the new necklace that live streams your life. today, wednesday, august 16th, 2017. 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 this wednesday morning. we have a lot to get to. let s start with our top story. president trump at the center of a new firestorm after pivoting back to his original wake on the weekend violence in virginia. the president said that very fine people took part in the rallies organized by white nationalists. his words sparking immediate outrage. we ll talk about it with john ra kasich of ohio, who ran against donald trump i
bathroom after the phone call he made with 911, it sounded as if he was communicating with other people who were involved with it. he made a statement that the police, if the police come in, they re going to attack, because it s okay, because we got the snipers outside. whoever he spoke to, some police officers, maybe he was just deranged or talking to himself. but i honestly feel like, i don t think he was able to pull that off all by himself, that one man all by himself. and because he said he had snipers outside. and the first shots that you heard, there was so many shots going off. that s why it sounded like it was part of the music. that s why i couldn t believe it was gunshots happening. he actually started backing into the bathroom stall itself when the police busted in, that myself, and my friends was inside of. and i could see his foot scooting back as he heard the police outside and the last thing that i heard before the police said, move away from the walls. he sai