Nbc news has learned Richard Simmons will file a lawsuit today against multiple publications for articles described as unflattering and hurtful. Will the fitness guru finally reenter the spotlight in court today monday, may 18, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. [ cheers and applause ] good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a monday morning, im savannah guthrie, we have craig melvin in for matt and, shh, people are sleeping outside. Folks waiting for harry styles who kicks off our summer classic series. Well reveal the lineup we have for the summer. Are you impressed . Its quite the lineup. Something on the list for everyone. Stick around for that. Well get right to our top story. We start in washington. This muchanticipated hearing on capitol hill on russian interference into the president ial election. Acting attorney general sally yates. She was fired by President Trump. Nbc National Corr
Hourslong standoff with police. A beauty queen accuses him of pointing a gun at her face. Hes holding a gun to me. The frantic 911 calls and the troubled stars defiant video messages. What really happened inside his home. And good morning, america. A lot to get to this wednesday morning. Those coastal waters off florida on watch for a hurricane. And as we head weekend, take a look at these new images coming from colorado. Major flash flood, heavy thunderstorms moving through the area and ginger is tracking all the latest coming up. Ginger and her baby tracking all the latest weather. Thats right. The race for the white house. That surprise from donald trump announcing overnight hell meet with mexicos president today then that big speech on immigration tonight in arizona. Abcs tom llamas here with all the latest. Good morning. Good morning to you guys. Mexicos president invited both mexico and donald trump said, im in. The trip coming on the same day he is set to deliver a major address
On the 10 and the 17. Taking a look at the 10 in the west valley you are seeing those back to loop 101. Is continues all the way to the tunnel. On i17 slow southbound near camelback. A nine minute desert drive time on i17 southbound until you hit the split. Around Seventh Avenue it does ease up. Im hearing of a car fire on loop 101. And try to get more the next. As you wake up with us ballots are being counted in the arizona primaries. One race is still too close to call in Congressional District 5. Nick ciletti is life with details. Reporter we just checked the secretary of states website and so far it looks like Christine Jones is ahead by about 900 votes. Nobody officially declared the winner yet. Right now we have Christine Jones coming in with about 30 of the vote followed by andy biggs at 29 . Digs is not conceding right now. Last night tears and smiles as Christine Jones thanked her supporters. She has billed as the answer to establishment politics. She says she will take that a
When i have questions about their records, but in this nominees case, i simply cant ignore so many indications that the nominee isnt the right person to occupy a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. I sincerely hope that im wrong about justice white, and i reluctantly vote no on the nominee, and i yield the floor. The presiding officer the republican whip. Mr. Cornyn over the last several weeks ive spoken about the ongoing crisis on our southern border, something the president has acknowledged as a humanitarians crisis with tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors making a perilous journey from Central America and ending up on our doorstep, most often in my state, the state of texas. This year the numbers are skyrocketing again. Starting in 2011, we saw the numbers roughly about 6,000 unaccompanied minors. They have doubled from 2011 to 2012. They doubled again from 2012 to 2013, and they look like theyre going to double again from 2013 to 2014. And we can only wonder what might
Dropped as much as 40 degrees in 24 hours. More than a foot snow has fallen, minnesota, wisconsin and michigan and the storm is heading east. Your face is are you cold . Yeah. Obama has the first oneonone meeting with president xi jinping. He needs one of these things around the white house. The Postal Service suspects Chinese Government hackers of breaking into a computer system. The white house is shocked. Even more shocked that they have a computer. Hawaii, slowmotion disaster. The lava has claimed its first home. Virusfree and headed home. Doctor infected with ebola is expected to be released today. It touched down successfully. Reported a problem with its nose gear. Its going to touch down. A william in florida shocked when her car started sinking in her driveway, the house is now conde condemned. A man got back at his wife by sinking her corvette in the delaware river. Riding a brown horse its amazing. And the pick six fly, eagles, flies. Philadelphia gets the win. One g and all