to howard stern s studio today, tuesday, july 15th, 2014. from nbc news, this is today. with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. nice to see you on a tuesday morning on today. look, tv is great, but let s admit, we love radio. we are so excited to be on sirius xm radio right now. we re going to celebrate that today. go over and see howard stern. and before we visit him, we re going to lay down a challenge all for a good cause. we ll tell but that later on. we do want to start this morning with our top story and it s a tragic train derailment in moscow. the death toll expected to rise as that investigation gets under way. let s go right to nbc s keir simmons following the developments. good morning to you. reporter: savannah, good morning. this just happened this morning, so you can imagine the numbers of killed and injured are still emerging. it s possible even yet there are still people trapped down
most history books portray north vietnam s decision to go to war in the late 1950s and early 1960s solely at the response of the situation in south vietnam. basically during this period south vietnamese congress forces were being eradicated by saigon troops and said that called upon the party for help. according to this interpretation, hanoi s war was a defensive protective measure. although i agree the southern cries for help were important to north vietnamese leaders, what i found was party leaders in hanoi might ve also had internal problems. there were no internal problems on a mine when they made the decision to go to war. following an unsuccessful land reform campaign facing increasing opposition and criticism from among the intelligentsia and the major cities, and finally the road to socialism over all extreme it difficult with state plans that were not coming to fruition, party leaders concluded revolutiona