Rapidly closing. Breaking overnight, manhunt. A prison worker dead, an inmate on the loose in tennessee. Residents on edge. Very scary. We are latest with the desperate search to find the dangerous convict. All that plus Severe Weather outbreak, including a tornado near new york city and the new threat al is tracking today. Fighting back he had one job and couldnt protect us. Simone biles blasts u. S. A. Gymnastics in a new interview. The challenge she says she still faces every day. Way too close. The alarming video of a man petting a bison which has park rangers warning the public, hands off. Today is august 8, 2019. Announcer from nbc news this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning. Nice to have you with us on a thursday morning we want to get right to our top story. What we learned about the red flag raised weeks ago to polic by the mother of the el paso gunman while families are beginning to hold the fir
Baby bison in their trunk sparked International Outrage are opening up for the first time. I think people didnt know the whole story. Revealing why they really did it and if theyd do it again. Yeah yeah que no pare la fiesta our party in the park with pitbull. Yep, mr. Worldwide is here performing live and hes not messing around. Central park, its mr. Worldwide, you ready for me . Dont stop the party i guess theyre ready for him in central park. Look at that right there. Good morning, america. Everyone up and ready for pitbull this morning. He always brings it when he comes here to gma. That is ahead. We begin with the flooding in texas. Dramatic rescues and a search for survivors under way as cars are washed away on flooded roads and rivers rise to new record levels. 25 million americans now in the flood zone from texas to louisiana. Abcs Neal Karlinsky is on the scene for us in booth, texas. Good morning, neal. Reporter robin, good morning. This neighborhood tells the tale of what so
Francisco and upper 70s for the south bay, north bay up to 83 also 80s in the trivalley today. Mike is checking out that commute across the bridges. We have many to choose from. This one the bay bridge. We had this backup forming since 530. No problems on the approach. A look at the bay and you see slowing as you expect. Thats not the bridge. There it is. San mateo bridge picks up the volume. We have you slowing there till just a couple of minutes ago. Live look at the san mateo bridge shows commute builds but nothing that will cause slowing. Hazy view across the peninsula. Back to you. 6 01. New this morning, investigators in san leandro searching for a killer after a man was found shot to Death Outside the Senior Community center. One of the vehicles involved sped away from the scene. It was directed to the Community Center where they found the shooting victim. A private party was being held inside the Community Center during the incident. Also east 14th street near san leandro boule
Please table 10. Wonderful. Thanks. Reporter with the lunch rush fading in his manhattan restaurant, owner James Mallios has a chance to catch up with some of his employees. He says the new overtime policy is overdue. When workers are well paid theyre more productive at work. Reporter currently only salaried workers making less than 23,660 are eligible for overtime pay. The new policy raises that threshold to 47,476. Affecting some 4. 2 million people. What are you going to do for them to comply with this . There are four employees who are impacted by this decision, and we will be raising their salaries to comply with the new requirements. Reporter in restaurants, Retail Stores and other Small Businesses employees designated as managers often work up to 80 hours a week but did not qualify for overtime. In ohio today Vice President joe biden promoted the new rules. When youre deprived your dignity, in my view when you know youre working much much harder and much much longer than youre g
If you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. Its the dawning of the age of aquarius. Yeah, and Something Else thats cool. What . Osteoporosis is preventable. All osteos preventable . Right on if you dig your bones, protect them. All cbs cares it was 62 years ago this week that the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools. But it never went away. A study ordered by Congress Found the percentage of highpoverty schools with mostly black or hispanic students has more than doubled since 2000. Michelle miller went to a district in the deep south thats been ordered to desegregate. Reporter the mississippi delta town of cleveland has been grappling with its segregated past for 50 years, and now its time has run out. In a ruling, a federal judge ordered the district to merge two high schools and two middle schools, saying the delay in desegregation has deprived generations of students of the constitutionally guaranteed right of an integrated education. Jamie jacks, the School