Backdraft. Two firefighters inside a burning home when it suddenly explodes, sending insulation everywhere. This morning, how they managed to escape with their lives. And girl power the nation set to honor the world cup champion u. S. Womens soccer team with an historic ticker tape parade in new york city. But not before they make their way to the plaza to see the hottest girl band around, fifth harmony, live in concert today, friday, july 10th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to a friday morning. Savannah comes back from vacation on monday. Were here with hoda kotb. On your last day, we brought out a big crowd. Can i just say, this is my kind of crowd. A crowd of young girls, their moms and a bunch of other people some of whom spent the night overnight but theyre ready for fifth harmony around so am i thats in our 8 30 halfhour. But lets start on a friday morning with history being mad
Control. Torched more than 8,000 a. Since late yesterday afternoon and other unfair and sacramento into Mobile Home Park and ill send intense flames engulfing property there evacuations still in place near Lake Berryessa fire burned more than 7,500 a. Over the past week grant will show us where the firefighters are working tonight. First lets go to kron 4 and he joins us live from like a county of their crews making progress on containing the fire there . Reporter gradual progress and is now 5 percent contained and the conditions still not good over zero hundred degrees right now very dry each and see if i stand out of the way some of the hot spots are still a major problem for firefighters pair off in the distance begins see that smoke billowing into the sky only one direction. A pencil left you can see more black smoke off into the distance. It has been a very busy day within the last 20 minutes i was within feet of those flames. Reporter fighters doing what they can to save structur
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Elementary school. An suv carrying the u. S. Education secretary betsy devos had protesters to jostle as she headed into school to read to second graders. Before she arrived devos released a statement saying her heartached for the 14 Year Old Girl reportedly raped last week in the boys bathroom at Rockville High School, allegedly by teens henry milian and jose mentano, immigrants waiting immigration hearings. We need to remember the Rockville High School crime. It was one of our children. It was an immigrant in this country. They say you are politicizing. I dont think thats true. Governor hogan who was at the school claimed earlier that the two were in because of an obama era am nesty for unaccompanied minors but he is now condemning the threatening phone calls to rockville high. We cant condone any hate speech like that. Its terrible and not something that should be allowed. Someone called and said they were going to shoot illegals in our school. Reporter police stationed more officer
And he was really good. People really liked his course and i personally want to have that course, i think we should have it, but something has happened. Student demand for that course is not high and i understand it because student demand i understand so well for journalism is not high either. Its all part of the whole evolution thats taking place in the world and academia. Young people are coming at this from a different perspective than what we came out. Either we adapt to that or we die. It doesnt mean that you do away with public policy, not at all. What i am trying to say is be honest about, one, competitive environment, and two, what the students want, right . So but the course that is we do have are very popular. I teach courses about how to write oped pieces. That goes into international biases and the different between liberal societies. Really everything about how you change the global debate. Thats what the course is called. Then we have other course that is we have to do wi