Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning. Welcome to a split edition of today. Im matt lauer where the Opening Ceremony will be held tonight. A look back over 1,000 years of russian history. In honor of that on a friday morning, were starting 400 years ago with Meredith Vieira sitting next to me. All i can say is the stench of vodka. And were off and running. Yes. Do we miss that. Exactly. We are on air, guys. We knew the Opening Ceremony would have drama and tension. The gang is all here. What we want to know is russia ready to welcome the the world. They better be. 40,000 people getting in the stadium is going to be a little awkward. They are still doing little funny things. You see them planting palm trees. The wrappers are still on them. Still painting going on. But the opening ceremonies seems ready. Yeah. A few little kinks. But it is so ambitious. If they pull it off its going to be fantastic. Well tell you more in just a little bit. More on that in a little wh
HINGHAM – Town residents voted on Saturday to make Carol Falvey their first new town clerk in more than two decades.
After 24 years, Town Clerk Eileen McCracken will retire and Falvey, a lawyer and former two-term member of the Hingham School Committee, will fill her role.
Falvey said she is looking forward to getting to know the staff in the clerk s office. She said she is focused on enacting new voting laws, as well as increasing voter engagement with new communication methods and improved use of social media. I was very gratified by the results, Falvey said Sunday. I had a very strong team with people from sort of different groups in Hingham and I do feel like I had broad-based support. So I m very humbled by the victory.
a guy who had a clarinet in a case. he was walking across the street and there were a lot of people just gathering and walking and standing there. they said he opened up that clarinet, he played the star-spangled banner pitch-perfect, and everyone stopped and applauded. that would have devastated me. it was like a moment. and it just talked about how people come together. we have different ways of grieving and grieving is such an essential part of life. you have to grieve or you can t move on. the trouble is that when people choose to continue grieving long after it s healthy to keep doing so. i think we re very much in the grief mode. it s interesting how soon life gets back to normal. we were talking about when we lost our beloved dads, how bizarre it is for you to be immersed in your grief and all of a sudden you look around and people are going about their normal days. we re like, how can you do that? don t you realize what just happened? we re self-absorbed creat
you can see things unfold. reporter: a vigil for martin richard was held in his hometown, in dorchester, massachusetts. i think of my kids. and can t imagine the pain they are going through. a moment of silence was observed at yankee stadium to remember the young boy and two others killed, unnamed chinese graduate student and krystle campbell. everyone that knew her, loved her. struggling to grasp the unthinkable. reporter: investigation are saying someone know who is did this. a broad request of the public, someone looking for ingredients for a bomb, maybe heard someone testing, any know with information, they are asking to come forward, 2000 tips, the president will be here in boston on thursday to speak at a memmorial service, to help this community as it tries to heal. bringing in pete williams into the discussion. i want to start with the images, the first one lester showed u. us, the immediate aftermath, from across the street, looking down. you will see