level playing room inside the classroom and later in life. here with me inside new york s public library some wonderful kids who are going to read a really great book this morning but also ashanty, the award-winning singer, the ambassador of read for the record which is a national campaign to celebrate literacy by breaking the world record for reading the same book on the same day. ashanty, good morning to you. good morning. tell me how you got involved with jump start, the organization that sponsors read for the record. it s a phenomenal program. i m infatated with kids, love kids, and to give them the opportunity to read first and to find one in winning and succeed in school and being successful, it s like i want to be a part of that so it was a wonderful idea. the idea for read for the record for those who haven t heard is everybody on october 4th reads the same book. same book. and we re trying to set a world record. absolutely. the kids are holding, what
also can help them achieve a level playing room inside the classroom and later in life. here with me inside new york s public library some wonderful kids who are going to read a really great book this morning but also ashanty, the award-winning singer, the ambassador of read for the record which is a national campaign to celebrate literacy by breaking the world record for reading the same book on the same day. ashanty, good morning to you. good morning. tell me how you got involved with jump start, the organization that sponsors read for the record. it s a phenomenal program. i m infatated with kids, love kids, and to give them the opportunity to read first and to find one in winning and succeed in school and being successful, it s like i want to be a part of that so it was a wonderful idea. the idea for read for the record for those who haven t heard is everybody on october 4th reads the same book. same book. and we re trying to set a world record. absolutely.
nbc-universal television from nbc news, this is from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning, everyone. i m savannah guthrie. i know you watched the emmys mostly for the fashion, but were you rooting for any particular show? i missed most of the emmys, i have to be honest with you. i know you re happy with the outcome of downtown abbey. love downton abbey and mad men, one of the fans, kind of got shut out. more on the emmys coming up. also a live report from lester holt in kabul, afghanistan, on an increasingly tense situation for american troops there and as we said, we ll talk to former british prime minister tony blair. it s nice to have him in the studio. also, as we all know, you can waste a lot of time on the internet, but every now and then something really grabs your attention and tugs at your hea