2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im savannah guthrie. I am carl along with al roebgroebg and nationally morales. Matt has the morning off. Good to see you carl. We are going to start with syria this morning. Pretty disturbing reports coming out of that country. Richard engle is there. I know you have been talking to representatives from the rebel group there. What are you hearing about an alleged gas attack by the government . Reporter good morning, savannah. If this is confirmed it would be one of the worst atrocities of the war in syria. Rebels tell us, there was a series of chemical weapons attack this morning starting around 2 00 a. M. At least 10 different towns and villages to the east and north of damascus were hit by surface to surface rockets fired by the regime and they were tipped with chemical weapons. The death toll acc
Today will be cooler than yesterday. With the thunderstorms, other than that. Just be prepared for that morning fog and afternoon sunshine. We are not monitoring and the hot spots there is a report of an accident westbound. It is involving two different vehicles and right before treasure island. Not impacting things right now. The san mateo bridge is also moving decent in both directions. 1213 minutes. And southbound 101 also looking decent. August 21st. 24 students have been arrested after a sitin at San Francisco city hall yesterday. Night. Dozens of San Francisco City College Students gathered to protest the decision to revoke their schools accreditation. The students were demanding to meet with mayor ed lee face to face. They want him to take a public stand in support of city college. This comes after the department of education issued a letter finding fault with the accrediting process for city college. Mayor ed lees Office Released a statement in response to the protests. It says
Espionage and other charges for disclosing the largest amount of classified documents in American History to wikileaks. Daniel lee has more on the sentencing. Wearing his army uniform and escorted by guards, Bradley Manning entered the military court where he would learn his fate. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison and ordered that he be disordered dishonorably discharged. The 25yearold faced up to 90 years in prison on charges of espionage and other crimes. I think it is appropriate in terms of what he did. More than three years ago, manning provided wikileaks more than 700,000 documents, including video of a helicopter attack where to civilians died. The defense asked for leniency, but the prosecution urged a lengthy sentence to deter other potential leakers. You cannot scoff at 35 years. The sentence comes as the government addresses fallout from leaks from edward snowden, who has been granted asylum in russia and the nsa does not know the full extent of what was taken. Am danie
watergate. we ll explain as today marks the 40th anniversary of the infamous break-in. good morning, everyone, and happy father s day. it is sunday, june 17, we ll catch you up on what you missed overnight in a moment. first, i had to share the story of a teacher who apparently ordered an entire class to beat up a so-called bully at school. it happened in san antonio, texas. new kindergarten teacher has lost her job. look, i am all about stopping bullying. we do a lot on this program on the topic because it has to end. but this is extreme. this texas teacher allegedly punished a 6-year-old boy by ordering an entire class to take turns hitting him. here s what we know from police the boy s regular teacher called the boy a bully and asked another teacher how to best discipline him. this of the result. it was apparently her attempt to show the class and the boy why bullying is bad. she reportedly instructed them to hit him and even shouted, hit him harder. what s even more