quickly blossomed like an open canopy, which is the word skydivers like to use instead of parachute. at the tiny airport in superior, wisconsin, amy and chad were joined by a gaggle of close friends ranging in age from 23 to 64. the weather had been so horrid for the last almost month. we kind of just said the weather looks like it might be jumpable. the 11 friends gathered at skydive superior, a family-run outfit with more than 50 years experience. skydive bases like these are called drop zones, and the circle of friends in this one had a common bond. the adrenaline rush skydiving brings. linnea is a single mother of two. nobody takes on skydiving without thinking about the danger. so take me through your thought process, especially considering you are a single mom of two kids, 10 and 6. yeah. i thi them all the time, the danger is there. but it s the same amount of danger that anyone would have getting in your car and going to work. do you worry before you head
announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. and good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a tuesday morning. how about that video? that s amazing. it really is extraordinary. incredible. to think they all made it alive. you don t hear any swearing on the tape. which is shocking. one guy says when asked what happened, he said i literally got hit by a moving plane. i think that s why we do have a happy ending and survivors able to tell the tale this morning. we ll be talking to them later in the show. let us begin on a tuesday morning breaking news in new jersey. a late night shooting in a popular mall that led to a chaotic scene ron, good morning to you. reporter: good morning to you, matt. yes, it s been an absolutely terrifying night out here. there were thousands of people in the mall behind me when a gunman opened fire. at 3:20 in the morning, police found the body of a gunman in a difficult part of the mall t
went down with the plane. lost everything. i think i m just assuming that everybody s dead. because really, who survives that? you re excited for one miracle. you ve got 11 plus. i m lester holt and this is dateline. tonight, a story you have to see to believe. two planes packed with skydivers collide in midair. what happened next was all caught on helmet cams worn by five of the skydivers. tonight, the video you haven t seen, the stories you haven t heard. here s matt lauer with miracle on the sunset dive. it happened in the skies over a middle american landscape dotted with small towns, tall forests, and red barns, lapped by the waters of the continent s largest lake. above superior wisconsin and neighboring duluth, minnesota, where winter is closing in fast and where two small planes closed in even faster. [ screaming ] they were terrifying seconds, frozen in time for those who live through them. the entire disaster was captured on video. the survivors them
people who pay for that service can have access to those numbers but it s still one of those areas where it s difficult to figure out exactly what is selling because books are sold in so many different ways not only on line but in conferences and in book sales as well as in bookstores. host: booktv is celebrating its 15th year this fall. how has the literary publishing world changed in the last 15 years? guest: it s been completely transformed. i mean in the last 15, it s like ancient history. everything has changed on the number of publishing houses and it was the big six and now it s just the combined five. the launch obviously if the readers and tablets and the internet has totally transformed not only where people are buying their books but how they are reading them, at the coverage obviously in the media and the print media has grown dramatically on dramatically down. at the same time we see arise of vibrant on line community of readers whether it s on sites like g
of virginia. chuck todd is there for us tonight. chuck, good evening. reporter: good evening, brian. well, a lot of the action is on the east coast. polls are closed. we have some winner. governor chris christie has been re-elected. we ve projected that, nbc news. here in virginia, the bellwether of bellwethers the last few years, we re still projecting this race as too close to call. not even half the results are counted yet. could be a long night here in virginia. we have projected a democrat to win the lieutenant governorship here in virginia. the race here in virginia has been all about national issues. the democrats talking about government shutdown, the republicans talking about the disastrous health care rollout. so in many ways, virginia, the bellwether for how election night goes. across the country, though, there s a lot of interesting elections. you mentioned the new mayors that will be elected in detroit and boston. out akrss the colorado 11 counties are voting