Psychologist who removed Jeffrey Epstein before he hanged hims f himself. All that and panic in st. Louis. Students running for their lives in fear of an active shooter. Across town, an 8yearold is killed by gunfire. Defeat down under. The u. S. Mens Basketball Team falls to australia. The first loss in the Major International tournament in nearly 13 years. And paradise bound. A town rallies around the High School Football team playing its first game since the community was wiped out by the devastating wildfires. A new reason to cheer today, saturday, august 24th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with sheinelle joins and Peter Alexander and dylan dreyer. From studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thanks for joining us. Kristen welker is here while sheinelle has the week off. How about the story from california . Players prove paradise is not lost. Incredible to see it. Well have the story in a moment. Lets get to the top story. That is President Trump arriving i
Transportation correspondent kris van cleave tells us what the real i. D. Is all about. Starting october 2020 of next year you have to have the gold that way youll being compliant with the real i. D. Act. Reporter at airports across the u. S. , t. S. A. Officers are breaking the news to flyers. You have to have the gold star. Reporter many will need a round trip to the d. M. V. Before october 2020. Not necessarily looking forward to the process. Reporter or they may not be able to fly. Theyll need new real i. D. S, a new secure drivers license that will be required to access airport checkpoints and to enter federal buildings. How many of the folks coming through here have i. D. S that are compliant . That youre seeing . Roughly about 50 . So we still have to make the general public aware to go to the d. M. V. Now. That way you wont wait until the last minute. Reporter new signs are up at the airports alerting passengers for the need for a new i. D. , with a star like this in the upper
Calls firing a gun outside the gas station. Tile are report today and witnessed the man fire six rounds. Looked out the window and the shooting randomly and i called the police. Police believe the man was under the influence of drugs or chicago. Officers knew the man was armed. [inaudible] there was a concern more guns were in that bag. A retired texas chief tells us, this was a text book police arrest. They have options and includes are pep are spray and a bean bag shotgun. This is certainly impressef Police Strategy in todays world of unrest, protest and Deadly Police shootings. Heroeck. Three officers on the passenger side of vehicle are greatly exposed a Deadly Force Threat they were communicating with the suspect. Grateful for the officers actions. I think they did a good job to keep everybody safe. Respect report police have not released the no, maam of the suspect but he is at the clark county detention center. Jim thank you. A man is dead after a crash this morning but metro is
All right, michelle, welcome bark. By the way, everybody. Can you guess the price of this house game coming up. Hi. Im brian sullivan, happy monday. It is a happy monday if you own stocks because a new week and new record highs, dow up about 76 points right now. 12 dow stocks now up more than 10 this year. Four up more than 20 just so far in 2016. Caterpillar and United Health the best two performers so far this year. If youre wondering, only six dow names are down this year led by nike, which has lost 9 . Melissa. Speaking of nike we have a great interview with the ceo of under armour coming up. Im melissa lee, heres what else is happening at this hour. 4 billion real estate deal to kick off the new week. Mid America Apartment Communities buying post properties in a stock swap deal specializing apartments in sun belt states. Weather conditions are improving slightly in Coastal Louisiana following days of deadly rains. Well have the latest from the flood ravaged scene straight ahead. T
There . Reporter were starting to see volume picking up. But we do know the heavier traffic is yet to come. 47 million americans are expected to take to the roads some way today this Holiday Season and 90 of those, 42 million, are expected to be driving. And what they will encounter, at least in our area, are indeed wet roads. As we heard, nuisance rain. Of course, points west are seeing a lot worse traffic and a lot worse weather conditions than we are. Airline travel is expected to be up as well and thats due to airfares that are about 10 down over last year and hotel fees that are flat over last year. But you know who else also sees some big, big revenue and volume this time of year . That is amtrak. Theyre expected to be in the midst of their business yft travel day in the year. Well hear more about that coming up. Right now if youre taking to the roads, at least 95. Were going to have company out there but things are moving well. You have to be cautious because of the roads and th