remarkable life, here s abc s david wright. ten, nine reporter: he was a pioneer and a patriot launched into history with this iconic sendoff from mission control. god speed, john glenn. reporter: he confessed he did not hear that phrase as friendship 7 lifted off. 0 g, and i feel fine. capsule is turning around. that view is tremendous. reporter: at the height of the first american to orbit the earth. reading you loud and clear. reporter: glenn, the most famous of the seven original astr astronauts, a decorated pilot in two wars, his wingman in korea was ted williams. the world held its breath for his mission when he splashed welcome to washington, welcome back to this planet. reporter: he later quit the space program for a career in politics in the u.s. senate and distinguished himself on u.s. arms issues in particular, still a senator when at age 77, he returned to space aboard the space shuttle discovery. liftoff with a crew of six astronaut heros
the ongoing lawsuit against the very agency he s tapped to lead. and his position on climate change putting a dark cloud over his nomination. and deep freeze. the brutal cold gripping much of the country intensifies as a new storm develops that will impact people from seattle all the way to boston. millions of americans bracing for snow and bitter temperatures. today thursday, december 8, from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on thursday morning, tamron s here for savannah. good morning unless you re living in casper, wyoming. it s brutal. look at al s map. it s minus 28 degrees. that s the air temperature. this time yesterday. we kept asking, that was a real number? don t make it enough. al s going to talk about this polar plunge in a little while. let us begin with some overnight developments in that shooting two of officers near a college campus in georgia. the
lead. and his position on climate change putting a dark cloud over his nomination. and deep freeze. the brutal cold gripping much of the country intensifies as a new storm develops that will impact people from seattle all the way to boston. millions of americans bracing for snow and bitter temperatures. today thursday, december 8, 2016. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on thursday morning, tamron s here for savannah. good morning unless you re living in casper, wyoming. it s brutal. look at al s map. it s minus 28 degrees. that s the air temperature. that s a 24 degree drop from this time yesterday. we kept asking, that was a real number? don t make it enough. al s going to talk about this polar plunge in a little while. let us begin with some overnight developments in that shooting two of officers near a college campus in georgia. the alleged shooter is on the
police search for the suspect in a deadly police shooting. my colleague, nbc s kerry sanders is on the scene in americus, george. we re learning new information in the last few moments about new developments. what can you tell us? reporter: let me update you with what we do know. we have multiple s.w.a.t. teams that have come into the neighborhood. an official representative of the city has informed us that in a short period of time, quote, the deceased will be taken out of the neighborhood. they did not identify who the deceased is, but we can see that these s.w.a.t. teams are now in a much more relaxed mode. they do not appear to be crched in this neighborhood in a defensive or offensive positions. we did not hear any gunshots in this area, but we do know they ve been on the hunt now for almost 27 hours for lembrick, who s responsible in the domestic dispute of pulling a weapon and firing at two officers, and killing a 25-year-old officer who had four years experience on
Factual information. some people didn t do the same. how much of a role do you think race may have played inside the jury room? i don t believe it played a role inside the jury room. not at all? not that i could have seen. what was the chief argument being made against manslaughter and against murder as well? self-defense. nbc s gabe gutierrez has been following this story from the very beginning. he s joining us now from charleston, south carolina. gabe, good to visit with you. what more are you hearing about jurors decision in this case? we know the jury foreman said the video of the scott shooting, this was striking, he said it did not necessarily make this an open and closed case. reporter: that s right, peter. good afternoon. what s also interesting about this case a what we re hearing from the jury foreman is the actual breakdown of how it all ended up. this was clearly not open and shut. dorsey montgomery said first he was leading toward murder but toward the en