zoo says no animals are missing. calling out nicki minaj over her tweets. are there artists tweeting into the fray? today, wednesday, july 22nd, 2015. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone, welcome on a wednesday morning. let s ask the guys in the control room to put the images up of a massive warehouse complex fire in north brunswick, 40 miles from manhattan. it has grown to five alarms. we ll have much more on that story coming up. but on this wednesday morning, let s start with another breaking story overnight. a united airlines crew reported being the target of lasers at a new york area airport. this after a dozen similar incidents there last week. nbc s tom costello covers aviation. what can you tell us? this problem has been growing worse over the past few years. laser pointers start out with a small light but as the distance grows, that beam of light grows bigger and bigger. so big it can light up a cockpit and blind the pilots. t
a leading republican lawmaker calling it significant and troubling. will the revelation impact her presidential campaign? and stunt scare. an illusionist is trapped in a box of water. crew members leaping to the rescue. that show is on hold today, friday june 26th, 2015. and good morning, welcome to today. 7:00 a.m. on the west coast on a friday morning. we start with an nbc news special report. special report. and good morning. we have an nbc news special report. we have breaking news coming from the u.s. supreme court. that s right. it s a big one. this is the decision the court had before it whether or not to legalize legalize gay marriage across the country. the decision is from justice kennedy. pete williams at the court right now. pete, can you tell us what it says? historic ruling here for the first time the supreme court has said there is a constitutional right excuse me, to same sex marriage. can you hear the cheer in the crowd. a 5-4 decision written by
and stunt scare. get back! an illusionist nearly dies when he s trapped in a box filled with water. famed magician criss angel and crew members leaping to the rescue. that show is on hold today, friday june 26th, 2015. announcer: from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning and welcome to today on a friday morning. that s the sight outside. but inside we want to get right to breaking news and that is a disturbing attack in southeastern france. that s right. it s an assault on an american gas factory there and a beheading. prosecutors in france launching an immediate terrorism investigation. let s get right to nbc s kelly cobiella who s got the latest for us. kelly, good morning. reporter: good morning, savannah and matt. french investigators are treating this as a terrorist attack on an american gas factory in southeastern france. the company called air products it is a gruesome sc
going for gold yet again. and good morning, america. all kinds of excitement for michael phelps. how about that, the first u.s. male swimmer to make it into not one, two, three, four, but five olympics. he could be adding to his already 18 olympic gold medal count. and don t forget missy franklin. after a tough start, she sealed her place on the olympic swimming team. boy, remember her in 2012? we ll much more on that on your big board. first, that breaking news about isis. officials report the massive officials report the massive u.s. air strikes targeting the terror group in iraq killed more than 250 isis fighters. martha raddatz has the latest from washington. good morning, martha. reporter: good morning, george. that is a striking number. if that 250 figure holds, this would be one of the largest, deadliest hits on isis fighters in recent memory. we were in that area just over a month ago. this is a group that s normally scattered throughout population centers i
alton silver is killed and the mother vows to fight for justice. i will not rest or not allow him to be swept in the dirt! reporter: in the race for the white house, the investigation might have cleared hillary clinton, but today, the fbi director gets grilled on capitol hill over his handling of the e-mail server case. and donald trump brings the movie frozen into his fight over a tweet critics call anti-semitic. how he is using a disney remove to prove his point. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i m anne-marie green. well, for the second straight day in a row we begin with a deadly police shooting. the victim a black male was shot yesterday during a traffic stop in a suburb of st. paul minnesota. his girlfriend was in the car he was driving. her young daughter was in the back seat when they were pulled over. a live stream video streamed by his girlfriend on facebook appears to show the incid