We begin with the Government Shutdown just hours away. Lawmakers on capitol hill are at odds on a funding bill. Without a deal, the government wont be able to pay employees. Or provide Services Beginning at midnight. You see the clock there. Is there any chance of a deal . D devin dwyer has been working all the angles. He has the latest. Good morning, devin. Reporter we havent seen a federal Government Shutdown since 1996. It could happen at the stroke of midnight. That is when the government runs out of money just as obama care is set to kick in. The clocking ticking towards a shutdown. The halls of congress are eerily quiet. No negotiations. No emergency meetings. The bitter dispute over obama care is spilling out on the air waves. The president is the one saying i will shut down government if you dont give me everything i want on obama care. Its wrong to use a shutdown of government as a lever to make change. Reporter to keep the government open, House Republicans want to delay the
Million hits in less than two days. And the guys behind it have brought their terrifying baby to our studio today, thursday, january 16th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on an oscar morning. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Good morning, im Savannah Guthrie. Congratulations on your nomination. Matt lauer alongside al roker and natalie morales. One of the other stories well be talking about is an advancing of the story we brought you yesterday. This is great. Its touching people around the world. A sister letting her twin take her spot on team usa headed to sochi for the olympics. And tracy and lanny barnes are both with us live to talk about what really is a remarkable sacrifice. Right to todays top story, the biggest cheating scandal in air force history. This is tied to officers who work every day with Nuclear Missiles. And the key tests they must pass to hold their jobs. N
From a giant ukrain ukrainian p, and the country is on the brink of civil war. We are getting reports that turkish fighter jets have attacked targets inside syria. Lets go straight to istanbul. Lets go to anita mcnaught. A convoy was attacked by these fighter jesus. Turkish reports initially using tank fire and artillery fire and that took another leap upwards and fighter jets are enjoy in a bombing raid. To put this in context for you, this is not the first time. The turks began to retaliate in kind likeforlike, if you will, artillery shell for artillery shell. They took down an Assad Military helicopter that had crossed into turkish air space. What weve seen at this point is any action taken by turkey against fighters of the islamic state, the alqaeda affiliated groups which include foreign fighters who have come into turkey to fight the assad regime. These are fighters who on many occasions turkey has turned a blind eye to as they have flown through istanbul into syria to fight. Tur
Times square in new york after 8 00 p. M. Tonight eastern, bars and restaurants are closed. We dont know how long. In other parts of the country, this emphasis go bay area people issuing an order for six counties, only essential business is allowed to open. Halting the spread of the virus as a u. S. Death toll rises to 80. At midnight, a ban on travel to the u. K. And ireland is set. The president saying hes issuing a federal lockdown in a months long struggle with the virus. In a move critics are calling trumpian, canada preventing its citizens from crossing borders. Seattle, researchers given the first vaccine to 45 human volunteers. Even if the Research Goes well, they say the vaccine will not be available for widespread use for 1218 months. Tonight, there are reports that australian researchers believe they may have a possible cure, a combination of drugs to treat malaria and hiv. California line stretching around for gun stores as gun and ammo sales are through the roof. This is f
Study, hillary hurt many women. Shes married to a man who got impeached for lying. And hillary was an enabler, and she streets these women horribly. Just remember this, some of those women were destroyed not by him but by the way Hillary Clinton treated them after everything went down. Joining me nbc news correspondent Kristen Welker and genevieve wood. And e. J. Ian, why the right went wrong. Thank you everyone. Good morning. Kristen, im going to start with you, obviously, donald trump is not going to run a conventional campaign. Right. Weve already had a bizarre daily beast headline that says among the things we can expect is that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian, a murderer and campaign addict. Is saying im going to run my race and not respond is that actually what the campaign plans to do . No, i think theyre going to respond to some things. I think asymmetrical is key. Theyre waking up every day and saying we are expecting the unexpected. They are going to get in the mud when they bri