from obesity world headquarters in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the growing concern over china s posture on the war in ukraine. three u.s. officials telling nbc news new intelligence suggest china is considering sending artillery and ammunition to russia. this could be the latest in a series of insults. here is an exchange between my colleague, chuck todd, and white house national secretive of jake sullivan on meet the press today. we re sending more troops to taiwan. that shine is ignoring calls from our defense secretary. secretary blinken to cancel his trip. the president wants to have a call with xi, there s no evidence that anything it s been scheduled. this like a communication, how dangerous is the situation with china right now? we have said repeatedly that we need to have military communications channels to avoid escalation, to avoid surprise, to avoid mistake. it is unfortunate that the chinese defense ministry has d
President obama will reportedly seek new International Standards to stop the recruitment and funding of extremist militants. That huge wildfire burning east of Sacramento California is showing little sign of showing down. In suburban detroit, the tornado ripping through a neighborhood, damaging dozens of homes. Pennsylvania police are closing in on the suspect in the deadly ambush that left one trooper dead. Eric frein hid in the woods. The secret Service Plans to boost its presence and surveillance at the white house after two concerning security breaches. This is every parents worst nightmare. Police in charlottesville, virginia, are trying to track down a person of interest in the disappearance of a missing student. Its been a week and we cant find her. The ravens will address a report that clayims the team now from the outset he knocked out his then fiance. Climate change around the world. Residents on edge last night while police and wildlife officials chased down a mountain lion.
Havoc up and down the coast. The vacationing firefighters tell us how they got it out. And highway heimlich. An nypd officer in the right place at the right time. Are you choking . Yes, sir. Put your hands on your chest. He helped save a woman driving on a busy highway. His heroic efforts today, saturday, september 20th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe. Dylan is in baltimore this morning where we are sponsoring a health fair. We will check in with her for a preview. We will check in after the show. We want to get to todays top story. The Security Breach at the white house. A man was able to get through the executive doors after jumping the fence. Luckily the first family was not home at the time, but a lot of questions about how he got so far. Kristen welker is at the white house with more on thi
Well as 22 other minor structures, 12,000 more homes are threated do believe arson was the cause furious flames county to rip trough El Dorado County near Pollock Pines the king fire has already destroyed close to threedozen structures and counties to spread moving toward the Tahoe National forest. Kermit the fire activity we are most concerned about is in the northwest. Appear in the tahoe basin but we are watching it and it is still a hot area. Thousands of firefighters from florida to alaska are helping battle the blaze however there have not any aerial attacks because of the fog. The inversion layer is very low. Crews are fighting the fire indirctltey using doser crews, and while some rain as helped it isnt enough police are also blocking several roads in the area now police have charged a Allen Huntsman pleaded not being held on 10 million bail so a horrible situation for the people in the area, hopefully firefighters will get some help from the weather an elderly man is in in the
The team fire has destroyed close to three dozen structures. Currently the fire activity we are most concerned about is the northwest part of the fire. Near the top hebei some were watching us. Were trying to close up to get down here. Firefighter crews are fighting indirectly using bulldozers. There is little moisture here and it is extremely dry. Police are also blocking several roads in the area. We a train thats already been loosened by the fire. People not used to the rain are having to drive carefully. Now police have charged this man, 37yearold Wayne Allen Huntsman with starting the fire, huntsman pleaded not guilty to arson on friday, and remains in th eel dorado jail on 10 million bail so a horrible situation for the people in the area, the question now are firefighters going to for that we turn to kron for meteorologist brian van aken the weather has been helping for todayofficials are investigating what we see a storm system. Theres the green showing the ran right over the f