what he s saying about that conversation this morning. hostage standoff. two staffers held captive by inmates at a delaware prison. negotiators trying desperately to secure their police right now. we ll have the latest from the scene. and destiny s children. beyonce and jay z post this photo. they are expecting twins. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this thursday morning. hoda again here while savannah continues on maternity leave. when is the last time you googled beyonce. by the way, my head did one of those, too. i was radio when it haen a lot of people excited about that news. we ll talk more about that later on but we have a very busy morning. starting with breaking news overnight. comes from berkeley campus. demonstrators causing havoc shutting down a planned speech by an editor at a conservative breitbart and internet troll.
forecast. promise it will get a lot better. warmer temperatures and maybe even a little afternoon sunshine. details on that weather coming up. erin how are the roads. it s a rough monday morning commute. look at that jam-up right now. a crash on the inner loop of braddock road. jammed solid from before the springfield interchange and aside from those problems on the roads with the fog and the drizzle, metro dealing with delays as well across the orange blue and silver lines. there s a single problem outside eastern market. in addition to those delays we have safe track with single tracking on the blue and yellow line. maureen and allison we ll get back to you and have more road information in just a few. 7:01 right now. new this morning d.c. firefighters have been unable to locate a missing person last seen in the potomac river. d.c. police say a person was reported in water near the key bridge around 11:30 last night. several hours of searching by boat and on land
ronald reagan from 1976 to his election of president in 1980. from washington journal, this is about 45 minutes. is craig shirley, the the author of reagan rising. the decisive years, 1976 to 1980. he is here to discuss that book which examines president reagan s political ascendancy after losing the nomination for president in 1976. thank you for joining us today. so you ve written several books about president reagan. why did you focus on this particular era, this 1976 to 1980 in this book? guest: it s a missing chapter to his life and it s very important because without the developmental years of 76 to 0 he doesn t become president. after he lost the nomination to gerald ford people said all right he s been around the track twice. he tried in 6768 and lost tried in 76 and lost. now he s 65 years old. the issues have moved beyond him. the campaign, the parties have moved beyond him. and he and mrs. reagan thought otherwise. even after the 76 campaign, reagan can convened
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