29th, 2016. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everybody. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. happy to say after a tense morning, we have good news to report. the breaking news is our top story this morning. a harrowing ordeal for dozens of passengers and crew on egypt air flight 181. it left from egypt bound for cairo when a man who said he was wearing an explosive belt ordered the plane to divert to cyprus. ra hay ma ellis is following the story. the ie jackers motive seems to be personal but the investigators had to proceed with extreme caution. the high jacking ended without loss of life. people were seen coming down the stairs. one person climbed out of the dock pitt window. this after a tense standoff of just over seven hours. equip air 181 headed from alexandria to cairo was high jacked. an early hopeful sign most passengers, women and children were allow
what is inside of the contents of the package, we can report that the fbi indeed has cleared that suspicious package. so the 1700 block of columbia ride is now open but take a look at the sidewalk. you can look at that yellow tape. you know that pnc bank remains a crime scene at this hour. police say just after 9:30 this morning a man passed a note to a teller inside of the bank, robbed the bank leaving behind that suspicious package. no one was hurt, but residents, neighbors in the area are certainly alarmed. really bad. really sad, but you know, things are rough right now. so i don t know. it s scary. some days i go there to deposit. other days i go there to take out money. reporter: you could have been there. yeah, and i would have been really scared. reporter: lots of folks watching were certainly scared indeed. no one was hurt during the bank robbery. the scene and investigation is still ongoing. police tell us right now they are looking for a suspect described a
surveillance video obtained indicates a team of three carried out the shootings at the cafi. security forces are on high alert. german officials evacuated a soccer stadium and canceled the game after authorities received what they thought was a credible threat. john berner in has said john brennan says isis probably has plans for more tax. tonight at the attack on paris has led to a debate on the president s plan to resettle 10,000 syrians in the united states. the president accused republicans of being scared of widows and orphans the president says leaders calling for a ban on refugees are using rhetoric that is a potential recruiting tool for the islamic state. it is a debate that is spreading across the country. reporter: they taste of the rhetoric coming from both sides on this debate that is split along party lines. republicans in opposition of settling refugees here. democrats, pushing for the program to continue. paul ryan added his voice to the chorus of
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