of survival. the latest person to take on the ice bucket challenge. the big question now, who will she pass the bucket to. today is saturday, august 9, 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 a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m erica hill alongside jenna wolfe. the latest on the ebola crisis. it s killed 1,000 people. this morning we will hear from one of the two u.s. aid workers recovering in atlanta. a girl swept away in a tsunami ten years ago is found alive and well. how she became to be reunited with her family who thought she was gone forever. overnight, another drop of humanitarian aid. this as questions are growing about the u.s. military s involvement. jim is following all of this this morning. good morning. reporter: good morning, erica. this is a crisis that gets worse by the day as the u.s. military made the secondary drop of
and they re what? remember that break in at the so-called largest closet in the country? a man who claims to be the burglar now says the jewels, bags and furs he stole are fake. both the victim and the thief are telling their side of the story today, monday, august 18th, 2014. 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 a monday morning. i m matt with tamron, natalie, and dylan. good to see yowl you all. good morning. unfortunately we start the week with images nobody wanted to see especially the people in ferguson, missouri. violence protests overnight. images like this being seen everywhere this morning. tear gas used, some of the people protesting using milk, pouring it over their face to get rid of the stinging in their eyes from that tear gas. it was an emotional roller coaster when you compare those images to the ones from the inspirational
they. jenna bush hager took the challenge. we have that today, august 20th, 2014. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on wednesday morning. i m matt lauer alongside tamron hall and natalie morales alongside al roker. we have to start with an horrific story this morning. these images we are seeing we are not going to be showing of the execution of an american journalist. this is an extremely disturbing story. journalist james foley was held for nearly two years after he was kidnapped in syria. his family saying that foley gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering there. andrea mitchell is nbc s chief foreign affairs correspondent. andrea, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, matt. isis terrorists say they killed american journalist james foley in retribution for america s recent air strikes against isis in iraq. and they are now threatening another sla
saturday 23rd, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m alongside jenna wolfe. we have precious cargo on this set. we do. we do. who is the precious cargo. i was like are you pregnant? yeah. what are you trying to do to me. you have five children? three, you have two. i have two. i m going to bring up the rear with one. i am expecting my second. thank you very much. we are not doing that. she is guesting here. she has no idea what she s talking about. it s wonderful news, we are so, so excited. we are going talk more about it later. coming up, we have been keeping a close eye on a high profile murder case in texas. the man who killed his two sons. emotions are running high on all sides of the case. we ll have the latest. we are going switch gears. two small businesses were weeks awa