friday, july 15th, 2016. announcer: from nbc news this is a special edition of today. terror in france with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this friday morning. we were just talking about what words we can use to set this day apart from so many other days that we ve started the show by talking about a major terrorist attack somewhere around the world. when you think about what happened. this moment of celebration in france and then horror. it s unspeakable. there really are no words to measure what happened. here is where things stand this morning. the death toll rose overnight to at least 84. including a 51-year-old father from texas, and his 11-year-old son. just moments ago, after visiting a hospital in nice, france s president said around 50 people are in his words in absolute urgency between life and death. president obama issued a statement condemning this attack. he offe
announcer: from nbc news this is a special edition of today. terror in france with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this friday morning. we were just sitting here in the last couple of minutes trying to figure out what words we can use this morning to set this morning apart from so many other mornings we ve begun over the last tyear or two covering terrr events across the world. it s shocking to think of a moment of happiness and it s france s fourth of july. this is what we know. the latest we know this morning. death toll rose to at least 84 people including a 51-year-old father from texas and his 11-year-old son. president obama quickly issued a statement condemning that attack. he offered the u.s. s help with the investigation and this morning security is being stepped up across europe. german police increasing patrols along its border with france. belgium adding national se
terror in france with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this friday morning. we were just sitting here in the last c we were just sitting here in the last couple of minutes trying to figure out what words we can use this morning to set it apart other. the effective words fail us because we find ourselves in the midst of such terrible heartbre heartbreak. here s what we know. this is the latest we know this morning. the death toll rose overnight to at least 84 people, including a 51-year-old father from texas and his 11-year-old son. president obama quickly issued a statement condemning that attack and offered the u.s. s help with the across europe, german police increasing patrols along its border with france. we have complete coverage with bill neely. he is at the scene of this terror attack. reporter: good morning, matt. last night this street was filled with thousands of peo
it is a nearly complete about-face from what he said just days ago when i sat down and talked to him. you will hear when he told me in a moment. the source says that sterling s law sent a letter to the nba saying he is not going to pay the $2.5 million fine and rejects the ban. this was after sterling s rant was leaked on line. a source says that in a letter he is threatening to sue the nba if they don t list the punishment. the letter lists out two punishments, one, he has not violated the constitution and that the nba violated his rights for due process, essentially it all happened too fast. as i mentioned i spoke with sterling earlier this week. he had a lot to get off his chest. we talked for about an hour and 20 minutes. a good amount of the conversation, namely would he fight to keep control of the clippers, here, let s listen. let me just say i apologize to the league. people want me to hire a wall of lawyers and them to hire a wall of lawyers and to go to war. i don
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