For the nearly 200 million americans caught in the grip of a bitter cold spell there is welcome news. The worst apparently will soon be over. Well get to the forecast in a moment. Its important to remember many people that cannot escape from the elements. Im talking about the homeless population. They are the most vulnerable, especially in this extreme weather. Last night we met one young man who was homeless in minnesota. He is 21, he spent sunday night in a park. It was three degrees. Yesterday he found shelter and that is where he is, along with heather huseby. Executive director of youth link. They are joining us now. We appreciate it. Marquellus, we want to continue the conversation we started with you yesterday. You touched a lot of people. I understand that you spend sunday night in a mark. Why did you not go to a shelter . In a park. Marquellus, why didnt you go to a shelter . A lot of shelters are not fit for youth. Its like the shelters that they do have is fit for older peop
Footballs national championship. Tuesday, january 7, 2014. From nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. Its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer. 41 states. Everyone, but hawaii will have freezing temperatures. Well have more on that in a couple of minutes. Lets get to todays top story. Lindsay vonn announcing she will not compete in the winter Olympic Games in sochi. Natalie, you have the latest on that. She had the injury since her bad crash last year. She suffered a setback last month and now vonn said shell be cheering on the olympian, sadly, from home. The most recognizable winter olympic superstar is out. Lindsay vonn announced shell not be competing next month in sochi saying in a statement, i did everything i possibly could to somehow get Strong Enough to overcome having no acl, but the reality has sunk in that my knee is just too unstable t
Good evening. Today it was below freezing, at least somewhere in each of the 50 states. That doesnt happen often, and yes, even hawaii where it was 25 this morning near the summit of a volcano. In new york, it hasnt been this cold since 1896. In cleveland, youd have to go back to 1884. In asheville, north carolina, the old record was set in 1879. Again tonight its not just the 25 below zero temperatures in minnesota making news, its the dangerous cold in the deep, deep south making news, like 6 degrees in atlanta, georgia. Its been record shattering cold, straining power grids, cancelling thousands of flights and forcing people to find warmth. We have it covered again with Kevin Tibbles in chicago. Kevin, good evening. Reporter brian, it is day two here in chiberia. And across the frozen Chicago River behind me, and across most of this nation, this arctic grip is not letting go. Subzero, bone chilling wind whipping cold. Stomping down on much of the lower 48 for another frigid day. Fro
In march 8, 1971, a group of activists come including a cab driver, a daycare director, into professors, broke into an fbi office in media, pennsylvania. They stole every document they found an elite the press shocking details about fbi abuse and the then secret cointelpro program. , the firstr letter file i read was about a group of fbi agents who were told to enhance the paranoia and the Antiwar Movement and create an atmosphere that there is an fbi agent behind every mailbox. No one was ever caught for the fbi breakin. The identities of the media burglars made a secret until this week. Today, three of them join us on the show as well as the former Washington Post reporter, Betty Medsger, who first broke the story of the still of fbi documents in 1971. This week she revealed the identities of the burglars in her new book, the burglary the discovery of j. Edgar hoovers secret fbi. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im a
Years. Never any miscalculation of where each of us stands. I think that is critically important in our relationship. German economy minister defends blocking several high profile investments telling cnbc that berlin must diversify its economic partners. All eggs in one basket politics is wrong. With the war in ukraine, what seems to be very soon turn out in one the collapse of ftx sends shockwaves through the industry as binance pulls tokens and urges other to follow suit a few bad actors do not reflect the whole industry the industry goes through ups and downs. We have more bad players in the industry the industry is still growing. The democrats defy a red wave holding on to the senate with wins in arizona and nevada and republicans hope to secure the u. S. House good morning very warm welcome to the program. Xi jinping has landed in bali ahead of the long awaited meeting with President Biden that is set to take place in half an hour it will be the leaders first facetoface meeting si