syria. will he seek the democratic presidential nomination? we may learn in the coming days whether vice president joe biden is in. his family is reportedly completely on board with a white house bid at this point. c-n-n s jeff zeleny has the latest. minute he e t into the race, thehe entire narrative would change. and we start talking about the first debate in iowa in november. new this mning, a look inside biden s possible 20-16 r. a close adviser to biden, former delaware senator ted kaufman, sent an email, obtained by c-n-n, to his former staffers, asking for their help if the vice president decides to run. in it, k kfman says it will bebe campaign from the heart. a campaign consistent with his values, our values, and the values of the american people. kaufman went on to say, if he runs, he will run because of his burning conviction that we need to fundamentall y change the balance in our economy . and the political structure to restore the ababity of the middle clcls
a a man, who appeared onon television with bill cosby as a teenager, is the latest to sue him for defamation. renita hill claims he defamed her after she gave an interview detailing his alleged sexual abuse in the 1980s. hill filed the lawsuit, on wednesday. she claims she was 16 when she met cosby during a talent search in 1983 for an educational children s television show, , picture pages. she s ss cosby hired her, and soon after began flying her to cities where he was performing. there, he d give her alcohol that she believes was laced with drugs. and then molest her in hotel rooms. cosby has never been charged with a crime, and cosby and his representativ es have repeatedly denied the allegations. a man is set to be sentenced, next month, for setting several trash bin fires in sioux city. on thursdada 24-year-old darin morey pleaded guilty to four counts of arson. each count carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years. authorities say the fires set by morey, in april, d
october 16th, 2015. announcer: 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 on a friday morning. we re in the middle of a beautiful stretch of fall river here in the east. not so much out west. they have not been so lucky. these rains that seemed to come out of nowhere and really made a mess. that s right. it s our top story this morning. the wild weather that came in suddenly and virtually without warning. flash flooding triggering mudslides trapping drivers and then destroying homes. nbc national correspondent miguel almaguer is in hard hit lake hughes, california. miguel, good morning to you. reporter: hey, matt, good morning. the rain is gone, but mud certainly isn t. we re about an hour outside of los angeles, and take a look at this neighborhood. it was hit by a day luge. the mud here is stacked four, five, six feet high in some places. just down the
darling dave brat. this wasn t even close. voters apparently angry over immigration reform. i know there s a lot of long faces here. obviously we came up short. we got shots fired. there s still no motive for a deadly school shooting in oregon. a high school student killed a classmate and himself. our levels of gun violence are off the charts. the country has to do some soul searching about this. iraq s second biggest city taken over by islamist militants. questions expected for chuck hagel at a house hearing about the bergdahl exchange. millions saw this ad during last night s nba finals game and it calls for the redskins to change its name. native americans call themselves many things. the one thing they don t. shelley sterling s attorney will ask a probate court wednesday to help expedite the sale of the clippers. a scene in texas a 4,000 square foot home is colleging to the edge of a cliff. and richard dunn shot this music music video. all by m
this morning al qaeda-inspired militants are pushing deep into southern iraq headed toward baghdad. in about 48 hours the insurgent blitzkrieg has overrun cities once controlled by u.s. forces during the nearly nine-year iraq war. first to fall, iraq s second largest city, mozul, then tikrit and this morning militants have reached the outskirts of samara, just 70 miles from baghdad. iraq s u.s.-trained forces are offering little or no resistance. many are laying down their arms and hundreds of thousands of iraqi citizens are on the run. susan mcginnis is in washington where the obama administration is plotting its next move. susan, good morning. anne-marie, good morning. the white house says the situation in iraq has deteriorated over the last 24 hours or so and is quickly becoming a humanitarian issue. now the white house is considering sending help. some iraqi troops abandoned their posts and were seen walking in civilian clothes near the city. of kirkuk. the retreat come