interview. also new information in the jon-benet ramsey case. reports that a grand jury actually indicted john and patsy ramsey in connection with the death. why did the prosecutor decline to try that case? we begin with that tragic nightclub fire in brazil. mike taibbi has the latest. mike, good morning. good morning, savannah. it has been a dead lly combinatn in the past, a nightclub filled with revelers and pyrotechnics and few too ways to escape led to panic. in santa maria, it was packed with its usual saturday nightclub when, at 2:00 in the morning, disaster. a swift-moving fire filled the ground-floor club with thick smoke. witnesses said club security initially blocked several emergency exits, thinking p patrons were leaving without paying and that left only a few ways out. in the ensuing panic, some victims were trampled. most died of smoke inhalation. many witnesses told police this fire was triggered by the use of some incindiery device on stage. the band u
the rescue mission that kept commuters on hold, friday, august 30th, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m tamron hall along side al roker and willie geist. savannah has the morning off. a big concert as well. big crowd on the plaza. we ll get to that in our 8:30 half hour. chris brown out there. we look forward to that. but we have a lot to get to this morning. we want to start with the breaking news in syria. richard engle is joining us now from turkey near the syrian border. richard, what can you tell us? reporter: good morning, matt. undeterred by threats of u.s. military action the regime carried out yet another attack using a chemical agent, this time on a school. and these images come with a warning. they are graphic. we are human beings. we want to live. reporter: another horrific att
questions she still wrestles with every day. a candid conversation with cissy houston today, monday, january 28th, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning, everyone. i m savannah guthrie. just a terrible story out of brazil. that country is declaring three days of national mourning now for the victims of that deadly nightclub fire as the investigation gets under way. it s a huge tragedy. consider the loss of life. it was apparently started, that fire, by some kind of an on-stage stunt. some kind of pyrotechnic device, many victims under the age of 206789 this morning we have new details on that tragedy, including reports that the bar was well above its legal capacity at the time of the fire. we ll get a live report on that, straight ahead. also ahead, a cia officer se celebrated for helping t
gripping, but it makes things no less perplexing. did pistorius accidentally kill the woman he loved and was thinking of marrying or was this premeditated murder? he broke down, sobbing with his head in his hands. oscar pistorius faced the court with the global scrum of he s accustomed to. prosecutors didn t allow pictures during the hearing. he was stern faced. staring ahead, jaw clenched. little of the powerful emotion he could barely control during the first appearance. then the emotion came, crying, head in hands as prosecutors laid out their case accusing pistorius of shooting and killing an unarmed innocent woman, his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp on valentine s day morning. he was inconsolable when he heard his account read by his attorney. he woke up in the night to get a fan from the balcony and heard a noise. he heard someone in the bathroom. he felt a sense of terror rush over me. i knew i had to protect reeva and myself. i received death threats before. i grabbed my
public, today, tuesday, february 19th, 2013. 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 tuesday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m david gregory in for matt this morning. that hearing for oscar pistorius is unfolding at this hour, the star weeping at times when hearing details about his girlfriend s death. prosecutors casting doubt on his claim that the shooting was an accident, saying there are telltale signs of premeditation, that he actually had to put on his artificial legs and walk across the floor before opening fire. michelle kosinski is seated right behind him and will have details for us. what caused adam lanza to open up his killing spree? and new details are coming to light. have you ever been busted by one of those red light cameras? oh, yeah. i m guessing you have. those are for speeding. not the red light district, d