as golfer rory mcilroy wins his second major in a row today. monday, august 11, 2014. 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 on what is a momentous day here on the today show because it s the last day before savannah takes off on maternity leave. you haven t stopped smiling. i know. i m excited to sleep in for a day or two. that s exactly my prediction. two days. by this time thursday morning you will have this baby. that s what i have in the office pool. wow. what do you know i don t? don t listen to the obgyn. i want you to say i m matt lauer and i ll say i m a house. we ll have fun later in the show. let s start with our top story. tensions explode in the streets of st. louis in a suburb there in what began as a peaceful protest in the shooting of an unarmed teen spiraled into violence. john yang has the latest. goo
not present, his father, justin ross harris who s accused of killing the toddler. but he did call in from jail to thank funeral guests for supporting his son and apolog e apologized for not being there. his wife said he is not angry at her husband and said that the truth would come out. harris could be heard sobbing over the phone as the crowd inside gave him a standing ovation. earlier saturday, new details about the 33-year-old. according to search warrants obtained by cnn, harris told police, quote, he researched child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur. the police officer went on to say, quote, justin stated that he was fearful that this could happen. what remains unclear is exactly whether that search was done. friends and family say the man police paint as a murderer is not the man they know. i want that he would be able to forgive himself. reporter: family friend carol brown. it s just seems out of character for ross and
threshold. everybody wants to know will it affect me inland? we won t know that. there will be outer bands here, john, that will come on shore, maybe a rain shower. you can see one right there in georgia. a big one down through here in florida. there is no way to predict whether one of those ends up over washington dc or new york city closer to the northeast there is no possible way to predict that. we can probably predict the size, 80, 85 miles per hour. yesterday the hurricane center was thinking 90. that s not out of the question. you can see the eye in the three-dimensional depiction. the eye is right down there in the middle. hurricane hunter aircraft flying through it now. finding the pressure going down, wind speeds picking up and the storm doing exactly what we thought it would do. this storm by tomorrow is going to be affecting the coast of south carolina right through there and then it s going to be effecting north carolina with on shore waves probably six to ten fe
president obama set to nominate the former procter & gamble ceo tomorrow as veterans affairs secretary. the va department is reeling from a huge scandal over mismanaged and sometimes deadly wait times for veterans seeking medical help. mcdonald graduated from west point in the top 2% of his class. her isser offed five years as a u.s. army captain. question number two could the grieving mother of a toddler left in a hot car face charges as well? lee anna harris defended her jailed husband at yesterday s funeral for for their 22-month-old son. the little boy died after his father left him in a sweltering car for seven hours. both the mother and father have told police they did internet searches on child death in hot cars. the father has pleaded not guilty to felony murder and second-degree child cruelty charges. question number three, what is a cal fate and why are we using that word when talking about the crisis in iraq in the extremist group rampaging all over iraq, takin
hearing and divulged one unseemingly revelation after another. the red line was this. police allege harris was sexting multiple women, including a minor, as his son was overheating in a car for seven hours. this hearing ultimately got what prosecutors wanted. the judge allowed the case to continue, and did not allow bond for the 33-year-old father. and as he sits in jail, investigators case against him expands. eight search warrants released today and they detail that after little cooper s death, harris was inquiring about how to get money from his son s life insurance policies. cnn s victor blackwell was in the cobb county courtroom that was packed with harris supporters. reporter: what was justin ross harris allegedly doing while his it 22-month-old son cooper suffered in the back of his scorching suv? he was having up to six different conversations with different women. the most common term would be sexting. reporter: stunning claims of raunchy text messages, suspic