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To bring in transportation. We have c 130s coming in. Authorities say that at least 2 Million People are affected in 41 provinces. We will have more from a live report from the ground. In the meantime, lets send it over to andrew. He has this mornings top stories. Good morning, becky. Thauchk. We have some corporate headlines this morning. Avardis is selling its blood testing units for 1. 75 billion. Its a very busy market for health care deals. Also shire has agreed to buy viro viropharma. The deal should boost shires rare disease portfolio. Trans ocean reached an agreement with carl icahn to settle a proxy battle. They will pay a 3 dividend. The activist investor tweeting his response writing in part, quote, great news for transocean and activism today. Joe, over to you, sir. I think he just likes us to say his name. A lot, in any context. Carl icahn in. Yes, pretty much. Icahn, icahn, icahn. In every story, in every headline. Icahn wants to be an icon. He is an icon already. Is that
Plummet back to earth in pieces. But heres the tch. No one kno exactlyhen or where it will land. Toda sunday, november 10th, 2013. Nnouncer from nbc news, this is today. With lester holt and erica hill. Live, from studio 1a in rockefeller pla. And welcome to day on th sunday morning. Im erica hill. Im lester holt. Dyn is in boston this morning. We want to get the true scopef the damage from high typhoon hayian. There still not able to reach some of the hardest hit areas. Correspondent angus walker is in the philippinesn the rdhit area withmore. Angu good morning. R lester, t number of people feared dead now tens of thousand that mns that the death toll has ge u ten times in less than 24 hours. Scue teams are now starting to e the true horror of super typhoon hayian. The devastation i its iont have the wordsor it. Reporter the loss of life is staggering. We have an estimated more or less 10,000. Reporter that in the haest hit provin. And ashe numbers ofead continue to climb, 48 hours la
With lester holt and erica hi, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Weome to today on a saturday morning. Im lesterolt. Imrica hill. Alongside dylan dreyer and cra melvin who is in this morning for jenna. We want to staith our top story. Weavent seen the full picture of the destruction typhoon haiyan has lef behind. There are more images of e damage coming in throughout the morning. Weo know that entire neighborhoods ve been destrod. Were also learning this morning the storm is responsible for at least 000 deaths. It is a dficult area to get to. The pictures slowly coming t, the aid slowly getting to where it is needed. Correspondent angus walker is in manila and hashis update for us. Angus, good rning. Rorter people here have seen many orms but super typhoon haiyan was much more than thebargained for. Th are beginning to suey the ha than they bargain for. They are beginning to survey the damagen the philippines after onof the strongest storms ever recorded
Left the couroom this morning, but ey didnt want toalk with the media as theyollowed them down the hallway. They did speak last week, though, when the said tha he was sorryor what he did,ut th said he is not homophobic. The 16yearolds being held without bail. He is charged as an adult with two hate cme enhancements accused of setting sacha fleschmans skirt on fire while the tn slept on an ac transit bus. Sacha identifie as agender, neither male nor female. Thomas is arrested in oaand heights. After the incident, aer surveiance footage helped police identif him, in a statemt police said that thomas said he did it becse he was homophobic. We spoke with the defense attorn outside the Court Moments ago. We have not t seen the discovery, and soe dont know what the defense will be, a i wont be commenting on the defense at this time. What i can s is at he is a 16yeard, and he is entitled a defee, and whatever defense is appropriate, we will be actively pursuing. Reporte now, we did not see an