friday, november 22nd, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning. i m savannah guthrie along with al roker and natalie morales. this is a solemn day in our national history. 50 years ago today, president john f. kennedy was gunned down in dallas. the eternal flame still burns at arlington national cemetery this morning. over at the white house the flag will be lowered and has been lowered and at other sites around the country. this is a day that people say an age of innocence ended. it was the end of a period known as camelot in this country. we can all think of where we were. at least those of us that were alive at that time. yeah, i remember 3rd grade. they brought us into the auditorium. first time you saw strangers crying on the street. of course, our top story today. nbc s lester holt is in da
sin city. tonight at 11:00, we go undercover to check out some of these operations. thank you. two of the biggest technology companies in the world have been locked in a heated court battle. apple accusing samsung of stealing its ideas. and today, a jury agreed as our mark sayre reports, samsung now owes apple $900 million but jurors from the trial say it s more than just the money. reporter: since the legal process does not move as fast as the pace of technology, this case surrounds some older products including the samsung galaxy s2. a previous jury found samsung did violate apple s patents but this jury was tasked with deciding a big portion of the damages. some jurors say they feel apple simply made a better case that it was harmed and samsung didn t put on enough evidence nor witnesses. we had way more information from apple. and i think we were left wondering why we hadn t gotten other information from samsung. we didn t have much to counter it with. reporter:
mandatory evacuations are in place up north in napa because of a wildfire that s threatening 20 homes in the canyon area. hundreds of firefighters have the fire 25% contained right now now. fire started around 9:30 last night with the strong winds that quickly grew to hundreds of acres. red cross has sed set up a shelter to help the folks. fire started near soma canyon road. also shady oaks drive, ridge drive and chimney rock road. the fire is visible from silverado trail. we have a crew on the scene. we re going to bring you a live report coming up. the high winds killed a man in oakland. joe vazquez reports a motorcyclist died on austin street when a large tree branch fell on him. we heard like a loud bang from the house. when we came out, then we saw when the paramedics showed up and pretty much the paramedics told us to stay away from the area. according to witnesses, the branch fell from way up there, and you can see how it came right down in this yard, and now i
we understand this is the f official remembrance in official remembrance in dals since the assassination? she said yes, i heard it on the radio. i think my son is on they arrested. reporter: schieffer picked her up. she never in that ride expressed one bit of sympathy for the president. it was all about her. reporter: he pretended to be a detective and sat with marguerite oswald for hours at the police station until he was kicked out right before lee harvey oswald was allowed to see his his mother. that was the biggest interview i almost got but didn t. reporter: schieffer says the kennedy assassination shattered the nation s confidence and caused americans to question everything. danielle nottingham, cbs news dallas. and the sixth floor museum says more than a million people visit daley plaza each year. live in dallas, texas. back to you. danielle, we understand this is the first official remembrance in dallas since the assassination? reporter: it is. and,
years ago, covering that fateful day in dallas. what the kennedy assassination did for me was forever to keep me aware of the fragility of everything. three rounds fired in 15 seconds changed the course of history. woodruff: those are just some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ifill: the senate s long- festering fight over filibusters came to a head today. majority democrats pushed through a rules change making it eas