Stories, their anger over epsteins death, and their demand for prosecutors to push on with the case. All that, plus, on alert. The rare cases of a deadly mosquitoborne virus that has many sounding the alarm. Risky strategy. The ruling given to Lori Loughlin and her husband in the College Admissions scandal. And comeback kid. 15yearold tennis sensation coco gauff storms back for her first ever win at the u. S. Open. Today, wednesday, august 28th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. Kristen welker in for savannah. Hoda enjoys her final week of maternity leave. You had quite the field trip yesterday. I had quite the field trip. I went to the u. S. Open. I saw naomi osaka play. She won her match. Then went home and watched coco gauff on tv. Boy, was that an incredible match. She is tremendous. Her u. S. Open debut would be great if she made a run there. More o
thank you so much for letting us in your homes during these extraordinary times. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. happy monday, thanks, nicole. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. the civil case against donald trump over defamation and battery, nicole was discussing that earlier. we have that later in the hour here on the beat. our top story tonight is a topic that could be the top national story on most nights by many metrics. america s gun epidemic and the ongoing threat and reality of a highly armed nation with easy access to some of the most dangerous guns in the world and a gun-related death toll that exceeds every other country per capita in the world. that can look like this. [gun shots] that was the harrowing scene at a recent little league baseball game in south carolina. you can imagine and feel how all the kids and parents felt and that is the kind of story that may not even make what we call national news, that you may not have
welcome. your first time on the couch. i think it s my third time. post covid. emily: all right. we begin with mob madness breaking out on city streets across our country and innocent americans are getting caught in the crossfire. shocking new video from chicago on saturday night shows a large group of what appears to be young people closing in on a young woman trying to enter her apartment. and then they attack. we must warn you, what you re about to see is graphic. emily: this horrifying footage tagged with the caption yea, we get active. and we re now learning new details on the aftermath of that gut wrenching attack. that woman s mother confirming to fox news matt finn that her daughter is thankfully doing ok and escaped the mob with minor injuries. the scratch on her face. she says her daughter was with another young man during the time of the attack and was later helped to a hospital by a good samaritan after the completely unprovoked attack. ian, your thoughts?
song about waffle house. will: might be the first song i ever heard by the joe pa nasa brothers. ainsley: if you go and eat at the waffle house, some of them have the music boxes. pete: oh, yeah, ours does. ainsley: the lady, i believe this is right. the husband started waffle house and his wife is sings a song about the waffle house. used to call the waffle house do houseduop. pete: i will try that we have waffle house outside our town in nashville we go there once a week. must-go. see if they have the waffle house duop. ainsley: take a recording of it. i would love to hear it it s been years. will: one of the years i will figure out if he is on ozempic or what is he doing. because he eats like a 400-pound person. eats waffle house and tries to get us to order mcdonald s every morning. i have nothing against these things. if you do it as often as you mention. pete: i do it. will: he is on it. ainsley: are you taking ozempic. pete: combination of ozemp
median income is lass than $45,000. east palestine is overwhelmingly white and politically conservative. more than 70% of the voters in the surrounding counties supported donald trump in the last election. that shouldn t be relevant but you re about to hear, it very much is. 11 days ago, 150 car train derailed in east palestine and it spewed poisonous chemicals onto the ground and in the surface waters. after the crash, the ohio state epa found evidence of yabbial acura late in the water and streams and creeks that feed it. this was more of a concern for east palestine given the ohio river supplies drinking water to about a tenth of the u.s. population. this train derailment was a environmental disaster. not an environmental disaster like climate change is, but an actual environmental disaster, one that s hurting actual people. then it got worse. several days after the derailment, officials decided it was a good idea to set fire to the spilled chemicals. the result of that