His son, harrys service in afghanistan. I worry every time. And he looks ahead to life as a grandfather today, monday, january 7th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with is Savannah Guthrie live rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer alongside Savannah Guthrie, al roker and natalie morales. The gang is back together in a long time for a really long time. Not since last year. That old thing . Ive never heard that. Two, three weeks, though. Really. Everybody have nice trips . Yeah. Reporter only natalie got slightly injured. Little skiing accident. You should see the other guy. Thats a good one. Anybody caught home with the flu, perhaps . Not good. A lot of people do. Cases are very widespread, in 41 states now. Coming up, why doctors expect it to get even worse in the days and weeks ahead. A criminal case has rocked a small town out in ohio. Two High School Football players were accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student
Farmers insurance open at torrey pines for the seventh time yesterday. Came back, won a big tournament, had a big final round monday. Its his 75th career title. Looks like now hes starting to come back post injury, post whatever you want to call it. Scandal. Well call it a scandal. And on the other hand in the music world, chris brown is back in the papers again, singer frank ocean, alleges that he was punched. Sent out a tweet saying he was punched by chris brown and a group of people outside a Recording Studio in west hollywood. So, tommy, recovering from flaws in your private life to go on to success in public. When it happened to tiger woods a lot of people said hes finished, hes done, he will never break Jack Nicklaus record. Weve seen it in the world of entertainment. Is there a point where youre so talented that it overcomes anything that youve done in dwrour private life . I think you get to a point sometimes where everything becomes so under a microscope and then, unfortunatel
But bewildereded drivers and tas resources to the breaking point. Rescue workers pushed patients on luggage carts to waiting squadrons of choppers, others plucked from rooftops by a team of civilian and military helicopters as the river rose and rose in massive flooding by cyclone oswald. A tiny avook wevacuee hoisted t safety. Around the clock, hundreds of men, will, and children rushed to safety. She slept throw the whole thing. Reporter this neighborhood, two miles outside the center of brisbane, flooded in 2011, a once in a century flood, but two years later, it happened again. Andrew brady just moved here. I feel how can it happen again . Reporter last flood, he volunteered to dig out others, now they are calling to return the favor. This is called flood proofing. Satellite phones in the desert this is our flood phone. Samsung flood phone. Reporter those friends, those volunteers worked so hard and got so dirty in the cleanup, they got nicknamed the mud army. You can bet blah toon
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. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. Well get to that severe flooding in northeast australia in a couple of minutes. More rescues there over the last 24 hours. Al will join us and tell us abt a powerful storm system right here at home that could be spawning some tornados in the coming days. Also ahead, strong signals from the boy scouts that it will end its nationwide exclusion of gay scouts and leaders. At least one major group is saying that may force it to move its support to other boys organizations. New questions this morning about the death of Country Singer Mindy Mcreadys boyfriend as she opens up about what happened the night he died. Well hear from her. Its an emotional and candid interview. First to that deadly flooding in australia. Sarah james is in brisbane for us this morning. S sarah, good