Story. Its a case where the state governments rule makers. Were the rule breakers. Because of a whistle blowers tip, the state Auditors Office looked into the department of administrative services. Thats the state agency that manages government operations. What the audit found is that a former top attorney in the Branstad Administration was not qualified for the position that he was in. And was paid 22thousand dollars more than he should have been. Attorney ryan lamb left his job last year after a scandal involving secret settlements paid to former state employees. Essentially, hush money was given to employees with grievances. The auditors report shows lamb was paid for the nearly four months was serving in the Army Reserves as a lawyer. Even though he should have only been paid for 30days. There was no notice of a military leave in the persons employee file. That led to us questioning the rest of the time sheets for this particular individual. And lambs time sheets, according to the
Of musics biggest stars, and we have her life on our plaza today, friday, october 23rd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lawyer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Matt has the morning off. Im going to quote dobbie and marie. Im a little bit country. Youre a little bit rock n roll. Rock n roll. And Carrie Underwood is here and a little bit for everybody. Seven grammys, a new mom. Shes got a new album. Her fans are just so they love her. They are passionate, as you see there, and so are we. Thrilled to have her on the plaza. Right to our top story this morning. Weve got breaking news, a deadly collision between a tour bus and a truck in frances popular wine country. Nbcs keir responsesimmons is with us. This is all of. What can you tell us about it. Reporter good morning. The french are waking up to a tragedy here, a headon collision between a bus and a truck that became a
Named her baby . Caleb, and christian was on the list, too, but it is when 50 shades of gray was coming out, so i was like, christian is off of the table, babe. And so we had not discussed our names with people at all, and they had their baby a week later and they were like, meet bayby caleb and i was like, oh, my gosh, than goodness. And i asked her who your girl crush was. Who was your girl crush . You. I dont know who it is, you. Now you have to say me. And now, i asked her and it took longer than a second to figure out who it was. Who is your celebrity girl crush . Right now. Together, and you are looking at me right now, who is it . Your celebrity girl crush . Oh, you, yes, you. Is it the curlers . Yes, hot. Hot. And she was like, hey, and looking up here in this range, and that is what is going on. And not in your eyes. The album by the way is called storyteller and we were listening to some songs and it ha as the thing. That stomp or the clap. And speaking of the babies. Both ba
County courthouse tonight. Mark video is disturbing to watch. Hard for anyone to see, so you can imagine what it imagine how hard it must of been for the parents of these three very young children. An emotional scene at the courthouse this morning as the parents of these children came facetoface with ms. Williamson. This is video of christina williamson, on one day, with one baby girl that she treats like a rag doll. We are not showing the worst of the abuse. It is very hard to watch. She wasnt injured of the nature , of the abuse, this is williamson pushing the babies face into the carpet to stop her from crying. Stepping on her head, stuffing a cloth into her mouth, aggressively flipping her over. It is impossibly cruel. Today, she was sentenced to 5 years in prison after agreeing to a deal, pleading guilty to one felony and one aggravated misdemeanor child endangerment im a human being too, and i have kids, and watching that film was just sickening, how you treated those babies. Mar
On muslims will hurt americas efforts to fight terrorism. Ms. Clinton he is actually playing into their hands. He will become part of their recruitment efforts. Cynthia with raising incomes at the center of her agenda, clinton also talked about creating more manufacturing jobs with a tax credit as an incentive in towns that lost factories. And, she rolled out new plans to stop Companies Like pfizer from merging with another overseas to avoid paying taxes. Ms. Clinton you should pay what you owe, just like everybody else. Corporations dont need tax breaks, you need tax breaks. Cynthia many here told me after seeing her, they will vote for her. Seeing her in person is very convincing. Shes got passion and fire. Quest tonight just sealed the deal. She, to be, is the only person running who really has the knowledge and experience and the heart to run this country. Cynthia clinton spent 45 not one on isis, but social security, which shes against privitizing, the va, which shell work to fix,