While two wildfires threaten hundreds of homes in california. And an entire town is told to be ready to evacuate. Were live at the scene. And drama at sea. A group of people had to abandon ship. Well show you the rescue, as it was videoed. Well show you today. August 5, 2014. 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 its its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Tuesday morning. A tragic story to tell you about out of afghanistan. Another deadly insider attack at a base just west of kabul. Lets get to the pentagon and jim miklaszewski. Reporter at least one highranking American Military official was killed in in attack, sudden attack at this Training Base for Afghan Soldiers in kabul. According to official, the americans along with german allies had gathers with afghans at this base for some kind of event or meeting when suddenly, one of the Afghan Soldiers, at least somebody dressed like
Assaulted. Shes crying. I can see her shirt has been pulled. Im lord please dont say this. Why she thinks her target was targeted. The ebola virus on its way to the United States, a mill tar require base and a University Hospital preparing for two american patients. There are no charges tonight in a deadly crash that backed up traffic on the beltway for hours. A stas police cadet was driving one of the vehicles, an unmarked suv. He sideswiped Karen Williams who were killed in the crash. She was 59 and lived in temple hills. She had been a school ficher for more than a decade. Tonight we are live near the beltway. Whats the latest in the investigation . Reporter the investigation is ongoing. Police are trying to figure out why this cadet made the uturn from the inner loop to the outer loop. Its important to point out that the woman in this case, her name is Karen Williams. Police tell us that she was out here. She was going to get her recertification and then she was killed. Karen willi
I knew how it ends. Reporter but his faith was as close as ever. I said, god, i know you can save me. I know you can. Reporter well take you inside the race to save his life. It was a Freight Train coming down the railroad track. Reporter on an exclusive tour of the hot zone. And meet the people who risked their lives to save his. The number one thing on my list was to walk out of that room, and give my wife a hug. Reporter an nbc news exclusive. Saving dr. Brantly the inside story of a medical miracle. 3 f2 exclusiva de nbc, salvando luckiest men alive and dr. Kent brantly probably thinks there are two things for you no that. For that. A devout christian and a physician, hes a man of both. He was serving as a missionary doctor in liberia when he became infected. Dr. Brantly and the brave medical team that helped to save his life, tell for the first time the extraordinary story of how he was cured. i ¿ reporter there was a time during those days in liberia when you were really sick, t
To be trained. Now, this American General who has yet to be identified, this general was shot by an assailant, by this gunman believed to have been an afghan soldier. Up to 15 others, including other americans were wounded in that attack. We were told that the assailant was killed. In the United States we heard from the spokesperson at the pentagon, john kirby, today insisting that the shooting does not take away from the recent progress made by Afghan Military forces. Take a listen. Ive seen no indication that theres a degradation of trust between Coalition Members and their afghan counterparts. I and i would encourage you to certainly speak to folks that are over there in afghanistan. I am not. I understand im here at the pentagon. But every indication that ive seen is that the partnering and cooperation just gets better and better every week. Lets take you straight to afghanistan and to get more information from reporter nathan hodge of the wall street journal, hes joining me live f
Explosions taking place. Weve also seen from our Vantage Point light flares being dropped from the skies above, an indication that some type of military operation has been taking place for some time. This followed earlier in the day very chaotic and emotional scenes at gazas shiffa hospital, where according to palestinian medical sources, at least ten palestinians were killed as a result of an israeli air strike on a refugee camp north of where we are. Thats according to palestinian sources who say as a result of that strike, there were at least 40 palestinians injured, 10 killed brought to the hospital. And just at around the same time, at about 5 00 p. M. Local time, we also saw the explosion that happened at the hospital grounds. According to palestinian sources there, they were saying that also was a result of an israeli strike on the ground. There were no fatalities in that specific incident, but nonetheless, the two happened at the same time. Now, the Israeli Military is counteri