our next presenters had the pleasure of doing what we ve all wanted to do this past year, drive our car off a cliff. please welcome susan sarandon and geena davis. susan, they love that we fixed everything. so happy. i don t think we fixed quite everything, actually. it s been 25 years. but tonight we ve got all of these women standing up for each other. and the men, too. and the men. yeah, these five nominees have agreed to give half of their salary back so the women can make more than them. i don t think that actually happened yet, but that s a great idea. so we re still honored to present the award for best actor in a motion picture drama. and here are the nominees. timothee chalamet, call me by your name. daniel day-lewis, phantom thread. tom hanks, the post. gary oldman, darkest hour. denzel washington, roman j. israel. and the golden globe goes to gary oldman. well, i feel very humbled and surprised to have been asked to this stage.
along with her fellow final five team members. friday, august 12th, 2016. this has been her destiny all along. one more time for the ages. from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic games. with matt lauer, lo i have from rio de janeiro, brazil, and savannah guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone, welcome to a special split edition of today, rio and new york, the games of the 31st olympiad and as you can see behind us it s dark and rainy and windy on copacabana beach, but it doesn t matter because yesterday was bright and cheery and fantastic for team u.s.a. it was crazy as we talked about simone manuel first african-american woman to win gold. i have a feeling in individual swimming i have a feeling if we mark our calendars in about nine months there will be a lot of sinones named as babies. simone biles turned in one of the most impressive performances ever to win gold in the women s all around. right on her heel
everyone beginning to understand just how long that is going to take and just how difficult it is going to be. getting back to normal, don t talk about that at this point. how can you consider anything normal when you con to bury 6 and 7-year-old kids here? that s the latest from newtown, connecticut. i m jay gray, news4. george mason university today a vigil to remember the victims of that connecticut shooting. dozens of students and staff took time to grieve the tragedy. a flower representing each of the victims as their names were called. given the amaze acts of heroism around us, both seen and unseen, that allowed us to live, that have given us life in this moment, what will we do now with this opportunity? mourners participated in a procession alto the george mason statue where they held a moment of silence. the national rifle association just a short time ago put out a statement on the shooting in connecticut as that tragedy renews cries for more gun control
jessica rekos, a horse lover who wanted a new pair of cowgirl boots for christmas. the people across the country reaching out in many ways, some embracing the unconditional love of therapy dogs. find reassurance and comfort and dogs do that. reporter: several wakes are for some tonight, including victoria soto. live in newtown, connecticut, i m jennifer davis. fox news. back to you. and this is a search for normality. you get a sense people are trying to get their routine as much as they can? reporter: they are. next to our live shot, there is a small karate school for children. you may have heard the story about the little boy who volunteered to leave his class out when police came to rescue him. he said to an official, i will lead them, i take karate. that is the class where he takes it and they hope to get classes resuming tonight. they lost students in the massacre. to go there, you have to go through a lot of memorials and media and traffic and a lot of parents a
carry firearms? virginia governor bob mcdon gnu weighs in for us and a national retailer yanks rifles. police are investigating a high school student after reports he made threatening comments. i m shawn yancy. i m will thomas in for brian. the people of newtown are continuing the agonizing task of laying to rest the victims. we re learning more about what happened in the moments following the attack. jennifer davis is in newtown with the latest. reporter: it does not feel like christmas is days away in newtown where the community buried two more 6-year-olds today and a man that lived near the school shared his memories helping students. christmas stockings carefully hung bearing the name of each child. these women decking out a tree, a simple reminder of the season marred by funerals. james mattioli and jessica rekos. he didn t know why they were there but took them into his home hearing about the attack firsthand. this boy said we can t go back. we can t go back t