Race and yes, that beard. And goodbye to the greatest. Friends, fans and celebrities arrive in louisville for the funeral of muhammad ali, and matt joins us for a live preview today friday, june 10th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everybody. Welcome to today. Its friday morning, 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. We have carson. Matt is in louisville, kentucky where later today tens of thousands of fans along with a starstudded crowd is going to say goodbye to the champ. Muhammad ali. Good morning to you. Good morning. Its going to be a sad day here and inspiring day, a procession is just about to get under way through the streets of this city that muhammad loved and loved him in return. That will be emotional seeing people lining the streets, waving to the champ, one more time. As you mentioned behind me 15,000 or more people will be inside for a Memorial Service. There will be eulogi
People acknowledge on the matter tell nbc news that he was forced out. City hall gave us a copy of his resignation email. You can see it runs one long paragraph. Im going to read part of it and former chief of Oakland Police and he writes, i am truly honored to have worked with and led the officers over the last three years. Having made so much progress, i believe the timing is good for me to move on and to explore other opportunities. What those opportunities is or are has not yet been made clear. Under what the department did for his leadership the city of oakland has seen a 39 decrease in murders since 2013 and under chief wentds leadership, four officers were suspended for Sexual Misconduct involving an underaged woman. A federal judge was so displeased with how internal affairs was handling the investigation that he appointed an independent monitor to take over. Do you think that if oakland didnt have an independent monitor, chief wendt went again, all of the decisions in this mat
He talks about retirement the president ial race and that beard. Friends, fans and celebrities arrive in louisville for the funeral of mum ahammad. Matt joins live in lul. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. We got a great concert crowd outside. We have carson inside because matts in louisville, couple this morning, where later, tens of thousands of fans, along with a starstudded crowd will say goodbye to the champ, muhammad ali, matt good to see you. Savannah, carson, good to see you guys. I think it will be a sad and inspiring day in louisville a. City by the way that adores muhammad ali. Hes a hometown hero. 15,000 people expected in the center behind me to pay their respects to memorialize the heavyweight champion of the world him i left my hotel room early, walked down the hallway. In front of every hotel room was this, usa todays tribute to ali a. Very moving wa
Tom brokaw talks about retirement, the president ial race and that beard. And goodbye to the greatest. Friends, fans, celebrities arrive in louisville for the funeral of muhammad ali. And matt joins is live with a preview, tonight, june 10th, 2016. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. We have a concert crowd. And carson inside because matts in louisville, kentucky. Later, tens of thousands of fans along with a starstudded crowd will stay goodbye to the champ, mohammeduhammad ali. Good to see you. Good morning. I think it will be a sad and inspiring day in louisville. A city that muhammad ali. Hes a hometown hero. Young center behind me, to pay their respects and memorialize the threetime heavyweight champion of the world. I left my hotel room early. Walked down the hallway. In front of every hotel room in that hallway, was this, usa todays tribute to ali. I have a feeling it will be a very
Thank you for thank you. Thank you for joining us on this special night. Today, my friend, our band leader cleto turns 50 years old. Cleto thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy i met cleto in january of 1977 when my family moved from brooklyn to las vegas. Cleto lived across the street from us. The first time we met i was riding a bike wearing boxing gloves and my mothers sunglasses asun glass and cleto saw me and assumed i was mentally challenged. We began a lifetime of friendship that was highlighted by the kind of torture that you can only inflict on an older brother can inflict on you without being arrested. One time i built im going to share a couple stories about you. Cleto okay. Jimmy i built a go cart out of wood, ham evered nails, put wheels on. Cleto snuck into my garage and glued the Steering Wheel so i couldnt turn the wheel left or right. I went right into traffic. Cleto had a bicycle with a side the side hack. I would get in and cleto would drive me directly