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good morning. i m paige hopkins. it s official, donald trump is now the 2016 presidential nominee. it was donald jr. to announced the delegates putting his dad over the top. it is my honor to be able to throw donald trump over the top in the delegate count tonight with 89 delegates and another six projected. congratulations, dad, we love you! donald trump addressed the convention again this time via satellite thanking supporters and vowing to win in november. his adult children also took the stage to humanize their father with the strongest speech of the night. if you do what you love, hold nothing back and never let fear or failure get in the way then you pretty much figured out the trump formula. i know when people tell him it can t be done it guarantees that he gets it done. i know when someone tells him something is impossible that s what triggers him into action and this same week that man will stand before you as our party s nominee for the president of th ....
officer. floyd ray cooke had been on the run nearly a week. overnight authorities found cook while searching near a residence just off a kentucky highway. he was armed with a handgun and a shoot out occurred with kentucky state police and a u.s. marshal. cook was wounded and pronounced dead at the scene not. officers injured. also a budget deal will fund the government through 2017 and also suspends the debt ceiling until march 2017. that bill passed with 18 republicans joining all democrats in voting yes. the house passed their version on wednesday as part of outgoing house speaker boehner s effort to clean out the barn for incoming speaker paul ryan. the bill now goes to obama s desk for his senior. and this morning, jeb bush and marco rubio are going in opposite directions. bush is dealing with the fallout from a disappointing debate where his attack on rubio was a big swing and miss. and voters are taking notice. nbc tracked him down yesterday. a conference ca ....
like before you got to the gate. well, thank you. early today starts right now. announcer: this is early today for wednesday, november 20th. good morning. i m paige hopkins. breaking news overnight, a leer jet crashes off the coast of florida, killing at least two people. it happened three miles off the coast of ft. lauderdale late tuesday. four people were on board, including two pilots. two bodies have been recovered. the coast guard found the wreckage 45 minutes after the initial report. officials say a preliminary indication is that it was a medical flight. obviously, this is an active and ongoing search and rescue, and we would like to extend our thoughts and prayers and condolences to the families of those lost. the men and women out there from all the responding agencies are doing their best to try and find any survivors in the water. the jet took off from ft. lauderdale airport on its way to cozumel, mexico. it s also registered in mexico, but it ....
early today starts right now. good morning. i m paige hopkins. finally relief on the way. 21 people have died as the polar vortex blanketed the u.s. shadowing the record books with record temperatures. it was below freezing somewhere in each of the 50 states tuesday, yes even in hawaii. an estimated 190 million people faced the icy blast head on. so did pets. it s a reminder to not leave them outside. this guy peanut was frozen to the ground in mississippi when it reached-4 this week. he s okay now. the record cold even made the small town of hell, michigan froze over. sara has more. reporter: the view from above captures it perfectly, a chicago city frozen in place. in minnesota a car off the bridge, the driver walk ago way from minor injuries. many put are long hours to bring power back to life. all 50 states recorded freezing temperatures at some point tuesday. an unlucky few recorded negative temperatures. a continued cold meant a continued travel might marr ....
good morning, pooim i m paige hopkins. moments ago a huge loud explosion rocked the westgate fourth day in that hostage situation. officials say they re looking into a claim by kenya s foreign minister that, quote, two or thrown americans are among the attackers, but they say they have no definitive evidence. kenya forces battled al shabaab overnight. the siege has left 60 dead and 200 injured, including americans. the kenyan government says on twitter it s now in charge of the mall, but a.p. is reporting that al shabaab is tweeting that its militants are, quote, still holding their ground. so it s not clear how many hostages, if any, were treed. smoke rose from the complex well into the night. the kenyan government says more than ten suspects are arrested for questioning, and kenya s president is expected to address the nation today. back here at home, will they or won t they? it s a day of high stakes the the united nations. all eyes are on whether president obama wil ....