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administration is showing about the values that are important to the people of america. he will be doing some more campaigning in iowa later today. and, you know, he told reporters out there when he arrived on the ground that he s akccustomed to doing this kind of politicicing, kyra. after all, he won three elections down in texas as governor there. he went to a lot of small towns and will be doing the same thing in iowa. look out, michele bachmann. she spent the last several weeks, trying to knock tim pawlenty out of the race. now she has rick perry to worry about. kyra? watching closely, jim. thank you very much. as jim just mentioned, there s a new energy and new momentum in michele bachmann s campaign, riding high after narrowly beating ron paul in the iowa straw ballot. issue after issue after issue, i ve been at the tip of the spear and i ve been a champion for people on these issues. i ve been the fighter. people want to know, who can we trust? who can we b ....
we ll get a little break in the humidity. we re talking mostly cloudy. also a coastal flood advisory and showers and thunderstorms into the course of the afternoon. 84 degrees our daytime high, a northerly wind flow and the weather sticking around a little bit because the system is off the coast. we do have some improvement. show you later in my five-day forecast. back to you. thanks, and we look forward to that. we start this morning with an alert, a big problem for metro rail riders. yeah. some flooding on the tracks near the braddock road station is affecting service on the blue and yellow line. back understand all morning. bob barnard is live on the scene with the latest. good morning, bob. things are getting a little pert just because of the volume diminishing here. this is the braddock road station. there are some people still here, dozens, not hundreds like we saw earlier, and metro just sent a test train, an empty train north from braddock road going throu ....
trap. there are now at least five people dead after saturday s tragic concert stage collapse at the indiana state fair. officials plan to reopen the fair today with a public memorial service. nbc is at the fairground in indianapolis. good morning, wendy. good morning to you. it s a somber day here at the indiana state fair grounds. as you mentioned a short service is scheduled here to remember those five people who lost their lives so unexpectedly. concert goers worst nightmare turned to reality in just seconds. just minutes after the announcer warned that severe weather was possible, a gust of wind, between 60 and 70 miles per hour, took the massive scaffolding crashing into the crowd. it came down, and i saw people running, and the next thing i know, there was people on me trying to get out. oh, my gosh. i was scared. reporter: chris lost sight of his son and wife in the kayous. and then the winds picked up stage blew over and i took off down there to se ....
people dead after saturday s tragic concert stage collapse at the indiana state fair. officials plan to reopen the fair today with a public memorial service. nbc is at the fairground in indianapolis. good morning, wendy. good morning to you. it s a somber day here at the indiana state fair grounds. as you mentioned a short service is scheduled here to remember those five people who lost their lives so unexpectedly. concert goers worst nightmare turned to reality in just seconds. just minutes after the announcer warned that severe weather was possible, a gust of wind, between 60 and 70 miles per hour, took the massive scaffolding crashing into the crowd. it came down, and i saw people running, and the next thing i know, there was people on me trying to get out. oh, my gosh. i was scared. reporter: chris lost sight of his son and wife in the kayous. and then the winds picked up stage blew over and i took off down t to see if i could help. the individual wh ....
dirt to stay warm to make it through a freezing night lost in the utah wilderness. we ll talk to him, today, monday, august 15th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on this monday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m david gregory. matt has the morning off. ann is on assignment in africa. we ll check in with her in just a bit. we were just delivering newspapers this morning and they said why don t you fill in? here we are. we re standing around. you are just back from ames, iowa, where this big straw poll was held this weekend. michele bachmann seems to be the front-runner, at least in iowa. at least in iowa. an interesting look at the field. she now looks big on that momentum. another gop favorite, rick perry officially jumping into the race over the weekend. bachmann has little to celebrate with him now in the race. they both spoke at the same fund-raiser last night as the republican field has a new top tier ....