Passenger plane to make a risky landing in the middle of a corn field. The split second decision by the pilot that saved hundreds of lives. All that, plus free fall. The markets post their worst drop all year as worries about a recession get real, and trumps trade war has no end in sight. On the same team. I think we passed craigs there as jayz and nfl commissioner Roger Goodell make their first joint appearance. And modern family, two male penguins and the adorable adoption story making headlines all around the world, thursday, august 15th, 2019. News this announcer from nbc news this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning, welcome to today on a thursday morning. Nice to have you with us, real overnight developments in that terrifying situation in philadelphia. Its ended. Theres been a surrender of the gunman who opened fire on police in philly ending a tense standoff and a hostage situation that gripped the
Morning, isolated showers. Look as we get into the afternoon. Between noon and 2 00 p. M. , we start to see steadier rain across the region. And this keeps going. Well talk more about how much rain youll see in your neighborhood coming up in just a few minutes. We have breaking news this morning. An and shooting outside the correctional facility in northeast philadelphia. Randy you got an update about the guard injured during the incident. Tell us about it. Reporter yeah. We just learned that the corrections officer is now out of the hospital after being injured in this assault. His car nearly stolen in the parking lot here of the correctional facility. This is the facility in northeast philadelphia. An inmate who was just released minutes earlier decided to rob and assault the guard just getting out of work. We were over the scene last night around 11 00. Police say the newly released prisoner being held on a probation and weapons violations attempted to steal the car of the offduty o
Violated her. Matt delucia is live at the courthouse in norristown. Tell us more about the testimony from constand. Reporter Andrea Constand will be back on the witness stand today testifying. The defense will continue questioning her and also her mother. Yesterday was Andrea Constands first public appearance, testifying as the prosecutions key witness. She testified for more than 90 minutes yesterday, answering questions, designing her interactions with bill cosby, how it started as a professional relationship that evolved into a friendship. Constand said cosby made unwanted advances, eventually drugging and assaulting her in 2004. She spoke about that visit to cosbys elkins park home. She wanted to talk about her future with the temple Womens Basketball team. And that cosby gave her three blue pills. He started grabbing her. She was incapacitated and woke up the next morning and left. She testified at the time she didnt want top stir up trouble and cause retaliation. Cosbys lawyers t
Temperatures 54 in philadelphia and 52 in Atlantic City. Millville, you are at 53. Allentown at 52. Well get into the 60s later today, but thats it. Well track the numbers for today and the big warmup for your weekend coming up. Right now, well go to traffic with jessica boyington. Thanks. Were watching the schuylkill expressway right now. Watching Police Activity, as well. Theres a crash on the eastbound side around Spring Garden street. You see traffic at a crawl. Theres Police Activity and flashing lights to the lefthand lane which unfortunately is going to cause big delays moving through center city now, especially trying to get the accident scene over off into the shoulder. Traffic slow approaching the eastbound point. The 42 freeway looks great, around the cameras at route 41, the northbound side here. Thats whats moving toward philadelphia. The southbound side, maybe heading down the shore this morning, we look good there, as well. Also watching the bailout, well end on the blue
Belongs. And third, it fixes the constitutional due process issue by removing the hearing from the v. A. To the judicial system. And the last thing i will note is something that i wholeheartedly agree with senator durbin on. He said yesterday quote we need to find a reasonable way to identify those suffering from serious Mental Illness who would be a danger to themselves or families and others and to sort out those that dont fit in that category. Well, senator durbin, i have made clear my amendment does exactly that. Thats why, then, are the democrats refusing to fix this problem if they admit the problem exists. This is an outrage. We all know that veterans are being treated unfairly. My amendment fixes the problem, yet democrats object. What is dangerous is that democrats are allowing veterans to be subjected to a process that casts their Second Amendment rights aside. All of this smells of hypocrisy. For months the democrats and their allies have been attacking me and the republican