Million hits in less than two days. And the guys behind it have brought their terrifying baby to our studio today, thursday, january 16th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on an oscar morning. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Good morning, im Savannah Guthrie. Congratulations on your nomination. Matt lauer alongside al roker and natalie morales. One of the other stories well be talking about is an advancing of the story we brought you yesterday. This is great. Its touching people around the world. A sister letting her twin take her spot on team usa headed to sochi for the olympics. And tracy and lanny barnes are both with us live to talk about what really is a remarkable sacrifice. Right to todays top story, the biggest cheating scandal in air force history. This is tied to officers who work every day with Nuclear Missiles. And the key tests they must pass to hold their jobs. N
0 brian is off today and tomorrow. clay is in today. and a big day. bombshell story this morning. after long denying, we thought back to the benghazi scandal and the administration denying any sort of connection to al qaeda originally, but a bipartisan benghazi report that came out yesterday, we re finding that they re noting the attackers were connected to al qaeda, that the american lives could have actually been saved and prevented by additional security. but the question everyone s asking is within that report, though they do mention the state department, i believe hillary clinton s name is mentioned, what, once? her name is mentioned one time in the appendix, and it is mentioned by the republican members of the senate select committee on intelligence. what s interesting is those four guys who died didn t have to die because, according to this report, it blames the department of state and the intel community for not preventing a number of times, they in benghazi asked for mor