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400-pound menaces, frightening children, too afraid to leave their homes. efforts intensifying now to pen them in. that is just we ll get to the breaking swine news in just a moment. but we also want to tell you, coming up on the broadcast this morning, check this out. the latest stunt from our own in-house daredevil, ginger zee. this time, she s hitting the waves. you struggled a little bit on this one. a little is an understatement for sure. it was horrible. i was horrible. she s great. wait until you see her. she s just such a phenom. and you gotta wait. i find it hard to believe that ginger is horrible at anything. i agree. bravo for doing it. we re going to see that coming up. we ll see that in the second half hour. we re going to start with the big news out of the white house on two major fronts. first, the president in the middle of a historymaking phone call. the first high-level contact with iran since 1979. and second, the president holding ....
2013. announcer: this is today. with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plas plaza. good morning everyone. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m erica hill alongside dylan dreyer and craig hill in this morning. jeb corliss attempt to go fly through two peaks in china. about the length of two football fields, twas a 40-foot gap here? i think 25 feet. the lowest point 15 feet wide, the highest is 60.5 feet wide, the highest is 60. the tough part for him he had to maintain this perfect position for 20 to 30 seconds. his last jumps were maybe one to and this is a simulation and made it only 50% of the time. he hit the wrong position. those are great ops going in. not a lot of room for error. not too much. i sky dived once, twice, just had to hold this position for 30 seconds and that was impossible. i don t know how you steer between pieces of rock. we re going to hear from him about this incredibl ....
contributor, robert gibbs, senior political editor and white house correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein. and senior national correspondent for bloomberg business week, josh green. we ll get right to the news. does anyone want to crystallize what s been going down on the past 24 hours? not exactly crystallizable. it s confusing. i think it s now republicans self-destruct. i don t know what the word chaos is the industry here. that s what we ve been seeing all the time. this is different. special chaos. seasonal chaos. for breakfast every morning. it s not special word, it s chaos part 7. we ll let the story speak for itself. there are just three days before the threat of the federal government shutting down becomes a reality. later today, the senate will begin voting on a bill to fund the government. majority leader, harry reid will then look to amend the bill, stripping of it any language to defund obama care. after today s vote, the bill ....
public debt. the senate reacted and acted very responsibly. on two procedural votes, we got over 75 votes. on final passage, we got a majority. it was now the time is for the house to act. the house has to understand that playing ping pong politics only pings, it does not get to bottom line. we asked them to accept what we sent over so we could get into the real issues of what is fiscal 14 going to look like and how can we reduce public debt by $100 billion a year, do it in a balanced way and be able to keep our economy going, your government functioning and american people really at work. capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell is standing by and we re listening to maryland senator barbara mikulski, what s the next step? whats senate has been able to do with the democratic majority is critical in trying to keep the government open. they were able to keep enough votes to end the debate and put off the ted cruz effort to block this. republicans got 19 votes, nowh ....
check. but the suit seeks a 90-day hold on things. and higher resource officers and fill critical law enforcement position, award money will be granted based on fiscal needs, local crime rate and policing plans. and shattering 32 years of silence and caused a ruck cuss around the world. it was between the president of the united states and the president of iran. here s 11 news kai reed with that story. the call lasted for 15 minutes. president obama called the iranian president at 2:30 p.m. are hanny was in new york and president obama was in the white house. we discussed our ongoing efforts to reach an agreement over iran s nuclear agreement. i reiterated to the president what i said in new york although there will surely be important obs colts moving forward and success is by no means guaranteed, i believe we can reach comprehensive solution. they say it was sparked bay productive meeting between secretary of state kerry and iran s foreign minister. we i ....