2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning everyone. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i am carl along with al roebgroebg and nationally morales. matt has the morning off. good to see you carl. we are going to start with syria this morning. pretty disturbing reports coming out of that country. richard engle is there. i know you have been talking to representatives from the rebel group there. what are you hearing about an alleged gas attack by the government? reporter: good morning, savannah. if this is confirmed it would be one of the worst atrocities of the war in syria. rebels tell us, there was a series of chemical weapons attack this morning starting around 2:00 a.m. at least 10 different towns and villages to the east and north of damascus were hit by surface to surface rockets fired by the regime and they were tipped with chemical wea
[rattling] 3 women murdered inside a gated community in southeastern new mexico in the last 2 months. all 3 inside. marjorie west was strangled in her home in the middle of the night while her family was out of town. they found her the next morning. jill long was strangled in the laundry room while her husband and sons were camping in the backyard. and last night, aubrey jacobs was killed in her home office while her daughter and husband were asleep in the house. occupied dwellings is as high-risk as it gets. and he s fearless. proximity, the chance he might get caught that could be part of it for him. you said gated community. i m assuming that means security? a small security staff and perimeter cameras. everything s recorded 24-7, and no one has entered or left the compound since last night except residents. it looks like the unsub is part of the community. the local detective says that demographics, general makeup, and socioeconomic status of the residents is essentially
years. the defense had asked for 25 years. and the maximum sentence would have been 90. some are already looking at this as somewhat of a win for bradley manning and his defense team. now, the judge had already ordered, prior to the sentence, that he would be given credit for the 3 1/2 years he has already spent in custody, so that already reduces the sentence. and so at the a little over ten years, he would be eligible for parole. that is a big wild card because who knows what the sense of bradley manning s offenses and how that is looked upon by any kind of military parole board. given the fact he faced a maximum of 90 years in prison, some are looking at this as somewhat of a win for manning and his defense team. mick, so if i understand this correctly if that three and a half years goes towards time served, does the clock start ticking now 6 1/2 years before manning could be out if all appeals fail? absolutely. the clock does start ticking because the sentence start
where it happened and why. today, thursday, august 22nd, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. i m savannah guthrie. and i m matt lauer. i m alongside al roker and natalie morales. you re on the cell phone at the beach and saying, wait a second there s a military hovercraft, you re probably going to get told to lay off the beer and get into the shade. exactly. it s to say the least unexpected. people were wondering what the heck is that about. we ll tell you about it in a few moments. we have a lot of news to get to. we re hearing for the first time, the 911 calls from that brave bookkeeper who talked the gunman into giving up, this as students return to the school for the first time since the incident. today we ll be there live. let s begin with 16-year-old hannah anderson talking for the first time since her kidnapping ordeal, as she prepares to bur
joining me today, correspondent for the guardian anna marie cox and former director of speech writing for the president i can t get the words out, i m so excited, columnist for the daily beast and co-founder of fenway strategies, jon favreau and washington post columnist and msnbc political columnist eugene robinson. joining us now is chuck todd who is also, of course, host of msnbc s the daily rundown. before we get into the actual policy here, i want to talk about the sort of bird s-eye view as far as what the president is doing on this great middle class tour if you will. to me it seems like he s trying to build up as much political capital as possible before he gets back to washington. what do you think he s trying to do? i think he s trying to talk about what people around kitchen tables are talking about, right? this has been the great disconnect of washington, sometimes it s a trap that the obama white house falls into. i m sure favreau will maybe even cop to