rapidly closing. breaking overnight, manhunt. a prison worker dead, an inmate on the loose in tennessee. residents on edge. very scary. we are latest with the desperate search to find the dangerous convict. all that plus severe weather outbreak, including a tornado near new york city and the new threat al is tracking today. fighting back he had one job and couldn t protect us. simone biles blasts u.s.a. gymnastics in a new interview. the challenge she says she still faces every day. way too close. the alarming video of a man petting a bison which has park rangers warning the public, hands off. today is august 8, 2019. announcer: from nbc news this is today with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hi, everybody, good morning. nice to have you with us on a thursday morning we want to get right to our top story. what we learned about the red flag raised weeks ago to polic by the mother of the el paso gunman while famili
john marszalek taught courses on the civil war, america and the race reactions. he joined the faculty at mississippi state in 1973. during his time at mississippi state he also served as director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as executive director and managing editor of the you grant papers. he s the author of he received the richard wright literary award for lifetime achievement by a mississippi author. and the mississippi historical society presented him its highest award, the blc whales award for national distinction and history. he s currently working on a book of the myth aelg surrounding robert e. lee. today he ll be sharing with us some of his more recent work. dr. marszalek. i thought i was dead. she took my notes. what was i going to do. well, thank you for all being here so early on a saturday morning. this is great. i m going to talk to you about and imagine scheduling a talk on henry halleck this early in the morning. it was quite a while ago ac
state he also served as director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as executive director and managing editor of the you grant papers. he s the author of he received the richard wright literary award for lifetime achievement by a mississippi author. and the mississippi historical society presented him its highest award, the blc whales award for national distinction and history. he s currently working on a book of the myth aelg surrounding robert e. lee. today he ll be sharing with us some of his more recent work. dr. marszalek. i thought i was dead. she took my notes. what was i going to do. well, thank you for all being here so early on a saturday morning. this is great. i m going to talk to you about and imagine scheduling a talk on henry halleck this early in the morning. it was quite a while ago actually the book came out. and i had gone to a meeting actually at one of these history conventions and exchanged the usual pleasantries with people, and then you get
and towns all across the northeast. it is no longer a hurricane, but it is a disaster. take a look at this brand new video as the roof of a shed is completely ripped away. this was during the height of the storm as it barreled into point pleasant beach, new jersey. that s one of the many spots along the jersey shore waking up to a mess this morning. first, more amazing video. from water the fire, 50 homes are destroyed as flames tore through breezy point section of new york city. firefighters were unable to use water from hydrants so they had to get water out of the ocean. serious damage in rhode island where the wind and waves destroyed homes and washed out streets. let s go back to new jersey, two dozen evacuees were forced to flee emergency shelters in atlantic city after the power failed. sandy made landfall in atlantic city just after 8 clox p.m. last night. here is heavy flooding, it was all across the resort town. a 50-foot section of the boardwalk was completely los
don t trust the president to go out and negotiate an agreement on behalf of the american people without us getting an opportunity to see what is in the bill. if we don t pass tpa, then the president can go negotiate trade agreements and police them upon congress with a moments notice. let me give you an example. paul ryan was talked about the broad debate about the nuclear arms agreement with iran. if you have tpa-like restrictions in restricting his agreements with iran, then it would have to sit publicly for 60 days before it would get an up or down vote in congress. the american people would have 60 days to examine the agreement, congress would have the ability to veto the agreement. we don t have those provisions and so the president now can go negotiate this agreement and frankly foist it upon congress. if we want to make sure that there is transparency if we want to make sure we can hold the president accountable in negotiating these kind of agreements we have to pass t