A scary moment during a Major League Game as the new york yankees pitcher is hit in the face by a line drive. That hit him. Lets see if hes okay. He walks off the field, and well tell you how hes doing today, tuesday, august 18th, 2015. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Certain moments in sports where you realize how vulnerable the pitcher is. Bryan mitchell, a rookie. Youre right. In the one snanlt at the follow through, that pitcher is exposed. Thats what can happen. Well tell you more on how hes doing. Were going to begin with active Duty Service Members being brought in for First Time Since 2006 to contain these raging wildfires out west. Lets start with Miguel Almaguer live in washington who has the latest. Good morning to you. Savannah, good morning. This wildfire has now torched more than 60,000 acres. More than 40 homes here destroyed. When the smoke clears, that number could rise. Six western states experiencing explosive conditions as here in wash
A scary moment during a Major League Game as a pitcher is hit in the face by a line drive. Lets see if hes okay. He walks off the field. How hes doing today, tuesday, august 18, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. There are certain moment s in sports where you realize how vulnerable the pitcher is those moments after letting it go. Brian mitchell is a rookie and that one instant after the followthrough the pitcher is exposed. Thats what can happen. Well tell you more. Well begin with active Duty Service Members being brought in for the First Time Since 2006 to contain raging wildfires out west. Lets start with Miguel Almaguer in Washington State with the latest. Good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. This fire alone here has charred at least 56,000 acres, some 32 homes destroyed. The number could rise when the smoke here
Bill neely has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, matt. Tragedy with 54 dead, but not the mystery we have seen with other plane crashes in the past year. The two black box flight recorders have been recovered along with all of the bodies. The plane was carrying three babies, two other children, and 49 adults. It took often heavy rain and fog and lost contact. Half an hour later crashing into dense jungle on a mountainside. Me planes that crashed there have never been found. This one was spotted frooam ts, air. Search teams still had to hike for two days to reach it. It was carrying nearly halfee million in cash for local villages. The money not found. The plane totally destroyed. The airline trigana has a deadly safety record. It lost ten planes in 20 years. It is the third deadly air saeter in indonesia in the past year. For peopl ore in this reemote area, planes are the only wayuout. All the dead here indonesian. Matt . Bill ne ely, thank you very much. O t top story in
70s thanks to the winds out of the southeast, that continues as we head through the week, until a cold front finally pressed through, this is what to expect it could drop the most active time period is thursday night into friday morning, i have details on this and what it means for the weekend in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you cecily, in other news, an employee at a school in Chester County has helped to guide people through their path to college and trying to pursue a relationship with a 16yearold student. David henry has the full story. Reporter 40yearold emily feeny worked here at malvern prep for two years, a private school for boys, and the school says they fired her as soon as the allegations became known. Miss feeny do you have a comment about these charges. No comments thank you. She had nothing to say as she turned herself into a Chester County courthouse, she is accused of pursuing a relationship with a 16yearold student and investigators say she sent hundreds of em
And off the field. But tonight chase utley is changing teams. Wednesday night, jim will be along shortly from argentina. Im monica malpass. The big story is it chase utley traded to the l. A. Dodgers just minutes ago. Lets go right to action news sports director Ducis Rodgers for details. The trade went official about 15 minutes ago. Chase utley, one of the best and most popular players in franchise history played his last game in a phillies uniform. He spent 13 seasons here. A sixtime allstar. Here are the details. Utley and cash go to the Los Angeles Dodgers for outfielder Darnell Sweeney and righthanded pitcher john richy, both minor league players. And chase utley had full notrade protection in his contract. And he agreed to the deal, he is from Southern California so this is a move home for him and his family. Hes also going to a team that plays in first place. The dodgers are in first place in the n. L. West. Moments ago chase utley talked about leaving the phillies, going home a