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there. a major escalation in an already tense conflict. we re live at the pentagon. those stories plus dangerous weather for people coast-to-coast. acinderella story at the u.s. open. a change at the u.s. open. and the twins have arrived. will we hear from pop star beyonce today? monday, june 19th, 2017. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everybody. welcome to today. so glad to have you with us on a monday morning. we have willie in for matt this morning. we have a lot happening in your world right now. that s right. we re going to start with the breaking news out of london. a van slamming into people outside a mosque. the city s mayor calling this a horrific terrorist attack. we ve got complete coverage this morning. let s start with bill neely at the scene for us. bill, good morning. what happened? reporter: good morning, savannah. this is britain s fourt ....
lydia: and we begin with breaking news right now. the battle to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from isis control has begun. iraq s prime minister made the televised statement tonight. the fight is expected to last the u.s. is playing a supporting role. recently announcing the deployment of 600 additional troops to help with the city s capture. his name was sunny. that s the best name i could think of for him. the city is going to be a little less bright because he s gone from me. lydia: back at home, heartbroken family mourn it is teen shot and killed at a robbery at a mr. hero s restaurant in cleveland heights. good evening, i m lydia esparra. ready to say final farewells to 15-year-old at services tomorrow. shanice dunning spent the evening with the teen s family. just a horrible story, shanice. reporter: really tough story. sunny patel s family told me he was planning on watching the indians game with friends, but instead he chose to help his family with the m ....
all become an inside game. the rich get richer, the poor get poorer the powerful take more power, wall street rocks and rolls. and even when they re caught lying and cheating and stealing and running our entire economy with a ponzi scheme that s so big even bernie madoff wouldn t have the spine to try it, nobody goes to jail. everybody gets a pass, nothing changes, and the business of politics as usual goes on. they give speeches. they know aren t true. they sign bills they don t read. and when the law blows up in their faces they give themselves another pass. and the media, they re in on the con, the gravy train. today, you ask americans, they ll tell you they don t trust the media. where can you find anyone who still believes the media? folks, brian williams isn t the exception. he s exactly what they ve taught us to expect from them. . it s not journalism anymore, it s entertainment. it s celebrity, it s agendas and it s money. and all too often now, a lie is an acce ....
he took a book, my book yeah. i had no choice but he picked yours. i selected page number 96. he asked you to pick a page. any page. and you out of the blue said he was flipping and said just say stop and i stopped on the page and it was 96. okay. and then he said read the first word on the page and i opened it and it said sucking so i said the word is sucking. the first word on page 96. meantime, before that he handed kathie lee an envelope and sealed it and asked her to sit on it. which i was happy to do. of course you were. there it was 96, sucking. shut the book. then he asked her to pick a $1 bill out of a series of bills and he said read the serial number of the bill. then he said hand the envelope over. the same envelope she had been sitting on. watch what happened don t watch what happened. we ll tell you. it s better when we tell you. so he snipped the envelope open and do you know what this came out of the envelope. the word sucking ....