Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and natalie morales. Everybody is watching washington this morning. The u. S. Capitol open for business but for how long . A beautiful shot. Its not so beautiful inside. If you could be a fly on the wall. The big vote coming at 2 00 in the senate today. That will kick things off. A Chain Reaction following that. Well get a lot of perspective on this this morning. Including from bill oreilly. Hes here in our studio this morning. He has a new book called killing jesus. Well talk to him about that as well. That is our top story and its hours away now. Peter alexander has the latest on whats unfolding. Peter, good morning to you. Matt, good morning to you. Anything is possible, but it looks to be an almost uncertainty. That the government will shut down b
Lot of opportunities to travel as well. Not just taiwan, thailand, l. A. , new york. I wonder if she did anything prior to express that she was disgruntled. Was this the final straw or was this just she couldnt be heard . One said she knew she was not happy but this took everybody as surprise. Going viral. There you go. You know shes going to get a job. Do you think she gets hired. I think so. I think in particular because, you know shes got flair. She mentioned something about a comedy career too. She may have been thinking forward. All planned. Because it was very orchestrated. Yeah. She knows what she is doing. Ive never quit anything. Really . Ive never ive never just decided no. I will go down in a ball of flames. I quit a landscaping job once but it wasnt theatrical at all. No video. Nothing. I have quit to move on to other jobs of course. No, third grade, violin, i didnt want to play the violin. Okay. And the teacher went let me quit. I said i really didnt want to play the violi
Tonight. Democratic and republican aids are predicting that much. The senate wont even begin considering the house bill until late this afternoon in what is as much a partisan crisis as a fiscal crisis the country is barrelling toward its first shutdown in 17 years. Its decision day. Congress has until midnight tonight to avoid a Government Shutdown but no one is getting their hopes up. House republicans are refusing to fund the government unless the president s healthcare law is delayed one year. The American People deserve to have time to see what this will do before its implemented. And the house plan is a nonstarter for Senate Democrats or the president who huddled with advisors insisting republicans agree to fund the government without conditions. Dont shut down the government and fail to pay the governments bill with the debt ceiling. Reporter the democratic controlled senate didnt even meet sunday. The halls silent. Instead, theyll wait until this afternoon to reject the house p
Measure. But as many as 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed without pay. Thats right. We have it all covered this morning, the politics of it and the Economic Impact beginning with nbcs kelly odonnell. She is on capitol hill. Kelly, how did it all go down . Matt, what a night. Congress will be back to work today to try to fix this mess but aids in both parties, sources high up, say right now they think this could go on for days, maybe even weeks. And thats because that prediction is because theyre not dealing with money where they could just meet in the middle. Theyre fighting over differences about the future of the health care law. Reporter gridlock in the middle of the night. Should the public be prepared for this to go on for days . Lets hope not. Reporter no solution in site. John boehner left the capitol unable to strike a deal. The house made its decision known quickly. We believe we should fund the government and there should be basic fairness for all americans under oba
Good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and tamron hall who is sitting in for natalie. Actually i think natalie is waiting for the new iphone. I passed it this morning on my bike. 5th avenue . Yeah, crazy stuff. People have been lining up for a day waiting to get in. They are open, but they have not started selling the phones yet. We will have more on that coming up. Also, amanda knox is here for an exclusive interview. She is outside the studio right now. We want to ask a question about the interview. If you were amanda would you return to italy for another trial . You can get into this conversation on our facebook page. Well talk to amanda live in a few minutes. But first, more violence in chicago. 13 people wounded after another mass shooting. One of the victims a 3yearold. John yang is in chicago. John, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. Very violent night overnight in chicago on the south side. 13 pe