2013. 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 wednesday morning. Im 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 weapons. The death toll acc
Westbound lanes. That is traffic. Back to you. New this morning, protestors arrested at San Francisco city hall. They went there to demand a meeting with mayor lee over the accreditation problem with the city college of San Francisco. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec is in San Francisco now where Police Arrested the protestors after several hours. Anne, good morning. Reporter a couple of dozen people were arrested protestors camped out at San Francisco city hall even though they got arrested they say they will continue to fight. They were demanding to meet with the mayor to urge him to fight against the loss of accreditation against the city college of San Francisco and to outst the newly imposed leadership of the new college who protestors say isnt doing enough to save the school. Students are prepared to build a Stronger Movement on campus. This is part of that. This movement isnt over. Its going to continue long into the semester and perhaps into next year if necessary. Reporter arresta
Special correspondent john tulenko reports on their debate. A basic truth in teaching is that you start with what your students know, whether thats spanish, german, polish, and you build on that. Happy birthday, tata happy birthday, tata brown and former South African president Nelson Mandela turned 95 years old today. We have the story of celebrations and tributes in his homeland and around the world. Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown much of the public remains skeptical or unaware
Special correspondent john tulenko reports on their debate. A basic truth in teaching is that you start with what your students know, whether thats spanish, german, polish, and you build on that. Happy birthday, tata happy birthday, tata brown and former South African president Nelson Mandela turned 95 years old today. We have the story of celebrations and tributes in his homeland and around the world. Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown much of the public remains skeptical or unaware
Convicted on six espionage counts. We have more on the verdict. Reporter a military judge found Army Private First class Bradley Manning not guilty of adding the enemy in the biggest leak of classified information in u. S. History. That was the most serious charge that could have put him in prison for life. But the judge did find the 25 yearold guilty of lesser charges including espionage, theft and computer fraud. Manning faced a courtmartial for leaking more than 700,000 classified documents to the website wikileaks. He has admitted leaking the information. During the nearly 2 month trial prosecutors called manning a traitor. They say while he was a low ranking Intelligence Analyst in baghdad he handed over state department cables, iraq and afghanistan battlefield reports, and videos among other materials. Wikileaks released some of the Information Online in 2010 including footage of the 2007 u. S. Apache helicopter attack in baghdad that killed at least 9 men. The defense argued man