Swim faster. A young swimmer chased by a crocodile. Just in the nick of time, an onlooker saves the day today, august 15th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Im matt lauer along with natalie and craig and dylan. We will get to talk to savannah coming up in the next half hour and learn a bit more about baby vale and the cheeks that have stolen the worlds hearts. I could watch the pictures all day long. Lets start with breaking news from missouri. The Ferguson Police chief holding a News Conference moments ago to name the officer who fatally shot Michael Brown. This comes days after security was handed over to the Missouri State patrol. Lets get to ron allen in ferguson. Reporter matt, good morning. The Ferguson Police department has been under pressure to release the name and make the investigation as open as possible. They have been resisting claiming they we
electoral votes since 1984 to the republican nominee. it is time we change that. and a laugh a minute. snl s take on joe biden and paul ryan. first of all, i want to thank centre college for hosting us this evening. oh, boy, here we go. oh, man. four years ago president obama made a promise. that he would bring down unemployment below 6%. oh, this guy. i mean good day, i m andrea mitchell live in washington. tomorrow night s debate could be another turning point. mitt romney will try to extend the gains that he has made since his first debate in denver. the president hopes to recover from a lackluster performance. and joining me now, msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. hey, chris, thanks so much. let s talk about the race. let s talk about the polls. let s talk about debate prep. the challenges for each. you ve got a town hall format, and already today you ve got a little bit of trying to work the ref with word from our friend mark halpe
it is time we change that. and a laugh a minute. snl s take on joe biden and paul ryan. first of all, i want to thank centre college for hosting us this evening. oh, boy, here we go. oh, man. four years ago president obama made a promise. that he would bring down unemployment below 6%. oh, this guy. i mean good day, i m andrea mitchell live in washington. tomorrow night s debate could be another turning point. mitt romney will try to extend the gains that he has made since his first debate in denver. the president hopes to recover from a lackluster performance. and joining me now, msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. hey, chris, thanks so much. let s talk about the race. let s talk about the polls. let s talk about debate prep. the challenges for each. you ve got a town hall format, and already today you ve got a little bit of trying to work the ref with word from our friend mark halperin that lawyers for both campaigns have signed a memo
important news to report right no now. a second win for rick santorum tonight. cnn projects rick santorum the winner of the oklahoma primary he needed this win, he got this win. rick santorum, the former oppose senator getting his second win of the night. earlier, won tennessee. oklahoma, and important state, 40 delegates at stake. rick santorum the winner. let s show you the votes in oklahoma right now, how we made this projection, based on exit poll results, rick santorum out of the exit poll. now, we have 15% of the official vote in, santorum with 34%, 18,594. 27% for romney, also 27% for gingrich, a close contest for second place in oklahoma right now with 15%, now 16% of the vote in. ron paul coming in third. but rick santorum, we project is the winner, is the winner in oklahoma. earlier, we projected he s the winner in tennessee. ohio is still very very close. we have not been able to make a projection. look how close it is with 20% of the vote in ohio in right now. 3
diverted here at 258 by police. so let me go ahead and show you where it is on a map and what you can do northbound side. go ahead and take route 2 as your alternate route. make your way around to central avenue and on the southbound side, it s going to be route 301 that you re going to need to use again. route 4 is closed at route 258. another problem on the northbound side of 95. this one is in triangle. it s been a disabled tractor- trailer. i would say for almost an hour it s been sitting there along the right side of the roadway. look at that delay on the northbound side of 95 trying to get into triangle and crews there tell us it s going to be about another half an hour before they can clear that one up. over to 66. two separate accidents west and east of route 123. multiple vehicles involved in both of those accidents. crews are just arriving on the scene. we ll go ahead and take a look at the delay on the inbound side of 66 trying to get to route 123. at least you hav