happened. i just want everye to know the truth. > and free falling. lieve it or not, this musician emerges un-st.atharines unscathed after a rrifying stage dive from three stories the ai that story and more today tuesday, nember 19th, 2013. announcer: frombc news, this is today with matt lauer and sannah guthrie, live from stio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a esday moing. i m savannah guthrie. i m mt lauer along side natalie morales d al roker. wow. we were with mor rob ford of toronto a couple of hours after the cityouncil there stripped him of his staffmost of his budget a most of his power. if you think he s backing down he s gearing up r a long fight. he told you he s t going anywhere. o, he is waiting andunning for re-electn. he is vowing to sticaround. that s the top story this mornin for two weeks now, mayor ford has been under fire after his admied use of crack cocae. during that chaotic meetin heaven almost knocked over
grow and once that happened and people started raising grain and became highly dependent upon the green and dependent on the city living, pretty soon we were domesticated just like all livestock in some ways. spend this weekend exploring montana s state capital as booktv in american history tv look at the history and literary life. coming up next, kay bailey hutchison answered questions after her author s presentation at the 2013 national book festival. you can watch this half-hour program coming up next c-span2. joining us on our set is senator kay bailey hutchison. you started your talk by describing the women in the 19th century they came to texas as genteel southern women and a lot of people think of them as a rough-and-tumble place. do they remember gentlewomen? of course they had to adapt because it was hard. but i think that they brought the gentility and they wanted to make sure that they had eight quality of life. and they had refined backgrounds that they
being lady like does not require silence. why should my husband s job or yours prevent us from being ourselves? i do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. [applause] betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment. she and gerald ford openly discussed her experience with breast cancer. for much of her family s public life she struggled with alcohol and drug dependency and confronting it defined her post white house years. welcome to first ladies influence and image. tonight we ll tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of president gerald ford. here to tell her story is richard norton smith. you know him, he s one of our academic advisors for the whole project. he s helped launch a number of presidential libraries among them the gerald r. ford library in michigan. you developed a relationship with the fords so you bring that to the table. sure. i try to be as objective as possible. but
friday, january 17th, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today. with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a friday morning. i m savannah guthrie. and i m carson daly alongside al roker, natalie morales. matt has the morning off. you have a problem with the new 50? i think 60 is the new 50. i m glad we have something to look forward to. it s far off in the distance. oh. very far. coming for you. before we know it. well, let s get right to our top story this morning, the dangerous wildfire in california that s damaged or destroyed two dozen buildings and forced some 3,700 people to evacuate. this morning, nearly 700 firefighters are working to contain those flames. let s get to nbc s miguel almaguer, who is in irwindale, east of los angeles. miguel, good morning to you. reporter: savannah, good morning. fire season here in southern california is year round,
i m not saying that it just exists in the south. i know it exist everywhere. yes come you can still see signs of it. you have inserted in your book no alabama. what is that? it is my fourth-grade alabama history textbook. i remember. i was about nine or 10 years old. it was the way they pertain to civil war and the antebellum period. when i was fully adult i came upon that book in the represented section of the public library in tuscaloosa. i was stunned to see how racist language was and how appalling it is for the institution of slavery. the negro, mammy, comes ringing a great tray of food. you have known her all your life and love her very much is here is the book, darkroom: a memoir in black and white , lila quintero weaver is the author. the university of alabama is the publisher. you write that you were surprised to see african-americans when he first arrived in alabama. yes, because argentina, it is where i was in the first years of my life where i was raise