Other protests are planned today including a plan to shut down including a plan to shut down the Federal Building in oakland. The Oakland City Council recessed nearly after protesters showed up outside city hall. Leaders debated whether to stop the meeting and call for police. The meeting if my opinion needs to be recessed. If you can grow on a time certain, but our first obligation is Public Safety and make sure you who are in here are safe and can leave safely. They considered it but the protesters moved on and the City Council Meeting continued. When protesters shut down interstate 80 on monday, a passenger was inconvenienced. A bay area woman went into labor while trapped in the traffic. She spoke to us about the ordeal and we will have the story in ten minutes. We are reporting all week on the issue of race and justice in america. George stephanopolis will moderate a townhall session on facebook and watch for reports on Good Morning America and world news tonight. The massive stor
two years later, a surgery has given this courageous woman a new face and we ll see it for the first time today, thursday, august 11, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m ann curry. i m matt lauer. for the last three days, the dow has either closed up or down by more than 400 points. it s been incredible. things are mostly bearish right now over the last 14 trading days. the dow has lost more than 2,000 points and that is nearly 16% of its value. and on wednesday s plunge, it was fueled by concerns over banks both here in the u.s. and in europe. so we re going to get the latest on this story straight ahead, matt. also ahead, the latest on the search for a maryland woman. she vanished more than a week ago. the fbi is joining the investigation. the police have a suspect in custody. we re going to talk to that missing woman s boyfriend about the cryptic facebook message he received from her shortly befor
blind and badly disfigured. two years later, a surgery has given this courageous woman a new face and we ll see it for the first time today, thursday, august 11, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m ann curry. i m matt lauer. for the last three days, the dow has either closed up or down by more than 400 points. it s been incredible. things are mostly bearish right now over the last 14 trading days. the dow has lost more than 2,000 points and that is nearly 16% of its value. and on wednesday s plunge, it was fueled by concerns over banks both here in the u.s. and in europe. so we re going to get the latest on this story straight ahead, matt. also ahead, the latest on the search for a maryland woman. she vanished more than a week ago. the fbi is joining the investigation. the police have a suspect in custody. we re going to talk to that missing woman s boyfriend about the cryptic facebook message he rec