Hundreds turn out to remember an el paso shooting victim who died with no family other than her heartbroken husband, a plea of social media leading people from far and wide to come together to honor her memory. All that, plus, dale jr. s miracle survival. There was fire all over the place. Newly released 911 call shows how close the nascar legend and his family came to losing their lives in that terrifying plane crash. A bolt of lightning strikes just next to a High School Guidance counselor in south carolina. And remembering hollywood royalty, fans everywhere honoring the life and career of easy rider star peter fonda, today august 17th, 2019. From nbc news this is today from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, and welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. The loss of a hollywood legend part of hollywood royalty. Peter fonda, a lot of people thinking about him and that famous fonda family today. A major new twist in the investigation into the death
Court. His team is making highstakes arguments trying to get the documents case thrown out. The change in the plans for the judge and what clues it may give us. The highest ranking official in the senate, Chuck Schumer calling for elections in israel to replace the Prime Minister. What it could mean for u. S. Israeli Relations and the war in gaza. And a small city in oklahoma elected a White Nationalist into office. Now, it faces the question of whether it will be able to vote him out. This hour well take you inside that recall effort. We start in a florida courtroom, where judge Aileen Cannon has heard arguments to get the case dismissed. They cited no precedent for a former president. The Special Counsels response, quote theres never been a situation remotely close to this one. A second motion will be argued today, that the president has virtually unreviewable authority to designate president atrecords as personal, and stash them in unlocked rooms at maralago. I took them very legall
for electric vehicles. that s any minute now. we ll bring it to you live. the president also putting gas prices front and center today, announcing new plans to try to tackle high prices at the pump. how he s responding to criticism that the move is purely political, with election day now less than three weeks away. and we re on subpoena watch. the january 6th select committee set to formally issue one to former president trump soon, but how soon? we ll talk to a member of the economy, congresswoman zoe lofgren who joins us later in the hour. good morning, i m garrett haake back from paternity leave and we speak with the new york times times political analyst and vaughn hillyard is in tucson arizona, dasha burns is with us, and national political reporter natalie allison rounds out the opening crew here. peter, we just heard from the president about this new plan that tries to tackle high prices at the pump, and he s answering direct questions on whether or not the move
a potential nuclear armageddon with russia. what his staff is saying this afternoon, as we take you live to the white house and to moss couple of i m hallie jackson in washington and with me now is nbc news correspondent josh lederman traveling with the president in hagerstown, maryland. tom costello and global markets reporter with us, too. we saw the big board red, not green like we ve seen earlier this week. talk about why investors are so spooked here. hallie, a number of top advisers telling me interest rates are heading even higher and wall street wanted to seat job wanting to see the job market start to cool and average hourly earnings increasing, and the chair fed has reiterated in the past in order to get inflation down, the job market needs to cool and until it does, interest rates will head even higher a rising rate environment has been challenging for the stock market. that is why the dow is down over 600 points right now. and for companies that increase their
and as you would expect, time is running out to get to them. there are also questions about what officials should have done before the storm, and regrets from those who stayed. we were just about ready to take her out. and you so don t want to see this. you re right. you re right. three days. three days. the water came up to me on here. and when it got to there, the way they were saying on the news, i thought it was going to eventually go over our heads. i called my daughters and said goodbye. it was very traumatic. i actually, i went into the water and saved three people, and i lost one friend, i couldn t save her, she got washed away. the devastation is unbelievable. you know, i was a paramedic fireman for 25 years, and it s just devastating. the confirmed death toll is 88. state medical examiners say many of ian s victims were older than the age of 60. bodies in flooded cars and inside destroyed homes. the president will see all of this with his own eyes on w