For breaking her wrist in a hug. Its an outrage. Its a shame. Its a disgrace. Did we all jump to conclusions too quickly . She tells her side of the story right here in an exclusive live interview today, thursday, october 15th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everyone. Welcome to today. Its a thursday morning. Well be the first to admit we were critical when we heard this story about the aunt who sued her own nephew. The tabloid headlines were not kind to jennifer connell. We weighed in on trending yesterday with the tornadicfacts we knew at the time. Jennifer connell is here this morning and says there is a different side to the story. Look who is with her, her interesting to hear what they have to say. Lets start with our top story. President obama set to announce this morning hes going to keep a larger than expected force in afghanistan by the end of next year. Nbcs pentagon corres
Cochair of the congressional progressive caucus who has led the fight with low wage workers to raise the standard of living for good paying jobs. Congressman keith ellison. I had a constituent call me the other day and he said you know, keith, ive heard some things about this Transpacific Partnership and im concerned about it, you need to send me a copy of that bill. Of course i cannot do that. Because ive never seen it. If they show you the bill at all they show you one little title of it and then you cant have stats, you cant take notes you cant do anything. This is an invisible process. Each one of us represents somewhere in the neighborhood of 700,000 people. So when were standing in front of you whole communities, several cities. I represent 15 cities, minneapolis being the biggest one. And these people who sent me to congress expect that i will make decisions that are going to help them and theyre going to stop bills that are going to hurt them. And there is no quay in the world
Rain that will stretch into tomorrow morning. And after the rain will come the warmer weather. Followed by possibly snow. Good evening, im karen hepp. Im joyce evans. Lets get over to meteorologist caitlin roth. Youve got a lot to talk about here. Weve got just about everything in the forecast, joyce. All along a very busy week. Lets starter with the first weather headline. Lifting northward into pennsylvania right now. The heaviest stuff still back towards our southwest and the leading edge of the rain hasnt even made it into philadelphia quite yet. This warm front will eventually bring very mild monday which well challenge and probably break a few records around the area. But first the showers starting to hone in on the delaware area. You can see around dover a little bit of light rain for the rest of us well wait until overnight. Fox future cast shows after midnight around 2 00 a. M. Some of the heavier rain starts to lift into philadelphia and that could be pretty heavy even a rumb
That napa quake. At the time, 6 months ago, you look at this building and wondered how they would make repairs. Clearly, those repairs are well underway. Here in napa, this recovery has made significant progress, but much work needs to be done. In a store full of vintage collectibles and gifts, theres thousands of items that can break. And thats what happened. It was terrifying. Reporter terrifying to business owner, patricia tremble, because about half of her inventory was scattered, and broken on the floor. I lost about 38,000. Reporter reporter what came as she tried to recover tried her even more. When fema came 6 months later, being turned down by them device, being turned down by every bank twice. Reporter around downtown napa 6 months later there, is a mix. Some damaged buildings are being restored. Others like the Old Post Office remain in limbo. Overall, barry martin says the progress is good. Napa is a resilient community, and because weve had a lot of issues in the past with
Quickly. We did just enter overbought terrain. Last time we reached these levels it fell 3 . For the afternoon session taking a look at the dollar index. What are we looking at . Futures are up by three and a half points. The dollar is recovering. It is up against the euro, up against sterling, flat against the yen. I was looking at crude prices as well. We are back at 46 for crude. Gold is down by about three dollars. Back to you. Haslinda singapore is beginning a day of National Mourning for lee kuan yew. He guided singapore from colonial trading post. Pinch of you to the man who built a nation. Paying tribute to the man who built a nation. In morning. Im deeply saddened to tell you mr. Lee kuan yew passed away peacefully this morning at a singapore hospital. Let me say a few words. The first of our Founding Fathers is no more. He inspired, give us courage and brought us here. He fought for our independent. This is a nation where there was none, and made us proud to be singaporeans.