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treatment. and high on the hog. bacon prices at an all-time high. why it is costing us more to pig out. today, monday, august 4th, 2014. from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rock feller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today. we have carson and dylan in for al. boy, we have a big story out west. thousands of people waking up this morning in california stranded. two different towns are affected. take a look. here s why. torrential rains triggering mudslides like this one have left roads buried under feet of debris. i want to get right to nbc s miguel almaguer, this morning. miguel, good morning to you. reporter: savannah, good morning. the fire sparked by lightning. the gulch fire exploded in size over the weekend. a state of extremes. just outside los angeles, a scene many could not believe. monsoonal thunderstorms brought mud into oakland. the town of 1,500 cut in half. one person was killed when t ....
good morning to you. i m frances rivera. we are following breaking news overnight in that search for missing flight 370. two more pings detected under water. 33 days now after the malaysian airliner vanished. the australian official in charge of the search is optimistic the plane s wreckage will soon be found. i believe we are searching in the right area, but we need to visually identify aircraft wreckage before we can confirm with certainty that this is the final resting place of mh-370. let get right to nbc s ian williams live in perth, australia. ian, good morning. how cautious is this sense of optimism? reporter: good morning to you, frances. they do seem optimistic now that they are looking in the right area, but also cautiously saying there may be some way to go before they can physically locate the black boxes or any plane wreckage which may be sitting on what they call a silty seabed some three miles below where they re searching. now, those two detections ....
trump does not hold an edge on any of the most pressing issues at stake in the election, leaving him with little room for a political recovery absent a calamitous misstep by biden in the coming days. some of the poll numbers on issues include a 12-point advantage for joe biden on coronavirus. a six-point advantage for joe biden on choosing the next supreme court justice. and a six-point edadvantage on w and order. trump staked his presidency on a miscalculation that voters would share his dark view of law and order and just wouldn t notice that it s donald trump who is encouraging felony voter fraud in north carolina, commuting the sentences of convicted felons and ignoring u.s. intelligence about bounties being placed on the heads of american soldiers. that conduct coupled with the crippling effects of the pandemic on the economy has left trump with zero structural advantages in this race. with 14 days until voting ends, anything can always happen, but millions of amer ....
kennedy: and police releasing this new video showing an officer walking away just moments before the bomb went off. you can see the intensity of the blast. the six nashville police officers, who are being hailed as heroes for evacuating the surrounding area and putting their own lives at risk, spoke out yesterday. at that time, we set up our cars to set up as much of a barricade as we can to keep people out. in the explosion happened, i was thrown forward, knocked to the ground, but i was able to catch myself. i was fine. kennedy: unreal. lives for us in nashville with the very latest, charles? hi it, kennedy. there are a lot of unanswered questions about that christmas day explosion here in nashville, including why it happened. federal investigators are working to piece together a motive as their investigation moves forward. authority say they are looking into the hundreds of tips and processing evidence to try and figure out what led 63-year-old anthony quin ....
past several years and it s that kind of commitment that enables us the program to to bring to the university into the community outstanding speakers such as our guest tonight. eric j. dolan is the author of the fascinating book black flags blue waters. the epic history of america s most notorious pirates. eric grew up near the coasts of new york and connecticut and from an early age developed an interest in maritime affairs. toward that end. he earned a double major in biology and environmental studies then getting a master s degree in environmental management from yale. that was followed by a phd. in environmental policy and planning from mit where his dissertation focused on the role of the courts in the cleanup of boston harbor. erica s held an interesting variety of jobs many of them related to his interest in the natural world. the one thing that remained constant throughout his career. has said is his enjoyment of writing and telling stories about topics that he ....