what about guthrie?ave happened in his career had he lived long must have to -- do you feel like, what do you think he might have done if he had that -- >> well, he was sick by 55, by the mid '50s, you know, he couldn't play guitar. essentially, he was in a hospital. so there's -- what would he have done? i don't know. he would have made trouble. it was what he was very good at. you know, it's hard to predict. i think he probably would have -- you know, guthrie walk out on a lot of events that would have made him famous. he had jobs, he had radio jobs, national radio jobs, and he just said i don't want to do -- i don't like the feel of this ande would walk away. bob dylan, for all of his rebellion, became a pop star, ask you don't do that accidentally. you do that deliberately. >> right. >> he went out, you know, i don't know if he likes being famous, but he let himself get famous, and woody guthrie wouldn't. pete seeger is much more like woody guthrie who continued on, lived to -- >> very old. >> -- 90

so it's not enough that your daddy is woody guthrie. then you're hanging out and become best friends with pete seager year after year after year. >> i remember the first time i went to visit pete and his wife toshie, i was five or six years old. and we went out. we were living in queens at that time in new york. and we went out to their place. pete had built a log cabin on a high bluff over the hudson river. and i just said, whoa, this is like davey crockett stuff or something. you know? and so we got there. i was really excited. i remember my mom saying go play with the other kids. i was hanging out with his kids like any familiar lishgs you know? but over the years -- and i thinking maybe in the mid 60s to the late 60s that time. there were so many people out on the streets. so many things going on. and the war and change the lafrpg ray, all th lingerie and whatever it was and pete was always there. you could hear that banjo of his from blocks away. i remember walking through washington, d.c., and i could hear his banjo. and him, you

that was held in guthrie. in 1906 and 1907. 112 men from oklahoma territory, indian territory and the o sage region that gathered there. in the center case we have the original oklahoma state constitution. 110 pages long. making it the longest state constitution in the country as it was originally written. i'd like to compare it to the united states constitution in its original form it was four pages long. william murray who resided later on said probably 40 of the first 48 sections should have been done by the legislature. section 17, roughly half of the document. is the description of county boundaries the names of the county seats and the method for changing county boundaries. probably will not find that in another constitution in the country. then we have the great seal that was used when the capitol was in guthrie. if you go to guthrie they'll tell you that we stole this from them. i'm of the opinion it was not stealing because we did have an election in 1910. the people voted to move the capitol from gut

the people voted to move the capitol from guthrie to oklahoma city. the story about the midnight ride of the state seal, several versions of that story and all of them seem to stay in the middle of the night but the truth of the matter was, they had car trouble along the way, didn't get there until the next morning and brought the seal back the next day. this is the supreme court of the state of oklahoma. originally, five justices elected by the people. today, there are nine. and they are appointed by the governor. now, once they are appointed in the next general election, their names will be on the ballot and we vote to retain them for six years and then every six years after that, their name will be on the ballot. a little bit about the room. the woodwork throughout this room is solid mahogany imported from the west indies in 1916. the pillars are one piece of solid vermont marble. each of these pillars weighs about 10,000 pounds. brought on the railroad because that was the way to move things in the 1910s. the ceiling and the decorative places alon

and that has 32 leaves around the stone because of woody guthrie's lyrics.portees, not anymore, and one of the beautiful things of this memorial headstone behind me is that we still included in the foundation the original of how it went from anonymity. all of the talks earned immigration today, all the rhetoric has become a vast sea of noise. some of it is of value, it creates a valuable dialogue, but a lot of it, especially today as we enter this new administration we start to hear everywhere the people in general we start to hear the rent up, the polar of us versus them, immigrants versus americans. and that rhetoric is out there. i feel like what gets lost in part of that is intentional. and those abstractions that i was mentioning and if you like this book really provides the opportunity for us to look through the rhetoric and cut through it and to just look at one situation, 28 mexicans, for american citizens, all crashed and all regardless of race, regardless of social status, regardless of spiritual belief or background, they all met the same fate tog

humphries, -- guthrie. what was his point if he was in the speaker. his reaction? no one of the speakers on the group of speakers we are talking about. >> host: is this connected to what we're doing up here. >> no. that's just the conversation around 2017. >> host: okay. >> guest: a little longer to reload. >> host: all right. so this is -- >> guest: let's say what if i was superman? get ready to start in the middle. the interesting thing is, the bot behind looks look an emotion, everyone is laughing and then if everyones frowny, the book gets upset you don't like -- >> host: all right. >> guest: the technology behind that is impress. knows who superman and is knows taking a photo on your face and then imposing it over the face. >> host: you have your age detector. >> guest: notice how it's completely anonymous, no names or anything it i can trade the mod model to add -- like this chap here, harrison ford, and i could even add myself in there as well and knows how. because i trained it. >> host: it knows your name. >> guest: yes. added it. >> host: makes people old

i'm savannah guthrie. this has been an nbc news special report. >>> you've been watching a special report on the aftermath of harvey and the continued efforts for relief and rescue there. >>> we're going to bring you more of our network coverage within the hour. now we return to our programming. agencies from across the area are springing into action to help the victims. virginia task force one, fairfax county fire swift boat rescue team left yesterday and will help with rescue efforts in texas. truck loads of equipm there and local volunteers from the american red cross moved its resource toss texas yesterday to help provide relief. >> montgomery county fire and rescue also sending help. the department tweeted that maryland task force one is headed to texas to help with search and rescue efforts. that's a team of 20. they'll join 26 other task force teams deployed to texas from around the nation. >>> stay with news 4 for continuing coverage of harvey. we have stories of survival and a look at some of the

humphries, scott guthrie was his point is he's not the speaker?st: he's one of the speakers from the group us because we are talking. enforcement is taking a little while, while, is this connected to what we are doing. >> guest: no. that's just the conversation around 2017. it's taken a little longer. >> host: are right. >> guest: thi this is a bit of fun. let's say what if i were supermen? get ready to stand in the middle. here is what you look like if you were supermen. the interesting thing is everyone is happy it's like we are now and laughing, if everyone is sad, frowning, the box is like that, gets upset that you don't like -- >> host: all right. >> guest: the technology behind that is pretty impressive. it knows who supermen is and knows it's taking a photo of your face and then superimposing it over the face of superman. >> host: you have your agent detector. >> guest: this is more than agent detector. first of all, you know so it is completely anonymous, no names or anything but i can train the model to add people like this chap here. the

please, al, tell me about arlo guthrie.d you have a whole litter dedicated to names connected to the summer of love. so it's really timely. >> summer of love, 50th anniversary, the summer of love. so when we got the dogs and kittens and cats a while ago, we decided to name them for, you know, people from the 60s. >> yeah, the era. >> people like alexa don't remember arlo guthrie. the. >> this is the new arlo. tell me, what kind of home would be good for arlo? >> they're very active. he comes as part of a litter of four and so, you know, it's one of the reasons why we encourage people to adopt two kittens so they can play and, you know, sort of burn off that energy together. >> yeah. you've kind of talked about in the past how adopting two kittens almost takes a little bit of the burden off you because they can baby-sit one another. >> exactly. >> they keep one another occupied. and what about rupe? rupe is a chihuahua. often chihuahuas have a bad reputation and a lot of people think they have a lot of energy, you need a hom

that was guthrie in 1906 and 1907 there were a number of 12 men that gathered there, in the center case, we have the original oklahoma state constitution. 110 pages long, making it the longest state constitution in the country as it was originally written. the original constitution was four pages long. section 17, roughly half of the document is the description of county boundaries and the method for changing county boundaries. probably will not find that in another constitution in the country. over here we have the great seal that was used when the capitol was in guj re. i'm of the opinion it was not stealing because we did have an election in 1910. the story about the midnight ride to the state seal, several versions of that story, and all of them seem to say, they had car trouble on the way, didn't get there until the next morning and brought the seal back the next day. this is the supreme court of the state of oklahoma. originally five justices elected by the people. today there are 9. and they are appointed by the governor. once they are appointed in the next general election, thei

i have stereotypes of the people that i work with like savanna guthrie who is one of my best friendstoday because she has a book that comes out in the fall. she's my next-door neighbor and one of my best friends. i thought of her as someone different and she is and that is what we are trying to talk about ourselves, people are complicated more than we usually think. >> and this is not the firstis book he co-authored. written >> i've written two children's books with my mom who is a very vivacious editor. >> why did you hide from the media? >> i don't know that i hated from the meat -- head from the we media. i'm a very private person and even writing this book was a a leap for me. there were things i learned that even today i grabbed her purse and was blown away.en >> it is ironic that she's on tv now. starting our career so much of that is personal. i guess i would still hide from the media [inaudible] >> we will be on a tour together. >> book comes out in october. >> would argue doing these days? >> i run an organization thatn focuses on how to recruit amazing young leaders. it's a

savannah guthrie in new york. this has been an nbc news special report. >>> meantime, new jersey's top search and rescue team expected to arrive in texas. governor christie deployed task force one last night. heart felt thoughts and prayers are with the people of texas at this difficult time. >>> philadelphia fire fighters loaded up early yesterday morning joining the first waive of firefighters who left for texas on friday. >>> american red cross workers and other volunteers from our region are answering calls for help. the red cross in philadelphia broke out emergency response truck. drove the truck. harvey will be first deployment. told us motivation comes with personal experience. says she went through four 00 hurricanes in florida. a live report from texas is just minutes away on nbc 10 news. stay connected to breaking developments on air and online with the nbc 10 app. we also have links to where you can donate money to the rescue effort. >>> 6:08. 61 degrees outside. talk about our weather as we continue to

when the plane crash happened in 1948 and the news reports one across the country, woody guthrie wase great rebel's folk iconse ideas. he heard the news report and he was upset at the omission of the names. he had traveled to the san joaquin valley's in the 30s and 40s so he was aware of theui fight of the migrant workers. he said that's no way to treat our brothers and sister so he wrote a poem. in his poem he attempts todignit restore the dignities of those passengers. he says goodbye to my juan, goodbye roe salida, you won't have a name when he read that big airplane, all they will call you as deportees. it was that phrase, it really caught my attention and i thought, is that all they will call us question that's my stord also. that's a piece i gravitated toward. who is they, who is all and while they call you?e that was a poetic piece of that lyric. during world war ii there were talks and negotiations between mexico and the united states. the results of that conversation was how can basis how can mexico be an ally of their time in the. that's from the word arms, like working arm

i had these stereotypes ofof people i worked with and savannah guthrie is one of my very best friends she's here today with a children's book, princesses wear pants. she's my next-door neighbor, and one of my best friends. i think i thought of her somebody who is different than who she is. books echo sort of of what were trying to talk about ourselves. people are more complicated than what we think. >> this is not the first book he co-authored. >> that's true. i've written to children's book with my mom who is a vivacious editor. she is a little mark advocated to work with. she you are less than a diva. >> thank you. >> don't tell her i said that. why did you hide from the media? >> i don't know that i have hidden from the media? >> , private person, even writing this book was a leap for me. but, i am so proud of her because she's so honest and raw and authentic. there are things i learned about her and even today i learned, we wrote in silos and i just read her part and was blown away. >> thank you. >> i think when we are in college the idea of additional attention on us was uncomfor

example we are showing scott guthrie. you can see where he is actually talking. i also want to create a transcription for people who may be hard of hearing. it it took 15d minutes to go to that process and it is all written down here through text. languagehink of it as irrelevant. >> you had a gentleman up here. is thes his point if he speaker? >> he is one of the group of speakers that we are talking about. >> is this connected? is just ae conversation about that. >> this is a bit of fun. >> get ready to step in the middle. and here is what you would look like it if you are superman. sad andone is kind of frowning. >> the technology behind that is pretty impressive. itsuperman as and it doesn't is taking a picture of your 40's -- phase two superimposed. how it is not named. i can train it to do this. if i wanted to i could even add myself and that. >> i have gone to the settings and added my name. >> it can change based on the age it is said to portray. when people kids happy it goes up. in the real world you would a shopfront and you wanted to capture sentiment

here is savannah guthrie. >>> good morning, everybody. if you come on the air the wrath of harvey is being felt across southeast texas. houston, the country's fourth largest city, mostly under water at this hour and mandatory evacuations were ordered overnight. for several neighborhoods there with another 2 feet of rain still possible. let's get right to gabe gutierrez in the flood zone in houston. gabe, good morning to you. we can barely see you it's so dark there and you're surrounded by flood water. what's the situation. >> savannah, good morning. we have seen rain constantly throughout the night. this event isn't over. the roads are impassable. houston is paralyzed. overnight, these rivers have continued to rise. bayous that run through the heart of houston is at record stages. authorities are considering and overnight, released water from two reservoirs and that will continue to increase the water levels here in houston. we have seen hundreds of water rescues overnight. dramatic rewaters are cues. authorities here in houston are defe

earlier i spoke to the executive director of the american civil liberties union of virginia, claire guthrie dispersed the rally, which was about noon, the situation has evolved into one in which there are marauding bands of thugs going around charlottesville looking for a fight with people who are willing to give it to them. this isa are willing to give it to them. this is a situation in which people are engaged in violent conduct with other individuals whose views they don't access and with respect to the car crash, for example, that is clearly a purposeful act of ten arrays and it should be seen that way. unfortunately, right afterthat happened, one of the people who is from the white supremacist organisations said he was glad that people from the other organisation we re people from the other organisation were heard, at which point they went after him and engaged him in a physical confrontation. nothing good is happening now and any pretence that there was anybody trying to vindicate freedom of speech right now is certainly lost and gone. the news is coming up shortly with kate silverton

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i'm savannah guthrie alongside craig melvin in for matt and hoda is here, too.think of the days upon days, weeks and months of recovery. >> one city seems to be out of the woods and you watch another one fall into it. tough to watch. >> let's get right to today's headlines starting with breaking news tied to harvey's devastation. >> plumes of smoke. >> explosions rock a chemical plant outside of houston sparking contamination fears as the death toll from harvey spikes overnight. >>> right now it's a waiting game. residents who live a mile and a half from the flant are being evacuated. >> this is a once in a generation opportunity. >> president trump turns his focus to taxes, reform to millions while sending a warning shot to both parties. >> i don't want to be disappointed by congress. do you understand me? >> 2 million muslims gather around mecca in a pilgrimage for the ages. >> for peace. >> the fda recalls more than half a million pacemakers over fears they could be hacked in a cyber attack. >> you say tomato. a food fight in spain colors the streets red in a

tonight a conversation with the legendary folk artist, the son of woody guthrie. he reflects on 50 years of alice's restaurant and current running down the road tour. we're glad you could join us and a gorveconversation with arlo ge in just a moment.

with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "today" on a tuesday morning. nice to have you with us. craig melvin is here as well because matt is in washington. he's at the white house this morning with a big intervie >> savannah and craig, nice to see you both. i tried to come down to the white house this morning to talk to the vice president of the united states, mike pence, who happens to be sitting right across from me. we're doing this interview, first of all, good morning, nice to see you. doing the interview in the roosevelt room just to give people the lay of the land here, it's just across the hall from the oval office, not too much of a walk from your office, just down the hall. it's a building or an office that people use here during the day for daily meetings, at least members of the white house staff do. we're going to talk to the vice president in just a moment, but first let's go out to the north lawn here at the white house. nbc's p

so kennedy was us senior a friend of woody guthrie is that i want to be the loudest yowler. with the loudest yowlers caving in to be with donald trump could you put in charge of education? teeeighteen the loudest yelling against public education for the better part of 20 years. no one would have paid attention to her whatsoever except for the fact she is rich. in america if you are rich you can be president of united states or secretary of education. at vitter is you know, anything but you buy your way into it. so when teeeighteen came before the senate committee that was constitutionally bound to realize she was qualified to serve as secretary of education literally to guide the future of our children, the best person many from vermont or new hampshire last terrific questions and got to the heart she did not know about programs that were central to what the department of education does literally a deterrent federal or state programs. it was tragic and painful. teeeighteen read me feel sorry for her i never thought that was possible but she got rid of most of it until bernie

her middle name is guthrie, sometimes i wish i had given her a pretty name like elizabeth. ever wish you had another name? >> growing up with the name dylan, there were no girls that had the name dylan, but then i owned it. it's so me. >> different. not different for the sake of being different. >> i gave you all a homework assignment. did you complete it? i said you guys have to pick the name. if you can rename your self right now, what would you name your self? craig, you start. >> i went with storm. he's going through a phase right now, very much into cars. the new character in "cars 3," his nemesis, lightning nemesis is like storm. it's a bad name. >> a good tv news name. >> i didn't know we could have fun with it. >> any name you want. >> i always liked the name taylor. i think because i was obsessed with 90210 and kelly taylor. >> you went from dylan to taylor. >> call you dd. >> or tay tay. >> how about you? >> i thought this was a childhood assignment. i was jealous of barbara, so i want to go by barbara bush hager. as a kid barbara would call and order dominoes. sh

with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to "today." so glad to have you on a wednesday morning. craig is in for matt once again. >> hard to believe that hurricane harvey won't go away. another busy morning. let's get right to the latest on harvey. the tropical storm back on land after making its third landfall early this morning. just west of cameron, louisiana. >> more than 51 inches of rain has fallen in parts of southeast texas. it's still coming down hard. and places like beaumont, texas, this morning. that region seeing a year's worth of rain in a few days. the most ever recorded in the continental united states from a tropical event. >> the official death toll this morning from the storm has risen to at least nine, with an undetermined number of people still missing. >> an overnight curfew having to be enforced in houston, amid reports that some people are posing as police officers and going door-to-door to lure residents out so they can rob

i'm savannah guthrie, alongside craig melvin, in for matt and hoda.ng about harvey, making landfall the first time last friday. and now, for a third time, overnight. >> the governor saying the folks there have to get used to a new normal in and around houston. we want to get to today's headlines, starting, of course, with harvey. >> it's rained harder in beaumont in the last 24 hours than it did in houston. >> harvey brings its flash flooding east as the water rises. people seeking refuge from the storm. >> this is normally a busy six-lane road. this morning, it is impassablim. it's a lake. >>> trump traveling to texas to show support. >> this is historic. but it happened in texas. and texas can handle anything. >>> a new threat from north korea, once again targeting guam. rogue leaders looking to contain that rogue regime. >>> uber officially named a new ceo as the justice department looks into whether the popular ride sharing company was involved in illegal overseas bribery. >> this is the latest headache for uber's rapidly expanding global business

in with the guthrie regulation of the internet. or how hopeful you are to say at 1.people should be polite to each other. >> there is the great psychologist had he not died young that said to be irrationally pessimistic first when you are sad when a bad thing happens. so in terms of hopefulness so is an autobiographical counterpoint to my "star wars" book is a problem rather than solutions focus. so talk about provider's first then culture.e runnin use of a passage from 2016 and did those who have a value. and with that public pronouncement and with serendipity and did your news feed that random draw. with that algorithm for your own behavior and something else which is blossoming through private sector creativity. so the things that our different. could so why are they sending this process? that day are even sillier than i thought then they were not unreasonable. the second approach with the use of rock rhythms but there are 12 health care right now now all facebook i am using that's as a word for social media generally lookk it l

. >> savannah guthrie and craig melvin in new york with a preview. >> good morning. >>le good to see you ladies. coming up on the show this morning, another round of rain from harvey leading to new devastation in texas overnight. the president is going to head to texas this morning and even more rain and flooding is on the way. the threat is now expanding to louisiana. live across that region with complete coverage. >>> also ahead this morning, amazon slashing prices on day one as the new owner of whole foods. will your favorite grocery store now follow suit. >>> then exclusive look at what could be the future of pizza delivery. show you how these tasty pies could be delivered to your doordoor when we get started on a tuesday morning. >>> suddenly i'm hungry. >> hopefully it's a 24 hour service for us. morning show people. >> see you at 7. thanks so much. >> thanks. >>> let's take ae rit now. ten minutes before 7:00. cloudy skies over center city flech. wind turbines mturbines moving. >>> we've issued a first alert for tropical effects for a storm system that may bec

ifound it began the other day, strangely, i won't read it all but he says it is a book by tyrone guthrieen. he said i'd persuaded the author to use this title which is astonish us in the morning, because it is part of the tapestry ofa because it is part of the tapestry of a rich past. the rich part of the future, i'm sure. i want you to have this book because i think he would have approved of what we engaged in but enjoyed it sparsely. pompous but well felt, with all good wishes, tim. that sums him up, i say. well felt, with all good wishes, tim. that sums him up, isay. and may he rest in peace, i say. we are seeing some lovely pictures of you starring alongside him in all creatures great and small. whether any particular moments that you rememberfrom filming any particular moments that you remember from filming that, where you may have had some laughs alongside him? we laughed all the time. quite often, to the detriment of what we were doing. he was just good fun. there are a thousand stories and i told them all a thousand times, i worked that one again. you can! what i remember fondly

i'm savannah guthrie, alongside craig melvin, in for matt. and hoda is here. see the damages. >> it's good to see the folks getting out and lending a hand to get out. >> a lot of folks from new orleans relocated to houston because of ka fretrina. >> that starts our headlines this morning. harvey, the worst storm to strike texas in more than a decade, causing catastrophic flooding in houston and billions in damage across the state. >> this bayou is nearly empty. within a matter of hours, it's 30 feet. >> they are working right now to provide assistance. >> even more torrential rain on the way. >> this is still a tropical cyclone, it has a lot of energy. >> president trump is monitoring two storms. one is harvey. the other is of his own making. >> president trump, now, preparing a trip to texas, as his decision to pardon controversial sheriff joe arpaio is condemned. >>> uber caps the head of expedia as the new ceo of the ride sharing company. >> the earnings are going. now, they have a chance to clear up this p.r. issue that's dogged them for a while. >>> and c

savannah guthrie, and craig in for matt and hoda, as well. think about this storm about to hit land another time. >> when you did that bit when you can see what that rain meant rang true. >> more from houston. we want to get to a check of your headlines, beginning with the impact of harvey. >> one of the largest disasters america has ever faced. >> the death tom rises azhas delivers more rain. >> i wasn't expecting this at all. >> devastating. devastating. >> president trump vows support as he heads to texas. >> north korea fires a missile over japan in what is being described as an unprecedented threat. south korea responding with a test of its own. leaving the region on high alert. >> and pyongyang may not be done with its show of force. >>> a new study says four cups of coffe a day could lead to a longer life. >>> and maria sharapova shocks at the u.s. open after a 15-month suspension. >> everything is just for this moment. >> today, august 29th, 2017. >>> back to this morning's top story. the devastation from harvey. the thousands being r

. >> it was written by woody graseck -- woody guthrie, and he omitted verses because he wrote it during asked to write a song, like an american song, like old-school. we thought, well, we do not really want to. so we looked back at traditional folk songs and found "this land is your land or cut we saw sharon jones and the dap kings, and it was beautiful. we wanted to do it our own, a mexican funk version. feterasis is las ca singing "this land is your land." ♪ saidon the other side it nothing this land was made for you and me oh this land this land this land was made for you and me oh this land this land this land was made for you and me ♪ ♪ ras inhat is las cafete our studios singing "this land is your land," one of the songs and "tastes like l.a." why did you name your albums that, and why is the cover a food truck? >> a lot of the places we play c l.a.- genre, we're so flavored, and that is the only way we would know how to describe it. cubia, punk, goth, and all of us come from so many different traditions and experiences. takano, mexican, but that just means you are mixed. you come

it was the world of pete seeger and woody guthrie and bob dylan. >> chris: know mike was at the musicu are the message? >> it was creative, it was exciting, it was music, people were writing songs about every aspect of life. >> chris: it was a world where late one night joni mitchell sang her both sides now over the phone. what did you think? >> i said i will be right over! this is fantastic! >> chris: is there a phrase like? >> tears and fears, to say i love you write out loud. >> chris: how would you choose what works for you and what didn't? >> if it hits me here i sing it, if that doesn't happen i never want to hear it again. >> chris: in 1975: start another song by stephen sondhei sondheim. >> is integrate dominic how could you not want to sing that song? >> chris: it won the grammy for song of the year. collins made her mark in other ways, protesting for civil rights and against the war in vietnam. and in addition to sending her own songs and others are failing love affair with stephen stills inspired him to write the classic sweet judy blue eyes. ♪ >> chris: he was trying to wi

. >> for a preview, let's talk to savannah guthrie and willie geist, who are joining us now. >> hi. good to see you both. coming up this morning, the trump administration stepping up the pressure on north korea overnight, demanding the regime stop its missile tests. but will the tough words and new sanctions be enough to rein in the rogue nation? >> also ahead, new information on taylor swift's groping claims against a popular deejay as the case heads to court today. we're there live. >> the first ever camp to teach your kids how to become social media stars. is that the best way to spend the summer? >> those stories and a special monday concert from country star brett eldredge where a big crowd already has assembled in anticipation of great music when we see you in a few minutes on "today." back to you. >> are you sending your kids to social media camp? >> i don't know how i feel about that. >> no. no. we decided no. >> we were saying, like, do teens need to spend more time on the phone? not sure that they do, but anyway, it is an interesting story because a lot of -- actually a lo

. ♪ ♪ and at the birchmere concert, bragg offered a beautiful version of a woody guthrie song. ♪ ♪ butyle moment, he turned to his punk rock roots. >> the clash. >> brown: the clash? >> saw the clash when i was 19, me and some friends of mine had been really interested in bands like dr. feelgood and the jam, it was stripping it back. and it seemed to, it's one of those watershed moments. it's like when the skifflers heard donegan and had that it's that sort of ability to make your own culture that came with punk rock that really keeps me going. that's why i thought i could sit down and write a book about skiffle, rather than wait for someone to ask me. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and we thought we knew all about rock 'n' roll. so that's the newshour for tonight. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access gro

discusses the latest round of sanctions and the president's bottom line with matt lauer and savannah guthrie this morning. >> they lived under very, very tough economic sanctions in the past. why are they going to work this time? >> we don't know they're going to work this time, but it is something we needed to do. i know the president is prepared to defend the american people. i know the president is prepared to do whatever it takes. and so now all of the balls lie in kim's court. >> and nbc white house correspondent kristen welker is in new jersey. kristen, the fact is that the north koreans have now rejected the idea of talks. they say they were going to build on the nuclear threat. today they have come out with a stamp commemorating their missile launch and showing the threat to the u.s. what more does the administration plan to do here. the fact is that the sanctions, while tough, a billion dollars worth of sanctions, still have a lot of holes in them if china and russia don't implement them. >> that's absolutely right. north korea also vow ing to retaliate a thousandfold. the administr

. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to "today." thanks for joining us on this tuesday morning. >> when you have a chance, you have to explain that silence of music thing to me. that's over my head. >> it's a busy morning. we want to start with the protests facing the president, after it took him two days to denounce the hate groups in the car attack in charlottesvillech virginia. we're going to start with kristen welker, outside trump tower in new york city. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. this is president trump's first time waking up in trump tower since taking office. it wasn't exactly a warm welcome home, because of the hundreds of protesters lining the streets here. many fuming after they call inadequate response to the violent clashes in charlottesville overnight. hundreds of protesters lining the streets around trump tower, greeting him with boos and jeers. the uproar over president trump's response to charlottesville, n

with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live in studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everybody. it's tuesday morning, 7:00 a.m. on the west coast. glad you're with us. craig is in for matt once again. and we've got a shot over the skies of houston. downtown houston, this is a look from our drone. and you can see the situation that's unfolding there. still unfolding at this hour. >> it has been raining off and on there all morning in houston. but perhaps some good news coming. dylan said we're on the back end of this thing. we will get to her in just a moment. also some harrowing tales of neighbors helping neighbors as well. >> we've got a lot to get to. overnight developments on this storm. the official death toll in texas stands at three but dozens more are missing at this hour. and that includes six family members who are feared dead after relatives say their van was swept away by the rising floodwaters. >> the coast guard alone says it is receiving upwards of 1,000 emergency calls per hour. and has already re

"today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. >>> this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live in studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to today this tuesday morning. we have an awful lot to get president trump at the certainty of a new firestorm after pivoting back saying both sides of protesters were to blame and very fine people took part in the rallies organized by white nationalist, his words sparking immediate outrage. we'll have full coverage of the falling out. we'll talk about it with republican governor john kasich of ohio who ran against donald trump in the republican primaries. let us begin with nbc's chief white house correspondent, hallie jackson. >> reporter: good morning. donald trump finds himself in a practically unprecedented position for an american president. slammed by some fellow republicans as he is praised by white supremacists. not everybody in the gop is calling out president trump by name. some leaders like mitch mcconnell still silent so far after the president blamed both sides for saturday's violence. it is a re

with matt lauer and savannah guthrie.live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to today. it's a toous morning. we're glad to have you with us, craig is in for matt once again this morning. man, does your heart go out to the folks who are suffering so much in southeast, texas. >> it does, it continues to go out. i've been heartened over the last 24 hours to see random strangers pitching in to help out their neighbors. >> the help is sorely needed. let's get you caught up on the overnight developments on this storm. the official death toll at texas is at three, but dozens more people are missing including six family members who are feared dead after relatives said their van was swept away by rising floodwaters. >> the coast guard alone says it's receiving upwards of 1,000 emergency calls every hour. they also sayey >> shelters in the houston area are filling up and filling up quickly. some 7,000 people spent the night at the city's downtown convention center. officials had originally plan

this is a special edition of "today: the impact of hurricane harvey," with matt lauer and savannah guthrielive, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to "today." 7:00 a.m. on the west coast. so glad to have you on us on a busy monday morning if you're just waking up. craig melvin is in for matt. we've been seeing images out of texas they take your breath away, words like catastrophic and historic being used to describe the flooding and damage from harvey and yet those words hardly seem to do it justice. >> hard to believe that that part of this country is actually expecting more rain as well. meanwhile, fema says they expect at least 30,000 people to live in those temporary shelters. >> we are just at the beginning of this. here's where it stands right now. at least two people have died, but officials expect that number to rise as crews work that are way through still rising floodwaters. in houston alone more than 1,000 high water rescues have been carried out. >> overnight, mandatory evacuation orders for several houston neighborhoods along the brasos ri