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that might be the phase that matt lauer is entering.rk never came out and explained what they were doing. it was matt lau rerks that got the blame. like he said on jay leno, he is not a complainer. he gets up in the morning and wants to prove his detractor wrong. that's why it's one of the interesting shows to watch right now. >> if you had been running nbc, would you have fired anne curry when they did? >> i don't get paid nearly enough to answer this question. i'd like to think i promoted her in 2011. that was the mayal mistake. removing her was the right thing to do by lots of different measures. but it was just done the wrong way. she didn't agree to it. she felt like she was being rushed off the stage. the fatal mistake was the year earlier. they promoted her in being more creative. i suppose if we had our crystal balls, that's what we would go back and do differently. >> you've been cnn and the times, as i discovered when i began tweeting one of your colleagues, you, yourself, have dropped a few clangers. were you right to be dish

>> 3:30 every morning. >> 3:30, you're like matt lauer.o get up on. this is a tall one. >> no, none of these horses here, steve. your horse is in the barn. >> special horse? >> yeah, special. >> let's go, pal. ♪ >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> here's your horse. >> get out of here. what's the name of this horse? >> wildfire. >> really? i'm not riding that. i'm not riding that, warren. >> he's really gentle, steve. >> yeah, i can see. >> no, no, no. >> that's the best you got, huh? >> that's the best i got. think you can handle it? >> let's do it. ♪ >> this is what i'm talking about festus, the mule here in montana for the "today" show. all right, easy baby. >> i wanted to see him on wildfire. >> i know. oh, my gosh, the clap, it's killing me. >> we want to thank steve for being such a great sport and, of course, we're sorry we never made it out to yellowstone, it would have been a lot of fun. >> i hope we get a chance to get back there. it's beautiful. >>> we'll go head to head in a movie trivia challenge with our gang in orlando. >>> back now at

. >>> we are joined by matt lauer for tomorrow morning's "today" show.laza towers elementary, we were so worried about the kids. you were given the tour of the left of the building. >> the building is about a mile or a mile and a half behind you. it took a direct hit and has been confirmed as you know that seven students were killed when the building was torn apart and a couple of hours ago, i was given a tour of the site. >> you guys do this for a living, first responders we talk so much about you. you were telling me you got here in the afternoon, you couldn't get that close because of the debr debris. do you have kids? >> yes, i do. >> how do you get your arms around that? >> i think as any responder we go into a different mode and set our personal lives aside for a while and it doesn't take an effect until later. a few days or hours later. it's always a sick ending feeling when we come to a school or hospital or daycare after one of the storms knowing what the potential loss of life can be. what the job ahead of us is going to be. >> it really is a s

matt lauer talks to james lipton about his shocking past as a pimp in 1950s paris. >>> the "today" anchors take on a tough mudder course. who will walk away victorious? keep it here for your >>> behind bars, a former bay area high school football coach arrested for child molestation and there could be more victims. >>> santa clara county leading the way in tuberculosis cases, why the county is top in the nation. >>> and a major announcement expected from tesla this morning but it slipped out early. >>> right now we take you live to san francisco looking at the bay bridge all sparkly as there are people on their way into san francisco at this hour on this thursday, may 30th. this is "today in the bay". >>> are you awake? it's 4:30,

." >>> martha stewart made headlines last week when she revealed to matt lauer on the "today" show that she would be willing to give online dating a try. of course this weekend the good folks at "snl" had some fun with that. take a listen. >> i joined match.com because i want a successful man for intercourse. i've had it before and i would like it again. >> match.com helped me find someone who shares my interest like dancing. >> karaoke. >> sushi. >> whimsical window eggs, cured mac macaroons and of course the simple elegance of a good bang. >> match.com, the dating website that knows exactly what you're looking for. >> i want a guy who is kind. >> considerate. >> thoughtful. >> rough. like a rustic burlap wedding invitation. >> handsome. >> smart. >> someone with callused hands and no debt. >> someone who is silly. >> someone who can work my body. >> oh, my. don't miss the "today" show this morning when the real martha stewart updates us on her online search for love. we'll see if there's any jokes or discussion about that. >>> to sports action. game one of the western conference semis

. >> reporter: 1520 feet in the air, matt lauer gave the signal. >> let's have the crowning achievement>> reporter: a crane operator perched above the tower carefully maneuvers the 22-ton section into place and lowered it down to a waiting crew. >> this thing is lowering into place and apparently it's in right now. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: it took seven years for the office building to reach this moment. a celebration of joy and pride from the construction workers above. >> it's a good feeling. we're making history. >> reporter: and the people below. >> i get emotional every time i see a new stage go up on it. i'm very happy about it. >> reporter: the tower now stands 1776 feet high. it is the tallest building in the western hemisphere, and so much more. it rises from a source of resolve. >> i can hear you. the rest of the world hears you. >> reporter: remember. [ bell ringing ] >> david robert myer. >> nurell h. neha. >> the united states conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. >> reporter: and retribution. >> usa! usa! >> reporter: the 2,753 people killed here

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so martha stewart made headlines last week when she revealed to matt lauer on the "today" show that shewilling to give online dating a try. of course this weekend the good folks at snh had some fun with that. take a listen. >> i joined match.com because i wanted a successful man for intercourse. i've had it before and i'd like it again. >> match.com helps me find someone who shares my interests. >> like dancing. >> karaoke. >> sushi. >> macarane, macaroons, and of course the simple elegance of a good bang. >> match.com. a website who knows what it's for. >> i want a guy who's kind. >> rough like a rustic burlap invitation. >> someone with calloused hands and no debt. >> someone who's silly. >> someone who can work my body. >> that is so wrong. >>> all right. well, "ironman" wins it all. the third pick in the super hero franchise earned $175 million. aerosmith canceled an up copping show in indonesia due to bomb threats at the myanmar. it was nearly sold out to a crowd of 16,000. >>> the 14th annual golden trailer awards honor the best in motion picture previews. best blockbuster trailer

i'm matt lauer. >> i'm savannah guthrie.re so excited to have psy on our plaza. >> i have watched the youtube video over and over again, i was practicing on a plane and finally i get to meet the man they call psy. big crowd gathered outside, as you can see, and that concert takes place in our 8:30 half hour. >>> first, the wildfire season in california is off to an early start. the springs fire threatening 2,000 homes. california for at least two days. savannah? >> thank you so much. travel conditions on the roads. expected to last all day long. the may fools joke. come on. >> doesn't look like much.doesno here's matt.. thank you, here's matt. launch an attack on the fourth >>> new details about the boston launch an attack on the 4th of nbc justice correspondent pete d williams is in washington with mo pe >> reporter: matt, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. official he was questioned by federal ar interrogators after his arrest. arrest. he tol claims that he and his brother claims that he and his brother brothers were

i'm matt lauer along with savannah guthrie, natalie morales and mr. they've got a performance coming up. that's not the only excitement we have coming up. we've set up a photo booth right here on our plaza so people could come in, take a picture, remember their moment here on the plaza. we love it when people come and visit us. and now we're making it a little bit easier. >> all right. >>> and then, calling all dads, we are looking for the best homemade burger recipe in the land. >> that's right. i love a good burger. we want you to go to today.com, send us a photo or video of your creation for a chance to compete in our father's day burger battle. and we'll grill it out here on the plaza on june 13th. >> remember that dinner in your patio you had the burgers? that was fantastic. >> we'll do that again. >> i know. >>> speaking of competition, it's heating up on "the voice," the field narrowed down to ten this week and 20-year-old r & b singer from atlanta was the singer sent home. vito, nice to see you. pleasure, good to have you here. >> hi. >> bold

tonight, jay welcomes -- matt lauer, best-selling author and comedienne jen kirkman, the music of awolnationrs and applause ] >> jay: thank you! thank you, gentlemen. thank you, guys. welcome to the show. nice to have you all here. thank you very much. hey -- here's a story that's been picked up everywhere. you probably saw this on your local news. seems a new hampshir

. >> reporter: matt lauer got a firsthand look at the devastation inside the school, and the toll it took on first responders. >> once we have the first responders that come in contact with the bodies, especially children, they are offered different counseling. >> reporter: there is no rhyme or reason to why some lived and others didn't. the tinker federal credit union before the tornado and after. the heavily reinforced vault is all that's standing. it is where jan davis and theresa price took cover with 20 others. >> even through the closed door you could hear the disintegration of what we are standing in now. there was no doubt in any of our minds that the building was gone on the outside. >> to me that was the only option. >> reporter: this homeowner heard an interior room was the fastest place to shelter in a pinch. he and his wife chose this closet. >> all i heard was a -- and it was quiet. i sat there -- we sat there for a bit. >> reporter: when it was over, half his house and most of his neighborhood was gone. few homes in this corner of tornado alley have storm cellars or sa

i'm matt lauer. savannah guthrie is over at city hall. morning again. >> good morning to you, matt. as we can see, the rain is about to pick up. a bit of a chill in the air. more than one resident said that they're thankful for that. it's that warm weather that often leads to tornadoes. as you mentioned a little bit earlier, we know the precise moment that this tornado touched down, 2:56 p.m. and what a swath of destruction it caused directly in its path, it was traveling about 20 miles in 40 minutes and directly in its path briarwood elementary school, plaza towers elementary school. moore medical center and theater. >>> we spoke to a sixth-grade teacher to literally laid across three or four students to protect them. saving their lives and i began by asking her to describe what happened. >> i was in the stall with some kids. it just started coming down. i laid on top of one of my little boys. we're okay. we made it out. when it finally stopped, we got all of the kids -- there was a dad there and him and i and one of my students, antonio

here's a revealing interview i think with matt lauer back in 2010. >> there's a lot of psychobabble out there that he and i compete and w is trying to overshadow his father. look, i wanted to run. i had an agenda. i had a team of people. and the truth of the matter is the final motivating factor was my admiration for george bush and i wondered whether or not i had what it took to get into the arena like he did. chris: so interesting use of the third person. george bush. >> right. chris: proper nouns. >> talking about how he want fod see if he could do as well as -- wanted to see if he could do as well as dad did and a supreme sense of confidence and an understanding that you couldn't ignore the right wing of your party. that was the manifest lesson of the first bush's term. and there have been books written about how this is one gigantic freudian -- chris: what about the scene in the driveway when he comes home one night blatched and his old man confronts him and he says i'll take you on here, mano e mano, dad. >> having three sons this sounds totally normal. chris: oh, come on. >> noth

i've savannah guthrie. >> i'm matt lauer. angelina jolie opens up about what she calls her medical choice in this morning's "new york times." she made the decision for a double mastectomy after genetic tests showed she had a high probability of developing breast cancer. >> she has kept this process private but is now sharing her story in the hopes of helping other women. let's get right to dr. nancy snyderman, nbc's chief medical editor. good morning to you. >> good morning. it's estimated 450,000 women around the world will die of breast cancer and 200,000 women in the united states will be diagnosed next year. it's obviously, when we talk about breast cancer, a disease a lot of us know about and talk about, affected our brothers and sisters. sometimes our brothers, our mothers. in angelina jolie's case, she wants us to know it can also be a personal journey, a personal journey that weaves in her case, her family history and her genetics. she wants women to know about the options. in an op-ed in this morning's "new york time

i'm matt lauer in moore, oklahoma. >> morning, everyone. i'm savannah guthrie in studio 1a. and, matt, i guess the question this morning is, do officials now believe that everyone is accounted for and are they moving forward with recovery efforts? >> yeah. they've gone through, they say, every structure that was damaged by the tornado, savannah. they have put those red xs on them. they don't think any other people will be found in the buildings. there are a few people who are still unaccounted for. however, if there is one piece of good news, officials say there are no children who are still unaccounted for. let me give you the very latest. this is what we know right now. we've learned the names of some of the victims. 8-year-old kyle davis and 9-year-old janae hornsby were killed when that tornado struck the plaza towers elementary school. and 65-year-old hemet bondee died when he became separated from his wife as the tornado tore through their home. we'll tell you more about their story a little later on. as i mentioned, every damaged building has now been searched at least

i'm matt lauer. >> i'm savannah guthrie. it's hard to say on may 1st i'm about to say this, but the snow is really coming down this morning in estes park, colorado, about 50 miles west of denver. >> it has the potential to dump an unprecedented amount of snow late in the season, up to a foot in some areas. >> we want to get right to al roker for the details. good morninging al to you. >> good morning, guys. yes, a powerful storm from estes park, denver, ft. collins looking at snow as well. we're going to be looking at a major winter storm even though it's may 1. let's show you what we've got. it's a powerful frontal system bringing snow from denver later on today from minneapolis, where you have winter storm warnings up for minneapolis. here's what's happening over the next 24 hours. storm gets itself together. starts off as rain and snow in minneapolis, changes over to all snow and then continues to push to the west. here's what we see as far as accumulations. denver, anywhere and the surrounding areas, 6 to 9 inches of sno

i'm matt lauer in new york. savannah and al are out in los angeles this morning. . >> good morning to you, matt, and, of course, we had a big night here last night. we were at "the voice's" first live show of the season, and al and i are going to show you what goes on behind the scenes while you're watching at home. we were roaming the halls. kind of just took over the place. >> that's right. two words, matt, foot massage. >> all right. you got my interest there, al. thanks very much. by the way, we're all spread out this morning. natalie is live in sweden with an exclusive first look at the brand new museum that is dedicated entirely to abba, and a little later on a look at the fashions on display at last night's met gala. savannah? >> a lot to look forward to, but we want to begin this half hour with the women who disappeared some ten years ago, now found alive and okay in cleveland. let's get to nbc's kristen dahlgren. she's there with the latest. kristen, good morning again to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah, yeah. a dramatic 24 hours here in cleveland

with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from honolulu, hawaii. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning. welcome welcome to waikiki beach. >> we have a lot to show you from this beautiful place. we want to get to the breaking nuchlz al made the trip with us. overnight he has traveled to tornado ravaged shawnee, oklahoma. >> the system that pronounced the devastating twisters there is on the move this morning. by the time it is finished it could impact half of the u.s. population. we go right to you, al. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, matt and savannah. this is the latest this is what has happened here in shawnee. this is the bricker family. they hunker fd down with 14 neighbors in a next door neighbor's sherlt when these tornados hit. members of their church are helping them get through this. they watched the weather channel and their local affiliate. this is what the radar looked like last system as the systems spawned over a three-state area. the good news is only one person was killed. it could have been wo

. >> while you're here, can we talk about matt lauer's dance moves? these are so good. he was on "ellen." some of you wonder if lauer's got the moves. he kicked it up. let's watch and we're going to critique. >> let's watch. >> because nobody ever asks us to. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> i'm seeing something that -- wait a minute. watch this part. he's got the arms in. >> i thought it was great. >> i always get nervous when a man dances. especially if i hold the man in high esteem. because it's like, don't ruin it, don't come out and do an elaine. >> that's so true. >> my moves are pretty solid. i read the woman. the man's job is to lead on the dance floor, but you must read a woman. you start careful. you're right here and you're in a very, very safe place and she is showing signs of that's okay. then you step it up a little bit more. if she's okay with that, then you go a little more. it's like everything else, i guess in a relationship, i'm sorry. are you trying to say something? >> you start easy, i show that i can move a little bit, not too much, because that's j

i'm savannah guthrie alongside matt lauer. >> those are nice. >> those are about three inches down. >> matt doesn't like this outfit. he's just lashing out because we made fun of your plaid jacket. >> meanwhile, we'll go right past the jackets. do you have the first day jitters like i do. >> i do. i feel like there's another love in our studio. >> a little nerve-racking. we've been following martha stewart as she has been very kind and generous with her time and sharing her experience as she looks for a couple of dates on match.com. this morning for the first time after narrowing down the possibilities, martha will meet two of the gentlemen that she has decided to go on a date of some kind with. >> and i can't think of anything more romantic than sitting around with you, matt, as you scrutinize and ask them questions. >> no, no, i'm just the facilitator here. >> we'll look forward to that. then later on we'll catch up with ryan seacrest. he has a great story about a young woman, just 24 years old has a series of popular books, a huge following, e

i'm matt lauer. >> good morning, everyone. i'm savannah guthrie. let's get right to that big political news over the night. congresswoman michele bachmann says she will not run for re-election, an announcement that came as a surprise to a lot of people. nbc news white house correspondent peter alexander joins us with more on this. peter, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, you're exactly right. this does come as a major surprise. bachmann that tea party firebrand, former presidential candidate, announcing on her website that she will not seek re-election in 2014. >> after a great deal of thought and deliberation i have decided next year i will not seek a fifth congressional term. >> reporter: in this eight-minute video minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann explains her decision not to run. >> the law limits anyone from serving as president of the united states for more than eight years, and in my opinion, well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific congressional district. >> reporter: bach

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i'm matt lauer. >> good morning, everyone. i am savannah guthrie. heard about the rescue of the three women in cleveland and for the first time we get to see what happened at the house of horrors one week ago. >> we're learning more about the possible defense strategies that could be used by the suspect in this case. let's get to "today" national investigative correspondent jeff rossen. he's in cleveland. jeff, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, savannah, good morning to you. a lot to get to this morning, including ariel castro sitting in this 9 by 9 jail cell beginning to map out his defense strategy. there are other big headlines over the weekend as well. ariel castro's brothers, arrested and cleared by police they're speaking out for the first time. what do they have to stay about their brother? and, of course, that dramatic video you mentioned, taking you inside the moment police officers rushed up this sidewalk and freed the girls from that house. in this cell phone video obtained by nbc news, officers rush to the scene, pushing in the fro

matt lauer tomorrow night. but with jimmy fallon happening right now. jimmy! ♪ tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: welcome, everybody! how you doing? you doing good? what a great crowd. a great new york city crowd. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. here's what people are talking about. vice president joe biden had a little trouble today. plane air force two apparently stuck in arizona because of problems with its engine. officials say they're trying to fix it as fast as they can. and then obama was like, no rush. [ laughter ] problems happen, yeah. just saw this, over the weekend, mitt romney gave the commencement address at southern virginia university, and he encouraged graduates to get married young and have lots of kids. then he was like, oh, and give them all weird names. have you met tagg? here's some local news, an elementary school

welcome to "today" on a tuesday morning, i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm matt lauer. we were down on the jersey shore on friday. we got to see firsthand how far that area has come since hurricane sandy seven months ago. still a lot to be done. and we're going to be talking about the president's visit there in just a little while. but let's start, though, on that severe weather. al roker is tracking and he has been for the last couple hours. good morning to you. >> thanks so much, guys. these folks from moore, oklahoma survived an ef-5, and there could be more bad weather like that. take a look at this. kansas, this is kansas -- smith center, kansas. let's go to the video of this storm. and you can see, this ef-3 tornado. it was captured by two guys, sean casey and brandon ivy. they have a special vehicle that actually went over and actually hunkers down. it weighs 16,000 tons. they were able to survive this. don't try this at home, by any stretch. but here's the latest on this storm. there's going to be another outbreak today. as you can see, heavy thunderstorms now r

. >> our friend, good friend, matt lauer, is going to be on "ellen" today. t to l.a., and i think on friday he taped -- he talked to jay and he talked to ellen. it's going to air monday. let's take a look at a little bit of it. >> i hope you don't mind, i went through and looked at some of your facebook photos also. can i show just one of them? i just want to ask what's going on here. >> oh, yeah. you know what? that's what we do. that kathie lee and hoda are usually in that shot. but that's just a typical morning before the show. >> so, you do beer, they do wine? beer in the morning -- >> exactly. i do upside-down shots. >> we're not the only ones. he starts at 7:00 a.m., so there you go. >> we have a hot dad -- speaking of hot dads. >> do you remember that? >> i remember that. >> you know, what do they call that again? >> a keg stand. >> a keg stand. nobody wanted to do a keg stand. we were out doing the "tonight show." i had no idea what a keg stand is. so i said i can do a handstand and a flip. i'll dot daggone keg stand, what is it? >> then you learned i

matt lauer takes us inside the elementary school hit directly by the tornado. >> it is 5:04. an associate professor at stanford is facing abduction charges after taking her three children to hawaii on what investigators say was a one-way trip. court documents say she took the children to kuwai and moved out of there. the father of the young son and the father of the other children. she has not entered a plea on the charge. >> the city of san jose voting to raise the tax. there always seems to be heated debate but last night's vote had zero opposition. bob riddle has the rest of the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, john. with last night's vote by san jose city council, medical marijuana collectives like this one off 880 will have to start paying more taxes. it was a unanimous decision with no one from the public stepping up during the meeting to voice support or opposition. starting in july the almost 100 pot clubs in city limits have to pay 10% in taxes. that's a hike of 3% which the city estimates will bring in an extra $1.5 million a year. the marijuana shops

matt lauer actually got to sit down with him and hear his story. he is a 26-year-old chinese entrepreneur who wants to be known only as danny. what you are about to see, his face is concealed and his voice modified. >> it's three nights after the bombing. it's about 11:00? >> yes. >> you are sitting in your car and what happened? >> i saw someone pull over to the curb just behind me. there was a person on the passenger side. jumped out of the car and they walk to my car. looks at my window. i lower it down. suddenly, he put his hand in and opened the door from the inside. >> what did he say to you? >> he took out the gun and said where's the cash. >> how close did he put the gun to you? >> right there. >> right at your head? >> yeah. >> did you think at that moment thrks is the guy the fbi is looking for? >> no. i thought it was a different guy from a picture. >> he asked you a question, didn't he? had you been following the news about the bombings. >> i said i did. >> you take off driving, you had to be scared to death. >> yeah, i was real scared.

. >> when you get grilled by a player like matt lauer god for bid you have faced it all. >> bill: ateast he did it. >> be as tough on her as he was on ann curry? >> bill: chris christie got his stomach stapled and i guess lost 40 pounds and there he is. you say? >> the tractor is in the republican party are saying he has had the lap dog surgery. i like mr. smith and row len ski. i will tell you this. he certainly knows how to get someone elected president. i guess he is going to do it for himself this time through. you have got to lose -- look at that billy. they couldn't ky him into a hock tore 800 it would look like an mri exam. >> bill: hey as a lot of energy behind him. >> flying on gulf stream. he can't fit. and unless you are going to run for mayor mccheese, you can't be that fat and be in politics. >> bill: not today. taft and grover cleveland two of your personal favorites were very hefty boys. i have always marveled at christie's energy. even though he is a big man a lot of energy. >> you have a hell of a lot of energy until the minute your heart stops in the space of a one

he had an interview with matt lauer on "today" he asked that his identify be obscured, but we gave fascinating details of his night. >> dzhokhar, when -- so -- it was only one in the car. >> if you're going to escape, it had to be quick. >> yeah. >> what did you have to do? >> i was thinking i'm fast, and i opened the door. >> with your left hand you under did the seat belt, and you took off. >> did you hear him react. >> yes, he tried to grab me. i could feel it. >> with his hand he tried to grab your back, but just missed you. >> it was very close. i could feel it. >> so, pete williams, this is going it could very important testimony. he is being obscured for now, but he has said he will testify in open court. >> that's right. we've been in touch with him since the day after the carjacking by e-mail. he's slowly coming out as it's less traumatic. it's an important element of getting the suspects from the scene of the shooting of the policeman in cambridge to the scene of the shooting in watertown, where the older brother was killed. so he is in essence, the link between one place to the othe

. >> and one of your colleagues was on with matt lauer. >> reporter: you're one tornado away from being, missouri, when you're in oklahoma. when i was secretaretary of stan the oklahoma city bombing. when you have a disaster, i want to be prudent. i applaud my colleagues for doing that, but you immediately help the people in the affected areas. that's what we've always done as americans. i feel very strongly about that. we have a lot of help in theç oklahoma city bombing, so when things like katrina happen or things like sandy, i figure, you know, it's kind of payback time for us. >> so the question becomes whether the senators who -- your senators have said in the past, well, in the last couple days, you have to pay for everything that is spent. i want to pursue that with you, but we have to go right now to the press conference with janet napolitano. thank you, congressman, and we'll pick that up where we left off. >>> she understands what's going on, and we appreciate the secretary joining us today. madam secretary, welcome. we're also pleased today to have the ceo of the american re

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i want to thank my guests -- matt lauer, jen kirkman, and, of course, awolnation. come on in, guys.w night, chris evans will be here. but "jimmy fallon" happening right now. jimmy! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey. that's what i'm talking about right there. that's a great, new york city crowd. you feel the energy. [ cheers and applause ] you feed off the energy! i love it. welcome, everybody to "late night." yeah, we've got a great show tonight. gonna be a lot of fun, a lot of fun. funny people, interesting people coming, pretty people are coming here tonight. let's get into some news here. here's what everybody's talking about. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is in big trouble, you guys. [ light laughter ] he was arrested this week -- for threatening

compresses three vertebrae in his back but incredibly, makes a full recovery and tells his story to matt laueray" show. >> no, the training did kick in. it became obvious what i needed to do and i was well trained for it and it was just a matter of pulling the handle and going for a ride. >> the captain is just 100 feet from the ground when he triggers his rocket-propelled ejection seat. >> i knew where the jet was going and i didn't want to be there with it, so i knew my only chance of survival was to pull the ejection handle. >> it launches him into the air at more than 100 miles per hour. >> it was quite a ride. i remember the whole thing. i remember pulling the handle. the canopy jettisons out from below you and watching it crash into the ground was quite surreal. >> he lands dangerously close to the fireball and is dragged along the runway before finally coming to a rest. >> well, i knew i was landing close to the fireball but i had so much other things going through my mind that it didn't really occur to me that i could get pulled into the fireball. once i was being dragged away from the

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still he spoke exclusively to the "today" show's matt lauer. >> tamerlan was trying to talk to me. asked me, who is calling you. i said it is my roommate. i was nervous. bring he said you say any word in chinese i will kill you right now. >> but you answered the phone. >> i answered the call. >> what did your roommate ask you? >> he was talking in chinese. where are you? >> and you couldn't answer. >> i couldn't answer. >> he threatened to kill you. >> i answered him in english. i'm going to stay with my friends tonight. my roommate is like what, why do you speak english to me? i kept talking, i got to the go. >> police say that danny is actually a hero because he helped them track down the suspects. >>> just a couple of hours, montgomery county leaders will meet to discuss the latest problems with that troubled silver spring transit center. the biggest issue they face right now, metro's decision last week to pull out of their deal, to take control of the center they after its construction. the council reportedly found that out in a report by "the washington post." not from county

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this morning on "today," matt lauer asked christy if another appearance of that political odd couplectually hurt him within his own party. >> do you ever worry that another visit and more images of you two walking along the boardwalk will cook your personal political goose? >> no. i think what people in my state want more than anything else is for me to do my job. the fact of the matter is, he's the president of the united states. he wants to come here and see the people of new jersey. i'm the governor. i'll be here to welcome him. >> should be a big weekend on the show. deputy political editor is here for more on this morning's first read. give usa sense, governor scott walker, rand paul delivering different visions for the gop. what is -- what other competing visions to try to bring about this gop comeback. >> scott walker has really become something of a hero among conservatives and in the conservative base. remember, he survived that recall vote after his controversial measures on collective bargaining rights and union rights. rand paul, on the other hand, comes from a very diffe

here's chris christie answering nbc's matt lauer's question about the role of climate change in sandy. >> i haven't shown any definitive proof yet that's what caused it. and listen, this is distraction. i've got a place to rebuild here and people want to talk to me about esoteric theorys. >> the thing to understand about sandy, is proof is beside the point. climate change will produce more severe weather and sandy is an indicaor of the climate future, actually the climate present we face. if you view it unrelated to a larger climate pattern then you're going to be in very, very bad shape. chris christie's attitude guarantees that. since taking office, he has de-funded the office of climate change and energy, taken $210 million out of the state's clean energy fund to balance the budget. withdrawn the state from the northeast cap and trade plan and perhaps most relevant, so woefully underprepared his state transportation agency for the effects of climate change that the state sustained over $120 million of damages to their system after sandy. this is a really incredible bit of reporting