the british will take back savannah. governor wright will return and then savannah will stay in british hands until 1782. before savannah and its british occupation, a couple of other battles will be taking place. not around savannah. in georgia. one of which is the battle of kettle creek. felony 14, 1779. they were heading to augusta which is where they were mustering with some other british and loyalist militia. they were attacked by the patriots. so they caught them off guard. considered a patriot victory. but then less than a month later, you have the battle of briar creek. that was loyalist militia and they were defeated so this was a british victory. so you have some activity going on in the back country. some back and forth. and then later on that year, you have that siege of savannah in september, october. '79. that's when continental forces were trying to take back savannah but they failed. we mentioned this before. and then you have again, kind of a little more into the back country of the time. the siege of au

but why don't people know savannah? okay, maybe they know a little bits about about savannah. but what about 96? what about kings mountain? heck? what about florida the fact that you know, florida actually existed at the time. so i do have some of my own theories. i would love to at some point have a discussion about your theories at some point. but here are mine. first is schools now before i go any further. don't hate on the teachers. i am in no way blaming the wonderful teachers who have taken on the task of educating our youth they are dealt with difficult hands with very few resources and they do the best. with what they have, so this is not hating on the teachers, but schools seem to be teaching more northern campaign than southern and this generalized statement that i've just said is my own hypothesis after studying multiple state curriculums as well as informal polling of just some teacher colleagues about their use of the curriculum in the in the classroom. and the reason that they might be not doing quite as much education on the southern campaign or the southern the

so the british will take back savannah. governor wright will return and then savannah's going to stay in british hands until 1782. now before savannah we're ends it's british occupation. you've got a couple of other battles that are going to be taking place not around savannah and georgia one of which is the battle of kettle creek, february 14th 1779. this was when some loyalist militia, we're heading to augusta. which was where they were mustering with some other british and loyalist militia. and they were attacked by the patriots. so the patriots caught him off guard. considered a patriot victory but then less than a month later you have the battle of brier creek. and that was mostly militia patriot forces that were surprised by a force of british army. and loyalists militia and they were defeated. so this was a british victory. so you've got some some activity going on in the back country some back and forth. and then later on that year you have the that siege of savannah in september october 79 and that's when continent

richard good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. i can tell you there's a lot of nervousness about the future here in kabul as the american drawdown continues. the pentagon announced that the commanding general here will be leaving this country at the end of this month to be replaced by a new general, but with a much more hands-off mission. the taliban is continuing to make advances. after the u.s. evacuated bagram air base, quietly, stealthily, the pentagon says it will complete its pullout early, by the end of august, ahead of the september 11th deadline set by president biden. the u.s. is ending its longest war with a silent march out the door. it seems to be coming from the top. president biden didn't want to talk about afghanistan at the white house yesterday. >> are you worried that the afghan government might fall? >> i think they have the capacity to be able to sustain the government. >> to follow up on afghanistan -- >> i want to talk about happy things, man. >> mr. president, afghanistan -- >> i'm not going to answer any m

>> in savannah georgia she had to split the limits of her ability to earn money and understand the world around her and what people were saying because she dropped out of school. when she was working as a crossing guard in savannah at the martin luther king exit off of 95 she thought the children were not bringing books back and forth to school and asked them why and they said because they were not allowed to take the books home from school so she brought everybody a dictionary and told them to use it to help them because she didn't want their life opportunities to be i guess diminished because they didn't have a large vocabulary. and she stamped in each book "a mind is a terrible thing to waste." she used her own money from cleaning houses. i met her and i know that area. [inaudible] she's had a huge impact on people and it was a great idea to make sure that everybody has a dictionary. >> since 1995 when you founded the project along with french, how many dictionaries have gone out to children? >> over 33,700,000. >> how do you get them out there? >> this project started out with grants

savannah >> you said it there are a lot of economic factors at play. what do officials say about how long this might last >> reporter: yeah, both the white house and independent economists think this is i temporary. they think that eventually prices will come back down when the supply chain improves. a silver lining here, though, just in time for back to school, kids' clothing prices are coming down. so that may be something to look forward to as you head to the shopping mall in the coming weeks and months >> we're happy when you give us a silver lining, tom thank you very much, appreciate it >>> it is 14 after the hour. craig joins us with the latest on the continuing crisis in cuba good morning, craig. >> good morning, savannah and hoda good morning to you as well. the demonstrations that have shaken the island nation in recent days now turning deadly as cubans continue protesting over food and medicine shortages, high prices on basic essentials and other grievances against the government there and they're gaining more support here in the united stat

savannah? >> all right, erin, thank you. >>> for more insight into what comes next for britney spears we turn to legal analyst lisa green. good morning. >> good morning. >> it strikes me that the hires of this attorney that she chose has the potential to really blow the case wide-open. fresh eyes, it's her choice, that he can really now dictate what happens in this case. what do you make of it? >> completely agree. i think we'll look back at yesterday as britney's independence day. here's why. this lawyer, experienced, former federal prosecutor, well versed in the ways of hollywood, is not a member of the insular bar that generally handles conservatorships. he's not going to disobey the law with conservatorships. as you say, here's a fresh, opening the windows, letting th advocate that britney, like everyone american deserves in court. >> britney was once again speaking before the court. emotional. impassioned. speaking quickly. sometimes so quickly the court reporter couldn't keep up and at on

savannah, georgia, made that change just today. joining me now is savannah's mayor, van johnson. thank you. i appreciate it. this is an important conversation we're going to have. >> absolutely. thank you. >> you're requiring masks in all government facilities as well as savannah city schools and early childhood centers. was this a tough choice for you? >> it was a tough choice, but it was a necessary choice. don, our community transmission index has tripled. on july the 12th, we were at 84. today we're at 289. our percentage of positive tests have gone up from 5.7 on july the 2nd to 12.2 on july 23rd. our seven day rolling average has increased from 8.3 on june 8th to 80 now. our vaccination rates are still very low, 42%. we have 40 folks in our hospitals here where a couple of weeks ago we had no one. so obviously we have to do something. >> yeah. we've seen how controversial mask mandates have become. the thing is, is that, you know, police officers or people say, how do you enforce that? my thing is how do you plan to enforce this because to say you have a mandate and then do

savannah is there live. we are learning now about another member of team usa who won't be able to compete, savannah. >> that's right. a different sport, not gymnastics. we'll tell you about that. we'll also talk to former olympic champion nastia liukin who has been in touch with the usa gymnastics team about the impact and what's expected in the days ahead. we'll be live in tokyo just ahead. >>> meanwhile, back here in the united states, they're calling it a fourth wave in parts of the south where the delta variant is running rampant now. what it means as the mask debate rages on. nbc's gabe gutierrez is live in louisiana, and dr. john torres is live in tokyo with the latest on that. >>> in west texas, the world's richest man just made history. jeff bezos and three others blasted off aboard the blue origin rocket. bezos follows fellow billionaire richard branson, who took off nine days ago from new mexico. tom costello is at the launch site this morning. hey, tom. good morning. >> reporter: hey, tom. sorry,

>> savannah, good luck >> oh, good. good. >> i'm good. >> nice talking to ya. >> nice talking to you >>> still ahead here on a thursday morning, inside the battle to stop vaccine misinformation from spreading online, and why it's a lot harder to do than you might think. we'll have that for you when we come back, right after this. ue . with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines, and if you're pregnant or planning to be. ♪ ♪ otezla. show more of you. ♪ (vo) try all cinnamon toast crunch flavors, blasted with cinnadust! i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty

following graduation, she moved to savannah and has been a pillar of the community. vicky worked in the accounting department at memorial hospital in savannah for 27 years. during her career in savannah, she served many offices, including president of the american business association where she was selected woman of the year in 1970. vicky was instrumental in forming the savannah automobile dealers association, ladies auxiliary, and was their president. she was part of the wesley oak methodist church. everyone that knows vicky knows of her loving heart and giving to the community. i recognize her lifetime of service, wisdom, and love. madam speaker, i rise today with a heavy heart to remember and honor former garden city fire chief who passed away on july 5 at the age of 72. service to his community was an integral part of jimmy's character. he also worked as a police officer and paramedic. under his leadership as fire chief, jimmy modernized garden city's fire department to improve his beloved community. his kindness and selflessness extended to every part of his li

miss guthrie. >> okay, savannah. >> a good one too. morning boost, college baseball player robert anthony cruise did not give up hope when he was passed over the major league baseball draft. sure enough, he got a surprise call from the washington nationals who signed him to his first professional contract. and here's what he did. after thanking his mom, he marched over to the auto shop where his father works as a mechanic. he surprised him and put on a new nationals baseball cap right on his head. watch. >> what's up? >> how are you doing? >> pretty good. >> what happened? oh, my god. congratulations, son. oh, my god. oh, my god. really? >> they called me. >> oh, that's awesome. >> oh, everyone is a little misty at this. he said he wanted to celebrate with his dad who has thrown batting practice for him every day after work since he was a 9-year-old boy. >> oh, my gosh. he's worked all his life for that moment. >> i was going to say that's a moment years in the making. >> oh, man, that's so good. >>> up next, another amazing story. rea

savannah >> hallie, thank you >>> coming up on 7:14. craig is here with the latest on the growing crisis in cuba >> good morning to you savannah, hoda for the second night, thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets in cuba. they are frustrated by rising poverty and covid numbers and lack of access to medicine and basic supplies nbc's sam brock is in miami's little havana with more on all of it. sam, good morning to you >> reporter: craig, good morning. for two nights in a row now, rallies have blanketed parts of miami, from little havana and hialeah. with services shut off in cuba, many have no idea what's going on with their loved ones and they are demanding that the u.s. take action. in cuba, days of dissent chants of freedom and liberty in the streets of miami and other cities dumpsters overturned, the rarity of this type of protest in a communist country still sinking in as 90 miles away in miami, families protesting again overnight, fearful of how the cuban military might respond to loved ones back home >> the sit

dresse >> thanks, savannah. nick offerman of "making it" landed his next big role actor and host of nbc's "making it" landed his next big role much is coming in handy. here ap hint. >> you let the ties run get on second and we lost the lead because of you you start using your head. are you crying there's no crying! there's no crying in baseball. >> leave her alone. >> one of the best movies of all-time. >> yes. >> offerman cast in an adaptation of "league of their own. the 1991 classic sports comedy sees offerman as coach of the rockland peaches filling a role similar to tom hanks' character in the original film the show set to follow a whole new cast of characters as they take the field including broad city's abby jacobsen and shante adams. building a great team for this one. any reboot, fantastic. uh-huh. >> next up, camila cabello latest role stepping goo-of-into the glass slippers of "cinderella. amazon releasing the first tease yesterday. take a look. >> this is it. they'll never know my name >> dresses by

but savannah is blaming washington instead. yeah, they are crying out for freedom in the streets of savannah. be the greatest show discontent with the socialist government? the 1991 in the trigger. this process is the desperate economic situation. right now the country is suffering from food shortages. we're here because of the repression of the people they starving us to death have on it is collapsing. we have no homes, nothing. now the police arrive and they begin to drag off people in the crowd. oh the arrest and the violence only makes it demonstrate he's angry. we are not afraid. they cry out. security beat me and my daughter a child. they beat us just because we were walking down the street. the supporters of the government had been out in the streets to president miguel diaz can now himself lead this rally was organized quickly in a town outside savannah where the anti government practice began early on sunday. so we came here to show together with the revolutionaries of this town. the streets belonged to us with the pre

good morning. >> hi, savannah. it's great to be here. >> i am planning to spend my summer at the pool in a mumu. but this segment might change my mind. you have to different body types and the best suits. so what if you're pear shaped? >> please don't spend your summer in a mumu. i have to tell you, this is the perfect day to do this segment because i'm in florida vacationing with family for the hollywood weekend. it has been so fun seeing women of all shapes and sizes rocking one pieces and two pieces. i feel like there's a happy spirit in the air. people are ready to enjoy the world reopening. they're treating the pool deck and the beach as though it's a fashion runway. so we have lots of great ideas. let's start with the pear shape. we have one from lands end and another one from venus. paula is showing these up. first the lands end suit. this has color blocking, which is a huge trend across fashion. it's great for balancing your proportions. moving on to this venus suit, it has this adorable ruffle neckline. it

yeah, they crying out for freedom in the streets of savannah, the greatest show discontent with the socialist government in the 1991 in the trigger to this protest. if the desperate economic situation right now, the country is suffering from food shortages, we because of the repression of the people based sobbing us to death. banner is slaps and we have no homes, nothing. now the, the police arrive and they begin to drag off people in the crowd, the arrest and the violence only makes it demonstrate as angry as we are not afraid . they cry out, security beat me, my daughter a child. they beat us just because we were walking down the street. the support of the government had been out in the streets to president miguel diaz can now himself lead this rally was organized quickly in a town outside savannah where the anti government protest began early on sunday time together with the revolutionaries here, the district long went out to you with the president encouraging, supported to mobilize against opponents, ugly confrontations. here revolutionaries detained opposition, protest to the cuban to he

savannah on the ground in tokyo. i understand you have some new information on the breaking story. >> yeah. we just learned that the athlete who tested positive is actually an alternate on the team. we don't know who she is, but this person is now quarantining at a hotel here in japan. this test that the women's team had been training actually somewhere in japan before traveling here to tokyo, so we don't know how this will impact the team, whether any team members will be deemed close contacts with this alternate. we'll continue to follow the story. you may remember the original statement that came out was from the japanese authorities. it also mentioned that one other individual had been deemed a close contact. we don't have any further information about that individual and this latest statement that came from the u.s. olympic committee that identifies the gymnast as an alternate makes no mention of that other close contact. so right now all we know for sure from the u.s. olympic committee is it's an alternate and

>> power walk. >> savannah and natalie have the idea. i did score a terrific trip organized by the city government for the media, a special boat ride in tokyo bay. i've been in japan for about three weeks which means that my quarantine is up and i have a week left, a golden week where i can get out, walk around the streets, eat some food, see some people. until then, this is my view, which is pretty nice. >> traveling is heavil restricted for locals and fans here, too. organizers eliminated public viewing areas. and like we've seen all week, events and games will continue to be played without fans. >> i'm still excited. i'm trying to be very helpful even though we can't go to any of the events. >> so a cool note on that shinto shrine that i went to, it's on top of the aqua city mall which is right next to the hotel. it's a shrine for visitors like me to take in the sights and thank the gods that we're all here and at the mall. so when you guys come, i can show it to you. >> stef, you talked about that 15-minute window where you get to ru

all going well, major changes are install for savannah, real cleaner. since i've been from the german development agency, g, i said, is working on the dominican republic energy transition. now he's bringing renewable energy here that you don't had on sky beaten the government after to support them with the small centralized photo voltaic facility for supply power to the village. the. this is to meet their strong to her so i can finish it. have had some experience the solar energy. they pulled the money to install solar powered street lights. building roofs were also equipped with many solar panels years ago, though most were stolen sold or no longer work. but that should change in the future thanks to improve technology. a centralized solar power plant will deliver electricity right to people's homes. so binary o will have its own power grade they will need except on the inside of chance, just like it has already been built in another finish, a few hours drive away in the south of the country. thanks to the sun. 50 families here will soon have electrici

savannah, back to you. >> thank you so much. we'll check back in. >>> coming up next, the 17-year-old sensation who has quite a story to share herself after becoming the first swimmer born in alaska to win gold for team usa. i cannot wait for y'all to catch i cannot wait for y'all to catch up with ♪ ♪ [on your mark. get set.] [cymbal crashes decisively] done! i'm done! get a usainly fast online offer on your car ls. i'm done! (vo) look closely at a wolf. get a usainly fast you've seen him before.r he's your dog. wolves and dogs share many traits. like a desire for meat. that's why there's blue wilderness, made with... the protein-rich meat your dog loves. feed your dog's inner wolf with blue wilderness. life... doesn't stop for diabetes. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that's scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. live every moment. glucerna. i wish i could wake up and say hi to a giraffe. ride a train in the sky... and visit far away galaxies. so close

sake, every day. >> savannah, do you like -- >> all day sake. >> savannah, it is your new drink? >> i like sake, but i -- you won't be surprised to hear this, i brought my own tequila here and lime squeezer. >> i hope you're not having it without me. >> no way. i miss you. i miss my girl. >> i miss you. i want to mention this group, they're all navy veterans. thank you for your service and thank you for coming out here. it's a party. don't forget you can sign up to join. head to today.com/plaza. somebody made a sign with our picture. >> here it is. >> from yesterday. >> took a picture of the television. >> you're on it too. >> oh, wow. >> i love it. i love it so much. >> we're missing y'all. see you in a bit. >> thank you. thanks so much. let's check your weather and see what we have going on for you. we'll start off with of course with your weekend ahead for friday, less humid in the great lakes. sizzling temps down south. we move into saturday we're looking at a great day in the northeast. mid-atlantic into new england and we have more wet weather in the southwest. sunday, sund

yeah, made crying out for freedom in the streets of savannah. the greatest show discontent with the socialist government. the 1990s packed in the trigger for this protest. if the desperate economic situation right now the country is suffering from food shortages. we're here because of the repression of the people they are starving us to death have on it is collapsing. we have no homes, nothing. now the police arrive and they begin to drag off people in the crowd, the arrest and the violence only make the demonstrators angry. we are not afraid. they cry out. security beat me and my daughter a child. they beat us just because we were walking down the street. the support of the government had been out in the streets to president miguel diaz can know himself led this rally was organized quickly in a town outside savannah, where the anti government protest began early on sunday. so that we came here to show together with the revolutionaries of this town, the streets belonged to us with the president, encouraging, supported to mobilize against opponen

savannah sellers, nbc news, new york. >>> here in tokyo, unforgettable scenes at the pool and back home in the u.s. as caeleb dressel won the 100 freestyle and his second gold medal of these olympics. here is stephanie gosk. >> reporter: dressel trying to hang on. >> reporter: when caeleb dressel cranked up the speed the last 50 meters, his mom couldn't even look. >> and caeleb dressel from the united states is going to win gold up there in lane five! >> reporter: family and friends erupted with cheers. his wife was overcome with emotion. his mom back home in florida is perhaps the silver lining to an the watch parties are big. they are itement feels somehow greater from afar. >> usa! >> reporter: whether that's in alaska watching lydia jacoby or hawaii when carissa moore nabbed the first gold in olympic surfing. it also means fresh off the race or the win, athletes are talking to the people they love most much faster than if they had been in the stands. >> got a few people who want to talk to you. >> i love you so much. i am so proud you have. >> love you too. thank you, guys. >> repor

gabe, good morning >> reporter: savannah, good morning. this is all based on unpublished research that prompted the cdc to up its mask guidance. it comesed a the biden administration is struggling to inoculate more americans this is one of the hospitals where health care workers have rallied against vaccine mandates breaking overnight, the cdc reportedly warning that american officials need to acknowledge the war against covid has changed. writing in an internal document first obtained and posted online by "the washington post," that the delta variant is as contagious as the chickenpox, much more than previously thought. noting the person-to-person transmission rate is more drastic than the covid-19 strain >> if you allow the virgs to freely circulate because so many people are unvaccinated, you give it yet again another opportunity to mutate even more. >> reporter: the cdc finding that vaccinated individuals may be able to infect others as easily as the unvaccinated vaccines are still paramount the cdc noting they protect against the symp

savannah hodge relishes these lush surroundings. there are stones throw from her new home because in those lab report of the 1st time i came to the room and saw these wonderful, clear that was when i was learning rock climbing. that's all you do. i have a strong vision that this place to be transformed into an ideal place for climate. for most of the folks could pay. basically cream has come train. that's a sunset for you. you see, for now your volume used to work in human resources and the serbian capital belgrade. she would visit room just to go climbing and her spare time. but then the pandemic hair and everything changed. working remotely, she decided to relocate to the countryside. but we didn't want to stay in the city because of the corona virus and the whole situation on life is hope you changed. i think for the better than anything the boy plenty of city dwellers have recently picked up sticks and moved to the village of rome. jeff and sir b as port east in search of a more pleasant living environment. remote working has gi

morgan, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. that's right, thousands took to the streets in cuba in a striking anti-government protest that was truly unprecedented. police clashed with protesters who called for freedom after what has been a perfect storm. now in these countrywide protests, they're calling for food, for medicine and for freedom. now they're calling for food, medicine and freedom. an unprecedented display of anger and frustration in the streets of cuba on sunday. thousands of anti-government rallies in large cities and small towns across the island of 11 million people. citizens calling for an end to the decades old communist dictatorship. protesting the island's dire economic conditions. food shortages and the slow pace of covid-19 vaccinations. in one area of havana, protesters clashing with police. elsewhere, they chanted repressors at riot police. cubans angry over oppression of civil liberties and the handling of the pandemic amid what many are describing as the country's worst economic crisis in decades. the

as you well know georgia posts the port of savannah which is one of the fastest growing force in the united united stan the hemisphere, while not just to george's economy but the u.s. economy. we continue to see the impact of ransomware attacks and other cyber attacks on u.s. critical infrastructure, the colonial pipeline attack. colonial pipeline also headquartered in georgia. i want to thank your personal who assisted in response to that incident. my request for you, mr. secretary, is that you commit that the next time your vacation to visit george and i hope to welcome you soon, that you will sit down with me and georgia ports authority personnel to discuss had dhs can better support cybersecurity to protect the port of savannah and perhaps you could comment now as well on your overall assessment of efforts to protect ports from cyber attack. >> so this is a very important area for us, cybersecurity structure agency is focus on port security and the cyber domain, and yes, senator, i would be pleased to visit georgia and visit the ports authority with you and address their concerns

. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today" at the olympic games, with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb from tokyo, japan. >>> and good morning, everybody. welcome to "today" and welcome to tokyo. it is great to have you with us on this monday morning. if you thought that australian coach was excited, you should have seen hoda and i. we were cheering on the gold medal winning u.s. men's relay team. by the way, a couple of the members right over there. right there. >> we are pumped up this morning, man. >> look at this group. it's happening, you guys. the olympics got off to a strong start. the swimmers are killing it. they are here. they brought their hardware. it's kind of fun to see these fresh and happy faces. you're going to see more team usa athletes sporting their medals from the opening weekend of competition. we'll chat with all of them throughout the morning. >> not just swimming, we have fencing, gymnastics, we've got it all. don't forget our friends back home. we've got a party going, live look at our plaza. >> you're invited. 1a out on our plaza. >> if

when she was working as a crossing guard in savannah, the martin luther king exit off of 95 she saw that children weren't bringing books back and forth to school and she asked them why because they weren't allowed to take books from home and she bought everybody a dictionary and told them to use it because they didn't want their opportunity lives to be diminished because they didn't have a large vocabulary and wrote mind is a terrible thing to waste. i met her and i actually -- some actually clean their house. she died in 2000 from breast cancer. so she has had a huge impact on people and it was a great idea to make sure that everybody has a dictionary. >> so since 1995 when you founded the dictionary project with arnold french, how many dictionaries have gone out to children? >> over 33,700,000. >> how do you get them out there? >> civic organizations. this project started out with writing grants and then i spoke to different organizations about this idea because they were intrigued with the idea of dictionaries and, of course, literacy so they took on the literacy project, most organiz

if savannah were here, she'd say, good luck, rog. >> i was about to say, that's savannah cheering. >>> now to an investigation into how a day of family fun turned tragic in iowa. >> a river rift overturned on a water ride killing an 11-year-old boy and injuring three others. miguel almaguer has more on what happened. >> reporter: craig, good morning. authorities are still searching for answers on what went wrong on the raging river ride at adventure land park, passing inspection just one day before the fatal accident. a fun saturday at an iowa theme park turning into a family's worst nightmare when a raft on adventure lands raging river ride like this one overturned, plunging its six passengers into the rushing waters below, injuring three and killing ee ag 11-year-old michael haramia. four off duty altoona police officers and two fire medics working at the park racing to the scene. >> it was very challenging with the ride's location in the park, it was remote from the entrance that we needed to use >> reporter: the ride passing an inspection the day before. iowa regulators finding it

that came from general sherman meeting the 20 black ministers in savannah. and he says what do you people want? this is after sherman's march. what do people want? they said, they had a stenographer there the whole transcript is in the newspaper. we want land and we want to be left alone. they knew land would help you accumulate wealth and they understood the importance of property because we were property. so they had the intuitive understanding of the importance of property and sherman a couple days later issued field number 15 reallocated the land of the enslavers to the enslaved. that was the first 40 acres and a mule. and that radical land proposition came out of the meeting with those 20 black ministers now cut to the 20th century the face of the civil rights movement in the north certainly one of them was adam clayton powell junior just like his father the pastor of the baptist church and then of course the face of the civil rights movement in the south after 1955 would be doctor martin luther king jr., jesse jackson the first black man at least who h

savannah and hoda will be back on monday. up next, we're going to have our second annual summer get-together savannah, ho, al, carson, and i met up in a backyard about a year ago the first time we had all been together in months with restrictions eased this time, we got together at fresco, the unofficial restaurant of the "today" show we ate, drank, lauwegh, right r news at 8:00 >>> a one-two punch of severe weather soaking g the northeast. overnight, a fast-moving storm flooding roads and new york subways, and now another storm, elsa, bringing more heavy rain nbc's kathy park is in the thick of it this morning she joins us live from long island kathy, good morning. >> good morning to you elsa made landfall earlier this week, but we're still feeling the impact of the tropical storm this morning we keep getting slammed with heavy bands of rain and gusty conditions, but keep in mind, the ground is already saturated from the round of storms we saw last night, which caught a lot of people here in the northeast off guard, especial

. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and welcome to "today." thank you so much for joining us on this thursday morning. savannah and hoda are both off, and down in florida, it went from hopeful to heartbreak. >> we begin with news out of surfside, florida, where it was two weeks ago today at 1:30 in the morning when the champlain towers south partially collapsed, at the time officials announcing one person was killed and 99 unaccounted for. >> rescuers worked around the clock as both the death toll and the number of missing continued to go up. then on sunday, the decision was made to demolish the remainder of that building, an effort to open up an unreachable area amid fears of tropical storm elsa. >> then last night the news many had been expecting. the operation turning from rescue to recovery. officials telling families there was "no chance of life in the rubble." >> then a short time later, hundreds of those first responders gathered by the site for an emotional moment of silence for the now 54

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yeah, they crying out for freedom in the streets of savannah, the, the greatest show discontent with the socialist government in the 1991 fact in the trigger to this protest, the desperate economic situation. right now the country is suffering from food shortages. we're here because of the repression of the people they are starving us to death. have on it is collapsing. we have no homes, nothing. now the police arrive and they begin to drag off people in the crowd, the arrest and the violence only makes the demonstrators angry. we are not afraid. they cry out. security beat me and my daughter a child. they beat us just because we were walking down the street. the supporters of the government had been out in the streets to president miguel diaz can now himself lead this rally was organized quickly in a town outside havana, where the anti government protest began early on sunday. so that we came here to show together with the revolutionaries of this town, that the streets belonged to us with the president encouraging, supported to mobilize against opponents. they were ugly confrontatio