Storm chaser caught in tornado: It felt like I was going to heaven
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When Mike Bettes was chasing a tornado in Oklahoma Friday, the twister was hot on the heels of his SUV. He realized he wasn’t going to make it as his truck was lifted up into the air.
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Leno’s ‘Pumpcast’ singing couple insists it wasn’t staged
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Monifa and Will Sims became Internet sensations after “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” showed them singing impromptu karaoke at a gas station, but critics are now suggesting their performance was staged. The couple address the issue with TODAY’s Matt Lauer, insisting, “that’s just us.”
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Boston carjack victim on narrow escape: ‘God was with me’
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The 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who was carjacked by alleged marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev describes a terrifying encounter and a daring escape in an interview with Matt Lauer of TODAY.
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Barbara Bush on Jeb run: ‘We’ve had enough Bushes’ in White House
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Former first lady Barbara Bush said her son George W. Bush should be the last in the family line of presidents, rejecting the idea of a White House run for her other son, Jeb Bush.
“There are other people out there that are very qualified and we’ve had enough Bushes,” she told TODAY’s Matt Lauer on Thursday from inside her son’s presidential library.
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Freed poison letter suspect: ‘I had never heard of ricin’
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“I had never heard of ricin,” Paul Kevin Curtis told Savannah Guthrie on TODAY. “I thought they said ‘rice,’ and I said ‘I don’t eat rice.’ I said, ‘Here’s the key to my home. You can go in and search, there’s no ricin in the my house.’
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F-bomb anchor: Watching viral clip ‘was gut-wrenching’
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Watching his profanity-laced flub for the first time was “gut-wrenching,” fired local anchor A.J. Clemente told TODAY Wednesday.
Just 15 seconds into his very first broadcast as the new weekend news anchor for NBC affiliate KFYR in North Dakota on Sunday, he dropped an F-bomb and an S-bomb on air.
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Stepson of man who found suspect in boat: ‘He didn’t try to be a hero’
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David Henneberry just wanted some fresh air when he and his wife stepped outside their Watertown, Mass., home after an intense day of being locked down. Instead, he got a boatload of shock.
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‘Things just kind of went black,’ says trucker who shot video
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A dad shooting video within 300 yards of the West, Texas fertilizer explosion late Wednesday night described a frightening aftermath of the deadly blast.
“It was a pretty horrific scene, some of the injuries we saw,’’ Derrick Hurtt told Matt Lauer on TODAY Thursday. “There was probably double-digit people standing in front of me videoing that were closer than I was, and after the blast, they were nowhere to be seen.”
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Obama on gun control: After Newtown, ‘I feel personally responsible’
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President Obama expressed confidence in passage of a bill that would make major changes to the nation’s immigration system, in an exclusive TODAY interview conducted days before key senators introduced sweeping legislation on the issue.
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This day on TODAY: A trip through the archives
From historical milestones to pop culture touchstones, from iconic moments to everyday scenes, something memorable happens every morning on TODAY. The show’s archives are chock full of fascinating stories from the past 61 years, and we want to share them with you!
So take a trip back in time with TODAY, starting with a story from exactly 20 years ago on April 8, 1993, as the White House upgraded its phone system to move out of the “horse and buggy” age. An administration “in love with technology” was slowly, but surely attempting to bring the White House into the digital age, with additional phone lines and e-mail.
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Kevin Ware: I don’t quite remember call from Michelle Obama
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As Louisville’s Kevin Ware recovers from a broken right leg suffered in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, he has received tweets from celebrities and even a phone call from First Lady Michelle Obama.
A self-proclaimed “shy guy,’’ Ware told Craig Melvin on TODAY Thursday that he appreciated the support. But the details of the first lady’s call remain a little fuzzy.
“I was so drugged, honestly,’’ Ware said, laughing.
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Savannah Guthrie: What World Down Syndrome Day means to me
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On March 21, we mark World Down Syndrome Day — an opportunity to draw much deserved attention to a group of wonderful people that are contributing to their communities in exciting ways. For me, this day is personal; it’s a chance to remember and reflect on an individual who has had a huge impact on my life, my Uncle Pierce.
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Skier Lindsey Vonn never thought crash ‘was going to be the end of my career’
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In an exclusive interview, Lindsey Vonn, one of the most decorated Olympic skiers in history, talks to TODAY’s Matt Lauer about the devastating injury she sustained just one year before the start of the Sochi Olympics, saying she still has “plenty of time to be ready” for the 2014 Games.
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Monopoly reveals newest game token (and the one kicked out of the box)
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The results are in! Over the past month, hundreds of thousands of Monopoly fans worldwide voted for which new token should replace one of the iconic ones being retired after countless journeys past Go. After a hard-fought campaign, representatives revealed the newest game piece Wednesday morning on TODAY.
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Natalie got an earful (of whoopee cushion) today.
Jony Ive redesigns the NBC News logo.
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Our last set of shout outs were… magical.
Photo’s from New York! And the famous people I had the privilege to meet. They where all super nice, said hi and shook my hand (well Guy fist...
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