Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead From Apparent Suicide | TODAY

some breaking news right now disgrace financier jeffrey epstein has taken his own life while he was behind bars here in new york city epstein was facing sex trafficking charges nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter now has the very latest tom what more do we know uh peter what we know now is that at 6 39 this morning the fire department and ems here in new york city got a phone call from mcc which is a federal detention facility here in manhattan in new york city where jeffrey epstein was being held awaiting trial they took him to new york's downtown hospital he was in cardiac arrest and he was pronounced there what we know from officials have been briefed on what happened he was found and appeared that he had hung himself in his cell or wherever he was being held within mcc and he was found by prison officials this morning and that's when they reached out and they called ems an unsuccessful attempt to to revive him so that happened early this morning and right now what we're trying to do is figure out uh if he was still on suicide watch because there was an incident that occurred several weeks ago where he injured himself it wasn't quite clear if that was an attempt on his life uh an attempt to perhaps stage an attack the details of that uh were never really kind of uh hashed out if you will so uh this morning there's some significant questions on how uh somebody who uh it was such a high profile defendant somebody who had uh connections uh that went up to a current president could be found dead and how this could have happened yeah tom you're exactly right again for our audience just joining us right now nbc news has now confirmed that financier jeffrey epstein has taken his own life at a jail here in new york city we will of course be following the latest developments on the course over the course of this day we're back right after this you