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Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Welcome to today. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist with Natalie Morales and dylan dreyer. Matt and al have the morning off. Weather outside is frightful here. Warm and rainy. Warm and rainy is the key. I cant believe how long it was. I said i put the jorts up on a shelf and could bring them down. I know. Guys. Its insane. We have ryan oneal live in our los angeles studio this morning. He just won a huge verdict and that Farrah Fawcett portrait is in his hands now legally. But the weather is the top story this morning. The impact it is having on the holiday rush. At least nine deaths blamed on storms that produced everything from tornadoes to a dangerous ice storm. Half a Million People without power nationwide. By late last night, more than 700 flights had been cancelled. Another 11,000 delayed. Just in time for the Christmas Holiday. What do we have in store for today. Today is mostly just rain. Heavy rain at that across the southeast. But this whole storm system we saw everything with it and we had our fair share of wild weather this weekend. Reporter look out. Holiday shoppers jump for cover as sheets of ice fall from the roof of an outlet mall. No one was hurt. Fallen wires were the danger further north, an ice storm downed tree lines from the upper midwest to new england. 300,000 lost power in michigan alone. Crews have been working in the bitter cold, temperatures in the teens to get the power back on. They bring in extra crews from out of state. Its an effort to get them lined up where to go and what to do. Reporter five people drowned along washed out roads in kentucky while drivers in indiana abandoned their cars to rising waters. In hughes, arkansas theyre picking up the pieces after a tornado touched down saturday. One person was killed and four were hurt. Heavy winds caused gridlock at airports. Departure boards lit up with delays and cancelled flights. 700 flights cancelled in all frustrating early holiday travelers. Its looking like christmas in sheboygan, wisconsin. The city got half a foot of snow. Its made it a nice setting for a White Christmas. Reporter it was a completely different story along the east coast, record warm temperatures sunday in new york, philadelphia, and delaware. Not exactly what skaters had in mind when they flocked to the rink at Rockefeller Center. I knew it was going to be warm but i didnt know it was going to be that watery. Reporter skating in short sleeves days before christmas. I wish it was a little colder. Still warm and rainy across Rockefeller Center but you can see across parts of maine and new england, we have ice. Thats the biggest concern this morning. The potential to a quarter inch to half an inch of ice. But elsewhere, heavy rain, perhaps a couple of inches of rain but then as we go into the holiday were looking for things to clear out. In fact, tuesday, Christmas Day itself, looks a whole lot better. Dylan, thanks. The burst of summer leading us back to reality. Thanks. Today is an important deadline for president obamas health care law. Meantime he is on vacation in hawaii. Last night the first family took a little time to enjoy a College Basketball game coached by the first ladys brother craig robinson. Nbcs White House Correspondent Peter Alexander is traveling with the president. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Here we like to say aloha. They say the website can handle any last minute rush of consumers but theres a deep concern, especially among Health Care Advocates that the word may still not be getting out to the people that need the coverage the most. After a tortured roll out, todays the first real deadline. The last day to enroll for health care beginning january 1st. How many people sign up by december 23rd will be the first true test of how well the law is working and in particular how well healthcare. Gov, the federal website is now functioning. Reporter on social media, a final push. This holiday inspired tweet from the washington d. C. Exchange. Instead of socks or an ugly sweater, how about Health Insurance for christmas. And as anticipated, a last minute spike in demand. When we called this weekend, a nearly two hour wait. Your estimated time is 105 minutes. Reporter the president said more than 1 million americans already enrolled but thats far shy of the 3 million plus the administration hoped to have signed up by this point. But experts say who enrolls is more important than how many. W. Emphasizing the need to get enough Young Healthy people to balance the costs for older and sicker americans. A series of late changes have complicated the process including the administrations latest move allowing more flexibility for the millions that got cancellation letters. Some democrats have repeated their calls for a oneyear delay warning obamacare could collapse if the problems continue. If its so much more expensive than what we anticipated and the coverage isnt as good as we had, you have a complete meltdown at that time. Reporter still uncertain is how Many Americans will pay their premiums before the end of this month. They need to do that for their coverage to begin. The white house has encouraged insurers to give a short grace period and most insurers have agreed to that. All right. Peter alexander among the palm trees for us this morning. Thanks. New fall out from the massive data breach at target. Theres growing calls for a government investigation and according to the wall street journal sales at the retail giant dipped slightly over the weekend. Nbcs Kerry Sanders is at a store in florida live this morning. Whats the latest there . Target is now in full damage control as many of the customers are angry, frustrated, and understandably worried. Reporter with two days to go before christmas, the giant data breach at target could not have come at a worse time. And shoppers are worried its a trend. I think ill start using cash. Reporter making matters worse for some rushing to complete their holiday purchases, Jp Morgan Chase is putting a daily cash limit of 100 and spending limit of 300 on about 2 million cards that could be susceptible to fraud. On sunday, the new york senator Chuck Schumer called for a full investigation by the Consumer Financial protection bureau. By revealing the information, it will enable other stores to learn from this experience. Reporter target is offering discounts and apologies and promising customers zero liability for any charges that you didnt make. Plus free credit monitoring to everyone impacted. But some customers are still angry. One writing on facebook, no more shopping at target for me. Done. Others say target should not be blamed. You cant just say youre going to be scared to shop at target because this could happen anywhere. Reporter many Security Experts agree that its unfair to blame the retailer. Target has spent a lot of money on payment card security and they were compliant with all the latest security standards. Reporter but experts say those standards are antiquated, the u. S. Relies on easy to copy magnetic strips to hold account information rather than more secure digital chips used in most other countries. So far, no one has detailed exactly how this happened. Chief suspects would be sophisticated organized criminals that have studied target or insiders with Privileged Access that know exactly where to go. Reporter Security Experts are warning this morning that if you get an official looking email from your bank, dont follow any links on that email and then start providing personal information because it may be a socalled phishing scam where somebody is trying to steal your identity. Savannah. Unfortunately a lot of people oking to seize this opportunity. Kerry sanders, thank you. Natalie is here with breaking news in a case we have been following a couple of years now. Good morning. Two russian punk band members jailed over a protest in moscow were released from prison early under an amnesty deal. Jim maceda talked to one of the band members earlier. He is in russia with the latest. Reporter thats right. Maria alyokhina was released from a prison much closer to moscow than we are here in siberia where her fellow member was released just this evening. Both are mothers of young children. Maria told reporters she was feeling physically and mentally okay as she left prison with her lawyer. She now wants to pursue a human rights career and lost no time today meeting with a local chapter of the committee against torture adding that shes not afraid to do anything anymore. Meanwhile, nadezhda told me in that interview she is joining maria in a human rights career as well. She thought that the pardon that freed her was an act of weakness on the part of president putin because it came with a few months to go in her jail term. She cant wait to go home and bond with family and friends and all of those that got her through what she called a nightmare. Jim maceda, thank you. Some passengers willi be lae getting to their destination. The flight was headed to atlanta. No confirmation it was weatherrelated, but bad weather has hampered travel in and around the area over the weekend. Lots of concern, but fortunately no injuries. And frightening moments for passengers in south africa. You see the wing of the British Airlines jetliner that into the building of the airport in johannesburg. All 182 passengers got off safely. Investigation is underway. Former basketball star Dennis Rodman did not meet with kim jongun. He arrived in beijing today after in north korea. He was there to train players for an exhibition game next month. It will mark kim jonguns birthday next month. A building in flint, michigan tumbled to the ground to make way for a new park. 1,000 pounds explosives were used to bring the tower down. S. Plans are to transform the site into a Family Friendly plaza with a science theme. Sometimes waiting until the last few days to do your Holiday Shopping does pay off after all because beyonce stopped by a store in massachusetts to do some shopping and to promote her new album and when she got out to the check out stand, she had a surprise for everyone. For everyone in the store right now, the first 50 of your Holiday Gifts are on me. Merry, Merry Christmas from beyonce. Making friends and fans everywhere. Beyonce picking up the first 50 of the tab for everyone there and picking up the baby as well. So cute. All the customers probably picking up the phone. As long as it wasnt like 10 00 in the morning with 10 shoppers there. What are we got going this week . Its warm here but not everyone is seeing the warm temperatures. Its so cold in some areas where we have wind chill warnings posted. Northeastern south dakota and into parts of minnesota as well. We are looking at your feels like temperature to be around 25 degrees below zero. Thats what it feels like in bismark. Feels like 30 degrees below zero in south dakota. Its going to be brutally cold out that way and unfortunately its not going to warm up any time soon. That colder air is going to continue to move into the midwest. Eventually into the east coast so by christmas we should see temperatures in the 30s and 40s. We do have a couple of rain and snow showers in seattle. Mostly rain in seattle. Thats a look at the weather o good morning. 7 14. Waking up to clear skies across the entire viewing region. You can find in San Francisco a beautiful sun rise here this morning. No fog to report of and thats what were going to deal with all day long. Plenty of sunshine will continue temperatures warm, talking about temps from 65 degrees to 70 with our warmest locations across the east and the north bay. And thats your latest forecast. Thanks dylan. Prince harry and his group of Wounded Warriors returned home to a heros welcome this morning following their trip to the bottom of the earth. Duncan is at Heathrow Airport this morning. Duncan, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Not even this london weather could dampen the joy here today as families welcome back veterans from the u. S. And u. K. Who trekked 200 miles across the antarctic. Cheers and hugs this morning for a heros return. Missing from the add venturous prince harry. After leaving the team, he returned to london alone. Last spotted out shopping in south africa still sporting his own personal souvenir. That bright, bushy beard. I think we all turn around and look and see him there and say is that really prince harry . But he was harry and a teammate and great fun to be with. He applied himself well. Reporter it wasnt just royalty joining the veterans, it was actors too. Pulling heavy sleighs they travelled across antarctica in freezing temperatures. Three of the team members suffered frostbite. This was a chance to show that life changing is injuries can be overcome. She was injured in baghdad. For me, it has given me a boost knowing that i can go to the south pole so why cant i start working again. Reporter team usa returned home this afternoon. No confirmation on whether prince harry will be joining the rest of the royal family for christmas but that would be con convenient for dropping off gifts. Savannah. Thank you so much. We can report flight 732 just landed on time in london. Yeah. Rain delay. 747 going behind you. Theres just 45 days now to go until the Winter Olympics and lindsey vonn is recovering from another set back. She missed a gate and clutched her injured near during a downhill event in france over the weekend but she insists her sights are still set firmly on sochi. So lindsey vonn now ready to kick out of her gate. All eyes were on lindsey vonn and her right knee as she took off downhill at the world cup in france on saturday. Look at her loading up the right knee there. No problems what so ever. She is close. She is in touch here in this one. But about halfway through her run she lost herbal. Oh, ouch. And there you saw it, the knee. No stability what so ever. Vonn skied out after missing a gate. Hunched over in pain but Still Standing and then skied to the finish. I was going fast and i hit a compression and my right knee just didnt hold up. It gave out and i tried to pressure again and it gave out again. With less than o two months until the olympics its a painful set back. Well, you know, its yes, i am. I guess i am suffering a little bit. Suffering but still olympic bound. She was very close to the fastest time before going out so the answer is yes, she can compete for a medal. Vonn has not ruled out further competition. Bummed about today. Skiing with no acl is hard. Well see how it responds over the next few days and then make a plan with the not giving up and sochi 2014. Im trying to make it through the season and get to the olympics and do the best i can there. Its tough. A tough road ahead but still leading straight to sochi. We have all spent time around lindsey vonn but you wonder, she keeps hurting the knee and keeps hurting the knee. Did i hear her right . She said i have no acl. Yeah. She said she will be there. Her teammate finished 14. She is racing with a hairline fracture in her arm. Were a little banged up. 45 days. Hopefully they get it together and feel better. Absolutely. Lets head over to the orange room. Mario armstrong is here. Hello everyone. Good morning everyone at home. How are all of you . Theres a lot of buzz happening over the weekend because vin diesel posted a tweet. Its about paul walker who passed on november 30th in an untimely death. A lot of people have been talking about the fond memories of him for all of his giving back for humanitarian needs. This is a message posted on his facebook page. This is the last imagine taken with vin diesel and here is the text you see here. The big question, will there be a fast and furious 7 . The answer is yes. It will be released april 2015. On the 10th of that month. Thank you so much. Thank you. Important to a lot of people. Will he really deep it forever . Ryan oneal is speaking out about his courtroom battle over a pricey portrait of his long time love Farrah Fawcett. 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The family of a 13yearold oakland girl being kept on life support will hold a march this morning. Jahi mcmath had tonsil surgery at Childrens Hospital two weeks ago but declared brain dead days later. Today a judge is expected to appoint an independent doctor to evaluate the girls condition. Last night a group of faith leaders held a rally and sent a letter to the d. A. s office demanding a formal investigation of the hospital. They are also accusing doctors and administrators being insensitive to the family. Whether he be or she be a doctor or any position in the shes dead shes dead and i believe and we want the court to say no, no, no, it represent as lack of sensitivity. A hospital spokesman denies those words were ever spoken but said doctors did make it clear in their opinion jahi is dead and no chance her brain will restart. Investigators looking for the person who tossed a severely injured puppy in the trash. The dog was found on a Conveyor Belt on friday. Animal control took the tiny poodle in nicknamed her gem. She is expected to survive. Boy, could use some loves and hugs. Lets check the forecast with anthony is in for christina this morning. Good to see you. Good to see you. Happy holidays. Waking up to clear skies, very chilly, in the 30s and 40s. Our coldest location across the north bay. Hard to believe our warmest location will be across the north andhe east bay. Talking about temperatures near 70 degrees. This is record warmth for this time of year so take it easy. Were sparing the air for today as well. Mike, how are the roads . Pretty good. We have a stall on 101 but its clear and not a problem. Thats not the cause of the slowing. North 101 with a crash around mckee that has cleared to the shoulder causing a little slowing for 101 through san jose. Bay bridge toll plaza, no metering lights. Its a light commute. The next hour expect a build, then it should ease up again. Ill be back with another local update in about a half hour at 7 55 or so. Have a great monday morning. Morning. It is december 23rd, 2013, and the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is looking oh so beautiful this morning as is our crowd on the plaza. Everybody bundled up kind of. Not really. Its warm and rainy. A little bit of drizzle. Two days from now santa is going to be delivering the presents. Were going to check on the progress of santa and see how things are going in a couple of minutes. Live in the north pole. It will cool off later. You have to shed the whole wool. The tank top. It doesnt work. Heres a look at whats making headlines today, an ice storm around the great lakes as nearly half a Million People hoping to have power before christmas while in the south heavy rain is making a mess of the morning commute. Today marks the first major deadline day for the Affordable Care act. This is the last day to avoid enroll for coverage if you want it to begin on january 1st. Phil robertson is speaking out for the First Time Since duck dynasty. He vows he will not give or back off. In a recent magazine interview. More on that coming up. If youre looking for last minute christmas bargains, why not haggle for what you want. How to get surprising deals from big chain retailers to electronic stores. A story that will touch your heart about a wife and mother that gave her family a remarkable Christmas Wish two year after she lost her battle with cancer. Were going to start with a today exclusive. Ryan oneal opening up about a special fight to hold on to a special painting or portrait of his long time love Farrah Fawcett. Were going to talk to ryan in a moment. First the back story. For ryan oneal this andy warhol is as personal as valuable. An iconic image of his long time love, the late Farrah Fawcett. But the silk screen has been hanging in limbo while a jury decided whether it belonged to oneal. He removed it from faucets home in 2009. We have been watching the case. It was his idea to get paintings made. He knew andy warhol. They were handed one to him and one to her. Fawcetts alma mater, the university of texas claimed the actress had given both warhols to the school in her will. Late last week the jury ruled the school could get one and he gets the other. Its a long trial and were extremely pleased that the jury did the right thing. The trial but the turbulent relationship under the microscope but friends of fawcetts, including jacqueline smith, stood by ryan oneal. I know my friend and i love my friend and i need to support ryan because thats where her heart would be. A surgical procedure prevented him from being in court to hear the jurys 93 decision in his favor but fawcetts two sons were there. They expressed relief. Hopefully your mom can rest in peace. Exactly. I know she had something to do with this up there. Well, ryan oneal is with us exclusively along with his attorney. Martin singer. Good morning to both of you. Good morning. Ryan, you were having surgery the day the verdict was read. Can you take me back, though, to the moment you found out. I know you got a call from your son. What was your reaction when you found out this portrait will stay with you and your family. My son patrick called me from the courthouse. He texted me. I was lying on an operating table. There was blood running down the side of my face and then there were tears running down the side of my face, mixing with the blood. It was a Pretty Amazing moment for me. Well, you testified very emotionally in this case. You said there were times you even talk to this portrait. It does seem its more than an object to you. Well, i talked to her this morning about doing your show. She said i could do it. You asked her permission . Yeah. Its that real to you, is it . This is the way youre keeping her memory alive . It seems to have developed over the years. I had her in my home for 18 years, the painting. But when she died, both paintings were in her home so the university of texas felt that they belonged to the university and i had said, no, no. One is mine and thats why we went to court. And they brought a big set of guns here to fight me. But i had martin singer who is the finest litigator in the country on my side and we prevailed. Ryan, let me ask you because i have been following the case and reading about the case and one of the questions i had was how it is that farrah didnt make it more explicit that she wanted you to have the portrait. She had a will. She left you out of the will. There was testimony in the trial that she asked friends to put postit notes on things they wanted to keep. Why didnt she make it clear she wanted you to have that portrait . Well, because the will that the living trust went into action when she died she had not completed it. She had done one pass at it. It wasnt and she didnt have to say anything about the portrait being mine because it was mine, you see . From the day we got them. One was mine and one was hers. She wouldnt have mentioned that anyway. This was a long shot for texas to do this, i felt. They didnt really have a case. And what motivated the university in your mind . Oh, i have enemies and one of them sent 90 emails to the regents there and said i stole it. And that it was worth 30 million and i stole it and they should come and get it and they finally decided they should come and get it. Nobody knows what this portrait is worth. It probably is in the multimillions of dollars. Put you said this portrait is strictly sentimental value to you. A lot of people look at the value of this and start to do the math. Are you saying youll never sell this portrait . But keep it in your family forever. It will never be sold. It will go on to her son redmond and his children. And his children, like that. It was always invaluable to us. She was a wonderful woman. And this is what was left. Thats all that was left. This trial dredged up a lot of unpleasant memories. Some of the moments from your relationship all came into the trial and were part of the testimony. When you think about that and having to go through that, was it worth it to dredge all of that up . It was worth it, yes. I know that she would have said fight for me. Fight for this painting. She would have told me that. And redmond and i discussed it and he said lets go get it. So we had martin here for help because it looked like it was going to be a tough case. And it turned out it wasnt. Finally, to ask you personally, you mentioned your skin cancer surgery last week. You battled leukemia and prostate cancer. Tell us how youre doing this morning. Im doing fine. Ill be fine. Everything good with your health . Yes, thank you. Well, ryan oneal. Thank you for taking the time. I know its early out there. Mr. Singer, thank you for being with us as well. Congratulations on the verdict in the case. Thank you. All right. Lets take a turn now and get a check of the weather from dylan. Announcer todays weather is brought to you by jared the galleria of jewelry. Truly unique designs that you wont find just anywhere. Thats why he went to jared. Lets show you what weve got going on out there. Its 61 in new york city. 33 in boston. Clearly theres a warm front draped in through here and up across parts of new england we have light freezing rain. Enough to make things slippery. Elsewhere, we have really heavy rain, including areas Like Washington d. C. And look at how foggy and warm it is right now. 61 degrees by 9 00 a. M. By 3 00 p. M. 54. By the time we get to 6 00 tonight well drop down to 49 degrees. Were going to see some cooler weather make its way in today. Its warmest this morning and then it will start to cool off. Back behind this cold front and were at 6 below for a high this afternoon in north dakota. Behind that we have snow showers. Maybe up to three inches or so through parts of montana and lake effect snow as well. That, again, shouldnt accumulate all that much except where its heaviest. Especially northern parts of good morning. 7 39. Waking up to clear skies across the entire bay area. Anthony slaughter in for christina loren. You find through your day temperatures warm quickly in fact clear skies all day long and were talking about temperatures range from about 65 in San Francisco to close to 70 in places like the south bay, east bay and trivalley. Also the north bay expecting to see temperatures warm, talking about record heat today across the entire bay area. And that is your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you so much. Coming up next, can you do a little better . How to haggle to get a great price on your last minute christmas presents. And not just anywhere but at a big box retailer. 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Reporter you have two days to shop before christmas and the phrase i want what i want and i want it now might be one worth practicing. From Department Stores to the big box retailers the art of haggling made a quite come back. When you haggle down a price, it could range anywhere from 20 to 50 . Reporter shes not kidding. Here at best buy they call it their low price guarantee. Cheaper one of our online competitors or local retail competitors, low price guarantee has it covered and well match it for you. Is there some way i can get it cheaper . Reporter its not unusual to just ask for a better day. Im not going to pay more than 90 for the head phones. Are you going to give them to me or am i going to walk out of here . Ill make sure we accommodate you as much as possible on the price. If have to make an exception as the leader of the store to take care of a customer im never going to say no to that or to you. If that doesnt work, theres extra incentives like a longer warranty and set up. The answer isnt no. The answer is you dont know. Now find me someone that does. Reporter harriet said she has been doing it for years and considers herself something as an expert in the art of negotiating. The better Retail Stores are willing to work with you. Bloomingdales. Well lets say the outlets over the retail store but everybody is pretty accommodating. Reporter people have haggled at in ordnordstroms, barnes n and kohls. Some even have bargaining parameters. Would you ever say could i get 10 off . Yes. As a matter of fact i did that once. Did it work . No. Reporter it didnt work for rita but heres some tips. Always come prepared. Know what other stores are selling it for. That way you can haggle for a better deal. Ask if theyll match a price and remember your first reaction could be your best reaction. If you are shocked by the Sticker Price, show it. It could work to your advantage. And do not be afraid to leave. Willie, i know youre a master at the walk out. Just walk away. You have to know when to walk away. Can you do your im shocked at the Sticker Price look . That works too. We learned we have terrible h hagglers at this table. Heres full price, a little bit more. Katie, thank you so much. Coming up, a sandra lee christmas. The semihomemade queen gives Jenna Bushhager a personal tour of her home. Up next t ratings bonanza that was, jimmy fallon and Justin Timberlake on snl. Oh, i thought it was something else. Ho ho ho [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. Some are giant. Some not so giant. When managing your weight, bigger is always better. Ho ho ho green giant where does the United States get most of its energy . Is it africa . The middle east . Canada . Or the u. S. . The answer is. The u. S. Most of Americas Energy comes from right here at home. Take the energy quiz. Energy lives here. Kerri hey kerri the sparkle® fairy here. Are you about to drop some serious coin on paper towels . Mom well, i use bounty. Kerri ooo do you really want a paper towel that can hold a bowling ball . Eek heres a bright idea. Use sparkle® with thirst pockets®. Its just right for cleaning up everyday little messes without cleaning out your piggy bank. Sparkle®. The bright way to clean. Gotta jet im okay, im okay. Shes just gifing out, whats uhoney. Randma . I didnt know grandma could move like that. Get more this holiday by redeeming the shop your way points youve earned. Plus, shop online and pick up instore for free. Kmart. Get in. Get more christmas. Back now at 7 51. What a weekend on snl. How much time do you need . About two hours . This was amazing. It is still trending huge on social right now. The favorite bromance of snl and late night. Jimmy fallon and jt, they brought it. Heres the clips. Check it out for yourself. Its an about evolution. Its my favorite solution. Bag down tissue up, thats the way we wrap it up. Am i too late to sing a song . Of course not. Oh, i mean, please. [ music playing ] theres only one way for a man to be really sexy. Whats that. Be Justin Timberlake. Yes. She came in like a wild horse. Do you have another job lined up mr. Mayor . I applied to teach spanish at a few universities but im told that my accent isnt quite bueno. Bring it own down, that was my favorite part. What was your favorite part . Guys it was incredible. What did you think . Fantastic. You cant lose. You were there. Yeah, i got to go to the dress rehearsal. It was insane. The cameos. Barry gibbs himself. You know how i love them. It was amazing. Needs to happen more often. Thank you so much. Coming up well shift gears and tell you about a touching story. One womans act of love and selflessness for her family two years after her thats your new boss . Yeah. Well. Your boss loves the beach. Really . Shes been to london, paris and her son plays baseball. You psychic . No. I speak pandora. 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[ man ] take five hey, joyce [ grunts ] you really seem to be dragging your a [ donkey brays ] mid morning slump. [ donkey snorts ] thats why i started drinking this new lipton Natural Energy tea. Come on its naturally has more caffeine and theanine than regular lipton. Here. Youll thank me. Mmmm. Tastes amazing, right . I feel better already. [ donkey brays ] [ man ] two minutes tea time. [ female announcer ] for a little oomph, try new lipton Natural Energy tea. [ donkey brays ] good morning to you. Its 7 56. Im laura garciacannon. Police say a man who was shot in the stomach in San Francisco this morning is not cooperating with investigators. The shooting happened this morning on Howard Street between first and second streets near the off ramp from the bay bridge. Police have not released information about the victim other than he is 27 years old in Critical Condition and uncooperative. No arrests have been made. No word on who the suspect might be. Its the last regular season game ever at candlestick park. For 53 years it has been home to many sporting events and concerts. Kickoff scheduled for just after 5 30. Should be decent weather there tonight as well. Yes, beautiful. Temperatures near 60 degrees by the time we get to kickoff. Thats really about 5 to 10 degrees above average. Across the bay area were talking about sunshine, even right now you can see clear skies. Unlimited visibility. Later on this afternoon as i mentioned, warm. About 65 to 70 degrees across the bay area even in San Francisco expected 65, south bay mid60s, heres the thing. Were talking not only about warm temperatures but record warmth. You can pick out your city. A scorcher of a day. Talking about spare the air as well across the bay area. How are the roads . Really well. We have the upper 60s, california style. Looking to the peninsula, easy drive around the bay, light volume this week. Thats what were seeing for the peninsula between san mateo and the south bay. No real delays. Over to the other side of the bay, past the truck scales easy flow of traffic. The sun the issue southbound. And Oakland North past the coliseum. No slowing until north of this slowing toward the bay bridge toll plaza. Back to you. Were in winter too. That sun in your eyes. Got to love california. A local update in a half hour. Its 8 00 on today, coming up, not backing down. The star of duck dynasty speaked out for the First Time Since the controversial comments. Two years after her death, the woman reveals a surprising Christmas Wish for her family. We want to grant brendas wish. Were going to send you and your family to disneyworld. And keanu reeves is here live with a new action flick and news of a possible reunion more than 20 years in the making. Today, monday, december 23rd, 2013. Happy holidays from philadelphia. Merry christmas. Im so happy to welcome my husband home from the u. S. Navy. Welcome home, adam. Happy holidays from florida. Merry christmas. And good morning, everyone. Welcome back to today on a soggy morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side willie geist in for matt and dylan dreyer in for al. You know, the plaza crowd stands in the rain all morning two days before christmas. We have to say thank you. I dont know if you can get a shot. But all the way down the plaza, all the way around down from 49th street to 48th street on what a pretty ugly day here. Thank you so much. The signs are soak but the spirits are high. Yes, they are. Im your personal umbrella holder. Its real high, though. Theyre complaining about the umbrella holding. Lets send it back to natalie for a check of the top story. Good morning, willie, savannah and dylan. Good morning, everyone. Extreme weather is expected to be a challenge for travelers as millions of people hit the roads for the holidays. Nearly 700 flights were cancelled after ice, snow, flash floods and powerful winds stormed across the country this weekend. Airports report an improving situation today but car travel can still be hazardous. Roads are expected to be icy from the upper midwest into new england. An important deadline for Health Care Coverage today. Its the last day for americans to sign up to the federal Health Insurance changes or risk having no coverage on january 1st. For those that missed the deadline, the Obama Administration says there will be exceptions for people that made a good faith effort. The senator is calling for a federal investigation into what went wrong at target after last weeks security breach. Millions of shoppers are now learning that their debit card spending limit has been cut nearly in half. Jp morgan chase is halting cash withdrawals at 100 a day along with a 300 spending limit. These are for those exposed to the data hacking. A space walk for today was postponed until tomorrow because of a problem with the space suit. The american astronaut accidentally turned on a water switch during saturdays space walk compromising his suit. He will need an extra day to get a spare space suit ready to go. He and fellow astronaut Michael Hopkins are expected to complete the repair on a leaking cooling line on board the International Space station. Now to a touching story, an iowa man has gotten a very special Christmas Gift from his wife two years after she died of cancer. Mike tells us about a testament to the lasting power of love. Reporter all he knew was that he had been singled out as part of a popular decades old annual program. Granting another Christmas Wish. I didnt know what it was about. Reporter it was a request for three wishes read to him on the air from his late wife brenda who died two years ago. When you are in receipt of this letter, i will have already st my battle to ovarian cancer. Reporter brenda, a mom of four in the summer of 2011 asked a friend to send the letter anonymously to the station if and when david moved on and found a new love as she told him she hoped for him. This year, david got engaged to jane with two kids of her own and brenda had a wish for her. First for davids new lifelong partner, a day or better yet a weekend of pampering in all aspects of her life. She deserves it. Jane was stunned. It makes me speechless. She is making me feel special. Reporter and brendas two other wishes, a magical vacation for davids newcomb biened fami new combined family and a night of fun for the hospital staff that cared for her. We want to grant brendas wish. Were going to send you and your family to disneyworld. Oh my. Reporter and for david and jane and the six children between them, it was a Christmas Gift for the ages called love. An amazing story there. Well, shopping got dangerous in Oklahoma City over the weekend. Cell phone video from an outdoor mall showed sheets of ice. Some of them five feet long sliding off the roof. Shoppers took cover and fortunately nobody got hurt. And carolina panther fans proved their loyalty sunday. This is what it looked like in charlotte as the panthers took on the new orleans saints. The sudden downpour flooded the stands in the Third Quarter but the fans were rewarded with a win as the panthers won the game 1713. Thats rain all right. 8 05 right now. Lets get a check of the weather with dylan dreyer. Announcer todays weather is brought to you by kay jewelers. Every kiss begin with kay. Thanks, natalie. I love what we found. We have fake picture, eventually youll find the real woman. Here she is. Whats the special occasion . My birthday. How old are you . Just kidding. I would never ask that question. We are seeing the rain pick up a lot here. But our pick city of the day were heading out west. Out to ohio, cleveland ohio. Temperatures will be much, much colder here. 24 degrees by tuesday and wednesday were back up to about 31. Thats where some of the cold air is. You head further to the west and its even colder. Were about 10 below in parts of the Northern Plains and it feels like 30 to 40 degrees below zero once you factor in the wind chill. Were going to see some of the cooler air start to work to good morning. 8 06. Waking up to clear skies across the bay area. No fog to report on, even in San Francisco. 49 degrees. The camera shaking around just a little bit. Youll notice the hazy look today. We are sparing the air for today. Highs are going to be very v÷ w. Were about 5 to 10 degrees above average. 70 degrees in our north, east bay, and also south bay valleys. Have a good monday. Its rabing really hard now so i got my own umbrella. Willie just took off with his. I did. I left you standing there. Any way, thank you so much. Coming up next, the star of duck dynasty breaks hi silence. Plus were going to take you live to the north pole to check on santa as he gets ready for the big ride. Sandra lee takes jenna take [ laughter ] [ grunts ] kids today. Its all gadgets and internets. Everything needs a battery. Oh, hank. Merry christmas. Oh hold on now. Kay jewelers . Its beautiful. Looks like we got us a young man here. [ female announcer ] the charmed memories collection at kay jewelers. Featuring nfl, collegiate, disney and hello kitty charms. At kay, the number one Jewelry Store in america. Thats long enough, son. Every kiss begins with kay thank you grandma for the dolls. I love it im ninja kicking through the halls. I love it moms posting pictures on your wall. Thats my kind of holiday. Wears off. [ female announcer ] stop searching and start repairing. Eucerin professional repair moisturizes while actually repairing very dry skin. The end of trial and error has arrived. Try a free sample at eucerinus. Com. 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And right now save up to 30 off artistry diamonds in a palette of colors at kay, the number one Jewelry Store in america. Artistry diamonds. Theyre diamonds of a different color. Every kiss begins with kay [ chicken caws ] [ male announcer ] when your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast with tums. Heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact and goes to work in seconds. Tum, tum tum tum tums last minute deals on toys and gifts. Thats my holiday, thats my kind of holiday. Wrap it up, pop, lock and shop, buyin presents that i forgot. Thats my holiday. Time for whats trending today. Well start with a story thats been in the news a lot. The star of duck dynasty is breaking his silence over the controversy that landed him in hot water. Phil robertson was suspended after making antigay comments in gq magazine. He told a Bible Study Group i love all men and women. Im a lover of humanity. Not a hater. But he made it clear he would stand his ground. He said i will not give or back off from my path. Now a and e obviously now is dealing with the backlash on this. Cracker barrel which initially pulled merchandise from duck dynasty off the shelves, theyre putting it back. Theyre finding out how popular the show is. Very popular. Their fans are supporting them. Can i just say i love cracker barr barrel. Mario here with a side note. Hash browns. No matter what time. Yes. There you go. Thank you for that editorial comment. Meanwhile, speaking of restaurants im hungry. There you go. Im up for the hashbrowns too. Theres a waitress that tried to do the right thing. She got a surprise. Samantha knight noticed a customer left behind a lot of cash totaling 1,000 at her florida restaurant last week. She ran after the customer to return it to him. But she returned it to the wrong man. Samantha said she never thought she would see him again or that money again but on sunday he returned to her restaurant with the money and an apology. He said i feel so sorry. He said i dont want anyone to think i am a crook. I assumed it was mine. It could have fallen out of my wallet. The man then gave her 100 for her troubles and the real owner of the money gave her the 1,000 she found. She is pregnant and said this money will be a huge help to her and her child. Happy ending. Absolutely. We travel all the time. So many people traveling for the holidays. Heres the question for you, should you be allowed to recline your seats . I think so. Yeah. Right. I get the controversy, though. We ask because a growing number of airlines are limiting our ability to relax mid flight. For example, Spirit Airlines is using their socalled prereclined seats. Ive been a victim of it. And if that wasnt enough, make sure you bring a pillow when youre flying. Theyre limiting the cushion in the seat. What . Theyre using less material to make the seat. You cant recline and this is when its good being 54 because i can curl up. How does that work for willie. I think they misread our complaints. We were looking for more comfortable. Theyre adding more seats. Its a huge amount of money. Adding six seats to an airplane. Yeah. How are they measuring the stuffing . Yeah. They all sit on it. Can i ask you guys a question . If youre in the middle seat and you have to get up to use the bathroom, do you ask the person in the aisle to get up or do you shimmy past them . That is like, you know, your rear end is like right there in your face. Someone as tall as you. Okay. Squat and shift. Shimmy over. All right. So heres the deal. When you move, what do you guys do with all the left over cardboard boxes . One family decided to make their own home box office. They used the cardboard to recreate famous scenes with their 10 month old son orson as the star. They did films like, jars, star wars, and alien at home. Do you think they like movies. Are you amazed they have time to pull this off . They only have one child is my take away. The timing and that level of skill. Just open up one side and let them go inside. I dont make movie sets out of them. No. That is whats trending today. Of course trending everywhere right now, santa claus. Nbcs rob rod bob rodell mades way to the north pole to check in. Is santa ready . Appears to. Good morning, Merry Christmas. Were waiting for a status update inside where santa is busy. We have something in the ear piece . We have what . Period a direct link to north pole air traffic control. Lets go to it. Who is that . Oh, weve got mike. Looks like hes tracking rudolph on a last minute test flight and the 6th, 17th cavalry regimen, they got brand new snowball launchers. The army ordered a pilot to use those snowball launchers to provide protective cover Christmas Eve in case they come across an unexpected grinch. Oh, man. Reporter those snowballs had to be traveling at least 10 miles per hour. Wow. Hey, bob, do you know how santa stays warm in that open sleigh . Reporter he dresses in layers. Hes got a lot of blankets in the sleigh. Im dressing in layers even though its about 9 above, you have to dress in layers. This is what santa does. I have snow pants, jeans, jacket, a pull over, a thermal, my pink justin im a blieb blieber tshirt and spanks. Does santa wear that to . He doesnt wear the Justin Blieber tshirt. Thank you for the detail. We needed that. I want to know when military assault helicopters became part of christmas. You never know when youll come across a grinch. Good stuff bob. Merry christmas. You too. Announcer sandra lees kind of christmas is brought to you by target. Whats your kind of holiday . All right. Well, by this time you probably have your tree decorated but do you have eight of them . Well, Food Network Host and best selling author sandra lee gave Jenna Bushhager a tour. The holidays are an important time for you. Something you cherish. Talk to me about your traditions . Well, in our home i like to decorate everything. So everywhere you turn it feels like christmas. Home is all about christmas and as you see the house, youll see that every separate room has its own personality. And you guys spend christmas here in this house, right . We bought the house about four years ago. So we havent had that many christm christmases here but its been very special. You grew up in california and raised your brothers and sisters. Do you remember holidays past when you were little . I am the oldest of the kids and our mother was sick and our father moved out of state and i was the boss. We didnt have christmas because we werent raised to celebrate holidays or birthdays. So the first time we had christmas i was about 13. Do you think that because you didnt celebrate until you were 13 its one of the reasons why you love this holiday so much now. For me because we werent raised celebrating holidays or birthdays that if it is a special occasion or holiday i really do it because for me its still magical and still special. So yeah, theres a reason why they call me aunt sandy claus. Sandy claus . I love it. This is a nostalgic christmas. You see antique santas and glitter and home. The tree topper is a house. A lot of people like to put them around their rooms but i put them on top of my tree. Youre going to give us a tour of your house. The entire house. Wait until i show you the dining room. Come with me. Okay. So this is our dining room. We call it the Founding Fathers dining room. We have all the Founding Fathers on the wall plus lincoln. I love that. Its a picture of a founding father and a famous quote by him and then a copy of a letter he hand wrote. And i wanted to do this room in victorian. So you see all the Pretty Flowers and you see the christmas balls and the sleighs and the vcandles and on the tre we have cookie tters. I love the cookie cutters. This is something that people could do at home. So this is a replica of your house. This is a replica of my house and this is our gazebo. I love it. Its completely edible and whenever i feel like i need a sugar i break off a piece from the back and eat it. Lets break off a little sugar. Lets have a little sugar. And then our elf on the shelf is of course over our bag from aunt sandy claus to toys for to thes. I love that. You can take that with you. Remember, youre not supposed to touch the elf on the shelf. Thats the deal. This is really the night before christmas. I love that. I started with the book and everything is about santa and it gets magical. So then i just took jars and filled them with candy so everything matched and then this is really kind of the room, the centerpiece. All of the shelving units are done. This is just cotton and my little elves with my trees and my houses and then i went and got little gifts and a little snow man and the nutcracker and then the edging, i just edged the houses and the roof tops with it so it all tied in. But you cant eat this. I cant. I tried earlier and it didnt work. Dont forget your santa bag. Toys for to thes. Thank you for getting that for us. Cheers. Cheers everybody. Merry christmas. Who feels inadequate. Every time i see her or marthas home around christmas im like oh my gosh. The rest of us have no chance. They have it. They have little elves that come in and get it done. The 7 foot fake Christmas Tree in the corner. You do . All of my stuff is in storage up in boston. Love that. No excuse dylan. My moms tree started dying two days after. So we played santa and grabbed the old tree and put it in a tree body bag and got it out of there and got her a brand new tree really quick. You guys go all out for halloween. What about christmas . Christmas is a big deal as well. I love decorating and the kids love decorating. Its the clean up. Yeah. Coming up guys, someone we rarely get to see. Keanu reeves is here hi, there. Good morning to you. 8 26 now. Im laura garciacannon. The state Public Utilities commission has already fined pg e more than a quarter of a million dollars. Theyve now given the company its money bank. The cpuc returned the 375,000 fine so it could try to impose bigger fines down the road. The original fine was imposed after an audit determined pg e had not monitored the san bruno pipeline closely enough. Lets check that morning commute right now. Anybody out there, mike . Not really. I mean, enough cars out there that if there was a big crash, we could see some slowing. But right now its flowing very nicely through fremont down to the south bay. The south bay issues, we have a couple. North 101, the onramp at old oakland road, thats going to be closed for another half an hour. Use brokaw instead. No real slowing throughout the rest of the area. Trivalley very smooth. No meter lights all morning. All right. Thank you very much. Another local news update in half an hour. Enjoy your monday morning. Checkin target off my list, last minute deals on toys and gifts. Thats my holiday, thats my kind of holiday. Wrap it up, pop, lock and shop, buyin presents that i forgot. Thats my holiday. Ill have a Blue Christmas without you ill be so blue just thinking about you monday morning, 8 30 a. M. , its the 23rd of december, 2013. Remember that guy . The young man that sounds just like elvis singing Blue Christmas . He is going to be here tomorrow and sing for us live. What song do you want him to sing one day before christmas . I think youre hearing it right now. A lot of people saying that cant be real. But it is real. Its live and youll hear it tomorrow. Coming up, keanu reeves is with us to talk about his new action adventure film 47 ronan and people asking is it time for a new adventure from bill and ted . Was that a nod . I dont know. Well get to the bottom of that one. Its been a long time since that one came out. We have an incredibly heartwarming story about a man that nearly died in a landslide in colorado and the strangers that reached out to help him in his time of need. First lets turn to dylan and the weather. I dont know what happens when i walk away. Do i take it . Just take it. Now youre out in the rain. How are you guys doing . Im from boston. My niece is from virginia. I love the boston people. You know that. We are going to see a lot of this rain come to an end in time for christmas. In fact, most of the country is going to look pretty awesome by the time we get to Christmas Eve except there will be ice in parts of nebraska up through western south dakota and lighter snow showers in and around minnesota and the western great lakes but the rest of the country will get into a quite weather pattern but for Christmas Day itself, look for White Christmas across parts of the great lakes especially across wisconsin and michigan too and where the snow is in the plain good morning. 8 32. Waking up to clear skies across the entire bay area. We have haze building across the area because we are in a spare the air alert day. Dont do any burning, especially outside or in any of those fireplaces. Lets get you into your micro climate forecast for today. South bay expected to be close to 70 degrees. Peninsula a little cooler there. Even in San Francisco, low to mid60s expected. Across the east bay, trivalley and north bay, expecting to see plenty of sunshine and temperatures about 10 degrees above average. Have a good monday. And of course for your forecast any time you can check it out on weather. Com. Dylan, thanks a lot. Acts of kindness can come in all shapes and sizes and the Sprout Network, a 24 hour preschool channel for parents and kids proved it with their search for the kindest kid. After narrowing the field they let the viewers vote for the winner. And she is with us now. 7yearold emma is officially sprouts chief kindness officer. Emma, that is so cool. How does it feel to have that big title . Well, it feels really good. And your group, the organization you started is called lock boxes of love. Why dont you explain to everybody watching what that is . Well, just a second. Shes looking at herself on tv right over there. I know what thats like. I understand. Im sorry. No, youre doing great, sweetie. Youre doing great. Why is it so important for you to help other little kids like yourself. Because they need happiness like everybody. Yes. And what are you doing to help them get happiness. Im giving them presents. Yes. Around the holidays thats really important, isnt it . Do you know there was 650 other kids that wanted to be the chief kindness officer and only you are . Thats cool isnt it . Emma, youre awesome and doing great work. Thank you for being with us even out here in the rain and Merry Christmas. Thank you. Now go check yourself out on that tv over there. Thank you, emma, youre the cutest. Savannah back over to you. Emma, the pride of tucson, arizona right there. Thanks, willie. Well take a turn and tell you about the new fantasy action movie 47 ronan. Its a story of real life samurai in japan who avenge the murder of their master. Keanu reeves plays an outsider who is key in orchestrating reven revenge. Keanu reeves, good morning. Its good to see you. Good morning, savannah. I just saw this movie yesterday and the word that kept popping into my mind is epic. Its just one of those huge hollywood movies. Is that what attracted you to it . Absolutely. Its like an epic story. Its big. Its big ideas. Honor, sacrifice, revenge, impossible love. But its also very intimate. So thats probably what i really liked about it was the scale and then the human intimacy in the story. I think there is a little bit of something for everyone. Theres the love and these big themes that are dramatic but it has a lot of really cool Samurai Sword fighting. Yea, theres Samurai Sword fighting and ogres and creatures. Its great. Youve done a lot of martial arts in films. But what did you have to do to learn how to do this . I had to learn to use the japanese long sword which i had never used. I love movie fighting and how emotional it can be. The struggle of it. The contact. The beauty. The physicalness of it. So that was a really fun part of the show. Can i ask a dumb question . Are you doing that with real swords . Yeah, you use wood. But eventually you have to go to steel and thats when you have to control the heart rate. You want to be a little more focused because if you miss it can go really wrong. Well, its really exciting to watch and i was thinking about you because honestly we dont see you that often. Youre choosey about your projects. Is that on purpose . Is that by stedesign . Yeah. You want to find the right project. Yeah. I can just say that. Has there ever been one you said no to and you thought, i let that one pass me by. The heartache and regret . Yes but i cant talk about it. Its too painful. I can bring a couch out. Do we have time for that. All time in the world. Eggnog. All you have to do is ask. Eggnog please. All right. Youre turning 50. I am next year. Looking at you and being this close to you. I have to say just as a Public Service if you can let everyone know your skin care regimen. Its ancestry. Its not me. I would probably take better care of myself but my ancestors gave me good genes. They did indeed. Is 50 something you think about . Some people look at those as moments to reflect . Yes. What are you reflecting upon . I just reflect on the past and the future and just where are you and what do you hope to do . Yeah. Youre somebody that doesnt seem to embrace the whole hollywood part of movie making. Is that hard to do . Are you ever tempted by that world or do you consciously try to avoid it . I dont know. Im a pretty low key person. You know, for me im interested in being able to tell stories and be a part of story telling. The stuff thats outside of that, outside of the work, you know, i like to have fun and get out once in awhile. But im pretty low key. Well, christmas is two days from now. It is. Christmas time. And i was hoping that santa would put bill and teds excellent adventure the sequel under the tree. How do you feel about it . Im open to the idea of that. I think its pretty surreal. But we have a good story in that. Oh, are you guys playing that. Yes, of course. How could we not . Thats funny. But you can see the life and joy in those characters and i think the world can always use some life and joy. So its kind of in the works . Yeah. You know, theres a story. Theres a script. Were trying to get the dough together to make the crazy story. Well get that with the eggnog. Thank you. Do the characters evolve at all . No, they do, indeed, evolve. Anyway. I can talk about it but i shouldnt talk about it but i could talk about it. But its interesting. All right. Well, come back when you can talk about it. Thank you so much. And 47 ronan is amazing. Quite the adventure. Thank you for telling us about it. Thank you. Opens on Christmas Day nationwide. The story of a First Responder that didnt think he would make it to the holidays and the people that helped him get there. And the best and worst of 2013. But first, this [ female announcer ] heres to a whole world of happier holidays. Time to enchant, delight and amaze. Safeway will help you gather everyone round. A smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. Starbucks is just 6. 99, thats a cup of good cheer. Get sweet clementines for 4. 99, enough for everyone here. Turns out this season less is really so much more. So make your holiday merrier than ever before. Safeway. Ingredients for life. Were back now at 8 42 with our special series getting to the heart of christmas. We teamed with walmart to brighten the Holiday Season for special people. Craig melvin is here with more. Good morning, guys. The devastating imagines from the colorado flood this september are among the most heart wrenching of the year but we want to bring you more imagines from the flood zone. An Incredible Group of people going above and beyond to help one of their own. Reporter there are few things more peaceful than the moments after a fresh snow fall. John lived here for 25 years. Its moments like these he lives for but theres also moments he almost didnt live to see. September brought heavy rains to colorado. Towns were flooded. Roads washed away. Landslides, homes destroyed. Lives lost. It was a devastation many had never seen but john knew it too well. Thats because john is a rescue worker. For 43 years hes been part of rescue teams around the country. Some say its remarkable how often this father of two has been at the right place at the right time. Its whether you as an individual choose to get involved. And i just choose to get involved. Reporter but what happened to john in the Early Morning hours of september 16th was not a choice he would have ever made. You know, i prepared for emergencies of every scope for my entire life. I never could have pictured a landslide here. Reporter that evening as the soaking rains continued, john went into his backyard to inspect the hillside behind his home and noticed water gathering. I was trying to process what was happening. The ground started to rumble. Before i turned around i knew what it was and saw a 20 foot deep wall of black. And you could see 80 foot long trees poking out of it and bolders the size of cars. Reporter john was swept away in a giant landslide of debris through his home and down the mountain. I was panicked. To meet your end and know its coming. Reporter the flood waters were below him, broken, battered and barely conscious. John remembered his police radio. Does anybody copy . My name is john. I live in left hand canyon. Im on a tree in the river. Reporter and one last barely radio audio recording. This will be my last transition. Will you tell my children i love them. Reporter within moments his tree snapped but he survived. His home and belongings did not. Buried under several feet of mud. John needed help. And then the help literally walked into his life. I heard a racquet coming up the canyon. They were jovial. They were Healthy People marching up the canyon. Reporter the mud slingers are a group of volunteers organized through word of mouth with a singular task. Bring help to whomever, where ever, and how ever. We didnt know what we were doing at all. None of us do this for a living but i didnt stop to worry about the how. None of us did. We figured this out as we went. Reporter they gave him something he never thought he would find again, hope. On this way we wanted to give Something Back to the mud slingers too. Big hand first of all. And tis the season to recognize extraordinary groups doing extraordinary seasons. We are giving you 10,000 in walmart gift cards to help you continue helping others. Wow. Reporter but what john didnt know is we had a surprise for him too. Youre an amazing guy. You have spent the better part of your life doing the same thing as these guys so we wanted to help you get back into the business of helping others as well. Pull back the curtain. With guidance from his beloved daughter kelsey, walmart put together much of what john lost. Im overwhelmed. This is amazing. I dont know how to say thank you. You just said it. Yeah, but its so much more than a thank you. These volunteers changed my life and theyre volunteers and they risked their life to save me and ill be thankful forever for you guys. Thank you so very much. Thank you. Pretty obvious he is an amazing guy but whats even more amazing is after we revealed the walmart surprises, he asked if it would be okay if he donated most of the items to folks in even greater need. Wow. What a guy. Amazing. And groups like the mud slingers, theres others like these woman standing rush into these disaster areas. They dont ask any questions. There just there to help. Hats off to them. On social media, they organize themselves on facebook and things like that. No badges. No uniforms. Amazing work. A Great Holiday story. Craig melvin, thank you for bringing it to us. Merry christmas. Merry christmas. Coming up next, what for your favorite movies, tv shows, and songs of 2013. Were back at 8 50 with the best and worst of 2013 when it comes to movies, music and tv. Theyre out with a special year in review double issue. I hate to focus on the worst but thats the best part. Do you really hate it . No. Well, lets start with the best. The best. What do you think the years best movie is . I think its a tie. I really couldnt come up with one. I think gravity, the amazing movie with sandra bullock. She is lost in space. This succeeded on every level. It was a technical achievement. Just a game changer in the way the director got them to float in space. An artistic success and its a nail biter of a thriller. Its really awesome. The other one is . The other one is 12 years a slave. Its a game changer. The bar has been raised. A couple of movies well be hearing a lot about an award season here. The worst movie of the year, what is it . The counselor. Now you may not have heard of this film which is surprising because it was directed by ridley scott. It starred brad pitt, penelope cruz. What happened here . It was completely nonsensical. You couldnt follow it even for a second and it was as if it was put together by a dirty minded 14yearold boy who was drunk. It was really, really staggering and cameron diaz makes love to the windshield of a car. Theyre going to put your characterization on the tv box. Lets talk about best tv show. Breaking bad. Breaking bad. The greatest finale in the history of television. Not only did they fulfill the promise of were going to watch him turn into scarface which is what Vince Gilligan wanted to do but they succeeded so beautifully and the pay off was so great i. Was so great that as much as you loved the show, by the end of it you didnt want anymore because you saw it end exactly the way it should. Pretty extraordinary. Im on worst duty. What was the worst show of the year . The worst show, i hate to say it because we kind of like him, what would ryan lochte do . It didnt have any redeeming value. The show just set out to make you feel like, wow, that guy is stupid. Thats sort of the moral to every episode. Wow, hes stupid and i dont think that he is, he is clearly a fantastic athlete not shown in his best light in this show. Short lived show. It was. Best music of the year. Greatest moment in music was beyonce. Toward the end of the year, just last week. Dropped this album. No advanced buzz, no advanced publicity. Only one or two stars on the planet has the power to do that. Immediately a million downloads. The songs are rich. Theyre beautiful. Theyre very edgy. Youre not going to hear them in church. But they are really it really is an artistic achievement this album and she did all of the videos with it as well. The videos are gorgeous. Really an amazing achievement. Lets end it on a down note. Whats the worst song of 2013. At one point, brad paisely and l. L. Cool j. Came out with a song called the accidental racist and it was meant to be a conversation about prejudice and the way we need to get together and talk and it was just not really thought through so the accidental racist was accidentally racist. Oh, no. I like them both. But it was a failed attempt at starting a conversation. All right. All right. A mixed bag in 2013. It was a mixed bag. Good to see you. Happy new a very good monday morning to you. Its 8 56. Im laura garcia cannon. Its also the last regular ecandlestick park. For the past 53 years, its been home to many sporting events and concerts. Kickoff between the 49ers and Atlanta Falcons scheduled for just after 5 30. What about the forecast . Lets check it with anthony slaughter. Going to be a good one. The time we get to kickoff. Really sunshine expected all day long. Were under a spare the air alert. Youll notice the haze already starting to build in the south bay. This is where were going to see some of the worst air quality. Temperatures today will eventually warm. Back from about 65 degrees to close to 70 in our Northeast Bay and south bay valleys. Have a good monday. Announcer from nbc news, this is todays take with al roker, Natalie Morales, and willie geist. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this monday morning, december 23rd, 2013. Two days until christmas and we have a gat crowd outside. Its muggy outside, actually. It is. Made for a nice weekend, though around here. It was. 70 degrees. Yeah. Rest of the country, though, all kinds of weather all across the country. Im willie with natalie. Al has the day off. Have you got the shopping done . Are you ready . I did last minute, do your inventory and of course whatever santa brings will top that off but i kept thinking i feel like im missing something so i went on to amazon last night and they guarantee delivery by tomorrow. So i added a couple of things last minute. So hopefully they really do stick so that guarantee. Were going to have a segment coming up about last minute shopping. Turns out even today you can get shipping to get it here tomorrow. Fantastic. If you just woke up two days before christmas and remembered its two days before christmas youll be okay. Did you physically go and shop, shop . I did. Im going to do some more. I have a couple of things today. My husband did everything online. Its much easier but when im leaving work im walking out in the streets of new york with my people. With your people. And all had an anchorman party. Yeah. Youre going to see familiar faces. Theres Thomas Roberts and you see savannah and her fiancee in the middle there. Thats me with the bad wig and kristina and erica hill and dave, her husband. And all the way left. Can you make out who that is . Lester. Thats lester and his wife carol. He looks amazing. I walked up to lester and this was friday night. We got to see anchorman 2 and the idea was dress up as if you were in the movie. I was like lester good to see you. He won the competition hands down. Any time you can wear that big afro and look that good. We got to sit and watch the movie. It was awesome. I was working saturday. We missed you. I couldnt make it. I was going to be a good girl and go to bed early but theres lester. My partner. Knocking down merlot and watching the movie. What . No way. We enjoyed it. We had a great time. You talked a little bit about the weather. Extreme all over the place. We said warm here but the real problems are deadly storms. Flooding in the midwest. Ice storms in parts of the northeast now and record warm weather across the east coast. Five people drowned along washed out roads in kentucky. Hughes, arkansas, a tornado touching down on saturday. That killed another person. 700 flights cancelled. Its just a variety of weather thats getting extreme in all of these different ways. Its crazy. And there is concern even in places for santa the reindeer cam is down. It reads the power is out at the north pole. The efls are doing everything they can to get it fixed. Kids dont worry. Were sure santa will be fine but a lot of feedback on the website saying i think santa need ace generator for christmas. Might be a good idea. Santa has been doing this, you have to remember for centuries and centuries before they had power. And he gets everyone. He just goes back to his old ways. Hell cover the whole globe and get it done. Santa is going to have you taken care of. Snl, so much expectation and anticipati anticipation. Fallon and timberlake who have become the best comedy duo in the country right now. Madonna was there. Paul mccarthy was there. Barry gibbs. Major bloomberg was there. Heres Paul Mccartney at the top of the show. Sing with three of my friends. Mr. David bowie, i will be singing here, bob dylan, and sir Paul Mccartney. Thank you very much. Now sing along if you know the words. Me and john will be hang and shining star upon the highest bow and have yourself a merry Little Christmas now i think they should put out an album. They sound so good together. A christmas album. Incredible. We didnt get to show you fallon moved. He did his david bowie impersonation and do dylan and himself and mccartney. I would completely mess up. Of course you wouldnt want me behind that mic. No, but youll find it. Natalie will find the microphone. My favorite was the family feud sketch. The stars of cbs and the stars of nbc. Steve harvey as host. And timberlake dressed as jimmy fallon. Leading a team as the next host of the tonight show, jimmy fallon. So great. So great. Celebrities playing games. So fun. Which one are yall going to pick. So many great answers. So many. Theyre so great. So great, my man. But steve [ laughter ] steve, theres only one way for a man to be really sexy. Whats that. Be Justin Timberlake. I love that jimmy fallon can never stop laughing during the sketches. Thats been his role for years. Starts cracking up. A show like that, that is snl at its best. The power to bring in the biggest stars in the world. Ratings gold. Fantastic. We have a remarkable christmas story to tell you about. A little back story and then well show you. A woman died more than two years ago. Died of cancer and she has given her husband, his new fiancee and that family a surprise Christmas Gift. She passed away in september of 2011 after a battle with ovarian cancer. She left behind four boys. A month before she died brenda wrote a letter to a friend who gave it to an iowa Radio Station instructing the friend to wait to mail it until her husband david had fallen in love again. So the station star 102. 5 invited david who did get engaged into the studio last week. He had no idea what was coming. The Radio Station shared a letter with him. Well, david, we told you we got a very special Christmas Wish and i have to tell you that since i found out about this i thought a lot about what i would do if i were in your position and i really dont know the answer to that. But we want to share it with you. She was very strong. Accepted what happened to her. And since she has been gone, she has shown a lot of signs that she is still here. Hello. My name is brenda. When you are in receipt of this letter i will have already lost my battle to ovarian cancer. We want to grant brendas wish. We are going to send you and your family to disneyworld. Oh my god. So unbelievable. Now brenda asked for three wishes. First was for her husbands new partner to get a day of pampering. So taking care of his new partner. Amazing that she would do that. Second, the magical trip to disneyworld for the whole family and third a night out for her cancer doctors at Mercy Medical center where she was treated for all of those years for ovarian cancer. Thats what the holidays are about. Thats amazing. How about her in her final hours thinking of everyone but herself. She apologized for having to type the letter but her hands were getting too shaky and she couldnt write it. But she was thinking about a fiancee that wasnt there yet and all the doctors at the hospital. And now theyre going to be a family of six kids. Yeah. So great that they can share in the love. Yeah. And continue the family on. Beautiful. Beautiful story. Well, here is an unusual proposal that we saw over the weekend. A juno woman had an unexpected Christmas Gift delivered while she sat on santas knee in the north pole in alaska. In alaska north pole. Yeah vmt take a look. What do you want for christmas . A new pair of Running Shoes . How about a wedding. Oh, that would be nice too. Lumwill you marry me . We didnt hear a yes yet. Thats what its all about. I only wanted a pair of so much for those Running Shoes. I guess shell get the Running Shoes, too. I love the shift from that would be great in theory to, hes doing it. You almost heard her curse but shes on santas laugh and caught herself. Well done. Lets get a check of the weather from dylan dreyer. Good morning, guys. We are going to keep an eye on this rain down across the southeast. Once it clears out it will start to feel more christmassy across the country. It is very warm and humid, especially down near albany, georgia, where we have the heavier rain. It stretches to new york city and freezing rain through parts of central and northern new england, even inching close enough to the boston area to make things slippery. If youre out and about early this morning, keep that in mind. We could end up with 1 4 inch to 1 2 inch of ice in parts of central and northern new england. Look at all this rain down through delaware into virginia and north carolina. We could see two inches of rain. Also in the northwest, weve got rain in seattle. More showery into the portland area. That should only last for today. We are going to see improvements as we go into tomorrow. The space needle shaking around a little bit because it is windy with that rain. 6 00 this evening, just cloudy but cool. Good morning. 9 11, . nh waking up to clear sk across the entire bay area. Lots of sunshine expected for today. However, we have to spare the air for today with hazy conditions expected really all across the bay area. As we look the in the south bay, we are eventually going to see temperatures turn over back to 67 degrees. What well find across most of the bay, very warm conditions. Even low 70s across the north bay. And that is your latest forecast. Back over to willie and natalie. Thanks a lot. Next, is it better to eat a doughnut for breakfast or nothing at all. That question and more. Lets go. Which is worse . I love this game. Well play after this. Im over the hill. My body doesnt work the way it used to. Past my prime . Im a victim of a slowing metabolism . I dont think so. Great grains protein blend. Protein from Natural Ingredients like seeds and nuts. It helps support a healthy metabolism. Great grains protein blend. [ female announcer ] we eased your back pain. Ready or not. [ female announcer ]. So you can be up there. Here i come [ female announcer ]. Down there, around there. And under there for him. Tylenol® provides strong pain relief and wont irritate your stomach the way aleve® or even advil® can. But for everything we do, we know you do so much more. Tylenol®. So you think santa will like these. Red and green m ms . I dont know i never met the guy whaaaaa he does exist they do exist uhm. Santa . [ bell rings ] [ man ] take five you really seem to be dragging your a [ donkey brays, snorts ] mid morning slump. Thats why i started drinking this new lipton Natural Energy tea. It naturally has more caffeine and theanine. Mmmm. I feel better already. [ female announcer ] new lipton Natural Energy tea. Kerri hey kerri the sparkle® fairy here. Are you about to drop some serious coin on paper towels . Mom well, i use bounty. Kerri ooo do you really want a paper towel that can hold a bowling ball . Eek heres a bright idea. Use sparkle® with thirst pockets®. Its just right for cleaning up everyday little messes without cleaning out your piggy bank. Sparkle®. The bright way to clean. Gotta jet im okay, im okay. Smoke . Nah, im good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release Smartcontrol Technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. Help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. All right, in a pinch, is it better to borrow a tooth brush or use your finger to brush your teeth . Got to think about that one. Or should you grab the donut for breakfast or skip the meal all together . Well play a game, which is worse . Im stumped already. Good morning. Are you ready to bring the pages of selfmagazine to life . We are. First question is which is worse . Borrowing the tooth brush or finger brushing . I think borrowing is worse. It is. Its totally disgusting. Even if you run it under super hot water you cant kill all the bacteria. Wash your hand and tooth paste. Youll kill the plaque that causes bad breath and cavities. Even if its your wife or kids. Sometimes you reach in there and get the buzz light year. Yeah, theres bacteria. Yuck. Skipping breakfast or eating a donut . Im thinking skipping breakfast is worse. Youre right. No answer. If you eat nothing it sends your metabolismetabolism. Best choice is glazed. Its only about 260 calories. Its still lower calories than say a boston cream. So not a bad choice. Which is worse, fighting before bed or saying lets just sleep it off. Get it out of your system before you go to sleep. Never go to bed angry, right . Thats what my husband thinks but actually sleep it off. Youre likely to Say Something in the heat of the moment. Youre angry and tired. If im tired im cranky. Go to bed. Cooler heads prevail in the morning. Whats worse . Popping a pimple or piling on the concealer. Popping it. What. You break the skin, inflammation, swell, bacteria can get in there. Put on hydrocortisone cream to get the swelling down. You just let the big guy sit there. But thats why hydrocortisone cream will get the swelling down. Then choose a concealer to actually do some concealing. Things you never have to worry about. Im doing material. Which is worse, dry shampooing daily or washing your hair daily. Dry shampoo is good for making it not look like you went to swim class at lunch. You need to wash your hair to clean your scalp. But not every day, right . Every other day but three days without washing your hair and your scalp can get itchy and flaky and that can lead to hair loss. Really . Shower every day . But i dont wash my hair every day because it strips it. I have read that it strips your hairs of oils. Thats a fallacy. You can wash your hair every day. All right. Last question. Which is worse . Hitting snooz or dragging yourself out of bed. Hitting snooze. It is. Its only going to give you an extra 8 or 9 minutes of sleep which does nothing for you. If you need to hit the Snooze Button look at your sleep overall. So willie is ready to fight. Im not sure who my winner is. Which is worse, no prize at all or ill take the prize. Its heavy. Which is worse a surprise or fruitcake . Which is worse. No, no, you won fair and square. Thank you. Coming up next, all the news you need before you head out the door this morning. Should we break it out . Only two days before christmas and you can still find great [ male announcer ] sprint honors lizzy and kims call on our new network. Ryan is a total hottie mchotterson. Obvi. Hes amazeballs. Hes, like, the hottest hottie that ever hottied. Hes, like, a hottie times infinity, plus another infinity. And his smile is totes adorbs. Totes mcgotes. Its craycray adorbs. 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Oh, boy. Oh, boy. [ carmel ] that drives me nuts. It gives me anxiety just thinking about how crazy they get. [ doorbell rings ] [ daughter ] oh, wow. [ carmel ] swiffer wetjet. You guys should try this. Its so easy. Oh, my. [ gasps ] i just washed this floor. If i didnt see it i wouldnt believe it. [ carmel ] it did my heart good to see you cleaning. [ regina ] yeah, your generation has all the good stuff. [ daughter ] oh, yeah. Taking a look at the headlines, a rough travel day for much of the country. Heavy rainmaking it tough for shoppers along the east coast and Power Outages from weekend storms. A big problem from michigan to maine. At one point shopper hearsay to run for cover at a mall in Oklahoma City when sheets of ice slid off the roof and crashed to the ground. A key deadline today for Health Insurance. This is the last day for most people without Health Insurance to enroll for coverage that begins january 1st under the new Affordable Care act. The government says improvements at healthcare. Gov should help handle the last minute spike in demand. The president recently said more than 1 million americans have already enrolled. A new study is out that looks at the high coast of infertility treatments. One in four couples has difficulty conceiving a baby but many dont get help because of the cost. The study found the average out of pocket expense is about 5,000 but it can be more than 19,000 for in vitro ve vertlization. A big recall this morning, red wing steel boots are being recalled because the steel coe cap inside could fail to protect the feet. It involves 45 different styles. Theres no reports of injuries. And hobbit came out on top over the weekend. The hobbit took in more than 31 million. Wil ferrells anchorman 2 the legend continues was second and frozen still rounding out in the top 3. Christmas came early for shoppers in new england. Grammy winning pop star beyonce just happened to stop by a store to do a little shopping herself and to promote her new album. When she got to the check out, she did have a surprise for everyone in the store. Beyonce took over the store intercom and told shoppers she would pay the first 50 of everyones bill. More reason willie for all of us to love beyonce even more. We love her more now. Coming up we have jane and here comes penguin bill boy, oh, boy. Ja yay now what do you think hes got in that gift box, bill . Bill hopefully a present for my wife jane oh, no. Bill yea. Catch the great ritz holiday parade across the web, for deals, recipes, and festive fun. It all starts at ritzparade. Com. Good monday morning to you. Its 9 56. Im peggy bunker. The family of a 13yearold oakland girl being kept on life support will hold a march this morning. Jahi mcmath had tonsil surgery at Childrens Hospital oakland two weeks ago but was declared brain dead days later. Today a judge is expected to appoint an independent doctor to evaluate the girls condition. Outside, a group of faith healers led a rally and sent a letter to the d. A. s office demanding for a formal investigation of the hospital. Theyre also accusing doctors and administrations of being insensitive to the family. No, no. It represents a lack of sensitivity. A hospital spokesperson denies those words were ever spoken but said the doctors did make it clear that in their opinion jahi is dead and theres no chance her brain will, quote, restart. Investigators are also looking for the person who tossed a severely injured 10weekold puppy into the trash. The dog was found on a Conveyor Belt at the San Francisco dump on friday. The citys animal care and control took the tiny poodle in and nicknamed her gem. Shes expected to survive. Probably a long line of people waiting to adopt her. Lets get a look at the forecast. Anthony slaughter is here with that. Were looking at clear skies across the bay area. Those clear skies will continue all day long. No fog right now, but the haze will start to build. We have a spare the air alert in effect for today. Definitely ma have to head outside and you have any respiratory ailments you take it easy and limit your time outdoors. Otherwise, temperatures back from 65 degrees in San Francisco to 70 in the north bay. Were talking about record heat across the bay area on this final week of december. Mike, howh e those roads looking . Really good. Really light, anthony, because it is a vacation week for a lot of businesses and schools. No metering lights. No backup all morning. Still a very smooth drive. As we look at your maps, well show you the traffic flow around the area. Well see how traffic flows approaching. No issues for the bay area. Well look toward north 680 where there was reports of a smoking car. Well get you back to the today show. Welcome back to today on this monday morning, december 23rd, 2013. Rain letting up a bit maybe for our great crowd outside on the plaza. A couple of days ahead at christmas. Im willie along with natalie. Al has the day off. We have been having a conversation. Regional dialect. This is a cool article titled how yall, yous, and you guys talk. So theres a quiz that asked what does the way you speak say about where youre from. Do you say soda or pop . Soda. I say soda. I grew up in new jersey. Right but in the midwest you say pop. Pop is in the midwest. Right. And soda is up where we live. Northeast and new england. Okay. How do you pronounce the name, proper name mary. Mary. Mary. How about merry as in mary christmas. Merry. Not Merry Christmas. Thats like a lady whose last name is christmas. What does that mean . Where am i from . On the east coast those two words sound very different . I dont know what that meant . What does that mean exactly . That wasnt helpful at all. I must be from the midwest. Im from somewhere. Or youre from where were from. I have a smash up of accents. Thats true. What about frosting or icing . I say frosting. I say frosting. Frosting is midwest and west coast. Interesting. The big one for me is you guys, yall, yous guys. Hey, yous guys. How you doing . But theres a place between you guys and yall who is you all. I do say you all. You all. Lets get a check of the weather you all from dylan dreyer. I want to know how do you say your uncles wife. Aunt. Aunt. I do too. Its a huge thing with my husband and i. He says aunt. Roof or roof . We are looking at snow. Lets look at how different it was last year. This is leading up to christmas. Everyone wants a White Christmas but this year all the snow has shifted further to the west. That rain wiped out any snow cover we had anywhere through the midwest. Through the ohio river valley and Tennessee River valley into the midatlantic but up into new england we do have some of the snow back through nebraska and into kansas and up through the Northern Plains. Thats where all the snow is right now. Its not going anywhere. Its very cold outside. Thats where we will see a White Christmas. Elsewhere across the country today, a few more lake effect snow showers. A few inches of snow up through montana and more rain into seattle. That should clear out in time for tomorrow and most of the country looks nice and quite for christmas da good morning at 9 33. Waking up to clear skies across the entire bay area right now. It is a little hazy, especially in San Francisco. Poor air quality expected for today, so we have a spare the air alert in effect for today. Temperatures are mild right now, in the 40s. Later on this afternoon, were going to see highs very warm, about 10 degrees above average in many locations from about 65 degrees in San Francisco, mid to upper 60s in the south bay, and north bay will be the warmest near 70 degrees for our inland valleys there. Have a good monday. And that is your latest forecast. Willie and natalie. Thank you, dylan. If you have been too busy to tackle your Holiday Shopping until today or you need a last minute gift, its not too late. Robin has rounded up great gifts for everybody on your list that you can still get by Christmas Day without blowing a hole in your budget. Good morning. For people throughout watching, what are some of the stores still offering Christmas Eve delivery . Right now theres a Great Service called ebay now. Theyre offering same day service and you can shop at a variety of retailers like macys and best buy and target and a valet will come to your door and deliver your items today for free. Its all in five cities, new york, chicago, dallas, San Francisco or san jose but if you live in one of those, take advantage. Its ebay now. There are other great sites as well offering delivery by tomorrow. Amazon. Com, thousands available for Free Shipping up to 11 59 tonight. Also if you need jewelry, theyre offering up to 50 off on different diamonds and gem stones and theyll take orders up to 7 00 p. M. Eastern standard tonight and theyll gift wrap for you. And nordstrom, a lot of people lof that store. Until 3 00 p. M. Today theyll get it to you tomorrow. Thats great. Youre stuck at the office and with the click of something get a gift right away. If you are going to brave the stores, theres last minute deals as well. You found macys. Some outerwear is on sale. If you went last minute, not a problem. A lot of people having huge sales. You can get mens and womens coats 40 to 60 off. Theyre also doing the same thing with the boots, mens and womens. Up to 30 off. Fantastic. Kits always a luxury. I would love to get it as a gift. Ann taylor is offering half off today which is amazing. Ladies love these cross body bags. The express is having them half off. Usually 50 and the express is actually having all of their items in their store. Half off for today. Its okay. Youre going to get good deals. I feel like i bought stuff last week and its all on sale today and im like, gosh, i need to go back and say i want one. Well, nec year. These are great. I got one of these for christmas. Incredible. Atwal mart, this is the high end machine right now. Its 50 off. Its 119 plus you get a 25 walmart gift card and you can use that to buy other gifts. This is the gift my kids want right here. Toys r us is having tons of deals. 20 off certain lego sets. They now come for girls. They have the friends which are really fun. Its not just for little boys. The xbox is so hard to get. This is a thing always running out. Xbox one, right . Theyre having new inventory and you can pick up a tv for 179. Come on. Were trying to upload that to get ready to play games. While thats updating lets move over here. Drugstores. You feel like you still need to go out and get Stocking Stuffers. If you realize theres a random cousin showing up, dont worry, a lot of drugstores are open like cvs and walgreens. Christmas day up to 6 00 p. M. You can get cuter stuff than you think. These are nice. These are great. 20. Good quality. So the fondue set. Who doesnt want some of that . So after you have that, you can use your fit bit and those are 50. Atwal greens. And the kids are loving all of those pillow pets and glow pets. Super cute things. Who knew you could get those . Theyre only 30. These Stocking Stuffers right here. These are things you can get anywhere. So miley cyrus loves those. Who doesnt love lotion for the ladies. For the guys, lottery tickets are fun. And who doesnt want a flashlight and for the kids, these are super popular. Im a mom. I could never get enough crayons or coloring books. These are things you can get everywhere. Lots of cool deals to be had. Thanks robin, appreciate it. Up next, what did you search for google this [ male announcer ] playing in the nfl is tough. Doing it with a cold, just not going to happen. Vicks dayquil powerful nondrowsy 6symptom cold flu relief. No matter what city youre playing tomorrow. [ coughs ] [ male announcer ]. You cant let a cold keep you up tonight. Vicks nyquil powerful nighttime 6symptom cold flu relief. Wanted to be here for your fist christmas . You see grandma lives waaaay down here, and you live way up here. Brian, your cousin, hes a little bit older than you, he lives here, in chicago. And your aunt lisa lives here, in baltimore. Uncle earnie . Waaay out in hawaii. But dont you worry, we will always be together for christmas. 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With windowsue 8 pro is one awesome machine. Can i do my work stuff on it . Work and play. Its got the new windows and powerful intel processor so you can do it all like mixing pleasure and business. That sounds so rebellious. Yeah, like mixing fire and ice. Like polka dots and plaid. Hey hey, careful. I could pull it off. Own the season. Get the hottest windows tablets like the dell venue, with intel inside. Get 6, 12, 18, or 24 months special financing with a walmart credit card. Minimum purchase and certificate required. Valid instore only through 12 31 13. Walmart. Heres a mix of stories, an nfl cheerleader and offensive tweet. Its some of the topics that had you studying google over the weekend. Here to tell you know about it is daniel. We saw the name rachel washburn. Tell us the story. She is a former cheerleader with the philadelphia eagles. Ended up serving two tours in afghanistan with the army. She was an officer there. And she was honored last night during the philadelphia eagles, Chicago Bears game as a Hometown Hero and the crowd really appreciated her. You can see the reaction here. She got quite a reception from the folks in philadelphia. A great story here. What a paradox. A cheerleader and then im going to take up arms. Fantastic story. This is a story we were talking about in the break. A lot of people may not know the name. The most offensive tweet would certainly come up. It was heard around the world eventually and the idea is that she sent out this offensive tweet that had to do with aids in africa. She got on a flight from london to south africa. By the time she landed the internet exploded with reaction to this and everybody was of course very upset. She was fired as a result and just this kind of, you know, mentality of everybody reacting to it online was powerful. She did apologize for it we should say. Words cannot express how sorry i am and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of south africa who i offended due to a needless and careless tweet. Im very sorry for the pain i caused. It directed people to donate money to aids charities so thats a small positive but a lot of negative reaction. Horrible story. Terrible tweet and reaction to it. All right. John oliver. Just love him. Yeah. Hes moving on. He is. A bittersweet moment. He joined the daily show 7 1 2 years ago and he just left the show. He made this announcement. John stewart gave a tribute to him. Interrupted a skit to put together this montage of her highlight moments. It was very touching. You could see he was visibly moved by it all. He was a fan fafavorite. A lot of people loved him. They had such Good Chemistry together. Remember he filled in all summer. Great reviews. That really helped him. Next one, we know why were searching this. Its a wonderful life. Hard to believe this movie is nearly 70 years old. A timeless classic. People searching for it to find out when its on but also its appearing in some theaters. You can see it in the theater and this is a movie that its so heart felt. You laugh, you cry. So many wonderful themes. Timeless. Its such a timeless film. Also Barbie Dream House was was a top search but not for the one that would be for your barbie. Potentially as a gift for some people. Or could be the real deal. Yeah. Theres going to be a life size Barbie Dream House at mall of america next year. 30,000 square feet for all of the barbie fans that want to check it out. Of course people may be searching for it as a gift. We even saw easy bake ovens. For the current gift ideas, rainbow loom and mine craft. Anything to do with minecraft. Big year for rainbow loom in our house. Mine too and they still want more. Happy holidays. Enjoy your first christmas with baby. Coming up next, delicious ideas for your Christmas Eve feast. 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High performance skincare™ only from roc®. And smooth the appearance of wrinkles. Theand the kids always eat sky their vegetables. E. Because the salad there is always served with the original Hidden Valley ranch. Hey, so im on amazon, and it says i can pay with my cashback bonus . Yeah right there at checkout. So whatcha shopping for . Hats. Lots of hats. At discover, we treat you like youd treat you. Get the it card and pay with your cashback bonus at amazon. Com. What does that first spoonful taste likok. Honey bunches of oats. Ching mmmm mmmm mmmm wow its the oats. Honey. Yeah. Honey bunches of oats. This is a great cereal. Could there be another way . And conventions, la vie est belle. La vie est belle, the new eau de parfum, lancome. Now at macys, your fragrance destination. On Christmas Eves italians all over the world will celebrate the labor of mary. Here we call it the feast of the seven fishes. How long did you practice that . Here to help you get a jump on the feast, scott conan. Great to see you. Happy holidays. How do you approach the feast of seven fishes . Does it matter the seafood we use . It doesnt matter the seafood. Theres a still staples that we always had to have. Always had to have some kind of seafood pasta which were going to do today and it doesnt matter the number. They say seven but it could be nine or ten. Could be more but not less. Seven is the baseline. It depends. It depends the mood your aunt or grandmother are in when cooking. So we have spaghetti. Garlic, olive oil. Well add shrimp to this. Thats the most important part and then just its the most simple pasta in the world. It really is all about getting it correct. A little bit of a toasted garlic. Crushed red pepper, extra Virgin Olive Oil and we cook it just like this. This is the final product. Fantastic. Add a little bit of parsely thats chopped. Thats an easy one. That you can do in a minute. Its basically cooking the pasta is the hardest part. Thats the toughest part. This is mixed, fried, different things. So in this case we have calamari and shrimp, a bunch of vegetables, artichoke, eggplant, we take it and put in milk first. It adds sweetness but most importantly a great coating once we dredge it in flour afterwards. The oil is really hot right now. The oil is smoking hot. Right. This is the fun part. Step away. So my aunt used to make a great fried octopus as well which was wonderful. So here. Add that inside there and well throw herbs in. Oh, i love the fried herbs. A little bit of fried lemon, garlic slices inside there as well. Beautiful. And you do the same thing with the vegetables too afterwards . Exactly. Well put it all together and let it go like this. Look at how great this is. That happened pretty quickly there too. Look at that. Gorgeous. Of course the importance of a towel on the bottom of your tray to capture all the residual oil being leaked off. Is that something you can do as an appetizer. Can you find it readily at the Grocery Store . It may have to be special order. Here we have seven different types. We have that with the vegetables and all of that stuff. This is tomatoes and capers and white wine. This is a seafood salad which is obligatory as well. This is lobster. We have anchovies inside and of course cod with a sauce and mushrooms and things like that. Will you do this over the Christmas Holiday or are you just doing it for us . My work is done. Fantastic. This is great stuff. Good to see you. Happy holidays. Were back in a moment. This is today on nbc. Recipes at today. Com. Were back in checkin target off my list, last minute deals on toys and gifts. Thats my holiday, thats my kind of holiday. Wrap it up, pop, lock and shop, buyin presents that i forgot. Thats my holiday. That put you on their gift list . Well say hello to aio at aio wireless you can get an android smartphone free with activation. Free Android Phone . . yes please. Plus, aio has a reliable nationwide network and no annual contracts. Its like the presents just keep coming a Wireless Company that puts me at the top of their list . Im in stop by your neighborhood aio store or visit aiowireless. Com. Aio, a new way to wireless. We were about to ask kathie lee and hoda whats coming up. We have no idea. We like it to be spontaneous and unpredictable. Thats what we like. More and more of these ladies have been trying to just maintain during the holidays. And the balloon thing is weird. Its weird. We have a crazy woman who makes these balloons. Shes a little certifiable. Thats you willie right there. We have a story thats going to warm your heart and the kindest kids in america with us. Gosh. We have a big show. Yeah. Love you guys. Coming up. After y good monday morning to you. Its 9 56. Im peggy bunker. Police say a man who was shot in the stomach in San Francisco this morning is not cooperating with investigators. The shooting happened just before 2 00 this morning on Howard Street between 1st and 2nd streets. Thats near the. nofframp fr the bay bridge. Police have not released any information about the victim other than this. Hes 27 years old and in Critical Condition and is being uncooperative with authorities. No arrests have been made. Theres no word on who the suspect might be. And it is the last regularseason game ever at candlestick park. For the past 53 years, this has been the home for many sporting events and concerts. Kickoff between the 49ers and Atlanta Falcons is scheduled to begin at 5 30. Big day there for folks heading out for the game. Temperatures will be in the low 60s by the time we get to 5 00. Thats really about 7 degrees above where we should be for this time of year. Elsewhere, were looking at mild conditions. A little cool right now. Well eventually warm very quickly from about 65 degrees in San Francisco to 70 in the north bay. Even in the south bay, expecting to see record warmth in san jose. If we get to 68, that would break a record from 1901 of 67 degrees. Very interesting day shaping up here across the bay area. We want to leave you with this last thing. Its a spare the air alert day. That will continue through christmas. Mike, how are the roads looking . Very light this morning. Just starting to get a little more crowded. Heres the east shore freeway. Somewhere along this stretch, reports of a small brush fire. I didnt see it. I swung the camera all over the place. Theres some haze but no smoke. Well watch for that. Meanwhile, anthonys live shot showed you a little backup forming at the bay bridge toll plaza. No metering lights but slow off the berkeley curve. A lot of folks heading into the city. This is like a friday commute pattern. Thats probably how the rest of the week will be. Things will kick z up around candlestick later this afternoon. All right. Thanks so much. Another local news update coming up in half an hour. Have a great day. [ female announcer ] heres to a whole world of happier holidays. Time to enchant, delight and amaze. Safeway will help you gather everyone round. A smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. Starbucks is just 6. 99, thats a cup of good cheer. Get sweet clementines for 4. 99, enough for everyone here. Turns out this season less is really so much more. So make your holiday merrier than ever before. Safeway. Ingredients for life. From nbc news, this is today. With Kathie Lee Gifford and hoda kotb. From studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hello, everybody. Were so glad youre with us today. Its fun day monday. December 23rd. Just two days until christmas, which is why were decorated like this. This is pretty unbelievable. These balloons are very, very special. Theyre by a woman named sandy masorri. And shes hard at work making hats for us. And shes a little loopy. We love her. We like everything about her. Look at what an artist she is. She puts lights in them. Pretty amazing. And shes doing it quickly. By the end of the chat, shes going to have our hats prepared. Lets hope they fit. By the way, its so funny to look at people outside. Some people are wearing sweatshirts because its the weirdest weather week. It was almost 70 degrees yesterday in greenwich. Last week, i had a crazy weekend. Lets talk about yours. Right before the weekend, i had gotten a call to go and do a cameo. Im here, a cameo appearance on michael j. Foxs sitcom called the michael j. Fox show. And there i am, ready to go. What was your role . What were you doing the. Its very difficult. I play myself, and that is anne heche and michael j. Fox and justin long. I got to do a scene with those incredibly talented people. So much fun, and thank you voe much. I cant wait to see this. Ann had to make an exit on the scene, and then we follow each other out, and we stood there for five takes watching justin and michael j. Fox. Just two masters go at it and how comfortable they are and how funny. How funny. So thats going to be on the Season Finale of the show. Thanks for having me. If you were up late on saturday night, you got to see one of the epic snls of all time. Lots of surprises. Jimmy fallon and Justin Timberlake, barry gibb, mayor bloomberg. Lots of highlights, but one in particular we have chosen to show you. It has nothing to do with them. It has more to do with us, so lets take a look. Nbc announced this week that Kathie Lee Gifford and hauoda kb will host a primetime special where they recount their top stories from the past year, but shh, its actually an intervention. Okay. Ah. All righty, some of the most heart warming stories are the ones when we see our soldiers coming back from the front. And being reunited with the people they love. This is nathan qualls. He graduated from Arkansas Tech university this weekend. While he was receiving his diploma, he got a nice surprise. It was his brother. His brother is Army Sergeant jared qualls. Cant get close enough. You can tell. How beautiful is that. Army Sergeant Qualls served in afghanistan from 2010 to 2011 is on his second tour in ckuwait. So off, we see the parents and kids reunited. You dont usually see ones with the brothers like that. Its something about grown men like that, just makes you cry. It is beautiful. Good news. Or bad. Coach seats are going to be getting smaller. Wheres the good news. Just as we as a nation are battling our obese tee problems, some airlines are tightening up. You know the goal, so they can put more seats in the plane so you pay your old seat price for a littler seat. Which is small to begin with. Less padding. And more battles over the arm rests and eliminating the recline. Heres are the ones already installing these seats. Theyre calling them slim line. You go, oh, good, slim line. Theyre southwest. Spirit. Yeah. And some other people we dont know. Heres the thing. I think its a bad idea. I really do. I was on a flight this weekend and in one of those seats you dont know when you book it, it doesnt recline. Look, its an emergency exit. But its also behind you so youyour s stays up. They pitch forward a little bit. Theyre very uncomfortable. If you have a long flight, you have a bad neck at the end. How are they reducing the padding . Theyre already uncomfortable. Theyre saying they will make extra, not save, make extra 200 million more by doing that. For the airlines . Putting six more seats on each. You know what . Heres the thing. Its enough. Think about your customers first. And fly from new york to l. A. In that slim line seat. You tell me that thats we should have those guys do that. The only place that works is the marketplace. People refuse to buy the seats, theyll change it back. Youre right. You are right. I know. We have another study out, you guys. Its a little surprising. Its saying we as women spend 12 hours a week worrying about how we look. Are you surprised its so little or so much . 12 hours seems like a lot of time in a week. Yes. Mostly its about our weight or our what . Makeup . And what were going to wear, hair, yep, yep. They say the average woman spends 627 hours a year worrying about her appearance. Thats twuvl hours a break. Thats how they break it down. The biggest concerns are weight, blauchy or pale skin, and frizzy hair. Do something about it, put on a little makeup, throw a hat on, put on your spanx and get out of town. You know when you try on an outfit and you hate it and you go back. Thats 15 minutes right there. I dont do that anymore. You dont . I guess there was a time in my life when i did. What do you do . I dont know. I see it, all right, and go with it. Theres so many things more important to worry about. Thats a distressing theres enough stress on you. Dont put it on yourself. The world puts enough on you. Hoda. You know what its time for . Fan of the week. It is. Im so oh, it isnt. Favorite things. Wrong again. All right, this is really cute. This is my secret angel and me. Look at this, you guys. What is that . We all heard about the elf on the shelf, which is wonderful. This is your secret angel. Can you see it . I would be the worst weather girl. Its a wonderful little book and it basically says what . My cret angel and me, how the gift of christmas came to be. Its adorable. By ashley and rachel, 35. My secret angel and me. Com. What about you, hoda . I smell it. If your skin is crackly and dry and its the winter and you feel gross and you think i need the right moisturizer, the right cream. Who would thought this would work, but you get it in stores. Its called dr. Brawners magic fre fresh pressed virgin coconut oil. You can cook with it, look at it, look at what it is. Its like this. You take a little. And you put it on your hands. Does it dissolve. It smeal smells like the bea. Its buttery. It does. It dissolves. You smell like the beach. You put it on your face before you go to bed. I smell like a peppermint patty. Nice, hoedy. Its lickable. You can cook with it, too. Its lickable. Why do you keep saying that . Im not tasting it. Ive been dunking my fingers in it. Its gross. It is now time for fan of the week, hoda. We were wrong before but were right now. Drum roll, please. Were ready. While we spin the globe looking for our winner, and it is cheryl mitby. I was so hoping she would get it. She watches us on channel 15. Are you shocked . Yes, oh, thank you so much. Look at cheryl. Were bogue to tell you what you won, but we love you, too. Before we tell you why you won, were going to tell you what you won, well tell you why you won. How much you kissed up to us. Cheryl has been a huge fan of the show since it started. This year, she showed extra special kathie lee and hoda holiday spirit. She decorating her Christmas Tree with homemade kathie lee and hoda ornaments complete with miniature wine glasses. She said the tree has brought a lot of laughter to her home. Even her husband approves of the tree and today marks their 46th wedding anniversary. And cheryl, you might want to give him a little anniversary present, if you know what i mean . Guess where youre going . You can take him if you still like him. Where are they going . I love you two guys. You and a guess are headed to southern californias Coachella Valley for four days and three nights at the j. W. Marriott Desert Springs resort and spa. Youll enjoy a daily breakfast and you can explore the golf, tennis, and pool areas. Youll relax at the spa and enjoy a gondola ride. Complete with a dinner for two on the boat dock. Hotel furnishes are provided by j. W. Marriott, and round trip air trip is provided by the palm springs travel and conventigtio bureau. I love you guys. Thank you so much. That tree is awesome. All righty. Sandy, are our hats almost done . Shes been busy. Happy holidays somebody has been hitting the cheer. We got all kinds of fun stuff for you here. Okay. Is that going to fit hoda . Actually, i did it on head bands so it wouldnt mess up your hair and so it would fit both of you. We have a cute party dot in there, give it sparkle and light. Have you been doing this since you were a little girl . I have been doing this for 20 years. I have the best job in the world because my job is to make everyone happy. Can i ask you a question on National Television . Whats happening to these afterward . You can keep them. Can i send them over to cassidys place in new york. Theyll be here today . Absolutely. Thank you. Well get them over. Sandy, youre adorable. Youre a sweetheart. My present to you. There you go. Thank you so much. Cheers. Merry christmas. See, i do share. If you were shopping and wrapping this weekend, well get you caught up on the hollywood buzz. Were about to meet four incredible kids. The kindest kids on the planet who know what the spiri the dell venue 8 pro with windows is one awesome machine. Can i do my work stuff on it . Work and play. Its got the new windows and powerful intel processor so you can do it all like mixing pleasure and business. That sounds so rebellious. Yeah, like mixing fire and ice. Like polka dots and plaid. Hey hey, careful. I could pull it off. Own the season. Get the hottest windows tablets like the dell venue, with intel inside. Get 6, 12, 18, or 24 months special financing with a walmart credit card. Minimum purchase and certificate required. Valid instore only through 12 31 13. Walmart. What does that first spoonful taste likok. Honey bunches of oats. Ching mmmm mmmm mmmm wow its the oats. Honey. Yeah. Honey bunches of oats. This is a great cereal. At famous footwear, we believe victory is more time loving the reaction and less time shopping for it. Madden girl, nike and more at famous footwear. 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It seems like it gets more to areas of your mouth that you cant reach with a regular toothbrush. [ male announcer ] guaranteed wow with deep sweep from oralb. 1 dentistrecommended toothbrush brand worldwide. We know the Christmas Season is all about giving and performing acts of kindness, so Sprout Network held a contest to find the kindest kid. From more than 650 entries, the contest was narrowed down to four finalists. Well meet the winner and the three runnerups first, but lets take a look at why theyre chosen. Im from san jose, california, and i read to the elderly. When i read to them, they feel happy. And that makes me happy. Hi, im ann from philadelphia, and i give my birthday presents to people in need. I know getting gifts makes me happy, so i want to make others happy. For my next birthday, im raising money to send one kid to camp. Im matteo from new york, pennsylvania, and im a kind kid because i keep the community clean. I formed a group called the litter critters and we meet once a month to clean up litter. Im emma from tucson, arizona, and im a kind kid. I give gift boxes to people with sick brothers and sisters. When i see the smiles on peoples faces, it makes me feel good. Yay you guys, you make angels smile. Do you know that . All of these kids are winners to us. Theyre ultra philips over here, and matteo, and the girl voted the chief kindness officer, emma locke. Congratulations to all of you guys. And to the parents who raised such great parents. Tell us why you like reading to the elderly . I like reading because reading is my favorite thing to do. Yeah, and what do you see on their faces when you read them a story . I see them smile and clap. Im going to give you a couple books to take home and read to them. Yay anna, youre giving away your presents to other kids . Yeah. Why did you decide to do that . Because i wanted to make other kids happy. Yeah. And how what was the first thing . What made you decide . Did you know a kid who needed presents . Or did you just decide to do it on your own . I just decided to do it. And matteo, was it just getting nasty around the neighborhood and you gotatoried of waiting for someone else to clean it up . Yeah. The adults werent doing it, so it took a kid. You take bag and you and your family run out and pick up everything . We get a group and we go down to a street with a lot of trash and clean it up. And you make it fun, right . I bet lots of people are joining you in the effort now, right . Yep. Thats so great. Hi, emma. Congratulations. How are you . Your brother was sick, right, and thats how you got involved in this . Tell us about him. Well, it started when he fell off the bed, but it doesnt really end there. Is he doing better now . Mmhmm. Good. You do lock boxes of love. Tell us about those. Well, the lock boxes of love, i started them because when chase started being sick, he got a lot of things. And i felt left out because because i was never involved in anything. So i felt like, you know, so i felt left out. And thats when i decided then when i got a gift, it made me feel really good. So i wanted to do that for other kids. That is so sweet. You guys are the best kids. I think we have a Little Something special for you guys for being such great kids. I hope you inspire lots of others out there to do kindness, too. Everyone has a little name tag. This is awesome. For all the hollywood buzz you missed over the weekend, and a Sweet Surprise one man will never forget, a sweet christmas story to help you keep the faith during the holidays right after this. [ male announcer ] playing in the nfl is tough. Doing it with a cold, just not going to happen. Vicks dayquil powerful nondrowsy 6symptom cold flu relief. No matter what city youre playing tomorrow. [ coughs ] [ male announcer ]. You cant let a cold keep you up tonight. Vicks nyquil powerful nighttime 6symptom cold flu relief. 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The Christmas Season is all about family and faith, and this is a remarkable story about both. Its from our friend, the best selling author of the godwink series described as life changing experiences. And ted harris story is just that. Take a look. My wife cathy and i were married 40 years. It was a wonderful marriage. Christmas was cathys favorite holiday. Her policy was, you cant decorate too much. I would string the lights outside. While she turned the inside into a christmas wonderland. Every year, she gave the children and me a special ornament. One year, mine was a little picture frame with her smiling face. When you pressed a button, it would say, Merry Christmas, honey. I love you. Have a happy new year. That smile is what characterized cathy. She wore it every day in her battle with ovarian cancer. For five and a half years. Christmas eve 2010 was the worst day of my life. That was the day i had to put cathy in the hospice. Three days later, she went to heaven. One year later, i arose early on Christmas Eve morning. I couldnt sleep, missing cathys sweet smile. I came down to an empty house, which i had decorated the way she liked. I turned on the tree lights and decided to light the candle that was next to the picture frame ornament that she always placed there on an end table. But when i flicked the candle lighter, the most unbelievable thing happened. The voice on the picture frame spoke. Merry christmas, honey. I love you very much. Happy new year. I checked the button. It was still in the off position. Now, theres probably a scientific reason for that happening. But in my moment of sadness, hearing her voice gave me comfort, knowing my angel was okay and she was not to be forgotten. I felt god was in the room. A godwink from heaven. Wow. Oh, my god. Thats definitely a godwink. Yeah. Okay, were going to segue to this, the duck dynasty ruffles more feathers. Plus, a big surprise at the box office. All in todays buzz. 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[ male announcer ] in stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and more, swanson makes holiday dishes delicious. Gravy and more, im in a bit of a jam. Yes my wifes incredible. She coaches little league. She raises 3 kids, if you include me. I havent gotten her a gift yet. Youre in the right place. We have this 14k gold keepsake genuine diamond ring you can get her, with special financing on the walmart credit card. Thats a christmas miracle excuse me. Im in bit of a jam you came to the right place. Thanks get a keepsake diamond ring for 368, plus 6, 12, 18 or 24 months special financing with your walmart credit card. Minimum purchase and certificate required. Offer valid instore only through 12 31 2013. See store for details. Walmart. Good monday morning. Its 10 26. Im peggy bunker. Investigators are looking for the person who tossed a severely injured 10weekold puppy into the trash. The dog was found on a Conveyor Belt at the San Francisco dump on friday. The ucitys animal care and control took the tiny poodle in and nicknamed her gem. She is expected to survive. And it is the last regularseason game ever at candlestick park. Big day today. For the past 53 years, it has been the home to many sporting events and concerts. Kickoff between the 49ers and Atlanta Falcons is scheduled for just after 5 30. Well have a quick look at weather and traffic after the break. [ laughter ] he loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me thats right. [ mom ] warm and flaky in 15, everyone loves pillsbury grands [ girl ] make dinner pop so i should probably get the last roll. Yeah but i practiced my bassoon. [ mom ] and i listened. [ brother ] i can do this. [ imitates robot ] everyone deserves ooey, gooey, pillsbury cinnamon rolls. Make the weekend pop. Welcome back. 10 28 the time right now. Clear skies across the board. Well continue to see sunshine all day long but a little hazy in San Francisco. Thats where were seeing the air quality really suffer. Spare the air is in effect for today. Temperatures right now in the 40s. It will eventually climb back into the 60s. In fact, daytime highs today will range anywhere from about 65 to 70. Our warmest locations across the east and north bay. Mike, how are the roads . Theyre really light right now. Bay bridge toll plaza just like last half hour. We have a delay coming off the berkeley curve. Starting to build a little in volume. Folks starting to head into the city. Here in the south bay, a very light volume of traffic. The old bay shore onramp has reopened. Theres new slowing here. It looks like its starting to speed up once again. No reports from san jose pd, but well keep checking. Back to you. Sounds good, mike. More local news about 30 minutes away at 11 00. See you then. Have a great day. Were back with more of today on this fun day monday. Time for todays buzz. A tv news legend gets scooped by a hobbit, while mariah carey shows off her itsy bitsy teenyweeny yellow polka dot bikini. Here to fill us in is jaosh. Happy christmas. You, too. Lets start with the box office. Was this an upset, a surprise . A little bit. Bilbo beat burgundy, theyre saying. This is one of those most important weekends of the year. The last two weekends of the year are box office bonanza. There was an expectation that anchorman 2 would take up the top spot. Goes to show. How close was it . You should never underestimate 3foot tall australians because 37 million and 26. 8 million for anchorman 2. Its still admirable numbers. Still okay. The one i think people should keep an eye on is american hustle, which came in fourth with about 20 million, a little shy of 20 million, but its building and building. Its not in full release, right . We got full release just this weekend. It was in new york and l. A. Last weekend. Its a fantastic movie and i think its going to grow. Its getting great reviews. Lets talk Mariah Careys bikini shots. There was not an inch of cleavage when we were with her. Wow, fully clothed. In a ball gown. Look at her. I walked bambino just like that this morning. Shes in aspen. Shes in aspen and she posted these pictures to instagram. Walking her dog through the snow wearing that. And she posted she said the explanation on this was she said this is a tradition. This is a tradition. I guess, yeah, right . Whenever i walk my dog in the snow im wearing nothing but a red thong. And nobody at Tompkins Square dog park bats an eyelid. Not down there. Duck dynasty is stale waves of controversy coming off of this. Quieting down a little bit . I would hope so. Eventually, people have to. Yeah, the Cracker Barrel had pulled all of the duck dynasty things from its shelves. That had his image on it. Then they got a huge deluge of complaints. They brought it back in. Charlie sheen has venlted at him on social media. I dont understand why anybody thought a bearded old redneck duck hunter from the louisiana bayou would be a progressive sever civil rights leader in the first place. He made his feelings known long before. A e knew what they were getting into. Hes also still going to be on the show. Hes not shooting the show, but they have a season up their sleeve. They have nine done of the ten. What do you think is going to happen with him and the show . I suspect they pick him back up because its such a highrating show, so much money in it, or he walks and another Network Picks up the show. I wonder, though, if hes able if they can all leave, because you sign yeah, well, they would have to agree. Im sure they wouldnt be able to leave without a es permission. Steve carell was on letterman, having a conversation about surgery. A hip replacement surgery. Hes only 51. Normally you might associate with it older people. Like me. 12 years ago, he was in an ice hockey accident. He had to get something done, but he didnt want to know anything about how the surgery was done. He was like, otherwise im going to back out. If i knew what was going to happen with my feet, i would have never done it, and im so glad i did. That was smart of him. A nurse named yolanda says, im going to shave your groin. He said, if i knew this was going to happen, i would have preshaved my groin. And they ask him, what do you want your hip made out of. Couldnt you have asked me earlier. I guess ill take ceramic. Did it go well . Went fantastic and apparently hes going to play ice hockey again. Those guys have it in their blood. Boy, they love their hockey. Great to see you again. Merry christmas, sweetheart. Say his name again. Say it again. Cant remember. Okay, some locky shoppers getting a huge christmas surprise. Yes, hoda. Wait until you see it. Youll love it. Plus, the motivation you love youll love it. Plus, the motivation you love to help you to keep the new tresor, lancome what does that first spoonful taste likok. Honey bunches of oats. Ching mmmm mmmm mmmm wow its the oats. Honey. Yeah. Honey bunches of oats. This is a great cereal. Me too. Of all the things that happen on your tables, whats up karen . Disinfecting should be one of them. Clorox disinfecting wipes. Why wouldnt everyone get a Straight Talk wireless plan . With savings like that yeah, theres unlimited talk, text and data and you can save up to 950 a year. With savings like that you could buy a lot of things. Like an industrial size blender. We could have smoothies for days. Tuesday smoothies. Wednesday smoothies. This phone plan sounds delicious. Own the season with the latest Straight Talk smartphones. Get nationwide coverage on americas largest and most dependable networks. And pay only 45 a month for unlimited talk, text and data with no contract. Walmart. You would need like a bunch of those to clean this mess. 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Use sparkle® with thirst pockets®. Its just right for cleaning up everyday little messes without cleaning out your piggy bank. Sparkle®. The bright way to clean. Gotta jet im okay, im okay. Were down to the wire in our holiday challenge to help you cut the creep. And with christmas just two day uz way, this may be the toughest week yet to resist temptation and try to maintain your weight. Two of our viewers have been successful at it so far, but what did the last week bring . Were about to find out. Nbcs health and diet editor weighed them a little while ago. How did we do . They look great, feeling great . Lets take a look, look at melvina. How do yo yo you think you did . Over the past week, you lost two pounds. What . I dont even see it. For a total you lost two this week . Youre down for a total of 3. 8 pounds. She started slow, but she picked up. Fabulous. Now cathy, lets take a look at cathy. Do you feel like you have lost . No. Lets take a look. Cathy dropped a half a pound. And her total is 4. 3 pounds. Yay i want to cut the creep. Theyre actually on their way down. Tell us what were doing now. Today, were going to take your activity knowledge, because were busy at the holidays doing lots of stuff to burn calories. What were going to do is five different activities starting with decorating the tree. Youre going to figure the calories were burning. Ten seconds to do each one . Over time. This is two minutes, but if you multiply it by 30 minutes or an hour, youre going to see how much youre burning. Ten seconds. What are we starting with . Were going to start at the Christmas Tree. Go. Ready . Go, go. Come on, melvina. Come on. Dance around. Shake it. Shake it dont break it. Shake it. Arms up. Shake it, shake it. Okay. Drop it. Drop it. Wrap it. Shake it while you wrap it. Shake it while you wrap it. Here, ill hold it. Keep shaking. Keep shaking. And wrap. Come on, we love to wrap. We know how to wrap. Now. Okay, bake something. Bake it. Dump it in. Bake it. Get some elbow grease in there. Break it in. Really, put your back into it. What . Thats it. Brush your hair. Brush your hair. Brush your hair. Here. Brush your hair. Brush your hair. Brush it. Brush it. Jump, jump, jump, jump. Okay. Drink. Shake it, make it, shake it. Keep shaking it while you make it. Shake it while you make it. Shake, shake, shake, shake. Put it on top. Okay. Keep going. Keep shaking. All right. Okay. Times up. What was that . Okay, put this down. Im going to take a look and see what you did. Okay. And dont look. I didnt look. Did you . The thing is, you got a total of 14 calories in these little things. You got a total of 12. It doesnt sound like a lot, but if you multiply by 30 minutes. Madeleine, she burned a lime. You get a half of a lime. Enjoy. We get it. Exponentially. Over time, its 200 calories, and we have a take a break over the holidays. All that. We have a prize for you guys. Theyre champagne truffles. You like champagne and you like truffles. You get a little treat. All right, thank you. If you have questions for madeleine about cutting the creep, send them to our facebook beige and shiel rr stick around to answer them for you. The big retail spreading christmas cheer to lucky shoppers. And youre not the only one getting decked out for that holiday party. Festive outfits for your pets. Cutest. Dog gone adorable, right after some victories are uplifting. Some inspire us to new heights. And some victories are worth striving for. But at famous footwear, we believe. The best victories are the ones that are right within reach. These are the victories were famous for. Famous brands, famously easy, famous footwear. Victory is yours. Theres a better way to save. At sears last minute gift sale. Get up to 60 off family sleepwear, and up to 50 off select craftsman tools. Plus this 32 inch tv just 189. 99. Holiday a better way. Sears. Donneutralize them odorand freshen. Ash. With glad odorshield with febreze. Cow tearing up go get em gracie girl bye cow they grow up so fast baby giggles cow my bad. Girl would you like some tea . Cow yes please. Girl o. K. Cow sniffling i miss her so much already. Get on skype at recess mom were fine. Were fine. Cow ahhhhh vo make us part of your family. Look for nutritious dairy brands with the real california seals. Mom shes going to be done at noon. Cow yells noon ahhhhhh last minute deals on toys and gifts. Thats my holiday, thats my kind of holiday. Wrap it up, pop, lock and shop, buyin presents that i forgot. Thats my holiday. Already have your christmas and new years eve outfits ready to go for yourself and your kids, but what about the other family members . You cant forget your fourlegged friends. Here with looks to have people wagging is dara foster. Oh, my gosh. These are too cute. You have to keep them comfortable, too, and stylish. Yes, the idea is to keep them comfortable and stylish. You never want to force your dog to wear something they dont want to wear. Theyll let you know. Come on. Strut your stuff. He didnt need that boot. Hes like cinderella, he left a shoe behind. His prince charming will come. What is he wearing . Hes ready to dash through the snow in a pet life jacket from pet smart. Its around 30. We want to see his face. Of course, its important to protect your dogs eyes. Hes wearing doggals. The idea is to accessorize and make the complete look. You have the coat, the doggals. Thats important to protect the dogs eyes . It can be. Its uvprotective. Especially for debris for a dog low to the knrouground. You think about salt and dirt. And the puffer jacket isnt that expensive . No, under 30. Excellent. Goodbye. Oh, those boots. We have gracy. Is this gracy . What a difference. Go guy. This is go guy, and this is definitely a case of opposites attract. We have go guy. And this is gracy . This is gracy. Big dogs are really hard to dress. People say how do i dress my big dog . You can have a great time with accessories. We have a tartan bow tie. Tartan is a big trend. Hes wearing a dickey. A hat from barking babies. A doggycoutureshop. Com. Hes got a complete look. This is a way to dress a big dog without clothes. What is he . I havent heard of that. What about gracy . And little gracy. Shes wearing a beautiful tartan tutu dress. Its a harness dress. You can hook your leash onto that. Shes so festive, styled with a pearl collar. Of course. Shes holiday ready. A gorgeous jeweled leash. Absolutely fabulous. Thank you so much. So cute. Ready for new years. Lets bring out miyuki. Shes got pajamas on. Oh, my god. Mom in her kerr chief and dog in her hat. Here we go. Toshi is in her preChristmas Eve pjs. Parker, pull her hat back. There we go. Shes wearing her cute hat under 6, with the leash and collar and also wearing little santa socks. Oh, stop it. Look at this. The little santa socks. Oh, my god. To die for. So shes ready for christmas and ready for santa. We have to bring out howard. Howard is going to kill you. Look at howard. Howard. Howard. Howard, santa claus is coming to town. I know, im not sure who is fatter, santa or howard. So whats really cool about this outfit is its made for a big dog. And this hat actually has a beard attached to it. I its 12, so you cant beat that. Hes weiaring a great coat from doggy couture. We have to bring out this little guy. Here comes snarf. Oh, my god. I cant, i cannot handle this. Cute attack. I cant take it. Total cute attack. Hes ready this is his winter casual look. Of course. We get it. The boots have thinsulate in there and will protect your dogs paws from salt. Its not only a fashion statement. Thank you for going to so much trouble to bring them all. Merry christmas to everybody. Were you one of the lucky shoppers . The big retailer embracing the spirit of giving this christmas. First, this is today on nbc. [ female announcer ] heres to a whole world of happier holidays. Time to enchant, delight and amaze. Safeway will help you gather everyone round. A smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. Starbucks is just 6. 99, thats a cup of good cheer. Get sweet clementines for 4. 99, enough for everyone here. Turns out this season less is really so much more. So make your holiday merrier than ever before. Safeway. Ingredients for life. There have been so many good deeds done around the country this season from a mystery person leaving extra large tips to secret santas paying off layaways. We sent jenna to the checkoutline at kohls to find out their entire purchase was on the house. Christmas is almost here, and in the spirit of giving, were surprising some deserving families. What have you been saving up for this year for your kids . Toys that are really hard to find that hopefully santa can find in his workshop. What is this . A gift for you, sweetheart. Oh, my gosh. Gifts for you. Merry christmas. Wow. We just came here for slippers. Who are you shopping for . Our whole family, daughters, grandchildren, inlaws. And your entire purchase is on us tonight. No way. Thank you, santa. Thank you, Merry Christmas. What are you shopping for . He has a ton of cousins. Huge family. Nieces and nephews. Oh, my god. I cannot look. I cant. I cant. I got to give you a hug. Im sorry, i know youre working. Who are you shopping for . Primarily for my kids and hoping to find something extra while im looking for nieces, nephews, friends kids. Its fun to watch them open and the excitement. It makes it worth it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Bye, thank you. Who are you here shopping for . Just family. And then im getting a grab bag gift for my job. I did say i wanted a new coat. Praise god. Thank you so much. Oh, my goodness. These are for you. I dont know if i should scream, jump up and down. Thank you, god bless. Okay, talk now. Its great to see smiles this time of year, and everything the shoppers received was furnished by kohls. These are the hard working crew members pausing to hear kathie lee sing. We love you. You do everything for us. Hodas on her way to wish somebody a merry chris am. We send you our love. We thank you for your hard work and your friendship every day. Love these guys. Merry christmas to everybody. Well see you tomorrow. A rally in support of jahi. The2in latest on the efforts to keep the teenager on life support. Plus a puppy severely injured and found at a bay area dump. Now the search is on for the person who actually hurt the dog. And a farewell to candlestick. Fans and players reminisce as the 49ers get ready to play their final regular season game at the stick. Good monday morning to you. Thank you for joining us at 11 00. Im peggy bunker. We begin with a story thats new at 11 00. Friends and family of a 13yearold girl being kept on life support are marching through the streets of oakland right now. Nbc bay