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Dangerous. And dog napping. A canine caper caught on camera has a little dog is stolen under her owners noses. But the tale has a happy ending. January 17th 2015 from nbc news this is today with lester holt and erica hill were live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a sad morning. Im leather holt. Erica and dillon are enjoying the day off. Right near the top, you can see daylight. Finally we ore on the way up. Finally. Its the little things. A little hint of sun. Anyway want to begin with our top story. Mitt romney making a run for the white house again. More fuel has been added to the fire after a speech he made last night during a Republican National committee meeting. Chris ten welker has more for us. Reporter mitt romney didnt say outright that he plans to run but he sounded a lot like a candidate when he spoke in california last night mapping out a platform. But hes missing a key ingredient for a third president ial bid. Broad support within his own party. Speaking to the Party Faithful in california mitt romney joked about the one thing on everyones mind. Let me state unequivocally that i have no intention of running for u. S. Senate in massachusetts. Reporter but the former rep nominee got serious fast mapping out what sounded like another platform for a run. Focused on National Security and opportunity for all, even taking direct aim at possible democrat contender hillary clinton. And the results of the foreign policy. And his wife ann. She believes people get better with experience. Reporter but there is skepticism in his own party. How is now going to be different from four years ago or four years before that . Reporter if he runs hes face off on what consider a strong field of primary candidates as the party tries to appeal to a broader case. Scott walker new jersey gove forchris christie rand paul and Tea Party Favorite texas senator ted cruz. Then theres former Florida Governor jeb bush who is already getting big donors on board. In 2012 most of the republican rising stars decided to stay on the sidelines. Theyre not on the sidelines this time. Reporter when asked about th. Reporter when asked about the news hes considering a bid, president obama deeyded to stay multiple. I have no comment. Reporter last night romney talked about raising up the poor trying to distance himself from 2012 when he was painted as an out of touch elitist who didnt care about the poor. Fuelled by his 47 comment. The rnc will have nine debates instead of 22 last time. A move to protect gop candidates from making potentially damaging remarks during debate. Lester . Waes the thinking here . He said he wouldnt run again. What might be change ing his thinking . Reporter first of all, romney has never been shy about acknowledging that heses always wanted to be president. Those close to him say he feels he has a case to make on foreign policy, especially given the crisises sin you ukraine and with isis. With jeb bush mulling over a run romney thought he would have to take steps now. The biggest problem for him is convincing republicans hell be a different candidatement the gop wants to win back the white house. Kristen welker, thanks. Now to the steppedup security across europe as the search continues for anyone who may have been involved in the deadly attacks in paris and plots in belgium. Nbcs bill neeley is in belgium. Good morning. Reporter good morning from the site where two suspected terrorists were shot dead by police on thursday Belgian Police still questioning suspects suspects being questioned across europe. All this of course part of the aftershock of the massacre in paris. The gunmen in the massacre were furious at the magazine charlie hebdo. The fury continues in europe and beyond. A muslim backlash is building in Algeria Police struggle to contain huge crowds angry that the frempblnch magazine once again published a cartoon of the prophet mohamed. In jordan, pictures of of the paris killers and confronted police. In pakistan protesters marched to the french consulate where police fired teargas. Protests in iran, turkey, and elsewhere. Muslims are rallying and europe is rattled. Dozens of armed Police Responded in paris to a deranged man in a post office. In belgium it was real. Police gathering evidence of the two armed men just back from syria. They shot and killed. Men who had weapons, explosives and Police Uniforms for an attack Police Believe was imminent. Police in germany arrested men for allegedly sending recruits to syria. In britain, Police Stepped up security at synagogues. Its a time for heightened aware withness awareness but not to be scared snrk britains Prime Minister was talking tough with president obama. The world is sickened by this terrorism. We will not be standing alone in this fight. We know what we are up against. It is widespread. It has penetrated communitieses around the world. Reporter the u. S. Is now promising more help to europe at a time of oh trouble and deep trauma. For the first time this morning, belgium is deploying troops to guard key sites. Its rewriting laws to deal with those radical threats. You know what happened here and in paris really sent a shiver across europe. Thanks bill. A the u. S. Supreme court greed to take up the question of samesex marriage. The justices will decide one of the biggest legal and cultural issues of this generation. Nbcs justice correspondent Pete Williams has more. Reporter in suburban detroit april and jane cheered the news that their legal fight will be part of a potentially historic uh ruling on gay rights. We set out oh for a goal. That was equality for our family. We are proud that we are affecting so many other familieses and proud that we are an inspiration for other families. Reporter the justices agreed to answer two questions can states refuse to grant marriage licenses to samesex couples and can states refuse to recognize samesex marriages legally performed somewhere else . The court takes up the questions after a surge of Court Rulings from coast to coast, striking down state bans on samesex marriage. Nearly 60 separate decisions in more than half a states over the past year and a half. There will not be many cases like this that we are going to look back in a hundred, 200, 300 years and say, gosh that was a critical moment in the countrys history. Reporter 36 states now permit gay couples to get married covering roughly 70 of the u. S. Population. The Supreme Courts order comes just threes months after it declined to take up the issue last fall an action that allowed samesex marriage to begin in 20 more states. Since then lower courtses have split on the issue. The Obama Administration says it will urge the court to rule in favor of samesex marriage saying it would help ensure equality for all americans. The cases will be argued in april. The court will issue its decision by late june. For today, Pete Williams, nbc news at the Supreme Court. More americans than ever will begin traveling to cuba now that a relaxed set of rules will make it easier to go to the island nation. You might be ready to go to cubament the question might be is cuba ready for you . Mark potter is in havana this morning. Mark good morning. Reporter good morning, sheinelle. There is widespread hope here that a lot more americans will soon visit cubament experts say it could be some time before that actually occurs. On the day of the new u. S. Travel rules went into effect there were hundreds of americans already visiting cuba. They and even those arriving today arranged their trips before the rule changes. Joining expensive tour groups controlled by the u. S. And cuban governments. We are learning about history a great deal. Were learning about the city. We have a lot of contact with the people. Its just a pleasure to be here a privilege. Reporter many wonder what it will look like when thousands of americans arrive here under the new, relaxed travel rules. At the Havana Airport friday american seener yors and a birdwatching group arrived for their tour. Welcome to cuba. Reporter believing travel here next time will involve less red tape. Certainly the red tape will lessen at least on the u. S. End. Reporter a question being raised here and especially in the United States is whether cuba, with its stagnant economy and a shortage of resources will be ready to embrace a flood of oh americans. Ex perts say cuba has a sizable tour ieconomy serving tourists from around the world but it needs time to prepare for more americans. Chris mcinnis thinks it could take several years. It will take a while before they can expand the airport, build hotels add taxicabs. Reporter still to be arranged, the use of american credit and debit cards here. Under the old rules u. S. Tourists could only carry cash. On the streets, many cubans say they are ready now for all the changeses to start taking place. And u. S. Officials say they hope this will lead to more opportunitieses for the cuban people and less reliance on the statecontrolled economy here as they also vowed to push cuba to improve the political and human rights record. Sheinelle . Thank you. Pope franciss trip to the philippines had to be cut short this morning. Peterer alexander hases that and other storieses. Good morning. Good morning. Pope francis arrived safely in manila after an approaching storm changed the pontiffs travel plans. Anne thompson joins us from the philippines with the latest. Anne . Reporter peter, i think the only thing that could rival pope francis for attention in the philippines is the weather. It forced changes in hi schedule today. It threatens tomorrows mega mass. It could be a water logged mess. The main reason for the popes visit to the philippines was to spend time with the victims of typhoon haiyan. He flew to tacloban as the storm approached. Instead of spending the day in the recovering area the pope was forced to cut short the trip but not before celebrating an emotion that will mass. Thousands of people in yellow ponchos, as was the pope listening with tears in their eyes as he told them he had to come to see them. He put aside his prepared homily and spoke from the heart saying these people are not alone and though they have suffered greatly, god will not let them down. The same Tropical Storm is headed to manila. We are basically under a Tropical Storm watch here. One to two inches of rain are predicted for tomorrow. Well see how that impacts the up to 6 Million People who are expected to attend the popes final mass of this visit. Peter . Anne thank you very much. Police closer to home in florida under fire for using mug shots of africanamerican men for target practice say they are suspending the Sniper Training program. The North Miami Beach police chief said the department realizes how, taken out of context the photos of the six black males in the lineup may appear to be offensive. Bill cosbys lawyer said he was not at the playboy mansion the night his accuser said she was attacked. He was in new york 2500 miles away. He intends to prove it. They met this week to detail her account of the alleged 2008 sexual assault. Hundreds of students at penn state took to the streets to celebrate the ncaa decision to restore 112 team victorieses stripped from the team amid the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal returning joe paterno to his place as Major College footballs winningest coach. For decadeses. He was ousted after the arrest of sandusky and al gags of a school coverup. Lawyers say the move sends the wrong message. The ravens struck a financial settlement with their former star running back ray rice who filed a grievance seeking more than 3. 5 million in back pay after his contract was terminated following the explosive video of oh rice hitting his then fiancee, now wife. The ravens said it is time to turn the page. They wish janae and ray the best. Rice remains a free agent. Nba history was made in l. A. Last night when Austin Rivers hit the court for the l. A. Clippers. He was playing for his dad doc rivers. Austin is now the first nba player to play for his father. Austin played more than 11 minutes. He didnt score. The clippers acquired him from the celtics as part of a threeteam deal. Aus austins dad said he finally has to listen to me. His allowance, 1. 8 million a year. He has to make his bed. Family affair. We have a check of the forecast. You guys, its frigid out therement the northeast. Not bad yesterdayment it got cold late in the evening. This is what we are waking up to. Look at this. It eat its minus 18 in watertown. Feels like minus 8 in boston. Minus 27 in caribou. This is serious cold in the northeast. Not everybody seeing it through the central plains. We have a january thaw. Temperatures up more good morning. 5 46 the time. Waking up to showers across the north bay. Everybody else waking up to clouds. Shower activity isolated today. Really north of San Francisco. Everywhere else 40s and 50 with clouds in place. Notice through the day, temperatures will be warm south bay, back to 67 degrees. 65 for the peninsula. East shore, more cloud cover at of 6. 64 San Francisco with showers for the morning. The same for the north bay. Spare the air. And thats a look at your saturday forecast. All right. Thank you very much. Nice to have you here. A maryland couple is under investigation for letting Young Children walk around town without supervision. It has sparked a heated debate over the right of parents to raise their children the way they want versus the kids safety. Here s kristen welker. Reporter danielle says part of growing up is learning how to do things on your own. Thats why she and her husband allow their 10yearold son and 6yearold daughter to walk short distances around their suburban maryland neighborhood by themselves. They need to learn that intangible thing we call street smarts. The only place to learn that outside. Reporter its called free range parenting, a rejection of the over protective helicopter parent. I feel safe because i know my parents have confidence in us. Reporter now this family is being investigated by Child Protective Services because last month police found the kids walking home from a park a mile away from home. Some of the roads get a lot of traffic. Does that concern you . Well if my children didnt know how to cross streets and if we hadnt spent time that would be a concern. My kids know. Reporter c p ps didnt talk to this case but says a child under the age of 8 cannot be left alone in a building enclosure or motor vehicle. They say their kids were walking outside so they didnt break the law. The founder of the free range kids. Our parents did it. Nobody blinked an eye and the crime rate was higher when we were growing up. Reporter according to the latest fbi study more than 58,000 kids were abducted by nonrelatives in one year. We are asking parents to talk to their children and have them know about safety. The kidnappings are rare. They are scary and dramatic but they just dont happen often. Reporter the family will meet with Child Protective Services next week with no planses to back down. For today, kristen welker, nbc news. A canadian couple was all shook up after their dog was stolen while the el vis presley fans were in memphis. Luckily their hound dog is back in their arms thanks to good samaritans. Kevin tibbles has more on the canine caper. Reporter a trip to celebrate Elvis Presleys 80s birthday turned into a trip to the heartbreak hotel. This tune ends happily. Canadian couple lori and terry travis had their dog dixie stolen from their truck as they were having dinner on Elvis Presley boulevard in memphis. Well give you money. Just bring the dog back please. Reporter dixie, a Yorkshire Terrier was grabbed by the neck and tossed into the back seat of a getawayer car, picked up by a camera. I cant believe people treat animals like that. Reporter a week went by and nothing as the traviss sat in a hotel, waited and hoped. Some in memphis offered to pick up the tab for the familys food and lodging. A Facebook Page was set up to assist with the search. Shes part of the family. Reporter late in the week a break. A series of tips led police to an address where dixie was found. Good deeds are done every day. Reporter the travises decided to drive back from houston. I just want my dog. Reporter just for this precious moment. Oh baby reporter while police questioned suspects seeking the hound dog responsible the memphis mayor awarded dixie with a special Police Citation and gave the travisses their own honor. You won the key to our hearts already. Now we are giving you the key to our great city. Thank you. Reporter for today, kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. The dogs like whatever, im good. Part of the family for sure. Still to come we saw how happy a dog can make its owner. The feeling is mutual and we have the pictures to prove it. First this is today on nbc. A remarkable thing has happened. Over a million californians have gotten something thats been out of reach for far too long. Health insurance. How . They enrolled through covered california. Its the Health Insurance marketplace where youll find a range of plans from leading Health Insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates and benefits. You can compare plans side by side choose the one that best fits your needs and enroll online. Coveredca. Com is also the place to find Certified Experts in your area who can answer your questions for free, and help you enroll. And, through covered california, you may get financial help to pay for coverage. Its based on income, and 4 out of 5 people who have enrolled qualified. If you dont have a health plan, or you do, but you want to make sure its the best plan for you, nows the time to visit coveredca. Com. But to get covered youve got to get going. Open enrollment ends february 15th. Visit coveredca. Com today. Speak ing of dogs which we were a moment ago we are back with a look at the incredible ways a dogs life can be changed. If you have seen a dog in a shelter they dont always look happy. Its incredible to see what happens when they finally find a loving home. Peter is in the orange room with more. This is exciting. From the white house to the orange room. My first time in here. Anybody whoss adopted a pet knows what a big undertaking it can be. While it may change your life its absolutely going to change the life of your dog. We have the evidence to prove it. Back here some reddit users with before and afters. You can see the dog all caged up. Now out with a big smile. Jackson, after. Showing a little bit too much there, jackson. You can see how excited he is. Spokey behind glass and after with a big grin and a tongue out to show it. Harper a little leopard print and the black b ork ark. Harper feeling good as well. This one i like. This is alanek. Look at that shot. Stuck in a wooden box. After the fact hanging out like how you like me now . I feel good. Finally mona. All caged up before. After the fact with the pink shawl to go with the pink smile. Everybody going, im sorry the rest of you are stuck behind the scenes im living life. When my 1yearold daughter sees a dog she goes dog, dog, dog. Shes loving this. Orange room. That was my kids first word. Dog. Im dogless for the first time in 20 years. Really . Taking a break. I dont want to do puppy training in the wint wither time. Were close. Still to come on today the man hunt for two teenagered feared to be armed and dangerous. And an investigation about parents who arent making sure their kids are buckled up. This is all part of our School Danger zone series. Coming up just how many parents arent buckling up the kids. When youre not looking the kids unbuckle themselves. Thats coming up. Good morning. 5 56 saturday morning. Live look over a misty San Francisco in the transamerica pyramid. Might be seeing rain in the city. Good morning to you. Anthony slaughter has a look at microclimate forecast. Youre telling me San Franciscos like the dividing line. Yes. Really is. If youre in San Francisco, its not allday rain just talking about a shower activity from time to time. But really that dividing line the golden gate and points north. North bay traveling there, expect a few showers, key word few, not a bunch. Talking about less than a tenth of an inch. South of San Francisco dry. San jose, east bay, dry conditions. 40s and 50s. Cloud cover overhead. Farther north, thats where youll see showers. North bay, San Francisco, south of sfo, sun. 70s. Wow. Talk about a different forecast. Microclimate full effect today there definitely. Thanks. The stage set for a final answer on marriage for gay couples. The Supreme Court taking on a history making case. Will they leave it as is or will the justices make samesex marriage legal in all 50 states . The legal debated started in San Francisco city hall 2004 when the city began issuing marriage licenses to samesex couples. Excited the Supreme Court has agreed to decide samesex marriages must be allowed across country. For 28 years, among the first couple in the nation to get married at San Francisco city hall 11 years ago. Right now, 36 stated recognize marriage for samesex couples. Arguments expected to happen in april and ruling is expected in june. Police in the bay area already in the midst of what they are calling 96 hours of action. Started yesterday morning when protesters took over b. A. R. T. Stations for more than two hours in downtown San Francisco. Some demonstrators stopped trains by blocking the doors from closing. Protests planned through the Martin Luther king jr. Holiday. Owners of shops and businesses in oakland arent taking any chances this time. Instead, taking precautions, boarding up windows and doors ahead of the black live matter protest. Businesses in downtown oakland have been vandalized and looted over the past several months during other protests. Coming up on today in the bay, one day away from championship sunday in the nfl. And the bay area is well represented among the four teams fighting for a super bowl berth. That, plus top stories at 7 00. Right now, well send you back the today show. Come on, guys whats the holdup . Sweet fancy moses. We are back on saturday morning, january 17th. A classic scene from seinfeld. That was a favorite. A lot can be learned from the personalities of the shows characters. Jenna wolf is here to show us how a College Professor is using seinfeld to teach students. We have a great crowd outside trying to stay warm on this bitter january morning. They deserve gold stars. Still to come how to get the best deal when buying a thu car. What to ask for and make sure you are you are the one in charge of the negotiations. Reporter we begin with the multi state man hunt for a 13yearold and her 18yearold boyfriend. The kentucky teens have been on the run from police for weeks. They may have been spotted in florida on friday. Kristen dahlgren is following it all. Good morning. Reporter good morning, sheinelle. Authorities are on high alert across the sunshine state. Police say it may have started as a couple joyriding as a joke but its gone much farther including felonies firearmses and a fear that it might not end peacefully. 13yearold Cheyenne Phillips and her 18yearold boyfriend dalton hayes may be in florida this morning, on the run with a stolen truck like this one, and loaded guns according to police. A situation they say is growing more dire by the hour. The longer they are gone the more they try to flee from the police the more dangerous the situation becomes. Reporter the teens started two weeks ago in their small town in western kentucky. Hayes was already facing indictment on burglary and theft charges when he changed his Facebook Status to engaged and the two disappeared. Daltons mom said she had no idea phillips was just 13 or the two would run off. I just wonder whats going on. You know if theyre safe warm eating. Reporter police say the pair stole at least three trucks along the way. They were spotted in a South Carolina walmart accused of using stolen checkses to get 40 in cash. The truck they allegedly stole in georgia had two loaded guns inside. Law enforcement doesnt look at this as two kids on the run anymore. These are two potentially dangerous people to themselveses to the public and to law enforcement. Reporter in florida witnesseses tell police the teens may be panhandling for money and staying in homeless camps or shelters. Some who know hayes wor eriery he wont come in willingly. Hes fled from police before. Hes making bad choices. I though dalton personally. Hes a hardheaded kid. Reporter his mother hopes he hears her plea. Its a feeling i wouldnt wish on anyone else. In addition to the stolen cars and guns hayes is wanted on charges of custodial interference luring a minor away from her legal guardians. They havent committed Violent Crimes but authorities would like it to end before harm cops to anyone. The sheriff tells me he will personally pick them up if they give him a call. Kristen, thank you. Dylan is off but do min ka is on the plaza with another check of the weather. Its cold out here. Im proud of you guys. Its freezing. Guess what. Were going to have rain coming into the picture by the end of the weekend. Dry today. On future cast High Pressure moved to the koe making the way for rain from carolinas. The rain will get heavy from new york up to boston by late afternoon. Ear is a look at rain and snow amounts. We are looking at not a lot of snow. Up state new york to Northern New England will see snow. Generally its an inch of rain. Pretty much a wet end to the weekendment a new storm on the Pacific Northwest will make for soggy conditions once again good morning. Waking up to clouds especially across the north bay. Showers falling north of santa rosa clearlake. Showers will stay concentrated across the north bay from San Francisco north today. Thats where we will see the rain. Elsewhere, plenty of sunshine but hazy sunshine. We have spare the air once again today. 67 for your high in the south bay. 65 peninsula. San francisco youll be at 64 with showers for the north bay, 63 there. Its giveaway day on the plaza. We found the girl the woman with the thinnest jacket. What were you thinking . I wasnt. Are you from the west coast . From illinois. You should know better. Here. Take these warmerers and use them. Shes been here since 6 30. Oh my gosh. Back to you. Lester peter, sheinelle. She looks good. I wont try to get that accent. Just ahead an eye opening rossen report about how important it edward jones. 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Getting them into a car, to school on time. Police say in the chaos, so many parents are making a dangerous mistake. Forgetting to put their kidses in seat belts or sometimes the kids themselveses sunbuckle while you are driving. It seems simple but can be devastating. Wait until see how many we saw doing it. Why isnt this child buckled in . Or this one . Is there a reason why none of them are wearing seat belts back there . Reporter parent after parent pulled over by deputies. Uh you need to keep it on until you get to school. Reporter already this school year tragic headlines. Parents ignoring the law. Kids not in seat belts. Ejected from the car. And the danger is real. Even at slow speeds. Take a look at this government crash test video. This child is properly buckled in when the car slams into a wall at 30 miles per hour. Experts say hed likely survive. But here is with a it looks like when your child isnt strapped in a dramatic difference. Both kids uh hurled into the windshield. Experts say the injuries would be life threatening. And, remember this is at slow speed s. Our lives were changed so quickliment when they were changing we didnt even know. It happened so fast. Reporter rosalind and tom were on a Family Vacation with their four kids when the suv rolled over. The only person not buckled in was 12yearold calvin. He was the only one who was killed. There are always the regrets that if we would have done this that maybe it wouldnt have happened. Reporter pull over in the grass for me please. Now officials are cracking down. Broward county sheriff and fire rescue inviting us along to do seat belt spot checks outside a florida el pentry school. Is there a reason hes not wearing a seat belt . Reporter on this day an incredible 50 of the cars had kids who werent buckled in. This is a life and death situation. It is. Buckle your kid. Paycheck your kid safe. Reporter hey, buddy. Are you forgetting something . What are you forgetting . The seat belt. Put that on. The car should never move without a seat belt on. Its dangerous. During this stop mom isnt buckled in either. Hi maam. Jeff rosse n. Why wasnt your son in a seat belt . We just forgot. Reporter you just forgot . Yeah. Reporter in fact lots of parents tried to exes plain themselveses. I told them to belt in as we were leaving school like i always do. Reporter they didnt . Yeah. Reporter its important to wear seat belts. Youre wearing yours. Will you make sure they are belted in . Yes, i will. Youre driving 15 miles an hour. You think its a safe speed. Reporter are you going to get on top of it now . Definitely. Reporter you need to help dad, too. When he forgets your seat belt put your own on. Perfect. The parents and kids were good sports. Most of the parents said i just forgot. New only the may change that. The seat belt reminders that go off the ding ding. Keep doing that. Its really annoying. Congress has passed legislation to make it happen for the back seat seat, too. Awesome experts say it will save lives. When the kids unbuckle you will hear it. Thank you very much. Before you go i know you have been working to drop a uh few pounds is. Looking good. Working out with jenna as part of the today start series. Jennas here. The drill sergeant. Jenna is here. Is she everywhere . Do you sleep . We were supposed to meet at the gym. He said i have to work. I didnt believe it. As long as were done were off and running now. Im on him like white on rice my friends. This is how it goes. I wake up in the morning, shes popping from under my bed. One time. Youre taking the heat off me. Youre my inspiration. Your wife is like good morning, jeff. The chitchat is over. Im serious. Were going now. Okay. See you later. More working out. We have more work for you. Not until im done. 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Its not that difficult to get a good deal on a new car but make sure you get the most for your money. I set out with hidden cameras to make sure i was in the drivers seat when it came to negotiating the best price on a brand new car. When it comes to buying a car, driving home a good deal can be a tough assignment. So much talk. Im not sure where youre at right now. How low youve been. Right. Reporter and so many choices. Once youre established as a serious buyer and a dealer knows youre going to buy a car from some dealership in the next 24 to 72 hours you get a lot of leverage. If we do give you a good price are you going to buy a car today . Reporter that leverage only goes so far. What happens once youre inside the dealershipment. Hi. How are you . Reporter depends on you. To see how effective a little negotiation could be we took hidden cameras into four new yorkarea dealerships. The same car. 2015 accord lx. Reporter the same starting point. What numbers do we have to beat to make you happy. Reporter how close can you get to 18,500 . Work with the overalle price rather than monthly payments. The asking price is 23 and change. I believe its 23,550. Im able to get this car down to 21,000. Reporter thats still too high. Remember be patient. The person who talks the least is controlling the negotiation. Let p me ask you a question. Have uh you shopd around for priceses . I have. Is this a fair deal or not . Be honest. Reporter heres a tip. Consider left over previous model year vehicles. If they are still on the lot, dealers are are going to offer heft y discounts to get them sold. Where are you trying to be . Reporter you tell me how low you can get. Always be prepared to leave the dealership. The number right there. This 1299 below the invoice price. Reporter how did we fare . Deal one take an in stock car today and well do it today. 20,500. Reporter dealership two, 20,970. The third . 20,457. And our last stop the best deal i can do on the car is 20,495. Reporter all below the average National Transaction price of 21,929. Proof that getting a good deal on a car puts you on the road to savings. Heres another piece of advice always know the market value of the vehicle you want to buy. Go into the dealership knowing what you should pay. So you know if youre getting a good deal on the car. Theres edmonds and kelly blue book. Do your research. I want to ask about financing and insurance. Sit ease ier to go with what the dealership offers you . Its easy but not always in your best interest. Find out the financing beforehand. Get a good deal. If the dealership beats the price, go with them. At least you have bargaining power. Thanks for coming in. All right. Still ahead, is it a class about nothing is it nothing . How one College Professor is using seinfeld to teach medica huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. Yeah, Everybody Knows that. 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This is 20th winter spare the air day. North bay of the peninsula the worst air quality. Of course well see sunshine though most of it will be across the south bay, 67 there, for thor north you go more cloud cover. San francisco, showers. Tomorrow morning, repeat performance of showers in the morning for San Francisco and the north bay. Thats where showers will be this weekend elsewhere, plenty of sunshine. Good to know. Thanks. Investigation is under way in the east bay after police shot and killed a man in a park. Witnesses say the man had a knife and was threatening children. It happened yesterday afternoon at freeway harvey park near Great Salt Lake drive and Lake Arrowhead avenue. Witnesses reported the man approaching two Young Children with a knife. Investigators say three veteran officers rushed to the scene and confronted the man on the outskirts of the park. One officer fired his taser, another fired his gun. The man killed the knife still in his hand. Fremont has low crime rates. This is the first officerinvolved shooting in nearly two years. Police in the bay area in the midst of what theyre calling 9 hours of action. It started yesterday when protesters took over b. A. R. T. Stations for more than two hours in downtown San Francisco. Some demonstrators stopped trains by blocking the doors from closing. Protests planned through this Martin Luther king jr. Holiday. Owners of shops and businesses in town town oakland arent taking any chances instead, taking precautions. Boarding up windows and doors ahead of the weekends black live matter protests. Many businesses in downtown oakland have been vandalized and looted over the past several months during protests. Coming up this morning on today in the bay, we are one day away from championship sunday in the nfl. We all know the bay area really isnt involved but it is well represented among the four teams fighting for a super bowl berth. That, plus top stories at 7 00. Right now back to the today show show. Good morning. Its saturday, january 17 2015. Here is a look at todays top stories. Third times the charm . Mitt romney signals hes leaning towards another president ial run after a high profile speech in which he appeared to lay out a platform for a run for the 2016 white house. But this morning hes facing some head winds inside his own party. History in the making. The u. S. Supreme court will take on the issue of samesex marriage in what will likely be one of the biggest decisions of our time. This morning reaction is pouring in to the case that will make history for the future of marriage in the United States. And free lolita . A killer whale held in captivity for decades could be released back into the open water this year. But this morning while many are applauding the decision there are some who say lolita should stay right where she is inside a seaquarium. Well get into the debate. [ cheers and applause ] good morning and welcome back to today. We have come outside to brave the cold. Our amazing crowd this morning. If you listen you can hear the sound of teeth. Its a bonechilling cold. Im lester holt with sheinelle jones. Erica and dylan are enjoying the weekend off. I thought it was so cool as a kid when i could go not fun anymore. Not so fun. We want to begin with the strong indication that mitt romney is launching a 2016 president ial run. Peter alexander is sitting in at the news desk. Good morning. Good morning to you. The twotime republican president ial candidate issued a hint that hes mulling a third bid for the white house. Speaking before the Republican National committee friday night romney said his wife anne believes people get better with experience. Making his case for a possible run, romney emphasized renewed focus on the poor and middle class. Voters he may have alienated in 2012. The Obama Administration will urge the Supreme Court to rule in favor of samesex marriage. On friday the justices agreed to decide whether states can refuse to grant marriage licenses to samesex couples and whether states can refuse to recognize samesex marriages legally performed in a different state. A decision from the court is expected by late june. The f. A. A. Said its suspending a program allowing safety inspectors to bypass security screenings at airports. The this comes after an f. A. A. Employee was arrested with a gun in his carryon bag flying from atlanta to new york. Less than a month ago an extensive gun smuggling scheme involving current and former Airline Workers was uncovered on that same route. Bill cosbys lawyer plans to prove the comedian wasnt at the playboy mansion the night his accuser said she was attacked. The 24yearold accuser met with police this week to detail her account of the alleged 2008 sexual assault. This as protesters continue to taunt cosby while on tour in colorado. Top gun fanses have a last Ditch Campaign to save the beloved battleship from the hit class sec. The u. S. S. Ranger was decommissioneded in 1993. Last month a company paid 1 cent to take the warship. Its scheduled to arrive at the wrecking yard in a month. Fans want to see it turned into a museum. No comment so far from maverick or goose. Put on the brakes hell fly right by. In the danger zone no doubt. That was the best movie ever. Remember that . People of a certain anyone will always love kelly mcgillis. And the movie. Right. We have another check of the forecast. Im still cold i know. You dont have to study to be a meteorologist to get this forecast. Look. Its cold there you go. Thats the forecast. Thank you, sir. It is frigid out here this morning. Lets look at the saturday forecast. Well show you whats going oh on. Its thawing out through the central plains. Stays cold in the northeast. To the west a brand new storm in the Pacific Northwest. That will bring soaking rain to seattle and parts of oregon. Sunday hr of the same in the Pacific Northwest. Well have rain moving up the coast with a mix through Northern New England, up state new york. Staying mild through the middle part of the country and Martin Luther king jr. , day. Its looking good. Snow through the Northern Plains but the temperatures are looking very comfortable through the middle of the country. Thatses a look good morning. 6 34 the time. Cloud cover across the north bay. This is where youll see showers across ukiah, petaluma. I think San Francisco and points southward will be dry but the immediate coastline expect drizzle and light shower activity from time to time. Farther south you go today, thats where youll see more sunshine. Temperatures close to 70 in the south bay, notice San Francisco 64. Showers ending by noon. The same for the north bay. Morning showers expected. Okay, guys. We are all in agreeance its cold . There is a lot of teeth chattering out here. Thank you very much. Animal rights advocates will be rallying in miami today over the future of a killer whale who spent more than 40 years in captivitiment the fight over lolita has been raging for decades. As Gabe Gutierrez reports the decision whether to free her could come soon. Our killer whale [ cheers ] reporter shes been the star of the Miami Seaquarium for almost 45 years. We loved it. Reporter whats the best part about the show . Lolita. Reporter lolita the majestic 20foot killer whale is believed to be the oldest orca in captivity. Fabulous. Reporter later this month the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is scheduled to decide whether to deeclair lester holt part of an endangered group of whales. Free lolita reporter that brought renewed hopes to Animal Rights advocates fighting to free lolita for decades. Its hard to imagine her between shows. Reporter Howard Garrett said the 7,000 pound whales tank is too oh small. The conditions are mistreatment. They amount to abuse. Shes in this tiny concrete box with nowhere to go and no one to go with. Reporter he wants to retire lolita and take her back to her native waters off Washington State where she and six other whales were captured in 1970. What would it do to the animal if she were moved to the Pacific Northwest . Shed die. Reporter Robert Rhoads called the activists plan a misguided experiment. He points out the real life whale from free willie didnt survive when it returned to the wild. He said lolita is not just entertainment. Shes educational. This is her home. Shes interactive, healthy. Reporter whatever federal regulators decide they wont give her up. Both sides expect Court Battles as the fight over lolita keeps making waves. For today, Gabe Gutierrez, nbc news miami. A lot of people will be headed to oh the movies this weekend hoping to catch some of the oscar contenders before the award show. One of the films on the list american sniper picking up best actor and best picture nominees. Bradley cooper portrays real life sniper chris kyle. I had the opportunity to meet chris kyle two years before the movie began filming and a year before he was tragically murdered in texas. Ive got a military aged male on a cell phone watching the convoy. Reporter american sniper is getting high marks for the realistic portrayal of some of the iraq wars most intense urban battles ass seen through the eyes of chris kyle the u. S. Militarys most lethal sniper. I met the real chris kyle on a gun range in 2012. In the movies they go for the head shot. Thats not what you do . No, sir. Its easier to miss than this is. Reporter he was a hum able texan with a need to protect people in danger. Its what drove him to four deployments to the war zone. It sounds like you were torn. A sense of duty to god, family, country, butless also to the fellow soldiers that you were with. How much did it eat at you to go about your job . Well when youre out there and youre with one of the guys or troops that youre entrusted with goes down you feel like a failure. Reporter the sense of duty framed the other conflict kyle found himself in. Tell me. Tell me why you do it. I want to understand. Babe i do it for you. I do it to protect you. No you dont. I do. I always thought, shall be somebody else could do it. You have done your time. Reporter thea is his widow. The military couples who is have seen it said they have had the exact same conversations. They have had the exact same feelings. Im state side. Youre home . What are uh you doing . I guess i just needed a minute. Reporter for the film oos stars, Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller stepping into the kyles shoes was eye opening. Its an essential part of chriss story. The dilemma hes in trying to juggle a home life with a wife and two children but feeling when hes at home there are people dying that probably wouldnt if he was there. I just want to get the bad guys. If i cant see them i cant shoot them. The main thrust the thread through the narrative is this constant almost schizophrenic nature of having to go home and back on the tour. Reporter in 2009 chris kyle left the navy retiring to native texas where he found a way to still be there for his comrades. I want awareness for the troops. Thank you is greatment. But im asking people to do random acts of kindness to show your thanks. Reporter you also exposed the soft under belly and thats the toll it takes on family life. Youre honest about your relationship. It took a toll. It definitely did. We struggled to keep our marriage together. Reporter the couples complicated love story is woven into what otherwise might be ju an action movie. It ended in a way no one saw coming. Kyles murder allegedly at the hands of a disturbed veteran he was trying to help. I stand before you a broken woman. Reporter in the eulogy you said the messy, passionate, full of every extreme emotion known to man, constantly changing crazy ride was rolled up into the deepest, most soulchanging experience that only one man, chris kyle could bring. He had such a humility such a heart of service that in this pack kanl that was funloving protective and had all these nuances that made it interesting. But he chose war because he knew he was protecting people. Having met the real chris kyle im biased. I thought the movie was excellent. Especially Bradley Coopers performance. He really worked on this particular texas dialect, to gain 40 pounds. Everybody who knew chris kyle and saw the performance said it was chilling. At times it seemed like the real guy. In the beginning people said and Bradley Cooper even said oh they thought i was too pretty wouldnt be able to do this. He was impressive. Yeah. Its a tough thing. I remember asking chris, 160 confirmed kills as a sniper. I said did you ever lose sleep. He said no every person i shot was actively trying to harm americans or allies or civilians. He had absolute clarity about what he did. This overwhelming need to protect and serve. What a story. Glad we could share it. All right. Lets go to peter. Hes with todays fans of the day. I put an s on it. Rachel and rhonda we practiced. Still to come on today, how one professor is teaching students by using seinfeld. Jenna explains that but first, these messages [ cheers ] the adventures youve been imagining. The heroes youve been admiring. The worlds youve been dreaming of. The thrills youve been craving. The moments youve been missing. The vacation youve been looking for is here. Come and take it. Universal orlando resort. When the flu hits, its a really big deal. The aches. The chills. The fever. An even bigger deal . Everything you miss out on. 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Medical students are getting a big lesson from seinfeld. Todays fitness and lifestyle correspondent jenna wolf is here with that. Welcome back. Good morning. There is not much that could get me to come back to an early, early, early, early saturday morning. Except you guys and this unbelievable class which revolves around seinfeld. Im obsessed. When i heard about this class centered around the show there was no way i was going to miss a chance to check it out. Its a defense mechanism. Reporter this is no average grad school classment forget pie charts dull lectures. At Rutgers Medical School in new jersey they are watching tv. Kramer demonstrates the side effect of novacaine. Why focus on this. Reporter seinfeld is the backbone of dr. Anthony tovias curriculum. Wald you consider in terms of differential diagnosis. Nars cyst. He thinks youre mentally challenged. The four core characters works. In every episode it has human behavior. I can teach psychiatric concepts. Reporter its called psyfeld and its working. It gives a face to the diagnoseis and a context in which to remember it for the future. Reporter each character, rife with psychological issues for the studentses to pick apart. Im sorry. Is this the seinfeld class . While college is said and done for pe i had to head back to see the class whose curriculum is based on the greatest show of all time in my opinion. Does anybody remember the episode . Theres a party on long island and elaine got sfruted. She said maybe the dingo ate your baby. And if you think this is about nothing. There would be tortico oh lis. Do you remember the treatment . Tylenol or reporter after much discussion and participation on my part it was time to put the hands on knowledge to the test. The person is meticulous. Number two, loves to cook. I will finish it up with a heart. Im not sure love of cooking and being positive would be in the realm of psych. Reporter bottom line according to a room full of geniuses they are both going to be okay i am loving this yadayada thing. Hey. To wit. I wrote the script to be eight minutes. I went through the seasons, i had examples different diagnoses. I had to get it down to a couple minutes. I could have gone on oh for hours. Im picturing people going for analysis. Docker tors say you remind me of an episode of seinfeld. Thats where are we are going. They tell kidses to learn through play. This is an iadult version. Its sinking in. The kids learn it enjoy it. I learned things. It was winwin. The class fills up quickly, i would guess. Thank you very much. Up next some more of us. Well be right back. I thought there would be something there. Its just us. Well be right back. A remarkable thing has happened. Over a million californians have gotten something thats been out of reach for far too long. Health insurance. How . They enrolled through covered california. 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