Morning. How about this weather. You know whats fun to do in the spring, go dn to washington and check out the cherry bless somes. You can apparently do that right now. December 14th. You said hey, baby, its warm outside. Cant believe you called america baby. Amazingly warm throughout much of the country. Al will have a forecast to tell us how long thats going to last. First on a monday morning, a breaking story overnight in egypt where investigators say they have yet to find any sign of an act of terror that brought down that russian jet over sinai back in october. Here at home, president obama heads to the pentagon today to tackle the issue of isis. We have two reports beginning with nbcs keir simmons and that crash investigation. Keir, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. This is a vaguely worded brief statement, but it is stunning. Reporter it is a brieff sometime, but stununng. It garners the agencies around the world. The beginning. Isis bomb may not have brought down the russian passengng jet that crashed back in october. Debris from flight 9268 screen across the sinai. There is no evidence of terrorist action. Egyptt officials announce from cairo this morning. No evidence even of illegal intervention causing the crash of the russian passenger plane that killele autdll 224 people on board. Russian and western governments said airbus 321 was likely brought down by a bomb. The plane operated byetrojet lost control with air traffic after passing sharm el sheikh. And previously,gyptian officials were focusing on critical cockpit recordings pointing to an explosion. An isis affiliate last month homemade explosive made from a soda can. Now the head of the egyptian committee. Thegyptians are not saying what they think brought down the plane which is not a bomb. Privately, British Security officials are convinced it was a bomb. Britain reached that conclusisi. Since then, the Tourism Industry in egypt has been devastated. Keir, a story coming out from paris that a teacher on her way to school was attacked by a man that claimed he had ties to isis. What do you know . Reporter matt, nbc news is learning this has been part of the antiterrorism prosecutors office. A hooded man anttacked the Nursery School teacher in the same area where they were tracked dowowin an apartment. The man grabbed a box cutter from the table of School Teachers neck and stomach area. He appeared to have said this is from daish or isis. It is too earlyo draw conclusions so far, matt and savannah. Keir simmons, thank you. The strategy to defeat isis is on the president s agenda. He is making a trip to the pentagon with his National Security team. We have Kristen Welker with that part of the story. Reporter he is going to the pentagon to calm fears ahead of the Christmas Holiday and show he is ramping up on the fight against isis. This is his first visit since the paris attacks and attacks in San Bernardino. The vicicpresident will update the president on the campaign to defeat the terrorist group. Mr. Obama who had come under fire for not being tough enough against isis is hoping to put the pentagon recently stepped up air strikes and sent in Additional Special ops forces to fight in syria. Defense secretary a a carter says additional steps are under additional consideration. The white house cautions the president will not announce a change in strategy. In the weekly address, the president argued american air strikes, now more than 8,500 are taking out isis leaders in rerent weeks. Expepe the president to highlight that again. He will hold a similar briefing later this week. Savannah. Thank you, kristen. Lets turn to the president ial race. New numbers from the nbc news wall street journal poll. They are stacking up how the republicans are d dng against Hillary Clinton. We will break everything down first, Peter Alexander is in las vegas ahead of the gop debate. Peter, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning to you. Ben carsonn has dropped presipitiously. Ted cruz was risen among votets. Can cruz knock off trump . Is rning, donald trump and ted cruz are the duo dominating the republican field. The new nbc news poll shows trump leading nation wide, but cruz g gning steam up 12 points since october. In iowa, cruz up ten points over trump. Trump is blasting the freshman senator tweeting, i was disappointed that ted cruz would speak behind my back and get caught and deny it. World of poll tibiticpolitics. You look at the way he has dealt with the senate where he goes ithere like a frankly like a bit of a maniac. You cantalk into the senate and scream and call people liars. Reporter cruz is embracing trumps maniac. Tweeting the music video of the 1980s hit maniac. Quote, in honor of my friend donald trump and good hearted maniacs s everywhere. Im not looking to be politically correct. Im doing this to do the right thing. Reporter rubio says the motivatiwn is clear. I think he made them to rerepture the lime light. Reporter and as ben carsons numbers plummet, down 18 points in the last month. Is taking moreref a i have healers experience. Reporter carson a ripe target for saturday night live. With will ferrell. I can barely hear him when he talks. I tell you something, thats not going to work when you have to go to china or ajerbazjan. Where you have to talk loudly so they understand. 8reporter and the wall street journal poll shows that Hillary Clinton would trounun donald trump in a headtohead match up. It is closer with clinton and cruz. One other note tomorrow night, a new man on the main stage. Chris christie after all the gains he made in new hampshire. Matt and savannah. Peter alexander, thank you very much. Lets turn to chuck todd. Moderator of meet the press. Good morning. We have the huge surge for cruz. Cratering. This is not everybody wants to somehow s s trump is falling. He has gained in the iowa poll. He gained in our poll. Cruz is the traditional Christian Conservative candidate. What we normally see when it is a breakdown between two lanes in the republican party. Trump is his whole other entity. What do you get for a surge . Yoyo get attacked by donald trump. Cruz is careful not to criticize trump. He got caught doing it behind the scenes. Is h h strategy make sure the Trump Supporters like him enough so if trump craters, he will get their support . His only path through the nomination is with Trump Supporters. You look at this ashree ctions of the republican party. Cruz and evangelicals and establishment lane with marco rubio and donald Trump Supporters. Cruz has a better shot of the you talk to Trump Supporters. Their second choice a lot of times is cruz. In fact, i thought it was an odd decisi by trump attacking cruz. How he attacked him. By attacking him by going hey, this guy cannot work anybody in the senate. Trump is really shaking things up. That will be appealing to Trump Supporters. I would say, that is just surprising method of attack. It allowed us to use the flash dance video. We should thank him f that. I guess the queststn is are these trump voters transferrable . Will they only go to the polls for trump and stay home or might they go and vote for cruz . Is that the question . It is. Nobody can answer that question. These appear to not be frequent voters in primaries. When they vote, they vote republican. It is not clear they will show up. Trump got them involved. It is not the environment. It is trump that got them involved. At the debate. If trump throws the first punch at cruz, can cruz sit back and be nice . He has to counterpunch. He is trying to win over Trump Supporters. Trump supporters wantt tough. If cruz is not tough, that will hurt him. I will be surprised if the two of them decide to pounce on rubio. That is what cruz might do. Get rid of the other guyuy in your way. Rubio. Then postpone your fight with trump. It will be interesting. Chuck, thank you so much. Lets turn to the weather. It is dividing the nation. A blast of winter out west. Recordhigh temperatures in the heat. Lets start in washington state. Treacherous driving conditions at stevens pass. Accidents and spinouts kept crews busy. Sleet and heavy snow. It is a completely different midwest and the east. According to noaa, at least 574 record daily highs were tied or broken across the u. S. During the first ten days of december. That was before t t past weekend which saw temperatures soaring into the 60s here in the northeast. You can expect more of the se today with temperatures expected to be up 30 degrees above average. I have just done als job. I will throw to him. I should talk. We have theet stream way up to the north. Springlike warmth hanging out. Big area of High Pressure funneling this up. We have patchy dense fog in the northeast. There could be airport delays. By wednesday, it cools down. 72 in raleigh. 53 in pittsburgh. Charleston will see a temperature of 72. As warm with temperatures from 10 to 30 degrees anbove normal. We have much colder air funning down from canadada plus a big low pressure systemem we are watching this snow storm start to make its way further and further to the east. What we see for today is as the secondary storm comes out, look for intensisication of the snow. We are talking in the rockies anywhere from 12 to 18 inches of snow or more before this is all over. We are watching this system as it makes its way east. The good news, guys, we are not going to see a big, big drop in temperatures here throughout much of the country. Al, thank you so much. We have new information this morning on the San Bernardino shooting investigation andnd the warning signs that may have been missed. This as another survivor is speaking out today. Nbc National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer is in San Bernardino. Miguel, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, g gd morning. The Regional Center where the shooting took place is a focal point for investigators. This as they piece together what after the bloodshed. As the fbi investigates the mosque that was fire bombed and another vandalized over the weekend, dive teams searching for a hard drive at the lake say the work here is over. Investigators believe Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook had ties here. Jenner jen stevens was shot twice. And i hit the ground. You dont sie the bullets, but you can hear thth. Theyeyre really loud. Reporter with farook and malik radicalized in 2010, investigors fear warnings signs were missed. The New York Times says malik posted on social media saying she wanted to be part of jihad today, federal agents are building a timeline with the shooting and shootout with police. In all, four and a h hf hours went by. What did the gunmen do before they were killed . I saw them putting on what i believe to be bulletproof vests. Reporter sergeantndy katz. We could not let them get way from there. It is parent. They were going to fight with us. They were going to hurt more people. We cannot allow that. Reporter another focus of the investigation is enrique marquez. Syedizwan farooks long time friend who bought the assault rifles. As he continues to work with investigators, he may be one of their best leads. Matt and savannah. Miguel almaguer, thank you. Sad anniversary now. Flagsst half staff in connecticut to mark the third at sandy hook in newtown. 20 children and 6 educators were killed. This is the First Time Since the 2012 shooting that the anniversary has fallen on a school day. Counselors will be on location at every school. There will be no mention of the shootings at those schools. And welcome news on the economy. Gas prices are dropping lower. They may stay low through the Holiday Season. We have tom costello with more. Reporter look at this gas station. 1. 94. My photographer paid 1. 71 last week. This is a few penningtononyiesyies below average. Tis the season for giftjng. Extra in their pockets. Gas prices lowest in years. At the pump, 2. 01 a gallon. Sansas at 1. 77. California pays the most. 2. 65 on average. Gas is now cheaper than a gallon of milk at 3. 34. On inflationnflationinflation, we are looking at the cheapest since the 1970s. Reporter last month, 2. 1819. The highest was july of 2008 when gas hit 4. 10 a gallon. The top reasons for the plunge, the u. S. Is swimming in oil. Producinin more than it imports. Saudi arabia keeps pumping more hoping to drive out iran and the u. S. It is good for car sales. 16 million new vehicles have 59 of them light trucks and suvs. As long as gas prices stay on the 2 rangng people will consider bigger vehicles more. Reporter thats what brought this woman in to buy an suv. The gas is below 2. Thatsretty good. Reporter and gas prices likely will lower in the coming weeks. Although most experts say we should stick around 2 a gallon more or less hugging that level for the next several years. S. By the way, look at heating oil prices. Inn unlikely to affect out the west coast, but down a dollar from a year ago. If winter does return to partsts of the country, it is likely cheaper to heat homes. In northern virginia, 63 degrees on this december day. Guys, back to you. Tom costello bringing good tidings. Hard to talk about heating your home with the temperatures a lot of places, it is just around the corner. People are saving money on thth heating bills. That is good news. We will get to what is going on in your local area in the next 30 seconds. And snow on wednesday, but the rest of the week should dry out. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will be wet this morning and dry out later today. Rain continues to track north, but some dry air is starting to work into the southern counties. However. We have had plenty over the las couple of days. Many of s got 1 to 3 with some gettinggven more. Temperatures continue to be steady or already into the low to mid 30s out west. Winds are strong as the center of the system tras in. We are 15 to and thats your latest weather. Matt. Thanks very much. Too hot to handle. Amazon puts some brakes on hover boards after a series of fire. Plus on rossen reports, kids, car seats and a big mistake many parents make in the winter months. What you need to do. This is a really important today on nbc. Man at toysrus, you can buy one get t e 40 off all sorts s toys. En that life size ststk boy action figure . Nah, thats just steve. Buy one get one 40 off power rangers, crayola, nerf modulus and more. Toysrus. Awwwwwome this holiday i can count on someones kid mistaking me for santa. Im so sorry. Come on sweetie. Its okay. 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Whose Service Included some pre ccnstitution time. Moving on to decision 2016. A new poll of democrats is out this morning Hillary Clintons lea growing since the last Des Moines Register poll. She now tops Bernie Sanders 44 to 39 percent. Now, lets go to eileen with a at weather. Rain willnd from the south to the north, bu it will be ggty e next, weaker system tracks through. That will bring light well be back in 30 minutes, be sure to paris theres a lot to do on dairy farm. Nonodys gonna do it fororou. You have to get out there and do it yourself. Bernie sanders is a wellknown friend of family farms. Bernie cannot be bought out by big money. Bernies opinion cannot be purchased. Its time for our next president to get in there, roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back twhere they should be. Hes a rock. 7 30 now on this monday morning, december 14th, 2020, and it does not feel like it. Its an unseasonal warm day here in new york city and all across the eastern seaboard. We actually hit 67 on susuay, and that snapped a a 92yearold record. Were going to talk more about that with al in a investment more about stories making headlines. Our new natioiol nbc news wall street journal poll shows ted cruz cutting into Donald Trumps lead in the republican president ial race, now justive point behind the frontrunner. Marco rubio isow in third place, followed by ben carson who has dropped 18 points after leading in that same poll in late october. President obama is making a rare visit to the pentagon today. On the agenda, hell discuss the fight against isis with his National Security team. And the Postal Service says today is the busiest mailing day of the year. Officials recommend sending packages by december 21st if you want them to arrive in time for christmas. Usps expects to deliver more than 1. 5 billion pieces of mail this Holiday Season e coming up, what you could be doing that morning that puts your kids in danger. What jeff rossen shows why their coats while strapped in their caca seats. Well get to the that and new fallout this morning regarding the hover boards and some wellpublicized incidents of them catching fire. So right in the middle of the Holiday Shopping season amazon has decided to yank most of those devices off its site. Overstock. Com has dropped them all together and natalie has more on this. Yeah. Supposed tbe the hot gift of the Holiday Season, but now the Consumer Products Safety Commission is assessing the risks associated with these motorized balance boards and recognizing their popularity. The agency says the investigation is at the top of their priority list. Suddenly the host gift this Holiday Season has turned into a product too hot to handle its on fire. Because ofrowing safety concerns that some hover boards catch fire, amazon is removing most brands from its site and overstock. Com is no longer selling them at all. This hover board caught fire causing thohoands of dollars in damage. It was being charged and actually rolled over to a bed andig nate the the bedding in the bedroom. Fortunately no one wasurt because lithium ion batteries are considered to be the culprit, more than a Dozen Airlines are now banning hover boards from their flights. Amazon is asking sellers for documentntion demonstrating thaha all h her boards you list are complaint with applicable safety standards. But because they dont fall into a product category such as toys, hover boards arent regulated and quality varies widely. I think its a legitimate question to ask, if i buy a higher end version, am i getting a safer one and the answer is we dont know. One of the largest manufacturers is swagway. Ellen degeneres gave one to Justin Bieber as a gift. In a statement swagway says it puts safety above anything else and exceeds government regulationssnd to date has no reports of any issues of batteries catching fire or we applaud amazon for taking these steps to weed out theow qualityyboards. Experts say consumers should use caution with all hover boards. Read all the manufacturer Reference Material and make sure that they are not charged unattended and do not leave them charge overnight. Thats a goodity. Also, the chief says look for the ual label that says the product has been tested and meets laboratorys safety standards. Thank you very much. To the weather, al. All righty. Wet weather is making its way towards us here in the east and were also expecting to see more heavier showers and thundedetorms moving through chicagag hand maybeome airport delays. Atlanta seeing some rain. This is part of a vigorous storm system thats dumping all that snow out to the west. Showers through the midwest and into the northeast today and on into tomorrow ands w w move to the north of this system colder air will get its way into northern main where we may see some icing conditions, but rainfall generally going to be rain as we watch this system make its way and its exit on into tbring some light rain and snow on wednesday, but the rest ofthe week should dry out. Stormtrack7 live weatter Network Cameras will be wet is morning and dry out later today. Rain continues to track north, but some dry air is starting to work into the southern counties. However. We have had plenty over the last couple of days. Many of us got 1 to 3 witt some getting even more. Temperatures are have already seen their highs in many areas and will continue mid 30s out west. Winds are strong as the center of the system tracks in. We are 15 to 30 mph ann will st dont forget. Get your weather any time you need, it Weather Channel on cable and weather. Com online. All right, al. We will. 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Morning new crash test video that will help us all save a life today. This child dummy just went flying out of her car seat and watch this one, the little body violently tossed forward. She was happaned in, all looked good so what went wrong . Here with sue from kids and cars and this my 3yearold son blake and you say ive been making a mistake a lot of parenen make about how i put blake in the car seat. I think you r. Show me what you do. Snap, snap and this feels snug to me. Looks like its tug and lets so i do it. Take blake out and remove that puffy coat and put him back in. Snap, wow. Look how loose the straps are now. This is unreal. Isnt it . Its actually dangerous. Reporter to show you what can happen were at this official Crash Test Lab here in michigan. Climb up here for a moment. We have, as you can see, a child dumby in a winter jacket strapped into a car seat and to meet straps feel pretty tight. Simulate a crash down this track at 30 Miles Per Hour. Lets get it going. Three, two, and right over here, one. The child dummy whipping forward and just watch when we runt test again. He goes flying out. Even her jacket sliding right off. Look at this, so scary to see up close. Miriam runs the lab. What should we do. See a nice fit of the harness to the childs body, shouldnt this should at armpit level. Reporter an interesting tip and no puffy winter jacket in the car seat. Thats right. Reporter and it makes all the difference. Thth time chihi dumby is properly restrained. No winter coat, straps snug against its body. Look at, that dummy stays right in the seat. Come this way, it wonchlt thats the proof right this. And if youre worried about your child being cold in the car. Heres the best advice instead of putting the coat on him, put the coat overim to keep him warm or use a blanket like this. Does this work, buddy . Yeah. Thank you. A simple move to save your child from this. Thank to you my son who had no idea what he was a part of in that car. No question, by the way, use the car seat is the best way to keep your kids safe. Just remember strap them in wiout the winter coat on and by the way, this is interesting. The same advice goes for adults, too. Dont sit behind the wheel and winter coat because the seat belt will not fit against you, the same exact thing. Wow, eye opening. What are you doing tomorrow . Tomorrow we have another very interesting story. We are talking about what to do if you fall through ice. All part of our save my life series, and you can see im going in because this happens every single winter. Already happened this year in fact. Lakes and ponds across the country look frozen over but without warning the ice breaks right under you and werere going in to show you how you get out alive and im a good swimmer. Its harder than you think to get out. Well show you the safety tips of how to get out, you or your friend. Good morning. Just ahead on pop start, coming to a city near you. 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Many cities saw record high temperatures this weekend, as al reported earlier. Some places are expected to reach as high at 30 degrees above average. So, of course, we took to social media asking you to share us how you soaked up the unseasonable amy tweeted out water skiing santa in buffalo, new york. That looks friend and danny posted from albany. Love putting my lights up in tshirt but wheres my snow . Its coming, im sure. Mike put this one out. Mowing the grass, washing the car, 70degree day in indiana. Who would have thought on december 12th. Putting that to work and Msnbcs Joe Scarborough tweeted out this little ditty. Christmas in connecticut feels more like l. A. In december, so keep your warm winter photos coming as we, guess, should embrace them because sooner or later, al, we wont be washing the car and wearing tshirts and santa would have been frozen on that lake for sure. And out west it is very snowy and very winterlike. All right. Enjoyable. 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Police were dispatched to a possible suicide but it turned into a murder investigation. Officers found 51yearold michelle key of waterloo dead. She was shot. Her boyfriend ronald lee rand was arrested and now faces first degree murder. Hes 60 years old. Now, lets go to eileen with a look at weather. Rain will end from the south to the north, but it will be gusty today. Steady or system tracks through. That will bring light rain or snow to the state and cooler temps for the end of the week. South to the north, but it will be gusty today. Steady or bring light rain or snow to the its 8 00 on today. Coming up, warm weather hot deals y. This months record breaking temperatures could mean big savings for shoppers this Holiday Season. Plus, shaking it off. How taylor swift made up with apple and is now teaming up with them to bring her concerts to you. And its a starstudded kurt russell stops by to talk about his ruthless new role. No offense, cowboy, fella. Just getting your attention. While the one and only tina fey brings the laughs as she talks about starring in sisters with her best buddy amy poehler. Congrats on your wrestling championship. Its ralph lauren. Is that how you say it . Yes. Do you get good wifi with that . Today,, december 14th. From texas, were loving our neck of the woods. Here from san diego to get a hug from savannah. Happy holidays from South Carolina clara on the today show. Were back now. 8 00 on a monday morning. Its the 14th day of december. 2015, and if you would have told us that on december 14th wed be out here with thin jackets we probably would have told you youre crazy. A nice start to the day. Its gorgeous out here. I dont even know why were wearing coats. Very exciting, tina fey is here, absolutely one of our favor ritz and has a new movie called sisters with amy poehler. Aim here the other day and now tinas side of the storey. She and amy will be hosting saturday night live and that puts tina in an extremely exclusive club. Talk about that coming up. First inside to natalie with a check of the top stories of the morning. Nat, good morning. Good morning to you, and in the news this morning egypt saying today it still has no evidence of a terrorism link and the downing of a russian russia is standing by its own finding that the plane with 224 people on board was destroyed by a bomb and an Islamic State group claimed responsibility saying it was to avenge russian air strikes in syria. Russia has escalated those strikes in response to the incident. President obama and his National Security team are meeting at pentagon this morning to fine tune their isis strategy. Its the president s first trip to the pentagon since the terrorist attacks in paris and San Bernardino. In his weekly address the president said american air strikes are having an impact on isis leadership, fighters and weapons. A Deadly Police shooting in Southern California sparked a public outcry this weekend. Nbcs blake mccoy is in lynnwood, california, with new video. Blake, good morning. Reporter natalie, good morning. To you. This is not chicago. That is the message clearly on display here in los angeles this morning with the Quick Release of the surveillance tapes. Authorities believe the tapes and the shooting justified. No justice, no peace. No justice, no peace. For a second day outrage in los angeles. Why do you keep on doing this . Reporter other this cell phone video showing l. A. County sheriffs deputies opening fire shooting Nicholas Robertson as he walked away, firing 13 times, even as he crawled on the ground. Its unclear how many bullets hit robertson, but this video only shows part of the story. Says the Sheriffs Department snow see the suspect entering the frame. Weapon in hand. These surveillance clips released sunday just 24 hours after the shooting showed the man holding what appears to be a gun. Deputies say they were called after he shot the weapon in the air at a residential neighborhood and briefly went into a pizzeria, gun in hand. Hes handling the gun in an odd sort of way and seems to be agitated. Reporter even after falling to the ground, robertson still appears to be holding the gun. Danger and so were two women and three children just feet away at the gas station. The sheriff says hes well aware of public sentiment across the country surrounding police shootings. Thats have hes being as transparent as possible so quickly, but critics say police cannot police themselves. They want an independent investigation. Natalie . Blake mccoy in lynnwood, california, thank you. Now to some incredible video from san diego of a Community Coming together this weekend to help land a struggling hot air balloon packed with a gondola full of people that was coming ghoub a neighborhood. The balloon got caught in a tree on a roof and then on a car. Eventually neighbors were able to pull its lines and guide it to a safe landing. And some holiday magic on display in england. Builders were remodeling a house and they found a Christmas Wish list that was written 70 years ago. It was tucked inside the chimney and asked for things like a pair of slippers, a tie and a pencil box. The build efforts tracked down he is now a 78yearold grandfather grandfather, and they even the brought him some of the presents that were mentioned on the list. Cute. Thats a great Christmas Wish answered. Love it. Better late than never. Natalie, thank you. Winter officially arrives in what, eight days, but with unseasonably warm temperatures it hasnt felt that way across much of the country. But thats good news, could save you a bundle if you want to prepare for the dheeld will inevitable come. Nbcs Olivia Sterns is we are that story. Reporter good morning, savannah. Can you believe it was 70 degrees at jfk. Thats wild. The last thing it makes you want to do is run out and buy a coat. The warm temperatures certainly chilly news for retailers as cold weather gear is pile up on shelves, but the good news for you, stores are looking to unload merchandise at a big discount. Reporter from coats to boots and hats and gloves scores are all geared up for the cold winter. The only thinged is the weather isnt cooperating. It feels like march out there. We are going to see temperatures that are way above normal. Reporter so far this season its warmer, a lot warmer. In the northeast, november was 4 to 6 degrees above average and 5 to 8 Degrees Higher in the midwest. And when it comes to winter clothing, all that sunshine means major markdowns. We have a great assortment within outerwear and were offering really great values so its a good time for customers to shot. A big bust for retailers stoktd up on inventory based on last years cooler than normal weather. Many this year blamed disappointing seasons on higher temperatures. Unseasonably warm weather has really put a damper on coat sales and sales of boots and thats combined with the unusual mark downs you see this time and equals the huge savings bonanza. Tweter sales down 3 , boots 2 and blankets plummeted down 10 compared to last year. Whats bad news for retailers is good news for bargain hunters. Warm temperatures mean hot deal, up to 50 boston off or more. Typically we dont see really heavy discounting until after the holiday. Because inventory is so far they are trying to unlow merchandise 1z maces, j. Crew and the gap, experts say, and if youre bargain hunting this is the year to pounce. Now is the great time to give the gift of warmth, gloves, coats, hats, scarves. Youre going to get great deals on these gifts and after the holidays you can buy some goodies for yourself. A couple of things to consider before you run out to the mall though or perhaps click checkout online, yes, coats and other right now, but the deepest discounts will actually be the week before christmas as steve forbes unload and the longer you wait, the bigger the sale. Worries they swroent your size or color left. Some of the best deals at t. J. Maxx, marshalls and main street retailers will have merchandise to unload and the Discount Stores will make out. Not every brand, looking for high popular items like uugs or canada goode, as you know none of these go on sale. Many used last winter as their guide. No polar vortex in sight. Coming up, move over, maria. What condethroned her song in stores . And never mind a dog. Its turkeys now tormenting your and look who is here, miss tina fey to talk about her wild side and she will talk about what shes about to have in common with justin tirk lake, daves been working on his game, morning double bogie. Hey, three putt. And starting each day with a delicious bowl of heart healthy kelloggs raisin bran. Hows your cereal . Sweet tastes like winning. How would you know what winning tastes like . Dave loves the two scoops and that kelloggs raisin bran you eat slower than you play. Youre in a hurry to lose, huh . Oh, ok invest in your heart health, with kelloggs raisin bran. No crying today. This holiday i can count on being slammed with orders. Were getting slammed with orders. And my customers knowing right when their packages arrive. Totally slammed introducing realtime delivery notifications. One more reason this is our season. I decided to tell the story of our life together. Spoiler alert we live happily ever after. At jared, we only sell one piece of jewelry. The pandora bracelet you had created just for her. And its waiting for you. At jared. I am your father. Xwing and the lengendary yoda. Toysrus. Awwwesome [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] for tim and richard smucker, giving a gift of their familys delicious jam always made the holidays just a little bit sweeter. We forgot to put our names on them richard, i think theyll know who its from. Thank you boys. [ male announcer ] happy holidays from our family to yours. I love christmas all right. Were back now. 8 12. Good time for whats trend and heres a study that turns over an assumption a lot of people have about those who curse a lot. Namely, that they are not very articulate and that they use fourletter words as a crux. Weve all thought, that right . Why are you looking at me . Youre not that bad. People who swear frequently it turns out actually have larger vocabulary. Scientists say those folks tend to be careful about using foulmouthed language reserving the words for the right times, so we brought an exer in the on this topic because in her new movie sisters tina fey, it would turn out has one of the most extensive volk bris anyone has ever had. Tina, you buy this . Yeah. I think yes, i think theres and when used perfectly they are elegant the a half fame cursor in this thank you. Probably more than you had in your career. You see on camera. They have bigger vocabularies. All of those extra curse words. Well talk to tina about that movie coming u. What is a typical work day for you . You do not have to face anything like this guy. Take a look. Every day. Thats right. He fends off a flock of turkeys. He has the pole to keep them at bay. They do not like the mailman. There is a lot more to this but its hilarious. We made it past thanksgiving. Were coming for you. Controversy as if they needed another one. The coffee chain became the target of social media for red cups, some say it wasnt christmasy enough. Now they are trying to kill polar bears according to some. Look at this cookie. Wearing that red scarf. Right. Anybody see anything else . Well, some online its not a scarf, its blood around the bears neck. Come on. Really . A post about this went up last week, it already has more than 3 million views. Renewing calls of a war on christmas. May be a war on polar bears. Why christmas . Its a christmas cookie. The cookie was discontinued in 2010, starbucks saying part of a rotating holiday tradition. The pictures of former cookie. They brought them back. They brought them back. They are back now. They are adorable. Delicious. Good. They are not back. People reacting to old photos. Cookie war. Their outrage is also misplaced and dated. All right. Now to big news from adele and taylor swift and big honor. Cameron. First to adele. The news she announced this morning next year she will launch her First North American tour in five years, it kicks off july 5, st. Paul, minnesota. See you in. Wraps up on november 15. If were lucky see you there. Phoenix, l. A. , nashville, miami, atlanta and dallas. Mark your calendars, tickets go on sale this thursday. Set your alarm. And to get an idea of what you can expect, watch adeles special live in new york city tonight at 10 00, 9 central on of course nbc. Next Sports Illustrated honor of the sports person of the year. There are worthy candidates. Who is joining the ranks of mohammed ali and Michael Jordan . This year the honor goes to the great Serena Williams saying this year serena proves to be a force on and off the court winning three major titles and completing her second serena slam. Kind of shy. Also fighting for Racial Justice and gender equality. Serena saying she is beyond honored for the recognition. Congrats to her. I saw on al rokers page. He hung out. Next to taylor swift. At one point she threatened to laughing . I was sorry. Go on with your report. Im having enough trouble with this without you doing this for me. Would be to look. Probably the instagram. Let me go back to my script. Where are we. Taylor swift. Shes back. At one point she threatened to boycott apple. She is now doing business with them. Taylor inking a deal with apple to stream what is from her world concert tour which wrapped on saturday. The film will be available starting next week to subscribers of apple music. Taylor turned 26 on sunday. Happy birthday. Happy belated one. And mariah carey thanks to her hit all i want for christmas is you, it was the most played the play list provided by play network and that company now says that for the First Time Since the song there is a new favorite, its the cover of Paul Mccartneys song wonderful christmas time. That is your pop start. Your kids will be impressed. Thank you. Check of the weather. Lets get to it. Show you what weve got going on. Were looking at a big storm system right now out west here in the east, you can see snow throughout parts of nebraska and iowa, were looking at wet weather through chicago, the good news is we are going to be looking at temperatures that are staying mild in the eastern two thirds of the country. No big changes there. The cooler weather is going to be banked out west, eventually makes its way to the east. Look at this, 80s in florida, 70s along the midatlantic coast. Wet weather making its way from the upper midwest all the way fog in the northeast as well. Could be airport delays. Lots of snow out west, and another big storm system moving into the Pacific Northwest late tonight into tomorrow. Thats whats goiand snow on wednesday, but the rest of the week should dry out. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will be wet this morning and dry out later today. Rain continues to track north, but some dry air is starting to work into the southern counties. However. We have had plenty over the last couple of days. Many of us got 1 to 3 with some getting even more. Temperatures continue to be steady or falling. They are already into the low to mid 30s out west. Winds are strong as the center of the system tracks in. We are 15 to thats your latest weather. Matt. Al, thank you. One of the most entertaining teams getting together, tina fay and amy poehler. Playing sisters determined to throw an epic party before their parents sell their childhood home. Danger. Let the Black Diamond flow. Why arent you partying . Im the designated mom tonight. Im keeping everybody safe. You have kids . Im sure i do. Doesnt seem like your type. Good morning. Nice to see you. How are you . Im good. Back to the cursing for a second. Sometimes you watch a movie and listen to an actor with a lot of cursing. They dont seem that comfortable. This was not one of those cases. No. This is like an old swaddling blanket from my baby time. Its very comfortable to swear. Amy and i, its r rated. Its not all real swearing it was fun having done broadcast tv to be able to curse a little bit. The dialogue between the two of you is very, very funny. You guys get back together. You play the wild older sister, caretaker sister. Art imitating life . In real life i would say we are both the good sister but it was so fun for me for once to play the out of control wrecking sister with the situation lifted up. And it was just so fun to be with mia and very good times. When you do an snl reunion with maya and amy and bobby moynihan. Do you approach the movie differently in terms of the shooting process because you have familiarity . You do because paul who has been a writer for many years and many thing she knows us so well so she wrote the script. She would write more jokes while we were shooting and hand them in to us. Then also you trust everyone to improvise because you could turn maya on and roll on her for like an hour. You throw this party and you invite all of the kids that were part of your group or sometimes and anybody watching the movie can check off all of those people. We all had those people in or lives, which takes me back to you as a teen. Which group . I was like a high functioning nerd. Like editor of the school paper, so we had our own subset of friends but we were not cool. Wait. No drop of alcohol. I told your friends in high school you would go on to become this tina fey, they would say or have said . They would say but she only has one eyebrow, how is this going to work out. This would be surprising. I would think so, yes. Going back, youre going to host snl with amy. Yes. That puts you, the names, in an extremely exclusive club, here they are here. Yes. All my boyfriends. The fivetimers club. Yeah. When lauren called and said we want to host together, yes, question. If we host together does it still count in getting me in the fivetimers club. Or are you 4 1 2. It counts because alec once hosted with kim basinger. So Like Major League baseball. And im noting funny, in career highlights, that would rank where . That that would be like third behind lighting the Christmas Tree once with you and then this interview right now. Thats good. So youve been doing publicity for the movie. Yes. Let me fact check on a couple of things that have come out. Amy poehler sometimes calls you betty. Yes. My first name is elizabeth. Elizabeth tina so shes one of the people that knows that. Is betty a term of endearment or like when my mom would call me matthew because i angered her. I think endearment. You met amy at improv class you told about kathryn the great. Oh, yeah, probably. Again, so good at swearing, not a joke i could tell you right now. You have a joke about gath rin the zblaet. Yes because of my high swearing vocabulary. There is another one that you apparently one one thing for christmas. Take a nap. Pot holders. I do. Because my pot holders are worn out. Im turning into my mom. Like i dont want anything. I understand it now. You get to be like when youre a mom, i dont want anything. Are you that big of a cook . Matt, you blew christmas and gave to the me early. Thank you. I will seriously use these. Put them under the tree and pretend. I do that a lot. This is fun. Sisters from our Sister Company universal, opens on friday, and you can catch tina and amy back on snl this coming saturday night. Congrats. Thanks, matt. Thanks for these. Im pumped. Thank you so much. Coming up look who is here, kurt russell. His new movie the Hateful Eight. Bad guys and more. Eight bad guys. One very bad girl. Well have more. First your local news and weather. Anncr when the attacks come here. The person behind this desk will have to protect your family. Will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump . Will he have voted to dramatically weaken counterterrorism surveillance, like ted cruz . Will he have skipped crucial and votes just to campaign, like marco rubio . 27 generals and admirals support jeb bush. Because jeb has the experience and knowledge to protect your family. Right to rise usa is responsible weather closes down a holiday tradition. Its a big fundraiser for make a wish iowa. The Jolly Holiday lights show in des moines is closed for the rest of the season because of potential flooding. Any challenges we face down thats why were out here, trying to raise money for these great kids to take them on their one true wish. To make up for lost donations theyre asking for your help. We put a link on our website kwwl dot com. Now, lets go to eileen with a look at weather. Rain will end from the south to the north, but it falling temps today and again on wednesday as rain or snow to the state and cooler temps for the end of the week. Well be back in 30 minutes, be sure to check kwwl dot com for the latest news youre watching k wwl, weve. Were back now. Of december, 2015. 384 30 in the morning. Pretty day out here on our plaza, huge crowd and huge happy crowd getting ready for the holidays, and by the way, a golden globe nominated series star fargo is the our little elf. Well talk to kristen coming up. Thats a good find. Oh, my gosh. Look at this bear. Pigger than her. Good morning, everybody. Nice to have you on our plaza. Also ahead as we just told people kurt russ sell here. Wrangler. Well have a little talk with wrangler after that. Kurt is here and starring in the new Quentin Tarantino film called the Hateful Eight including the epic stash that he had to grow for the role. All right, and we put out the call for sweet treat and the highlight in todays holiday cookie swap and this morning we finally get to sink our teeth into our first delicious batch. And, folks, dont forget. We are throwing our good friend will yard scott a big retirement sendoff tomorrow. Well get you ready for it with a look back at some of our favorite willard moments. Looking forward to. A lot to get to in this half hour starting with the weather. Looking at week ahead. Start off with a flood threat in the Northern Plains in the early part of the week and wintry in the Northern Plains and heavy snow back through the rockies that. Snow continues in the Pacific Northwest and midweek heavier rain making its way into the northeast, Midatlantic States and storms along the east coast and the latter part of the week, sunshine for the eastern twothird of the country with mountain rain and snow and hangs around. You can see it stays warm here in the east and cold out west and midweek still toasty in the east. Much below normal through the rockies and then the latter part of the week things start to bring some light rain and snow on wednesday, but the rest of the week should dry Network Cameras will be wet this morning and dry out later today. Rain continues to track north, but some dry air is starting to work into the southern counties. However. We have had plenty over the last couple of days. Many of us got 1 to 3 with some getting even more. Temperatures are have already seen their highs in many areas and will continue mid 30s out west. Winds are strong as the center of the system tracks in. We are 15 to 30 mph and will stay gusty dont forget check your weather any time you need it. Go to the Weather Channel on cable or weather. Com online. Well, this morning were launching a new make your today series called pay it forward. All of us picked a special person or organization thats meant something to tus and tried today its my turn and this one is close to home for all of us because i picked someone from our family, our today show family. Welcome to today on a busy tuesday morning. Over the course when you turn on the today show in the morning, this is the view youre used to seeing, but this is my view of the dozen of people working furiously behind scenes to get us on the air every day. Eric hill is one of those people. Eric has been a Production Assistant on today for almost 30 years and is someone i always look forward to seeing, and im not alone. Every time you walk past eric, hes got a smile on his face and a chuckle in his thats right. Eric is one of the greatest guys ive ever known. Eric goes above and beyond to make sure that everyone who comes into his life feels special. But for the last six months weve been missing eric because hes been in his hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, being treated for stage four colon cancer, and even though right every morning, we wanted him to know that we are right by his side and maybe one small thing we could do would be to honor a timetest trade digs. Here it is, 929th annual macys thanksgiving day parade. For the last 24 years eric has been with us at the macys thanksgiving day parade, taking his annual Christmas Card photo with us, his cohorts. From his very first photo in 1990 with katie and willard. Doesnt seem like thanksgiving though without a picture of you, me and matt, eric, and i miss, that and i miss you. Its always something we look forward to. It was very, very special, because you saw in him the true meaning of the holidays. Just like a little kid. As the years progressed and so did the themes and costumes from a Christmas Carol to a christmas story, from rudolph to ghost busters and elf. Weve always been happy to be have been his 25th anniversary at the parade, but erics health didnt permit him to be there, so we didnt want him to miss a special milestone. Look at this. With the help of a cardboard cutout and several wacky costumes we tried to do what eric would have wanted. Eric, we wish you a speedy recovery. We miss you, pal. We love you. Have a really happy holiday, doctors orders. Come back soon. Take two of these and call us in the morning. As we snapped our photos for eric we knew that mailing this card wouldnt do. We wanted it to be a special delivery, a surprise special delivery. We sent one of our camera crews to pittsburgh. All we told eric was that we were shooting staff holiday greetings. He had no idea i was there. Its been incredible journey because its its family. We joke sometimes like ill see andrew and a couple other people, joanne, like who are the lifers, who who survived, but coming back and forth. Did you say family . Family. Hello, good buddy. My god. How you doing . This is a gotcha. We feel the same way. I love you, i miss you. We miss you too. Doing good. Im great now. Are you. We wanted to come out here and you just said family, 28 years. Mmhmm. For 24 of those 28 years you have come to the thanksgiving day parade with your crazy costumes and your wacky props. Mmhmm. And youve dressed us all up and weve taken those amazing pictures for your holiday card. Youve been great sports. And i know you, eric, were disappointed you couldnt be there to celebrate the 25th anniversary of that. Yeah. And we were disappointed, too. We really were and we didnt want you to think that we wouldnt let that milestone or would let that milestone go by without stopping to do something special. So after the parade we got together. And we took some liberties. You were there in spirit. And the i want to show you that we didnt forget the 25th. Oh, my god. A cardboard cutout and there in Herald Square we said 25 years, happy holidays. That is im lost for words. That is awesome. And you dressed up. So its our way of saying having a happy holiday, doctors orders. We miss you. Youre the best. I miss you guys, too. And we really do miss eric hill. Were hoping hes watching this morning and Getting Better and recovering than he can be back to the 26th macys day parade. Not the same without you, eric. We miss you so much. Miss. You and we love you, and i hope to see you soon. Tomorrow im going to pay it forward a little bit, too, with some kids going through a tough relate to, and well tell you about that. Up next, kurt russell on his new golden globe nominated move the Hateful Eight but first on today on nbc. Anncr when the attacks come here. The person behind this desk will have to protect your family. Will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump . Will he have voted to dramatically weaken counterterrorism surveillance, like ted cruz . Will he have skipped crucial National Security hearings and votes just to campaign, like marco rubio . 27 generals and admirals support jeb bush. Because jeb has the experience and knowledge to protect your family. Right to rise usa is responsible were back now at 8 30 with kurt russell who stars as one of the despicable characters, and we mean that in the nicest way in tarn tarns highly anticipated movie the Hateful Eight. Take a look. You aint got mixed emotions about bringing a woman. By woman, you mean her . No. I do not have mixed emotion. So you take in. You bet. You going to wait around and watch it . You know i am. I want to hear her neck snap in my own two ears. Good lines, and i actually think youre the facest of the i actually think youre like the sweetie of the try. Of course, so do i. Tarantino hand picked you for this role and he loved you. I checked with our censors and can use what we said about you and says youre a bad ass and he wants everyone to see that. He does, i guess, enjoy putting me in these roles. Had a great time with him and this one was fantastic. The cast is the they are just a great group of people they are fantastic at what the they do, and quintins just unique. Theres only one of him. The script is so clever and got nominated for a golden globe, by the way. Lets just talk about what we have to talk about, the mustache. That took a little while. Like its own character in the film. Thats true, true. So many questions. Is it real, was it real . Yeah, yeah, took about four months to grow. No, no. I did a picture just before the Halfway House with more of a mustache and shaved the beard and let mustache keep going. Its like a mustache wearing a man. Really is. If there could be a golden globe for the mustache you would get it there, would be no competition. A lot of people said that deserves an award. How did the mustache go over at home . Not real gooded. How did goldie like it . Ears ago when i had tombstone i had a pretty decent sweeper going and i learned then that goldie wasnt a big fan and actually neither was i and she understood we would have to muscle through it and it was real nice when it came off. By the way, it looks like nice shoot in the sense that you like everybody, but the conditions looked incredibly grueling. Youre in a plies ard for most of it. Well, you know, in the process of shooting it and where we shot it, turl id only four hours from or place in aspen. Im very used to that. I love that part of the world. I love being there and being in that environment, so it wasnt bad. We had a pretty nice winter and had as much snow as we needed in all of that, but, yeah, your feet get cold. Tarantino has two rules on set that i personally could not live by. One no, electronic gadgets and, two, no nap. What is he, a sadist . Thats terrible you really dont want to go here. Really, why . Because that just makes me want to go there more. I lost be careful what you say here, you might get what you wish for. You know, he doesnt let nothing is turned on or off which everybody loved. Yeah. But other one, napping, ive grown up on sets and love napping, and he just doesnt like it when you go to sleep so if you do go to sleep theres a thing called big jerry thats going to be snuck in beside where you are taking and they will take a picture and you will go on the wall of shame and ill leave big jerry alone. Going tele. Little early in the morning for big jer. I shouldnt, have i forgot kurt rils, thank you so much. The Hateful Eight opens in up next, sweet treats for lynns family, the big stress is paying four hundred dollars a month in medical and drug costs for aidan. For other families its higher deductibles, premiums and copays that keep adding up. Thats why weve got to crack down on price gouging, cap outofpocket costs, and fast track approval of less expensive generic drugs. Because weve got to get Health Care Costs under control for lynns family and for yours. Back now at 8 46 with a kickoff to todays holiday cookie swap. All this week were going to get into the spirit of the season with our favorite seasonal treats. Its the most wonderful time of the year. Made of sugar and spice and everything nice. When i bite into my favorite cookie, it makes me feel like a kid again. When i think cookies, i think deliciousness. When cookie searches are at an alltime high and threequarters of americans consume more cookies than any other month of the rear. Moist, soft, yet still somewhat gooey cooky. Sugeary, chocolate chip and ginger bread along the most popular. When i think cookie, i think chinese almond cookied with the chocolate in the middle. America, we asked you to tell us your favorite. My favorite cooky is from helens kitchen in charlotte, north carolina. Secret is its a great cookie and then she sprinkles a little sea salt on top, mwah. And give a shoutout to the bakeries that made them. My favorite is lavanes dark chocolate Peanut Butter chip. When i think cookies, i think happiness. And you answered. Todays Great American cookie swap, georgia, you voted for the toffee cookie and ohio the buckeye, and california, persimmon cooky. It takes gooded. This is like a blueberry muffin if it were smashed down into a Perfect Little cookie, just like in a. Take a bite out of Holiday Season. We are such dorks. A few weeks ago we started our nationwide hunt for great cookies and asked you to number nate an awesome bakery in your state. Submissions poured in and we picked the bakers that rose to the top and our first match from michigan, texas and colorado starting with chill mcclear fretoms mom cookies in harbor springs, michigan. Cheryl has worked there for 20 years and owned the company for 20. Good morning. Good to see you. Good morning. People say franchise this out and you say no why . I say no because if i keep it small ill keep it good and i want it good always. Your cookie res see what is. White chocolate with pupper sglint what makes it special . A lot of peppermint. So im going to add some White Chocolate chips in here and peppermint sticks, a little more White Chocolate and peppermint extract and you have theres already some in the dough and i added that. Mix that together. Roll it out in a loss, cut it and bake it. Delicious. Oh, my mmhmm. A mouthful and you have to introduce our next baker. Caly ann buck, amazing, also a College Student and has her own bakery and making beautiful Chocolate Chip Cookies and you youre a student. I dont understand how you have time to do all this. Yes, actually, when i started the company i took a semester off from school and now that im back in school in boston and i have two texas a m students that continue the business and we run it together. Whats the name of your company, calyin cookie. I like that. We like to pull them out of the oven about three minutes before and the edges will be a little bit crispy and when you the pan for 10 to 15 minutes and let them continue to cook and from there you take them off and bodabing, they are done. So youre take them a little bit before they are done. Yes. Usually like three minutes. Great. Like them soft and chewy. Last but not least, representing denver, colorado, danon moore from cake crumbs. She opened her bakery eight years ago and people come from all over for the cookies. Good morning. Happy holidays . What was most of all i live in the neighborhood where we are, and i really wanted to create something that could be designed for our community. I think thats great. The cookie is an oatmeal cranberry cookie. What is the secret to it . The cranberries. Fresh . No, we dont. We use dried cranberries because i dont like raisins. Really, you know, huge. Growing up as a colorado skier, of a good ski day. So big or go home. You use the ice cream scoop they come out uniform. You got it. Thank you, danon, thanks for all of the recipes. By the way, if you want to learn more about these you can head to today. Com and more bakers in a little while. Up next as we get ready to celebrate the great Willard Scott tomorrow well look back at one of his signature moments on the show. First, this is today on nbc. Ere awesome. Burks fir, this is today on nbc. Praised as one of americas best mayors who governed as a pragmatist. Bernie sanders passed more amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member. Cracked the gridlock with john mccain to strengthen veterans healthcare. A consistent, principled, and effective leader. Building a future to believe in. Todays thank you willard is sponsored by smuckers. This morning we have to say how bittersweet it is after 35 years here at today willard is retiring tomorrow. We have a huge party planned. Over the years we calculated willard helped wish more than 40,000 americans happy birthday as they reached 100 years old. He is not only famous for birthdays. One of his most iconic moments came when he dressed up on a dare for charity as Carmen Miranda long before there were viral moments there was Willard Scott. Long before matt started Carmen Miranda. Here is Carmen Miranda. What a privilege to have been there. They are still talking about it. That was one of those moments on television that became a phenomenon. Ill never get that image out of my head. Everybody was blown away. There was a heart felt reason for doing it. Im a big fan of uso. It was for charity, to help people. If you didnt think i had fun, you are crazy. If the internet had existed when willard did Carmen Miranda he would have broken the internet. So great. Amazing. Talking about that for weeks. One of the first things people mention when they say his name. Well have a proper sendoff for willard tomorrow to cap his remarkable run here at nbc. A legend. Hes really has done it. You carried that tradition on proudly. Thank you. With a genius to inspire me. Well have a lot more tomorrow, much more on a monday morning, whats up next hour . We have our cookie swap. And we get to sink our teeth into yummy cookies. Delicious. Lots more. Weather and these messages. We are following a developing story this morning a waterloo woman has been murdered. Police were called to a home in hampton last night. Officers found michelle key dead. She had been shot. She was from waterloo. Her boyfriend ronald lee rand was arrested and now faces first degree murder. Hes 60 years old. Now, lets go to eileen with a look at weather. Rain will end from the south to today and again on wednesday as the next, weaker system tracks through. That will bring light rain or snow to the state and cooler temps for the end of the week. Well be back in 30 minutes, be sure to check kwwl dot com for the latest news youre watching k wwl, weve this morning on todays take, sisters, the countdown is on to the comedy of the year. Weve got one of the stars and then hollywood shopping scam, by the gift card you just bought may not be worth anything and three of the most delicious christmas cookies youll ever eat. All that and more coming up now. This is todays take with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall live from studio, 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today, its monday morning. Its december 14th. Its 2015. Theres a Great Holiday crowd on plads ashe. Inside im willie along with al, willie and tamron. My morning jam express yourself by n. W. A. I interviewed ice cube. Yeah. Last week. Hanging with him. And been in that n. W. A. Mood, that and sinatra and his 100th birthday, that kind weekend. Thats good. Great mashup. Weather. Yes. Did we head 72 in new york . Jfk got to 70 degrees sunday. Incredible. Its its been nuts. So many cities saw record high temperatures. In fact, according to the National Oceanographic administration, National Centers for environmental information, of december, this is before this weekend, 574 record daily highs have been tied or broken. Wow. During the first ten days. That graphic is ominous. That looks like an apocalypse. In fact today some places could be 0 degrees above average. Come on, wow. Is it true that this is going to continue potentially through christmas . Well, its going to moderate, but right now brutally cold, unusually cold weather is still banked up in canada. Seeing below normal temperatures out west which well get into a little bit and Cherry Blossoms in washington, d. C. Popped out again, and you can see buds on your freeze, its not going to be a problem because they will re reblossom. Right. Once they go back into hibernation. Crazy to see. It is. Last week, first great class at an Elementary School in new air to celebrate unusual thats who you want to hang out with. Thats the crew you want to hang out with. And not to be undone santa decided to get in on the action, in the Niagara River in buffalo hanging ten. Oh, come on. You dont see that. Dont see that every day. Remember this time last year, buffalo was like in a state of emergency. They were buried. Doesnt seem christmassy enough though. Out in short and tshirts. Other parts of country, generally. I need a little cold. Yeah. I need like the scarves and around. I dont mind this. Absolutely nothing. Okay. Its a setup. Get the mild weather and then were going to get slammed with a horrible winter. In the northeast thats the what happen, we have fairly mild weather in december and boom. Were in an el nino year right out west and a little drier, warmer here as we get into january and february, a little wetter and then a little colder. Yeah. So we will eventually get our winter, but we are in the middle what have could be a record el nino which means warmer than unusual temperatures. Comparison to your point about last year, remember dylan all over boston. I mean. By this time. I was talking to dylan about this on friday. By this time last year she was already literally burnt out. She had been on the road for weeks covering brutal weather. And the people in the northeast burnt out. Dylan, keep sleeping in. Natalie mentioned some of us cant get into the Christmas Spirit without some snow around and christmas music, that should be able to help a little bit. Yes. So the university of illinois has set up a 24 7 service, get this. You call in and you choose a song, and a student will sing it to you live. Its the whole new meaning to rent party. Weve been doing this for just got in on the party. Thats good to know. Better late than never. We just somebody told me it was trending. Well, in 1960. Well, it was. A slow long trend. A slow build. Washington post did a story on it. Okay. Both of my parents went to the university of illinois and this predates them. This is a long tradition. Wow. But its a great tradition. And just now catching on. So, do we check it out. Because they have been on hold since the 60s just for you. Your call will be received shortly after this message. Please have your name and location from where youre coming from. What song do we want to hear . It make take us a few moment to get you your song. Thank you and happy holidays. What song do we want . Last christmas. She goes right to wham. Last christmas i gave you my thats right. Thats sad. Tore it apart. The they are on the phone. They are on the phone. Happy song. Hark the herald angels sing. The Market Herald is that the name of it. Hi, university of illinois, wed like hark the herald the angels sing. The what is your name . My name is sharon. Hi, sharon. Runt in the middle of finals right now . My name is sarah. Hi, sarah. How are you . So youre ready. Were ready. Three, two, one. Hark the herald angels sing glory to the newborn king peace on earth and mercy mild gott god and sinners reconcile the joy full all ye nations rise join the triumph of the skies christ is born in bethlehem hark the herald angel sings glory to the newborn king nice. Fantastic. Nice. Are you in the Christmas Spirit now . Im much better now, thank you, university of illinois. Thats amazing. You guys are terrific. Let me ask them one more thing to make sure they are illini. Ill. Ini. That gets you in. Dont sound like youve been singing sin oat 60s and bless your hearts. Were so happy. Do you have a tip jar. We should give you something. What do you guys get out of it . Well send you today show mugs. Thats the Christmas Spirit. They dont get anything out of it other than bringing Christmas Joy to others. Well send you guys today show mugs. Signed today show mugs, not the ones from the gift shop. Erasing names every day. You know. Its your choice, but i would go with the plain ones. That you knew the lyrics just like that. Thats awesome. Have a little thing called a computer in front of them. But they didnt know our song. Im impressed. I think thats amazing. Great job, guys. Thank you. Well done. They are in the middle of finals right now, too, so. Thats good. All staying up 24 7 to sing to us. How about the christmas lists with the hover boards. Here, josh my son wanted wanted is the key word. Uhoh. And maybe the biggest gift of the Holiday Season or at least it was, but even santa apparently had a little messup on a hover board. Take a look at this the. Oh, no. Merry christmas. Ow. Well, you remember that video, i guess it went viral. That still hurts no, matter how many times he did that. Could have been worse and is that the hovers board . I feel like that it was santas fault. Steer issue. The door should have been made wider. Can i talk, please. I just want to say one thing, please. Lets top calling these hover boards. They are not hovering. They are not hovering. They are wheels. They are on the ground. Its not marty mcfly time. What are they called . They are not hover boards so start stop calling them hover boards. They are more of a rover board. Your turn. Okay. Anyway. As youve heard by now, no doubt seen hover boards, mono rovers, whatever you want to call them, they have become safety concerns because the lithium ion battery inside of them are causing some to catch fire and now amazon has pulled some of its brands from its sight. Overstock. Com is not selling them at all, and amazon is asking for some sellers to provide documentation that they standards. So bottom line is because they are not a toy they dont fit they are not really regulate. Hmm. So a lot of kids i think are going to be upset. Santa doesnt deliver that because of the lithium ion batteries. When you say santa doesnt bring it because of safety, theres no reason to be upset. I tried it on the plaza and nearly fell off of it and im pretty good on skates and skis and whatever so it took some figuring out and now thats not even the risk anymore. To als point. So many different ones and even my neighborhood a couple of popup shops have started selling them. A lot havent been through testing or complaint the standards. Not a good idea to ride through your neighborhood on fire. Probably not. Speaking of on fire, look at warmth that weve got here in the east. Theres that High Pressure pumping up and the jeemp is way up to the north, so today well see a high of 64 here in new york city. And charleston tomorrow 75 degrees and look at this. 54 in chicago by wednesday and 61 in evansville and 42 in kansas city, but then the cool air is really banked out west. The jet stream has dipped down and so with this low pressure moving through you can see that swirl. Were seeing snow making its way from kansas on into parts of illinois and iowa, i should say, and weve got a deets ent amount of snow coming in with that cold air, upwards of a foot and a half or more through the rockies and cascades and great news for the skiers. The Christmas Gift there for anybody who lovers to ski. And snow on wednesday, but the rest of the week should dry out. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will be wet this morning and dry out later today. Rain continues to track north, but some dry air is starting to work into the southern counties. However. We have had plenty over the last couple of days. Many of us got 1 to 3 with some getting even more. Temperatures continue to be steady or falling. They are already into the low to mid 30s are strong as the center of the system tracks in. We are 15 to and thats your late weather. Al, thank you very much. Coming up next rossen reports live, yeah, live, baby, from gift cards that are empty before you use them to fake websites. Just got a warning about three common skaks and how to karl, dont you have friends coming over . Yeah, so . It stinks in here. Youve got to wash this whole room are you kidding . Wash it . Lets wash it with febreze. For all the things you cant wash, use. Febreze fabric refresher whoa hey mrs. Webber inhales hey, it smells nice in here and try pluggable febreze. To continuously eliminate odors for. Up to 45 days of freshness pluggable febreze and fabric refresher. [inhale exhale mnemonic]. Pain from your day can haunt you at night, dont let it. Advil pm gives you the healing sleep you need, helping you fall asleep and stay asleep so your body can heal as you rest. Advil pm. For a healing nights sleep. You know the love you feel for Olive Gardens fresh baked breadsticks . Well multiply that by a million. New breadstick sandwiches, we are back now with another installment of rossen reports live and today were exposing holiday scams. National correspondent jeff rossen did some digging to uncover three of the biggest cons that are happening right now, and how you can protect yourself. Good morning, guys. Start off with the gift cards right beside you there. Scared of gift cards. Why . My fear is always that youll buy it and then youll give it to someone and it wasnt activated there. Hes no verification. This is along those lines. We have some of the most popular gift cards on my hand. You go to the store and buy them for somebody and what the thieves are now doing is going tonight racks of stores and they are turning the gift cards over, have this one right here, zoom in that camera on it real quick what, they are doing is they are scratching off, took a freezeframe of it, see that little number on bottom right at the bottom of the card, scratching off the number and putting it back in the rack so when you go bite card most dont look to make sure its not scratched off and when you go to activate it they keep calling the number to see when the thing has been activated and they have that code and they spend it before you can spend it. Wow. What should you do then to protect yourself . When you go to the rack and bite gift cards, make sure youre buying it and its like this. Its sealed up. If not a lot of stores sell them loose, flip it over and make sure it is not scratched out, and a lot of stores keep it behind the counter. Thats always the best advice to you. Okay. Make sure nothing is scratched out. A lot of us love Online Shopping and thieves are getting in on that as well when your package is left. This is huge. We talk about this on the today show every single Holiday Season and this is when the thieves go to doorsteps and know a lot of gifts are being delivered and they steal them right off of peoples doorsteps. We actually have some video to show you of this in action. I think we do. We do. There we are. These thieves walk up. How heartless is that stealing these gifts. Actually a case of a woman, a mom, who stitched together a bunch of tshirts of her killed in action soldier son and there she is right there. It was delivered to her, a company do it, and a heartless thief stole it right off her doorstep and police got the thief later on but there are ways to avoid this. Are these thieves cruising the neighborhood looking for they follow delivery trucks and will find a ups truck and fedex truck, any one of these Delivery Service and actually run to the doorstep when the guy takes off because most people arent home during the day and the day that youre probably not home. What do you do . Ways to avoid it. Number one, manage your deliveries in most cases. What you want to do is click on that box where you get it delivered at a certain time and want to know when its being delivered. Track your delivery. How easy is that, they give you the number. I like this one, too, if your employer allows it, have it delivered to work and that way you know theres somebody there, you can actually take it. And the other way do it, the best advice, set up the shipping address to your local fedex or post office and then you pick if up how you want to. If theres a business like you frequent, dry cleaners, some of them will let you if youre a good customer since someone is usually there 9 00 to 5 00 kind of hours. Third scam has to do the website youre shopping on. Make sure theyre authentic sites. There are so many fake sites out there, and when we do, the counterfeiters have themselves come up high in the google search. When you type in rayban, for example, if you want sunglasses, you may get a fake website that comes to the top. We actually have a side by side to show you. Can you guys tell which one is fake and which one is real. Which one is fake . I think the one that says now open is fake. I think thats the fake one. Yeah. Yeah. Believe it or not, thats the real one on the right. The fake one on the left. Real quick, piece of advice, when you go to the url at top, make sure it says https, the s means secure. And dont go through google. Type in rayban. Com and go there yourself. Thanks, jeff, keeping us hot days. 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Take a bow and take your scraps and cut little vertical lines and then you take your scissors and you just curl it like you would a ribbon, curl, curl, curl and that way you can quickly make little bows and not only could they coordinate but they look cute. When im making bows with ribbon they always come out uneven. With a fork. Take a string. Right. And what you do is youre going to tie it like this, tie it like this. The tines. And over like that. And when youre all done, you switch, switch, switch. And then what happens is that it looks like this. Looks just like that. So the idea here, i didnt finish it properly but its a little, little ribbon that you can put on an envelope and its a cute little way to decorate. Stick a fork in it, its done. Its done. Thats true. I was pressed for time. Thank you. This one is perfect for any decorating or any fall table settings that you may have. Take ice coupes. Right. Add some cranberries and a little bit of water on top and pop in the frears and then when youre serving your little drinks, you have a tasty, festy little drink with cranberries and it looks beautiful. Very festive looking, i like that. This is terrific. This is really cute as far as table settings go. Buy these little stockings. And take your little fork and knife and spot and pet them in there. Wrap it up with a bow and youre good to go. You hate homemade containers and i love this. Take the chip thing. Finish the chips, clean it out with a paper towel. Ecofriendly, super cute and just stuff it in there and you give all of your friends tasty cookies. Put them in gently. Thank you so much. A big weekend for to the couple who set aside the whole day to sell their old car and buy a new one. Oops. Nanas got the kids til 9. But its only 2. Guess youll just have to see a movie. Then get some dinner. Today, governor branstad makes history. Its day seven thousand 642 in Office Making him the longest serving governor in the country. Hes served in two blocks. First from 1983 until then he took a short break to become the president of des moines university. In 2010. He announced another run and won later that year. He was reelected in 2014. Branstad takes the longest serving title away from new yorks george clinton. Whose Service Included some pre constitution time. Moving on to decision 2016. A new poll of democrats is out this morning Hillary Clintons lead growing since the last Des Moines Register poll. She now tops Bernie Sanders 48 to 39 percent. Now, lets go to eileen with a look at weather. Rain will end from the south to the north, but it will be gusty today. Steady or system tracks through. That will bring light rain or snow to the state and cooler temps for the end of the week. Well be back in 30 minutes, be sure to check kwwl dot com for the got you covered. Paris theres a lot to do on a dairy farm. Nobodys gonna do it for you. You have to get out there and do it yourself. Bernie sanders is a wellknown friend of family farms. Bernie cannot be bought out by big money. Bernies opinion cannot be purchased. Its time for our next president to get in there, roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back to where they should be. Hes a rock. Taking a look at headlines, more evidence is emerging that officials missed warning signs about the couple who carried out the San Bernardino terror attacks. The fbi has already said the two developed extremist views before they met. Well, now the New York Times reports that the wife, Tashfeen Malik, had spoken openly on saying she wanted to be a part of it and yet passed several immigration checks before moving from pakistan on a fiancee visa. If you have to go to the post office today, best of luck to you. Usps Officials Say today is the busiest mailing day of the year for cards, letters and packages. Officials recommend sending pack packages by december 21st for christmas arrival and estimate over 15. 5 billion pieces of mail will be sent this Holiday Season. A warning today about the dangers of putting Young Children in car seat while they are wearing their winter jackets. Crash tests at 30 Miles Per Hour show us just how dangerous it can be. In one test you see the child dummy goes flying out of the seat with the jacket sliding right off. An expert says the harness should fit nice and tight to the childs body and should be at armpit level and if youre worried about the child being cold lay the coat over them after the harness is already buckled. Youve hearded about the dangers of not getting enough getting too much sleep could also be bad for you. New research from australia shows that sleeping more than nine hours could put you at risk for premature death. The study says people who spend most their days sleeping and sitting around are four times as likely to die young. Experts recommend between seven and nine hours of sleep a day. And still champion. The hucker games the mocking jay part 2 was still number one for the fourth straight weekend. Ron howard in the heart of the season debuted number two and the good dinosaur was third. Carolyn and andrew will get married in the star wars right outside of the chinese theater and they have been camped out there since they flew in from last week and carolyn will wear a wedding gown decorated with will walk her down the aisle and the ceremony will be conducted by a friend of the couple named obi, of course. Serious friends. Al . This is not the bride youre looking for. Anyway, early week, rain and windy conditions in the Midatlantic States and flood threats around the region. Midweek period, Pacific Northwest and heavy rain here in the northeast. We could actually use some of it. Heavy showers and thunderstorms through the southeast and the latter part of the week look for mountain rain and snow out west. Eastern twothird of the country looking pretty darn good. Lack at how hot. More record warmth here in the northeast and Midatlantic States and much below normal out west and through the midweek period. Stays warm and its not until the latter part of the week thatbring some light rain and snow on wednesday, but the rest of the week should dry out. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network cameras will be wet this morning and dry out later today. Rain continues to the southern counties. However. We have had plenty over the last couple of days. Many of us got 1 to 3 with some getting even more. Temperatures are have already seen their highs in many areas and will continue mid 30s out west. Winds are strong as the center of the system tracks in. We are 15 to 30 mph and will stay gusty and thats your latest weather. Al, thank you. For the past seven years bobby main han has been make us laugh every week as a cast member of saturday saturday and hes keeping the laughs come in the new tina fey and amy poehler comedy sisters and plays that Old High School fan, alex, that guy that one wants to invite to the party. No, knock, whos there . Duane, duane here, duane the bathtub, im drowning. May i please have a beverage. Thank you. Wow. Welcome to jurassic park. Hes immediately exhausting. Bobby is with us. We would invite you to any party or alex to any party. I would destroy your house, yeah. I love these characters because as we said earlier each one is someone that you know, that youre familiar with. What was it like filming this with the great tinafree and amy poehler. Its like being back at work. Pound for pound they are the funniest women in the world and maya and everybody, having everybody around, two months in a house, warehouse somewhere, destroying a house and having a blast and improvising a lot. It was it was a blast. Most fun ive had. Tina was talking to matt a little bit earlier and theres kind of a shorthand between you guys on snl. No when to let someone else go and they will get that take and paula who wrote it, responsible for 90 of the classic characters on snl and would run up to you with a postit note and read it and its the funniest thing ive ever read and the best. New use for postits. Yeah. How do you shoot without breaking character or how often do you break character because i would imagine theres a laugh per minute on the. Laughing and then getting back into it. Trying not to waste as much time but it was fun. Im sure theres a lot of outtakes of us crack up. Im sure you figured you would have a fight scene in a movie. With john cena . Fought him a couple of times just for the he can of it, in the streets. A little ww sgle he was terrified. Was me. He was terrified. Look at me. Im very menacing. You are. I would be afraid of you. You look like a coiled spring im ready to go. Careful, roker, careful. Just kidding. It was the best. The weirdest feeling in the world as a grown man is to be lifted by another grown man. He carried me around the set like a baby, and it wasnt i havent had that feeling in a while. Frightening and comforting. Quite comforting. Hes a kind and gentle soul. And can you do us a favor, bone, and show us your shirt and willie has out myself. Yeah. My nice sultd with my star wars tshirt. Request see sisters. Is there a battle. A little disturbing actually. Very disturbing. Very nerdy tshirt. Sisters is out the same day and you can see both. Yeah. How are you approaching this . Ill see i have many tickets for star wars and im great answer. Good answer. Whoa the battle. Out of nowhere. So random. Surprised the jedi like that. Bobby, thank you, and, of course, sisters from our Sister Company universal opens friday. Theres room in our hearts for both, star wars and sisters. Go back and forth. 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What are dates like with your midwestern trend when you are practicing. I would say things like oh, yeah, oh, thats pretty good, huh, and hed like ah, yeah, and then the dialect coach was always a lovely guy and he would always be kristen, if you could just tone it down. Youre coming off like an offensive cartoon. But im like my boyfriend loves it and my boyfriend says im good. Offensive cartoon, thats high wheelhouse, where i really live. I expect you give a lot away, betsy unconscious on the floor. Where is this headed . Im not going to tell you. Im not telling you anyone. I have to wait to watch is that what youre telling me . I do have a background in mime. You have a pc ground in mime. Cut it out. I was a mime in high school. Al has done the forecast in mime. You go first. Okay. Thats a classic. Trapped in a box, thats good. Thats what i was going to do honestly, to be honest. I was going to be trapped in a box. Youve got one thing. Youve got one. But its good. But its solid. 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Im going to taste yours, too. Equal opportunity here. Ive got tina here with her trex cookies. Look at size of these cookies and youll see. Its the perfect name, trex cookies. Sea salt caramel chocolate chip. Yes, they are. We have our Chocolate Chip Cookie ingredients and put caramel in it and i actually weigh the cookie and all the cookies i make for my business are all half a pound. Oh, my gosh. Essentially looks like a Hamburger Patty by the time im done with it and the key is putting the flake sea salt on top. I love that combination. A lot ask me how i get them to be chewy and soft in the middle and still crispy on outside and my secret is to make sure you freeze the cookie doe right after you mix it. How long do you freeze it for. Totally frozen. And then you go right from the freezer into the oven. Im going to give this a try. Go ahead, al. Chs your shothd shop in utah, chocolate chip cook we german chocolate frosting. 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