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I see Ricky Gervais is sharpening his knives. I bet we will gasp as he put it. Exactly. I was not talking about the globes. I was talking about your arrival here. Thats what people are getting excited about. Please have the lavender tealights ready for me, matt. We will. Look forward to it. Lots to get to this morning. Lets start with the top story. Two terrorismrelated arrests, one right here in california. This is sure to intensify that debate going on about refugees from the middle east. Nbcs justice correspondent Pete Williams is looking into that. Pete, what can you tell us . Reporter matt, good morning. Both of these men will appear in court later today to be formally charged. Officials say this is a case about fighting overseas, not about plotting attacks here at home. The Justice Department says a 22yearold man from iraq aws Mohammed Younis al jayab was arrested while he was living in sacramento accused of lying to immigration authorities. The fbi says when he was questioned in 2014 about whether terror group he told them he went to turkey a year before to visit his sick grandmother. In fact, the grandmother says he went to syria to fight with various terrorist organizations, first apparently against the assad regime. A second iraqiborn man was also arrested, 24yearold Omar Faraj Saeed Al hardan who lives in houston accused of providing support to isis by getting to syria. He was in touch with the Sacramento Man asking how he could join with jawedihadists overseas and hes denied of having any connection to terror organizations when he applied for u. S. Citizenship in 2014. As you know, both men came to the u. S. As refugees. Officials say al jayab, the man in sacramento, had already been to syria once when he came here and no suggestion that al hardan, the texas man, was radicalized when he came here 17 years ago as a refugee. Matt. Pete williams on this breaking story overnight. Savannah. Lets talk politics. The president ial race, donald trump held his first rally in vermont last night blocks actually from democrat Bernie Sanders campaign headquarters. The event drew a lot of supporters and protesters. Lets start our coverage with nbcs peter alexander. Peter, good morning reporter town of burlington, vermont, was on edge anticipating trumps visit, especially after his campaign handed out thousands more tickets than they had seats. Vermont, of course, is a deep blue state, not typical trump territory, and the candidate spent a lot of his night battling protesters. In the liberal bastion of burlington, vermont, Bernie Sanders country, the trump show felt more like the set of jerry springer. Trump, trump, trump reporter repeatedly interrupted by protesters the republican frontrunner taunted his unwelcome guests. Get them out. Get them out. Confiscate his coat. You know, its about 10 degrees below zero outside. Reporter even berating his own security. Move faster. We need security that moves fast. Come on, move faster. Pretty soon they are going to get so nasty we wont have any more protesting, you know, that right. Reporter after handing out 20,000 free tickets for the 1,400seat theater, the Trump Campaign enforced a loyalty test to get in. Pledge allegiance to trump or go home. The second we get inside, security sees we have a bernie pin on, even though we have tickets, they grab on to us and they firstbly eject us out of the building. No questions act. Reporter trump insisted he was simply taking care of his people. They are loyal to me, amend i am lime to they will, he said. The billionaire is also escalating his attacks on Hillary Clinton. Womens rights are human rights. Reporter posting this incendiary Instagram Video challenging clintons advocates are for women while flashing images of monica lewinsky, Anthony Weiner and bill cosby. Meanwhile, trumps closest rival ted cruz is dismissing john mccains comments seemingly his eligibility to be president. It is no surprise. Everybody knows that john mccain is going to endorse marco rubio. Reporter and rubio trying to solidify his place atop the establishment lane of the gop is locked in a bitter back and forth with Chris Christie. This guy has been spoon fed every victory hes ever had in his life. Is that the kind of person that we went to put on the stage against Hillary Clinton . I dont think so. She will pat him on the head and then cut his heart out. Reporter marco rubio has been calling out christie for days blasting him as a liberal republican. There was one other headline out of the rally in vermont. Trump vowing hell get ready of gunfree school zones on his first day as president. As trump put it, you know what a gunfree school zone is to a sicko, its bait. Matt . Peter alexander. Peter, thank you very much. As for the clintons, well, they are digging in the face of the new attacks from donald trump. Nbcs Kristen Welker has more on that side. Story. Kristen, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning thats right. President clinton is sticking to strategy, trying to avoid an allout war of words with donald trump. The Clinton Campaign believes engaging with trump would only escalate the issue, but the questions arent going away. I was with former president bill clinton on the campaign trail here in cedar rapids yesterday. A number of reporters asked clinton about the criticism from donald trump, about the fact that he continues to raise his past infidelities on the campaign trail. Heres how president clinton answered one question. Donald trump is again today making an issue of your past transgressions. Do you want to respond, and are you worried that your past could hurt your wifes campaign . I dont have a response. If he wins the republican nomination well have plenty of time to talk about it. Im trying to help hillary win reporter Clinton Campaign Still Believes that president clinton is the best surrogate for his wife. They believe that he helps with working class voters, for example, in a state like iowa which is must win. Note during president clintons Second Campaign event yesterday, he was in the middle of talking when all of a sudden his phone rang. Take a look at what happened next. There are other issues that keep americans up at night and my phones ringing. I have to call hillary back and explain why i couldnt take it. Snoofrp a re reporter a reminder to always put your phone on secretary. President clinton off the trail today and aid Hillary Clinton will be with women advocates including lena dunham and abby wambach. Back to you. Lets turn to Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow show on msnbc and nicolle wallace. Ladies, good morning to you. Rachel, starting with you. Not taking the bait from frump, not going there, not going to do it. Can they continue to do that or do they have to engage. Sometimes they love to engage with donald trump because sometimes its really advantageous to the democrats and hillary in particular. Reporter on the issue of bill clintons transgressions. They will do it when it suits them. Strategically they have a larger issue of does it help you as a democrat . Does it help the democrats for the general election to elevate donald trump as face of the Republican Party . Sometimes they want to engage on him, when the american thinks about the Republican Party they want him to think about drew. On an issue like this they dont want to to become the basis of everybodys discussion on the morning shows. Trump going after bill clinton on his infidelities and transgressions personally, is that smart politics, and if it is why are the other republicans not following suit . Well, i think that all of the normal standards, all of the normal rules about decorum have been durand and discarded in this campaign season. Yeah. And i think trump is already the dominant figure in the Republican Party. He stands at almost 40 so the notion that theres any other republican standard bearer, that ship has sailed. What i think the peril is for the clintons at this moment is so far every attack launched by trump and every battle trump versus whomever, trump has prevailed in the minds of the viewers, in the voters, so when people see these attacks and the clintons make the determination, which is so anticlinton of the 90s era, the whole strategy of Rapid Response and of responding to every attack and prevailing was pioneered by bill clintons advisers, now legendary advisers from the 90s. The notion that they are going to ignore the attacks and that they will go away is foolish. In the few seconds we have left, can we turn to the rhetoric heating up between christie and rubio, christie really let a bomb fly with the latest remark about rubio. Pat him on the head and then cut his heart out. That combination of ideas is very disturb inging. Were not going to forget its a good reminder that Chris Christie when hes on offense and when he has a target that he perceives to be a soft target he is a little bit of a bully, but hes kind of an effective bully. He does it for political effect and it lands. We all on set went ooh when we heard what he just said about marco rubio. He can land a punch, nicole. He can, and the backdrop that the line was delivered on was that there is a, you know, hot war now in the establishment lane because there is a real chance that somebody other than trump could win iowa and somebody other than trump could win New Hampshire and then this whole race restarts. Thats what makes it so exciting. Rachel and new york. Programming note, by the way, donald trump will be joining chuck this sunday on meet the press. Meantime, president barack obama took on the hut button issue of gun control last night. The town hall meeting on cnn came days after he unveiled executive actions to help combat gun violence. The president mfa sized that he guns. I respect people who want a gun for selfprotection, for hunting, for sportsmanship, but all of us can agree that it makes sense to do everything we can to keep guns out of the hands of people who would try to do others harm. I appreciate you taking the time. Also during that event the widow of american sniper chris kyle confronted the president and challenged him on the effectiveness of gun control legislation. Were at the lowest murder rate in our country. Alltime low. Right. Of murders. Were at an alltime high of gun ownership, right . Im not necessarily saying that the two are core late, but what im saying is were at an alltime low for murder rate. Thats a big deal. If you look at where are the areas with the highest gun ownership, those are the places in some cases where the crime rate hasnt dropped down that theres pretty stiff restrictions on gun ownership, in some of those places the crimes dropped real quickly so im not sure that theres a onetoone correlation there. The president acknowledged his latest executive actions will not stop all attacks. The goal was to make a little progress, and as a reminder were taking our entire show to the white house on tuesday, is day of president Barack Obamas last state of the union address. Well talk to him and Vice President biden will join us live, and well also bring you special access inside the nations most famous home Tuesday Morning on today. Matt, out to you in l. A. All right, savannah, thanks very much. Lets talk now about growing concerns over the stock market after another brutal day on wall street. The dow dropped another 392 points on thursday. Its biggest loss in three months. That caps the worst fourday start to a year in history. Jim cramer host of mad money on cnbc is at the new york stock exchange. Jim, good morning to you. With me, and you said this was about china, and because china is a communist country they can do things that democracies cant. They can change the rules and stop this. Its clear now though they dont have control over this, do you . No, absolutely what they are doing is kind of winging it, matt. Its a little disappointing that they told us this week that there would be stability. They told us that they had things in hand. They were dead wrong, and because of their inability to offer any clarity the rest of the world is suffering. You said that this is obviously a time of volatility, but we probably shouldnt blame it all on china. I know youre a little concerned about some signs youre seeing coming out of the Federal Reserve as well. Yes. All week they have been saying, look, please disregard all of this turmoil that youre seeing around the world. All that matters is employment. When you put yourself in a box get off this game of being very strict and very tight because the numbers are not bearing up other than some strong employment. I know youre very careful about choosing your words, and in the past you have come on this show, jim, and said it is a time to sell. Would you say that again about this time . No, i think that those times that have come on, that i was able to avoid very big declines, there was systemic risk, maybe the system would fall apart. Here we have to take some pain, but this, too, will pass and anyone who panics now is just going to be able to try to figure out how to get back in when were a little bit lower. Matt, thats the suckers game and i wont play that with peoples money at home you say its going to pass because the fundamentals of the u. S. Economy are strong in your opinion. I think overtime it will become clear that our country once again is a leader and we can avoid a lot of the repercussions whatever china is doing and saying, but it takes over time. I cannot be incredibly bullish right here, frankly, because we havent seen a big washout worldwide. I think that at certain times like this, matt, you just have to say, you know. What its going to be difficult. Its going to be volatile, but if you stay the course youre not going to regret it. Jim cramer at the new york stock exchange. Jim, thanks very much. Thank you, matt. Savannah. Thank you. A disturbing shooting happening in philadelphia overnight. A gunman ambushed a Police Officer and tried to execute him. Matt delucia from our station in philly wcau has the late on the investigation. Matt, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Both officer and suspected shooter are in the hospital this morning. The officer, were told, was rushed into surgery late last night and faces a long recovery. This Morning Police are investigating the shooting of an officer who miraculously survived being shot at point blank range thursday night. Shots fired. Im shot im bleeding. All scars stand by. We have an officer shot 60 and spruce. Nick got into a shootout with a man who police say walked up to the officer while he was sitting in his police characters opening fire with a. 9 millimeter gun and shooting at the officer 13 times. Gets closer and closer to the point where hes actually inside the car firing at the officer. Reporter suspect, hitting the officer three times in the arm, bullet holes riddling one side of the police cruiser. Police have not released the video they captured of the shooting but describe it as horrific horrific. This is absolutely one of the scariest things ive ever seen. I mean, this guy tried to exconsult the Police Officer. The Police Officer had no idea he was coming. Its amazing hes alive reporter 33yearold officer returned fire, hitting the suspect. Be advised officer did strike the suspect. Reporter hart nick, a fiveyear veteran suffered a broken arm and they are of damage after being hit. He was taken to Presbyterian Hospital for surgery overnight. This just speaks to the somebody would do something, i mean, so absolutely evil, its just beyond us. Reporter we are hoping to learn a little more later on today as the Investigation Continues with the questioning of the suspect and perhaps a look at that Surveillance Video that supposedly shows this officer barely making it out alive. Savannah. All right, matt delucia in philadelphia, thank you. The mother of the socalled affluenza teen, ethan couch, is back in texas this morning where she will be arraigned. Tonya couch had been held in Police Custody out here in los angeles since last week. Authorities believe couch and her son fled texas in november as prosecutors investigated whether ethan couch had violated his probation. The two were arrested in mexico late last month, although ethan couch remains at a Detention Center in mexico. The sheriff says hes confident of his return. There were scary moments for passengers on a flight from new the United Airlines plane was forced to make an Emergency Landing in detroit when a passenger became unruly. This is cell phone video for instance side the plane. Airline Officials Say the woman assaulted several of the over passengers. Police had to board the plane and carry her off with her hands and feet bound. They say the woman may have been suffering from a medical condition. Well shifflett gears now. Mr. Roker is here and some cold weather on the way. An amazing peeves video that tells you turn around, dont drown. Youve got to see this. This is from a guy named mark shegaris on state route 23. He sees some flash flooding and he throws his car into reverse. He smartly didnt try to drive through it. Hes backing up. Look at the debris, the mud flow thats coming through as he backs away. Hes actually driving through all that mud and finally gets to a clear spot and is able to turn around. My gosh, that had to be awfully frightening to see. Weve also got a frightening map right now. Frigid air coming in. Ahead of it weve got very mild will be coming out of canada. So today, look at temperatures ahead of the system. 42 in cleveland and 6 a in nashville. Montgomery 65. Albuquerque, new mexico. 36. By saturday omaha is at 12 and indianapolis at 48 and new york city 51 and then on sunday we could see records here in new york city. 60 degrees in new york. Richmond and bangor seeing 46 degrees and look at this st. Louis. 21 sioux city, 11 degrees and by monday were back in the cold air by half just about. Washington will be at 38 and des moines at 24 and its going to feel brutally cold. Arctic air will come sliding down, and the feelslike temperature today in bismarck, it will feel like 3, sioux falls 18, omaha 24 and look at what happens on saturday. Awfully cold. Were going to get to your local forecast welcome. How you doin . Thanks for coming. Today youre gonna choose a mobile office to drive to a remote worksite. You can choose this Chevy Silverado that offers built in 4g lte wifi. That doesnt offer wifi. But to make up for it, we added a trailer, a satellite antenna, and dolores. Hey fellas technologys a little behind in here. Now the silverado offers built in wifi with a connection thats stronger than your smart phone. Slick. So, which one do you want . I pick the chevy. Chevy. Silverado. It leaves ford in the dust. You just cant beat it. Fall through most of the weekend. We have rain showers tracking through now, although some snow fell to the north, so there are some partially covered roads there. We also have areas of dense fog. Visibilities are below 2 miles over most of the viewing area this morning. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will keep that fog and rain in the area this morning with some snow showing up later today and tonight. Right now, temperatures are holding in the 30s across the state and we keep the rain you know with matt gone, his mentos are up for grabs. Were not giving them back. I have mine here, too. Dont worry about it. Coming up, how to improve your chances of winning the largest lottery in u. S. History as the Powerball Jack mott grows to more than 700 million. Ive cut you guys out of the equation, by the way, i have my one ticket out here. We have your mentos. You can hold them hostage. The guide to the Golden Globes. The stars getting ready to shine, the tightest races and what Ricky Gervais is revealing to us about the jokes he has planned but first, this is today on nbc. Hes got them in a lock box. Coming up, the new alarm i love that, and the lawsuit bleeding gums . You may think its a result of brushing too hard. Its not. Its a sign of early gum disease which you can help reverse by using listerine added to your brushing routine listerine kills up to 99. 9 of germs and helps reverse early gum disease in just two weeks. Listerine power to your mouth also try listerine floss. Its advanced Technology Removes more plaque. vo your love is purely thoughtful, purely natural, purely fancy feast. New delicious entr\es, crafted to the last detail. Flaked tuna, whitemeat chicken, never any byproducts or fillers. Purely natural tastes days after the paris attacks, senators came together for a topsecret briefing on the terrorist threat. Marco rubio was missing fundraising in california instead. Two weeks later, terrorists struck again in san bernardino. And where was marco . Fundraising again in new orleans. Over the last 3 years, rubio has missed Important National security hearings and missed more total votes than any other senator. Politics first thats the rubio way. Right to rise usa another show of iowa nice, this time. Were specifically talking about hawkeye fans. Check this out someone from register to thank hawkeye fans. He says hes been living in pasadena for more than 50 years iowans. Quote. Absolutely no group of fans can hold a candle to the iowa faithful. They are just the nicest folks, period now, lets go to eileen with a look at weather. Fog and rain this morning with rain and snow this afternoon. Temperatures will begin to fall this afternoon and keep going through sunday morning. A few snow showers tonight and tomorrow wont add up to much. Wind low to mid teens through wednesday. Well be back in 30 minutes, be sure to well be back in 30 minutes, be sure to check kwwl dot com for the latest news youre watching k wwl, weve cordes most nurses are tough. Theyre problemsolvers. They like making things better. People dont have access to healthcare because they just cant afford it. Bernie sanders understands how pharmaceutical companies and Major Medical companies are ripping us off. Bernie tells the truth, and hes been consistent. He understands that the system is rigged, and hes the only one who can bring real change. 7 30 now on a friday morning, january 8th, 2016. Happy birthday to my sister as we get some camera time at rockefeller plaza. Were getting set to head out west. Carson is here at the desk. Going to be a big weekend and matt is there preparing for our arrival. Thats right. Left after the show yesterday. I came out a little early to hang out with Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais. If our chat, guys, was any indication, this guy is ready to stir things up on sunday night. Were going to hear what Ricky Gervais has to say in just a couple of minutes. Looking forward to that, matt. Well take a look at todays headlines. Two refugees with alleged ties to isis have been arrested on terrorism charges in california and in texas. A 23yearold was taken into custody in sacramento accused of lying to authorities about a trip he made to syria. Arrested in houston. Authorities say he provided support to isis and lied about his ties to terror organizations while applying to become a u. S. Citizen. The u. S. Attorney says there is no indication of planned attacks within the united states. Donald trump held his first vermont rally in the president ial race last night and a number of protesters interrupted the event throughout the night. Security, move faster. We need security that moves fast. Come on. Move faster. And Philadelphia Police are investigating the shooting of a fellow officer overnight after a man opened fire on a police car and shooting at the officer 13 times. Shots fired. Im bleeding heavily. Officer jesse hartnick was shot in the arm but managed to return fire. He hit the suspect. The Police Commissioner described video of the incident as horrific. Well continue to follow that story. Both officer and suspect being treated for injuries. Now to another big story this morning. People coast to coast racing out to buy their tickets for tomorrows recordsetting a jackpot that just got, yes, even bigger overnight. It now stands at more than 700 million and nbcs Kerry Sanders is on the lottery beat again for us. Kerry, good morning. Reporter well, good morning. As you can see, it is indeed a record of any u. S. Lottery jackpot ever, 700 million. It is eyepopping, and while those of us all want to dream, there are some who have experienced the reality of winning a big pot of money. Heres whats happened to some of the biggest lottery winners ever. That first number up is 47. Reporter we all dream of hitting it big. First thing i would buy is a beach house. Id buy a Michael Jordan rookie card. Reporter but for an incredibly lucky few, the dream actually comes true. The top five jackpots ever add up to more than 3 billion. 564. 1 million. Reporter won last year by marie holmes of North Carolina and two others, a single mother of four, holmes donated thousands to her church and started a foundation. As has been widely reported in North Carolina, shes put up a chunk of her winnings, 21 million, to bail her boyfriend lamar hot sause mcdowd out of jail several times, charges include trafficking heroin, possession of a firearm and drag racing. The fourth biggest award came in 2012. 587 million divided between a man from arizona and cindy and mark hill from missouri. The hills went on to donate money to a fire station and a local park. Jackpot number three, 590 million, won by 84yearold Gloria Mckenzie in florida. The woman in line in front of miss mckenzie let her go ahead, a gesture of kindness costing a half billion dollars. Number two, 648 million split by ira curry from georgia and steve tran from san jose. Boss i dont think im going to come in today, tomorrow or ever. And the single largest jackpot anywhere, 656 million divided three ways. The winners want to remain out of the spotlight. Money may talk but they prefer not to. And while the lottery sign there says 700 million, by saturday at the rate people are betting on this, it could go up to 900 million and then if nobody wins, it would exceed possibly 1 billion. They say that winning this kind of money really changes people. Its a story i would like to report from a first person point of view, guys. From an undisclosed location. Billion dollars. My goodness. Can you even imagine . Now im pulling for it. Lets pretend for a moment theres a massive chance you what would that money look like. If you took the cash option after a 25 federal tax right now the winner would have an estimated 428 million in the bank. That is enough to buy the most expensive car in the world, which is an 8 million maybok 53 times or the hope diamond twice. Well, hoping to get away, 428 million will also get you private islands in the bahamas, belize and portugal at just 403 million. Left over to buy a bathing suit. It is better in the bahamas. And if you need to get away in a hurry you can buy 107 private jets. Matt, what do you think . You guys are dreaming. Dreaming. Got to be in it to win it, matt. Let me crush your dreams for a second because the odds are completely against you. 1 in 292. 2 million to be exact. Chance of being crushed by a vending machine which sounds like one of our rossen reports. Wheres that pay day . Or of becoming a movie star, but if youre playing, heres some good advice. Let the Computer Pick your numbers. According to the official powerball website about 70 of past winners use quick picks. Really. Yeah. Lottonumbers. Com says the most frequently drawn numbers for the powerball are, write these down, 26, 41, 22 and 16, and if history repeats, more jackpot winning powerball tickets have been sold in pennsylvania than in any other state. 16 in the past 13 years. Road trip. Who is up for it . After all that information, let me ask you guys a question. Is natalie continuing to be miss greedy pants, or is she more of a team player this morning . Youre the only one who bought a ticket so far. Ticket. I had to give it right back. Yeah, you better. Something tells me youll make him put your initials on that, too. Exactly. All right, al. Lets get a check. Weather now as we dream big. We will. Lets all dream big and we can buy ourselves a nice island and get rid of this winter weather. A Double Barrel low pressure system, first of all one moving up into the great lakes and snow and rain moving into the midwest and severe storms in texas and louisiana. Tomorrow, one system dies out. This other one though that were watching coming out of texas brings a lot of rain and snow on the back side of it. Heavy rain will actually move into the northeast ahead of it. A lot of wet and warm weather with recordbreaking temperatures possible, but lakeeffect snow develops behind it. Were going to look at the snow part of this coming up in the next half hour but the rain part, anywhere from 1 to maybe 2 inches of rain in parts of new england, and its going to be windy as well. Thats whats going on around heres whats happening fall. And continue to fall through most of the weekend. We have rain showers tracking through now, although some snow fell to the north, so there are some partially covered roads there. We also have areas of dense fog. Visibilities are below 2 miles over most of the viewing area this morning. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will keep that fog and rain in the area this morning with some snow showing up later today and to and thats your latest weather. 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New concerns this morning over the widely popular fitbit devices. The company hit with an alarming Class Action Lawsuit. Natalie is on this one. This one claims that the charge hr and the surge model fitbits do not accurately track your heart rate, something that can be critical when youre working out. Its one of the seasons most popular holiday gifts, a gadget to help you keep that new years resolution of getting into shape and staying healthy. But now the makers of fitbit are coming under fire. Im a mom. Fit. Kate mcclellan has a phd in physical rehab and is one of the people suing the company claiming the heart monitor doesnt work and the ad telling customers every beat counts is misleading. My heart rate was only 114 and that did not make sense to me. Thats kind of what it would be if i was walking on the treadmill and maybe an incline and not really working hard. Reporter after comparing the fitbit heart rate monitor to equipment on her gym she said she new something was wrong and spoke to fitbits customer service. She made it sound like it was my fault, like i was wearing it wrong or i was using it wrong and she said its not really meant to track your heart rate all of the time. In a statement a spokesperson for fitbit says we do not believe this case has merit. Fitbit stands behind its Heart Rate Technology and strongly disagrees with the statements made in the claim and plans to vigorously defend the lawsuit. Provide meaningful data to help users reach their health and fitness goals and are not intended to be scientific fitness or medical devices. It doesnt count every beat. It cant. Its wildly inaccurate. They are seeking a class action status saying the customer is treating customers unfairly noting that in order to even use the device you must log in to fitbits website and register the heart rate monitor after youve already bought it. You cant even use it as a watch to tell what time it is unless you register it on the website and thats when you have to agree to all of these terms. This registration includes an agreement that mcclellans lawyers say prevents customers from taking certain legal action against the company. They are told that they are bound by this arbitration clause and class action ban. Well, thats unfair. Fitbit says their agreement has already been upheld in a California Court and according to their website customers have arbitration agreement, and while many users stepping up to support the device, lighting up social media and posting four and fivestar reviews on amazon, others are telling this perfect holiday gift to take a hike. This lawsuit just the latest headache for fitbit. The companys stock has dropped 20 after their latest product, the fitbit blaze, left investors somewhat underwhelmed. We all have various tracking devices. I think we use it more as a guide, as a motivator. Thats not a medical device. Not fair expectations. Curious to see how far the class action suit goes. People are looking for too much. Its just a fitbit. Its not love. Its not your doctor. Coming up on pop start, a surprise performance beyonce youve got to see. Matt . And well get you ready for hollywoods Biggest Party of the year, the Golden Globes. Which star is on Ricky Gervais joke list. Well sit down with the messages. Seriously . Well give it a 6 for composition. Scary. Wow, what about just putting a fair, no haggle price on the window . Not zany enough . Sometimes the best deals air horn, trap door opening rootmetrics, in the nations largest independent study, tested wireless performance across the country. Verizon won big with one hundred fifty three state wins. At t got thirtyeight, sprint got two, and t mobile got zero. Verizon also won first in the us for data, call speed, and reliability. At t got text. Stuck on an average network . 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At ally bank no branches equals great rates. Its a fact. Kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. Pinot noir, which means peanut of the night. Were back in los angeles on this friday morning. Im joined by Nbcs Joe Fryer who is going to give us a guide now to hole woods Biggest Party. Hey, joe, good morning. Good morning, matt. They have already officially laid out the red carpet, and, of course, they are getting the drinks ready. This years Golden Globes will feature an old host and lots of stars. Beyond that its hard to predict. The Golden Globes are not just as amy poehler once joked, its where the Beautiful People of film. Rub shoulders with the ratfaced people of television. Reporter for three years poehler expertly cohosted the show with tina fey, but this year they are passing the emcee torch to Ricky Gervais who is serving as globes ringleader for the fourth time. Wow. Whoa. Reporter gervais sat down with matt and told him stars should leave their egos at the door. Im doing these jokes not for the people in the room but for the 200 Million People watching around the room so im trying to make it a spectator sport. Reporter the Beverly Hilton will be filled with alist nominees like will smith, kate winslet and matt damon. As for the actual awards its a competitive year in film. We need the full scope. Thats the only thing that will put an end to this. Its time, robbie reporter spotlight is the early favorite for best drama. 50 million miles away from home. Totally alone and what the hell is he thinking right now . Im the greatest botanist on while on the comedy side analysts predict a tight race between the martian and the big short. Mike burry, a guy who gets his hair cut at supercuts and doesnt wear shows knows more than Alan Greenspan and hank paulson. Yes, he does. Reporter Leonardo Dicaprio is expected to win for the revenant as he kicks off this years quest to win an oscar and keep a line on the lead comedy actress category, a battle between close friends, Jennifer Lawrence nominated for joy and amy schumer up for trainwreck. Two drinks, three max, four now that im tattling. Reporter on the tv side its a huge year for streaming shows. In fact, netflix scored eight tv nominations beating hbo which has seven. Any show could win, a sign the globes can be as unpredictable as they are fun. Thank you very much. Thats about it. The tv categories the globes love new shows,nd burke at farmers, weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a stag pool party. party music splashing destruction splashing destruction burke and we covered it, october twentyseventh, 2014. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. 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Itll be open 9 in the morning until 11 30 beginning monday. Breakfast will be served for those in need of a meal. Filling a gap in the community. The new shelter will be open through mid march. And its opening just ahead of some very cold early next week. Now, lets go to eileen with a look at weather. Fog and rain this morning with rain and snow this afternoon. Temperatures will begin to fall showers tonight and tomorrow wont add up to much. Wind low to mid teens through wednesday. Well be back in 30 minutes, be sure to check kwwl dot com for through wednesday. Well be back in 30 minutes, be sure to whos the rebel now . No way. Savor an egg mcmuffin any time you like. A fresh cracked egg, melty cheese, canadian bacon and an english muffin with real butter. Mcdonalds all Day Breakfast menu. Yeah its time to start breaking some rules. On average, it takes three hundred americans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. Its called the wage gap. And the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for those at the top and letting corporations write their own rules. Hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. Equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. She gets the job done for us. Its 8 00 on today. Coming up, school lunch shaming. Why this cheese sandwich is at the center of a red hot debate that has parents fighting mad. Then ricky gets ready. We go oneonone with the always unpredictable Ricky Gervais for a sneak preview of what he has planned for this weekends Golden Globes. Im not your dancing monkey. Come on. Youve already got me sitting awkwardly on the couch with you. Weve known each other for years. You dont trust me enough to tell me a raunchy joke. Not with these cameras, no. What do you think, im an idiot . And beyonce surprise. How pops queen bee took the buddy Channing Tatum. Today, friday, january 8th, 2016. Three generations at the today show. Honeymoon here in new york. Shoutout for houston, texas. Show me what you got celebrating my last day of Maternity Leave at the today show. Here at the today show. Wheres my boyfriend . Oh, good morning. And welcome back to a special split edition of the today show on this friday morning. This is january 8th, 2016, and matt lauer out in los angeles getting ready for the Golden Globes, a big crowd out on the plaza in new york city where the gang is there. One thing. Ricky gervais was in rare form when i sat down with him yesterday. Oh, boy. Cant wait. We hope i hope he keeps it going until sunday night. Cant wait to see that interview, matt. Got a lot to get to here in new york. Weve got natalie over at the news desk with the top stories. Nat, good morning. Good morning, once again. Two men who came to the u. S. As refugees from iraq are due in court today on terrorrelated charges. 23yearold Mohammed Younis al jayab was arrested in sacramento. The Justice Department said he had traveled to syria to fight with terror organizations and then lied about it to immigration authorities. The other suspect, 24yearold Omar Faraj Saeed Al hardan lived in houston. Hes accused of supporting isis and trying to get to syria as a fighter. Officials say the two men had been in contact with each other. Donald trumps massive rally in vermont thursday night became a test of wills between the republican frontrunner and protesters. Trumps campaign gave out 20,000 tickets for a 1,400seat theater. People who waited in line were turned away by security if they would not declare their support despite the screening, trump was interrupted numerous times. He was taunted he taunted the protesters as well as democratic rivals. Vermont governor Bernie Sanders and hillary and bill clinton. The clintons meanwhile are sticking to their strategy of largely ignoring trump while making the most of former president s bill clintons voter appeal. He campaigned for his wife thursday in iowa, and when our Kristen Welker asked president clinton about trump dwelling on his past controversy, clinton said he doesnt have a response and he added that there will be plenty of time to talk about it if his wife and trump win their partys nominations. Actor Pat Harrington jr. Who played schneider the annoying but kindhearted handyman on one day at a time has died from complications from alzheimers disease. Harrington won Golden Globes and emmy awards for the show. He starred with Valerie Bertinelli and Mckenzie Phillips in a long running sitcom about a daughters. Pat harrington jr. Was 86 years old. Well, it wasnt an ideal setting, but a woman safely gave birth on the side of a highway with help from new jersey state troopers. One, two, three, push. There you go. Breathe, breathe, breathe. Good, good. There we go. And the newborn baby girl and her mother were taken to the hospital by ambulance. Both are said to be doing well, and an exciting story to tell for all. Thats amazing. Good job to these troopers doing their duty. And mom, too. Exactly. And now to the sandwich thats touching off a firestorm. It all started with a school lunch that was taken away from a student who owed money on her meal account and was replaced with cheese and bread. Todays erica hill is following this story for us. Hey, guys, good morning to you. So its part of a new policy at Kokomo High School in indiana unpaid lunch bills to pay up. Its how the school tries to get those students and parents to do it though that has some saying it teaches the wrong lesson. Shamed by a sandwich. This seemingly innocuous photo of a couple of slices of cheese and bread have one community questioning its school lunch etiquette. It was a slap in the face to the kids. The offending sandwich was snapped by senior sierra nile after it was handed to a fellow student who owed too much money on her meal credit account. The lunch lady said oh, you owe 25. 60. You have to have this alternative lunch. Reporter its a new policy in the School District. Where students can buy lunch on credit. The School Started handing out alternative lunches to students who hoe more than 25. The school says it notified none of the students who received and alternate lunch would speak on camera. Sierra posted this photo of the sandwich on social media calling it absolutely mortifying. I was sitting there thinking do i have enough money, am i going to be able to get this right . Is everyone going to see and wonder why i cant get a normal tray too. The post has now been shared nearly 800 times and drawn hundreds of comments. One parent writing i cannot see the point embarrassing a child. Another commenter saying i find it ridiculous that everyone is blaming the school for this instead of the parents. The School District has apologized for offending anyone with how the policy was enforced, but in its statement it defends the need for the policy itself saying 499 students are behind on their lunch money. 90 of them are not from lowincome families who qualify for free or reduced price lunches. Some of these people on the list, im sorry, are making 100,000 a year, family of four, and have a debt over 100. Im sorry those people need to pay their bills. Lunches put it 50,000 in debt. Making them at risk for losing federal funding. We simply cant carry the debt. Any way you slice it, the policy has families questioning the schools table manners. Two pieces of bread and two pieces of cheese, my friend, is not feeding a child. It doesnt matter how much a parent makes or whats on their lunch account, dont ever feed my kid just bread and cheese. The school says it did send notifications to families hover over their credit limit. The school has decided to suspend the socalled alternative lunch policy until february so parents can get caught up. It does look like some message though is getting out. The school says its now steve received 15,000 so far just this week. The school needs to pay its bills and parents need to pay up if they are able to. Not at expense of the kids got to be a better way. I feel bad, i made nick a cheese sandwich. Thats what my son eats every day. Did you put a little mayo on there. Pay your bill, al. A first look at the full house spinoff and what the tanner clan is up to now. Lets go out to matt. All right, carson. Were going to sit down and talk to Ricky Gervais about his return to the Golden Globes. Why he says the offer was irresistible, but, first, these messages. Ghtful, purely natural, purely fancy feast. New delicious entr\es, crafted to the last detail. Flaked tuna, whitemeat chicken, never any byproducts or fillers. Purely natural tastes purely fancy feast. 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Pepperidge farms released through new flavors of milano people couldnt find them. The new flavors are banana chocolate, mocha and salted caramel. Thumbs up on salted caramel, love it. They are all good. Mocha is good. Im going to try salted caramel. Im not big on banana. Banana chocolate. If you like banana you might like it. Yeah. They are good. Yum, yum. Now for a look at one of the coolest new inventions from the Consumer Electronics show. The creators of wowee have created the dog, meet c. H. I. P. , canine hip intelligent pet. He has beacon sensors making him completely aware of the surroundings so he can navigate around obstacles on his own, unless its a fire hydrant probably where hell want to studio. Theres c. H. I. P. On our red carpet. Hes cute. Let me start here. C. H. I. P. , come. Look alternate. Came right to me. Okay. Thats enough. Okay. C. H. I. P. , dance. Do something, c. H. I. P. And hand gestures that hell know. Wrangler, get him wrangler not impressed. Wrangler is like whats he doing now . Hes dancing still. C. H. I. P. , sit. Oh, look at that. And you dont need to give c. H. I. P. Treats. Go peepee. Oh, there you go. Oh, no. Do downward dog. Theres c. H. I. P. , everybody. That will be a hot toy right there. Wrangler could not care less. Hes like whatev. Got a lot of things in pop carson, have at it. Lets do it. Beyonce is back in a big way. Its announced she will perform at super bowl halftime show with coldplay. The singer is featured on the new album head full of dreams last appearing at the super bowl in 2013. Theres more. Last night was the season two premiere of lip sync battle and the first dual was between Channing Tatum and his wife jenna who performed a striptease, a riff on her husbands performance from magic mike and channing took the stage in a long blond wig and tight clothing and began performing beyonces run the world girls and the audience went nuts and then a special guest joined him on stage. Have a look. There you go. Thats how you do it. Oh, my gosh. Amazing. Get out. Did they know she was coming . No way. Channing did. Jenna looked surprised though. Jenna is like i lost. That battle is over. Next up fuller house netflix spinoff, highly anticipated and they have released the first pictures of the cast on the set. See the whole cast together minus the olsen systems. Sisters. D. J. Tanner and sister stephanie and best friend kimmy gibler with the tanners moving back into the childhood home with tanners daughter and d. J. s three sons. It will be released on february 26th. Finally on thursday, billy joel and jimmy fallon on the tonight show singing beast of burden much to the audience delight. Billy joel must have thought that went pretty well because he then invited jimmy to join him on stage at one of his monthly concerts at Madison Square garden. Lets just start it up jimmy fallon living the dream or what . Hes a rock star, too. Won a peoples choice award early in the week and with bill joel at msg. He does a good mix, too. A great mix. There it is, that is your pop start. C. H. I. P. , were done. Milano, i love you. Carson, thank you. Al, lets get a check of the weather. All right. Its been fairly quiet as far as lakeeffect snow. The lakeeffect snow machine has been shut down. Why . Much warmer than average temperatures, unseasonably winds and no snow. Cleveland this time of year youd be seeing 22 inches, 42 in buffalo and almost 50 in syracuse and look what weve gotten so far, almost zip. Cleveland less than an inch and a half and 12 in erie. Cleveland and buffalo are off to their least snowiest starts, but the good news is were going to see some of that lakeeffect right now ice concentration on lake erie 1 which means the lake is wide open which means we can see more snow. Thats whats going on around the country. Heres whats happfall through most of the weekend. We have rain showers tracking through now, although some snow fell to the north, so there are some partially covered roads there. We also have areas of dense fog. Visibilities are below 2 miles over most of the viewing area this morning. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will keep that fog and rain in the area this morning with some snow showing up later today and tonight. Right now, temperatures are holding in the 30s across the state and we keep the rain in our part of the and thats your latest weather. Savannah. All right. Matt, lets go back out to you. I know you sat down with Ricky Gervais. I did. Its his fourth time hosting the Golden Globes. If weve learned anything from the previous three times, its that you never know whats going most normal people, they do something wrong and then they apologize for it. Right. You have issued an apology almost a week in advance getting up there at the podium. Because i cant be bothered to apologize after. Just because youre offended doesnt mean youre right. I dont care. I dont care. Do you not care . I can hardly said sorry. One my favorite drinks is i like a drink as much as the next guy. Unless the next man is mel gibson. I didnt make anything up. Everyone knew about it. It wasnt new information i was offering, you know. It wasnt privileged. It was it was, you know, the elephant in the room. I think you do have to address things, but im never trying to undermine the moral fabric of america. Im i would rather people laughed than gasped. If they gasp two heterosexual actors prepare tending to be gay so the complete opposite of some i did the secretary one and there was outrage and i did the third one because people were saying youll never be invited back so i just did that that i would be. Irresistible, nbc say what you can say what you want, thats irresistible. Thats the dealbreaker for me and then theres other things. Am i too busy . But they dont think you can say anything you want, do they. They say it but they dont know what that means. Right. I think ill be fine. I get that in writing. Weve done this a lot of times before the Golden Globes. I know youre not going to tell me any of the Golden Globes. No. Which i wouldnt ask you to. Tell meet raunchiest ones that didnt make the cut. I cant. Its a morning show. I cant air it so go ahead. I just want to get the room to laugh. I promise you, i promise you. Guys, will we make the deal. We make the deal. This will never hit youtube. That guy is overspent on his mortgage. Promise. Swear on your life. Listen, go ahead. Im not your dancing monkey. Youve already get me signature awkwardly on the couch with you. The body language. Known each other for years. You dont trust me enough to tell me a raunchy joke. Not with three cameras, no. What do you think, im an idiot . Im going to mention a name and just with your eyes tell me if that person might come up in the monologue, okay. Donald trump. He might. He might come up in the monologue horin one of the intros. What part of just with your eyes did you not get. Just with your eyes. [ bleep ]. Oh, youll say that but you wont tell me a raunchy joke. Donald trump. Thats amazing. I want to play poker with you. Caitlyn jenner. One thing that cant be bought, a golden globe, officially. Feeds me, nbc and the hollywood front best with good humor. Right. But i cant i dont want i dont want this nauseating back slapping arent we all great. Yeah, we know were all great. Its entertainment. Its fairy land. Its tv. This isnt real. Were not doing anything. Were not saving lives. Were signature on a couch awkwardly, right, with lots of people. With our toes this close to each other. Weve been here for four hours and this is condensed down to seven minutes. Last question. Complete this sentence for me. Im Ricky Gervais, ive hosted the Golden Globes four times and im certain that not everyone will like it. How about that this will be my last time . Well, it probably will. Theres no reason to do it or not do it. In the time is right and, you know, it feels like fun. I hope you do it again because otherwise im going to its a nice couch. Thank you. Nice couch. Hey, come here. Give me a hug. Come on. Good luck. Thanks. Thats great. Love him. Thats so good. Well, that is him. The minute he walks in the room. Your mike cut off for a second. Didnt hear what you said. I said hes up. Few people that makes me laugh the second he walks into the room. That was great. He is amazing. I love his laugh. I know. Matt, did he tell you the dirty joke you wanted . Yes, he did. Yes, he did. Ill save it for when you guys get out here. That was hilarious. By the way, theres no way he could have said it on the air. You can catch the Golden Globes sunday right here on nbc beginning with the red carpet special. Were going to host that, and well have a full wrapup of the winners, the wardrobes and the after parties monday morning right here on today. Savannah. All right, matt. Were signing off with you. Just ahead, new year,we havent seen him a lot in eastern iowa campaigning. But thats about to change. The republican whos leading the stops in the area over the next few days. Ted cruzs bus tour will be in decorah today and waukon, strawberry point, oelwein, new hampton and waverly tomorrow. On the democratic side senator Bernie Sanders kicks off his 4day iowa tour this morning in cedar rapids. Now, lets go to eileen with a look at weather. Fog and rain this morning with rain and snow this afternoon. Temperatures will begin to fall this afternoon and keep going through sunday morning. A wind chills on sunday will be 15 to 25. Highs will be only in the low to mid teens through wednesday. Well be back in 30 minutes, be sure to check kwwl dot com for the latest news youre watching k wwl, weve 8 30 now. Its a friday morning. December 8, 2016. Pretty nice day out here on our plaza. Got a great crowd out here. People here and happy to have them along here. Its been a Beautiful Run here, absolutely. Still coming up this morning, our resident experts who are spending the month checking every single aspect of your life. New twists on a few of our favorite things already for 2016. What is that . Wow. What is going on there. Snuggie with spirit all right. Well, together we make football finalists, well find out who is going to get the trip of a lifetime to super bowl 50. Such great stories. Cant wait to find out what happens there. First, lets get a check of the weather. Lets get a look at your weekend outlook. Heres what were shaping up as. Were expecting to see temperatures, temperatures from last year, 2015. Record above average. You average it out, 2015 was the second hottest on record according to Climate Central and the National Weather service. Just amazing stuff. As far as your weekend outlook here we go. For saturday wet weather and an icy mix in northern new england. Snow back through the ohio river vale and some snow in sections of california. Sunday, sunday, sunday, were look at windy conditions around the great lakes with lakeeffect snow. England and western twothirds of the country, fair, but, boy, is it going to be bonechilling from the plains, midwest and on into the midMississippi River vale. Fall. And continue to fall through most of the weekend. We have rain showers some snow fell to the north, so there are some partially covered roads there. We also have areas of dense fog. Visibilities are below 2 miles over most of the stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will keep that fog and rain in the area this morning with some snow showing up later today and and weve got a big game coming up on sunday, and it is going to be a cold one. Thats right. Oh, man, the Seattle Seahawks are heading into minnesota. Minnesotas last outdoor home game at tcf bank stadium. Of 15 below. Coldest game ever for the seahawks to play in. Man, thats going to be a rough one. Its wild card sunday, seahawks and vikings starting at 12 00 right here on nbc. Be there. Carson. All right. Now to our special series start today. All month long our experts are helping you achieve new years resolution s big and small. They are here now in our original room answering your questions from facebook. Jill, youre here and you have exciting news for one viewer. Come on out. I really do. Something that weve done for the first time and were really going to help someone get into a calm zone. Earlier this week we focus on cleansing the mind and asked people to tweet us a photo of their hectic life for a chance to win each. Steals deals. Thats one facial kit, a robe very regal. Wanted to steal, it candle that turns into body oil, nablous, hair care set, a lipset and new towel set. So lets do it. You ready to crown a winner. I am ready to krount winner. All right. Here we go. Jill, and the winner is heidi. The caption jill, if you can hear me, could i use some serenity, and i think you can relate. You have three children on your head and, of course, a lamp. Well, congratulations and youll hop back on the Facebook Page and take more of peoples questions and if youve got any of those questions, keep them coming for jill, jean or joy. They are here and working their tails off over here. Joy, you already. Getting lots of questions. Great questions, about everything. Jeerngs lots of financial questions. A lot of credit questions. Interesting. Coming up next, going for gold. Three lucky fans compete for a Golden Ticket to the Golden Globes. Well get to that and have some you got people working incredibly long hours. Median Family Income today 4,000 less than it was in 1999. The bottom line of this economy is that it is rigged. What this campaign is about is to demand that we create an economy that works for all of us rather than a handful of billionaires. If you work 40 hours a week in america, you should not live in poverty. Are all right. Were back at 8 37. Weve got a Golden Ticket to the Golden Globes to give away this morning. We sifted through countless entries and found three viewers who are selfprofessed mega fans of the globes. Lets meet your contestants, everybody. Alison wilson lives in brooklyn and originally from little rock, arkansas, grew up watching the globes, and your family is there with bick hopes that one day you would win one yourself. Next up is don alowon from south carolina, showed us his love for everything golden with a spray painted outfit and an award. Good to have you, don. Lastly weve got hika from san diego and when shes not globes bash shes teaching our brave navy s. E. A. L. S how to pack their parachute. What are they playing for in the winner will be whisked out of the studio and flown to l. A. Courtesy of discover los angeles and they will be pampered at the beverly hills, shopping spree at the Beverly Center and walk the official Golden Globes red carpet and then join the official viewing party. Pretty fancy. For the other two weve got an amazing basket of dvds, all the hot films right here. No one is walking away emptyhanded. Lets get to our questions. I should mention, you buzz to answer. If the person who answers incorrectly, the other two have to buzz in, right. Okay. To answer. If you know. Okay. Question one. Which actress holds the record for the most individual Golden Globes won . That was alison. Meryl streep. That is correct. That is correct. Point on the board for miss allyson. What venue has been home to the Golden Globes and go ahead. The beverly hills. That is correct. Golden globes since 1961, Beverly Hilton. 11. Wow, question three, which actor holds the globe record for the most nominations allyson. Jack lemon. That is incorrect. Someone else want to buzz in. Want to heart rest of the question. Okay. Question three, which actor holds the globe record for the most nominations in one year, the other two . Jamie fox. That is correct. Okay. 111, all tied up. Which Media Company leads in golden globe nominations this year, which Media Company leads the nominations this year . Hbo. That is incorrect. Other two. Netflix. That is correct. Boom. All right. Question five, which global pop star is nominated for the first performance lady gaga. Geez, you guys are good. Getting nervous. In 2008 the Golden Globes yes, don. Had a strike. Thats right. Was in 2008. 2008, yeah. Wow, okay. Question seven, name the youngest winner ever allyson, ricky schroeder. Youre good. Youngest winner ever. He was 9. These guys are like were like what. Question eight. Which film picked up the most nominations for the upcoming hika. I think allyson has it. Carol. Carol is correct. Good job there. Which actor holds the record for the most individual Golden Globes won . Thats allyson. That is meryl streep. Thats incorrect. Oh, no. Most individual. Jack lemon. No, no. You want to buzz in. Most individual Golden Globes won, which actor. A shot at it the. If not, well move on. Jack nicholson. That is correct. Oh, my gosh. Were keeping it going with a question. Question ten, which film has all five major categories allyson. It is one flew over the cuckoo nest. Get out of town. And with that there is your winner. How did you know that . Ive been practicing. Yes. Allyson, you are the winner. Brooklyn on the way to los angeles. Well see you on the red carpet. Im impressed with all of you. You excited. Thank you. That is awesome. Guys, you do get the basket and we have a lovely parting gift for you. Youre so excited. Bring it here for a hug. Watch the Golden Globes live next, weve got fashion, fun and food on the way. And well get to all that coming up. Congratulations to allyson. Enjoy the Golden Globes. But first, this is today on nbc. Thank you. Thanks for coming. All right. Were back at 8 44. Time to discuss the stuff we love. New trends on products that youll definitely want to try out in 2016. Lifestyle editor at gilt. Com joins us this morning. Good morning. Happy new year. Happy new year, my dear. Lets start with fashion things we love. Yes. So faux fur, savannah, has long been a big trend for humans, but look at our Little Friends down here. Oh, my goodness. Now thats a big trend for the fourlegged set, so here we have little madge and her brother roger. Adorable. Modeling faux fur vests from Restoration Hardware and dont theres also faux fur pet pedestals and pet throws. I would like to sleep hon these. They look lovely. Is that right at 39. Now on to now we have two items. Heres some faux fur for the humans. Weve got next level ear muffs called music muffs that actually play music so they keep you warm when you rock out all win the earth long. You like them, janell. And she turns around, move over, purse, all about the backpack. Backpacks back in. For 2016 so its sport and handsfree and these are from amy kestenberg, so beautiful, great metallic camo that you can find in every color and style. Happy new year. Now look what weve got here for the superfans, a snuggie with spirit. Looking good, kate. You a steelers fan . Yes. You are now. So for this weekend, find these at the northwest, they are 24. 95 and rumor has it if youre warm you can cheer a yeah. Like youve got your sleeves. Basically a snuggie bearable blanket with your team. Nfl uniform. Every team that you love. Okay great. We move over here, got some great items north home. Animals are a huge trend for this season for the home and so we have this great shop from boston and they have amazing animal accessories, check out these umbrellas for bunny and black labs to these beautiful trays that you can hang them on the wall. Oh, yeah. Use them as art or a regular tray. Two Little Monkey candles. It is the year of the monkey. Oh, is it. Yeah, starting at the Chinese New Year so that brings us. Shall we get a shot Little Monkey candles. Arent they cute and dripless which is so great. Last, weve got some food to bring in the new year and first up is radish which is a cooking club for kids. Thats cute. They want to bring Families Together and at every month they will send you a cooking kit with great stepbystep instructions that kids and parents can cook together. Send the food or just the little send the food. They send a box with great recipes and also activities and even tools starting at just 20 a month. Very cute. So cute. And now on to food. Savannah, talk to me. Grab the new year by the tail. The Maine Lobster tail, that is. Okay. Here we have seafood kits from lukes lobster. Now you may know them for their incredible lobster rolls, and, i mean, they send kits straight to your doors. Looks like a thing of beauty, absolutely incredible, but thats not all. They can also send great lobster tails, panseared in ten minutes, so easy. Beautiful crab claws and also awardwinning lobster bisque and new england clam chowder. If you try that. Shall i give it a little try. So, so divine. They send it, and its fish. They obviously figured out how to do that. Straight to your door, you heat it up. Some of it comes ready to go. From lukeslobster. Com. Kits start at 40. And last but not least, this is Virginia Country ham and sweet potato biscuits. I mean, the best thing you will ever put in your mouth. Dont mind if i do, sings you since you mentioned it. They come ready to serve, add a little bit of butter from edward virginias smoke house hams and they have been making these hams, dry cured and Hickory Smoked for over 90 years, so its a family recipe. And just so delish and they have new for 2016 what the chefs are calling lamb ham which is dried cured ham that you can serve and find this all at edwardsvirginiaham. Com. Always outdone yourself again. Love when you bring food. Me, too. Coming up, our together we make football finalists and find out who is headed to super bowl someone just got a free 6 subway sandwich. Just text offers to 782929 to sign up for weekly text offers. And youll get a free 6inch sub when you buy a 30oz. Drink just for signing up. All right. We are back joining willie on his plaza with some of his together we make football friends and weve been hearing their remark habel stories all season long hand well find out finally who gets to go to super bowl 50. Willie, good morning. Good morning, guys. I think we all agree as we watched these five extraordinary finalists who is going to be impossible to choose because that moment has come. Lets take a look back at their my mom would always call payton her tough girl, payton calls her the tough one. If she didnt have this league, i dont know if they would be as close as they are now. Football just became a way to talk to them. Play like bucky, better play like bucky. Those boys are out there playing for my son. I get nervous, anxious. Its okay. Sssh. Youre an absolutely incredible young girl. Hey, you guys are big. Dude. Youre a finalist to go to super bowl 50. Youre also going to new york and be on the today show. Im speechless. Youre brett favre. Hes crying. Oh, wow. And our finalists have traveled from all across the country to join us on the plaza lets start right now to me with the dynamic duo of mal kaya kai and somewhat rise and then the undisputed biggest brett favre fanned, Marvin Anderson and coach brad lutz from virginia. Good luck, guys, then the very lovely and talented Payton Watson and her dad tracy and her brothers sean and parker from katy, texas. Next is Felix Augusto and his son felix jr. From riverside, new jersey. Yeah. And all the way down at the end there, seattle superfans duke along with jeff and jen hancock. So we, as i mentioned, have what amounts to an impossible decision here. Thats true. How could you be pick one over the rest of these stories, but alas we have to. Ive got the magic ticket from they have sent to us for super bowl 50. And im going to talk to you for one second here. We probably are not allowed to do this. Give it to all of them. This is nerveracking. This is a decision from all of us on the today show and at the nfl. Im probably not authorized to do it. Just do it. Just do it. I refuse to make a choice. Bowl thats awesome. Everything. Sometimes you have to call an audible at the line of scrimmage and thats what we did. Heres the key. Weve got to get your team the texans to the super bowl. You think j. J. Watt and those guys are going to do it. Yes only two of the teams will be there. Weve got a lot of teams represented. Who thinks their team is going to the super bowl . We were so moved and so you for all the good work you do and all of your communities. You are extraordinary people, and were honored along with the nfl to send you to the super bowl in san franciscos bay area. We fell in love with all of you. We cant think of anybody more deserving. We hope you have the time of your lives. Thank you. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Have fun at the game congratulations, everybody. New this morning what could be investors. The markets in china got off to a wild start today one day triggered a shutdown of trading. In the us stocks opened higher about 25 minutes ago. Investors felt good about the news this morning that hiring was very strong in december. Now, lets go to eileen with a look at weather. Fog and rain this morning with rain and snow this afternoon. Temperatures will begin to fall this afternoon and keep going through sunday morning. A few snow showers tonight and tomorrow wont add up to highs will be only in the low to mid teens through wednesday. Well be back in 30 minutes, be sure to check kwwl dot com for the youre watching k wwl, weve [ horn honks ] okay, this is u. S. Cellular, and this is verizon. Now, same phones, but with u. S. Cellular you get 6 gigs of 4g data for only 40 per month 20 less than verizon. And u. S. Cellulars network was built to work in places like out here, here, and here. So, with all of that, why would you ever go to verizon . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for just 40 a month plus get 300 back. This morning on todays take Leonardo Dicaprio sits down with us to talk about the most challenging role of his career and all that oscar talk. Then, from the celebrities to the gervais jabs, your ticket to this weekends Golden Globes. And oscar winner j. J. Simmons sits down with its showing off his animated side coming up now. Announcer from nbc news, this is todays take with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Its january the 8th, 2016. Great crowd on our plaza. Very excited to give some of our viewers who are spending an incredible football stories a trip to super bowl 50. So deserving. So glad they all get to go. Tamron off on her way to the globes. None of us. Producers choice. Lets back up a second. Tamron already left to go to the Golden Globes. Shes preparing to do an interview, shes being shes very busy. Very good. We all we all procrastinate. We go last move. Roker move, build in some extra time around the event. Extra time is one thing. Can have a nice dinner tonight. Good for her. Good for her. Massage. Good for her. Well see her out there tomorrow. The Golden Globes are this sunday, as you know, and they will be hosted by the hilarious cunning Ricky Gervais. Unbelievable. Cannot wait for in. Matt actually sat down with ricky this morning and got a hint of what we might expect on sunday night. Im going to mention a name and just with your eyes tell me if that person might come up in the monologue. Okay. Okay. Donald trump. He might. He might come up in the monologue or might come up just with your eyes. Did you not get . Just with your eyes. [ bleep ]. Oh, youll say that, but you wont tell me a raunchy joke. Donald trump. Thats amazing. I want to play poker with you. Kranltin jenner. I love his laugh. So good. Fourth time that ricky gets to do it, and i dont think he can do any wrong at this point. I think the more abrasive he is, the better. Thats what people want. What youre expecting. What they want. Bring on the insults. Tina and amy excellent in their way and ricky great in a totally different way. Cannot wait. Lets get everybody geared up and ready for sunday night. Best Motion Picture drama. The nominees are mad max, furry road, room, spotlight i went with spotlight. A lot of good movies. I went with reven ha nt. And i did, too. Tossup in. Best music or picture comedy. Health nominees, the big short, joy, the martian, spy and trainwreck. Joy and the martian nom comedies or a us michael. The martian was funny in certain parts. They jerry rigged the martian to get in that category. I went with the big short. I went with the martian. I did. And matt damon also will win. Well get to that. In that category. Best tv series and drama. Nominees the game of thrones, mr. Rote ro bott, outlander, marcos. I picked narcos. I think game of thrones is long overdo. I went with mah dose. Look at narcos. Casual, mozart in the jungle, orange is the new black,. Thats a tough category. After the nominations were out. Its so funny, its amazing. I need to start watching that. I just got in the on silicon valley. Silicon valley is my pick, your pick, too. I went mozart in the jungle. I think thats really funny and globes like the new folks. And never sleep on veep julia louisdreyfus. Leo di caprio expected to win for the revenant and maybe on his way to the first oscar. Tv side, huge year for streaming shows, netflix with eight streaming nominations beating hbo. The Golden Globe Awards and preshow begins at 7 00 p. M. Eastern and 4 00 pacific on nbc and then the awards get going at 8 00 eastern. Ready. All set. Who are you wearing . I honestly have no idea. Have to look at the label. You dont note brand of it. I dont know. You guys well, you pay attention. Ill text you when i get home. J. Crew thing going. Where did you buy it. Mens warehouse, right in there. Youll like the way you look. I guarantee it. Set him up for that one. Where are you going . I had had a choice between two great dresses, either a black number or purple number. But they are both a number. Both a number. A number to call. Okay. You guys ready. Powerball fever. Oh, yeah. Again. Now its at a whopping record 700 million. It could get to a billion. It could possibly get to 1 billion. By the time we send our crew over to pennsylvania to bite tickets and well explain why. a billion dollars. You could win. 1 in 292. 2 million, but as we it to win it. How could you maybe improve the odds, okay, technically you cant really improve the odds, but heres a little powerball strategy. Apparently, according to the powerball website. 70 of the past winners have used quick picks, so technically though again, doesnt improve your odds, but rather than like pick your numbers and, you know, just go with the quick picks, lottonumbers. Com says the most frequently drawn numbers, are you might want to get a pencil for this, 26, 41, 22 and 16, and there have been more jackpot winning powerball tickets sold in pennsylvania than in any other state. Interesting. 16 Winning Tickets have been sold in pennsylvania over the last 13 years, so those are pretty good odds. Lets go over to pennsylvania. If you do win and take the cash option after a 25 federal tax you would get an estimated if its at 700 million that it is the drawing is saturday at 10 59 p. M. , and i will not be here at work on monday. No, absolutely not. I always take that quick pick. When i took the kids to the Cigarette Store to buy our lottery cities and get some fivehour energy, stuff like that for the kids. Colt 45. The woman in front of us had handwritten out her numbers and had about 100 of them. 28, 16. Oh, my gosh. No. 41. Agh. Is that your 10 bill. Oh, my gosh. But i waited. Got to be in it to win it. I want to teach the kids a valuable lesson about patience. Patience, there you go. And picking that up colt 45. Exactly. Another lesson you might want to learn. Hold on to your bowling ball. Check this out. A guy in paris trying to throw a strike at a Bowling Alley on january 2nd. Here we go. Here we go. Oh, wow. Instead of the gutter he got heres my take. He must be using a childrens weight. Its like a twopounder. Hand that ceiling must be made out of well, you know the french are known for many things. Bowling is not one of them. Come on, really. Thats awesome. Thats a fun watch. Like that. Just announced, we knew coldplay was doing the super bowl, super bowl 50 halftime on february the 7th. Great. Guess who they just added to the performance. Would . The queen bee. Beans en. Headlined the halftime show in tweencht when the lights went out and coldly play and beansy. Are they going to bring jds uniphase we beyonce, and jayz and coldplay. They are all pal. In the hamptons together, all happening. Speaking of beyonce, last night on lip synch battle, the show we love. Channing tatum performed his version of beyonces runt oh, my gosh. When runs the world go the girls, girls thats amazing. A little scary. Thats a little disturbing. And thats the finish. His opponent was his wife jenna who you see there was completely stunned to see beansy. And did a whole magic mike thing like a strip thing, but i think that blew them all away. Ive got to say, they have ramped that show up for season two now. Incredible. Its unbelievable. They bring on the stars. Bring that on nbc, you know. Come on. Bring it on. Whats going on in the weather, hall . Well, weve got a which go change as far as temperatures are concerned. Here in the east nice and mild today. Temperatures milder than they have been and a big frigid air denver is only going to be 22 degrees, 21 degrees below norm a. Cleveland 41. Thats 8 degrees above normal. Saturday that warm air stays along the headquarter. 51 in new york and 57 raleigh. Plattsburgh 40. Look what happens sunchltd new york city may set a record, same in washington, d. C. Richmond, buffalo as well, and bitterly cold out in the plains and then monday, boom, we drop by almost a half in new york and albany and down into savannah. Its going to be 53 and nashville 41 and green bay a fall through most of the weekend. We have rain showers tracking through now, although some snow fell to the north, so there are some partially covered roads there. We also have areas of dense fog. Visibilities are below 2 miles over most of the viewing area this morning. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will keep that fog and rain in the area this up later today and tonight. Right now, temperatures are holding in the 30s across the state and we keep the rain in our part of the and that is your latest weather. Al, thank you very much, sir. Yesterday our good buddy wwe star john cena had shoulder surgery and we were wishing him well at the end of the show and i implored him to get butter betty, get butter betty, and john tweeted us thank you im make sure to get bert and butter. You guys are the best. That was good. We love john. Feel better, buddy. Up next, more the countdown to the Golden Globes, my interview with Leonardo Dicaprio and the director about their stunning film the reven ha nt and to folks out there whose diabetic nerve pain. Shoots and burns its way into your day, to everyone with this pain that makes ordinary tasks extraordinarily painful, i hear you. Make sure your doctor hears you too i hear you because i was there when my dad suffered with diabetic nerve pain. 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Yeah, i keep saying thats oscar winning director alejandro inreceiptu who last year wouldnt Academy Award for directing bird man and now hes in the conversation again for revenant. We know why leonardo picked the movie because of you and why did you think leo was the right man to play hugh glass . I thought and now as a fact i know that there was not a better choice. I think hes an amazing baht body of work, a testimony of how great and accurate it is. Without somebody as leo so brave and encouraging, i needed a partner, i didnt need just a great actor. Was there any point, leo, where youre wearing 100 pounds of fur standing in a frozen river shaking with the flu. Of course. Where you looked at him and i think everyone said that on a daily basis, the entire cast. At least. Pretty much. Im an admiration of his ambition, the fact that every single day he strove for this authenticity and he was relentless about getting it. Everyone felt this sort of shared energy that we were doing something incredibly unique. A lot of things have been talked and expressed how difficult the production was, but at the end, you know, the audience, the public should not care about that, honestly. Thats our job. Thats our diet, and its a privilege. That bear zone is breathtaking. Its terrifying and feels unlike any other scene ive seen in a film before. The way you shot it and the way you put it together, im there and not as though my face is pressed against the glass but like im under the bear. How did you achieve that without giving away too many of your how did you pull that off . What i wanted was not to exploit violence and to blow peoples mind by brutal gore. No, its not gore at all. I disagree with that. Its real. Its just what it is. Dicaprio and inarritu are all up for Golden Globes this weekend but the big question is whether this is the year Leonardo Dicaprio finally wins his oscar. These things are something that you know is ultimately beyond your control. Its in other peoples hands now. What would it mean to you though to win best actor . I think anyone appreciates those types of things for sure, of course, you know, to be recognized by your peers, but i know its a cliche, but the truth is its ultimately not why you do these films. You do them because, you know, if you love the art form and cinema to me is the great modern art form, you can look back one day and say i i did that piece of work, and i i gave was there, and and if you have enough of those later hon in life, youre a happy artist. Meanwhile, this guys got a shelf full of trophies from last year alone. Do you expect to get some more attention this year at the oscars . I share what leo says correctly, you know. I think that recognition and appreciation of the peers i think is always a great thing that in a way, you know, you celebrate because its a celebration. World you live with a lot of people but actually thats a consequence. Its not a meaning. I think we gave it all, and we are very proud and happy about if. We really did. No argument there. We kind of really did. Leo is having flashback. I agree. We really went for it. Yes, they did. The revenant is in theaters today, a truly breathake film. A fajita feast for the family thats when we come back. You forgot the milk thats lactaid. Right. 100 real milk, just without the lactose. Sosono discomfort . Exactly. Try some. Mmm, it is real milk. Lactaid. 100 real milk. No discomfort. Whatcha doin . Just prepping for my boss party in a couple weeks. What are those . Crest whitestrips. They whiten way better than paste. Crest 3d white whitestrips. Whiten 25 times better than the leading whitening toothpaste. Id say. Someones making quite an impression. Crest 3d white whitestrips. 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Heavy rain along the new england coast. Californiafall. And continue to fall through most of the weekend. We have rain showers tracking through now, although some snow fell to the north, so there are some partially covered roads there. We also have areas of dense fog. Visibilities are below 2 miles over most of the viewing area this morning. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will keep that fog and rain in the area this morning with some snow showing up later today and and that is your latest weather. Well, this morning on today food dinner under 15 bucks. Who doesnt love fajitas. I love fajitas, yummy. People can actually make it themselves and kids can make them and great to eat with your hands. Lets get going. Well start back here. Heres our food grid, yellow rice, chopped up tomatoes and carrots, chicken, peppers, onions. Oh, its all on the website. Well start off with the rice. Cook the rice according to the directions, all right, on the box. You can make the rice from scratch but this is so much easier and take frozen peas and carrots and pretty economical and yet very healthy for you pause they freeze and flash freeze them right at the peak of freshness and then you take your can of beans and youll put it on your grill for your burner for a little bit and then you take your you can do fresh tomatoes and some peppers, but weve already prepped them. They are a little cheaper when they are canned and, again, very fresh. Youre going to heat those up. Meantime, take your chicken breast and come up here, want to slice it up, all right. What youre basically going to do is make long slices, want to make the pieces so that you get the chicken strips. Boneless chicken breasts and cut whats the marinade, al . Adobo and some oregano. Love it. And just mix that in, mix that together. Now youll heat a pan, get it to a fairly highere the with some kind of canola oil or Something Like that, once you get that all mixed in. Put your chicken strips in and youll cook them down and once those cook you brown them on each side for a f f minutes and youll get rid of those. Put them in a pan, a plate right there. Now youll take your peppers, i like a bunch of colors, original, red, green, yellow and slide that and some sliced red onions in there for color. Youll grill those off. Meantime, while thats cooking. I like corn tortilla, a little more fiber in them and grill them up. Grilled persons and onions and got your fajitas and your chicken and tortillas and black got yourself a nice sgleel one of my five little meals of the week, al. And swap out whatever protein you want, or you can do it without without the protein and make it a vegetarian meal. As you said, you always get the kids involved, they help out, get to make their own meal. There you have t. Golden globes, the playoffs, youre ready. It looks beautifully served up like this. Very festive. To get this recipe head to today. Com food. 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Ood morning. Your voice is just amazing, and seeing you in animation, but once again you play a villean. Whats the deal . Youre such a nice guy. I do. Well, you know, thats part of the funun of doing what i do. Get to mix it up. Yeah. A little bit of everything. Bulls, yaks. Al roker and i have im going to call it starring roles in this film. Oh, please. Yeah. Yeah. Youve gone on and on and h they killed it. We may not be in the move, but were stars of the film. What do you like about doing the animated films . Al and i have never done it about. You go in the booth and let it the rip. You literally go to your eyes and go to that theater of the mind place that some other voiceover guys call it in l. A. And do what you do and you dont have to shave. You dont have to put on a nice thing or anything. Nice. As we mentioned, you obviously famous for your roles, but also for your voice in this movie. Does it ever get weird when you go to the drive through and you ever use a different voice to order, make an order . Yeah, i should try different dialect every time. Different accent. Go with the yak. Go with kai, the villain. We mentioned your oscar this us thinking about those things, the Golden Globes and the oscars. Now a yearr on, what does that mean to you, to your life, to your career . Mean, we loved your acceptance speech, so many people did, ralking about your pants, everybody heeded thaha and called in thehe middle of the oscars. Many people did. What did that night and that award mean to you . Well, its really led professionally its just led to more opoprtunities. Yeah. Theres more scripts coming my way, including animated, and and honestly when they asked me to do kung fu panda three, the one question i asked was is it all the same team that made the first two movies because i was such a big fan of those and its the same cast and directors and producers and writers and i wanted to jump on board. The kidssre huge fans so thth have been waiting for this movie for quite a while. Seebecking of opportunities, you had an amazing career high just this week on jimmy fallolo show you. If you say goodbye to me tonight here would still be music left and right what was that like, how did you get roped into that . They asked me if i wanand to take off a aer my little segment and said, no, i want to stick around and watch billy joel so during the break i went over to introduce myself and i sa, you know, im a big fan, and my knucklehead friends and i used to have a couple of beers and break out into longest time and he goes, all right, here, lets go. Amazing. And, you know, we had no intention of that bei onair, but doing a little dooop with billy joel and his band and that fallon guy, pretty cool. Beforee let you go, tomorrow is the big y, j. K. Simmons birthday. Come on out, jerry. Most wonderful day. Look at that. A beautiful cake. The little panda on there. Ready. Thank you. Good wish. Thank you, yes. Made it. Excellent. Happybirthday, congngtulations on the movie. Happy birthday. Look forward to see the Golden Globes, a presenter. Passing out trophies. Yes. See you sunday night. Coming up, some remarkable astronauts faced with lifeanddeath decisions in space sharing with us their stories of survival, and they are incredible. Stay around. Hey, remember the game when i set the rookie passing record . I mean, you only mentioned what, 50 times. How about when i had three events in one night . Well, ive been working on my new superhero move all day were non stop, weve gotta have our extra protein. 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And south koreas first and only astronaut made history in 2008 when she boarded a spacecraft bound for the snashio and some that have is a dramatic reenactment and the return to earth wasnt so smooth. The capsule veered off course and land 260 miles away in kazakhstan where nomadic shepherds thought they were watching the series with my 1yearold fascinated with anything space and he had so many questions starting off with all the challenges you face. Scott, talk to us aboutut that mission where youre there trying to fix the solar panels dangling out 90 feet off of this arm. It was really an extraordinary day. It was my best day on thee job ever. It was a day where we were incredibly foucsed on doing something that was completely unscripted. We were faced with a daunting challenge of repairing a live solar panel that had never been anticipated prior to flight and true to nasa form they took something thats almost impossible and made it look easy. People worked around thehelock for 72 hours on the ground in houston to develop a plan such that dan and i and the rest our crew could go affect this really dramatic repair. In many ways, i dont want to overstate t. Had you scotts life in your hands. I was really nervous. Well, normally i was the robotics operator. We train dozens and dozens of times and rehears these operations because its very dangerous to have somebody on the end of the arm and we had never rehearsed that. Got the procedure that morning and had to look through it and understand it well enough to give scott the assurance that were going to get him to the right place and keep him safe. Look at that photo, incredible. Hand your sonny is amaze, your mission out to the International Space station, all was flawless and coming home is where the problem happened. On reentry we had a problem during the separation because we had even inside we have fire kind of like and. It was smoking. The capsule was smokingn reentry. Thats got to be scary. They want you to redo and turn on the power. I want to save a lot of other people. What its like to see the shepards. Their eyes are big and theyre looking at us. We thought he was up there. The stories are amazing. You did such a great job. You can watch it with your kids. Its sucuc an education. You can catch the science channels secret space escape next sunday night. Thank you for being here. This is today ononbc. The bottom line of this economy is that it is rigged. What this campaign is about is to demand that we create an economy that works for all of us rather than a handful of billionaires. If you work 40 hours a week in america, you should not live in poverty. Im Bernie Sanders, and i approve this message. Before we head things off with cathy and hoda last night for hodas awesome book, we wanted to share with you cathy lee gave such a beautiful speech about hoda. Shes become a, i was at the point in my life you guys where i thought i dont have time for the im very old and very tited. And all the sudden god brings thth person into my life i didnt think my heart had room for and you know what, it expanded my heart. I learned so much from you hoda. I have l lrned resilieiee from you. Ive learned what friendship really is even though i have great friends. Youre a new kind of friend. So great. She alwlws gives the best speeches, doesnt she. Shes the best. Also, we were all there and having a little fun but take a whats going on area. Weve had a couple reports of accidents. Use caution as you head out this morning. Heres the storm track 7 Live Weather Network cameras across eastern iowa. The fog is a little more dense in some areassthan other. We a ae in here as we go throughout the morning and afternoon hours, transitioning to snow later this afternoon. 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