Kotb while savannah is in and enjoys some time off. Hello to you. Awkward. Wasnt that so awkward. Actually took the crown off one contestants head and put it on the other. Ive got to tell you was watching miss colombia wave and blow kisses because she thought she won and then to heart news. Everybody was hurting after that. Well tell you much more about that coming up a little yeah. Start on a monday morning with our top story though. This is breaking news overnight. A woman now behind bars after police say she intentionally drove her vehicle on to a crowded sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip. She reportedly carried out the deadly rampage with a toddler in the back seat of the car. Nbcs Morgan Radford is live in las vegas with the latest. Morgan, good morning to us. What can you tell us. Reporter matt, good morning. All happened right here on this busy Las Vegas Strip with a 3yearold in the car. This morning one person has been killed and 36 others injured. That were on the sidewalk. Reporter overnight a chaotic scene on the Las Vegas Strip after police say a woman drove her car on to crowded sidewalks mowing down dozens of sgleem we have determined that this is an intentional act. Reporter Officials Say the black female driver in her 20s had a 3yearold child in the car when she suddenly jumped the curb and plowed into a crowd of pedestrians. One wins said people flew mike bowling pins as the car slammed into the crowd killing one person. 36 people were taken to the hospital with injuries and six overnight were downgraded from critical to stable condition. People running behind the car, chasing the car, and the they were not Police Officers chasing the car. Reporter according to witnesses the driver seemed to ignore people pounding on the windows and yelling at her when the car finally came to a stop on the street. Police say she then took off again jumping the curb at least two more times and slamming into people near the Planet Hollywood the driver did go from one location in the street and back on to the area where pedestrians were in front of the paris. Reporter witnesses say she left the crime scene driving to had a hotel just a few blocks away where police found the car with a smashed window and arrested her. Police said car is not registered in nevada and they believe the woman recently moved to the area. The information i got is she may have been here for a short period of time, but shes not from here. Shes a recent move here. Reporter that woman is in custody this morning, and police say that if this was intentional, they will treat this as a homicidal act. Matt, hoda . Morgan radford out on the Las Vegas Strip this morning. Morgan, thanks so much. We have more breaking news, this from afghanistan, where reportedly a suicide bomber has killed five people. Keir simmons is on ground there with more. Hi, keir . Reporter hi, hoda, just hearing this news. Motor bike attacked a joint u. S. Afghan patrol near baghram air base morning. Five soldiers are dead and six jrksd according to the district governor. The taliban says it is behind the attacks and it has claimed 19 soldiers have been killed. That does not appear to be correct. We have been able to reach a u. S. Army colener in afghanistan. He has told us we can confirm there has been a vehicleborne improvised device explosive attack. At this time the incident is under investigation, and plainly they will be trying to figure out whether any americans have been killed, hoda, and matt, just hearing reuters and the Associated Press saying three foreigners have been killed in this attack. It hasnt been confirmed by nbc news. Matt, hoda . All right, keir, thank you so much. Want to turn to politics now, and donald trump is firing back at Hillary Clinton after she focused her attacks on him at saturdays democratic president ial debate. Moment but first nbcs Hallie Jackson has the latest from the campaign trail. Hallie, good morning to you. Reporter hi there, matt, good morning. Even though overnight donald trump kept up his twitter attacks against republican rivals the biggest target lately isnt in his own party. Its Hillary Clinton as she takes aim as the frontrunner. Hillary clinton dismissing her democratic rivals for a competitor not even on the stage. Donald trump. Mr. Trump. Dry. Reporter donald trump now hitting back. Hillarys not strong. Hillarys weak, frankly. Her policies were a disaster for the world. Reporter their war of words intensifying after clinton zeroed in on trumps muslim comments at saturday nights debate. He is becoming isis best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruited more radical jihadists. Reporter so far no proof thats the case. Its just another hillary lie. Reporter and on air. She lies like craze beeverything, whether its trips where she was being gunned down in a helicopter, or an airplane. Shes a lyrics and Everybody Knows that. Reporter republicans are also taking aim at another clinton comment after she referenced the United NationsSecurity Council resolution in the fight against terror. We now finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after isis. She is secretary happy talk. You listen to hill hill, and would you think that everything is going great in the country and no ones got a reason to be concerned unless you dont have paid family leave. Reporter Chris Christie in New Hampshire trails trump there are as both trump and clinton dominate their respective races, a potential matchup spoofd on saturday night live. Republicans . Who is their frontrunner . Donald trump. Oh, my god, were going to be president reporter trump, meanwhile, is doubling down on his defense of russian president Vladimir Putin who called trump a bright and talented leader and hes had political opponents and journalists killed now, trump insisting theres no proof of any of that. Hallie jackson, thank you very much. Donald trump joins us by phone now. Mr. Trump, good morning. Good talking to you. Good morning. Lets talk about this criticism. You fired right back at Hillary Clinton after the debate on saturday night. She said that your words on this ban of muslims entering the country have become isis best recruiting tool, that they are actually showing people vitds of your comment. You said theres no proof. Theres no tape, thus she is a liar and lies a lot. Dont you open yourself up to the very same criticism when it comes to your claims that thousands of muslims celebrate on 9 11. There is no tape. There is no proof, so are you guilty by your same standard . Well, first of all, there is that happen, matt, as you know. It was written about in the Washington Post and numerous other places. Ive been totally exonerated from that. Ive had headlines exonerating me and saying trump was right. I can send you a breitbart stories and can send you other stories, but as far as hillary is concerned whether its whitewater or the email scandal, she always lies, and now to be saying that were just right in the perfect spot with respect to isis, i dont think thats a lie. I really dont think she knows what shes doing. Shes been a mess no matter where shes been. Shes created a mess. You look at her record as secretary of state. We can go back and forth on the excuse me, matt. Im saying we can go back and forth on whether there is video to prove that muslims celebrate on 9 11. Well, can you go back and forth. Theres many, many witnesses. There have been many stories that have come out that they celebrated, and by the way, matt, just to put it another the world when the World Trade Center was falling down and they also happened to celebrate in parts of new york and certainly in parts of new jersey. Let me move on. When you and i were at that town hall we have plenty of information on matt. When you and i were at that town hall meeting a couple months ago i asked you about some of your controversial comments, donald, and i went back to your own book the art of the deal where you wrote about some of the things that you had said in the past it play to peoples fantasies and i call it truthful hyperbole. Its an innocent form of exaggeration and a very effective form of promotion. So is Hillary Clinton lying or taking a page out of Donald Trumps playbook . Matt, youre talking about people dying. Youre talking aboutmakering up tapes and videos which dont exist. Her spokesperson last night made the statement, and i think she said she was sorry. She said the videos do not exist. Her spokesperson said this. So what am i going to tell you . I will demand an apology from hillary, okay. You can be the messenger. I will demand an apology from hillary. She should apologize. She lies about emails. She lies about whitewater. She lies about everything. She will be a disaster as president of the United States. I will deliver that mess average i promise you. Okay. Let me ask you one other quick question. Is there some kind of a deal, donald, between you and ted cruz . If i notice as Iowa Caucuses approach youve been tough on just about every one of the republican candidates save ted cruz, and he has really held his fire when it comes to you. Have you guys made some deal behind the scenes that you will not criticize each other . No, we havent, matt. We just get along. Frankly from the time i came out, i was right about so many things. I was right about illegal immigration, and he backed me on it. Before it was fashionable to back me. I was right about so many different elements and so many things. I was right about building the wall, and we will build a wall, coming in illegally. We want people to come in, but we want them to come in legally. He backed me on that, so he backed me on just about everything i said, and we get along well. Look, ultimately its probably going to come down to me against him. I have a very, very big lead right now. Right. You know i like to win and you know i win. Lets see what happens. Ultimately im sure a peaceful end because at some point were going to have to go after each other. A strange year where politics and pop culture mix and ill ask you to stick around and react to the story willie is about to bring us. Okay, i will. Willie geist is here with a strange evening at Miss Universe pageant. Sure, was, wasnt it. If you missed, pull up a seat, the moment everybody was talking about this morning. The mistake that northed miss colombia to turn over her crown to miss philippines on Live Television after she was accidently announced as the Miss Universe 2015 is its the crowning achievement the world waits for at the Miss Universe pageant. Colombia but this is the unexpected moment from last night that everyone will remember. I have to apologize. Miss universe 2015 is philippines. Miss colombia, forced to forfeit her crown to miss philippines on Live Television after host steve harvey mistakenly named colombia the winner. I will take responsibility for this. It was my mistake. Harvey took to twitter soon after calling it a terribly honest human mistake but quickly deleted the post after misspelling both philippines and colombia and later replaced it with another apology saying i feel terrible. Told nbc news overnight unfortunately a Live Telecast means that human error can come into play. Online the response to the mixup was swift. Harvey instantly coming under fire as moment went viral. As for the new winner and runner up, both beauty queens, remained congenial backstage though a by the daeds by the incident. Everything happens for a reason so im happy. Im happy for all what i did. We love you, paulina. Its a very nontraditional crowning moment, isnt it . Yeah, yeah. Very, very 2015. Strange night. Aside from the memes you saw, a lot of people giving steve harvey credit for immediately taking responsibility for his mistake. We know steve. Hes a great guy and feels terrible. Thats what i was thinking. And nice to see miss colombia handling it with class. We asked donald trump to stick around, donald, as most people know, you used to own the Miss Universe pageant, and you tweeted this a couple moments ago. Night at the Miss Universe pageant. I sold it six month ago for a record price this. Would never have happened. Whats your reaction to this . Well, it was something i guess that can happen. Steve harvey is a great guy. I like the way he got out and did it. It certainly was a terrible error, terrible for the young woman from colombia, but, you know, things happen. Its Live Television, and, you know, the new owners are tremendous people, and frankly i feel, you know, i owned it for 15 years, and sold it and they gave me so much. I said come on, we have to make this. Everyone said you have to do something. If you still owned it and you were sitting there as this happened, what would donald trump have done . And i know they will be calling me today. Already got a call scheduled what would i do . Ill tell you what i think i would do. Very cool. Make them a cowinner because what happened to the girl from colombia, to give it to her for a couple minutes and take it country. Young woman also from colombia, the entire country, i mean, they took like a vacation for about a week, the whole country was wild, so you can imagine what happened. I would say this. I would recommend that they engineer and have a beautiful ceremony which is good for the brand and Miss Universe and do a cowinner, and i think Something Like that could work, maybe. But it was a tough evening, and you know what . Steve harvey is a terrific guy and things like this do happen. One of knows morning. Donald trump on politics and pageants on a monday morning. Donald, thank you very much. Covered the whole gamut. We d. Thanks, donald. Good talking to you. Does not happen every day. All right. Now to the ongoing drama surrounding the former pharmaceutical executive who became as known as the most hated man in america when he raised the price of a lifesaving drug 5,000 percent. This morning hes speaking out as he faced jail time following his dramatic fall from grace. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk joins us here with the late. Hey, steph. Good morning, hoda. Charges against him baseless, but there is no escaping the fallout he stepped down as head of his Pharmaceutical Company and faced backlash. Jokes at his expense and his multiple social media accounts hacked. This morning Martin Shkreli is speak out about his arrest, telling the wall street journal its the result of his now infamous drug price increase and over the top persona. Trying to find anything we could to stop him was is atitude of the government, he says, adding beingled person up and then trying to find the merits to make up for it, i would have hoped the government wouldnt take that kind of approach. Even before his arrest, shkreli was accused by some of being an egomaniac. Now facing charges of lying to investors and stealing from his own company, hackers took over his twitter handle on sunday according to a shkreli spokesperson turning it into martin the god. Tweeting, anyone want free money, willing to donate charities before i go to prison. Most of the other tweets are too offensive to repeat. Reporter another hacker broke into his youtube account, same one he used to broadcast live hours of web cam sessions including one the day following his aest. When i look at drugs and diseases, what i really want to do is to be able to make an impact on the disease, positive impact. Reporter the comedians on saturday night live securered him. Congratulations on reinventing yourself, martin. You know, not many villains have a whole second evil career. Reporter shkreli is out on a 5 million bond and says he will fight charges against him in federal court. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to as many as 20 years in prison. Already he has stepped down as ceo of Turing Pharmaceuticals and two labs are announcing they sponsored a trial by two leukemia drugs sponsored by one of his company. Even a donation to a homeless they didnt want his money. In a statement the charges come at at time when he faces backlash for drug price and said he did nothing illegal and the s. E. C. Is confused by his complicated accounting. Weird long videos he does tells you allotted about him, doesnt it . Not been a good week on social media, no. Steph, thank you very much. Appreciate it. It has not felt a lot like christmas for a lot of people thanks to some unseasonably high temperatures. They remind us more of spring than santa, and it could be one of the warmest christmas weeks ever. Als off this week and dylan is in. Whats happening . Its going to get even warmer. I mean, mid70s for christmas in the northeast. Looking for temperatures to be about 1 degrees above average by the time we get into Christmas Eve. A little cooler over the weekend but were turning the corner now. Look at some of our record highs for Christmas Eve. 70s and were forecast closer to 80 degrees. Savannah, tallahassee. We should get into the mid70s in washington, d. C. Raleigh 78 degrees. That would crush the old record. Even in the northeast, the record high in boston is 61 set back in 1996. Were forecasting a high of about 67 degrees. New york city 72. Then on Christmas Day its going to cool down a bit, but were still looking to be close to records. Boston will fall just shy of it. New york city will fall just shy of it and still looking for temperatures to run in the 67s as we go into the upcoming holiday. Thats a look at the weather one, two, three, four, can i have a little more . Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, i love you sail the ship chop the tree skip the rope look at me everything star wars for everyone. Kohls. And thats your latest forecast. All right, dylan. Thanks. Coming up, the boy skoutd leader who says his troop helped save his life while they encountered a bear on their hike. With christmas a days away, a hearing loss, but, first, this is today on nbc. Announcer one candidate tough enough to take on the bully. 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Officials say Austin Roberts collapsed during a championship match at a tournament. He was taken to the hospital. Where he later died. But theres still no word what happened to him. Roberts was ranked sixth in class 3a at 220 pounds. He placed eighth the senior also played on the offensive and defensive lines for 7 30 now on a monday morning. 21st day of december, 2015. Beautiful Christmas Tree in the background. Lovely crowd out on the plaza on a chilly morning here in the northeast, but, you know what . Dylan says this week is going to warm up. Were going to see some record highs by the time christmas rolls around. Go outside in a little while. Here are the stories making news right now. Police in las vegas say a woman who repeatedly plowed into overnight intentionally swerved her vehicle into the crowd. At least one person was hurt and dozens hurt. Police arrested a woman who had a threeyearold inside of her vehicle at the time of the crash. Donald trump on this show this morning demanding an apology on Hillary Clinton after she focused his attacks on him during saturdays democratic debate. Clinton zeroed in on her opponents controversial rival after saying he has become isis best recruiter. Trump with a counterattack calls clinton a liar. And an awkward, very awkward moment, on live tv at the Miss Universe pageant when host steve harvey mistakenly crowns the wrong contestant. Harvey admitting he made a mistake before naming miss philippines as the rightful winner and miss colombia had to give the crown back. Werent you a judge one year is. A couple years ago i was a judge. And . People take it very seriously. The audience people from around the world come in to put in a lot of time, and it is intimidating so if i were steve harvey i would fainted on that stage. A place to hide no, question. Absolutely. Coming up, a hidden holiday hazard, jeff rossen will tell us about a new study, sounding offer on noisy toys and how they can put your kids at risk for hearing loss. Well get to that. Lets begin this half hour with a massive manhunt now under way for the socalled affluenza teen. Ethan couch first grabbed headlines two years ago when he avoided jail time for killing four people in a drunk driving accident. His defense team famously saying he was too rich to know right from wrong, but now couch has vanished. Nbcs Kerry Sanders has the latest on the search. Hi, kerry, good morning. Reporter well, good morning, matt. This morning the u. S. Marshalls Fugitive Task force is searching for ethan could you have, and now his mother has been added to the missing persons list. Its believed that ethan couch someone, and it may be his mother. This morning federal, state and local authorities are on a worldwide manhunt for affluenza teen ethan couch and his mother tonya. U. S. Marshals putting out wanted poster offering 5,000 for information that leads to his arrest and the Tarrant CountyDistrict Attorney officially naming tonya couch as a missing person. Federal agents suspect two are together. Every fugitive gets help, whether thats through his mother or somebody else. Reporter in ent 201316yearold ethan couch was driving truck when he slammed no a car killing four people and injuring nine. We need semblances. Its bad. We flipped and, oh, god. Reporter part of couchs defense was that he didnt know right from wrong because he came from an affluent family, the socalled affluenza defense. Instead of prison, the judge sentenced him to ten years probation. Disappeared this video of what appears to be ethan at a beer popping party showed up on twitter and other partygoers told the Tarrant CountyDistrict Attorney ethan was there which possibly violates his probation, although it does not show couch drinking. Familys money wont help. The world. Youre going to slip up. Reporter District Attorney here in Tarrant County says they are getting dozens of leads, not only phone tips but also tips on social media and they say even if ethan couch has fled the country they will find him. Matt, hoda . A lot of reaction to this story. Kerry, thank you very much. Now to a vicious bear attack that left a boy scout leader injured. Tamron is here with this story, amazing. This is frightening. The black bear mauled a leader as he and the scouts hiked through the wilderness. This came one day after the bear season closed after being extended for the first time we have a gentleman in the cave with the bear. He has been injured by the bear. Reporter a terrifying bear attack on a scout leader in the new jersey wilderness. He is bleeding from his neck, his arm and his head. Reporter Authorities Say the leader was hiking with three young scouts on sunday when he was attacked inside of a cave off of a trail near the Splitrock Reservoir in northern new jersey. During the hike the scoutmaster located a cave which he then entered not realizing that the cave was being used as a den for a sleeping bear. Reporter 50yearold christopher says the black bear pulled him into the caving biting him on the shoulders and leg. He managed to fight bear off using a rock hammer. One of the three scouts was able to call for scout and the bleeding scout leader was airlifted to an area hospital. He is expected to survive. New jerseys hunting season for bears ended on saturday with killed. Authorities say its the scouts preparedness that prevented a tragedy. Thanks to the efforts and the presence of mind of the scouts that they were able to put their training into use to save the life of their scoutmaster. In fact, some of the Training Police say the boys used. They tried to build a fire to attract attention and even used food to try to lure the bear out of cave. The scout leader says he was in the cave with the bear for more than an hour before it left allowing him to finally escape. Terrifying. Good to know those kids had peace of mind to do that. And keep their composure, scout moto be prepared and be ready to act. They did it. Thanks, tamron. And now dylan has a check of the weather. Todays weather is wrought to you by kay jewellers, the number one Jewelry Store in america. Every kiss begins with kay. No changes out west. Moisture is streaming in off the pacific, and its bringing yet another storm to the pacific northwest. Were looking at heavy rain from washington along the coast of oregon with heavy rain down near eureka, california, but winds will be extremely gusty. Right in through here, you can see the brown area across most of oregon and even southern washington state. We do have high Wind Warnings with the potential for gusts up to 65 miles per hour. Theres also a storm warning out along the water. We are looking the at potential of about 4 to 7 inches of rain, especially in northwestern california. We also will see a round of heavier rain, especially along the western edge of the sierra. In the sierra though, we could see as much as 3 feet of snow. This is all building up that mo and thats your late forecast. All right, dylan, thank you very much. Coming up, why parents shouldnt play games when it comes to teaching your kids how to lose gracefully. Mr. Lauer has a strong opinion on that one. And up next, a warning for parent. Hi, good morning. Im jeff rossen. Were all out buying toys for our kids this Holiday Season, and you know some of them are really noisy. Turns out its not just annoying. 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Reporter parent across the country are saying hallelujah, i knew it and every year we go to the store and buy toys and you know they are noisy, and it drives us crazy, but turns out they are not just annoying. They are so noisy this could actually be harming your childs this morning were putting these toys to the test. Squeaking, rattling, singing. This week kids excited to get their hands on toys like these. But they make a lot of noise. What you cant hear damage to your childs hearing. Its called noiseindiced hearing loss, affecting an estimated 5 million kids. A recent study naming loud toys as a cause. The cdc says it develops over a long period of time, listening to anything over 85 decibels of sound. Dr. Sandy levy is a speech and hearing special sglist just to give you an idea of how loud sounds are, whispering is 30 decibels and conversation is 60 decibels. Reporter so talking right now as we are, yeah, its around 60, 59 and im a loud talker. Lets try this rattle. Hitting 90 there. Safe listening levels. Reporter believe it or not, thats as loud as an electric drill, and this wheel toy. That gotp u to about 19 decibels. Reporter about as loud as a hair dryer. I think i speak for a lot of parents who have a lot of these toys as home. I know my kids play with them every single day and they play just fine. Thats the thing with noiseinduced hearing loss, its gradual and the parent and child will not necessarily notice. Reporter but most surprising test this, toy horn. Over 106 decibels with that toy. Reporter way over. Way over. Reporter just to give you an idea how loud that is, what if i told you that some toys are just as loud as an ambulance screeching by with a sigh cen on. Yeah, i didnt believe it either so we got ourselves an ambulance and have the audio meter. Lets hit the siren. Look at that. Just under 100. You can kill that. Just under 100. Even louder than this. The Toy Industry Association telling nbc news they consulted with an audiologist when developing a sound limit for toys and that no toys intended for children have been found to be dangerous based on their sound level. This christmas think safe listening and limit the amount of exposure to loud toys. Reporter look, were all still going to buy these toys, no way to get around that, but in are ways to protect them from hearing loss or children, that is. Experts say heres one example, for example. I have that toy out here, the one we play on the air. You can actually take a piece of tape and ive done it here. Take a piece of tape and put it right over the speaker and you knock down the decibels. That way the child can play with the toy and still here it. The other thing can you do if you want to go to the store and check it out when you buy it. There are these free apps that you can just type in sound meter from the toy store, all free and and the builtin excuse to not pie them for your kids. Were all going to take out our ear pieces, all decided we done. Probably have hearing loss in that ear. From wearing Something Like this for 30 years no, question, and hoda is not a loud talker either, not at all. Jeff, thank you. All right. A chip off the old block, duane the rock johnson shares his first picture of his new baby right after this. Up next, carson talks the stars, about star wars and its empiresides success at the weekend box office. After this why let someone else have all the fun . The sometimes haphazard, never boring fun. The why cant it smell like this all the time fun. The learning the virtue of sharing fun. Why let someone else have all the fun . Thats no fun. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. The challenges facing the country never stop. So neither does the u. S. Army. We train. Adapt. And get smarter. 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Theraflu expxessmax combines. Maximum strength medicines available without a prescription. To fight your worst cold and flu symptoms. So you can feel better fast and get back to the job at hand. New theraflu expressmax. The power to feel better. Tm to the used car buyer whos worried about getting taken for a ride. Dont worry. The only rides youll get taken on at carmax are the ones you take yourself. But just in case that absolutely 100 percent perfect choice. Turns out to be. We give you five days to change your mind. Sorry. Dave, im sorry to interrupt. I gotta take a sick day tomorrow. Dads dont take sick days, dads take nyquil severe the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep with a cold, medicine. Ow so you think santa will like these. Red and green m ms . I dont know i never met the guy whaaaaa he does exist they do exist uhm. Santa . We are going to go to carson now in the original room. Boy, did the force awaken. Did you see it this weekend . We saw it in the week. You already saw it. No, i didnt see it. Im the only one. You and matt. Im with you. This thing is huge. Million, thats just monster. Biggest debut, tripled the numbers in december for the hobbit, previous number one, internationally, 517 million good enough for second global, behind Jurassic World and twitter all abuzz over the last three days. Some of the key words, spoil, best, love, j. J. Abrams, han solo and darth vader, not even in the movie. House full of people for the holidays. No time to seat movie, but we will soon. Carson, what happened to sisters . Good question. Ill get back to you. Thats why we love you. Carson, thanks. Coming up, well meet at woman who says she is not only believing in the afterlife, she says she can talk to what are people going to think of our new buttermilk Crispy Chicken . Lets find out. Its probably the best sandwich ive ever had. Its super crispy but also really juicy. So would you guys come back . Yes. 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Police say socup shot lopez after an argument early last month. Socups arraignment is set for 830 this morning. Hes being held on a 500 thousand dollar bond. Sanders over 2 million contributions have been made to the only campaign that rejects a corrupt Campaign Finance system. You cant level the Playing Field with wall street banks and billionaires by taking their money. By taking their money. Its 8 00 on today. Coming up, the holiday home stretch. Is there still time to buy and send your Christmas Gifts in time for the big day . Well have all the answers for lastminute shoppers. Rolling the dice. Should you let your kids beat you at board games . Why some experts argue that teaching your children to lose could help them win in the long run. Fey and amy poehler and comedy dream team. Tina fey and amy poehler returned to the snl stage in a big way. In 2008 i got a heck of a lot closer to the white house than this gal did. And they did it all with a little help from some famous friends. Weve got the highlights today, monday, december 21st, 2015. All i want for christmas is to be on the today show. Im from denver. Go broncos celebrating our sweet 16s at the today show. Ality way from abbington, virginia. All the way from north carolina. We made it tooled today show its 91st day of december, 2015. We have a huge holiday crowd out on the plaza this morning. We need the decibel machine. Yeah, we do. It would be well over 90. Wheres jeff rossen when we see you . Can we see a couple of new orleans girls in the house. Whenever i see new orleans, my heart skips a beat. Hi, kids. If were getting personal, we have Ohio University representative here who had a tough loss this weekend to Appalachian State but congratulations to them. All right, kids. The clock is ticking down to christmas, and if you havent been very diligent yet, and i know dylan and i still have some presents to buy, Liliana Vazquez is here just in the time for st. Nick to deliver presents before christmas. Okay. You done . Im done. All done. Done . No, i have a few more. All right. Well get our top stories. Tamron hall is at news desk. Tamron. Good morning, everyone. There was deadly chaos on the Las Vegas Strip overnight when police say a woman repeatedly and i tensionally drove her car on to crowded sidewalks injuring dozens of people and killing at least one person. She was arrested a few blocks away with a 3yearold in that car. The child was not hurt. Police are investigating the case as a homicide but dont believe it was an act of terrorism. A huge and embarrassing mistake played out on live tv during sunday nights Miss Universe pageant from las vegas. Miss colombia was beaming with the crown on her head that had just been placed on her head when host steve harvey realized that the winner was actually miss philippines. Ill take full responsibility for this. It was my mistake. It was on the card. Donald trump owned the Miss Universe pageant until selling it six months ago. This morning matt asked him what he would do about the mistake. Cowinner. It would very cool. Make them a cowinner because what happeneded to the girl from colombia is devastating, give it to her for a couple of minutes and then take it away. Trump added it was a tough night and defended steve harvey saying zes having that can happen. Today the former friend and neighbor of the San Bernardino shooters is due in court for a bail hearing. Enrique marquez is expecteded to enter his plea to three charges related to the attack that killed 14 people, including conspiracy to commit crimes of terrorism. Authorities say he purchased the two assault rifles used by syed farook and tashfeen malik. Over the weekend family removed items from the couples apartment, including a baby crip and stroller. They did not speak to the media. Weeks after announcing his own brain cancer is gone jimmy carter is mourning the sudden death of his grandson. Carter broke the sad news at a he got a call late saturday night that his 28yearold grandson Jeremy Carter who lived near atlanta was not feeling well and decided to take a nap. When his mother checked on him, his heart had stopped beating, he was rushed to the hospital and could not be resuscitated. Rescuers searched through the night for dozens of people missing after a landslide in southern china. The disaster was captured on camera. A manmade pile of dirt and construction debris shifted and came rushing down a hillside and buried almost 30 build national an industrial park. Some of them collapse the. At least 13 people were hospitalized and nearly 1,000 people had to be evacuated from the neighborhood. Flight attendants deal with a lot of unique passengers, but this one might take the cake here. Not usually a take. Take a look. A passenger captured this moment when a cat escaped her carrier rolling around the gallie. The attendant tells the cheeky cat to stay put. Resorted to using the planes p. A. System to wake up the pet owes owner and come catch the feline. They say people own dogs, but cats own you. That cat owned that flight. Youre right. Cat didnt listen because its a cat. My cat does listen, a little bit. Kind of a doglike cat the are you the cat whisperer. Because they have their own name. What is your cats name . Mimi, be a abisinan. Christmas four days away and you may be feeling the crunch. Nbcs Kristen Dahlgren is here to ease your lastminute shopping and shipping concerns. Hey, kristen. Reporter good morning, guys. Down at post office here where the first wave of trucks are getting loaded to head out on the biggest delivery day of the year. The u. S. Postal service is shopping up 10. 5 over last year and if youre like me and still have a few people to check off your list, heres what you need to know. Its the most wonderful time the United StatesPostal Service. Today an estimated 30 million packages are headed for porches around the nation making it the biggest delivery day of the year for the usps, but thats just a small chunk of the estimated 15. 5 billion cards, letters and pacs packages the Postal Service expects to deliver this season. This week is one of the busiest for post offices and for stores. According to the National Retail federation as much as 40 of the seasons sales happen in the ten days before christmas with delivery deadlines inching closer, here are the biggest concerns from lastminute shoppers. Can you still ship packages in time for christmas . The answer, yes, but know your cutoff. The deadline for usps Priority Mail service is today. Their Priority Mail express service is wednesday. If you preferups or fedex you have until tomorrow to make their second day air deadline or wednesday for next day delivery next, can you shop online and get gifts delivered before christmas, it depends. Standard shipping alone wont do it. Keep an eye on emails from Stores Offering delivery by christmas deals. It also pays to go prime. Amazon prime members get free twoday shipping nationwide and free sameday delivery in certain metro areas, and finally is it worth swinging by a retail store . The answer, yes. This week brick and Mortar Stores are posting big sales. In some cases on their entire inventory. Retailers are also keeping their stores open longer. Kohls and Walmart Stores will be open 24 hours through wednesday and late on Christmas Eve, and toys r us is extended Holiday Hours until 2 00 a. M. For the next three days. So why so many deals in the holiday home stretch. Anywhere from 30 to 40 of what retailers spring in during the Holiday Season comes between december 15th and december 25th, so those few days leading up to important in terms of driving those lastminute sales and getting though procrastinators to finally buy something. Now, because its been so unseasonably warm, some of the biggest deals on winter wear it year, look out for that, but you probably will pay a premium for shipping to get it there on time. Now, matt, i know you said you were done. Hoda, do you need me to save a spot in line here . I said i was done on the air and i dont know why i said that because im not done. I felt guilty. Miss colombia. Save mow a spot, would you. Much. Coming up, hilarious video of a little girl with plenty of sass. Shes got a great rendition of the whip naenae dance with jolly old st. Nick. And adele says she saved a life and it was her own. Singer shares what she did to improve her health. 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The citi double cash card. The only card that lets you earn cash back twice on every purchase with 1 when you buy and 1 as you pay. With two ways to earn, it makes a lot of other cards seem one sided. 8 14, time for a special hoda kotb edition of trending this morning. Ready, gang . Yes we are. Kid, nieces and nephews, heres a question. When you play a game, board game kids, should you let them win . No. Sometimes i let them outrun me, like in the park, on your mark, get set, go, yeah, i dont think theres anything wrong with that. I have a ratio three wins to give them one massive loss. All right. Bring them down to earth a little. Yeah. I think you mix it up. I wont let me beat me running because they know they cant, like tictactoe, maybe you did win that one. Im in it to win it. Youll throw down. Ill throw down. When we were playing basketball or Something Like that, when he was old enough where i thought he might be able to beat me, i would crush him because i wanted to know when he finally did win, it was a really which go deal. So whats story . A story came up recently in the wall street journal, with kids over the age of 4 you should not led the them win. Oh, okay. Losing helps kids learn the importance of recovering after should not, carson, or me, crush them. Sorry, son. You dont want to block every other. You want them to think success is possible . Michael jordan said he would crush his sons when they played basketball. I grew up in a generation where not everybody got a trove, not everybody won and there was that conversation, hey, we lost, lets get them next time. All that is by the wayside if your kid is wing all the time. Again, carson, youre right. Final days before christmas and on twitter some of you have been venting your russtrations with amazon, not over the orders but with the packaging. Heres whats happening. People are getting small presents in big packages with lots of wrapping and all that kind of stuff, along with the small products that came with them so amazon had promise to cut amount of packaging it uses so weve reached out to them for comment but on twitter amazon said it would pass along the images to its shipping department. I had a big box, you know, when i walked in my building and said i cant carry that up, its too yes, you can, it was like light as a feather and a candle in the middle of a big, big box all packed. Whats worse, getting packaging with a little im or getting one of the kids toys that comes in the plastic things with all the twist ties holding them down at the bottom . Thats the worst. They make these toys christmas morning. I have like a tool belt on with hacksaws to open up a doll. That plastic that doesnt open. Have you to cut it. Just ask carson. Its the dance of the year, were talking about the whip naenae. One little girl gave it all she had during her dance with santa. Oh, lets see this. I think we know which one. All right. Look at her. Go, girl. You know what, shes in. Just getting warmed up. Shes youring it. Break it. Kids know that dance. Not a smile. She is like i am focused. Awesome. The good thing is that tape wont be played at her 16th birthday party. Or her wedding or anything else. Now to adeles lifesaving move and tina and amys big return to snl. Carson fwrks. First up, adele, the one thing she did to save her own life. She told a british newspaper she used to smoke up to 25 cigarettes a day and stopped in 2011 when she underwent vocal cord surgery and said if i carried on smoking i probably would have died from a smokingrelated illness and continued i absolutely love smoking but its not that [ bleep ] cool when im dying from a smokingled illness and my kid is like devastated. Adele has said shes noticeded a difference in her voice since she gave up cigarettes. Next is Duane Johnson about to celebrate his first christmas on a father. He instagrammed the photo of his they are both extremely grateful and his one wish is to be a better man today than he was yesterday. And finally tina and amys big return toes until. The dynamic duo helped the show get the second best rating in nearly two years. Earlier we showed the ladies stepping in as sarah palin and Hillary Clinton and another sketch that has a lot of people and putting their own spit on taylor swifts bad blood video showing off the dope squad featuring amy schumer. You know what, lets do a slow motion post apocalyptic walk. Okay. Who are we mad at . Looks like aimy had a little trouble getting the hang of it there and later snl capped off the episode with a christmas surprise. Nice. Musical guest bruce springsteen, matt lauers best friend to sing santa klaus is coming to town thats a good one for a monday morning. There you go, carson. Thanks so much. Dillians, chilly out there today. It is, but the forecast looks good for the holidays. Were going to see temperatures warm up nicely as we go into wednesday and thursday, too, but keep in mind, even though its going to be in the 70s it comes with some rain. Not going to be a real nice sunny day. Here ear the rain right now. Falling heavily across parts of ohio and southeastern indiana. All looking that the all to move eastward as we go into this afternoon and well see occasionally downpours across the southeast and then as we go clear the east coast. Thats a look at weather across the country. Window. All right. Dylan, thank you very much. Now our ongoing series do you believe . Were focusing on a question a lot of people want to know the answer to. Is there after ann life . Today National Correspondent craig melvin is here with a woman who says she can talk to the dead. Good morning, craig. Reporter hey, good morning to you, guys. Laura lynn jackson is a wife, a mother, a schoolteacher and, oh, by the way shoorkss a psychic medium. She says our loved ones have crossed over to what she calls the other side. How does she know . She says they talk to her all the time. Do you believe in the afterlife . I 100 believe in the reporter we visited Laura Lynn Jackson at her office on new yorks long island. She says that not everyone who calls on her there is among the living as a child you discovered had you this gift. How so . I was already absorbing peoples energy. Reporter realization that she had a gift came with loss. In an episode she details in the new book the light between us one day when she was 11 years old she felt an urgent need to see her grandfather i was seized by this absolute moment of sheer panic where i knew i needed to go and be with him that day. Reporter last time she would see him alive. He died three weeks later from an undiagnosed cancer and since then shes honed her abilities to connect with people who have died. How would you describe what you believe . What do you believe in the simplest of terms . I believe that we are all connected, both to each other here on earth and always to those we love on the other side and i believe that no one, no no one is alone. Reporter nancy larson had a reading by laura in an toast connect with her son kyle who was killed in a Traffic Accident killed in a skateboard riding a skateboard. They came up with actions and people she could not have the known about, just no way. Reporter sounds like this is also very much a coping mechanism. Yeah, it is, completely. Is it just a coping mechanism . I dont know, maybe well never know until the day that i pass myself and im able to see him. Reporter it was my turn to try. You need to like hold my hands or anything. No, no. Reporter laura isnt type of psychic who used tarot cards, no need for a crystal ball or ouija board. She says a screen appears in her mind like a wide screen television. On the left side she sees a time line of the person shes reading ones. Maternal grandmother coming through, right, re, very, very showering a lot of love and is so happy because your mom talks to her, she says. Its true, my mother talks to my late grandmother all the time. Laura also mentioned my niece jasmine. We lost her to cancer two years ago. Tell your mother once and for all, like our a maternal, youve got her. Its all good, like everybody is loved and protect the, its okay because your mother i feel direct her thoughts all the time, please tell me youre with her and i want to say shes with her. Shes with her. Reporter and then laura made a prediction for me and my family. Theres one boy for you. You have a boy. Can i say everything im getting because i feel like theres another child. Oh, do you . Yeah. Oh, thats news. About a year and a half window, okay, so you and your wife will revisit this or talk about this, its in the next year and a half that im steering. Reporter to be clear, first of all, my wife and i are not expecting right now, as for the connections to the afterlife push for Cancer Research since jasmines death and admittedly im a skeptical guy, really skeptical. A fair amount what have she revealed there could actually be found on the internet with some digging that. Being said, there are some things there that she could not have known. Guys . Yeah. Food for thought. Thats interesting. Believers, nonbelievers . I went to one once, and the person said something, one of my dads exact phrases after he passed away and i remembered there leaving there in tears, wow. What was the phrase . The phrase is everything in its place. Always used to make sure everything is in its place and i remember the feeling. I dont remember all the other things but i do remember the one. Some things that cant be explained. Yeah, youre right. All right, craig, thanks. For coming up all of us procrastinateors out there, me for lynns family, the big stress is paying four hundred dollars a month in medical and drug costs for aidan. For other families its higher deductibles, premiums and copays that keep adding up. Thats why weve got to crack down on price gouging, cap outofpocket costs, and fast track approval of less expensive generic drugs. Because weve got to get Health Care Costs under control for lynns family and for yours. Were back at 8 30 on this monday morning, 21st day of december, 2015. Once again spending some time with a huge crowd out on the plaza and tamron is pointing to me telling me something something important. They are getting married and no one knows. They are announcing it. And no one knows . Thats something we decided to keep between us. Well, it will just say our little secret, all right . Congratulations. By the way, did we just check something out here . Got lala anthony here collecting toys from the generous people out on the plaz avermaet part of our annual toy yeah. Is that right . Yeah. Lala is going to talk to us about that in a bit and great role that she has on television and the movie. She does. And also coming up the early bird may get the warm. May get your hands on lastminute gift ideas. Liliana vazquez has your back. And we got you covered in the kitchen, too. Liliana is cooking for a crowd bringing italian flair to your holiday fare and we love her cooking. We certainly do. Miss dylan, how about a check of the weather. Taking a check of the holiday forecast and its going to be a pretty nice one if you like the warmth. Looking for temperatures to warm into the mid70s. By the time we get into Christmas Eve. Wednesday a little wet. Got a chance of stronger storms down across the gulf coast and also temperatures will get into the 60s. Western half of the country dealing with mountain snow and rain up and down the west coast. Christmas eve. Temperatures should break some records. 66 for a high in boston and 70s does come with rain. Windy back through the great lakes and Christmas Day itself. Snow in the rockies and also rain in the southeast. Some storms but they shouldnt be as strong. The northeast will cool down a bit but still looking at highs 15 to 20 degrees above average topping out in the 50s and 60s and thats your latest forecast. Can we say hello again right now to lala anthony. Small screen. Shes in spike lees new movie. Good to see you. Happy holidays. So happy to be here this morning. You know you need glasses when you look down and says regular but i saw burglar. Im having such a great time on that movie. Spike lee convince the to you do the role in the garden. Convinced me to do this role, chiraq in the neaters now, talking about Gang Violence and senseless killings in the world and happy to be a part of something so violence. Spent a lot of time together, former vijays, la la and i. So happy for you. Thank you. How are you spending the holidays . Im going down atlanta. New york knicks are playing the you going to tour that book . I am. The love playbook and power playbook out as well right now. Merry christmas. Merry christmas, everybody. Say hi at home. All right. Lets get a check or go upstairs to hoda. Thank you, kids. Time now for todays hasslefree holiday. This morning we have lastminute gift ideas for all of you lastminute shoppers. I know youre scrambling for the deal but guess who is here. Liliana vazquez is here with items you can buy today and this is very important, liliana. You can buy them today and they can be delivered by christmas time. By christmas and its important you select either twoday shipping or overnight shipping from all of these stores. A little chaching but will get here. Sriracha but cant just get them the sriracha. Gian with this cook book. Thats a great combo. This is a phone sanitizer, close it, the device will sanitize it. Hi, michael. This is a fun science gift, a geo kit. You break them up and see what the rocks are inside. Science and fun. Comes with the rocks and all of the instructions on what to do. Okay. Bubble calendar. This is a gift for the entire family. Is this the bubble wrappy kind thing . Genius. Oh, no. Today is the 21st so you can pop it as you go through the days and kids can mark their birth days, super fun and super interactive for the whole family. All day long. Now lets talk about the headphone. If the teenager on your list is horde to buy. How adorable is she. Fines, from skinnydiplondon. Com and an adorable on a necklace, too late to customize something for personalization but available in anthropology right new. How is the sound on this . Its very good. I can barely hear you. For me i always wear a pony tail holder around my wrist. How cool is this. Its a bracelet that holds the pony tail. Rose gold, yellow gold or white gold. Slide it on right there. And hook the pony tail around and looks like this . Stretchy. For the beauty buff, a set of ten nail polishes from sephora. Com packaged in the wine bottles. Hoda. What . This is you. Kind of a big deal. Thats hoda the kotb. Adorable name plates, kind of quirky and whimsical for the where do you order these . At hesaidshesaid. Com. What are these . This has a clip and we put a fish lens on that, how is, that kind of cool and kind of distorted take a look. Love it. Set of three for only 34. Do any lens that you like. Three different lenses. 3d goodler, from thinkgeek. Com. Made the fun 3d designs. Into three dimension. How does it work. Turn it on. It heats up and then you use this just like you would a pen and all of of this comes out and it does comes with these already loaded with it so you dont have to buy extra sets. Want to remind everybody everything on this table you can order and it make it by Christmas Eve. Polaroid picture, prints wirelessly from any smartphone. Who is in this pic . We have these adorable kids, from nordstrom. Com. Vw popup tent. Come on out. The who are you guys . There she is. Yay thank you so much. Liliana. There are also ten lastminute bonus gifts on today. Com. Coming up, liliana is here putting her italian twist on a this is today on nbc. And we are back now with today food and a feast fit for a holiday celebration. Liliana is a restauranteur and author and has a brand new book out called lydias mastering the art of italian cuisine and a great recipe for the holidays. Nice to see you. Same to you, matt. Is this a dish you would make all year long or the kind of dish you save for the cold weather . Is this comfort food . I think you can make it all year long but it is so and it doesnt take much. Look, only a few ingredients. Only a few ingredients. Pork obviously. Pork, garlic, pearce and onions and then conduction, reduction of balsamic which i reduce you and all you do is put it on the stove and let it reduce and it becomes nice. Syrupy almost. Nice and syrupy. While were on the subject of balsamic vinegar. People go out and spend a lot of money because theres all kinds of range in prices. What do you have to do is. Traditional balsamic which is in a small bottle and has a little bulb and that you dont cook, thats the pure stuff and it is expensive. You dont alter, it drizzle whereas the commercial balsamic that you find in all different bottles, you can cook and reduce it. Thats what you buy for this recipe. A pan with hot oil. Nice pork chops, a little bit more, and were going to do two techniques and in my book its a here we are searing the pork chops, and you know whenare. You see how nice and carmelized. You flip them over and odd this point i have the the garlic here which is kind of a roasted, and just you raise your temperature very high. Mmhmm. Here we have a little bit of vinegar, a little bit of honey. Kind of a little bit of carmelization on the meat. Lets mix it. I like the other flavors youre putting in here. Going with onions and some pearce as well. Onions and some pears. I put the onions on the side so that they get some of the this already smells good. Doesnt it. But you have the vegetables and fruit and everything all together. You ready for this . Absolutely. How long is that going to simmer . You give it a good boil and put it in a preheated oven, 425 degrees for about half an hour. Thats the second part of the cooking. Youve done the bracing and seared the pork chops and then it goes into the oven. Then were going to roast it in the often, and this is what youre going to turn up like, you know. You see you want you mix it periodically whiles in the oven. Which piece. I like the crusty one. Nice and crusty. Weve got people downstairs tasting. How is in going . Great. I was teaching hoda the art of eating the fat off the bone. Are they liking it down there in. Look as carson . Did they communicate with you . They are talking to me. What do you think of the pears, carson . Great, matt. This time of the year its delicious. I dont eat pork enough but this is going to make us want to eat it a lot more often. You know. This is one of those things, preparations that could be every day or festive. Perfect. It looks great. Ill put a little balsamic for you too. Im going to join you in eating this in a second, but let me joan you now in thank lidia. Happy holidays. To get these recipes head to today. Com food. Up first, old dominion with a Live Performance of their but first, praised as one of americas best mayors who governed as a pragmatist. Bernie sanders passed more amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member. Cracked the gridlock with john mccain to strengthen veterans healthcare. Bernie sanders. A consistent, principled, and effective leader. Building a future to believe in. Sirius xm named old dominion as their breakthrough artist of the year. Theres lead singer matthew ramsey, multiinstrumentalist trevor ressen and bassist jeff sprung and lead guitarist brad. Ts is your very first naonal tevision debut. Howo you feel . You feel all right . Good. Its been remarkable year for you. 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Coming up, another hit from old dominion. And giada will have some lobster for us. Yes yes. Is that a lobster . Licking my fingers. Have lastminute gift. More ideas. So last minute. Never enough ideas. Lots to come on a monday morning, but first a check of your local news and the forecast. This morning on todays take, no crowning achievement. The Miss Universe mistake heard around the world. And Giada De Laurentiis shows us how to good for a crowd and guaranteed gifts to get there before christmas. All that and more coming up nicks. In nbc news, this is todays take with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Its monday morning, its december 21st, 2015. Guys, its christmas week and it feels like it out on the plaza. Great holiday crowd. People visiting from all over the country and the world stopping by our plaza. Im willie along with tamron and off. And the christmas song. What am i snaerg. Did you see the end of saturday night live last night, check it out. Check it out. Klaus is coming santa claus is coming to town bruce springsteen, the vest on. He does. Hes got the whole thing going sglon they jam and that night. The best. Holiday season. Mccartney wanders on nowhere with a yingle bell. Amy, tina. Walks around with that. Happened to be nearby. Great show, too. The writing was so on point. With the two hillaries. Meet your second wife was an instant classic. That was terrifying. Classic may icic maybe for a different reason last night. Did you see the Miss Universe pageant, hear about the Miss Universe pageant . We love steve harvey, good man, funny man, talented man, mistakenly announced the wrong winner of the Miss Universe pageant. But before we play it. Just sim their thought in your head and people tweeted and said he named the wrong person so i thought, how bad could it be, wrong person, maybe you stumbled and then i clicked on the video, a you have to watch. We love you, steve haar if i. Heres how it played. Miss universe 2015 is colombia [ applause ] i have to apologize. The first runner up is colombia. Philippines. Sghoempt thank you. If you could have heard the entire studio when the crown came off. Oh. What else can you do though . How do you fix that. Go to break, distract them. I judged Miss Universe and youve judged miss usa. The pressure even as a judge. They take you in this room and they say, listen, i know you think this is a beauty pageant but people take this seriously. This is an investment. Many of the countries sponsor like the guns because a lot of the women dont have the money audience are the most passionate fans of the pageant. Especially colombia. One of my best friend is from colombia and sent me a message and said this is fake. It has to be a joke. Shes convinced theres a conspiracy theory. I think it was an honest mistake. I do, too. Imagine if youre steve harvey reading the card. So much going on. We love we love steve harvey, hes amazing. But colombia. Maybe it was reverse order, he looked down. I dont know. I get nervous and i read things the wrong way dont ever host it the. Dylan is not available. The because you two make a great a point. They announced the first runner he sees the name and then you pause and then miss philippines, i dont know how this happened. He held up the card, my mistake. The producers gave me the right information. My mistake. When he said the first runner up, miss philippines, that was on a separate card. You have philippines up here and winner in bold as he showed it is colombia first. Youre confusing me talking about it. Point made. Now were all confuse the. Youre overthinking it. Philippines won. Steve tweeted out and he said i emphatically apologize. Cant believe i would do this, this and that, and he felt terrible about it. The first tweet added to the problem because in the first tweet it said miss colombia like the university. And philippines was spelled like philippians the bible. That didnt help. And even though it was deleted people screen grabbed and it was just like it was a comity of errors. Yeah. They are calling it one of the most awkward live tv moments in history and when we look back at the winners and losers of 2015, a week out from the end of the year, steve harvey. Anyone can he made a little mistake. A talented and wonderful man. If anyone can recover from it its steve harvey. Hes do it today. Is he on hiatus. I think hell come out with some statement. Hes resilient. This guy, hes been in the game a long time. It would be over for us. Wed be on the plane gone, but if anyone can recover. So backstage afterward, miss clomup, the one with the grown taken off her head on miss philippines react the. They handled it pretty well. Take a look. Everything happens for a reason so im happy. Im happy for what i did. We love you. Its a very nontraditional yes, yes. Its very, very 2015. Like miss usa getting in there getting publicity. Heres the deal, miss columbia exponential people around the world know her because of the mixup. I know who she is now and ill be looking for her next project. We dont know her name. Shes miss columbia. I mean, yeah. Im sure its in here somewhere. Its on the card. You think that she feels no, i dont, but all im saying is now the world knows who she s. Her next commercial going to be a hero. Eveve though she was crying. Thats natural. But she kept her composure. Wow. Donald trump, as you know, used to own Miss Universe pageant actually just sold it a few months ago. Yeah. Spoke to matt earlier this morning. Matt said how would you handle this. Make them a cowinner it. Would be very cool. Make them a cowinner because what happened to the girl from columbia is devastating, to give it to her a couple minutes and then take it away. You have a whole country, last year we had a young woman from columbia, the entire country took a vacation for about a week, the whole country was side so you can imagine what happened. I would say this. I would recommend that they go and have a beautiful ceremony, which is good for the brand and good for Miss Universe and do a cowinner. I dont like the cowinner idea. Beautiful ceremony, cowinner. Its not fair to the girl who actually won, miss philippines. I think youre right. I dont have a strong opinion i just know miss columbia will be fun. One of the most Beautiful People on the planet. Oh, boy. You know about star wars . You know about star wars. It happened this weekend. Oh, my gosh. Trying to move us along. Ive got one thing. You know about star wars . Ive got no facts. Let me help you both. Broke records. Weve broken records in the u. S. Were part of the u. S. We dont get to keep money. 238 million in its tabtd worldwide, globally. Universal, 517 million. But didnt break Jurassic World kwmtds record. Jurassic worlds week or overall. Jurassic world holds on. Not by much the Little Dinosaur things, what do his friends. Velociraptors. The most popular, my nieces want them. I had to go like on the dark market to find them because they are sold out everywhere, blue, only gas, i cant think of the other two. Picture you googling black market dinosaurs. You know where they start we dont sell it but somebody else sells it and then that person, hugely popular and the star wars stuff popular, too. Did you see this, a screening in hollywood friday night. Audience went into a fit, the film stopped and then restarted 15 or 20 minutes ahead in the action. No no the now i ask you, is that a screen from the star wars movie or all of columbia . You can play that sound and ask was it star wars or all of columbia screaming . All comes back to steve harvey. And now weve got at classically trained violinist here in the United States, taylor davis, performing the star wars theme song. Lets see what weve got here. Actually played with a light saber. Light saber bow, very impressive. Nice. I read notes, dylan. I read notes. Heres a card. Al roker uses cards. So we are looking at a very, very warm Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Weve got temperatures on the east of this jet stream running about 30 degrees above average for christmas. It has never been this warm around this time of year. Were going to crush some records. Take a look at Christmas Eve day. Record highs running in the mid to upper 70s. We should top out at 80 degrees. Savannah 79 for the high on Christmas Eve and up in the northeast were looking at temperatures to break the record. We should willies whole family just invaded the studio. Kids lack like south park with the little parkas on. Got cold all of a sudden. Coming up next. Whats that sound . You know its the great one. Santa made an early stop at studio 1a to unload his sleigh of christmas goodies for everyone. Yay, santa. Today so it will be to the couple who set aside the whole day to sell their old car and buy a new one. Oops. Nanas got the kids til 9. But its only 2. Guess youll just have to see a movie. Then get some dinner. What a pity. I knew that if i had ice in my water, it would just be so painful and i couldnt even drink it. Scoot the ice over and try to sip it very slowly so that it wouldnt trigger the pain. Thats when i realized i had to do something. My dentist recommended that i use sensodyne. I think that sensodyne has been great in terms of reducing the sensitivity and pain that i was experiencing. Now i can put ice in my water. Sensodyne absolutely works, there you have it. Announcement this storm promises to be the biggest of the decade. With total accumulation of up to three feet. Roads will be shut down indefinitely. And schools are closed. 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They suspect its because 30somethings get early prenatal care. Its interesting. The force awakens earned 238 million. The snowhowing makes it the biggest north american film of all time. Now its amazing how a baby otter became the center of attention when it was born sunday at the monterey bay aquarium. The mom spent her afternoon grooming her baby. Puffing up the babys fur makes it easier for the little one to float in the water on her own. Where was that tip when i was learning how to swim . I dont think you have fur. Youve not seen me before wax day, my friend. Tmi maybe . Lets take a look at what you can expect heading into the holiday. We are going to see rain across the eastern half of the country. Heaviest down across the southeast. A slight risk of strormer storms stronger storms in louisiana and mississippi. As we go into thursday we should be breaking record up and down the east coast with temps it does come with rain but its going to be very warm. In the rockies were looking at our next big storm thats continuing to move eastward. And thats thats your latest forecast. This morning on today cooking for a crowd. Thrill the throngs, im told. Good morning. Im geared up. Hes going to pretend to cook. Hes been cooking all week for his family. Absolutely. You have your whole family here today, right . Yes. The idea is you can feed a crowd and make them feel like you spent a lot of time in the kitchen. And you feel like a star. Were going to start with my chicken marsala meatballs. We need to make a little roux. So a little flour and a little bit of oil. Instead of butter, im using olive oil. Then we do chicken broth. I love chicken marsala. You make meatballs instead, let this reduce down a couple minutes. There you go. Just have one meatball. Its chicken. Its nice and light and you bake them in the often. If youre having a cocktail party, just put a little toothpick in it. Moving on. How did you make the meat balls . We passed over there. Ground chicken, parmesan cheese. What i diplomat show you is this. Got it. Next up meal. At christmas we do the feast of the seven fish so we have to come up with lots of different fish dishes. This isco linguini. Two lobsters feed six people. Youve thought about the meal and its special but you can stretch out the meal. Your family is standing in shock watching you. Willies family is stunned to see him in action. Here . Willie just need to be told what to do exactly right. His wife is smiling. I think hes used to this. I take i think hes used to this. I take orders well. You want the smokeyness with the lobster. Then a little bit of tomato puree. And cream. And this is where hes going to be covered in tomato sauce. A little bit of cream to make it thick and deckadentdecadent. Youve got the lobster and all youve got the arugula. This is what it looks like at the end of the day. These are amazing. Its right here. Way. Go, go, go. Its like the movie. Exactly. 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Whether its your smartphone tracking your every move or avoiding germs and bacteria during a holiday cruise or keeping everybody safe chief is here with a lot of pieces. A lot of your pieces resonated this year. Had some big ones here especially as it relates to our phone. All have our phones, of course. Well get to the that later. Thats another segment called something else. We all what just happened . Wheres willie . Its live, tamron. Yeah, on our phones, believe it or not, your iphone or Android Device could be tracking you every single minute of every single day and mapping out where you go. We uncovered this earlier this year and it was one of our top clicks on our rossen reports Facebook Page and whats happening is wherever you go it maps it out, and apple says they use it to help you personalize services, and were going to show you how to shut it off you dont want them to know where you are . It automatically comes on, thatsled problem. Well show you how to shut it off. Got it the. Well go through this together and this phone is hooked up to the control room so we can show you so were going to go to set. Im double checking mine because i think did i before. We hit set. Control down to privacy. Got it, the little hand. The little hand, a little hand. Right. Privacy and see location services, hit location services. Got it the. Scroll down all the way, System Services down there. System services and control all the way down again and it says frequent locations. It says frequent locations right there. Mines off. Probably from the last time we did this story. If your frequent locations is on, automatically shut off. Shut off your frequent locations if you dont want them to track you and that will do t. By the rest of your japanese settings. What about android phones . Have that on our wednesday im facebook. Com rossenreports and i have to mention apple says they only collect this data when you consent to it. We just dont know when we consent to you. Wouldnt tell us if they collect the data at all. We like to go on cruises and so do bacteria and germs. What we did was my team hit a fourday caribbean cruise and we went all the things with test swabs, heres the frozen yogurt machine, clean. Slot machine handle, what do you think . Dirty. Elevator buttons, dirty. Lounge chairs. Dirty. Actually seven times higher than the acceptable germ limit. The buffet serving spoon, buffet serving spoon, what do you think about that one . Dirty. What should we do . The industry says 22 Million People go on cruises every year. Only a few thousand get sick, and they go through stringent cleaning and all that. People can always go on your Facebook Page and check out more of your stories and hit close to home. Facebook. Com rossenreports. Great year. Bell ringers got at all into the introducing kisses deluxe chocolates. 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Reporter tell us about the campaign . Gave your reason for why you were giving back and the reward as a shopping spree for me to shop for kids this Holiday Season. Reporter our winner is maddy. And this is maddy right here. Now, this was your 15th birthday wish . Right. How cool is that. I feel like i have everything it back to everyone i could give to. She understands. Amazing. We have new york citys most enthusiastic bell ringers right here with us. Give it up for us. Since your other gig is americas got talent. Uhoh. Were going to have you in our fabulous crowd here today. Which one has the best moves. Okay. Bell ringers got talent. Miguel, aguilera. Come on out. The oh. Look at miguel. Go, miguel. Miguel with the bells. Miguels going to tire himself out. Hes going to hurt himself. There you go. We have Salvation Army army cadet katie betts. Come on out, katie. Im ready. Lets go, katie. Oh,. Real simple. Right here for you. I like it. Classic. Fantastic. Nice work and up next we have a 19year veteran, Salvation Army cant cant. Come on out. Oh. Two hands on her. Oh, gee. Its in stereo. You hear the whole thing going on. Im going to have to confer. That, miguel had the loudest cheers. On the way out let me see some more bellringing. Wow. Sound like nick and maddy had a great day picking out toys for the kids at kansas city shelter. Those guys are fun to watch. See them all over the season. The music choices. And they do so much for us. Yeah. Well be back in a minute this morning microsoft is pledging up to 2 million in donations of software and laptops. Tell me about the donation. Thank you for having us. First were giving 2 million in software grants to youth and Microsoft Retail stores are donating these have your next burger with a side of awesome. The oneofakind, creamy blend of sweet and tangy. Miracle whip and proud of it. At kraft we start with quality ingredients. So you can take whatever youre making from good to amazing. The doors are closed this morning at a polk county nightclub. Where a man was killed. Evolution nightclub in des moines lost its liquor license. The Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division made the decision after the death of dashawn smith. The 20 year old was shot and killed there last month. Three others were also shot but survived. And police say violence is no stranger to the club. Officers have announcer from nbc news, this is today with Kathie Lee Gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. I cant tell who that is, but it is funday monday, d arrives tomorrow, but cheer up, because