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Braces for even more Winter Weather today. Nbc news exclusive, President Trumps lawyers in preliminary discussions with federal investigators about possibly interviewing the president in the russia probe. We are live at the white house. All that, plus ignition. Liftoff. The mystery surrounding a late night rocket launch by elon musk. Buzz kill, the worlds most expensive vodka worth more than a Million Dollars stolen, the bottle just found empty. So who drank it . And the saints survive. New orleans overcomes a late charge by the panthers to move on in the nfl playoffs and hodas morning just got a big old boost. Today, monday, january 8th, 2018. Announcer from nbc news, this is today guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a monday morning. Go ahead, the saints, saints nation. I have to tell you i was stressed and i ate a big chunk of a coke nut cake watching this because i was so worried. Thats why they won. They hold on. Now you have to eat a coke nut cake for every saints game. Our top story the Golden Globes. The mood was different this year. It was festive, upbeat but also serious. There was a sense of purpose to this years event. Al and natalie were right there for all of it. Nat, good morning, lets begin with you. Good morning, guys. Yeah, from the red carpet to the opening monologue to the acceptance speeches to lady os standing o, last nights Golden Globes was a landmark event where womens empowerment took center stage. On load woods golden night before the show started making it to there draw attention to the times up campaign. Times up on discrimination, harassment and abuse within the workplace. Times up on harassment in up. Once the show started seth meyers wasted little time addressing the audience with humor. Good evening ladies and remaining gentlemen. For the male nominees in the room tonight this is the first time in three months it wont be terrifying to hear your name read outloud. It was a big night for Big Little Lies taking home four golden dploebs including best Television Limited series and acting awards for Nicole Kidman and laura dern. And i hope we can elicit change through the stories we tell and the way we tell them. May we teach our children that speaking out without the fear of retribution is our cultures new north star. Handmades tale also scored big, winning best actress for elizabeth moss. We no longer live in the gaps between the stories, we are the story in print andbo we are writing the story our self. Ours. Reporter sterling k. Brown made history, becoming the first actor to win in a Television Drama for nbcs hit, this is us. Im being seen for who i am. Reporter Natalie Portman getting laughs and gasps when introducing best director category. Reporter the hap shape of water won two. And james franco won best actor in a musical or comedy. And gore oldman one for the darkest hour. It was three bilboards outside ebbing, missouri with four awards. It was really great to be in this room tonight. Trust me. The women in this room tonight are not here for the food. Reporter but it was Oprah Winfrey, stealing the show with a powerful speech about truth and a new dawn while accepting the cecil b. Demille achievement award. And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women fighting hard to make sure that they take us to the time when nobody ever has to say, me, too, again. I think everybody in that audience had goosebumps last night watching oprah speak. That powerful speech, of course, capping off what was an empowering night all around. Savannah and hoda . Natalie, what do you say we talk some more about that stirring speech from Oprah Winfrey and how people are reacting to her words. Willie is here with that start of the story. It was the show stopping moment of the night. Oprah the star of stars commanding the room and for many capturing in one speech a movement that has spread across the country. I want all the girls watching here now to know that a new day is on the horizon. Shes known as the queen of talk and last night the a worl was listening. For too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men, but their time is up. Their time is up winfreys comments earning several standing ovations, the crowd captivated by her its here with every woman who chooses to say me, too, and every man every man who chooses to listen. What did you think of oprahs speech tonight . Oh. Oprahs words resonating well after the show wrapped, especially for me, too, founder Taranna Burke who spoke with al. Hearing her say me, too, was so full circle for me. Reese witherspoon who introduced oprah tweeting, i will now officially divide time like this, everything that happened before oprahs speech, everything that will happen ever. I dont think anybody remembers anything i did after oprah spoke. Oprah tackling the. S she wask woman to receive the cecil b. Demille award. All i can do is quote and say that the explanation in sidneys performance in lilies reporter a speech so insp e inspiring, many calling winfrey to put another title in front of her name, president. With oprah2020 trending overnight. One person weighing in, steadman graham, telling the Los Angeles Times its up to the people. She would absolutely do it. Oprah says she doesnt want to do it. Steadman says shes game. Who knows better than steadman . Nobody. It was quite a speech. Were going we turn now to a different kind of drama, chaos at new york citys jfk airport aftea÷ a watr pipe break and flooded terminal compounded days of problems of delays tied to last weeks blizzard. Get what, another storm is on the way. We have two reports, we will start with nbcs dylan dreyer she is outside again, jfk be, savannah. For folks in the midwest and northeast the cold is almost over, we are finally turning the corner coming off of what has been the coldest two week stretch on record. Here at jfk sunday morning it was 4 degrees. That broke the record of 6 set back in 2014. Right now its almost 20, but for those traveling this weekend it was absolutely miserable with the cold, the cancellations and the case os. This morning a new headache for passengers at new yorks Kennedy Airport. Just when air traffic seemed to be thawing out, a water main break on sunday apparently caused by the extreme cold creating more chaos. Water flooding from the ceiling inside terminal four. Power had to be shut off. All Incoming International flights were diverted. The Weather Channels Stephanie Abrams had just landed. And the lights started to go off so we were left in the dark immediately. They say you are not going to7i luggage. There is just masses of people everywhere. A mad house full of angry passengers. I just found out right now that my bag might be subject to water damage, too. Its been a weekend of turmoil at one of the nations piling up and equipment failures, compounded by staff shortages. Saturday two planes collided on the tarmac, causing damage, but no passengers were hurt. Its mayhem, chaos. New york senator Chuck Schumer said even accounting for the weather the airport should have been much better prepared. It seemed almost everything broke down. It seemed like a disaster. Airport officials calling it totally unacceptable. We intend to understand why it occurred, get to the bottom of it and fix it. Reporter but today weary passengers are just keeping their fingers crossed. I think ive got a zero percent chance of getting out on time, but im here early reporter now, as jfk gets back up and running there are still delays and cancellations to make sure you check with your airlines, but then get excited, today temperatures should get closer to freezing, not zero, but freezing and then tomorrow its going to be down right warm, but i will let al share those details with you, savannah and hoda. Freezing, yay. Those record cold temperatures have caused problems not only here in new york but up and down the east coast and theres more Winter Weather headed this way. Todays nbcs Morgan Radford is in massachusetts south of boston. In fact, im standing in an area that was completely flooded just last week after the storm. Now its all ice as residents are scrambling to make their monday morning commute with even more snow headed this way. This morning millions thawing out after a weekend of record breaking low temperatures. This is the worst disaster we ever had. Reporter in boston the temperature dipping below ze cars frozen to the ground. Two cars dead, im fortunate that i still have heat and power, my neighbors lost everything. Reporter just off the coast on nantucket island surfers braving the slushy waves. Old man winter not loosening his grip on the bulk of the country just yet. From philadelphia to d. C. And to maryland extreme cold crippling the northeast. 31 record lows were set or tied on sunday. Farther west, cars sliding and crashing on icy roads in as firefighters tried to battle flames with frozen equipment. We had a couple engines freeze and a lot of trucks were trying to dig out right now from all the water. Reporter its been a brutal two weeks here in massachusetts, or not its actually the warmest day since christmas. 4 this windchill it still feels like we are in the single digits. Thanks. We are going to get more from al and his forecast in just a moment. Also ahead on this monday morning, nbc news has learned discussions are under way between the president s legal team and the special counsel investigators are possible options for sitting down and interviewing the president. This as former white house adviser steve bannon is backtracking on some of the head line making things he said in a controversial new book. Lets get all of it from kristen welker. Kristen, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. According to three sources familiar with the matter the conversations between the president s legal team and federal investigators are preliminary and ongoing with the president s legal team weighing a range of options including one that would bypass an interview with the president all together. This morning with the russia probe intensifying three sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news preliminary discussions are under way betw special counsel investigators about a possible interview with President Trump. With mr. Trumps team exploring a range of options for the format, including whether the president would be interviewed directly by the special counsel, robert mueller, or his investigators. The legal standards for when a president could be interviewed. The location, duration and topics. And potential compromises like written responses instead of a formal sitdown. At camp david over the weekend here is how the president responded when asked whether he is still committed if asked to speaking with mueller personally. Just so you understand just so you understand there has been no collusion. Reporter a fired up mr. Trump tried to put the focus on his formal rival, hillary clinton, after revelations the Justice Department is again looking into actions by the clinton foundation. There has been no crime and in theory everybody tells me im not under investigation, maybe hillary is, i dont know, but im not. Reporter all thisd fire and fury which details a white house in chaos. The president s former top adviser steve bannon is backtracking after he was quoted in the book accusing donald trump jr. Of treason for meeting with a russian lawyer during the campaign. The president dubbed bannon sloppy steve. Over the weekend san bannon writing his comments were not directed at trump jr. But rather paul manafort, also at the meeting, who should have known better. I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding don jr. Has diverted attention from the president s accomplishments. Bannon also saying his support of the president is unwavering. On meet the press Michael Wolff made a striking assertion that senior white house officials regularly discussed the 25th amendment, a constitutional procedure to remove a president with wolff claiming many top aides say trump is ub office. The 25th amendment is a hou reporter mr. Trump took to twitter over the weekend touting himself as a very stable genius. The president s legal team and special counsel investigators declined to comment on any conversations they may be having. As for mr. Trump, he heads to nashville later today for a farming event and then he ends his day in georgia for the Ncaa National championship game. Savannah, hoda. Thank you very much. The stage is set for a historic meeting tonight between north and south korea. Its the first formal dialogue between the two nations in two years. The talks are expected to largely focus on the potential of north korea participating in next months Winter Olympics in pyeongchang but the meeting has also raised hopes of easing tensions. Meantime President Trump said over the weekend that he would be open to speaking with north angeles because al was up all night, he was at the Golden Globes but still has our forecast this morning. Thats right. We are looking at big rain coming into Southern California later today, we have flash flood watches, but here in the east we have heavy rain down south and snow and ice making its way into the northeast. Advisories for about 70 Million People for snow, sleet and ice from chicago, an arbor down to atlanta, back to philadelphia. Slick conditions, difficult travel. As this system pushes through the heavy rain continues down their way into the northeast. As we move into tomorrow that tampa down to miami and the icy stuff starts to finally die down in the northeast. You can see, though, we have about a tenth of an inch to a tenth of an inch down to lexington, kentucky, heavier icing down through southeast and snowfall amounts we are looking at anywhere from about 5 to 6 inches of snow through the mountains of west virginia, about 8 upstate new york. We will get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Good morning. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Beautiful sunrise coming up over the nations capital, sunrise officially still eight or nine minutes away. It is cold this morning but nowhere near as bitter cold as it has been. Upper teens and low 20s now. There is a Winter Weather advisory, there is a possibility for some sleet or freezing rain between 1 00 p. M. This afternoon into this evening. Be extremely careful, our nbc washington app has all the latest storm closings. Guys, th coming. Well the warm up to 30, well take it. Al, thank you. Coming up, drama on and off the ice. U. S. Star Ashley Wagner furious as she fails to make the olympic team. We will have the latest and also meet the skaters who are headed to south korea. And behind the scenes of the Golden Globes, what the nights big winners had to say to us moments after leaving the stage. But first this is today on nbc. The big winners had to say moments after leavg the stage. In small business, internet providers promise you a lot. Lets see who delivers more. 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Today news break. 7 26 is your time now on this monday, january 8th, 2018. Good morning, im eun yang. And im aaron gilchrist. Were following breaking news in the district this morning, a huge Emergency Response right now at the James Creek Marina in southwest. Fire Officials Say two boats were on fire there. Here is what it looked like about an hour ago. No injuries have been reported. We will get updates on the nbc washington app. Metro wants to give riders a credit on their smart trip cars if theyre delayed by 15 minutes or more. Metro plans to ask the board to approve the plan on thursday. Follow news 4 transportation reporter adam tuss on twitter for updates. Lets get on your commute with Melissa Mollet and your first 4 traffic. Big problemn blocking the right lane, top of the beltway quite slow because of that. Outer loop after river right side there is blocked by a crash and remember in takoma park one westbound lane is open. We will check your forecast next. 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Current temperatures now are only in the upper teens and low 20s so this whole area here is under a Winter Weather advisory from 1 00 p. M. Until 9 00 p. M. Today. Greatest threat will be a little bit of sleet or some freezing rain, keep that in starting tomorrow morning and we will actually be back near 60 later this week. Chuck, thank you. Another local news update in 25 minutes. Welcome welcome back. 7 30 on a monday morning, january 8th, 2018. You are looking live at trump tower here in new york city. We have some fire crews up there on the roof at 57th and 5th responding to a fire. Were told its a one alarm fire, some kind of electrical outage on the rooftop, no situation appears to be under control and of course were mentioning the president is not at trump tower in new york city this morning. So check in on that and keep you posted. Lets get to the other headlines of the morning, we will start with the Golden Globes. Taking a stand. The time is now and time is up. Hollywood sends a powerful message in the wake of the me, too movemt and unite on stage and off. Highlighted by Oprah Winfreys emotional Lifetime Achievement award acceptance speech. I want all the girls watching here now to know that a new day is on the horizon. Travel nightmare. Its mayhem, chaos. A water main break at jfk airport makes a bad situation even worse as water floods the terminal after days of delays from that east coast blizzard and this morning a new winter storm gets set to bring more snow and ice. We have Winter Weather advisories that go from detroit to atlanta to philadelphia to washington, d. C. Ignition, liftoff. Mystery launch. Elon musks spacex sends a secret satellite into orbit as many ask if this is thetz next step in the space race. The worlds most expensive bottle of vodka worth 1. 3 million stolen from behind a bar and found empty construction site. And wild card weekend. Hes got his man for the touchdown. Jacksonville knocks off buffalo. Brees, end zone, open, touchdown hill. As drew brees leads the new Orleans Saints past the Carolina Panthers to advance in the nfl playoffs. Today monday, january 8th, 2018. You dont have any nails left from watching that. My heart cant take the tress and ive gained five pounds. With one month to go to the Winter Olympics we now know who will represent the u. S. In figure skating and there is controversy surrounding one of the women who will not be on team u. S. A. Nbcs joe fryer has that story. Joe, good morning. Reporter good morning. After days of competition the u. S. Figure skating team is now set. A lot of new faces are heading to the olympics like bradie ten nell, but Ashley Wagner who was furious with the sco kept her from if you know sling in the top three. Wagner, who was furious with the scores that kept her from finishing in the top three. Its a Seismic Shift in u. S. Ladies figure skating. Olympic medalist Ashley Wagner wont be going to pyeongchang after finishing fourth. As solid as i skated and to get those scores, i am furious. And i think deservedly so. Reporter the 26yearold did not hold back her anger with the judges after her free skate. I want to be on that olympic team. And im really mad that im in this position again. Reporter wagner later tweeted, as an athlete, im allowed to be mad. As a senior competitor with over ten years experience, im allowed to question things. At the end of the day, i laid out my best and im going home proud. Congrats to the lovely ladies of the team. Youve got me in your cheering squad now. Wagner also had a difficult skating season, dealing with an ankle injury. She has a lot of experience. Shes a fighter. Shes a true performances didnt match up to the other skaters. Reporter in 2014, wagner also finished fourth in the u. S. Championship s but in a controversial move was picked for the team, instead of maria nagasu. This year nagasu is going to the olympics after an emotional skate that earned her the silver. Last years u. S. Champ, karen chen, made the olympicbound team. Triple lutz, triple toe. Reporter as well as this years Surprise National champion, 19yearold bradie tanel. A few months ago, few would have considered her a contender. How did you skyrocket out of nowhere to where you are . I think its due to my consistency. Rep on the mens side, all eyes are on nathan chen. He has five quadruple jumps in his free skate. This weekend, he landed all of those jumps. Another beautiful quad flip. Reporter winning his secondstraight u. S. Crown. The olympics have been my motivation throughout my entire career. You know, the olympic team is being crazy. Reporter whats the goal for reporter rounding out the mens team, vincent joe and adam rapon who finished fourth this weekend but was still picked because the Selection Committee can look at other criteria and past competitions beyond this one. As for Ashley Wagner she was named first alternate to the olympic team. Joe, thanks. We should mention that ashley will be with us exclusively wednesday on today. Again, the Winter Olympics are just about a month away starting february 8th, live on the networks of we are already seeing the thrill of competition and sometimes the agony of defeat. Lets go back out to al in los angeles this morning with the weather. Its been so cold across so much of the country, but the freeze is easing. The last 15 days for detroit the High Temperature has been below freezing, 14 days for cleveland, 14 for pittsburgh as well. But look at today. You will see a high in detroit of 38, same in cleveland and pittsburgh, we will see a high today of 36 degrees and that warmth is expanding. In fact, big dome of High Pressure dominating and so we will see albuquerque at 10 degrees above average, milwaukee getting up to 39, Oklahoma City 54 degrees, thats 6 degrees above average, milwaukee you will warm up tomorrow, atlanta, the schools are closed today because of icing, you will be at 56 on tuesday. Thats 5 degrees above average. And as we move to the east finally we start to see a warm up. Boston by friday you are at 53, d. C. Almost 60, charlott get up to 62 degrees. Break out the bermuda shorts. Thats whats going on around the country, here is whats happening in your neck of the woods. A good monday morning, were weather alert for you again today not because of any problems this morning, its just typically cold like we have been, but moisture out to our west is going to run up over the top of this freezing air and as a result we could have some sleet, snow or, worse still, some light freezing rain problems later on in the afternoon. So Winter Weather advisories are posted from 1 00 p. M. Until 9 00 p. M. Temperatures are only near 20 degrees right now. We will struggle to get above freezing today. Watch out for that iciness possibly. Thats your latest weather. Get that weather anytime you need it on the Weather Channel on cable. Big storm coming on shore mere here in Southern California. We will have the details in the next half hour. Al is there and now the storm comes. Coming up, has the brutal cold taken its toll on your skin . Creative ways to get some relief kitchen. Then the surprise for unions that had people talking at the gld. And we will break down the bold fashion statements made on the carpet. silence silence faint tone slowly starts to build chime of a bell chime of a bell chime of a bell chime of a low bell achoosnap achoo snap achoo achoo snap snap achoo achoo feel a cold coming on . Zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45 . 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Were back. 7 42 with more on the excitement of the 75th annual ft. Lauderdale. Once the winners were done with their speeches they headed back to our oneonone room to talk with ms. Natalie to joins us again. We got up close and personal with hollywoods top stars as they stepped off that winners stage to talk about the glory of getting a Golden Globes and what this powerful night meant to them. Golden globe winner elizabeth moss. Oh, my gosh. Natalie, oh, get in here, my love. Im happy to see you and im happy to see you with this. Im a little bit in awe of you all right now because this is my show. I have been raving about this from the minute it started streaming. Were just so thrilled that audiences loved it. They made this show what it is. People out there, you guys are the ones who made it what it is. You are whats making this all possible and how its going to be possible to have a season two. I loved lady bird so much. Thank you. And the message of the movie, what would you say it is . I mean, i think the message is that its okay to not have things figured out when you are at any age. This is your first golden globe, whats the feeling tonight . We were on a terrific table. Who was at your table . I was there with frances mcdormand. The winners table. And sam rockwell. What table number so we can mark that for next time. Thats the winners table. Number two. Table two. I want you to read that for me. Sterli k Golden Globes history. Sterling k. Brown just became the first male black actor to win a golden globe for best lead actor in a tv drama. What does that mean to you . Its amazing. Ive never been the first of anything, right, so the fact that this awards show has been around for 75 years and hasnt had a black man win in best lead drama is shocking, first and foremost. Yes. And hopefully it wont be another 75 years before somebody else wins in this category, but im honored. I made you a champion knowing you would hate me for it, thats the sacrifice a mother makes. There are so many stories i cant wait to tell to bring to life, to bring to light, to effect change. Even in our story which is so abusive, even showing what abuse looks like can sometimes be enlightening and life changing for someone because it can seem so normal almost. I love what you all said in your speeches today, reese, how you talked about like on the outside a lot of u totally different persona and experience than we do and whats going on really in our lives and sometimes women live in shame. Its such a profound thing when you talk about abuse and that were bringing it out of the dark and into the light and i think people really responded to that and enough silence. People have had enough. There is a team tonight, girl power. It is, and, you know, its a hand mails tale is led by a woman. It makes all this worthwhile. And to think the sort of red army is leading the way. Yes. Yes. Were a red army in black now. What are you going to do for the after party . You have to go and have some fun . Im going to have a little bit of fun. I may check out game of thrones people because i am a geek. Are you . Oh, like i am a bona fide geek. If i can walk around with a dragon all day i would in a heartbe a grown, drakarsa. What happens that is his name. Profound and moving night, truly it was that theme girl power all the way and that women can change the world. Thank you so much. I want to hear for boy power because carson got on a receipt i had, landed her just moments ago and hes here in the orange room. He literally just walked in. Little boy power . M ut come on. Manpower. Boy power. As natalie said there were a lot of highlights, one of the most tweeted moments was oprah and her acceptance speech. She had the globes audience on their feet, the slel ebbs were taking to twitter to sing her praises. Neal Patrick Harris writes oprah is everything. Ben flat, if you need me for the next two years i will be drafting tweets in support of oprahs 2020 president ial campaign. Saw a lot of those comments about her running for office recently. It was a starstudded red car Kelly Clarkson when she was with natalie and i on the red carpet all she could talk about was meeting meryl streep, right after she left us she did meet meryl streep on the red carpet and here is how it played out. Let me help you down, kelly. Oh, my god, its meryl. I thought you stripped down the stairs. Oh, my god, can i meet you . I love everyone. Ive adored you since i was like eight. Great moment there, the two were hugsing and able to spend a few moments chatting it up on the red carpet. It was tom hanks who got the party going, you eat dinner, you drink drinks and he didnt waste any time, he was spotted at the bar during the first commercial break. Tom hanks does not just get drinks for himself. He got a tray of martinis for his whole table. Steven spielberg, i dont know looks like maybe he did. We had a ton of fun on the red carpet. Out there last night, back in new york today. As natalie mentioned it was annum powering moment just to be there with sheinelle and al and natalie. Different tone on the red carpet. Lots to discuss, lots of discussions being had but the take away was that most people didnt want that discussion to end last night at the globes, it needs to now take on a life of its own and keep going on. You guys did a great job with those conversations. Thank you. You dont know if its yesterday or today or tomorrow. I have no idea. Red eye. Back to you, blake and adam. Just ahead, we will do trending. This is going to get parents talking. Should you actually want your kids to know how to lie to you . But first these messages. Want w essential for vinyl, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Because there are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz xr. 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Today, monday, january 8th, 2018. Etn happy 80th birthday to our grandpa. Our ninth anniversary on the today show. Good morning to our mom. Surprise, were on the happy 99th birthday, grandma charity. Celebrating a sweet 16 on the plaza. Shes nice and bundled up for it. Good morning, everybody, nice to have you with us, its monday morning. Hope you are off to your great start for your week. We will join the crowd in a little bit. The cold is the top of our news this mog. Freeze is almost over for millions of americans who have had to work or travel during this prolonged cold spell, but, guess what, more Winter Weather headed our way. Morgan radford is south of boston this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It has been a onetwo punch for millions of residents waking up t east coast this morning. In fact, this area of massachusetts was one of the places that was hardest hit by last weeks storm and now theyre expecting even more snow today. This morning millions in northeast digging out. After a blast of winter pummeled the region with snow, ice and record low temperatures. From negative 3 degrees in providence, rhode island, to 9 below in hartford, connecticut, the cold snap shattering dozens of low temperature records. The deep freeze also putting travel plans on ice at one of the nations busiest airports over the weekend. A burst water main to blame for this mess terminal at new yorks Kennedy Airport where just last week the bomb cyclone already left thousands of passengers stranded. Its chaos, you cant go anywhere. Came in approximately three days. Trying to get my bags for three days. Reporter water of a different kind on the high seas. This video captured by terrified passengers showing it was anything but smooth sailing for vacation nurse on board this cruise ship headed back from the bahamas. Whack on land, firefighters in boston battling flames with frozen equipment. Its a tough night. Ive been here for 40 minutes and its freezing and these guys they are out there fighting it. In the midwest, the ice covered fire escape of a chicago highrise shut down an entire street. Still some o .  took the deep f in stride. Researchers in mt. Washington didnt let negative 37 degree temperatures burst their bubble. And brotherly love summoned their inner rocky steps away from a frozen skew kill river. That snow is expected to slam here right around rush hour. Thats why authorities are warning anyone waking up in the below freezing temperatures to exercise extreme caution if theyre hitting the roads today. Nbc news has learned exclusively that discussions are under way for President Trump to possibly answer questions in Robert Muellers russia probe. Sources say talks between the Trump Legal Team and federal investigators are preliminaryo and ongoing. Potential options being explored range from a direct interview with mr. Trump to having him provide written responses. At camp david this weekend the president has asked if hes still if committed, if asked, to speaking personally with mueller, he said, quote, yeah, just so you understand there has been no collusion. En a oil tanker that collided with a freighter off chinas coast this weekend is at risk of exploding and sinking. The tanker was sailingro to south korea when it slammed into the freighter 150 miles off the coast of shanghai. That tanker is still on fire and spewing oil. In the meantime a u. S. Navy plane has joined the search for 31 missing crewmen, but poor weather conditions have hampered the rescue effort. It is not immediately clear what caused that collision. Time of the morning for hodas morning boost. A middle school in dallas was planning its first ever breakfast with dads day but organizers were concerned that some of the boys may not have dads who were present in their lives so what happened next was pretty amazing. The call went out on social media for 50 men who would volunteer as mentors. Get this, 600 showed up. There was a big get to know you session to break the ice, just some talking and some listening. One of the dads brought along neck ties so he and the others taught the boys to knot them, which is a rite of passage that many have never experienced. Breakfast ended with new friends linking arms to say a prayer of thanksgivfo i love that. Look at all those men and good young men. Thats right. Nice story. Coming up, als highlights from a busy night on the Golden Globes red carpet and the fashion trends that dominated hollywoods annual party. Plus olympic royalty, we will get meryl davis take on this g years u. S. Olympic figu skating team. Hi, megyn. So the Golden Globes black dress protest were they impacting, meaningful, a game changer or was it too little too late and possibly hypocritical from a group that protects the likes of Harvey Weinstein for far too long. 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Wait, thats a trick question. Because they can both get in your way. Thats why it is superimportant to chat with your eye doctor if youre using artificial tears a lot and your eyes still feel dry. Next question. Guys, its time for some eyelove were back, 8 10. More highlights from last nights Golden Globes awards now that carson is home from the red eye. This years show did feel a little different. Al is in l. A. Where he hit up the red carpet and all the after parties. As you guys mentioned the Golden Globes typically are the season. The mood was lighthearted, there were plenty of serious conversations on the red carpet. On the red carpet a fashion blackout. We are all wearing black in u; ut whistleblowers. We are all trying to show that we want to instigate change. Hollywood using high style to show support for victims of Sexual Harassment and assault. Weve been so excited about changing the carpet and turning something from just a fashion moment in a parade of dresses so something that means so much to all of us. Probably one of the most important nights ever to be here to change this conversation. I think this is definitely historical. The stars sending a message to the world with their clothing and their accessories. Justice. I very happilyug clemente. Im so thrilled to be here with monica. Were standing together instead of just in competition with each other. Pins ma s the unofficial theme of the night, times up. Time for change and the time is now and times up. With all of the news thats been coming out about our industry and every industry that it couldnt just be business as normal. Men getting in on the movement as well. The time is up, gents. Lets be human beings first above and beyond anything. Stars of the big and small screen coming together to celebrate the ripple being felt across not just this industry but others as well. Were celebrating women, womens equality, womens rights. Definitely celebration when you see women all over the world responding and having this conversation about so many areas and so many industries. This is your first globes . Im just going to have a good time. Im just going to take selfies with every star here and im going to be;k silly tonight. Im among people i admire so much. And Justin Timberlake who i love. Im fan girling it. Somehow they let me in this party. Im like, have you sure, and they said yeah. Do you pinch yourself. No, because if i wake up i will be pissed. No, i do not pinch myself. I want to stay asleep as long as possible. This is why you come to the Golden Globes. On the red carpet sharon stone and mariah care. He. Im going to steal her diamonds later. We will tried our diamonds. Can you feel the love . Can you feel it . Ive got to tell you it was an interesting mix of celebration and determination and i for one was really glad i got to see it and i was with mariah carey and sharon stone. Nice. All right. Thanks, al. Here to help us recap the red carpet looks an trends we have olivia culpo and brad gi hi. Were doing a fashion segment. I think we all have had a really good conversation about the meaning of wearing black so now lets just have a little bit of fun, shall we . It was a striking red carpet, wouldnt you say . It really was. Everybody was standing in solidarity but they had fun. They did have a little bit of fun. Two of my favorites were Dakota Johnson in gucci. Lets see her. I thought this dress was absolutely stunning. There she is. She always kills it. She does, too. Whats so cool about this i thought was the front was so gorgeous and just the simple column and then she turns around fun going on in the back. Thats what i was loving. I think she always kills it. She does wear a lot of gucci ive noticed. Business from the front, party in the back. I loved Margot Robbie who was also in gucci and a nominee for i, tanya. This beading on this intricate and those flowers are threedimensional so they stand out from the fabric. This was custommade for her by gucci in black satin. That you think building neckline was a good way to show a little bit of trend. There was lots of velvet. Tons of velvet. That was hot, right . Oprah. By the way, oprah looked stunning. Stunning. Gorgeous. She was in a versace, i thought that was a nice choice for her, just the off the shoulder with the beading and the silhouette of the gown. I liked the glasses, too. Thats a good touch. And velvet looks so rich on the red carpet. Its one of those really luxurious looking fabrics so it was really nice to see it and the black is so saturated in velvet as well so it really pops. I loved her last night. Her. Sterling k. Brown. Jessica chastain. And a lot of sheer, too. Who did it well . I liked catherine zetajones. I love angelina jolie. The feather detail was fun. Yeah. As well. We got to interview her on the countdown show. She looked absolutely incredible. And she was like, im so happy to be here. Im happy to be getting dressed up and coming to support everyone tonight. Were people talking fashion on the red carpet . I wondered if that was taboo . Not really, no. People werent asking, who are you wearing. If actresses or actors wanted to say who they were wearing, they were welcome to. But the message to get across was times up and about the movement thats happening. And it was a really, really great start to this movement. It was pretty incredible. Talk about when the movement meets fashion, as well. There were a lot of pantsuits, which is really cool. And a lot were a frilly pantsuit or a mix. Except for claire foya. She went power suit. She looked so different, unlike ive seen her it was that smoking vibe, that very parisian feel. I liked the white beaded bodice. I thought this was a nice way to do a jumpsuit and make a statement. And lastly, the jewelry acce accents. Am re emeralds everywhere. Zoe kravitz in really big emeralds in the st. Laurent column dress. One of my saves last night. That necklace. That was the perfect accessory. Debra messing and ricky martin. We saw a lot of colorful jewels. And emerald is a symbol of power. Its fun to talk the fashions and talk about the meaning behind. We appreciate it. Thank you. Lets headk and get a all right, guys, well, here in los angeles and much of california theyre getting much needed rain, but a lot of it is coming. In fact, we have flash flood watches from santa rosa all the way down to los angeles, riverside, the heavy rain on these burn scar areas couldr3 cause mudslides. We could see one and a quarter inches per hour. Add to that strong winds, high wind warnings, watches and advisories, variable winds from 30 to 70 Miles Per Hour along the coast, up in the mountain passes could be upwards of 80 Miles Per Hour and as we look at rainfall totals through tuesday into wednesday, locally about 4 to 6 inches of rain, especially between Santa Barbara and los angeles, but some of the foothills could see 7 to 10 inches of rain, that could lead to flooding and mudslides. This is going to be watched very closely out here. Thats whats going on around the country, here is whats happening in your neck of the woods. And good morning, everybody. Cloudy skies, our tower camera looking westbound here, that tysons in the distance, you can see a lot more clouds coming in from the west, thats part of the reason we have a weather alert for you today. Some of this moisture out here may come down in the form of light snow or sleet or, worse still, the possibility of some freezing rain. So were watching that very carefully. Time frame to be watching out for from 1 00 p. M. Until 9 00 barely above freezing. And that is your latest weather. Savannah. All right, al, thank you so much. Vannah . All right, al. Thank you so much. Time for trending. Willie is here. Jenna is here. Carson is back. Seriously. Is the best policy. The famous tale, the boy who cries wolf. But check out this article in the new york times. Check out the headline. Is your child lying to you . Thats good. Theres research that says lying is normal and it is also a sign of intelligence. They also say kids discover lyin and the earlier they start lying, the smarter they may be. I dont know what the message it is here. But it is interesting to see. Have your kids lied to you before . My kids must be geniuses. Theyre so smart. Mine are young. Theyre 3, 5 and 8. I dont know. Theres nothing too bad about their lies. Its small stuff. Did you wash your hands when you got home . Yeah, dad. Did you really . No. And you have to do the smell test. I went to pick up mila last year, she was 2 from school. And her teacher was like, can i talk to you. Congratulations. And i was like, what . Mila told me, youre expecting a baby in your belly. And i wasnt. So, that was a moment where i had to sit mila down. She has these stories. She has an imagination. We used to be proud that our kids were bad liars. That was until five minutes ag lie. When they go to their rooms, highfive and start saving for harvard. Vale got in trouble not too long ago for hitting charlie, which we do have a zero tolerance. She did get a timeout for that. I dont do a lot of timeout. And i said, do you know why you were in timeout . You cannot hit your brother. You may not hit charlie. And she said, i didnt hit charlie. I pushed him. She was very honest. Thats honest. Okay. You cant push, either. Anyway, they say instead of punishing your kids for lying, you should try a different track and praise for the truth. Dont you think you should expect the truth . Thank you very much for brushing your teeth. And being honest about it. I think, keep punishing, privately celebrate. I like that, too. And start investing. My parents would say, if you lie, you get in double trouble. Yo for the act itself and for lying about it. Thats the opposite of this. I dont know. Take us to pop start. Special Golden Globes edition for you. The awards show swept social media. Well look at instagram. Some of the photos that had the most likes. Stranger things costars on the red carpet. In second place, Justin Timberlake, the singer posted that selfie with his wife, jessica biel. And the most liked post, barbara brown, that was a big one there. How about twitterverse. Heres a countdown. Nobody counts backwards better than me. At number five, on twitter, people were talking about sterling k. Brown and best performance by an actor, nu. Number four, nicole won for the best musical or comedy. Third was Natalie Portman. A lot of people talk about james franco. But the most tweeted about star, no shock here, Oprah Winfrey. She stole the show last night. Let me circle back to james franco and why so many people were tweeted about him. He won for actor Motion Picture for the disaster artist. He plays this character. Hes a real person. Tommy is the director and star of a cult film called the room. Franco decided to invite him up for the acceptance speech. Thats when tommy tried to steal the show. And it provided this moment. Come on up here, tommy. 19 years ago. Hold on. Hold opinion. Not so fast. Tommy going straight mic. James franco said, no, hold on. Twitter had a field day with that moment. One user wrote, he made a gif. When you want to give credit but not too much credit. Good moment there. A lot of reunions last night, too. Some of our favorite duos were at the globes. Telma and louise. We saw a roseanne reunion. And shanely woodley and elton elgar. That is your pop start. If you need me, ill be in the fetal position. Not before the daly click. With frigid temperatures, one resident let his dogs stretch out their legs. Theyre off to the races in his backyard. He was just going to shovel a little walking path. He decided to hit up allf do in the backyard, a little sport activity. He slept good that night. Just a little racetrack . Yeah. A dog track. Nice. Thank you. Coming up, olympic gold meldalist meryl davis gives her take at the figure skating championships. And joy is helping one family work toward their diet goals in 2018. First, a check of local news and weather. Meryl. This is a news 4 today news break. Good morning, 8 26 now on this monday, january 8th. Im aaron gilchrist. Lets see how traffic is moving at the hour, Melissa Mollet is in first 4 traffic. Right now a couple problems on the beltway and 270 south, you can see very slow through germantown, gaithersburg. Crash with a the right lane getting by and outer loop before river crash blocking the right lane as well. In takoma park eastwest highway after New Hampshire eastbound lane shut down, one westbound is open for that water main break. We will have a check on your forecast when we come back. Watching a little light snow moving into the northern parts of the shenandoah valley, thats all moving eastbound, so Winter Weather advisories are posted from 1 00 to 9 00 p. M. Today and its plenty cold, only in the upper teens and low 20s now. Highs today only near the freezing mark, much milder weather by the time we get to friday and saturday. You can get the latest news and weather. Welcome back, everybody. Were back. 8 30 on a monday morning. 20 degrees on the plaza. Kind of balmy compared to the last few days. The east coast has been gripped by cold this weekend. It feels good, though, doesnt it . It feels like bikini weather right now. So i have a crowd moment for you guys. There is a school in elk grove, california. Where is katie . Right here. Hi, katie. There is a school in elk grove, california and there is a saidie hawkins dance. There is a challenge. If you can ask your saidie hawkins date in the most creative way you get free tickets to the dance, so, hi. Hi. All right. Are you ready . Do your thing. Tyler, will you go to the saidie hawkins dance with me . Okay. Will you let us know if tyler texts you or calls you during this segment . Of course. Honey, thank you so much. Lucky guy. Lucky guy. Tyler, call us. Im in. I will be your backup plan. Just ahead, does the family need help breaking out of unhealthy eating habits . Joy is here, she has us ready for a change and Smart Solutions to diet obstacles. The u. S. Figure skating championships and the team that will represent team u. S. A. There. No one understands that pressure better than meryl davis, we will get her reaction to the results. Plus, willie, is Winter Weather reeking havoc on your skin. Is it, carson. There are five golden rules ou relief from the chapped lips and cracked hands. Cracked hands . Willie is constantly putting baum on his hands. This is wreaking havoc whether you know it or not. Mess begin is here with a look at her show. An unbelievable story of a High School Senior who had a full scholarship to college, then was accused of raping a woman, was threatened with 40 years in prison, took a deal for five 9im in prison and then she confessed after he served it was all a lie. Horrible. He is our guest here today on what hes doing about it to help not only rebuild his own life but to help others. Megyn, thank you so much. Lets head back out west and check in with mr. Roker. Hey, al. We want to take a look at the week ahead. We have a severe flood threat out in the west, especially throughout much of california. Icy start through the southeast, schools closed in atlanta, light snow in the northeast, in between sunny and milder. Midweek period snow developing through the plains, dries out in the southwest, be looking at wet weather in the pacific northwest. Sunshine along the east coast with temperatures warm k up. By the time we get to friday heavy lane along the eastern sea forward, we are looking at snow back across the Mississippi River valley. Another blast of arctic air in the plains and decent weather along the west coast. Thats whats going on around the country, here is whats happening in your neck of the woods. That late week storm here will be all rain with temperatures well up into the 50s but in the meantime we have a Winter Weather threat coming our way later this afternoon. Just a little bit of moisture coming in, temperatures are way below freezing this morning. Anything that does fall will stick quickly. Starting out as snow or maybe a little sleet but could mix in with freezing rain later. So Winter Weather advisory for most of the d. C. Metro area, that from 1 00 to 9 00 p. M. Today. 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Back jill, lets keep things going with our start the day journey. A lot of you probably have resolved to eat better in 2018 but that can be easier said than done. Lisa is a single mom of three boys, like a lot of families they are struggling to choose the right foods and sometimes they have a difficult time with portion control. They prefer comfort foodsr over veges and with lisa working the evenings dinner falls on her mom, their grandmother and trends to be things that are quick and easy but not always healthy. Lisa is here with her boys and also joy bauer is ready with our start today pledge to fix all of it. Were happy you came. I am excited to be here. This is a big step for you and your family. Why did you feel it was important, that this was something that you had to start right now . Yes. Well, our mom is sick and going through Health Issues so this seemed like a perfect time to start eating healthy and make good life changes. You work hard, single mom and sometimes the kids your mom takes care of them and they often take an easy route. What are typical meals they would have. Frozen meals or something microwavable, something quick and easy, nothing too fbfvyhard hey, boys, what do you guys think of this start today challenge . Are you for it . Are you excited or a little nervous . Im excited. You are excited, all excited. Excited, yeah. All right. Joy is going to help this wonderful family and all of us, too. Shes got so much on her plate and she has been smiling from the second she got here. So the whole idea here was the health of meals but also make sure that you can whip them up in a flash. They generally start the morning breakfast, this is when shes still home so she can participate in breakfast with a starchy pile of pancakes, butter or syrup or cereal. You guys are going to dive in and try the pancakes. We have special pancakes. Thecr put in cottage cheese, theres eggs and i sweetened it up with a mashed banana. This will set them up in the morning to be focused and smart. I know itsa not exactly wha youre used to for breakfast but would you eat that for breakfast . Yeah, totally. You like. One for one. We have breakfast down. What do you usually have for breakfast . Nothing usually. And thats a nono, right, joe i . Thats one of those things you have to make sure you eat all your meals. You will bottom out and i dont want you to crash, i want you to have a lot of energy, 0÷ too. If anyone needs a lot of energy it is lisa. Take us to lunch. Now we are going to flip over to dinner because thats the biggest problem. What i want lisa to do in the morning is to embrace her slow cooker because it will become a personal chef. You like a slow cooker or crock pot. Yes. This is the simplest recipe ever. We are making flavorful chicken. Put your chicken breast two pounds in the slow cooker, put a jar, a 16 ounce jar of salsa and four teaspoons of tack could seasoning. That is it. You will mix it around. So the chicken is just this is just pulled chicken. Two pounds of plain chicken breast. Put the top on, set it on low for eight hours and take off and go to work. Youre going to come home and you will have a great big watch of delicious pulled chicken that youre going to shred it up and create all the delicious fluid. You can make sandwiches or tacos. I want you to take a bite of that pulled chicken sandwich. Or the taco. Bite in there. Lets see. Oh, yeah, i like this. Yes. Give us two thumbs up. Do you like . All right. Two for two. You see also what you have, you have over there tacos because you can add lettuce and memento and shredded cheese. The cool thing about the pulled many different variations that you can serve it. You cook it once and eat it several different times. Lisa, when youre listening and i will get to the last thing in a minute, but when youre listening to joy, this is a lot. You have a lot on your shoulders anyway without worrying about all this other stuff. How do you feel listening to joy talk about all of thi3gnk it gives me inspiration, easy ways to make healthy food and im excited about trying it at home. Shes just incredible. Take us to the end. So she regularly makes spanish rice and beans but she uses butter and lard and of course refined rice. This is so simple. All i did was i swapped in brown rice for the fiber, go ahead, hoda. Do you want to try it . I only did one cup of rice but two cupsn of beans, i mixe black beans and pinto beans because thats what she loves and then i snuck . Some sauteed onions and red pepper. This is also packed with flavor and protein and fiber. What do you thin made it again . Yeah. Uhhuh. Highfive. I need a free hand. That is awesome. Tell me what you think. Do you like it . And the recipes are all on the website. Thank you so much. You guys, good luck. Were rooting for you. Coming up next, the material from Mother Nature that could change the future of fashion, but first this is today on nbc. Borrowed from Mother Nature that could change fashion. Mommy youre strong aw, you bet i am the egg white grill. So you can bring on the day. Thanks for coming congratulations my first customer the egg white grill. So you can bring on the day. We are back with a look at what one Company Hopes will be the future of fashion. Taking a cue from Mother Nature a lab in california has been attempting to create a synthetic version of ultra strong spider silk. Here is nbcs Business Correspondent jo ling kent. Reporter its the stuff of hollywood block but in Silicon Valley artificial spider webs arent just for superheroes. We had an idea that what spiders do is really cool and that may be we could copy it. Bolt threads cofounders dan and david have figured out how to spin faux silk. Why wait . These threads aresc stronger th steel, nearly as strong as kevlar. Producing a web of opportunities from fashion. And silk. 100 spider silk. Not front lines. The military is the next step, right . Theres strong interest by the military not just for the durability but also nor things that dont melt. Reengineering Mother Natures work took years of research and development. There is no Cost Effective way to farm silk from spiders. Bolt discovered that brewing was the way to go, as in brewing beer. What exactly are you making here . This is yeast that are making spider silk, pumping little bits of make more cells and make silk protein. We then extrude it into fiber. Its kind of like a shower head. Liquid shoots out these streams of liquid and they turn into a solid just like spaghetti. Reporter in march the Company Released its first product, a spider silk tie. We launched a limited number of these as a special edition to show that this technology could work. This was grown in a fermenter, spun into fibers and knit into a product that you can wear. 300 just for that tie, but they hope to spin their silk for a mass audience toon. Whats the point for a shopper to splurge a little more, why not just continue on the path of getting a bargain. I think consumers will continue to go with fast fashion. Things that start at the top of the market today as a new Technology May be the thing you find in your fast fashion mo im wearing it right now. This is as close as im ever going to get to spiderman. I will sell you this tie for 390. Feel it. Its really nice. Its like faux silk. Something cool about wearing spider silk. This can bear the weight of a car. You could scale a building with that tie j just ahead, is your skin showing wear and tear from what has already been a relief but first this is today on nbc. Relief. First, this is today on nbc. We are back. 8 47. Much country has been bracing weeks of bone chilling cold it can take a cold on your skin. Here with easy remedies is dr. Wattenberg. This is the time of year when my skin is like a pto what are the things we need to know. So the cold air makes your skin super dehydrated, you want to shorten hotgtnj showers, the feel good but with not great for our skin. Apply moisturizer directly on to wet skin. You want to drink plenty of water, skip the alcohol if you can and apply a little hydrocortisone cream on to any dry spots and dont forget the sunscreen. We see some of the worst sun burns during that time. Im literally doing everything wrong. Okay. Lets start here, these are base moisturizers that pump up the hydration. Everybody knows about moisturizer, but some of the things people forget about are masks and oils. ucae masks are fabulous, thisn he contain oil, they contain aloe, they hydrate your skin. If you apply a little oil on to your skin before you apply moisturizer you can see such improvement in the hydration of your skin. If you are looking for do it at home. Home remedies. You can create your own mask at home by combining avocado with a little oil, makes it up into a consistency like this, apply it directly on to your skin, moisture rise, loo he have it on ten minutes or so, wash it off and your skin will fib fabulous. Okay. Next we have these are for lips. Lips have no oil glands and theyre super thin, with he lick them, sometimes we use lip balms that can dry out your skin more. Make sure that you use a lip balm, this new money has oatmeal in it which is super soothing or aquafor can make a huge difference. You might want to take a toothbrush, brush your lips. Exfoliate. Exactly. Get rid of the dry skin. If you dont want to use this you can also use a green tea bag and dip it in warm water, shake it out, apply it directly on to there. Frein tea contains antiinflammatories which work well. Then take a little at home oil right out of this little set and apply it on to the skin and you have a great lip balm. All of us have been talking about cracked hands from this cold weather. So gloves are the key to improving your hands, keep them in every coat pocket, keep them at home. We have gloves that you cang apply your own moisturizer on and there are these special gloves you can try them on, they contain this oil inside of them. No way. I love these. Mineral oil and olive oil and you leave them on your hands while youre watching tv and your skin will feel soft. Do you put moisture and put moisturizer built into these and they help your cuticles and nails to hydrate up. I want that. She wants that. I dont blame her. You can buy coconut hand moisturizers, you can buy cuticle creams, but you can also make your life really simple, hands, take some plastic baggy, wrap your hands up with this and create your own home spa, which is a much less expensive way than to buy these gloves which is quite fabulous. For itchy scalp. You want to get rid of the scale using a sal sill lick acid you have to get the scales off, do a combination of baking soda or apple cider vinegar. Leave it on for a couple minutes, rinse it off and mix a egg yolk with yogurt, create minutes, go in the shower, rinse it off and you will be great for the winter. I love it. T highfive. Thank you so much. All the recipes are on our website. Hoda, is it awesome . Oh, my gosh. Up next meryl davis weighs in on the u. S. Olympic figure skating team, but first this is today on nbc. Team. First, this is today on nbc. Its time for sleep numbers lowest prices of the season on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. And snoring . Does your bed do that . Its the lowest prices of the season on the queen c4 mattress with adjustable comfort on both sides. Now only 1199, save 400. Ends soon. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. Announcer this portion of today is brought to you by smuckers and jif, the official pb j of team u. S. A. The off j usa. Im joined by meryl davis. You know what it feels like for the skaters heading into the olympics. As a spectator, what do you make of team usa . Its an incredibly strong team. A lot of Big Decisions were made, hard decisions were made. I think its a strong team going into pyeongchang. Through the olympics, smuckers and jif will fuel team usa. Smuckers is donating 100,000 to team usa for present olympians, future olympians. Its been an incredible donation. Sport is very expensive. Anytime athletes get support and hen things like that, its very helpful. Some things go together like Peanut Butter and jelly, got us thinking, who is the Peanut Butter to your jelly. A spouse, a best friend. Who is yours . My Peanut Butter to my jelly is charlie, my skating partner of 20 years. Charlie has been by my side for 21 years. Im fortunate to have an awesome teammate. The Peanut Butter to my jelly is my 3yearold london, who has Peanut Butter on her face all the time. You can use the hash tag and head to the today shows facebook page. Lets head over to the gang. Willie is moisturizing. Seasonal cracked hands. Weve been talking about this. These are amazing. Im taking these. Do your hands feel better now . They smell, too. In a good way. Coming up, guess who is with us at 10 00. Tyra banks wile yeah. This is a news 4 today news break. 8 56 is your time now on this monday, january 8th, 2018. Good morning to you, im eun yang. This just into our newsroom, Ross Elementary School in northwest washington will be closed today because of flooding. Ross elementary in northwest closed today. Now we want to get a check on your commute with Melissa Mollet and your first 4 traffic. Good morning. A new problem on the melt bay, inner loop before marlboro road, crash blocking the left lane. Southbound 270 quite slow before shady grove, a crash on the right shoulder Still Closing slowdowns. In takoma park eastwest highway after New Hampshire avenue eastbound lane still closed for the water main break, one left bound lane is open. We will check your forecast when we come back. More. Youre doing great. [laugher] you look amazing. The egg white grill. So you can bring on the day. The egg white grill. So you can bring on the day. Good morning, were watching an area of mostly snow out to our west right now, as it comes over the mountains it may also mix in with some sleet or some freezing rain so be very careful for that. We do have a Winter Weather advisory from 1 00 p. M. Until 9 00 p. M. For today. Watch out for slippery roads. Much warmer weather comes our way later this week. [ applause ] good morning, everybody. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the show. Im megyn kelly. The Golden Globes. Did you watch last night . Okay. I did, as well. I watched most of it. It went on and on. Before i watched, i wasnt sure how i was going to deal because i knew they were gearing up to do this sort of protest. After i watched it, i will tell you, i felt a little conflicted. I 100 applaud the women who have come forward in this metoo movement, especially the women