The season, today, monday, november 25th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im David Gregory. Happy to be here. Matt is off today. Im here with al roker and Natalie Morales as well. Did you guys see the game . It ended after midnight. Yeah, 12 20 a. M. Horrible first half. Tom brady did it again. I woke up for the end. Perfect. Perfect timing. That was just an amazing second half. And weather, a big factor in the game. Always about the weather with you. Listen, the weather is already the top story this morning because we have a big winter storm that could impact tens of millions of Holiday Travelers. We have full coverage including dylan dreyer and tom costello on the roads and the airports. But al, we will begin with you. Before this thing is over it will effect 25 states, 40 Million People and of course it wil
Somebody elses house . Is that were going to find out. Were going to find out. Before we get started in exactly 10 seconds, at right now. They did a study that said 10 01 is the time of day that you are the most productive. Its over by 10 02. Its over. The least productive time . 4 00 p. M. On tuesdays. 4 00 p. M. On tuesdays. I think its more like 4 00 p. M. On a friday when youre trying to get out of town. What do i know. You watched these last night . The American Music awards. I like them because there is so much theater, so many different outfits. So i was dying to see what people were wearing. First miley cyrus was coming out and i thought, oh, my god, i cant wait to see what shes wearing. You know what she wore . A suit, you said. A pantsuit. A simple White Versace she had clothes on. She looks so adorable in that. I wish she did that more often. They said, watch out for lady gaga, she wont even make it on the platform, her outfit is so huge. Well, heres what she was doing. She
Ridiculist. That was a good one. Tune in next week to see the top five. That does it for now. Time for piers morgan tonight. Piers morgans interview with tyler perry begins in just a minute. Im Candy Crowley in washington with the latest on the fiscal cliff negotiations. There was a big meeting at the white house today between the president and the four leaders, two republicans and two democrats on capitol hill. Senator harry reid told reporters afterwards that the next 24 hours would be very important, as he and republican leader Mitch Mcconnell try to put together something that would pass both of their caucuses, that republicans in the senate would vote for and that democrats in the senate would vote for. And then, of course, it would have to go to the house. Now, the majority leader senator reid said hes readying a bill for a vote on monday to prevent a tax hike on incomes up to 250,000. Senator reid said his bill will include all of the additional provisions that the president out
For democrats simply because what they would rather do is get a bill with senator reid working in conjunction with senator mcconnell. Senator reid said hes awaiting good faith proposals from the republicans. President obama said after the meeting that he is modestly optimistic a deal can be reached, but as you can hear from senator reid, the president asked that if a deal between republicans and democrats cannot be reached, then the president wants just an up or down vote on what he wants, which is quite simply no income tax rates going up for people making 250,000 and under. And an extension of longterm unemployment benefits. And thats of course for the longterm unemployed as well as whats known as a dock fix which has to do with medicare payments to doctors. Thats where we are. We dont expect anything big in the next 24 hours, but this is after all washington. So stay tuned right now, its time for piers morgan tonight. Tonight, tyler perry is a successful writer, director, actor. She
Goes. If you go and read, youll see a lot of parents. Like i dont mind if my kid stays up later if they are reading. Thats okay, yeah, they read till 11 00, so be it. Theres worse things to do in life than not. I think you can hold them through 11 and 12. Thats when it gets tricky with boys. At least if they read well, theres hope. They may pick it up later. They may get distracted. Some dont, but a lot do. The key thing is they develop the ability to read pretty well. I also know through your work on this whole Reading Initiative that you have i know theres teachers out there as well, and that you have its not the schools. Exactly. [laughter] i know theres programs within the schools you acknowledged as being some that are really quite great. There happens to be i happened to see her walking in my 4th grade teacher is here, mrs. Kay, now mrs. Harris. When i was in school, they did something, and it dawned op me they dont do it anymore. When i was in elementary school, they had the lib