Yesterday, and we heard from important figures from politics and entertainment speaking in unison. President obama encouraging people to go to the movies. The last two republican candidates piping up, and mitt romney tweeting, dont cavein, fight. Rob lowe said, hollywood has done proud, while bill maher said that the nation was thrown under the bus. You are a policy man, washington man, a person of the beltway. What can washington do, if anything, to pick up this problem . Its a crazy situation. Who would have thought kim jongun would be the uniter, not a divider, bringing america together . Is that a subtle jab at George W Bush . Subtle one. It presents an interesting problem. This is a nation that barely has electricity, already economically isolated. The usual tools that you would apply to a rogue nation you cannot with north korea. There are a couple of things. Maybe they can lean on the chinese to interfere with financial transactions, stop some of their diplomats, but it is hard.
What theyre calling a careless stunt. And all dogs go to heaven. What pope francis said that has all tails wagging today, friday, december 12th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Our tails are wagging because of this story out of st. Peters square where the pope had an encounter with a young boy who was heartbroken over the loss of his dog. He kind of reversed catholic dogma when he said, in fact, all gods creatures can go to heaven. This is Dylan Dreyers dog, boscoe, in the orange room. Very happy about this. Survey says yes. Real good one to start this morning. Lets start with our top story out west, fierce storm leading to deaths and this mudslide that triggered evacuations in camarillo overnight. Miguel almaguer has been tracking this story. Good morning to you. Reporter very dicey and fluid situation outside los angeles. Sbrok mudslide