Live. Its sunday, december 22nd, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Im lester holt alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. Folks, it is in the 60s right now in new york. Did i hear you say this morning weve already broken the record today . The record in central park is 63 degrees. Were already on the plaza 67. Weve already annihilated the record. There are other people in other parts of the country saying no, no, not where we are. Three days until christmas. The wild weather, the last thing people traveling all over, here in new york and in the northeast its warm. The Central Plains have been slammed with ice and snow. Two killed in mississippi where wild weather also damaged several homes, knocked down trees and left tens of thousands without power. That, of course, is creating chaos for holiday travellers from the gulf coast into eastern canada.
Experience and were working around the clock. Target says that hackers stole data from about 40 Million People who shopped at its stores between november 27th and december 15th. We have a deal. B. A. R. T. And its unions reached a tentative agreement today on the controversial family provision. Heres a look. A bereavement leave policy expands the list of deceased relatives and workers get paid time off for the death of a grandchild or the stepparent of a spouse. In another item, break rooms get upgrades at three b. A. R. T. Stations and a third feature allows workers more flexibility in how they pay for family medical leave. The unions say theyll take the deal to their members. We have a general agreement with b. A. R. T. On some issues that were in the contract. B. A. R. T. s general manager put out a statement saying quote eat servic bay area during the peak hoy period and beyond. Ac transit also has a tente Labor Agreement with its bus drivers. The union presented the transit also h
We will take a closer look at the google buses and the tech backlash with a political consultant who says its not just tack and not the first time. We will talk about jerry brown and is he going to give the white house another run. We were talking earlier, do the democrats need a plan b other than hillary . While hear from our political insiders. Lets look at our weather this morning. It will be another nice day in the bay area if youre traveling or shopping. Heres a live look at the bay bridge patchy fog, temperatures chilly, 39 in redwood city, 34 in napa, and 37 in the livermore valley. We can expect a mostly clear a with a patchy fog burning off. Well see sunshine today and mild temperatures, and dry weather through christmas day. More fallout from the card hacking that hit target, j. P. Morgan chase is limiting use of debit cards for customers. Chase atm debit withdraws for potential victims of the breach are temporarily limited to 100 a day, purchases are limited to 300 per day.
Schieffer one of the things we all you a degree on here at face the nation is that we all love the news, but the other thing is, we tall really love a good book. Sometimes when the news is so bad we dont even like to talk about it. I advise people just read a good book. We thought wed gather some of our favorite authors today, all of whom have new books out this year, to talk about books and writing. Michael connelly has written 18 harry bosch mysteries. About the lincoln lawyer. Terry mcmillan how stella got her groove back has new one ought who asked you. George saunders writes short storiesi has new collection is the 10th of december. And its on the New York Times book review top ten list for 2013. Finally our old friend Rick Atkinson who i knew when you used to be just a reporter now he is a Pulitzer Prize winner, finished his liberation trilogy, the guns at last night which focuses on western europe and the end of world war ii. His series the army at dawn were honored to have all
We are alive tonight in oakland with details of a new request. Reporter the lawyer representing this family sent a threepage letter to the hospital with certain requests about keeping her alive and family members are inside and meeting with the hospital. Here is what the family wants. Medical records, nutrition tube and that they dont make any moves until after christmas and if they do so, to notify us so we can seek an injunction to stop it. Reporter she went brain dead last thursday according to the hospital after her surgery to get her tonsils out the family wants medical records because they want second and third opinions from other doctors who tell them there are i do want to comes braindead and their still may be held. The lawyer says they may bring this battle to a judge but they are not guaranteed that she will be kept alive through christmas. They have been informed that if they dont agree to give us that time, the 48 hour notice, i am going in tomorrow morning for an injuncti