dangerous place and now i m going to be doing that. no, no, no. i m learning. we re going do a little piece on it later. you are? yeah. anyway, we want to thank anybody who s come on our facebook page. a lot of people are congratulating you on your broadway show. i know. thank you, everybody. they re already buying tickets. remember, we told them the code word today. thank you, everybody. i m reading this part but i m not sure i agree with it. we re even grateful to jean pelgrin hudson. she sent a photo and named her chicken after me. why? that is rude. well, what did come first? the chicken or hoda? okay, okay. here s the that s rude. that s rude. the hairdo. that s rude. okay. here s the thing. you could be a rock star. they all wear their hair like that now. okay. first of all, you need to stay off twitter, okay? do not follow her @kathielgifford. do not follow me. i tweeted kim. i tweeted ellen. so they could retweet. and i could beat you o
is michael jordan laughing today if matt can be like mike, why is michael jordan laughing today tuesday august 14th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on tuesday morning. i m savannah guthrie. he s not really like mike. no, not even close. i m matt lauer, the unofficial the official announcement is expected later today. chris christie says he s already grinding away on what will be his keynote address at the republican convention. in vintage christie style the governor says he will tell some direct and tough choices to americans. meanwhile paul ryan was met with cheers and a few jeers in iowa at his first solo campaign stop. straight ahead we ll talk about the presidential race with former republican candidate newt gingrich. also, is your home s deck a hidden hazard? we ve seen a number of collapses of decks across the country. experts are sake it s because decks aren t built right. coming up, how to spo
270 is a rough ride in. with temps in the 40s, we sit at 50. mid-50s south of town. highs today only around 60. it is 6:00 a.m., we have traffic issues to deal with. here s angie goff. you re right about that, howard. we kick off this new hour, the yellow light stays on. we re still tracking that tie- up on the inner loop in virginia. let s take you there. show you the live conditions. we have the crash activity involving a tractor trailer. you can see it right there on the bottom of your screen. causing you major back-ups here because only a couple of right lanes of traffic able to squeeze by. so, we re definitely slowing down starting at the braddock road exit. you re looking from 23 to 30 minutes to make it from braddock road past the scene. moving over to more crash activity, we re tracking, we take you to northeast d.c. michigan avenue at franklin street, the cash out here has possible lanes blocked. crews on the scene. may want to avoid the area. checking on your dela