captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, everyone. welcome to a special split edition of today, 7:00 a.m. on the west coast on a wednesday. i m matt lawer in new york. meredith has made her way to london s trafalgar square this morning. good morning to you. reporter: hey, matt. pleasure to see you. you can see behind me big ben and westminster abbey where the couple will be married. this morning at about 5:00 a.m. 5,000 members of the military did a full dress rehearsal along with a marching band, although the marching band did not perform. also the carriage that may take the royal couple back from the abbey to the palace once they are married on friday. we re going to have a lot of details on the wedding to come. also we ll take a look at that picture of william and catherine driving themselves back to lond london. what s up with that? thank you very much. we ll get back to you in a moment. breaking news out of the white house as president ob
planters peanuts commercial. you look good in the top hat. anyway, we are here in studio 1a. natalie is in the heart of london in trafalgar square with the latest on the preparations for the royal wedding now only two days away. you look really excited, matt. debuting the morning tails. that s the perfect look. you will be very apprapos. they finished up this morning a full dry run of the procession. you will see a little bit about the preparation. what was interesting was seeing kate middleton, the bride herself, at the wheel, driving herself back from her house in bucklebury down to london where she s getting ready. you can only imagine her nerves right now. she looks calm and pretty cool as a cucumber there with her sister pippa. i have a preview of the final preparations here in a little bit. great, natalie. we ll check back in a couple of minutes. talking about saving money. our money 911 experts are in the house to help answer financial questions whether you a
britain s armed forces hold a full walk-through to prepare for the event today, wednesday, full walk-through to prepare for the event today, wednesday, april 27, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to a special split edition of today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer in new york. as you heard, meredith made her way to london s trafalgar square. good morning. hey, matt. good morning to you. the square will be filled with thousands of people on friday. you can see behind me big ben and westminster abbey where the couple will be married. 5,000 members of the military did a full dress rehearsal this morning along with the rolls royce kate will take to the abbey and the carriage the royal couple will take back once they are married if it doesn t rain. that was the open carriage. the marching bands were there but didn t play music. in half an hour the royal air force will practice the flyover it will do after the kiss. it will fly ov
people so they re really going to exceed that figure. what the broader implications are for california and the rest of the country really remains to be seen but obviously a huge optimistic tone here in california and silicon valley. going to be hearing a little bit more about facebook in a few minutes. all right. dan simon, thank you so much. well, it is back. that is right. the cnn challenge that is we re going to test how much you re in the know. so here s a question one of our producers chose. did hugh heffner leave the date off of the first issue of playboy? why? it was forgotten during the cover design, he didn t know if the magazine would succeed, adding the date cost extra at the printers, he wanted the first issue to be timeless? the answer straight ahead. time now for the help desk. joining me jock otter the executive editor of money watch.com and carmen ulrich
toyota s electronics and software. the company recalled 8 million cars, trucks and suvs, and it blames driver error. the government connects 93 deaths to done acceleration. winter, back on the attack again today. a big snowstorm sliding out of the rockies into the plains. oklahoma could see a foot of fresh snow. dallas will get broadsided for the second time this month. when michael jackson s doctor goes on trial next month, you re actually going to be able to watch that on tv. a los angeles judge will allow cameras for the involuntary manslaughter trial of dr. conrad murray. jury selection begins march 24th. murray says that he is innocent. at the capitol hill today, committees are looking at bills to restrict abortions. one denies federal money for abortion period and the other prevents abortions under the new health care reform law. a presidential executive order already bars funding under the law except in cases of rape or incest. here is your chance to talk back