It is now 6 am. Lets go back to the desk. A busy day on the roads and in the airports as Holiday Travelers make the last minute dash to get out of town. Are spinning their Christmas Eve journeying to where they want to be for Christmas Day. Oh my goodness. Is only 6 am and look at the line to get through security here. We have all of these people waiting to get through the metal detectors. There also sleeping bags and look at the line as it continues here. There people still filing in with these long lines. Give yourself plenty of time to get through security here this morning. It will be taking a while. I did get a chance to speak with travelers and they were keeping their spirits high. And said they are quite excited to get out of town for the holidays. We are so excited. We are going to disney world. You know, ive been hesitant to book this trip. But you know what, we are just going to do it. Its going to be an adventure and their frontier right now. We have the ponchos and umbrella
Rosemary will join us in about 15 minutes with a closer look at what we can expect for the rest of the week. Several people are dead and several others missing after a massive volcano erupted in new zealand. Many of them were tourists exploring the surface of working a. Kitty the e of the harrington reports one man from San Francisco was there. Reporter ash and steam thousands of feet into the air. Tourists and their guides scrambling to get on board. A helicopter, burned and destroyed. He just left the island. He was at the edge of the greater only 30 minutes earlier and posted this videos showing steam and gas pricing from the event. Tourists alessandro and alyssa also recorded this terrifying scene on their phone. People scrambling for safety in the boat as volcanic material searched towards them. Another boat turned to ashes and we were very, very lucky. Really lucky. Reporter around 50 people were on the island when the volcano erupted only 23 were rescued. Many of them suffered s
Emotional vigil. I once was lost those stories, plus royal release, Prince Phillip leaving a London Hospital this morning just in time for christmas with the queen while baby archie Takes Center Stage on his parents holiday card. Still shopping . Your best options today for finding those very lastminute gifts. And holiday singalong. There is just one thing i need savannah and hoda joining a starstudded tribute celebrating 25 years of Mariah Careys all i want for christmas is you. Is you, you baby today, tuesday, december 24th, 2019. From nbc news, this is and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today, thank you so much for joining us on this Christmas Eve morning. Kristen welker in for savannah and hoda all week. Merry Christmas Eve to you, and how about that video with savannah and hoda. Theyre having so much fun. I love that. I could watch that all morning long. If you know anything about either of them, you know thats just like a random wednesday nigh
Late thursday night into friday. The two systems coming in, 10th of an inch or less, another one thursday but not a lot from these systems unless you are to the north. 40s on the temperatures. 50 for some. Conquered 10. Compared to yesterday. Zero visibility for some. 50s on the temperatures. Where would you like to begin . We are going to start on the livermore commute, we have a problem in livermore were just outside of it. At dyer which is about one mile in. Vasco road, its going to be a tough commute because of crash, headon collision, one car is on fire on vasco road. If you use vasco road you need extra time or consider using highway 4 going the other way. I realize its a pain for the commute but i want to let you know. Nearby, i noticed 680 has gone to be a terrible commute getting out of pleasanton. Slow traffic, going to touch all of this in a few minutes when we come back. Back to the desk. Police in new zealand say there are no signs of life on white island after a huge volc
Labour on 203 with some significant losses from 2017. The snp performing strongly in scotland on 48. The lib dems on 11, a relatively poor performance by then, alluding their leader, jo swinson, plaid cymru projected to end the night on 4. So, a very good morning to you, and you are watching election 2019. And here at new broadcasting house in central london, we are going to have this mornings headlines. We say a very good morning to louise minchin. Thanks, huw, good morning. With more than 600 seats declared, the conservatives have won the general election, with their biggest majority since 1987. Labour meanwhile has had its worst performance in three decades. Labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn said he was disappointed and wouldnt lead his party into any future general election. It was a poor night too for the liberal democrats, whose leaderjo swinson lost her seat. Jessica parkers report contains flash photography. He knows it. The conservatives have w011 he knows it. The conservatives have