from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning. i m savannah guthrie along side al roker and tamryn hall. it s kind of an unusual morning around here. it is. we arranged to do an interview with paula deen. the discussions were going on throughout the day yesterday. i spoke to her late afternoon on the phone yesterday and we talked about the fact it would be an open and candid discussion. no holds barred. all questions within the bounds of what we would talk about and she flew to new york. arrived here last night and we started to hear she was exhausted and this morning, although we have not spoken to her, she has not called us, her publicity people have told us she is exhausted and will not be showing up, so that s where we stand right now. this is in the wake of course of some revelations that she used racial colors i
good morning. welcome to today on monday morning. i m savannah. one of those> snowden is still believed to be in hong kong, although the white house can t find him. i can tell you that i don t know where he is right now. under pressure, the national security agency will be declassifying more secrets today. as the debate over the program rages in congress. it s important that the american public know what s being done in their name. it is protesting the united states from terrorist attacks. reporter: many lawmakers want more privacy protection. once the fbi gets the nvgs, then the question is who can look at it? . reporter: while the administration assesses the damage this morning from former cia and fbi chief michael hayden. i thiwhat they learn is what we re not allowed to do and the reporter: there are unconfirmed reports this morning that edward snowden has applied for asylum. british officials say they haven t seen enough of the new documents in t
just as he is about to meet with fellow g-8 leaders and talk about trade and economy in syria comes the new revelation from edward snowden. it could make things awkward. let s get to andrea mitchell who is covering this for us. good morning to you. good morning. edward snowden has struck even. he is released documents on high level spying on foreign leaders including the then president of russia. reporter: yet another disclosure that great britain spied on world leaders at two london summit in 2009. one of them targeted the then russian president. protestors outside the u.s. kons lit in hong kong were demonstrating in support of snowden, the acknowledged nsa leaker. i think a great person is willing to expose this. reporter: china is encouraging support for snowden ever since he told a chinese newspaper last week that the u.s. hacked into computers there for years. on fox, dick chaney who helped institute it and congress rejected the surveillance program. i think
great. i didn t see the first run but i saw them on video. and interestingly enough, noelle neil played lois lane and went to play in the tv series. can you google these names for me. yeah. you went to hershey park. greatest. yeah. it was incredible. we stayed at the hotel hersheys. you get chocolate everything. you bar when you check in. we all got a hershey bar and if you stay at the hotel you get to go into the park an hour before it opens to the public. when i tell you we were the first four people inside the park. it was the truth. it was like grizwald. do kids try to bite that guy. when it gets to a 90 degree day is he trailing all over the place. apparently only 15 minutes they can be in those costumes. i don t know if it s the same as all of these parts but it s about 15 minutes. wouldn t you love to see a brawl between him and the two m&m guys. oh, yeah. they gang up on him. a little chocolate throw down. only you al. hershey park, if you