Republicans who range from dick durbin of illinois, great progressive democrat, and coburn of oklahoma, a progressive conservative, and five dems, five republicans, one independent, thats a super majority. And for gods sake, the reason we were so successful is we effectively pissed off everybody in america. Congratulations, sir. Kudos. Kudos to you. Good morning. Its thursday, december 6th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, msnbc political analyst, former democratic congressman, harold ford jr. Mr. Professor. Good morning. Professor. And we have former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, Steve Rattner. Financier. Rattner is here. I like and we have to go back to that. Its the truth. It is money is money. In washington, msnbc and time senior political analyst, Mark Halperin. We saw him on the streets of d. C. Yesterday, and he was very cagey. The mean streets of d. C. Yes. He was so cagey. He was. Yes. Yes. You cant ever ask those guys what theyre doing, wherever t
Weapons for the possible use against the military people in the form of aerial bombs. Jim miklaszewski reports. Reporter as the fighting grows more intense and Syrian Rebels close in on damascus, the Syrian Regime has turned increasingly desperate. U. S. Officials tell nbc news the Syrian Military loaded the precursor chemicals for sarn nerve gas into aerial bombs. That could be dropped from dozens of syrian fighter bombers. This week u. S. Intelligence detected a flurry of activity at chemical weapons sites like this one. While u. S. Officials confirm the precursor chemicals are loaded, they must still be mixed together to create the deadly sarin gas. The development shook the world. President obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton issued strong warnings to syrias president assad that there would be serious consequences if he used chemical weapons. Its the point of no return. Theyre going to lose any sort of backing that they had from the chinese and russians in terms of blockin
A live look outside. Good morning, anny closed captioning provided by production west. Www. Prodwest. Comwe havd conditions and for thisomwe havd evening, harley cloudy. At we take a look at partly cloudy. The fog tracker 4 by 10 00 a. M. Were still dealing with that for most of the bay area. With breaks of sunshine and for the evening hours we will see it hovered over the bay and portions of the sesouth bay valley, with 50s in the novado, and the east bay shores. And putting the clock ahead towards a 7 00 a. M. Those wide spread 50s. With the 60s expected. For those headed of this evening temperatures are going to drop down to widespread fiftys indicated by the light blue on your screen it. The highs will be low 60s as well as the east bayshore. 60s in half moon bay. And mainly low 60s in the santa rosa, novado, 59 degrees expected for downtown San Francisco. As we take a look at your your kron 4 7 day around the bay and plenty of dry days ahead and even some sunshine. Good morning. N
Thursday, december 6th, 2012. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Gurthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a thursday morning, im Savannah Gurthrie. And im matt lauer. Nice images to see out of london over the past couple of days. Weve been watching duchess of cambridge. She seemed a little shaky as she held the railing. Were going to have more on that story and, of course, the ridiculous prank played out by the deejays later on. Good job, Prince William with the flowers. A story we covered a few months ago. Two bodies discovered in a wooded area in iowa on wednesday. While authorities believe they are the remains of two young cousins who vanished back in july. On a different note, an important rossen report investigates for travelers. How thieves can easily get past the lock on your hotel room door. And this is really easy. Very scary story. And then have you ever been to a restaurant and walked in and rea
Good evening. We begin with another big bulletin about the recordbreaking heat and the melting at the north pole. A new study shows a global thaw under way, affecting everyone on the planet. And it comes today as we learn how little snow there is here in the United States. As the temperatures here keep rising and the records keep falling. Abc abcs meteorologist ginger zee tells us whats going on. Reporter nearly snowless in december. Right now, only 7 of the United States is covered in snow. Thats even less than this time last year, when 32 of the nation was laced in winter white. Not enough snow means no skiing. Yet. This resort in Washington State has had to wait. Impatiently. To get our show on the road here. Reporter less snow helped make it even warmer this past week. Almost 700 record high temperatures have been set in the past five days. All of that will contribute to 2012 likely becoming the warmest on record in the lower 48. While one week or one season can not tell a climate