Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. The big clean up. Before we talk about the weather, super bowl 50 is going to be a good one in a couple weeks. Its going to be a great one. This was a great weekend to sit around and watch football because everybody was snowed in. This is the first nonelastic waistband ive had on all weekend. It demanded where you lived on the east coast. An hour apart from one another, you got basically nothing where you live upstate. And we got two feet where i live. Crazy weekend. Yeah. Our top story, the recordsetting blizzard. Effects of the storm, far reaching from the carolinas to new england. We have it covered from every angle, beginning with al roker, who is in snowy central park for us. Al, good morning to you. Good morning, guys. Thats right. Potential and even exceeded it. In fact, we had to up our amounts as the storm bo
Rae has the morning off. Lukas millions of people along the east coast are scrambling to dig themselves out of the snow and ice after this weekends crippling winter storm. The blizzard killed at least 14 people. Grounded thousands of flights. And shut down several of the nations largest cities. Chris welch has the latest. All along the east coast the diligent hum of digging can be heard. Nats and scraping. Nats and of clurse plowing. Crews trying to clear roads. mayor Muriel Bowser washington while we have made some progress there is still a lot more to do. Washington dc schools and the City Government are closed monday. As is the federal government. While some of the citys transit will be back up and running. The dc mayor cautioned residents about one of the big concerns in the coming days black ice. mayor Muriel Bowser washington we expect that with the temperature dropping tonight and every night this week that we will se continued slick and dangerous roadways, so of the roadways. I
Campaign. The battle for the democratic nomination also fierce Hilary Clinton now finds herself in an increasingly competitive race against bernie sanders. Nat Hillary Clinton i will promise you this if you give me the boost in the Iowa Caucuses to send me on the way to the nomination, i will come back often to campaign to win iowa in november. This morning on meet the press, Hillary Clinton also Michael Bloomberg entering the president ial race and Michael Bloomberg, your reaction to his potential candidacy . Hillary clinton hes a good friend of mine. And im going to do the best i can to make sure that i get the nomination and well go from there. Chuck todd so youre not worried about him getting in . Hillary clinton well, the way i read what he said is if i didnt get the nomination, he might consider it. Well, im going to relieve him of that and get the nomination so he doesnt have to. Republican president ial candidate Carly Fiorina is under fire after using a group of iowa pre schoo
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Democratic president ial candidates will take the stage together tonight one last time before the iowa caucuses. Hillary clinton, Martin Omalley and Bernie Sanders take part in a town hall at Drake University in des moines, iowa. Theyll answer questions individually. This is the last Democratic Forum before iowas february first caucuses the first in the nation. The Des Moines Register newspaper announced its endorsements for the republican president on saturday. The paper picked Hillary Clinton because they say no other candidate can match the depth or experience. They praised her work as a party lines to fight for job creation and universal health care. On the republican side. The endorsed senator marco rubio because they say he has the potential to chart a different direction for the gop. They praised his ideas on improving the economy. Education system. And social programs. They say he represents the partys best hope. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton campaigned in marion, iowa