Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Today we will answer the ageold question thats stumped people for generations, what does the fox say . And well answer the question how long will it be before you get that song out of your head . Two to three days. Sunday. Exactly. Well get to that later on. We want to get right to todays top story. Theres controversy around the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and not to a 16yearold girl named Malala Yousufzai. Andrea mitchell has more on that. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. It is surprising and controversial. The decision seems to reflect both politics and the committees concern that malala was too young to be awarded the worlds most prestigious prize. She migh
October 17th, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today, im savannah guthrie. Im matt lauer. I love to paddle board. My whole body freezes up when ipad l over a jellyfish. Can you imagine what you would feel. Meantime, we show you a live shot from washington. Here is something we havent seen. Federal workers coming out of the metro center, returning to work. 400,000 of them will now that the shutdown is over. At least one guy. Last night, after midnight, now, obviously, this cost so much money. We have 400,000 people going back. National parks going to open up again. Some will take longer than others. This has been a huge political fight, what its cost the u. S. Economy. Experts say it is in the billions. The reopening of the government is the top story. Lets get to Peter Alexander, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning to you. The countdown clock is finally off the screen. This is the message sent o
About her . She speaks her mind. She does. Frank and i stayed for a very rare night out in new york last night. We went to the center for media event in honor of Pat Summerall who everybody adored. He was a great broadcaster. Fine football player. Franks colleague and remained friends although years. The nfl does such great movies on every, you know. And pats wife was there and his family and it was very, very moving to see a persons whole life in one hour basically there they are. That obviously was not last night because pat passed away last april. But anyway, it was lovely. Rarely do we go out at night. Went to gabriels afterwards. Youre very busy. I know. So if you happen to see the daily news today, and who is not looking at that, we have been degraded. Demoted . No, were no longer brilliant. We have fun doing it with them. Theyre great people. So we had fun with that. We have a big reunion coming up. And if youre fans of will and grace, and who isnt, we are going to have Eric Mcc
Board. A pad hdle boarder gets up a close with a great white. We will talk to him about that encounter. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today. Im savannah guthrie. Im matt lauer, i like to paddle board, my whole body freezes up when i paddle over a jellyfish. So can you imagine what you would think if you paddled over a great white shark . No. In walk, here is something we havent seen in twoandahalf weeks, federal workers coming out of the metro center, returning to work, 400,000 will now that the shutdown is over. At least one guy. What do you mean . The president signed the bill after midnight, now, obviously, this has cost so much money. 400,000 people going back, National Parks will open up. Some longer than other, but back in business. This is a huge political fight. When up look at what it cost the u. S. To go through this, experts say it is in the billions. Reopening t
Trial, and well talk with John Fugelsang in hour number three. Also dcc i also get that wrong, Dccc Steve Isreal calls in to talk about the gop house caucus. In the meantime here she is Jacki Schechner in the current news center. Good morning, everybody. Happy friday. The jury starts deliberation in the George Zimmerman trial today. The prosecution tried to convince jurors that George Zimmerman was not in imminent lifethreatening danger. They honed in on statements following the deadly altercation. Now the defense gets three hours to wrap up its case and will argue that zimmerman is not a racist and was was being beaten when we fired his shot. Were going to head over to russia now and check in on Edward Snowden who has invited people to come visit him in his new home in the moscow airport. He sent a letter to human rights organizations to join him in the center of the arrival hall in terminal f. An airport staff member will be waiting to vet invitees who will be asked to bring an copy