we re back with more of today on this wednesday morning, the 2nd day of december 2009. great crowd here on the plaza enjoying the view in the distance of the rockefeller center christmas tree and so much more. and again, a condition around here, the 77th annual lighting of that tree happens tonight with a star-studded cast. we hope you will tune in. it is our unofficial start to the holiday season and impossible to get a taxi season as well. yes. i m matt lauer on the plaza along with al roker and natalie morales. coming up this half hour, we re going to talk about these e-mails that have now been shared with us by that virginia couple right there accused of crashing the white house state dinner last week. let s say that the e-mails showed that there was some ambiguity and perhaps some confusion. they thought they were invited to at least a part of that evening. what do you think? you let us know when you hear or read some of those e-mails. we ll do that in a few min