We were here when it arrived and now were hours away from setting the worlds most famous Christmas Tree aglow wednesday, december 3, 2014. 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 wednesday morning. Gangs all here early and will be late tonight for a great event. Yes. Getting lit as usual this time of year, a lot of stars going to help us light up the Christmas Tree. Goes on and on. I was saying our rendition of joy to the world. You havent lived until you heard it. Should be fun. Lets start with our top story this morning. Its that dangerous situation in california, caused by one of the strongest storms to hit that state in years. Nbcs jacob rascon is east of los angeles. Good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. Its a rain california desperately needs but not like this. The fear is that at any moment the rain and the mud on the hillsides behind me that have been sc
independent square. there are already visual reports of more explain protesters there, and police abandoned an edge of the square. that s when the clashes erupted once again with molotov cocktails. fireworks as well exploding there, and reports of snipers from the opposition. now, field hospitals have been set up in motel lobbies, and at least 20 police officers have been injured. one of the enduring images from wednesday s violence, a lone woman standing her ground throwing rocks against the line of riot police. fighting continues despite a negotiated truce between the opposition and ukraine s president. there was supposed to be a diplomatic meeting between e.u. officials. that did not happen. joining us now live from london, nbc news correspondent amman mojadin. let s talk about the e.u. diplomatic meeting that was supposed to take place and didn t. well, as you mentioned right now, the violence is once again escalating on the streets of kiev. particularly in the square.