And Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side Natalie Morales and al roker at his weather post. Well check in with you in a few minutes. We have former Vice President dick chaney here this morning. Hes in our green room. If you look at him now and think about how he looked the last time he was on the show, it tells the story. He was here about three years ago and i said dont take this the wrong way but you look a lot better than you did then. He had major Health Problems and discusses at lot of those and how severe they were in this new book. He received a new heart. He is very open about how close he came to death. Well talk to him in a few minutes. Well get to that later on. Lets get to todays top story and al, its the hurricane called raymond. Nobody loves raymond in this case. Especially our friends down in mexico. This is the first major hurricane in the pacific. We
So i get out before this plummets. Well, should we drink to that . Yes my dear friend andy medina was on the show on friday. He made an unbelievable pumpkin dip thing that was everybody went crazy for. Everyone loved it. What else did they go crazy for . Andy makes a margarita thats crazy, okay . It is so soaked in lime, he takes limes and just squeezes them. Fresh lime juice. It was delicious. Everyone said on the website, where was the margarita. Thank you for the dip but we need something to wash it down. We posted it on the website. Klgandhoda. Com youll see lots of lime and deliciousness. Id like andy to come back quite often. When he came into our lives he could barely, barely boil water. Now he can make anything. I always call him martha when hes in the kitchen. But hes amazing. So fun to have him back. You guys, theres been some video circulating. Its angered a lot of people. There are scout leaders, as you guys know, who were glen taylor in particular, who shall remain nameles
A. M. On the east coast. Cnn newsroom starts right now. Now we go to havana, cuba. Patrick oppmann is live from hava havana. He is the only u. S. Tv correspondent live in cuba. He is there talking about the death of fidel castro. This picture youre seeing right there, the last public picture that we have of fidel castro that was taken just ten days ago. Patrick, here is what i want our viewers to understand is so extraordinary about your presence there. This happened overnight. Many people there werent watching television. Some people dont have internet. So when you asked them their reaction for about the death of fidel castro, you were essentially telling them at that moment he died they did not know. That is an stroort position to be in. Help us understand what their reactions were. Reporter yes. And i have to say having lived here for five years you run through how this is all going to play out the scenario you expect of this major news event that you expect one day to cover. Never