Lets get to a chur with nbcs Kristen Welker. Kiss ten, good morning to you. Good morning to you. Merry christmas, everyone. Tens of thousands of faithful gather today for Christmas Day celebrations at vatican as pope francis delivers his traditional message. Last night the pontiff celebrated Midnight Mass at st. Peters basilica and urged the worlds 1. 2 billion roman catholics not to be in his words intoxicated by possessions and also sounded a cry to right injustice. Today, american troops posted overseas are also taking time to Mark Christmas and remembering family members celebrating without them back at home. Heres nbcs Kelly Cobiella. Reporter it was a somber Christmas Day in afghanistan where they honored six Fallen Soldiers killed in a motorcycle bomb attack called earlier this week. Especially important here where we got the opportunity to remember those who we have also lost. Reporter more than 200,000 spending the holiday far from home in 100 countries on every continent, fro
And Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a chilly Tuesday Morning. I saw the bank thermometer, had to do a double take this morning, 11 degrees here. 11 degrees and yet you have the feeling people waking up in st. Louis, oakland and oakland. Lets get right to our top story. Tens of millions waking up to the chilliest morning of the season, below freezing temps from the deep south all the way to maine, and al is feeling the chill out on our plaza. Hey, good morning. I got caught off guard. I didnt have my coat. Matt actually lent me this coat. The weather man didnt realize it was going to get cold this morning. Wow, the headline is i can wear your coat i never thought that would happen. Anyway, hey, lets look at some winter snuck in a little earlier into massachusetts. I mean, this is duxbury. They had thats route 3 and they got some oceaneffect snow came in. Cars off the roads. Big problems yesterday and the snow is
Baby and other children. And let there be light. The worlds most famous Christmas Tree just hours away from lighting up Rockefeller Center today, wednesday, december 2nd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Big day here in Rockefeller Center. Going to be an even bigger night when about 300,000 people pack the streets behind us. They are all counting on one thing. Thats al rokers forecast for tonight, hoping there wont be rain when that Beautiful Tree gets all lit up. Al . Going to be nice. Were hoping that it is. Oh, not good. Uhoh. You know what happens if that switch gets wet. Yeah, a lot of disappointed folks. Well check in with al to get the forecast in a little while. Lets start with our top story on a wednesday morning. Days after the head of Chicagos Police Department Said he had the support of the mayor in the wake of that
About 11 degrees and windchill about 3 below. Brave people out there. You all deserve big hugs. Yeah. Willie is going to come out there and give you a biggal. Or we can brick them in and give them a big mug. Im not going out there. Maybe we had this coming it was so warm for so long. Now were getting hit with cold. Im willie along with natalie, al and tamron. Todays morning jam is . A coldplay song. Adventure of a lifetime. The video is spectacular. Always amazing. Super bowl performers, halftime show. Huge. Thats right. Guys, were less than four weeks to the Iowa Caucuses right now. Lets talk a little bit about what could be the next president. United states. Donald trump in a new nbc new survey monkey moll. Can i just say something. Survey monkey. Can we come up with a better name. They do a great job, al. Survey moaning, like opinion arrange tang, you know. We should find the back story. Good question. Wouldnt it be great if you went to their office and theres a bunch of chimps work
Shay stands to make millions if ohio voters legalize marijuana today, that is, if another measure boonlt doesnt kill his buzz. And hello record books. Hello from the other side thats adeles new single. She is crushing it. More downloads in its first week than any other song in history. And the countdown to her appearance in our studio is already on today, tuesday, november 3rd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. November 3rd, shes coming on november 25th, yes. Yeah. Sitting here, just wait. A lot of people into that song around youve been singing all morning. Kind of crushing it already, not in the same way though. Well wait for adele. Well let her sing that one. Absolutely. Our days top story, one year to go to the 2016 president ial election and the new poll has ben carson and Hillary Clinton surging and president obama is weighi