We have a pep rally going in seattle. Take a look. Live shot seattle, up early to root on theyre on the bottom of e screen. Were notreen. Were not making the game based onctions of th denver on the on placement. Denver o where ther top, another pep going on y going on. Is the first time allst timel that the men onhe men on the crew haveew have volunteered to outside outside and work at the stat the the show because look at at on rockefeller plaid rockefelr weve got cheerleaders from bn sid attendance. Researching how both side feel about sundays big game. Thank you, crew, for your dedication to be tside in the cold this morning. Course, of course, a lot more on gae game coming upin a few. We we certainly will. Right to our top story,da knor knox and her former boyfriend convicted of murder in an italian court, onceagain. Overnight, raffaele sollec overnight, Raffaele Sollecito was detained by police there. Nbcs keith millers in florence, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt
Groups of all time today, thursday, january 30th, 2014. Stayin alive 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 thursday morning. Im matt lauer. And im tamron hall with the dancing kings and queens, i guess we are this morning. Al roker and Natalie Morales. I am tweeting out sound tracks of a generation. I think the best sound track of all time, saturday night fever. Is that yours . The year was 1977. My suit was white, white flare on the legs and i stood against the wall because i still couldnt dance back then. A lot of hits came off that album. I wake up to the sound track every morning for the past 13 years. Its my wakeup. Thats my alarm. And their sound still today carrying into the music that were hearing and listening to. Well talk to barry gibb later on. Also more on those overnight terror arrests seven days away from the Olympic Games. But let us start with our top
Tonight. Democratic and republican aids are predicting that much. The senate wont even begin considering the house bill until late this afternoon in what is as much a partisan crisis as a fiscal crisis the country is barrelling toward its first shutdown in 17 years. Its decision day. Congress has until midnight tonight to avoid a Government Shutdown but no one is getting their hopes up. House republicans are refusing to fund the government unless the president s healthcare law is delayed one year. The American People deserve to have time to see what this will do before its implemented. And the house plan is a nonstarter for Senate Democrats or the president who huddled with advisors insisting republicans agree to fund the government without conditions. Dont shut down the government and fail to pay the governments bill with the debt ceiling. Reporter the democratic controlled senate didnt even meet sunday. The halls silent. Instead, theyll wait until this afternoon to reject the house p
At the live desk, im erika gonzalez. For now, all the districts 33,000 government workers will stay on the job tomorrow even with a shutdown. Mayor gray decided to tap into the emergency funds. The 134 million fund is made up of local dollars already approved to keep the city running two to three weeks. Last week, the mayor declared all city workers are essential. The white house has the final say on that. So far, they have not commented on that. Dont plan to visit monuments or memorials if the government shutsdown. They will barricade them. They will shut off dozens of fountains including the world war ii memorial. The boating community is going to be hit hard. The boathouses along the anacostia and potomac rivers are located on federal land. They will have to close even though they dont employ federal workers. Local high schools and colleges that keep their boats at the boathouses are going feel it, too. We have put a lot of work in. If they shut down the boathouse, we are out of luc
House as House Speaker John Boehners plan fails with just ten days until the fiscal cliff deadline. Markets trading lower on that news. Arcelar and skanska trading down. The mayan calendar counts down to that cataclysmic conclusion. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Lets take a look at how markets are trading. Stoxx europe 600 is down about. 6 this morning, this after word that House Speaker John Boehners plan b didnt come to a vote last night. He couldnt get them in place apparently. Well have plenty more on the impact of that on the program. Not much here, we see decliners well outpacing advancers. The ftse mib in italy down. 6 . The ibex down. 4 . The dax selling off. 5 lower than yesterday. Same goes for the ft. If it is, down. 8 . 5909. How quickly weve gone from talking about 6,000 to talking about 5,900. The german bund rallying. Same goes for the uk. Were seeing a rotation into safety, out of risk and out of spain and