captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m amy robach. take a look at this live in minneapolis, minnesota, where the snow has been falling. it may bring some 20 inches to the city. we ll have the latest on all the winter weather coming up. reminder to what is coming in the weeks ahead. today the funeral of elizabeth edwards. there s the church in raleigh, north carolina, where later today the service will take place. hundreds gathering to remember her life. we ll speak to a family friend. amanda knox is back and forth today. just moments ago she spoke out telling the judge she was innocent. we ll have much more on her emotional statement. we ll speak to her parents about the appeal coming up. plus the fallout continues from this royal attack. student protesters pelted the limo carrying prince charles and his wife camilla. what does it say about the royal security and what imp
is. we ll tell you what he said today, saturday, december 11th, we ll tell you what he said today, saturday, december 11th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. and i m amy robach. take a look at this. live in minneapolis, minnesota where the snow has been falling. it may bring some 20 inches to the city. we ll have the latest on all the winter weather coming up. reminder to a lot of us winter is coming in the weeks ahead. also the theater of elizabeth edwards. here s the church in raleigh, north carolina, where later today the service will take place. hundreds will gather to remember her life. coming up we are going to speak to one of her friends and find out how she will remember mrs. edwards. and then we re going to head to italy, where amanda knox is back in court today and actually just moments ago, amanda spoke out telling the judge she was innocent. we ll have much
exclusive live interview. and a new song by michael jackson is released this morning more than a year after his death. his family members say it may not be the real thing. all that and more early this monday morning, november 8th, 2010. good morning. it s a chilly monday morning here in new york but we re looking at live pictures from india. president obama is about to address parliament there as we say, these are the world s two biggest democracies. plenty at stake on the president s visit to india. one of the things that he says is the reason he s there, he s there traveling with dozens of important business leaders and we think about india and outsourcing, he says this is going to be a visit that will promise tens of thousands of jobs back to the united states. we ll have more on that in a bit. that s the longest he spent in any foreign country so it says a lot. i m maggie rodriguez with harry smith. we re going to take you to connecticut where today a jury continues
amanda knox leaves her prison cell to face charges. friday, october 1, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, welcome to today on a friday morning. i m actually surprised to see so many people out there because it s not just raining, it is pouring and it is windy too. we got to go out there and hand out gold stars or plastic bags, one of the two because it is a mess out there. this is just a taste of what they received down in north carolina. get this, 12 inches of rain in just six hours in the city of jacksonville, 22 in wilmington this week. that s the highest total in nearly 140 years and as we said, it s been a deadly storm, it s caused all kinds of problems including road closures and power outages as well. we re going to get to al s forecast in just a moment. but in new jersey a driving rain has been falling for much of the morning. mara, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, meredith, this monster storm is wreaking havo
good morning everyone. welcome to today on saturday. i m lester holt. i m amy robach. so sad to hear about gary coleman. dana plato committed suicide. her son recently committed suicide. such a charming show, but a horrible history in the wake of that. a lot to tell you about. we ll talk about the scene the nation continues to watch. officials at bp say they won t know until tomorrow if their latest attempt of top kill has worked. the federal government has now closed 25% of the fishing waters in the gulf of mexico. that s more than 60,000 square miles. everyone has been looking at the video. we saw it brown earlier in the week. it looked dark to me there. i m not an expert. we ll find out what they have to say. a lot of people watching on the internet. in december, amanda knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison for the murder of her roommate. italian prosecutors are headed back to court. there s also an issue over something amanda said that the prosecutors are