From the captains farewell to a major dose of puppy love. A look back at the best ads of the year today, wednesday, december 31, 2014. 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 wednesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist along with Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. The rest have the morning off. The gates to times square open at 11 00 a. M. Some will be out in the cold for 13 hours waiting for the ball to drop. I think i see matt lauer waiting there. He never misses it. 2014 almost done. Stick a fork in it. Going to be cold. Really cold. December was pretty mild, now all of a sudden were talking about brutally cold temperatures. Our top story this morning, investigators believe they may have located the wreckage of airasia flight 8501 on the ocean floor off the coast of borneo. Despite some progress in the Recovery Efforts there are more questions than answers a
Palace. What they might be worried about. Major dose of puppy love a look back at the best ads of the year today, december 31st 2014. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im willie geist along with Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. The gates to times square open at 11 00 am. Some people will be standing out there in the cold for 13 hours waiting for the ball to drop. I think i see matt lauer there waving. He never misses it. Yes, 2014 almost done. Stick a fork in it. Its going to be cold out there. Really cold. December is pretty mild. Now were talking about brutally cold temperatures. Well talk about that in a moment. Top story this morning, investigators believe they may have located the wreckage of airasia flight 8501. There are more questions than answers about the flights final moments. Katy tur has the late theft
Moved from the house to the senate. The majority leader harry reid says he is hopeful for a compromise soon, one that will break the budget impasse before default. I want to bring in al jazeeras john terret joining us from capitol hill. I hope you have a record player because i have a record i would like to sell you, albeit a broken record reporter i am going to go get one after this broadcast in the light of what you said. Thats for sure. We could lead a long playing record into the we small hours. There is a lot happening, but there is no real progress. The headline news, i think, is we just heard in the past few minutes with harry reid, the majority leader in senate had a telephone call with his republican counterpart, mitch mccog. We are told it was cordial. We know they met face to face yesterday. Today, we are told they simply agreed to keep on talking. We are also told that nancy pelosi, the minority leader in the house had a telephone call with president obama today at which th
Good to have you with us. With the house of representatives taking the day off, todays attempts to end the Government Shutdown and raise the debt ceiling are focused in the senate. The two sides remain far apart. Senators have spent the day laying out their positions, both on the floor and in talks behind closed doors. There has been talks of a shortterm increase in the debt ceiling, which the country is scheduled to hit on thursday, october 17th. But a white house Statement Issued after president obama spoke by phone with House Minority leader nancy pelosi praised her efforts to pass a oneyear increase hinting that the Administration May reject any attempt to fix the problem for only a few weeks or months. John terrett following the process from capitol hill. There seems to be a lot of talking but very little action. What actually went on this weekend . Any progress . Reporter there has been some progress, but its pretty miniscule. Its kind of tough to find. We know, for example, harr
Is generally not a conservative thing. Journalism tends to draw to be fair to say people are more liberal. Bad news is good for cartoonists because it gives us paula of fodder but i would rather work harder and have less bad news and no we are going in the right direction and i think we are not going in the right direction. I feel like it is the real calling for me to get my opinions out there. This weekend on cspan is not not all fun and games for editorial cartoonists. Here wyatt and 00 eastern. Cspan2s booktv, the life of outlaw jesse james and the infamous james younger game tonight at 7 45. On cspan3s American History tv four decades after watergate a look and nixon and the saturday night massacre sunday afternoon at 1 00. Next on booktv, fred gray, the attorney for rosa parks recount his career and involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. This is all little over an hour. To each of you who have come this evening i want to thank you for coming. I recognize the fact there are many