Dramatic finishes yet. Gold, sill skprver and bronze a with us today, thursday, february 13th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from olympic park in sochi, russia. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im savannah guthrie. And im matt lauer. Alongside Natalie Morales and al roker. Were going to take a deep breath. We are not going to gloat because once again were in the 60s in sochi, but you want contrast . Take a look at this. Lets go back to our plaza in Rockefeller Center. Its 31 degrees there, snow is falling. It has been falling for a while, and thats just one of the scenes from a storm that is blanketing a large portion of the country. Yeah, this huge winter storm is todays top story. More than 560,000 customers are without power this morning. The majority of them in georgia and south carolina. And already the airlines have canceled 4,500 flights natio
Reporter why . Theres more to life than this. Mary carillo shows the meaning of devotion. This was never supposed to happen. Hardworking families falling into homelessness. Reporter what made you not want to tell anybody else . I didnt want people to know about me. People who now tuck their children in at Homeless Centers and cant get out of there. They didnt do anything to sde deserve this. They didnt do anything. And a hard look at what america is ordering at amazon these days, and he still cant stop talking about the b. B. Gun he wanted as a boy. Plus, look at what just turned 40. And you and me are free to be you and me a cultural touchstone hits a birthday and are probably feeling pretty good about it right now. That and more as rock center gets under way. Good evening to rock center. The tree is lit up tonight. We keep hearing the holiday is roaring back this year. Everybody is hoping its a sign of a morro bust economy, but way too many families got caught and are still trapped i
The crippled cruise ship triumph limped towards mobile slower and later than expected, dragged along by four tug boats. Hours into the operation, a tow rope from one of the four tugs snapped. Another exhaustive setback for passengers. For their waiting families, more frustration. Its not a good scenario, but tell us the damn truth for what you know. We havent heard anything truthful yet, to my knowledge. Reporter as the ship crept closer to port, passengers desperation became visible. Signs made from bed sheets read s. O. S. And help us. On board, donna gutsman told us, there is much confusion. Very little has been right on time, or on point. So were having a hard time. Reporter gutzman took these photos showing the improvised tent city earlier this week, where passengers slept on the sun deck after the power went out. Soaked hallways and the plastic bags used in place of toilets. Theres sewer on the floors. Theres peeing and pooping in buckets and putting the bags outside our door. Re
Is it president obamas pick for secretary of defense . Or is it the man the American People have chosen . Is it about a confirmation or a desperate push to undermine the president s second term. Listen to those attacking senator hagel and youll hear the yelps of pain, this motley crew of neocons and the sun belt feel. What they hate, despise, really, is the fact that now in the history books, the American People voting in great numbers reject their warreich jinglistic notions of what america stands for. Their problem is with americas choice of who it wants to be president. Who it wants to sign. And what we should be doing in this world. Obama works for peace. He works hard for it. This crowd has other ideas. And thats hardball for now. Happy valentines, everybody. What a day. And thanks for being with us tonight. The ed show with ed schultz starts right now. Good evening, americans. And welcome to the ed show from new york. I get some backup tonight. James carville is here to explain w
Is it about a confirmation or a desperate push to undermine the president s second term . Listen to those attacking senator hagel, and you hear the yelps of pain this motley crew of neocons and rightwingers from the sun belt feel even though from the American Peoples choice of last november. What they hate, despise really, is the fact now in the history books that the American People in great numbers reject their warlike jingoistic notions of what america stands for. Their problem is not with obamas choice for a cabinet appointment. Their problem is with americas choice of who it wants to be president , who it wants deciding what we should be doing in this world. Obama works for peace. He works hard for it. This crowd has other ideas. And thats hardball for now. Happy valentines, everybody. What a day. And thanks for being with us tonight. The ed show with ed schultz starts right now. Good evening, americans. And welcome to the ed show from new york. I get some backup tonight. James ca