The santa monica day care is reopening their doors after a baby came down with the measles, but the doors are only open to those that are vaccinated. Other babies are home ordered to quarantine for 21 days and this day care outside of chicago four more babies are believed to have contracted measles. The staff was contacted to identify additional children with recent history of fever and or rash illness. The measles that was declared completely eliminated in the United States 15 years ago, more than 102 cases nationwide in this latest outback, measles could be serious leading to swelling of the head and even death, and all parentses are urged to vaccinate their children and a statement from autism speak they write vaccines do not cause autism we urge that all children be evacuated. For them to say the question is over, that vaccines do not cause autism. Some lawmakers want to give parents no choice but the vaccinate we should not wait for more children to sicken or die before we act. So
By noon it is here. By 2 00 it envelopes everybody. That is a mix of sleet and freezing rain. Well tell you when we think it will change to rain. It may be a late night and long weekend on capitol hill. Department of Homeland Security is facing a partial shutdown if congress cant agree how to keep it funded by midnight tonight. Today the Senate Passed a bill that would fund the agency through september. The house failed to pass a separate stop cap spending plan that would have funded the department for the next three weeks. Homeland security employees 230,000 people. If that funding runs out tonight, 30,000 could be furloughed. The others will have to go to work. They just would not get paid. D. C. Police are trying to figure out who shot a young man this afternoon. When officers got there they found a juvenile with that gunshot wounds. He was breathing when crews rushed him to the hospital. At this time police do not know who did it or why. Montgomery county judge today sentenced a ma
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 friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Well answer the age old question, what does the fox say . And well answer the question how long will it be before you get that song out of your head. Two to three days. Sunday. Exactly. Well get to that later on. Well get right to todays top story. Theres controversy around the Nobel Peace Prize being o warded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and not to Malala Yousafzai. Andrea mitchell has more on that. Good morning to you. Good morning. It is surprising and controversial. It effects politics and the concern that she was too young to be awarded the most prestigious prize. She might win it in the future. It set off anger and disappointment. She has made a profound difference for women living under the brutally of
Common touch. His impact so big, he was just named Time Magazines man of the year. This morning, incredible access behind closed doors, at the vatican. And the popes christmas message for everyone this morning. Only on gma. It is a special day here. Good morning, america. Two big stories this morning. Robin and josh, standing by at the vatican. And we have all the latest on that huge Mega Millions jackpot, as well. Were live from both locations where those Golden Tickets were sold. Lets do it. Here are the winning numbers. Write them down. 8, 14, 17, 20, 39 and the megaball, lucky number 7. San jose and atlanta. Were going to get to more of that later. Right now, lets get straight to the vatican. What a remarkable year it has been. The resignation of one pope. Elevation of pope francis turned out to be an electric leader for the worlds 1 billion catholics, sending a spiritual jolt around the world. Robin, josh, you made the journey to rome. Got to see behind the scenes at the vatican a
That political games have gotten in the way, and they are affecting how these kids are getting to the olympics. How many times will people get to the olympics in their lifetime, really . It is really sad. When i was growing up, the olympics were not a political statement, you know . I mean, they were friendship between global countries. Host thank you for all of your calls. Well be back for your comments tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. Enjoy the rest of your thursday. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] violent crashes have erupted again in the ukrainian capital of kiev shortly after a truce was appeared to have been reached last night. More than 20 people have been killed today, to bring the death toll to over 60 over the last several days. The head of the Security Administration resigned, saying we must the guided only by the interest of the people. This most recent update now, from the Associat