good morning, everyone. welcome to a special edition of today. 7:00 a.m. out on the west coast on this tuesday. i m matt lauer, alongside nbc news special correspondent meredith vieira. ann has this morning off. meredith, we were here about a year ago for the royal wedding and the other side of buckingham palace and this morning events have all the same feel to them. this is the fourth day of celebration it began on saturday with the horse race, sunday you had the flotilla, 1,000 vessels. it was cold, wet and rainy that day. of course monday night the concert that was right here outside buckingham palace. then today the service. it began with a church service at st. paul s cathedral just a short driving from buckingham palace but prince philip, the queen s husband of 64 years was not by her side. unfortunately he has come down with a bladder infection. he ll spen the next few days recov recovering in a london hospital. the archbishop said our prayers and very much with hi
and welcome to a very special edition of today on a tuesday morning. i m matt lauer alongside nbc special correspondent meredith vieira. ann has this morning off. and meredith, it doesn t seem like all that long ago, just about a year ago, in fact, that we were here together at buckingham palace just to give people a lay of the land. we are at australia gate here just to one side of the palace. and short time ago we were on the other side. exactly. the royal wedding, 1 million people lined the streets then, if you remember. i don t know if there will be that many today. but don t forget this is the fourth day of celebrating the queen s diamond jubilee and the people here absolutely love her. she has been their constant, in all these years of change, she has been the face that they turn to. and you ve been here for the previous days of celebration. and it s fair to say that today the tone takes a little bit of a different turn. absolutely. the first day saturday there
and circumstance. thousands of people lining the roads. it s a little bit like you leaving the today show, when that happened, if you remember. that was so sad. but you lured me back. but you know, it s, when that, when the procession arrives at buckingham palace, this crowd is going to go crazy. because the next thing after that obviously will be her eventually emerging onto the balcony for the fly-pass. if you re someone who knows the city of london and the sights, well then you will probably recognize some of the points of interest you ll see along that route. the processional will depart from the new palace yard up whitehall, to trafalgar square, through admiralty arch, along the mall, as they say here, and in to the main center gates of buckingham palace. and the queen will be riding, i believe, in that 1902 landau that prince william and catherine rode on the occasion of their wedding. right. and because the weather seems to be cooperating, although it has t
case against the former presidential candidate. why they say what he did may not have been against the law today. monday, june 6, 2011. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and meredith vieira, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, welcome to today on a monday morning, i m matt lauer. i m meredith vieira. details coming in about what happened in iraq. we have more from the pentagon. what can you tell us? reporter: good morning, meredith. this is the single worst if not one of the single worst attacks on u.s. military forces in iraq since the official end of formal compat operations there in iraq last august. according to u.s. military and iraqi officials, five u.s. service members were killed in a rocket attack on a u.s. military base, one of many, in or around baghdad this morning. now the timing of this attack cannot be dismissed because this comes at a time as the u.s. military is, in fact, preparing to withdraw all combat forces,
is it all just a publicity stunt? today tuesday, may 31st 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. who would question whether that was a publicity stunt involving snooki? it was you. it was me? you wanted to put this in. i knew it sounded familiar. did you have a nice holiday? i did. how about yours? very nice. busy one for politicians. sarah palin included. she used the weekend to launch her bus tour, but she insists it is not the start of a presidential campaign. when asked if she would run, palin said she has not decided. well, one sgi who has made up his mind is mitt romney. he is expected to make it official this thursday. wul coming up we ll have an exclusive interview with him, and he does not hold back about his feelings about president obama and what needs to be fixed in this country and why he wants to be president. more bad news for the struggling ho