Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savian guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer and that was incredible news coming out of alabama, the raid that freed that 5yearold boy. Incredible for the parents. The little boy, ethan, spent the night in an alabama hospital, where he is said to be in good spirit this is morning. Agents entered the bunker using a distractive device, some sort of explosive. When it was all said and done, the boys captor was dead and the little boy not hurt. Were hearing from senator Robert Menendez for the first time about claims that he was with prostitutes during overseas trips. Coming up, his emotional response to what he says is a false attack. Weve got more details this morning on just what caused the lights to go out during the super bowl. Well go live to new orleans where some people are saying it happened twice during beyonces r
Dramatic images of a 40 million gas platform, sinking into the sea. The crew was forced to hang on for dear life. Were going to have the story behind that accident. And on a much lighter note, were starting our yearlong countdown to the winter Olympic Games in sochi, russia. Check out whats going out on the plaza this morning. We have explaining to do, that is freestyle skiing. Some of the guys practicing wild aerials on trampolines. Hope you brought your trampoline shoes, willie. Start with the wild night at the super bowl. Jenna wolffe is in new orleans for us this morning. Good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning to you. What a game last night, complete tale of two halves. The guys in back of me were diehard ravens fans. They couldnt stop screaming the whole first half. The guys in front of me, diehard 49er fans. They couldnt stop screaming the whole second half. Me, in the middle, i enjoyed a little beyonce, a little blackout and a little football. It will forever be kn
Interception and with two minutes left flacco goes deep to jacoby jones who battles his way into the end zone. The ravens went to the locker room up. To many the game itself is just an appetizer to the starstudded halftime show. Pop star beyonce rocking the super dome which had its own coming out seven years removed from the devastation of hurricane katrina. Beyonce was joined on stage by her former group destinys child. They have a new reunion ail bum and it was built as a surprise performance. Jacoby jones takes the second half kickoff from 8 yards deep and ties the longest kick return in nfl history. With baltimore up 286 they would turn out the lights literally. The stadium went dark and when play resumed a half hour later the 49ers began a nearly historic comeback. Kaepernick to crabtree for six and then frank gore around the right side leaving San Francisco within eight. Fourth quarter kaepernick takes it hits. The 49ers missed the twopoint conversion. Frank gore rumbles for the
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 Tuesday Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. Well get to that severe flooding in northeast australia in a couple of minutes. More rescues there over the last 24 hours. Al will join us and tell us abt a powerful storm system right here at home that could be spawning some tornados in the coming days. Also ahead, strong signals from the boy scouts that it will end its nationwide exclusion of gay scouts and leaders. At least one major group is saying that may force it to move its support to other boys organizations. New questions this morning about the death of Country Singer Mindy Mcreadys boyfriend as she opens up about what happened the night he died. Well hear from her. Its an emotional and candid interview. First to that deadly flooding in australia. Sarah james is in brisbane for us this morning. S sarah, good
Behind it today, thursday january 31, 2013. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im savannah guthrie. Im matt lauer. We didnt have anywhere near the weather they had in the south. Here in the north, it was howling last night. The wind and rain were crazy. Some intense downpours and whipping winds. We will have more on this weather system with al in a couple minutes. Now to newdown, connecticut where it was an emotional scene last night. Parents of the young victims spoke out at meeting on gun violence. We will hear from some of them and also from capitol hill coming up. On a much different note. Remember when the blackberry was the cool device to have. After years of falling behind the iphone and the droid, blackberry is unveiling two new smartphones, including the ones we have here. A lot of reviews of these good but people are asking whether this can be cool enough to get blackberry into the smartphone game. We have the companys ceo live and will ask hi