With a promise, to give away 99 of his facebook fortune. The 45 million going to make the world a better place for his baby and other children. And let there be light. The worlds most famous Christmas Tree just hours away from lighting up Rockefeller Center today, wednesday, december 2nd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Big day here in Rockefeller Center. Going to be an even bigger night when about 300,000 people pack the streets behind us. They are all counting on one thing. Thats al rokers forecast for tonight, hoping there wont be rain when that Beautiful Tree gets all lit up. Al . Going to be nice. Were hoping that it is. You know what happens if that switch gets wet. Yeah, a lot of disappointed folks. Well check in with al to get the forecast in a little while. Lets start with our top story on a wednesday morning. Days aft
Novel, a tale of reason battling extremism. I always thought that these two ways of talking, one is fantastic, the fable, you know, the fairy tale, and the other is history, the scholarly study of what happened, i think theyre both amazing ways to understand the nature. Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the human drama engulfing europe showed no sign of ending today. Instead, the divide deepened, between rich and poor nations, over how to handle the crisis. And, there was new trouble in southern hungary as throngs of people tried to cross from serbia. Well have a report from the scene, after the news summary. A county c
Novel, a tale of reason battling extremism. I always thought that these two ways of talking, one is fantastic, the fable, you know, the fairy tale, and the other is history, the scholarly study of what happened, i think theyre both amazing ways to understand the nature. Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the human drama engulfing europe showed no sign of ending today. Instead, the divide deepened, between rich and poor nations, over how to handle the crisis. And, there was new trouble in southern hungary as throngs of people tried to cross from serbia. Well have a report from the scene, after the news summary. A county c
That bus and the trouble that driver now faces. And a whopper of a fight. Burger kings newest commercial. How much would ten of these cost . Under fire for looking and feeling a lot like the wildly popular billy on the street. Here you go, you win why the comedian is telling the fast food giant to get its own ideas today, tuesday, october 14, 2014. From nbc news. This is today. With matt lauer and sa vvannah t guthrie from sutudio 1a. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery . I think if you look at it side by side, they do look pretty identical. Its a controversy thats broiling that well get to a little later on. Lets get to our top story this morning. Were talking about more violent storms set to impact tons of people on the eastern side of this country after they were slammed by storms on monday. We have al roker and dillon covering this. Dillon, good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. The rain is still coming down hard here in atlanta, but it was at 5 30 this morning
Rather than later a few bullet points for the commute. 4 00 to 7 a. M. , a few areas of light scattered rain. The storm system will begin to arrive and the first of the storm will hit the north bay. When it comes to the wet weather, the other thing we are tracking is increased confidence that we will see thunderstorms pop up tomorrow. Of course we are tracking that and the full time line of the storm system and how long it lasts across the bay area for thursday in a few minutes. Thank you very much. Rain moved across the bay area hitting marin, napa and sonoma counties the hardest. It is troublesome at this point. It was a dangerous day on bay area roads. One man died in a crash on 680. And another mess in walnut creek, as well. A car flipped on its side on 680. It was part of a tencar crash. Five people hurt. Investigators say the wet roads have been a huge factor today. Other headlines, what happens tomorrow will impact millions of people and could also fracture washington politics e