As the president and Vice President take up the first lady on her call to get moving. And here comes oscar. Preparations under way in hollywood with the 86th Academy Awards just two days away. The race to the top prize is open today, february 28th, 2014. 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 friday morning. Friday here. Carsons in for matt this morning. I hope that all those stars in hollywood are waterproof. Take a look at the dolby theatre right now where the oscars will be. Its all wrapped up in plastic. And if youre in charge of the oscars, youre thinking, weve had no rain in the state of california, and sure enough on the big night, is it going to rain . Yeah, it will rain, but the big question is will it get out of here in time for the oscars . Theres a good chance it may not. By the way, the rough weather out west is todays top story. The rain is, o
This weekend, the white house is urging russia to stop trying to destabilize ukraine. This comes as more than a dozen gunmen seized a Police Station in the small eastern town of slobiansk. Its demonstrators have occupied a government building in donesk for nearly a week. Meanwhile negotiations are happening at another occupied building. Ukraines acting president has called an emergency meeting with the National Security council today and the United States Vice President will travel to kiev later this month. Kim vanell has the latest. This is the Police Station, usually a place for local officers, now in the hands of prorussian activists. More than a dozen gunmen, many with professionalgrade weapons go in and out of the building. Its unclear how many more may be waiting inside. Outside the building, local supporters gathers. Hundreds chanting the records referendum. They say they want the people to vote on autonomy from kiev. Many believe the interim government is i will legitimate and
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Work in both print and broadcast. The print winner is peter baker of the new york times. [applause] and the broadcast winner is peter mayer of cbs news. [applause] the next award recognizes coverage of news or national and regional significance. The judges chose to winners this year. Oney at reuters. [applause] and the center for public and brian ross of abc news. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we have one more award. We normally just award those three, but as part of the centennial of our association, i am happy to announce that we have created the president s award. It is an honor for Exceptional Service to the members and groups of the White House Correspondents Association and i am delighted to announce that this first recipient will be George Condon junior. [applause] thank you. I want to talk for a minute about the video we are going to show. Over the years, we have had a lot of very funny videos. They have all been a lot of fun. Our centennial, i made a different choice. I wan