And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist in this morning. She is full of milk puns this morning. Holy cow. Utterly. What are you, lactose intolerant . The trifecta. Well move on to the big story, which is the weather. Were bracing for another big storm before the last one is done. Its expected to bring a new round of travel headaches during a Holiday Travel weekend. How will it impact you in more on that ahead. Also, retired general Norman Schwarzkopf has died at the age of 78. Hes being remembered as one of the greatest military figures in u. S. History. More on his remarkable life coming up. Also ahead, it happened again. A man shoved to his death in front of a new york city subway train. This time, the suspect is a woman. We will have the details. And later, well look back at how we covered the biggest stories from 2012, from Golden Moments at the olympics to the hardfought race for the white house and the unimaginable da
Order. Today, saturday, december 29, order. Today, saturday, december 29, 2012. Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television and welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im cain for lester holt. Just when you thought it was safe to go out, another storm is hitting the east coast. There wont be as bad as the storm that spun off tornadoes and dumped heavy snow across the northeast and the east this week. It could certainly impact holiday travel. Well have the latest coming up in a moment. Also ahead, in the wake of the Sandy Hook School tragedy, a new plan from the controversial sheriff in arizona. He wants armed volunteers to patrol the schools there. Well get into that debate. Then, well share with you a romance story 20 years in the making. It began with a simple love letter in Elementary School. Plus, did you get the gift for the holidays that, well, just wasnt you . A Record Number of returns are expected this year. But did you ever wonder what happens next . Well t
Soccer, victories against favored international rivals. Thanks for joining us. We start in syria where the military has agreed to a cease fire over the fourday muslim holiday. International peace envoy lackdar brahimi has held talks to mediated truce starting on friday. All the one rebel group has rejected the proposal, the United Nations hopes it could create the basis for dialogue and a longer lasting peace agreement. It is a statement many had been hoping for. An announcement on state television declaration confirming a ceasefire is to take effect at midnight reads a declaration confirming a ceasefire is to take effect at midnight. Smoke and the sounds of fighting visible across what appears to be damascus, but it is not possible to verify when or where the video was recorded. I and other syrian hot spots, fighting continued throughout the day in other syrian hot spots. Rebels in aleppo say they have taken control of several neighborhoods there. Videos like these make scenes like th
Military has agreed to a cease fire over the fourday muslim holiday. International peace envoy lackdar brahimi has held talks to mediated truce starting on friday. All the one rebel group has rejected the proposal, the United Nations hopes it could create the basis for dialogue and a longer lasting peace agreement. It is a statement many had been hoping for. An announcement on state television declaration confirming a ceasefire is to take effect at midnight reads a declaration confirming a ceasefire is to take effect at midnight. Smoke and the sounds of fighting visible across what appears to be damascus, but it is not possible to verify when or where the video was recorded. I and other syrian hot spots, fighting continued throughout the day in other syrian hot spots. Rebels in aleppo say they have taken control of several neighborhoods there. Videos like these make scenes like this seem almost unreal. Syrians risk a trip to the market for some lastminute holiday shopping. We are tryin
Aides will tell you that was a problem because they could never live up to the expectations. If you look at barack obama in that picture, it was sort of like, okay, lets do this, lets get to work. I have a lot i need to do. Im thinking about what ive got to do over the next four years. Very realistic. Somebody whos established a real working relationship with his Vice President. And i just think its somebody whos sort of grown into that job and is ready to cement his legacy. Whether that will be able to happen or not if you get Health Care Reform in your first term and maybe immigration in the second, maybe thats as transformational as anybody can expect to be. Do you think different man than he was four years ago . Number one, in the bigger historical context, it is now common, it was rare in our history to have successive twoterm president s. Is he different . This is a validation for him personally. When he won election four years ago, he made history as the first africanamerican pr