For an exclusive live tour today, wednesday, december 11th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone, im Savannah Guthrie alongside al roker and natalie morales. Heres a live shot. Tamron hall already inside Mariah Careys house. All i want for christmas is a couple of pairs of shoes from her closet. Do you think i can do it . Reporter yes. She considers herself the queen of christmas. Well talk about life as a princess, this theme, and ill get in the shoes closet. Tamron has permission. This isnt breaking in. Reporter shh. Well get to the top story. It is a remarkable story of Family Survival for two nights in the frigid nevada wilderness. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer has the latest on the story. Good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning. The family is together, all here at the hospital in very good shape. Th
Into the unempoyment data out this morning. Gold dropped by 22 dollars. While oil is back above 108 dollars per barrel. Theres a wide range of expectations about the labor market. The market expects any where from 177thousand to 210 thousand jobs were added to payrolls last month. Its anticipated the Unemployment Rate will remain unchanged at 7. 4 also making headlines the 10 year treasury hit 3 in late trading yesterday on concerns the fed will soon end its bond buying program. Lincoln ellis Strategic Financial Group joins us on this jobs friday. Hello lincoln. Good morning angie. Will todays job numbers motivate the feds to taper sooner than later . Absolutely going to be a motivator in the markets been anticipating it since the beginning of the summer really. Two pieces of internal data to look at the jobs report this morning. The label force participation rate, how many people are looking for jobs and secondarily and perhaps more importantly; average hourly earnings. How much peopl
Welcome to weekends with alex witt. We developments in the case of Dennis Hastert. A man tells nbc news about a decades old conversation he had with a friend who told him about sexual encounters he had with hastert. At the time his friend was a teen. The story echoes what jolene burge told. Her brother reinbolt died in 2005. The indictment says hastert paid 3. 5 million to individual a to conceal past misconduct. Individual a remains unidentified. Hastert is due in court for the first time tuesday. Dave gooututierrez has the new details. Reporter in an interview with abc news reinbolts sister said years after he graduationedgraduation ed graduated he said he had a sexual experience with Dennis Hastert. I said stevie when was your first sexual experience . And he said it was with Dennis Hastert. And i was stunned. He just looked at me and said who is ever going to believe me . Reporter her brother died of aids in 1995. Now another friend and classmate who asked us to conceal his identit
Across the board budget cuts if no deal can be made. Are republicans letting cuts to fall on our kids schools and Mental Health care to protect corporate loopholes. Are they willing to slash military health care and Border Patrol because they refuse to eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies. Are they seriously prepared to inflict more pain on the middle class because they refuse to ask anything more of those at the very top . Republicans are putting the blame squarely on president obama. This weeks republican address. Republicans in congress right now will provide the flexibility to make the necessary spending reductions and address our deficit and debt instead of going through the sequester. In fact, House Republicans have already passed two bills to replace the president s sequester. So the question is, why wont he work with us . The answer quite simply is because he wants higher taxes. Joining me now, White House Correspondent for the hill, amie parnes and ed okeefe. Good mornin
Before firing tear gas, and to give them a reasonable time to disperse. He says its reverse world. This is bizarre. When is this going to stop . Im going to run for mayor against deblasio. Demonstrators seth police cars on fire, looting, the cops are trying to dismantle them and get them out of this riot situation. At what point can the cop does anything . I got a guy named Tyler Jackson from ferguson. He is 32 years old in the papers there. He was also he threw a molotov cocktail into a building, thinking it was a seven 11. It was his house. And it burned down. Now he wants to sue the Fire Department and he is calling it racist because they didnt respond fast enough. The Fire Department wasnt responding because they were getting shot at during the riots. Heres what im worried about. This is going to give police everywhere pause, theyre going to say, if im going to be sued or possibly lose my job as a result of just trying to contain bedlam, what happens . The greatest city in the worl