Speaking on capitol hill more than 18 hours after he started. Cruz and a handful of other republican senators are speaking out against a new Health Care Law. We are going to have much more on this and follow the story throughout the day. Thanks for being with us. Thats what is happening today. Well be back in half an hour for a local news update. Er 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 a wednesday. Its 7 00 on the west coast. Im matt lauer. Good morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Thats a good party trick for bono. Not that he needs one since hes a rock star. Former president clinton commented it must be easy to make fun of me. Its a good one. No question about it. Spot on. Meanwhile, look at whats happening at washington, d. C. Senator ted cruz still going at this hour. This is an effort to defeat funding for obamacare. Technically this is no
Nothing but the worlds longest tedtalk. But the issue is a real filibuster you are trying to disrupt the business of the senate or delay the business and what cruz decided to do was he was trying to walk this line of on one hand keep talk prove to house conservatives that there was some action behind his words. Theres a lot of theres a lot of skepticism about cruz, even among some of his fellow conservatives that think ted cruz is only out for one thing, ted cruz and the advancement of ted cruz and the president ial campaign in 2016 of ted cruz. So he wanted to show, no, he was willing to do something but its risk free. Hes notisrupting a vote or delaying a vote so you look at this and you just wonder, all it is is maybe the longest speech ever before the iowa caucuses. Where is this going . At what point are the sides going to get to the point . With a government shut down a real possibility, what point is it going to happen . One side is going to have to blink. In this case, were not
Very fresh and clean this morning. Exactly right. Lets get to the top story. Kelly odonnell is in washington. She has the latest on this. Kelly, good morning. Good morning, savannah. Its been going and going and going all afternoon through the night and here again this morning. It is a talkathon the official term of washington today as senator ted cruz has railed against the law known as obamacare trying to persuade some of his republican colleagues and many of them were not happy with this tactic. Reporter a late night endurance test. This is life and death. Reporter ted cruz began railing against the healthcare law at 2 41 p. M. Eastern calling out fellow republican senators that say they dont have the votes to block it. If you vote to give that power to harry reid to Fund Obamacare then you are responsible for it being funded. Reporter earlier it was bedtime reading dr. Seuss to his doctors who were watching on cspan. I do so like green eggs and ham. Thank you, thank you sam i am. R
4 33. A weather advisory south till 7 00. D. C. And areas west till 10 00. I dont know if it will last that long but i want to show you the forecast because we still have light freezing rain showers and showers. This afternoon a lot better. Highs in the low 40s. Well do a lot of melting but very slick this morning, especially in the lesser treated streets with the moisture continuing to stream in from the deep south from alabama, georgia all the way up toward new england right now. Locally the pink areas are all light freezing rain that were seeing moving through now. Up north you notice how its breaking up some, become willing spot becoming spottier in nature. Still very slick as weve been reporting. Toward i81, nice and quiet at the moment. Steadier precip is off to the south as you go through fredricksburg and still pockets of light ice mainly richmond. This is traveling to the Northern Neck with temperatures this morning which are still in many areas below freezing. 30 in fairfax a
Snow. Some schools opened late. Some not at all. Snow and freezing temperatures arrived this morning. Thank you for joining us. Im jc hayward. So lets get right to howard in the Weather Center because guess what . He has more snow in his forecast. Howard . Thats right, jc. That lady is correct. We thought maybe 2 or 3 inches in the higher totals but there were 5 and a half inch totals in extreme spt mayor yess st. Marys county. Up in frederick, lynn only had about an inch there. That was the range. When you looked at frederick, montgomery county, d. C. , we had an inch or so you go south lusby, four to five inches and the five and a half inch total was in the ridge area there in st. Marys county. And in prince frederick, had an inch and a half. They may have ended up with two or three. The system is now gone. Quickly out to sea. Were going to turn our attention to storm number two. That storm hasnt formed yet. Theres upper level energy up here. You can sort of see the clouds. A little