Clippers in the family. And grand reopening. The Washington Monument welcoming back visitors for the First Time Since the iconic symbol was damaged by an earthquake. Al is there live today, monday, may 12th, 2014. 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 monday morning. Good day to be a tourist in the Nations Capital. Thats right. Al roker is there. Oh wait, theres an even more exciting thing. The Washington Monument is reopening, as you see. Al is there to cover it live and take us inside. Lets start, though, with this mornings top story. Weve got breaking news tied to the kidnappings of hundreds of schoolgirls in nigeria. The terror group behind those kidnappings making new demands in a new video. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk has the latest on this. Steph, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. Well, this is essentially a hostage video with prove of life for the hostage tak
And live from new york, Living Legend and one of our own, Barbara Walters makes a surprise appearance on saturday night live. Im baba wawa. Where she was famously spoofed for years. Hello, im barbara wawa. Highlights from her hilarious visit anchor desk just days before she retires. Hey, good morning. We want to start off by wishing all the moms out there a happy mothers day, including our own bianna golodryga, mother of little jake. Aw, thank you. Happy mothers day to your mom, sara. Dan, your mom, ron, your mom and my mom, of course. I want you to know i spent all night buying these flowers and decorating this set just for you. You are such a liar. I did, too. Dont horn in on this, claiborne. It was me. They are beautiful flowers. Our staff worked all night bringing them in. Youre welcome. Youre welcome. Happy mothers day to all the moms across the country. And of course this special edition of gma mom testers one of our favorite segments. On this mothers day. These mothers try out t
Take a look. Today temperatures will slowly be headed back up. Were still looking at rain. Filtered sun shine High Temperature three degrees above the average. Today we will reach the mid60s. Showers return into the evening. Its 40 at ohare. Joliet greeting at 41. 42 in morris. Kankakee trading at 43. Across the region of the 30s to the northwest. To the self low 40s. The rain continues with lights sprinkles. Nothing too heavy. This afternoon and this evening we will have showers. Chance of a thunderstorm with the cloud cover been considerable i dont think that chance of severe or strong thunderstorms is too high. 5 00 p. M. We have a chance of rain. By 9 00 p. M. We have a good chance down to 48. Miles High Temperature is 68. Saturday we are up to 56. A bit of construction. No accidents at this point. We have one spot that we will work through on oaks in st. Heading east everything is squeezed down by a lane through there. They are continuing to do work we are have power line work hap
Im Lauren Lyster in for annemarie green. This morning a slow moving storm system threatens the midwest with another round of severe weather. Todays threat follows a weekend of damaging tornados and heavy snow. Winter storm warnings are in effect in colorado and wyoming. In the midwest and plains, folks are cleaning up after dozens of damaging storms. Several twisters touched down in South Central nebraska causing heavy damage. There were preliminary reports of 34 tornadoes yesterday in nebraska, iowa, kansas, and indiana. Late sunday several tornados caused heavy damage in southern nebraska. At least one person was injured. Homes were torn apart, trees snapped in half, and power lines blown over. Late saturday a tornado took dead aim at the Missouri Town of orrick just east of kansas city. The twister had winds of up to 135 miles per hour, damaging up to 300 homes. I pulled up, got the kids out, down in the basement, and then literally like two minutes after that, we were all down in t
If you think you need police and christmas Crime Prevention going viral. The Police Department using jingle bells and a sense of humor to make criminals think twice. If you want to steal you better go think twice is that a new Public Service announcement from the Police Department . Thats right. A highly unusual crimefighting tactic. Collaborating with santa there. Were going to get to that in a moment. But, wow, what a wintry mess it is this morning. So much to tell you about as much of the nation is digging out from that major and very messy storm. Were blaming lee goldberg for all this. This weather system is a monster dumping up to one foot of snow on 20 states, a third of america from missouri to maine. Abcs rob nelson is in boston for us this morning. Rob, good morning. Reporter oh, good morning to you, dan. Just a few hours ago it was snowing pretty heavily out here in boston, but after that fastmoving storm moved right through here, basically temperatures went up well above fre