The news today, monday, december 31st, 2012. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a very busy monday morning. Im willie geist. And im erica hill. Matt and savannah have the morning off. Well have the latest on secretary of state clintons condition in a live report straight ahead. It is the last day of 2012. You and i are both in the same situation with young children. People filing into times square in new york city. It is the worlds Biggest Party. Of course, security will be extremely tight. Well check in on celebrations there and around the world. Then well catch up with three women that had us talking in 2012, including a mom that sparked debate over this picture. And an anchor who caught flack about her weight. Andrea mitchell joins us with the condition of secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Her spokesman called a blood clot stemming from the concussion she had sustained earlier. T
Hundreds remain at sea on another rescue vessel. And President Trump visits areas devastated by hurricane laura as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power and water. Hello and welcome. New zealands Prime Minister, jacinda ardern, has announced the partial easing of coronavirus restrictions in auckland. The countrys largest city was put back into lockdown two weeks ago after a cluster of cases. Under the new guidelines, social gatherings will be allowed, but limited to ten people, and face masks will be compulsory on public transport across all of the country. New zealand has registered just two new coronavirus cases in the last 2a hours. Here is some of what the Prime Minister had to say earlier. No gathering can be larger than ten. Much of this cluster has stemmed from social gatherings. If we want to stop the spread, we have to stop socialising for a time. I understand that it is easy to become complacent. That if you hear a message that there are just, for instance, as
Without power and water. Hello and welcome. The Un Refugee Agency is calling for hundreds of migrants whove been rescued in the mediterranean to be granted a place of safety. Nearly 200 migrants have been taken off a rescue boat that was stranded near the near the italian island of lampedusa, north of the coast of libya. The Italian Coast Guard took 49 of the most vulnerable passengers from the the Louise Michel, which is funded by the british graffiti artist banksy. Simon jones has more. Not too sure and to safety. 49 migrants who had initially been rescued by a ship longing to banksy, the Louise Michel. They we re banksy, the Louise Michel. They were taken to lampedusa by the italian coastguard. These are the lucky ones. The fate of hundreds more people still on the water remains unclear. The Louise Michel had picked up more than 200 people at sea. It became dangerously overcrowded and stranded off the coast of malta. Some of the migrants had to stay on life rafts, floating alongside
And President Trump visits areas devastated by hurricane laura, as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power and water. Hello and welcome. Tributes have poured in from across the world for the Actor Chadwick Boseman, whos died from colon cancer at the age of a3. The star of the superhero film, black panther, didnt publicise his diagnosis four years ago, and continued to work throughout his treatment. The bbcs entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba looks back on his life. Singing over the last four years, throughout his appearances in black panther, avengers infinity war and avengers endgame. Yibambe . Chadwick boseman chose to keep private that hed been diagnosed with bowel cancer. Hey, mike. I want to be a great king, baba. And that, in between and during the making of the emotionally and physically demanding films, hed also been undergoing surgical operations and chemotherapy. One, two, three, four. One, two, three. Boseman first came to prominence playing some of history
Hurricane laura. There is heavy damage along the gulf coast, where the storm made landfall as a category 4. But search and rescue operations have just been suspended. The halt was caused by a plant fire that has spawned a chemical cloud right along interstate 10. Youre looking at that image. Were going to go live to louisiana in just a moment. We expect to see President Trump this afternoon as well. He will visit fema headquarters to be briefed on the storm response. And later, he is going to blur the lines between campaigning and governing again as he accepts his partys nomination for another term from the lawn of the white house. If you believe Jared Kushner, mr. Trump will offer a hopeful vision of america. But leaked excerpts of the speech sound less hopeful. Politico reports the president will unload on joe biden in a blistering convention speech. He will claim that he has spent his first term reversing joe bidens damage. All of this against the backdrop of extreme unrest that is