While adelele performance hits a sour note due to audio issues. She laughs it all off, today, tuesday, february 16th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie and we have carson daly in for matt. On my best day, i wish i sounded like a ale with the technical issues. There was something for everybody. Well talk politics, too. Our top story is the weather. A wintry mix of snow, ice and coast. Proving to be downright dangerous. The same system, responsible for tornadoes, as well, in the south. Nbcs Hallie Jackson has it covered for us this morning. Good morning. Good morning, savannah. Were waking up after the Winter Weather advisory in 17 states, stretching some 1,200 0 les from georgia to maine. In a lot of spots, we expected the snow to turn to rain overnight. The problem is rush hour is still dangerously icy in location
Places, should not be tied up in politics. The president , in california hosting an asian summit, those responsibilities described in the constitution are iron clad. There are no caveats, he office. And Hillary Clinton weighing in. Unleashing a flflry of tweets overnight aimed at gop senators. Hillary tweeting hillary tweet so, a message for senate the scalia succession fight now also a Campaign Issue for the democrats. Sot hillary today now last time i looked, the constitution did nottave a parenthesis. He an Election Year . Thats not the way our srinivasen of washington, dc and jane kelly of iowa, also Washington Appeals Court judges merrick garland, long on his list, although older at 63 and patricia millett, an experienced litigator and former clerk for justice ginsburg. President could decide to fire up his own democratic ase. Nominating a minority candidate, or another woman. In a deliberate contrast to the majority of the gop opposition in the senate. Back in iowa a longtime fue
Forecast for you in a few minutes. Our r p story this s orning the top debate in washington. Democrats want an up or down vote on a Supreme Court nominee when the president announces his choice. Republicans have vowed to block it wanting the next president to have the choice. Tracie potts has the latest developments on capitol hill. It is unprecedented. It is pure politics. From capitol hill. It is wrong. It is not responsible. The campaign trail. Talk about cowardice talk about obstructionism democrats are pushing back hard at republicans refusal to give president obamas Supreme Court nominee a vote. Hear from our constituents what they think and then vote not say no vote at all. The people of this country should send a very clear message that is not the way our constitution works. They point out Anthony Kennedy was confirmed by a democratic senate. In president reagans final year. The constitution does not include exemptions for election years, r for the president s last term in offi
New this morning. A longtime fued between an iowa police chief and a county sheriff boils over. The police chief is now running for sheriff. And the current sheriff makes a shocking accusation. You knocked up a 15 year old and she had a miscarriage, okay . The police chief says its the voice of the Pocahontas County sheriff he rereorded the call. The two men have apparantly been battling for the past two years. Over which office is supposed to respond to crimes in certai areas. According to the fonda police chief, the allegations are not true. I can promise you 100 there any truth to it. As for the allegations of assault the sheriff hasnt commented followinn the phone call about where he got that idea. Citing the possibility of a lawsuit. According to the des moines register, the sheriff cut emergency dispatch calls to the police chief last month. The mayor of fonda released a statement. Saying all county agencies need to work together. Snow is a problem here, but in the south, they ha
Writing from methodist hospital, 58 yearold rick rauzi saying on facebook quote i have to say that yesterday i came as close to death as i ever want to be. Not to be melodramatic, but its a heavy thing to actually say goodbye to your wife and kids and face death alone. I shouldnt have made it. But he did make it. Thanks to these two guys. 18 45 44 it started off like any other day. But catching fish and having a good time would soon give way to a rescue rescue mission. After damian bells son konnor said he heard someone screaming for help. 18 48 06 it was hard to make out anything besides geese really at that point. We said buddy, i think its just the geese. But the screaming continued. The conditions were such that you couldnt see anything across the lake, and it was snowing really hard. So damian and jesse left their boys with a phone and told them to stay put. 18 50 0613 we knew the kids were safe where they were because of the testing of the ice we had done. We put them both in one