Lets give a welcome to mr. Jay leno. Former tonight show host returns to the show he hosted for decades. A look at the laughs for saturday, november 8th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside sheinelle jones. We are missing one at the desk. That is because dylan dreyer is over at citifield. Also in new york city in the borough of queens. She has a sneak peek at the macys thanksgiving day parade. We will check in with her for a little inside scoop. I cannot stand it all. The tree going up. Its time. Lets get to the top stories. This Winter Holiday related. Cold weather. This is dangerously cold weather getting set to grip the country in the coming week. It is due to the storm pounding alaska today that is changing the course of the jet stream. The weather channels mike seidel is in minneapolis with more. Mike, good morni
The Iraqi Securityy forces have gone on the offense. President obama ordered more u. S. Troops to iraq. 1,500 additional u. S. Personnel will be headed to iraq. Theres a major expansion of u. S. Boots on the ground. The effort comes with a big price tag. Weve got to to make sure that our efforts against isil are properly funded. Its in connection with an islamist plot to carry out an attack. President bush visited the texas hospital where the first ebola patient was treated in the u. S. The next u. S. Attorney general could make history as the first africanamerican woman to hold that position. The president will nominate Loretta Lynch for the job. Get your warm coats. A polar vortex is going to blast americans next week. Highs only in the 20s or 30s. What an amazing sight off the coast of italy. Two waterspouts formed sigh simultaneously simultaneously. All that he turned the table on the robber when he realized he was carrying a fake gun. And all that mattered mr. Gorbachev, tear down
Arrested. The man arrested for kissing, caressing, even swimming with gators. Was he trying to get others to join him for Close Encounters with the dangerous beasts . That was great. Good morning. Also coming up on gma this morning, big movies by two giants of the american breakfast scene. Millions of us get our morning caffeine hit at starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. Paula cannot function without it. What they are promising now. You didnt take that personally, did you . No, im a caffeine con know sure. Im intrigued by this. Also, a mystery solved. A family of four vanished in ten, bodies found years later. This morning an arrest in that case. And the breaking news overnight, the apparent terror plot in london right at the start of a busy weekend for the royal family. Scotland now looking into whether the queen was a potential target. Arrested were made in several parts of the city. And lama hasan joins us from london. Good morning. Reporter and good morning to you, paula. This Morning Pol
President obama ordered more u. S. Troops to iraq. 1,500 additional u. S. Personnel will be headed to iraq. Theres a major expansion of u. S. Boots on the ground. The effort comes with a big price tag. Weve got to to make sure that our efforts against isil are properly funded. Its in connection with an islamist plot to carry out an attack. President bush visited the texas hospital where the first ebola patient was treated in the u. S. The next u. S. Attorney general could make history as the first africanamerican woman to hold that position. The president will nominate Loretta Lynch for the job. Get your warm coats. A polar vortex is going to blast americans next week. Highs only in the 20s or 30s. What an amazing sight off the coast of italy. Two waterspouts formed sigh simultaneously simultaneously. All that he turned the table on the robber when he realized he was carrying a fake gun. And all that mattered mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wear. This marks 25 years since the fall of the
Good evening, we begin with two breaking stories tonight. First, the monster of a storm, 800 miles which will bring a polar plunge all the way to the gulf. And forecasters say this system is stronger than superstorm sandy. And just listen to its fury. Tonight, much of this country preparing, from the midwest to texas. Bracing for arctic air. And the map says it all. Temperatures 30 degrees below normal in some areas. Rob marciano starts us off. Reporter winds clocked at 96 miles an hour. Winds already clocked at 96 Miles Per Hour in alaska. Hurricane Wind Warnings now posted, seas expected to build giant waves at least 50 feet high. But like superstorm m sandy, it much more than just a hurrane. And this one could be even stronger. And right in the crosshairs, the crews on the fishing boats from discoverys deadliest catch. Were trying to get our pots on as fast as we can and get out of here as quick as we can. We dont need anybody hurt, and just get home safe and go home for thanksgivin