All that, plus a Police Officer tases his own partner. Sorry, nick. The popular ancestry tests put to the test. And princess charming. Meghan markle signs alongside prince harry as they carry out their First Official royal duties together. Friday, december 1st, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a friday morning. Happy friday, hoda. Cannot get enough of the royals. Thats good. We have a lot of them. Were going to get to that in a moment. Lets get to our sttop stor. And the stage set for a republican tax overhaul. Even though its facing obstacles, Senate Republicans are still eyeing a possible final volt. Hallie jackson with more on that. Reporter good morning. It seems like this lastminute drama has the attention of everybody here in washington, including President Trump himself, who is out this morning, tweeting this bill, he says, is Getting Better and better. But blames
All that plus a Police Officer accidentally tases his own partner. Sorry, dick. And princess charming. Shining alongside prince harry as they carry out their official royal duties together. Hoda is going to join us in a while. But first this development, a Major Development in the russia investigation. Micha Michael Flynn has been charged and will plead guilty to the fbi. Pete, good morning, and tell us about this charge and what the guilty plea means. It means he will shortly be appearing in federal court to say to the judge he agrees to plead guilty, and that hearing will be happening any minute now. Its one charge of lying to the fbi about two separate conversations the fbi says he had with the Russian Ambassador a week apart, on december 22nd the fbi said he asked the Russian Ambassador to delay or defeat a pending u. N. Resolution, and a week later he asked the Russian Ambassador to moderate russias response to the sanctions the Obama Administration imposed against russia that ver
Right now. We have part of the region, berks county, Lehigh Valley, poconos, upper buck and montgomery that has seen the precipitation and extreme south jersey, it hasnt even started yet but we have a zone in between where its coming down and this area of pink, that is freezing rain. Those are raindrops that freeze upon contact with surfaces. And especially untreated surfaces, like side roads, driveways, sidewalks. Youve got to watch where your walking tonight. Much in philadelphia is in the freezing rain and all of Delaware County, camden, gloucester, northern, burlington counties. But in northeast philly, were getting so much detail, ill show you where its changed from freezing rain right across to the north and its sleet now and this looks like its coming down toward academy road has changed over to sleet. And were going to be seeing the end of the precipitation east w wayland and west chester is getting a mixture and yeardley in the sleet and trenton in the sleet as well. Farther t
Many neighborhoods. If it didnt dry out yesterday or wasnt treated, consider it ice. 29 in philadelphia. Down to 29 degrees in new jersey. Nowhere near as cold as it has been, but cold enough for ice in the Lehigh Valley and delaware. At least to start. As the day goes on, bright sunshine. Fog disappears. A lot of whats on the ground will be melting as sunshine takes us into the upper 30s and low 40s this afternoon. The big thaw starting today. Ill have more in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington with an update from the first alert traffic center. Right. Watching 95 now. Majors are the way to go. Theyre clear for the most part. Cameras at girard avenue, southbound here. Drive time still okay. You see everything is moving nicely. The on and off ramps that might be a problem. Maybe around the neighborhoods, secondary roads. But for the most part, again, the majors are doing well. Now theres a crash in lower merion on city avenue around winwood road and a crash in new hanover on big roa
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