Why Officials Say now is a great time to take advantage of the head start. Good evening, im lloyd sowers. Im haley hinds. Look at that face he is in good spirits and this guy escaped a dire situation. They traveled from louisiana to the Humane Society in hopes of finding new homes. They were displaced and others were given up by the owners. People stepped up to help out. And the dogs were made available. Reporter thousands packed the shelter as people wait for flood waters to recede. The chaos has created a crisis across the state. Abandoned, lost and surrendered pets are overcrowding the shelters. Because of the flooding that is going on. The local shelters in the area this week 18 dogs and puppies from a louisiana shelter arrived at the tampa bay humane shot. On saturday morning the pups were ready to be adopted. Can we have this one. Animal lovers were more than ready to open up the homes. Anthony and nicole drove to meet his little man. We want to give the pet a nice for going thro
We were here when it arrived and now were hours away from setting the worlds most famous Christmas Tree aglow wednesday, december 3, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Gangs all here early and will be late tonight for a great event. Yes. Getting lit as usual this time of year, a lot of stars going to help us light up the Christmas Tree. Goes on and on. I was saying our rendition of joy to the world. You havent lived until you heard it. Should be fun. Lets start with our top story this morning. Its that dangerous situation in california, caused by one of the strongest storms to hit that state in years. Nbcs jacob rascon is east of los angeles. Good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. Its a rain california desperately needs but not like this. The fear is that at any moment the rain and the mud on the hillsides behind me that have been sc
It is friday january 2nd. Up first, the passing of former governor mario cuomo. The father of the Current Governor and our friend cnn new day anchor chris cuomo. Mario cuomo died of Heart Failure at the age of 82. He served three terms as governor of new york passing away hours after his son andrew is inaugurated for a second term. Senior cuomo was a political icon in his day for a decade. He was the soul of the democratic party. Best known for soaring fiery speeches. More from cnns wolf blitzer. Reporter new york governor mario cuomo burst on the National Political stage with the keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National convention. We proclaim as loudly as we can the utter insanity of Nuclear Proliferation and needs for Nuclear Freeze if only to affirm the truth that peace is better than war because life is better than death. Reporter it was so powerful so well delivered, that it rocketed cuomo to instant political fame. His political appearance led some faithful to wonder if c