It . Still spreading, an oregon man comes down with measles. While disney admits five employees have come down with the disease including two who had been vaccinated. Some schools taking drastic action. The whole tooth . A race official comes forward to say tiger woods tooth wasnt knocked out by a camera man. Is girlfriend is responding saying tiger wasnt telling the tale. Wednesday, january 21, 2015. 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. Everybody listen to the speech last night or watch . Yeah, it was an interesting state of the Union Address. A little bit of sassiness on both sides. Thats a moment a lot of people are talking about. Well have more on that coming up. The state of the union, president obama displaying renewed swagger a he outlined a vision for the final two years of his presidency. Peter alexander at the white house. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Last night the refrain this morning the reality check. The president confidently calling for action even if little is likely, with an estimated audience of 30 million americans. President obama was upbeat, optimistic, touting his major accomplishments and pressing republicans to turn the page. The state of the union is strong. Reporter president observe speaking in his next to last state of the union took credit for the recovering economy. A stock market that has doubled and helped keep inflation at its lowest rate in years. Its good news, people. Cassing aside his lame duck status a list of proposals aimed at helping the middle class, tax hikes for the wealthy, paid sick leave and Free Community college tuition, and he challenged republican support of the keystone pipeline. Lets set our sights higher than a single oil pipe line. Lets pass a bipartisan infrastructure plan that could create more than 30 times as many jobs per year. On Foreign Policy to lift the trade embargo and the battle to defeat isis. It will require focus, but we will succeed. Reporter despite calls for unity. I still believe that together we can do great things even when the odds are long. Reporter republicans jumped on this line, teeing up what may have been the comeback of the night. I have no more campaigns to run. My only agenda i know because i won both of them. Reporter joni ernst delivered the republican response. Congress is back to work on your behalf, ready to make washington focus on your concerns again. Reporter one of several republicans offering their take. In the sense he wants to claim theres been a great economic recovery which a lot of people said its been fairly tepid. At the same time he wants to say we have these problems of income inequality and i wonder whose fault that is. Reporter in the american heartland ames, iowa less than a year from now they set off the picking process. Three generations of a family judged the president s performance. I really felt like the president emphasized just character of our nation. He speaks well. Gets the message across. Whether he can do it or not is another subject. Reporter the president will hit the road to punctuate his message with stops in idaho, he heads to kansas tomorrow, both of them red states. But the bottom line here that sounded like a Democratic Party platform speech putting the president on another collision course with republicans. Matt. Peter alexander, thank you very much. Joe biden is the Vice President of the united states, mr. Vice president , good morning. Go morning matt. I want to talk about the speech. Let me ask you about this shooting incident at your home in delaware over the weekend. There were reports that the security cameras at your property did not capture images of a gunman or gun men and that the authorities have no leads. Do you feel safe being there or having your family there . I feel completely safe being there. Matt, what they established is someone gone by at a high rate of speed, shot four shots, probably in the air, it could have easily shot and hit the guard shack or hit there is a garage up front, no evidence bullet holes and the reports by the county police that an hour later similar shots were heard about a mile and a half down the same road. So, im not worried about it. And i think the security at my home is fine. Lets talk about the speech then. A lot was made mr. Vice president , about the fact this was the first time the president was delivering a state of the Union Address in that room where both bodies of congress were controlled by the republican majority. You were sitting there. Did the room feel different to you, more tension than normal . No, it didnt. As a matter of fact it felt the opposite. I think whats happened is not going to say dawned on, the republicans realized they are in control and have to govern. So its a split government and they have an equal responsibility of governing. Thats why im more optimistic to get things done than i was before. Everybody knows they won the election, they control both houses, now what are we going to do about everybody talking about middle class. Help the middle class. There were odd moments, the one that a lot of people are talking about this morning, mr. Vice president , where the president was talking about having arguments that are worthy of the body and the country, and then he said ive run my last campaign and there was a smattering of applause, maybe even laughter from some republicans. And the president shot back. Did you see that as a moment of disrespect . Was it a symptom of the very pettiness that the president was referring to . Look, matt. I sat through a lot of the state of the unions with eight different president s, and similar things have occurred. I just think its the nature of a body of 535 people and theres always Something Like that that comes out. I dont think it represented any institutional desire respect. The president spent time talking about the economy. Did you get a sense in that room there is any glimmer of hope that republicans in that room would be willing to go along with a tax hike on the wealthy to pay for that tax cut for the middle class . After all, taking care of the middle class is not a partisan issue. The way you pay for it seems to be partisan. There is nothing partisan about saying that this really unique group of people gets an extra 210 billion, so called trust fund babies. Look, if you go out and you buy stock and you buy it at 10 and it appreciates to 20 and you sell it you pay on the Capital Gains of 10. If somebody buys 10 million of stock, died, leaves it to his family its now worth 50 million they pay no tax on that. Its a unique set of basically trust fund babies. No thinks there is productive value to that. No one thinks its going to damage the wealth or the capability of people who have that kind of money. And the question is, my dad said if everything is equally important to you nothing is important to you. Is it better to spend the money, is it better to spend the money with that tax expenditure or spend it by giving middle class people a tax break on child care or give them a tax break on homeownership or a tax break on education. I dont think its close. And if you notice matt, you have a lot of republicans claiming credit for the recovery. That everybody acknowledges there is a recovery now. The only question is how do you deal the middle class back in fully. And for the first time im hearing, matt, i dont think you ever heard in the last eight years republicans use the phrase middle class as much as you heard lately because they know they need help. To restore wealth and their income base. And lastly, matt, the two things that are going to work is the president said jobs, and were going to continue to attract jobs around the world and corporations from around the world if we have two things, the most highly Skilled Workforce and the best infrastructure. They used to be republican ideas. Im convinced there is a core of republicans who still think those basic principles have nothing to do with politics. You are known as the guy who can work a room. Boy, are you good at that. Do you think you could work that room, Vice President biden . Bring those people in that room together to work for the American People . Being president and being a leader in the senate are two different things. When i was in the senate i had the great honor of being able to work the room. I had i was fairly effective getting controversial things resolved whether it was relating to Law Enforcement and crime, violence against women act. As reminiscent when i wrote the violence against women act i was told by everybody there is no possibility republicans will support it. No way this would get done. So we started talking about it. We brought it we brought it to the attention of the public. And everybody said well, yeah, i guess we got to do something. We got it done. Would you like the opportunity to work that room again from that podium . Well yeah, by the way, matt, i think i could do a good job but thats not my focus now. My focus is keeping this recovery moving and i have plenty of time to make that decision between now and the summer. And i will make the decision in that time frame. Vice president joe biden. Nice to talk to you, sir. Thank you for your time. Thank you, matt. Appreciate it. He had the best seat in the house. The president delivers it and youre looking at democracy. He dreams of the presidency he wouldnt be the first Vice President. So well stay tuned for summer. Lets turn to natalie the latest on isis. Right. Involving the two japanese hostages, the secretary of state john kerry has spoke within his counterpart in japan vowing u. S. Support against the islamic state. Now they are threatening to kill the two japanese hostages. In a video released tuesday an isis militant demanded ransom of 200 million from japan. The man criticized japan for pledging aid to countries fighting the extremist group. On tuesday japanese Prime Minister abe vowed to save the hostages saying his country would not give in to terrorism. Moments in israel a palestinian man stabbed at least nine people on a bus including the driver. Four people were seriously wounded and four others suffered minor injuries. Officers saw the suspect running away from the bus, they shot him in the leg and took him into custody. They say the 23yearold palestinian man entered israel illegally a few days ago. A cardiac surgeon who was shot at a boston hospital on tuesday died late last night. Police say a 55yearold man walked into the hospital and asked for the doctor by name, then proceeded to shoot dr. Michael davidson. Just outside of an examination room. The gunman shot and killed himself. Police dont have a motive for the shooting, they say the man was not one of davidsons patients. We now know more about the final moments in the crash of airasia flight 8501. Officials said tuesday that the plane climbed too fast before suddenly plunging into the java sea. The plane asended at a rate of 6,000 feet per minute, thats fighter jet speed, considered by experts to be impossible for a passenger jet. The crash on december 28 killed all 162 people on board. Meantime, rescue crews will attempt to recover the fuselage using floating bags to help lift it to the surface. This is a story youll love. A group of tourists got the surprise of their lives while visiting the rocky steps in philadelphia. Of course you remember that scene one of the most memorable movie scenes. Sylvester stallone running up the steps in front of the museum of arlt. Imagine if you were visiting there and ran into rocky himself . Stallone is in town to shoot a movie and he took the time to chat and pose for self es with a group of guys who apparently ran up the steps and stallone said hey, youre too fast for me. Making me look bad. The best scene. You want to jog . Ive done that run up the steps. Of course you have. The others screaming adrian pretty good too. Natalie, thanks. Mr. Roker is in atlanta on assignment for the Weather Channel. Hi, al. Thats right. That is best selfie ever. We are in the lab, this is where all of the weather experts here at the Weather Channel have every bit of information at their beck and call. They made it available to us today. We are watching this clipper coming out of the midwest from minnesota, its going to dive to the south, already bringing snow to cleveland, on into pittsburgh, light snow. But about 1 to 3 inches before this is over. It will end later this afternoon. It dives to the south bringing snow from pittsburgh on into eastern pennsylvania, even new york by overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. The good news is not a lot of snow with this, were talking basically 1 to 3 inches, but in the next half hour weve got a more potent system to talk about, may cause problems all across the country. Thats whats going on. Well get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Dreams are born. Hopes fly high. We love this country with a passion. You can see the pride in our eyes. Read the joy on our faces. Hear the love on our lips. We create products that deliver an effortless beauty look. Genuine and glowing with confidence. Almay. Simply american. Right now, were seeing mostly clear skies across San Francisco. 49 degrees. Patchy dense fog around the north and east bay valleys will break up around lunchtime. Through the afternoon, some low clouds moving down the coast. Highs today in the low to mid 60s around the south bay. San jose 63. 61 palo alto. Low 60s for the north bay and trivalley locations for today. But trending warmer as we get into the weekend as the highs make a run at the 70s for the weekend. Muy bien, este laboratorio tiene you always need a chalk board. Thats right. Im going to out and clean the erasers. Thanks, al. Al, thank you. The nfl so called deflate gate scandal over the footballs used in sundays afc championship game, that scandal is widening. Willie has the latest on the investigation. Good morning. Good morning to you. Espn is reporting that almost all of these footballs used by the new England Patriots in the blow out victory on sunday over the colts were missing air. The fact they were 11 out of the 12 balls discovered to be underinflated was certainly a big disappointment. Citing sources in a report not verified by nbc news saying the nfl found 11 out of 12 patriots game day balls were significantly less inflated by two pounds. The league now trying to determine how it happened. This initial finding doesnt feel good to anybody. The colts grew suspicious late in the second quarter. The team relaying the info to league officials. Brady was asked about the report on monday. Would you care to weigh in on that . I think i heard it all. Boston globe reporting that the league was informed. The patriots saying we have been in complete cooperation with the league and will continue to do so. If the patriots are found to have deliberately doctored the footballs, the nfl could fine the organization a minimum of 25,000, and take away a draft pick. Reaction to the espn report came quickly on social media. Retired nfl great jerry rice tweeting 11 of 12 balls underinflated. Can any one spell cheating. While on instagram several took note of a poorly timed post from the nfl unrelated to deflate gate with the caption behind the scenes making the super bowl 49 footballs. When reached for comment the nfl said it is not commenting at this time on the report. Nbc news reached out to the patriots and we have not heard back. If this is true this is a big deal, its cheating plain and simple though i dont think in a 45 or whatever, 457 game that made the difference. Thats the question. Why bother. One thing is for sure. Media day on tuesday at the super bowl is going to be a bigger frenzy than it usually is. Feel bad for the patriots fans. Whatever happens its going to call into question this whole thing. They are going to take it i have a feeling. Youre calling it. No. I dont mean the game. I mean whatever criticism they get. Mr. Daly. Im doing well, thank you. Back to the state of the union when the president was giving his speech 2. 6 million tweets were going, take a look at some of the trending topics. Of course even before the state of the union began the white house started posting pictures. President obama suiting up. Using the yes, we can if you remember this after august when he wore that. Thats not what he wore. The white house getting social media going. Of course the first lady always is a heavy trending topic. She wore this michael kors creation. Someone said thats the same in the good wife. Who would know that. If that wasnt enough impact, if you went to buy the thing currently unavailable. It sold out. Sorry, savannah. Not going to happen. Of course the most talked about moment of the night here that many are referring to as the president s drop the mic moment when he shut it down where he said i have no more campaigns to run, i know because i won both of them. 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