With all of the numbers, some say it wont be the biggest movie ever. Today, saturday, december 19th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. Also and some of the monmouth Basketball Team. You spent some time with them. I did. They are so much fun. I said how quickly do you come up with the skits. They say they can come up with them like this. They came up with a few of them on the spot. See if you can figure out what it is theyre doing. Were looking forward to it. A fun story. Our top story this morning is the deal reached overnight between Bernie Sanders and the this comes after the dnc revoked the access to important voter information. All of this of course playing hours before the democratic debate. Nbcs Kristen Welker is in New Hampshire with more. Kristen, adding excitement to things on the democratic side. Reporter absolutely, erica. A stunning turn of events in the past 24 hours. Bernie sanders under fire for the first time really during the campaign and now Hillary Clinton is on the attack. Her campaign accusing sanders of stealing private data. Although the legal issues appear to be resolved, the gloves have clearly come off. Overnight, a deal. The Democratic Party agreeing to give Bernie Sanders campaign access once again to a database of potential voters. This after a fire storm of controversy. Sanders facing questions about why one of his staffers took in the Democratic National committee voter files. I did not download. Reporter the Sanders Campaign sued for temporarily cutting off access to the files. This is taking our campaign hostage. Reporter outraged, sanders demanded the dnc reverse course. The dnc chair pushed back. If the shoe were on the other foot and Clinton Campaign accessed Sanders Campaign data inappropriately, sanders would have expected me to react in the same way. Reporter the dnc gave in to sanders before the two sides were to appear in court friday night. Saying in a statement the campaign agreed to cooperate with the Party Investigation and the quote, we are glad all parties are moving forward and refocus on engaging voters on what matters to them. The American People are sick and tired of your damn emails. Reporter the question now, will clinton attack him for the breach. The frontrunner surging at times acting like the nominee already. As president , i would work with responsible gun owners. Reporter the dnc is launching an independent audit. The Clinton Campaign this morning calling for that to happen as quickly as possible. Erica. Kristen, what is the feeling this morning . Will this come up in the debate . Will Hillary Clinton bring it up . Reporter i dont think you will see Hillary Clinton give Bernie Sanders a pass in the same way that he gave her over her emails. At the same time, she is allowing her campaign to play the bad guy here. To really go for the jugular. That is allowing her to stay above the fray. Think about it. She is leading nationally by if you look at the polls in New Hampshire, sanders is leading clinton by ten points. She wants to ding him without being aggressive. You mentioned the numbers, kristen. There is a lot of focus with the lack of democratic debates, but the way we are moving into the debates and whether or not Bernie Sanders and Martin Omalley can do much tonight to raise stature in the upcoming contests. Is there thinking this could help in some ways . Reporter well, it could to some extent. To give you a sense of what we will see, you will see Bernie Sanders and Martin Omalley go after secretary clinton. Martin omalley aggressive on the Foreign Policy issues. He needs a breakout moment. He has yet to resonate with voters. However, Bernie Sanders has to walk a finer line. He has to be careful not to alienate her voters. Kristen, thanks. President obama is starting his christmas vacation today in his home state of hawaii. On his way there last night, the president stopped in San Bernardino. Meeting with family members of the victims of attack there. Nbcs Morgan Radford is there this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning, craig. Governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency to help the community recover. This comes 16 days after the attack and on the same day as the president s visit. President obama overing comfort. Families of the 14 victims who lost their lives in the San Bernardino massacre. They are inspiring who lost their loved ones. Reporter words of encouragement by the community. In a 36page affidavit, prosecutors say Syed Rizwan Farook and his long time friend, Enrique Marquez planned to attack the Riverside Community college in 2007. It is crazy. Reporter and it did not stop there. They also planned to throw pipe bombs on a stretch of busy freeway with no exits to quote maximum the number of casualties. Then farook would walk between each of the cars shooting drivers one by one while marquez would fire shots from the hillside. I take my daughter to School Reporter marquez was arrested this week on three criminal charges. He bought two guns for farook in 2011 and 2012. Guns later used in the San Bernardino attacks. There is no evidence that marquez knew what Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook were doing. He called 911. Telling the operators they can trace the guns back to me. The operator said he used your gun, marquez, yes. But the question remains. How downtown it would go undetected for so long . Excellent. We dont have an xray for a mans soul. Reporter meanwhile, this craig. Marquez remains in custody still in questioning. He will have a bail hearing on back to you. In international news, china accusing the u. S. Of committing a serious military provocation. Sheinelle. China says the u. S. Flew a b52 bomber over the south china sea. Deliberately raising tensions. The officials are investigating the b52 flight path saying bad flew off course. Tensions flaring in chicago stemming from the Deadly Police shooting of the black teenager. Hundreds of protesters marched in Downtown Chicago overnight calling for the restresignation mayor emanuel. A Tennessee High School is remembering a high school the 15yearold was gunned down after diving to shield three girls during a wild shooting spree late thursday night. It was one of three shootings in seven hours and appears to be gangrelated. One suspect died of gunshot wounds and two others in custody. And a autopsy results for scott weiland. The 48yearold died of a toxic mix of drugs of cocaine and ecstasy. One day after the high profile arrest by the fbi, disgraced executive Martin Shkreli hosted a live stream on youtube. He resigned from his Company Following the arrest on thursday. He appears to open the wu tang and pulling out the stops for Super Saturday. Today is expected to be the second largest day for sales and traffic in stores behind black friday. Last year, Super Saturday trumped black friday with more than 9 billion in sales according to shopper track. I havent started yet. You havent . My plan is to do it tomorrow. It will be super sunday . Sheinelle sunday. Sheinelle, thanks. Lets turn to the weather. Icy roads are causing major problems for drivers in michigan. Check this out. This is the scene in kent county. A 50car pileup. It caused back ups for hours. Temperatures are dropping. Dylan is here with the forecast and a Christmas Day forecast. This morning was the first time i walked outside and it actually smelled like winter. I felt the same thing. Tickled your nose a bit. It will not last long. A dip in the jet stream that is dragging down the cooler temperatures. It crosses over Lake Michigan and lake erie, it causes lakeeffect snow. We saw the pile up in michigan. We picked up 6 to 10 inches of snow depending where you were. Today and tomorrow, we will see most of the accumulateing snow off lake erie with 8 inches of snow. Erie county, new york, picked up 5 inches of show. Through the tughill plateau. It gets slammed from lakeeffect snow, we could see 1 foot or more in those areas. Today will be colder than we have been used to this december. Temperatures running below average in the 30s and 40s. As we go through next week, we are looking for a big warm up to move back in. In fact, we could break recordhigh temperatures for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Indianapolis, 52. Memphis memphis, 68. Richmond, virginia, 67. On Christmas Eve, 68 degrees in meteorologist ron demers. The wind combined with temps in the 20s to keep it a very cool friday around siouxland. We also saw some clouds and flurries rotating through the region although most of those clouds should clear tonight as lows dip well down into the teens for most of us with Single Digits even likely in northern siouxland. A south will start blowing saturday and that will begin bringing back the warmer temperatures. Your forecast brought to you by knovas carpets, siouxlands largest shaw flooring center. And thats your latest forecast. Thank you, dylan. The force is strong for the new star wars movie. Dylan dreyer agrees. Fans have been going nonstop to see the force awakens. It is Smashing Box Office it started before the official opening. Nbcs joelle gargullo is here with more. Reporter good morning. In terms of the reviews, no surprise. Star wars is a hit. We knew the film would be big, but we didnt know it would be this big. With each day. It is crushing Box Office Records as the galaxy from far, far away is finally here. Here at the ziegfeld theaters, fans could not say enough. Early numbers from the box office reflected that enthusiasm. Thursday night blasted records with 57 million. Projections today, it could top 200 million for the weekend. That would send Jurassic World to the stone age. Nothing will stand in your star wars is a hit. Giving it an enthusiastic 95 fresh rating. Fans agree. Delivered. A return of what makes movies awesome. I loved it. Reporter even the white house was excited for the screening. Despite the astronomical reviews, the force awakens may not be the biggest film ever. Predicting that avatar and titanic will continue with the first and second spots. For you who have yet to see star wars here are tips to try to avoid spoilers. Put a socalled force block on your owser. It is a Google Chrome extension to block pages. Two, facebook filter feed. Use the tweet app to maintain your twitter feed. Purposely spoiling the film. Pick apps to transform your reflected chosen path. Were home. Reporter guys, i should mention this movie broke another record. Star wars the first film to top 100 million in a 24hour time period. Right now, there are people in this theater watching it. A 5 45 a. M. Screening. Thats not big, i dont know what is. 5 45 . Joelle, thank you. Thats dedication. It is. Thats something. Its something. We cant even talk to you. Youve seen it. I have seen it. My husband wanted to see it again. He bought the tickets. He bought it for the midnight show. He thought he bought it for noon. Not just the filmmakers are catch cashing in. Products from the fun to the bizarre. Sheinelle is in the orange room with more. I figured it out. For dylan and her husband. Creative ways to get your star wars on. Covergirl is out with limited edition lipsticks. The company has three, if you want to be on the dark side and three on the light side. If you are hungry, star wars in a bowl. Specially shaped macaroni and cheese. And death star hot cakes. And the force can be with you in the shower. Check out the darth vader hand held shower head. If you are looking for a Christmas Gift for your dad or husband or brother, check out thing darth vader suit onesie. You like it . We have eaten three of the four boxes and were saving one. What goes on in your house . Its just macaroni and cheese. Do you have the soup . Theres a kid in the Grocery Store going r2d2 soup. Coming up, a look at the stories that caught fire this week and to the growing lawsuit against the hair care company. All that and maybe more star wars. Its ahead in the download. Nbc. Paris theres a lot to do on a dairy farm. Nobodys gonna do it for you. You have to get out there and do it yourself. Bernie sanders is a wellknown friend of family farms. Bernie cannot be bought out by big money. Bernies opinion cannot be purchased. Its time for our next president to get in there, roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back to where they should be. Hes a rock. Back on a saturday morning time for the download. A quick recap of the headlines that caught our attention. The gloves came off in the last Republican Debate of the year. You will never been president of the United States insulting im at 41 and your at 2. Rand paul blasting Chris Christie of bridgegate. We may think about someone who would shut down a bridge because of their friends. And a case of William Porter charged in the death of freddie gray. A jury failing to reach a verdict. The state argued porter showed indifference by not securing him in a seatbelt. We are calm. You should be calm. The hair started coming out. 200 people joined the Class Action Lawsuit against care brand wen. Wen saying they are not to blame. There are many reasons why individuals may lose their hair unrelated to wen hair products. Raising the price from 13. 50 a pill to 750 a piece. Martin shkreli arrested on securities fraud charges. These highlight the brazenness of shkrelis schemes. Shkreli creating an elaborate ponzi scheme. Stealing from his own company and lying to investors. President obama roughing it with bear grylls and an unusual autograph request. This is a classic. The thing is, you looked ripped. I am pretty ripped, actually. Its possible that bottle opener is a little dated. I noticed for example there was no gray hair. And clean freak matt lauers worst nightmare. A man in arizona captured what happened when a urinal exploded. This happened in the mall and the guys in the bathroom came all i can think about is that water is spraying everything on surface of that public restroom into the air. Star wars dominating the week. Even our gang getting in on the fun. Can i reveal the secret powersrsf us . And jimmy fallon united all of the movie stars together in song. Bababa babababa bubababa bubababa hat will be in myead for the rest of the weekend. Jimmy fallon can do no wrong. They put together the fantastic musical moments. They make it look easy. It is not easy. And chris love. One of the five coolest guys on anytime he does anything. Have you seen him in the building . I was in the elevateor. Nobody was there. Did you say hello . Nono can we see this urinal leak again . You ladies have never experienced this. Thankfully. When you go up to a urinal, that is worstcase scenario. I think worstcase scenario is if that water was shooting out of the drain. Good point. Thats a good point. And of course, a guy in there with his cell phone shooting the whole thing. Get out of the bedroom, dude. Then we would not have the video. Good point. We would have nothing to talk about here on saturday morning. Lucky us. We have that and more to talk about. Still to come on today, on a serious note, so many questions about where this young man could be. An allout manhunt for the teen that caused a fatal crash that he grew up in a family too rich to know right from wrong. A heck of a lot more my guest today linda scheid with the food bank of siouxland. Linda, always a pleasure to see you. T tnk you, great to o here. This time of y yr the need is especially great for the food bank. How can individuals and organizations in this Community Help you meet your goal . Its really very simple. Hunger is a huge problem and there are a lot of people that are struggling with it. Youre right, the Holiday Season is really built around food. How many of our gatherings are food oriented. Youve got families that are trying to buy gifts and pay heating bills and those things and still provide meals so it becomes a very challenging time. It is a solvable problem. The two things we need most we need people to make those financial donations so that we can go out and purchase the foods we need or of course to bring us the food. Fo drives at this time of yea