California all the way to michigan are under winter storm advisories this morning. As you try to make your way to grandmas house this weekend, we have everything you need to know. The presideresident versus president elect. War of words between president obama and president elect trump. The president outraging isreal by refusing to veto a controversial vote on isreal settlements. Are trump and obama locked in battle behind the scenes . And instant takedown. A guntoting teenager allegedly trying to rob a Convenience Store in california gets the tables turned by two clerks he is trying to rob. How they were able to take him down. Today, saturday, december 24th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im sheinelle jones. We have rain in the northeast. We appreciate you joining us. Holidays are here. Happy honolulu and Merry Christmas eve. Im flying to chicago. I had a quiet house last night. You saw travel troubles . Yes. I will be patient. Im going to florida. Lets get to the latest on actress Carrie Fisher. Hospitalized this morning after suffering a heart attack on friday flying from london to los angeles. Lets get the latest from nbcs steve patterson. Reporter good morning. Carrie fisher is in intensive care this morning. Friends and family are waiting for an update all while fans across the world are holding out hope for a hollywood icon. Im a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission. Reporter in this galaxy, Carrie Fisher is royalty. And this morning, fans are praying for the actress best remembered as Princess Leia in star wars. She was flying back to the United States when passengers say she appeared to stop breathing before landing at l. A. X. We have a passenger, nurses assisting the passenger. Unresponsive passenger. Reporter Officials Say she suffered full cardiac arrest. Since then, may the force be with her trending on social media. With friends and co stars sending well wishes and a galaxy of fans worry and wait. Into the garbage chute. Reporter landing the role of leia at 19. Fisher captivated audiences for decades. I always hated watching you leave. Reporter before battling the empire, fisher was born into the spotlight. Daughter to eddie fisher and debbie reynolds. Made her debut in the movie shampoo. I remained celebate for you. Reporter building up more than 19 tv credits. Fisher is the author of seven books. Including post cards from the edge and recently princess diarist. In which she admitted a long ago affair with harrison ford. She spoke about it with savannah last month here on today. It seems like you were in love. Felt that way. Well, i was 19. Yeah. You know, i was not a cavalier type person. One of the trademarks of Carrie Fisher is the brutally honest demeanor. Reporter not afraid to comment on drug use or strained relationship with her mother or failed marriage to paul simon. She is a successful author and screen writer and kmen comm. Reporter she is written in Hollywood History and hopes this is far from the final chapter. May the force be with you. Reporter we are hearing from fishers co stars and friends. Mark hamill who plays luke skywalker. Tweeting, as if 2016 could not get worse, sending all other love to Carrie Fisher. Peter mayhew sending prayers for our friend. Steve patterson, thank you. A big winter storm set to make a mess of millions of holiday plans. Snow in the west is causing travel troubles for people in the sky and on the roads. Nbcs Kerry Sanders keeping an eye on it from miamis international airport. Kerry, good morning. Reporter good morning, jeff. It never snows in miami, so it doesn doesnt, however, we are immune from the impact of snow when it comes to traveling. That is the case for the country with the weather. If you are going to travel, just use that old expression, they sneeze, the rest of the country catches a cold, it will apply. We see a few delays. If you are traveling, make sure you have your phone. Look for the flights. Make sure they are not delayed. If it is delayed, get to the airport early and hopefully your travel will not be as eventful for one nfl team. Thats whats happening. Reporter vikings in need of a rescue last night. On a fire ladder. Reporter the minnesota Football Players evacuated from the plane after it slid off the runway in the snow in wisconsin. Snow thats making travel tricky. From iowa where drivers struggling to stay on the highway, to spokane, washington, where more than 20 vehicles involved in a pileup. Amazing through no one was hurt. Drivers in northern california, meanwhi meanwhile, hoping to avoid a similar fate. Putting chains on their tires. In the southern part of the state, rain is causing problems in los angeles. And its more traffic. Reporter a record 103 Million People expected to travel this Holiday Season. With nearly 94 million hitting the roads. Now we are sitting still. Reporter at the airport so f far, a mixed bag. Im glad we have a lot of leeway because there is no way if i was here two hours early, i dont think i would make a flight. As you can see, there are no lines. No lines at all. Reporter in newark, new jersey on friday, getting to the airport was a headache for some. When an air train got stuck. One passenger tweeting, hundreds stranded. Send help. For other flyers, potential lly facing long lines or delayed flights . Im not worried. Merry christmas. Reporter she has it right. Holiday travel. Lets take a look at the flight aware misery index map. You can see two canceled flights right now. 56 delays. Guys, if you are traveling today, make sure you try to make everybody happy and i know this looks like landing lights at the airport, but jeff, if you can make somebody smile in the craziness today, not a bad thing. I love that. We just noticed the Christmas Lights hanging around you. I didnt know they were blinking. You are right. Reporter landing lights at the airport. Landing lights. Kerry is now runway 32 left in miami. Lets bring in shana from knbc. She is in for dylan on maternity leave. We have rain and snow across the coasts. We will cover that right now if you are heading to the west. We have a winter storm coming into the rockies and heavy rain in Southern California. That moves east for Christmas Eve. We have snow in the sierra and rockies right now. Strong winds in Southern California. We are watching that as we continue through Christmas Day. Things get quiet to the east. The snow wraps into the dakotas. They will see blizzards across the dakotas late into the day tomorrow. Severe storms and strong rains for the central plains. Snow amounts are big into the storm looking through monday with 1 inch to 15 inches through the rockies and dakotas. And 15 inches of snow through bismarck. That is not recommended for travel. You could see zero visibility. Another part of the storm. Severe weather threats from nebraska through oklahoma. Thunderstorm risk here is the winds. We will watch that for you on Christmas Day. Of course, possible travel delays along with the storms. You see that today. Salt lake city, the snow and wind. Down to las vegas and heavy wind. Los angeles, flight delays there. And minneapolis, freezing rain and snow on the way. A busy day. Seeing things taper off. I see a lot of yellow and red. You are traveling out of town. Check your flights. Security by the way around the country being sketepped up this weekend as police keep a close eye on places of worship. This comes days after a man drove a truck through the Christmas Market in berlin. We have coverage of the stories this morning with nbcs Morgan Radford in times square. Reporter jeff, good morning. The fbi is now investigating the calls for attacks made by isis supporters while those hoping to enjoy the Holiday Season and destinations like times square, say today they are alert and at times afraid. Heavy guns and police barricades. Not the type of holiday ornaments you expected to see around the Christmas Tree. We have seen the cops carrying what looked like ak47s. A little extra alert. Keep an extra eye on your kids. Reporter this attack on the berlin marketplace left 12 people dead. A reminder to cities across the world on holiday alert. In london, more Police Patrolling the palace. Police are everywhere. Reporter while Australian Authorities charged four suspects for allegedly plotting a Christmas Day attack. It is a time of happiness and joy. These terrorists sought to disrupt it. They have been thwarted. They are in custody. Reporter here at home, it is much about prevention as it is response. And in boston and philadelphia, more police had been assigned to sites since the berlin attack. While the fbi investigates claims that isis supporters called for attacks against american churches. It is important to put this in context. It did not come from isis. No isis sources online have no idea what this is or where it came from. It is by no means official. Reporter in new york, security lined up at the historic st. Patricks cathedral. Police presence routine during the holidays. This year, a specially trained unit armed with guns. You cannot protect every place all the time or you protect nothing. So we do analysis of high visibility locations. High travel locations. And we protect them. Reporter this is the first Holiday Season the nypd has trained and deployed an elite unit called the Critical Response command. That is especially so they can patrol heavily trafficked areas like this. Jeff. Morgan, thanks. We are getting details about the man who went on a deadly rampage in a Christmas Market in berlin. He was shot and killed in italy on friday morning. Now authorities are trying to figure out how he got there unnoticed and if he had any help. Nbcs hans nichols is in milan this morning. Reporter sheinelle, german and italian authorities are determining why anis amri decided to come here, a section of milan after slipping through germanys security net. Behind me he was killed after exchanging gunfire with two police trainees. The bullets that fell amri ended a european wide manhunt, but they did not close the investigation. Fingerprints from his corpse matching those from the truck at the Christmas Market. Forensics not answering how the 24yearold tunisian was radicalized and returning to italy and why milan. His brother offering no answers telling nbc news says quote he was ashamed of what he did. In milan, italian officials proud of the rookies police work. Recriminations mixed with relief. Questions on why Police Stopped the surveillance of amri months ago and floundered. Amri from germany to france and italy all with authorities on high alert. By 9 00 p. M. On thursday, turin and then in milan here on friday morning. Confronted by would Police Officers outside the station. First words. Police basterds. Then gun play. Men the body in the parking lot. No identification and no cell phone. Several hundred euro. Yesterday, a shaky video released pledging allegiance to the jihadi group. Tourists with conflicted feelings still. I have concerned. I dont feel unsafe. Reporter germanys top prosecutor looking to improve the states response. The priority finding out if amri has quote a network of supporters. And sheinelle here at the train station, i can see three security cameras making it possible that anis amris final moments were caught on camera. Hans in milan, thank you. Lets turn to politics. There is some confusion around the world about exactly who is in charge of u. S. Foreign policy right now. The president or the president elect. The Obama Administration in a bit of a dustup with the president elect trump over isreal. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell with more. Reporter good morning, jeff. No thorny prospect for middle east peace. Trump weighed in opposing the United NationsSecurity Council resolution critical of the settlement in the west bank and letting it be known he was uncomfortable with the Obama Administration when it staked out a different suggestion. The United States did not vote in favor of the resolution. Reporter friday when the United Nations voted to rebuke isreal, the current ambassador to the u. N. Told the world the Obama Administration would not get involved skipping the vote. Less than an hour later, trump sent his message on twitter. As to the u. N. , things will be different after january 20th. Some experts caution trump to wait his turn. We have the difficult situation of two people speaking for the United States. Reporter in palm beach, mixing work and play. Trump made no official appearances in florida, but did not need to be seen to be heard. On Foreign Policy, trumps Team Released a congratlatory statement on putin. Putin referred to trump as his excellency and improved u. S. russia relations. Sharing that letter came after the comments that contradicted years of bold policy to reduce nuclear weapons. Trump tweeted the United States must strengthen and expand the nuclear ability. Some experts expressed concerns that trump is making pronouncements before taking office. Certainly doesnt bode well for serious issues whether it is nuclear weapons, terrorism, syria, what have you. Reporter twitter is not the president elects only past time. Saturday, he played his first round of golf since the election with tiger woods. A tweeted photo showed trumps granddaughter was on the links too. And new this morning, sources tell me that the archbishop of new york, Timothy Dolan will take part in the inauguration next month. Dolans role has not been announced yet, but that is expected soon. Jeff. Kelly, thanks. I wonder how involved the president elect gets before taking office and how upset are the sources in the Obama Administration . Reporter it is striking because there is a one president at a time rule that is part of our tradition. The Obama Administration has not publicly stated that they are upset about this. In part trying to show a smooth transition. There are concerns of trump weighing in on issues too soon. He has cabinet positions to fill and other things working on before january 20th. And at this rate, a long haul before january 20th. Kelly, thanks. Meantime in bethlehem, troops on alert as visitors make way through the barricades through the church of the nativity. Some wearing santa suits and fought with forces. The protesters were demanding unrestricted access to holy cit cites. The first lawsuits filed after the deadly fire of the oakland ghost ship. The parents of the 20yearold are going after the owner of the california warehouse. The music promoters and the buildings leaseholder and city and county. 36 people died when fire roared through the warehouse during the electronic music show. Update on a story we brought you last weekend. University of oklahoma running back joe mixon is apologizing for the 2014 punching incident that led to a years suspension. Last weekend, we showed you the videotape of the confrontation with the female student with a punch that slammed here in the table breaking several bones. A News Conference on friday, he apologiz apologized. Never, never, never okay, you know, never, never okay to retaliate and hit a woman the way i did. Mixon has been receiving counselling. There have been renewed calls to dismiss him from the team since the tape. A bold move by two california brothers caught on camera. Look at this. The Convenience Store leclerks confronted by a guntoting thief and one jumped into action leaping on the gunmans back. By the time the police arrived, the gunman had to be removed from the store on a stretcher. Scary. Lets get a check of the rest of the forecast. Shana, well give it to you. Welcome. Thank you. A very busy Christmas Eve. Some of you traveling, we have the national maps. Lets look at that for Christmas Eve. Looking at heavy snow with the winter storm for the west coast. Heavy rain through Southern California as well. Dry conditions through the midwest. Through the east coast, raninin outside right now. Sunshine for florida where things have not changed. Warmer out east. We have another look at that coming up. Ths a look at the watea good morning. Heres a look at the forecast for start of hanukkah and Christmas Eve. 50 in center city. High of 44 in cookstown. Noticing mid 40s to 50 degrees. Warmer than average. Drying out as we move into the afternoon. 51 in voorhees. High of 54 for wilmington. And thats your latest weather. Back to you. Thank you. Still to still to come, ou the stories that had us talking this weekend. Including the golf shot trick or trick shot which ever you want to say, that did not go exactly as planned. If you are one of the