legend has it that the song was written when della reece wanted a mustang. it was originally mustang momma. it was changed after aretha franklin suggested mustang sally. a 50th anniversary without a special edition. a 1964 mustang will be built and comes in two colors, white or blue. now the car will incorporate elements of the 1954 version like the cruz chrome surrounded taillights. they all have specialized black leather with a 50-year-old logo on the back. and they are beautiful, indeed. hey, watch it, buddy. tone it down with the road rage. how about we just wave. you do, you have anchor hair. i need to spray it. come on now. there we go. happy thursday, everybody. we ll be back.
it was a lot of morning anchor hair. didn t that happen? yes. lowell weiker. they left the state. we covered plant closings, closings of car dealerships. i want to ask the governor the idea it s all or nothing i think is the mistake. you re absolutely right, that it s all or nothing. but we re now at almost 9% in new york. what about the financial transfer tax by the way which we collect and rebate back to wall street. explain what that is to our viewers. that s a tax collected, a very tiny amount every time there s a stock trade. it used to be collected, it was part of the state revenue. a about 30 years ago they started to give it back temporarily, then it was permanently given back. it s something like $15 billion actually collected and then rebated. jeffrey, this is the 21st century n. the 20th century you had this giant building called the new york stock exchange. everybody had to be down on the floor in their little codes
and it s nice and fun. we re all jealous. paolo, scott, katie, thanks to all of you and happy new year, once again. back here on earth a massive storm brought more rain to southern california and serious snow to the sierra nevada. nbc meteorologist bill karins is here. how is it looking? is the worst over or is there going to be more? i m jealous. you just talked to people in outer space. wouldn t you go up there in a nano second. i would get there safely, of course. they look like they re having fun. she doesn t have anchor hair. i m not criticizing it. if you re in space, you know, you go with the flow, right? let me go before i get myself in more trouble. i wouldn t go any further. let s talk about the storm, chris. you left the west coast and just
and it s like what study did you come up with to point that out to me? somebody just came out and said that. that s really quite a telling moment. it s ridiculous. amy holmes, what do you go ahead. amy, what do you think is lost when you don t have many african-americans or latinos in the anchor hair or the hosting chair? what do you think is lost certainly a perspective. for example, on this whole story on shirley sherrod. on my morning radio show one of the things that caught my attention right away was that when governor vilsack was offering her a job he was offering her a civil rights job. and i said oh, because she s a black woman that s the type of job you would offer her? and i think that s the kind of perspective that an african-american person looking at the news, the kind of question they would ask that i did not hear white news people and pundits asking. i want to come back to that, but let me ask eric deggans, if i called up or you as a reporter called up