and a mariah mania. more than 200 million albums sold. mariah carey is here to kick off our summer concert series today friday, may 16th, 2014. from nbc news, this is today. with matt lauer. and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. welcome to a day where we have a today show first. for the first time ever in the history of this show, we have two elusives on the same show. mr. al roker. that s my nickname. you know what a shantuse is? it s a mushroom. no. it s a green color. no. it is a female singer in clubs and lounges. like a billy holliday type. mariah carey takes our concert stage this morning. we re kicking it off right with her and we ve got a big crowd this morning. look forward to that. let s start with the top story. got some new problems for crews battling the powerful wildfires in southern california. nbc s joe fryer is in escondido that s north of san diego. g
haven t bought a single thing yet. you? yeah. yeah. i m finished. i am finished because i have have yourself a merry little christmas that s good. piano guys. piano guys are here. they re a lot of fun. they re from utah. they re a bunch of dads and they do these videos. and we ll help you rate your marriage. get out those number two pencils. all right. this morning it was bitter cold here in new york. my first winter with a dog. hoda is having a reality check. i love blake. i know. but went out at 4:30 in the morning, took him out for a spin. he loved it outside. he didn t have a coat on. what was the temperature? it was 23. what was the windchill? probably a lot colder. it was windy. yeah. i noticed as you look around new york, if anyone s ever seen manhattan, you see people walking dogs. they all have parkas, coats, little boots. scarves. ear muffs. i started feeling bad. maybe he should have a coat on him. he seems to love it.
for an exclusive live tour today, wednesday, december 11th, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on this wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning, everyone, i m savannah guthrie alongside al roker and natalie morales. here s a live shot. tamron hall already inside mariah carey s house. all i want for christmas is a couple of pairs of shoes from her closet. do you think i can do it? reporter: yes. she considers herself the queen of christmas. we ll talk about life as a princess, this theme, and i ll get in the shoes closet. tamron has permission. this isn t breaking in. reporter: shh. we ll get to the top story. it is a remarkable story of family survival for two nights in the frigid nevada wilderness. nbc s miguel almaguer has the latest on the story. good morning. reporter: savannah, good morning. the family is together, all
and my kids are home. and everybody is healthy and they like me. and that is that s not always that s not always the case. and cody s lovely girlfriend came as well. we sat out any day you can sit outside and just enjoy spring and be with your family and eat a good meal, the weather, and thank god for that was sunrise. you are getting quite good at the tweeting action. yeah. i did my devotions on a beautiful easter morning and saw that sunrise and resurrection sunday, yeah, yeah, yeah. how about you? yours was a little noisier? i had a houseful. two nieces, one is 3 and one is 7, and my mom and my brother and his wife, all five were crow barred into my apartment. we had so much fun. we made some mistakes. we left the chocolate easter bunnies out on the windowsill, and you know what happened? everything melted down. we had such a good time with the kids and everything. we did a lot of things this weekend. we went to see aladin . i hear it is terrific. we wen
announcer: from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hello, everybody. hi. hey. i really shouldn t be doing this on the air. hey, everybody. it is wines day wednesday. so delighted you re here with us. it is december 11th. you have two weeks, missy, until christmas. it s two weeks from today. two weeks? two weeks. tell everybody how much you ve done. how prepared are you? i ve done nothing yet. we ll show our trees tomorrow because you did do that. kind of. haven t bought a single thing yet. you? yeah. yeah. i m finished. i am finished because i have have yourself a merry little christmas that s good. piano guys. piano guys are here. they re a lot of fun. they re from utah. they re a bunch of dads and they do these videos. and we ll help you rate your marriage. get out those number two pencils. all right. this morning it was bitter cold here in new york. my first winter