Debut. We have our spectacular first look, today, thursday, february 16th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Were happy to have Hallie Jackson up from washington to fill in for savannah. Its like the spy who came in from the cold. Indoors. No scarf. No jacket. A pleasure. Great to have you here. Did you see planet earth . I loved it. Watched the series on dvd. They tell us planet earth 2 has the most incredible scenes. Well have more of that preview coming up. Snakes and lizards. Theres a washington joke there somewhere. But im not going to make it. Lets get right to our top story. The white house, dealing with a series of controversies, including new questions over the Trump Campaigns ties to russia. And the president s cabinet pick whose nomination failed. Our Political Team is at the ready, starting with nbcs peter alexander. Hes at the whi
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Philadelphia, big improvement, now see across the delaware but see gray skies overhead and a ground stop is still in effect at Philadelphia International, even though the visibility has improved greatly. Now, mile and a half visibility in trenton was down to zero for hours, fivemile visibility in Philadelphia International airport and wilmington is looking a lot better. And the temperatures, well, a nice warmup, 61 degrees in philadelphia. Look at dover, getting close to 70 degrees and thats where we are heading this afternoon. Clouds will be staying with us, might see a break or two of sunshine, more likely in delaware and into south jersey, then most of the rest of the area. We should see 68 degrees by 1 00 this afternoon and in between 1 and 4 touched 70 degrees in afternoon, which would set a new record for this date. Later this afternoon, this evening, we have got rain that we are tracking, heavy downpours, possibly even some thunderstorms. We will go through the forecast hour by