Meryl davis and Charlie White take to our rink here in Rockefeller Center only on today, wednesday, february 26th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on the west coast at 7 00 a. M. And as unusual as it sounds, it is snowing. The plaza cam. Not sticking too much. But snowing well. Meantime out west, we have a rain. This is a doubleedged sword. The areas are so dry, they will not absorb. They are worried about mudslides and threehour delays at San Franciscos airport. It will be a mess. We have an interesting story coming up. Do you worry about your underage son or daughter getting their hands on alcohol . Using hidden cameras, jeff rossen found it can be as easy as asking an adult to buy them alcohol. His report is coming up in a little while. We want to get to the top story. Critics lining up about the bill in arizona to refuse service to gays. The decision to veto
A little. See how this all broke down. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. And we also have two great, great people, roma downey and mark burnett are with us. They have the big movie, son of god coming out. Tonight is the premiere of another mark burnett produced show. Also we have the gator boys, you love them. Where else are you going to find that eclectic group of folks . Right here. On nbc news. Id like to start out saying i was right. About . I was right. Okay. So, do you remember last week when achy breaky heart was made into a rap song. Yes. I said, this song is going to be big. Yes. Well, i am confirmed right again. The billboard charts came out. Its number 11 on the rap chart. Thats up against oh. No, they beat jay z and beyonce, part 2 on the run, and they beat drakes worst behavior. 11. Lets listen to a little. We had to buzz out everything, but the point is, i was right. Its climbing. Its climbing the charts. Something else has fallen down if you know what i mean. Billy ray. No, i lo
You put horrie images in our head good luck, yall. How are you doing today . Hi, guys joe theismann, lendarry redskins quarterback. We say how do you feel about the redskins changing their name . I can just say this, i was very proud to wear the redskin uniform and represent the nativeamerican nation for this country. After we won the super bowl, i was given an indian head dress. Did you say you remember which tribe gave it to you or [laughter] no he doesnt even know. I feel bad for him. Its like he was he played at a time when nobody made a big deal of it and he doesnt want to sully the time that he had. He was a Great Quarterback and great team. Why cant he just take a stand and be like you know what, youre right. I didnt realize it back then but now new informion s come to light and its offensive. Explain the naact to me . National association for the advancement of color. You know what the difference is . Black views of color people, we tolerate certain things in the past because o
The association of bay area governments told us today that they dont know where the cuts are going to come from or how much they are going to be. The focus of a lot of cuts is decent and as you know, we took that hit a long time ago on our local economy. Reporter for the bay area the biggest hit would be to education with california schools losing up to 87 million. And another 62 million in losses for special education. And while the cuts would put more pressure on local schools, San Francisco said today even if the sequester goes through, they, quote, wouldnt cut services to students with disabilities even if the federal funding is cut end quote. So how much of this is policy and how much of this is political hype . You know, im not an expert ton that but you could say some of the statements have a political motive behind them. The other thing thats a problem for the administration where this is concerned is this is now the second, third or fourth time we have been to the precipice an