Good morning. A snowy mess. That massive storm that pounded half the country finally on its way out this morning leaving travel headaches and a mass cleanup in its wake. Just as we finish digging out, there could be another wintery blast moving in. Final journey home. Nelson mandela laid to rest following an Emotional Funeral Service where he was honored by stars, royalty and world leaders. Hats off, pope francis sharing a playful moment with little guy who decided to wear his skull cap, reenforcing his title as the peoples pope, today, sunday, december 15, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Im lester holt alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. Lets talk about the big winter storm. It stretched over 1,000 miles, finally making its way across new england and heading out to sea. About 1200 flights were grounded across the country already this weeke
Welcome to world news. Tonight most of this nation is covered in snow and slush. 88 of the country walking on snow. Millions of americans trying to stay warm, 1,000 flights cancelled tonight. The dramatic rescue tonight, this car flipped in the snow, a family with four children trapped 48 hours in the freeze. How they survived. Drivers seat, General Motors hires the first woman ever to run a big auto company. How does she plan to change the cars you drive . And power tribute to Nelson Mandela, leaders from 100 countries, even adversaries shaking hands. And on world news, the music of one mans dream will rock the world again tonight. And a good evening on this snowy december night and we are pretty much in it together because twothirds of america is now blanketed by snow or sleet and freezing rain. And once again travel plans torpedoed from virginia to maine, more than 1,000 flights cancelled tonight. The map says it all, only six of the lower 48 states in the United States are now free
This is a fox urgent on the crisis in the middle east. A ceasefire in limb o. Hamas has already rejected the deal. They are live in gaza city tonight, conner . Reporter molly, we understand israel and hamas are under a lot of pressure to negotiate a ceasefire agreement. Hamas rejected an extension of a cease four that was in place 12 hours today. Both eseral and hamas held and it went well. Israel offered a four hour
extension and that was rejected by hamas. Hals hams fired rockets in israel and israel offered a 24 hour extension. And that was rejected by hamas. They are unhappy with the israel troops operating here in gaza and destroying the tunnels. Israel said with the humanitarian offer they would have the military operating here in gaza, hamas basically rejected that and said no way, we will not accept that. What happened next is unclear. Secretary of state john kery and u. N. Officials are meeting and kerry is trying to craft a sos fire agreement. But right now, it looks like the
And a good evening on this snowy december night, and we are pretty much in it together because twothirds of america is now blanketed by snow or sleet and freezing rain. And once again travel plans torpedoed from virginia to maine, more than 1,000 flights cancelled tonight. The map says it all, only six of the lower 48 states in the United States are now free of snow. Abcs meteorologist ginger zee is out tracking it all for us. Reporter from todays sloppy mess along the east coast to the week long deep freeze for so many in the west its just really cold. Reporter almost every state in the nation asking, where did autumn go . These two systems are meeting up over pittsburgh. Its going to come down very hard the heavier snow likely across massachusetts reporter were getting an arctic blast lasting for days, from virginia to southern new england up to a half foot of snow fell. The burst of beautiful winter transforming tuesday into a frustrating commute. I drove all the way from philadelph
Hes responsible for more leaks than julian assange. Its my side kick bill schultz. His hair once landed a 747. Sitting next to me is nick gillespie. Look at the hair. Has our rate of hate reached a new state. A poll Shows Americans are tired of business as usual. Sounds like the name of a band. Whats your name, business as usual. 60 of us say every Single Member of congress, including our own representative should be beaten to a pulp and thrown off a cliff. I mean fired. Thats the highest ever figure since lindsay lohan. This is backed up by a new poll shows that 60 believe democrats and republicans are doing a bad job that a third party is needed. Lets check in with our watching correspondent, stunt squirrel mike. That added nothing to the discussion. Is it good to hear people hate government or Big Government . Are you talking to me or my hair . You. Its a long term trend. People say this is just happening now. This same basic trend has been around for 40 years and its finally really