Mostly sunny wednesday and cold. Highs middle 40s, overnight lows in the lower to middle 20s. Keeping an eye on our next storm system that fight for the College Football National Title. As both teams take the field at university of phoenix stadium tonight. Theyll be lining up to play their 15th game of the season. When the tigers won the 1981 crown. They played only 12 games. Now with the addition of conference championship games and a four team playoff. That adds three more games to the schedule. That means more wear and tear on the student athletes. We finished the season playing 10 in a row, and the last stretch of that was a challenge because this is obviously a physical game, and its mentally taxing, and the balance of school and all those things, but our guys did as good a job as they could handling that. We were able to really get our team physically and mentally and emotionally think the timing of this has been excellent because its almost like weve got ready for the opener aga
Tuesday, january 12th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the white house with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from washington, d. C. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to a special edition of today on this Tuesday Morning. Were on the steps of the white house. I have to say that qualifies as special. We are on the north portico, a moment of history for us, for this show and where so much history has been made. On the cool scale this one is off the charts. We want to luis alicea thank you to the obamas and everyone here at the white house for the access they have granted us. Its unbelievable. They have rolled out the red carpet, the blue carpet and green carpet and so much to show you. Shall we go inside, shall we knock. Just for you, ladies, its cold out. Im going to knock loudly. Hope they are n n late sleepers. Welcome to the white house. The obamas have so graciously stomping grounds. Jenna bush hager. Seems like a time warp here. Im goingo
Everyone is getting set up here in glendale. Theres a ton of media but theres tens of thousands of fans as well. And the energy is contagious as we get closer to kickoff. For the First Time Since 1981, clemson leads the nation in total victories for the season that was also the last year they went to the National Title game and won. Spectators say this game is going to come down to clemsons offense and alabamas defense. Clemsons Quarterback Deshaun Watson has nearly 34hundred yards passing and over one thousand yards rushing. But if you look at alabamas secondary they have forced 21 turnovers, 16 interceptions and 5 fumbles in the past 11 games. Both teams say the key is focus going into this game and performing at their best. But the real treat is having a stadium filled with tens of thousands of fans cheering you on. Fans, no matter what color theyre wearing, say the energy is like none theyve ever experienced. The plane ride. You see someone at the airport like an alabama fan and yo
I follow him. Come. Love to. Are we invited . Really . Wow. Natalie, now im officially jealous, today, monday, january 11, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Golden Globes with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from los angeles. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to a special edition of today on this monday morning after the Golden Globes from los angeles. Im Savannah Guthrie. Weve got willie geist here. Matt is on assignment heading to the white house and sitting down with the president. Well do the show from the white house tomorrow, and i think we all thought wed be talking about the Golden Globes and inside this sad news about david bowie. Yes. So much talk last night at all these parties. The news rushed through the room that david bowie had died, and, guys, were going down this list of songs. We dont have time to begin to list all his hits. Space odyssey, changes, rebel, rebel. Rebel, rebel. Somebody who really changed the landscape of m
Clemson fans gathered around the state and here in the midlands to watch the big game last night. But, in the end, it was fans of the crimson tide celebrating a National Championship. This was the scene at Hickory Tavern in the vista. Dozens of clemson fans who are part of the Columbia Clemson Club showed up to watch. A handful of loud and proud bama fans did too. Clemsons a really good team. Theres nothing to take away from that. Youve got two really good teams here. Its not about the conferences. This is about two good teams, and alabama turned out to be the better team. I didnt know if wed be able it was phenomenal. It was all you could ask for. Great game. Both teams did an unbelievable job. One of the alabama fans said he hopes they dont see clemson again next season, because he expects the tigers will be just as good if not better. We will have much more coverage wrapping up clemsons run for the national including postgame reaction from coaches and the players ahead in our next h