this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m david gregory along side natalie morales and dylan dreyer. maybe you can explain what s going on in washington. it is so frustrating. this is dynamic where each side thinks the other side is 100% at fault here. i don t think we ll get to thursday without a deal. we re seeing tempers fly on all sides right now. absolutely. that s today s top story this morning. the push to end the government shutdown taking on new urgency with the u.s. days from losing its ability to borrow money. peter alexander is at the white house this morning with the very latest. good morning, peter. reporter: good morning, david. no deal in sight and not a lot of progress here. the next days will be critical on the u.s. closing in on a thursday deadline. that s when the government could begin defaulting on
october 17th, 2013. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. good morning, everyone. welcome to today, i m savannah guthrie. i m matt lauer. i love to paddle board. my whole body freezes up when ipad l over a jellyfish. can you imagine what you would feel. meantime, we show you a live shot from washington. here is something we haven t seen. federal workers coming out of the metro center, returning to work. 400,000 of them will now that the shutdown is over. at least one guy. last night, after midnight, now, obviously, this cost so much money. we have 400,000 people going back. national parks going to open up again. some will take longer than others. this has been a huge political fight, what it s cost the u.s. economy. experts say it is in the billions. the reopening of the government is the top story. let s get to peter alexander, good morning to you. reporter: savannah, good morning to you. the countdown clock is finally off the
this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie along side natalie morales and dylan dreyer while natalie is on assignment. the godparent list is out. it s long. prince george has been good friends. seven god parents. i m surprised i m not on the list. i think you were robbed. i submitted my name. but there are normal people on the list. not kings and queens. kind of a turn for the couple. we ll get our second sighting in a little while. also, ahead a today exclusive. new information that nbc has obtained that could shed some light on the little girl found in greece. the so-called blonde angel. the lawyer for the couple she was with now saying they saved her from a much worse fate. we ll tell you more about that. but weather is today s top story. temperatures are tumbling across the country. ron mott is in new buffalo
and welcome to today on a thursday morning. i m savannah guthrie. and i m matt lauer. you had a fun job yesterday. great group of kids. really enjoyed it. you made that mascot head look really good. i still have it in my dressing room. good to you back. we have a lot of stories this morning. an 11-year-old arrested accused of bringing a gun and 400 rounds of ammunition to his school. what was he planning? we ll have more on that coming up. let us begin on a thursday morning with our top story. a tragic murder of a popular teacher in massachusetts. the 14-year-old now in police custody. ran allen has the latest on this. reporter: good morning to you, matt. no classes here this morning although grief counselors are on hand to help the community as they try to deal with what happened here. the body of the teacher colleen ritzer was found on the edge of the school grounds. a freshman new to the community has been charged with her murder. hundreds came together t
there you can watch the storm roll in in our intertive all of this on nbcbayarea.co no to an nbc bay area exclusive. a political scandal with a new twist. for months, she s been investigating former san clara county supervisor george shirikaw andavier compe campos. nbc bay area s damian trujillo joins us from san jose. have any laws been broken here reporter: it doesn t appear to be the case athis point. i found the documts filed at the city s clerk office atan nothing illegal, in the terest of publipercepti, she should have recus herself from this case. at issue a these anonymous fliers sent to vietnase-american voters in 2010. ey gave t appearae carasco who was runningor city council was aligned with communist assistantd.a. karenaid the a of former countysupervisor george shirikawa was on one of the flyers so lt month she hauled carasco s opponent i that case, xavier camposo teify who was also an aide to shirakawa, now sving time for other crimes. r. campos wascting on