captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, everyone. welcome to a special split edition of today, 7:00 a.m. on the west coast on a wednesday. i m matt lawer in new york. meredith has made her way to london s trafalgar square this morning. good morning to you. reporter: hey, matt. pleasure to see you. you can see behind me big ben and westminster abbey where the couple will be married. this morning at about 5:00 a.m. 5,000 members of the military did a full dress rehearsal along with a marching band, although the marching band did not perform. also the carriage that may take the royal couple back from the abbey to the palace once they are married on friday. we re going to have a lot of details on the wedding to come. also we ll take a look at that picture of william and catherine driving themselves back to lond london. what s up with that? thank you very much. we ll get back to you in a moment. breaking news out of the white house as president ob