the news today, monday, december 31st, 2012. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on a very busy monday morning. i m willie geist. and i m erica hill. matt and savannah have the morning off. we ll have the latest on secretary of state clinton s condition in a live report straight ahead. it is the last day of 2012. you and i are both in the same situation with young children. people filing into times square in new york city. it is the world s biggest party. of course, security will be extremely tight. we ll check in on celebrations there and around the world. then we ll catch up with three women that had us talking in 2012, including a mom that sparked debate over this picture. and an anchor who caught flack about her weight. andrea mitchell joins us with the condition of secretary of state hillary clinton. her spokesman called a blood clot stemming from t
good evening. i m kate snow in for brian tonight. it is almost hard to overstate the mess washington finds itself in tonight and the disbelief many americans are expressing on this holiday. as congress fails to agree on taxes and government spending measures that have a direct impact on every single american. this new year s day started right after the ball dropped with a lot of hopeful language. the senate voted after 2:00 a.m. on a bipartisan deal that the president praised. but now an impasse. we ll begin our coverage tonight on capitol hill with more from nbc s kelly o donnell. kelly, good evening. reporter: good evening, kate. congress is in overtime. after missing the midnight deadline, they are trying to work something out before the next two hurdles the financial markets opening and their own terms here in congress running out on thursday. even though the white house and senate made a deal, it is tough to get it through the house. at a bleary-eyed 2:00 in the morn
why it s finally coming to light nearby buildings. today, friday, january 4th, in case you are just waking up right now, let me be the bearer of good news. 2013. it s friday. it will look good out there. announcer: from nbc this is christina loren, good morning. good morning to you, jon kelley. 7:27 now on a friday morning. today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from taking a live look beautiful start over the city by the bay you ll notice we have low clouds studio 1a in rockefeller center. increasing. winds are shifting out of the good morning. welcome to today on a friday west. morning. i m matt lauer. and i m erica hill in for onshore flow making for milder conditions. savannah this morning. there is good news for secretary of state hillary clinton. 43 in san francisco. she plans to return to her 38 this time yesterday. 32 in gilroy. office next week after she was, of course, hospitalized for a 34 in livermore. blood clot in her head. we ll see cloud
captions paid for by nbc-universal television still feels weird saying 2013. welcome to today on this saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m erica hill. nice to have you back. i was gone last weekend, you ve been here every day. i m making up for you since you have three jobs. nice to be here. i wrote 2013, first check of the year, did you mess it up? no, i didn t. i wrote it. happy new year. there s a blockbuster new report we re talking about in the new york times that claims that lance armstrong is thinking about admitting publicly that he used performance enhancing drugs and blood transfusions during his cycling career. as you know, he s been dogged by allegations for years, but he s always denied them even as he was stripped of his title. we ll hear more including what his lawyer says. a lot of people talking about that. plus, he s in hawaii now, but president obama is leaving paradise today, headed back to another paradise known as washington where
presidents. and a criminal investigation is under way today, friday, february 8th, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning, everyone. i m savannah guttihrie. people around here are bracing themselves, snow already starting to fall in new york city. we re seeing a little bit of it in the west village this morning in downtown new york. two very powerful systems creating this blizzard are just beginning to come together this morning. in just a few hours, we ll be dealing with heavy snow, high winds and whiteout conditions. take a look at some of the totals we re talking about. they ve actually increased for some cities overnight around a foot of snow here in new york city. much more in places like connecticut, rhode island, and massachusetts. we re covering this storm from all the