august 19th, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie along side natalie morales and mike bettis is in for al this morning. this is our temporary home. how does it feel? i like it. i think it s great. i like it into august and maybe september. not sure i d like it in february but i like it right now. i hope it doesn t rain. we brought an umbrella. we ll show you what s happening inside studio 1-a, it is a bit of a construction site today. they cleared the set out over the weekend. they work a lot faster than most contractors obviously and hopefully we ll have this done, as we mentioned, sometime in early september. we ll get back in there but right now it s fan appreciation week on the plaza. that s right. we have a lot of news about fan appreciation week. but in the meantime we hav