the world s most famous christmas tree in a star-studded and soaked celebration. rockefeller center shining bright. and the tree does not need watering today, thursday, december 1st, 2016. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller a. welcome to today. it s a thursday morning. now, we can celebrate. we got this gorgeous tree. it s all lit up. we got willie. you re just a lilt shorter than the tree. and you re still out here from last night. i won the coin toss. matt had to be out here in the rain last night. i get to be here now. it looked like fun. it was a beautiful night. we had a great crowd. we ll have more on the tree-lighting. we want to start with destructive weather in the south. and in tennessee, the wildfires rages on. kerry sanders is in gatlin, tennessee. good morning. good morning, willie. a good portion of gatlinburg is in evacuation. there s fires burning here. if there s any good news
j does not stop the lighting of the world s most famous christmas tree in a star-studded and soaked celebration. rockefeller center shining bright. and the tree does not need watering today, thursday, december 1st, 2016. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller good morning, everybody. welcome to today. it s a thursday morning. now, we can celebrate. we got this gorgeous tree. it s all lit up. we got willie. you re just a lilt shorter than the tree. and you re still out here from last night. i won the coin toss. matt had to be out here in the rain last night. i get to be here now. it looked like fun. it was a beautiful night. we had a great crowd. we ll have more on the tree-lighting. we want to start with destructive weather in the south. and in tennessee, the wildfires rages on. kerry sanders is in gatlin, tennessee. good morning. good morning, willie. a good portion of gatlinburg is in evacuati
i saw it in the ground in new york. and here it is in rockefeller plaza. i don t think it needed augmentation. a lot of times they cut branches and fill it out. but it is just gorgeous. beautiful. with the rain, what a beautiful production. i dvr d it. matt and savannah and hoda and myself. and matt and savannah, at the home matt and savannah that part was there s the countdown, as well. alec baldwin, kate mckinnon and helped hit the button. we re in a downpour. a deluge. i mean,t is coming down, cats and dogs. and the people around us are getting drenched. there s matt and savannah. they had a tent overemey had a . had butler and a masseuse. i watched it on dvr and i didn t notice it to this point. but the good thing is, it s not like matt and savannah rubbed it in. look at the picture they texted us. oh, my gosh. here they are, laughing at hoda and me. that s they had someone mopping up the floor. they had somebody squeegeeing the floor. and bringi