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friday, november 22nd, 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 friday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning. i m savannah guthrie along with al roker and natalie morales. this is a solemn day in our national history. 50 years ago today, president john f. kennedy was gunned down in dallas. the eternal flame still burns at arlington national cemetery this morning. over at the white house the flag will be lowered and has been lowered and at other sites around the country. this is a day that people say an age of innocence ended. it was the end of a period known as camelot in this country. we can all think of where we were. at least those of us that were alive at that time. yeah, i remember 3rd grade. they brought us into the auditorium. first time you saw strangers crying on the street. of course, our top story today. nbc s lester holt is ....
he was like a turkey. he came out big and chunky and now he s tall and lean. he sure is. it is the very sad anniversary as well of the 50th anniversary of president kennedy s assassination. it is, yeah. still a lot of questions out there about that whole thing. and it is funny how this is one of those things that when this anniversary came around, it has been in every paper for a week or more. something that captured a lot of people remembering where they were when it was actually announced. you were not born then. i was like a lot of august babies, august 1964, all of those babies were conceived during a dark time when everyone was scared. people needed comfort. yes. speaking of comfort, let s move on. these are great pictures. you want comfort. you ve been sending in all week long, we re so grateful, your pictures with you and your doggies. there was hoda with blake. look at his eyeball. get off me. off. o-f-f. that s what he s saying. ther ....
from nbc news, this is today with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hey, everybody. hi it s try day, friday. november 22nd. of course, we have the newest filler on the block that makes a face-lift the thing of the past. what is that? it is something called juvaderm with a new twist. it is a big day, november 22nd, date my brother was born. happy birth day to you atl was born at 11 pounds, ten ounces, something like that. he was like a turkey. he came out big and chunky and now he s tall and lean. he sure is. it is the very sad anniversary as well of the 50th anniversary of president kennedy s assassination. it is, yeah. still a lot of questions out there about that whole thing. and it is funny how this is one of those things that when this anniversary came around, it has been in every paper for a week or more. something that captured a lot of people remembering where they were when it was actuall ....
doesn t it? we re also getting a preview of the biggest blockbuster movies of the summer. we ll show you how to make your own ice cream at home and how to help your new graduate get their first job, which used to be a given and now is almost very hard. people are very panicky when they graduate. i remember i did, i graduated without a job, and you get very scared because your friends start getting jobs and you think, my god what s wrong with me? they had one waiting for them. you don t plan real well. i just assume it is going to be there. it was. you re going to see here that you won t see anywhere else, a dancing scientist. that s right. we re going to have him and he s going to amaze you. you make fun and you shouldn t. i can t wait to see him with the test tubes doing whatever it is he does. shazzam predicts every year their songs of the summer. last year they were right on, they picked blurred lines by robin thicke. and get lucky by daft punk and pi ....
that way. this morning, his harrowing ordeal with his own pictures and in his own words. and a little country in the big city. tim mcgraw kicks off our memorial day weekend celebration with a live concert on the plaza today, friday, may 23rd, 2014. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. we ve got a big country music crowd gathered for tim mcgraw. also in the foreground, members of our armed forces here for fleet week here in new york city. they re going to get a great show in just a few minutes. let s get right to our top story, though. just in time for the memorial day weekend, that big recall of nearly two million pounds of beef has gotten even bigger. nbc s tom costello has more on that. tom, good morning. good morning. investigators believe the beef may be tainted with the e. coli bacteria, but health investigators say it s a r ....