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
i feel very southern. hey. oh my. that s a crowd, now that s a crowd. oh, are we at the end? i guess it s time for us to get out. i might need a hand. hi, everybody! you know what? kath, they know how to party in charleston. happy birthday! prauz [ applause ] [ applause ] oh, my word! well, well, well! you know what i want to say, hoda? what? hey y all! hey y all! hi, guys. so good to be here in gorgeous charleston, south carolina. wow! we thought it was very, very important that we wore hats so we would fit in. that s right. that s right, everyone thank you for the applause. i love your hat. we want to thank the beautiful ladies, phyllis hats on king street, right? i have a little bone to pick with phyllis. what? a tiny bone to pick. i like hats, i enjoy wearing hats, but the producer said there was not a hat to fit my head. i had to have one of these. because my head apparently is the size of willard scott. but that s between us on the show. a