Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Welcome to today. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist with Natalie Morales and dylan dreyer. Matt and al have the morning off. Weather outside is frightful here. Warm and rainy. Warm and rainy is the key. I cant believe how long it was. I said i put the jorts up on a shelf and could bring them down. I know. Guys. Its insane. We have ryan oneal live in our los angeles studio this morning. He just won a huge verdict and that Farrah Fawcett portrait is in his hands now legally. But the weather is the top story this morning. The impact it is having on the holiday rush. At least nine deaths blamed on storms that produced everything from tornadoes to a dangerous ice storm. Half a Million People without power nationwide. By late last night, more than 700 flights had been cancelled. Another 11,000 delayed. Just in time for the Christmas H