Sunbathing to a whole new level. Firefighters saved these little piggys from certain danger. Early today starts right now. I think were learning a new word this weekend. Alternative facts if you havent heard it already. Parts of the country bracing for Severe Weather. Already hammered, southern states. Theyre trying to pick up the pieces after getting battered by deadly tornados and severe storms. Officials say the destruction left at least 14 people dead in georgia. Emergency crews there are searching through the debris overnight looking out for survivors. It is unfathomable what happened out there. You literally have a trailer park that looks like its been disintegrated. You literally have just smatterings of what used to be homes thrown into the woods. Many of those killed were in mobile homes. One woman recounted her terrifying experience. Woke me up, said we got to get the boys inside the bathroom. Got them in there, he went back out. Our neighbors granddaughter had gotten thrown
Of flooding at the shore points, folks are piling up the sand bags, dreading the next high tide. Elsewhere, scenes like this. People wondering how theyll get anywhere tomorrow with huge trees still blocking roads across the area. And you can blame this, live look at radar right now. The drenching rain may be moving on out, but we are not out of the woods yet. Heres live look at the ben franklin parkway. Gusty winds are making it feel pretty chilly out there and theyll be sticking around until tomorrow. Those winds also proved deadly today. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Thousands in our area are in the dark tonight. Fox 29 though has you covered. Our Dave Schratwieser is tracking the major problems for commuters. Chris oconnell is at the flooded jersey shore. But we begin with meteorologist kathy orr. Kathy, this is proving to be one dangerous storm. Absolutely. A very powerful storm and here it is, heres your noreaster packing winds gusting to over 60 miles an hour today right now were
Joint session of congress all the more interesting for investors who will be looking for more clarity. Jon, youre the one who suggested if we dont get that clarity, a correction could be in the cards. Yeah. If he stumbled and didnt give us basicalically what the marke wants we all know the market, us collectively, we can act like bad children and when that happens of course the markets generally react negatively. I dont think thats going to happen. I think hes going to hit repatriation hard. Ive got an example for you. You take a look at some of the activity in the derivatives contracts. The options. These companies folks have the most money overseas. Microsoft, g. E. , a 8, pfizer, ibm. We have unusual activity in virtual lit every one of those over the last week. What does that tell me . Tells me that people are betting on upside after the talk on repatriation tonight and that 2 1 2 or more trillion dollars that could be pouring back into the country. Do you think, josh, the ramally
Well jump into parts of northern delaware, wilmington across 95 seeing some of the heaviest rain in Newcastle County shown by the yellow. Now were looking across the philadelphia area near palmyra, cheltenham, thats shown by the yellow coloring and this is all going to be sliding up the i95 corridor in the direction of trenton. Looking closer to trenton right now, here you see heavier rain falling. Trent trenton, near levittown and 95. So we are seeing pretty steady rainfall. Thats what it looks like right now, line of heavier rain, basically from wilmington to trenton, kind of spotty with the heavier showers, but pretty consistent with the overall lighter rainfall. It is a messy commute for the area and we do expect that for the rest of this evening. We wont really see much clearing until later on tonight and then a bigger cool down as we go into the weekend. Coming up ill show you the timing on the rain and how much colder your weekend will be. Right now lets get a check on the roadw
Switch on the worlds most famous Christmas Tree today. Wednesday, december 4th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a. Good morning. Im matt lauer. And im Savannah Guthrie. What is tall and bushy . No, not matt lauer. It is the Christmas Tree. All four of us set to do the honors. We have a great show planned. And were glad youre back. No, thanksgiving hangover lasted a long time. Just kidding. I had a stomach virus. Im not contagious. We should mention the weather not too bad for the Tree Lighting. Upper 40s and 50 degrees. Perfect. The weather not so great in other parts of the country. The top story is a monster storm impacting millions of people across many parts of the country. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is in denver this morning with parts of that. Miguel, good morning. Reporter matt, good morning. 32 million americans are impacted by the storm, but it is not what you see which is the steady snow which is dangerous, but wha