reporter: thomas, an unusual start which signifies how important this relationship is. it s a private, intimate dinner between the president and just a couple of aides on his side, secretary clinton, secretary of state, and tom done land with a small number on the chinese side with chinese president and a couple of other of his senior staff in the old family dining room in the white house. that gives you a sense of how they re trying to get some relationship going between these two leaders. the chinese president is not known as a colorful character or a strong leader within the chinese system. but it does tell you the sensitivity here obviously for economic reasons but also within the national security agenda they have. let s talk more about what we re seeing about the trip itself. the president coming up in the next hour, meeting with secretary of state, hillary clinton and defense secretary gates. talk about the vote taking place or at least the measure that s being bro
painful split. one of the winners of the $380 million mega millions lottery may have to share her loot with her estranged husband. why she s probably wishing she d signed those divorce papers, today, tuesday, january 18, signed those divorce papers, today, tuesday, january 18, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. how was your drive in this morning? all things considered it wasn t too bad. a little slippery but not awful. people had a tough time. people are waking up in the northeast saying here we go again. it s not the amount of snow. it s just that it is really slippery out there. you can see the snow blowers and plows working hard in rockefeller plaza. the sleet and ice made the roads much more dangerous and that s what commuters are facing from philadelphia to boston this morning. we ll get a live report and al s f
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opens up about it all. painful split one of the winners of the $380 million mega millions lottery may have to share her loot with her estranged husband. why she s probably wishing she d signed those divorce papers, today, tuesday, january 18, signed those divorce papers, today, tuesday, january 18, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. how was the drive in? all things considered it wasn t too bad. a little slippery but not awful. people had a tough time. people are waking up in the northeast saying here we go again. it s not the amount of snow, but it is really slippery out there. you can see the snow blowers and plows working hard in rockefeller plaza. the sleet and ice made the roadmuch more dangerous and that s what commuters are facing from philadelphia to boston. with e we ll get a live report and al s forecast ahead. and a sudden announcement from steve
and we had a great time at the afterparties on the red carpet. had fun. got to see a lot of neat people. the golden globes are fun. it s both movies and tv and everybody s loose because they re drinking. which is always a good thing. we ll talk about the weather in a moment, have a live report from hartford coming up. and if the bad weather has you dreaming of getting away from it all we re cutting costs from hotels, restaurants to entertainment. you don t have to stress out about affording a family vacation. and we are also a couple of weeks into the new year. so hopefully that means keeping focus and staying true to the new year s resolution. if it is to lose weight, joy bauer is here to keep you motivated from the best time of day to exercise to maintenance after you have dropped the weight. she s got the answers to a couple of questions. first the top stories of the morning. for that we say hi to ann. good morning to you. as matt mentioned, cold, wet weather is ma