back and forth. everybody calm down. everybody is cranky because we didn t sleep last night. i can tell, by response on social media, people stayed up late, too much to drink, they are taking it the out on us. i haven t eaten yet. good day, it is monday, february 8th, 2016. now, lauren was going to be here. i have a feeling she may be with chris murphy. she s eating. he didn t have a date, and he is in love with lauren and they are a couple basically on tv. look at them. well, she hasn t got than there yet. here s another thing happening, chinese new year. yes. okay. thank you, thank you. wow, that is how you start the year off right. hello. wow. happy new year. happy new year. they drug you in, so to speak. i was walking in and said this is a party. i can join the party. did you drag her in. thank you all. can i bring the kid over. they are all so cute. most of the the celebration started last night in chinatown. it is very first day
we will check in with the harbaugh brothers who will be going up against each other and catch up with some celebrities. so much more coming up. we ll check back in a bit. sounds like somebody did an all nighter. i think so. for work. had to do it for work, right, jenna? toothpicks. am i flurry eyed yet? all for work. we ll see you in a bit. in terms of other news, a new milestone for wall street. dow closes for the first time since the financial crisis. what that means for you and your money. and a new chapter for hillary clinton. former secretary of state is waking up this morning. probably still sleeping in. without an official job for the first time in 30 years, what s ahead for her. and extreme sport. with the death of a snow mobiler at the x games, we ll take a look at whether competitors are pushing the envelope too far. has this become a little too extre extreme? a serious long-term relationship for pop superstar taylor swift. not a guy, but diet coke.
welcome to today, on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m erica hill. happy groundhog day. does it feel like we ve been here before, once or twice? a live picture from punxsutawney, pennsylvania, where, of course, the most famous resident is punxsutawney phil. later we will find out whether he is predicting six more weeks of winter or perhaps an early spring. there are people in both camps. keep your fingers crossed for whichever one you re hoping for. i wouldn t pack away the longjohns yet. not a weather guy, but that s my thought. and regardless of the season, there s always a party in new orleans. super bowl weekend is no exception. jenna wolf is down there. what s going on in the big easy? reporter: guys, there s so much going on down here. this city knows how to do it right. this will be the 10th time they ve hosted. the first time since katrina. they ve done a terrific job for getting ready for the tens of thousands that are converging on new orleans for t
today, suddaturday, february 2, in the middle of it all. today, suddaturday, february 2, 2013. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today, on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m erica hill. happy groundhog day. does it feel like we ve been here before, once or twice? a live picture from punxsutawney, pennsylvania, where, of course, the most famous resident is punxsutawney phil. later we will find out whether he is predicting six more weeks of winter or perhaps an early spring. there are people in both camps. keep your fingers crossed for whichever one you re hoping for. i wouldn t pack away the longjohns yet. not a weather guy, but that s my thought. and regardless of the season, there s always a party in new orleans. super bowl weekend is no exception. jenna wolf is down there. what s going on in the big easy? reporter: guys, there s so much going on down here. this city knows how to do it right. this will be the 10th time they ve hosted.
contentious in decades. today in california, protesters swarmed around the venue of a donald trump speech. protesters crashed through a barricade, reaching the doors of the convention hall where trump was set to speak before the california republican convention. well, today s demonstration followed clashes outside a trump rally last night in orange county, california, where hundreds of protesters took to the streets, blocking traffic, smashing car windows. 20 people were arrested by police last night. it s more evidence of the deep political divisions of the 2016 race, divisions fueled by a candidate who s willing to go where no one has gone before, at least rhetorically. in talking about getting tough with radical islamic terrorists, donald trump last night repeated a dubious legend, a myth, if you will, about john persian in the aftermath of the spanish/american war. here s how persian put down an armed muslim insurgency in the philipos. he wouldn t do well today, because