Opening glitch. The producers have a sense of humor. As we welcome a host of team usa Medal Winners back home to our plaza today, monday, february 24th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im jet lagged. And im Savannah Guthrie alongside al roker and Natalie Morales. Are you sure its monday and not yesterday or tomorrow . A ninehour time change is not an easy one. How are you feeling . Im not used to wearing matching pants and a suit. And im surprised you had that vodka shot with your cereal this morning. Habits are hard to break. We are all home and happy to be back in new york after a fun time in sochi. Absolutely. We have a lot coming up. Including our special series coming up called love your selfie. Most subjects we hear about are the unreal expectations we have when it comes to body image. Were accepting and embracing ourselves. And as a
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
This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im carson daly along side Natalie Morales. Al is over at the weather post. Matt has the morning off. There is a renal reason al is at the weather post. You call this storm a triple threat. Absolutely. Were looking at every kind of weather you can talk about. Look at what its doing to the traffic already. Heres the 14th street bridge. Nonstop traffic. I95 in philadelphia a real mess. So lets first take a look at the 14th street bridge. Traffic moving but, boy, its going to start to back up and then we go to philadelphia from our nbc station there, channel 10, you can see overturned tractor trailer on i95. This is going to be a mess. Were just getting warmed up here, friends. This is going to be an icy mess for a good portion of the country. Heres the set up weve got. Well be looking at arctic air making its w
As the president and Vice President take up the first lady on her call to get moving. And here comes oscar. Preparations under way in hollywood with the 86th Academy Awards just two days away. The race to the top prize is open today, february 28th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Friday here. Carsons in for matt this morning. I hope that all those stars in hollywood are waterproof. Take a look at the dolby theatre right now where the oscars will be. Its all wrapped up in plastic. And if youre in charge of the oscars, youre thinking, weve had no rain in the state of california, and sure enough on the big night, is it going to rain . Yeah, it will rain, but the big question is will it get out of here in time for the oscars . Theres a good chance it may not. By the way, the rough weather out west is todays top story. The rain is, o
Musical beautiful. Its the carole king story. Jessie mueller is with us, the one who plays carole king. She is awesome. She is going to sing beautiful. We went to see the show, thats a backstage shot. She is carole king. She really is. Shes like channeling her. Youve been three times. Ive been once. But im certainly going to go again. We highly recommend it. Shes going to sing for us. Last night i was very busy. I saw that. In your notes this morning. I went to the 92nd street y. This is a place for her secret boyfriend. My secret boyfriend, also your boyfriend, jonathan tisch. We have a photograph of jonathan and his wife lizzie. Spoke to the group and just so you get a picture of the group, so jonathan during the course of the interview said, im going to tell about my kathie lee first date, which was the one he had with you and then he said and then you tell about yours. He talked about how you had a little love thing going for a whole meal. Thats true. He invited me out he asked fra