it s time to come together, it s up to you, what s your pleasure? [laughter] it is fantastic. all right anyway, it is great. we are celebrating friday, arbor day. and, by the way, tomorrow is greek easter. so happy easter to those who are celebrating tomorrow. fantastic. absolutely. all right, a couple of things going on. donald trump, somebody doesn t like him and sent them something really nasty, potentially dangerous in the mail. white powder. they evacuated trump tower last night. a portion of it, at least. i actually was in the neighborhood, i saw the the hoopla? the vehicles, the media. what s going on? white powder. this is the second time they sent white powd tore a family member, eric trump about a month ago. turned out to be nothing, same thing with last night, but it scares the heck out of people. sure. what makes us nervous about recall maybe the anthrax situation we had in late 2001, early 2002. some people died receiving anthrax in the mail
flight from seoul to dallas, the crew forced to make an emergency landing. this morning, those tense homes in the cabin caught on camera. and the winner is craig wayne boyd! the country star from team blake crowned the voice and he flew across the country to celebrate with us today wednesday, december 17, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, with matt lauer live from studio 1a. and savannah guthrie, live from washington, d.c. and good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a split edition wednesday. i m matt lawer in new york, we have natalie, tamron and al here with us and savannah s down in the nation s capital. hi, savannah. hey. good morning to you guys, a lot going on here. of course, jeb bush yesterday dipping his toe in the 2016 presidential waters, we have a new poll and talk to chuck todd in a few minutes. see you in a few minutes. get to our top story on a wednesday morning, police on alert, theater owners on edge
including ambien.bien, why doctors are now telling women, in particular, to cut their doses in half. doctors ari we ll explain that, savannah.ngr all right. and then a family in ohio, dealing with a rather bizarre s? all right. then a family in problem. ohio dealing with a rather bizarre pr take a look at what happens when fire gets near the faucet. the water fire gets near the faucet. the water literally explodes into flames.flt turns and, as it turns out, this is n not an isolated problem. we ll tell you what s behind it but we will begin this morning l with the winter storm taking aim at people here on the west coas taking aim at people from here to the great lakes. west coast e al has the forecast details. al s got the forecast details. al good morning to you. ,ng to you all right, good morning, savannah. we ve got a big storm system. storm system.e video, show you what people have been dealing with out west from utah on into show you what people have been dealing w
announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie alongside tamron hall who is in for natalie this morning. we ll get to today s top story, the deadly mall attack in kenya where militants are still holding an unknown number of hostages in a two-day standoff that has already left at least 68 people dead. we go right to nbc s ron allen in nairobi with the lat est. good morning, ron. what can you tell us? good morning, savannah. we re behind security from the mall where you can see smoke billowing out of the building. the morning began with five or six loud explosions and sustained gun fire that went on for some time, and also firefight firefights spilling out outside of the mall, and you can see the kenyan soldiers firing at places around the mall. unknown at this point is the fate of the hostages and the