From the captains farewell to a major dose of puppy love. A look back at the best ads of the year today, wednesday, december 31, 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 wednesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist along with Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. The rest have the morning off. The gates to times square open at 11 00 a. M. Some will be out in the cold for 13 hours waiting for the ball to drop. I think i see matt lauer waiting there. He never misses it. 2014 almost done. Stick a fork in it. Going to be cold. Really cold. December was pretty mild, now all of a sudden were talking about brutally cold temperatures. Our top story this morning, investigators believe they may have located the wreckage of airasia flight 8501 on the ocean floor off the coast of borneo. Despite some progress in the Recovery Efforts there are more questions than answers a
Palace. What they might be worried about. Major dose of puppy love a look back at the best ads of the year today, december 31st 2014. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im willie geist along with Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. The gates to times square open at 11 00 am. Some people will be standing out there in the cold for 13 hours waiting for the ball to drop. I think i see matt lauer there waving. He never misses it. Yes, 2014 almost done. Stick a fork in it. Its going to be cold out there. Really cold. December is pretty mild. Now were talking about brutally cold temperatures. Well talk about that in a moment. Top story this morning, investigators believe they may have located the wreckage of airasia flight 8501. There are more questions than answers about the flights final moments. Katy tur has the late theft
March its important to remember this isnt just the eighth month of winter its also womens history month. In honor after this event president obama offered a proposal to rectify an ageold wrong. On average a woman still earns just 77 cents for every dollar a man z. A woman deserves equal pay for equal work and paid leave that lets you take a day off to care for a sick child or parent. Congress needs to act on these priorities. Jon of course they wont. [ laughter ] because in my experience here i have found them to be bleep . [ laughter ] seriously. I cant stand them. Even the ones in my own partim probably shouldnt be saying this allowed in my aloud in my address. But seriously we need to address this. With me now the controversial princeton mom susan patton her new book marry smart. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Jon or you could talk to that lady about it. Work in the white house women there make 9 less. Are women catching up in the white house . Is that the argument they would make
Citi was not one of them. Well tell you what went wrong. Shares of lululemon on a rollercoaster ride. Rallying higher and then slipping lower in the premarket. Well tell you whats going open. And heres satya, the new microsoft ceo will make his first public appearance since taking the top job and hes getting ready to make a big announ announcement. Taco bell rolling out its new waffle taco and new breakfast items today. Well tell you exactly what, if anything, that means for the company and the competition. In the meantime, though, 25 of 30 banks have had their plans for increased dividends and stock buybacks approved by the fed. The most notable exception, of course, with citi, with the fed expressing concern about the banks risk planning. In a statement the ceo said the company is deeply disappointed by the feds decision but will continue to work closely with the central bank to alleviate its concerns. They do have 30 days to resubmit five years after the crisis. Still unable to sati
The dramatic rescue caught on tape. This morning, the construction worker who narrowly escaped death speaks out. What was going through his mind as that wall of flames closed in on him . Oh, no, oh, no. And we do say good morning, america. George wrapping up a Little Spring break for him. The weather is not helping this morning in the search for missing flight 370. New satellite images appear to show hundreds of pieces of debris. Weve known that, but nothing has been found yet and planes have been grounded today because of the weather. David kerley will have an update for us in just a moment. Also this morning, that historic meeting in the vatican city between president obama and the pope. Of course, you and i had the opportunity, the honor, a very humbling honor and there we are meeting pope francis just a few months ago, a beautiful and really quite peaceful experience. It really was. It was his wednesday audience shortly before christmas. Well, this morning, president obama is meeti