Hey a Christmas Morning surprise brings a grandfather to tears. So what was in that hat . The answer today, wednesday, december 26th, 2012. 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 sav annah guthrie. And im willie geist in this morning for matt. Interestingly enough that reaction we just saw from that man, the same reaction you had when you opened that set of one direction dolls. Funny, i was going to say that was your reaction when i gave you that fruitcake. Little tough but nice nonetheless. Record number of Christmas Day tornadoes. Part of the system thats being blamed for at least three deaths. Now its heading our way. Well have the latest straight ahead. Also this morning president obama cutting short his vacation in hawaii, heading back to washington that. Will happen tonight to work on a fiscal cliff deal. Dont wait for washington to re
From nbc world headquarters. Good evening. They talked into the night tonight in washington, but nothings moving. The shut down continues. So does the anger across this country and the frustration with congress. Earlier today, the president expressed his exaspiration at the defiance in washington. Its where we begin tonight with nbcs chuck todd. Reporter good evening. What was a glimmer of hope, a meeting that lasted more than an hour between the president and the four congressional leaders, it seemed maybe something would break. Speaker boehner, though, after the meeting ended came out to the cameras right outside the west wing and appeared very frustrated. Take a listen. The president reiterated, one more time, tonight, that he will not negotiate. Weve got divided government. Democrats control the white house and the senate. Republicans control the house. Weve sent four different proposals over to our democrat colleagues in the senate. They rejected all of them. Weve asked them to co
Good evening to you. We begin tonight with dayi an tf the Government Shutdown and a warning about u. S. Security as all across the country americans are asking, what isand q shutdon costing hard working families and is it really putting the country at risk . Abcs Senior National correspondent jim avila. Reporter the shutdown is not just about bureaucrats and tourists. Today the man in charge of the cia and nsa told e americas told intelligence analysts are on the beach, furloughed. Ive been in thefyun business for 50 years and ive never seen anything like this. This damages our ability to protect the safety and security of this nation and its citizens. [q reporter at fbi headquarters stafforded to stay home, making it more difficult to identify terrorists threats. Across town at the fda all scheduled inspections of foreign and domestic fish, fruit, vegetable and juice producers have been postponed. At the cdc researchers are not tracking outbreaks of food poisoning. Less than a third a