announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. happy monday. welcome to today. i m savannah guthrie. i m 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 can t believe how long it was. i said i put the jorts up on a shelf and could bring them down. i know. guys. it s insane. we have ryan o neal 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 de
this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m willie geist in for matt along side natalie morales and dylan dreyer. our lead story this morning, despite everything you saw there, savannah guthrie turns 29 years old. happy birthday savannah, again. thank you so much. turned 29, oh, 13 years ago i think. 29 and holding. natalie just mentioned i m the oldest person sitting at this table. by six months. you re right on my trail. meanwhile, willie has the gift that keeps on giving. willie has the stomach flu this morning. i do. a lot of leaning in all directions this morning. we have the bucket and the purel right here. i would watch the full show this morning. there s no telling what s going to happen. let s get to today s top story. the effort to rescue dozens of people stranded on a ship to antarctica. they have been
january 6th, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today. we ll be back at 7:25 with a e people are standing right now. al, fast forward 24 hours, what will they be dealing with? about 8 degrees air temperature. it ll be about 15 degrees below zero wind chill. that s what s headed in our direction. it s heading this way. this extreme cold is today s top story. records could be set in some two dozen major cities from texas to the midwest. let s get to nbc s dylan dreyer. she s braving the elements in green bay, wisconsin. good morning to you. reporter: oh, good morning, savannah. i can say with 100% certainty, i have never experienced cold like this in my life. it is 10 below here in green bay. but with this wind, it feels like it s 40 degrees below zero. this is a deep freeze we haven t seen in decades. and it s only getting colder. and this is just miserably cold and extremely dangerous for anyone to be outside. the big question, how low can we go? sub zero
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 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m jet lagged. and i m savannah guthrie alongside al roker and natalie morales. are you sure it s monday and not yesterday or tomorrow? a nine-hour time change is not an easy one. how are you feeling? i m not used to wearing matching pants and a suit. and i m 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. we
musical beautiful. it s 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, that s a backstage shot. she is carole king. she really is. she s like channeling her. you ve been three times. i ve been once. but i m certainly going to go again. we highly recommend it. she s 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, i m 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. that