Its off. Prince harrys race to the south pole canceled. That doesnt moon the royal is giving up on his mission to reach the bottom of the world today, sunday, december 8, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with lester holt live in soweto, south africa, and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. As we mentioned, lester holt is in soweto, south africa, where the official events to honor the life of Nelson Mandela are under way today. Good morning, lester. Reporter good morning, erica. Today was the official day of prayer and reflection. All that notwithstanding, it continues to be a day or a week of celebration of the life of Nelson Mandela. People here in the streets in soweto once again celebrating his life. Well tell you about that. Well tell you about the Services Held across south africa today from parks to churches as people gather to remember
People dead. Find out who is claiming responsibility for the battle overnight. David murphy is outside and karen rogers has the commute. Reporter all right, tam, its a steady rain falling on it is terrace. The radar is giving you an idea where the rain is. Philadelphia will get out of the steadier stuff before too much longer and well be in and out of spotty precipitation during the morning commute. We have a heavier thunderstorm up toward trenton and moving toward new york city. Satellite and radar shows beyond this we have breaks in the clouds out to the west. Of well see sun breaking through, as we get into the afternoon its unstable and warm and well get showers and thunderstorm possible. 67 in philadelphia. Its raining. 67 in wilmington, 63 in allentown where were not seeing rain and 67 in sea isle city. The rain in the central portion of the region. 73 degrees by 9 00 a. M. Noon, 79 degrees. Well probably see breaks and sunshine by midday. 1 00, 2 00, 3 00 p. M. Well see the rede
Was provided by the following . Additional funding provided by these funder its captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. He is a cofounder of pay pal, one of the most creative entrepreneurs in all of Silicon Valley. In 1998 he started paypal with peter tiel and elan musk, four years later the company was bought from ebay for 1. 5 billion. He has since launched a variety of companies. He started the customer view site yelp of which he is chairman. In 2010 he sold his social Media Company slide to google for 182 million. His latest project is a tech incubator hvf. Im pleased to have him here at this table for the first time. But this not the first time i have met him so welcome. Thank you. Rose yours is an interesting story. So bear with me so i talk about biography for a second. Born in the ukraine. Correct. Rose your mother was a scientist. Your father was a playwright. What a great combination, you know. There is a culture th
And if we do well i think five years from now people will really look back and say wow, over the last five years all these products have now gotten better because im not doing the stuff alone, im doing it with my friends. Rose some of the most innovative people from Silicon Valley next. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following . Additional funding provided by these funder its captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. He is a cofounder of pay pal, one of the most creative entrepreneurs in all of Silicon Valley. In 1998 he started paypal with peter tiel and elan musk, four years later the company was bought from ebay for 1. 5 billion. He has since launched a variety of companies. He started the customer view site yelp of which he is chairman. In 2010 he sold his social Media Company slide to google for 182 million. His latest project is a tech incubator hvf. Im pleased to have him here at this table for the first ti
Weather. What does it mean for the airlines, for business . We have the flight line from east to west, north to south covered. Well have a forecast for you in one minute. There is evidence today that investors may be pulling out of the Housing Market. What might that do to prices . Plus, a controversial study from canada regarding mammograms. Is this really a Cost Effective First Defense . And we will go live to sochi, folks. Lets go over here. Why not. The big game of the day, womens hockey. The u. S. Taking on bitter rival, canada. The u. S. Jumped out to a 1nil lead but the canadians came back. They won the game. They went ahead on a controversial goal, the whistle blew but the refs allowed it anyhow. Canada 3, usa 2. We will take you live to russia coming up. First to sue at the nyse. We will start with that weather forecast. Heres the weather channels tom niziol as we get set for what could be a real whopper. Phase one of the winter storm produced ice and snow across the southeast