Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Welcome to today. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im 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 cant believe how long it was. I said i put the jorts up on a shelf and could bring them down. I know. Guys. Its insane. We have ryan oneal 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 delayed. Just in time for the Christmas Holiday. What do we have in store for today. Today is mostly just rain. Heavy rain at that across the southeast. But this whole storm system we saw everything with it and we had our fair share of wild weather this weekend. Reporter look out. Holiday shoppers jump for cover as sheets of ice fall from the roof of an outlet mall. No one was hurt. Fallen wires were the danger further north, an ice storm downed tree lines from the upper midwest to new england. 300,000 lost power in michigan alone. Crews have been working in the bitter cold, temperatures in the teens to get the power back on. They bring in extra crews from out of state. Its an effort to get them lined up where to go and what to do. Reporter five people drowned along washed out roads in kentucky while drivers in indiana abandoned their cars to rising waters. In hughes, arkansas theyre picking up the pieces after a tornado touched down saturday. One person was killed and four were hurt. Heavy winds caused gridlock at airports. Departure boards lit up with delays and cancelled flights. 700 flights cancelled in all frustrating early holiday travelers. Its looking like christmas in sheboygan, wisconsin. The city got half a foot of snow. Its made it a nice setting for a White Christmas. Reporter it was a completely different story along the east coast, record warm temperatures sunday in new york, philadelphia, and delaware. Not exactly what skaters had in mind when they flocked to the rink at Rockefeller Center. I knew it was going to be warm but i didnt know it was going to be that watery. Reporter skating in short sleeves days before christmas. I wish it was a little colder. Still warm and rainy across Rockefeller Center but you can see across parts of maine and new england, we have ice. Thats the biggest concern this morning. The potential to a quarter inch to half an inch of ice. But elsewhere, heavy rain, perhaps a couple of inches of rain but then as we go into the holiday were looking for things to clear out. In fact, tuesday, Christmas Day itself, looks a whole lot better. Dylan, thanks. The burst of summer leading us back to reality. Thanks. Today is an important deadline for president obamas health care law. Meantime he is on vacation in hawaii. Last night the first family took a little time to enjoy a College Basketball game coached by the first ladys brother craig robinson. Nbcs White House CorrespondentPeter Alexander is traveling with the president. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Here we like to say aloha. They say the website can handle any last minute rush of consumers but theres a deep concern, especially among Health Care Advocates that the word may still not be getting out to the people that need the coverage the most. After a tortured roll out, todays the first real deadline. The last day to enroll for health care beginning january 1st. How many people sign up by december 23rd will be the first true test of how well the law is working and in particular how well healthcare. Gov, the federal website is now functioning. Reporter on social media, a final push. This holiday inspired tweet from the washington d. C. Exchange. Instead of socks or an ugly sweater, how about Health Insurance for christmas. And as anticipated, a last minute spike in demand. When we called this weekend, a nearly two hour wait. Your estimated time is 105 minutes. Reporter the president said more than 1 million americans already enrolled but thats far shy of the 3 million plus the administration hoped to have signed up by this point. But experts say who enrolls is more important than how many. W. Emphasizing the need to get enough Young Healthy people to balance the costs for older and sicker americans. A series of late changes have complicated the process including the administrations latest move allowing more flexibility for the millions that got cancellation letters. Some democrats have repeated their calls for a oneyear delay warning obamacare could collapse if the problems continue. If its so much more expensive than what we anticipated and the coverage isnt as good as we had, you have a complete meltdown at that time. Reporter still uncertain is how Many Americans will pay their premiums before the end of this month. They need to do that for their coverage to begin. The white house has encouraged insurers to give a short grace period and most insurers have agreed to that. All right. Peter alexander among the palm trees for us this morning. Thanks. New fall out from the massive data breach at target. Theres growing calls for a government investigation and according to the wall street journal sales at the retail giant dipped slightly over the weekend. Nbcs Kerry Sanders is at a store in florida live this morning. Whats the latest there . Target is now in full damage control as many of the customers are angry, frustrated, and understandably worried. Reporter with two days to go before christmas, the giant data breach at target could not have come at a worse time. And shoppers are worried its a trend. I think ill start using cash. Reporter making matters worse for some rushing to complete their holiday purchases, Jp Morgan Chase is putting a daily cash limit of 100 and spending limit of 300 on about 2 million cards that could be susceptible to fraud. On sunday, the new york senator Chuck Schumer called for a full investigation by the Consumer Financial protection bureau. By revealing the information, it will enable other stores to learn from this experience. Reporter target is offering discounts and apologies and promising customers zero liability for any charges that you didnt make. Plus free credit monitoring to everyone impacted. But some customers are still angry. One writing on facebook, no more shopping at target for me. Done. Others say target should not be blamed. You cant just say youre going to be scared to shop at target because this could happen anywhere. Reporter many Security Experts agree that its unfair to blame the retailer. Target has spent a lot of money on payment card security and they were compliant with all the latest security standards. Reporter but experts say those standards are antiquated, the u. S. Relies on easy to copy magnetic strips to hold account information rather than more secure digital chips used in most other countries. So far, no one has detailed exactly how this happened. Chief suspects would be sophisticated organized criminals that have studied target or insiders with Privileged Access that know exactly where to go. Reporter Security Experts are warning this morning that if you get an official looking email from your bank, dont follow any links on that email and then start providing personal information because it may be a socalled phishing scam where somebody is trying to steal your identity. Savannah. Unfortunately a lot of people oking to seize this opportunity. Kerry sanders, thank you. Natalie is here with breaking news in a case we have been following a couple of years now. Good morning. Two russian punk band members jailed over a protest in moscow were released from prison early under an amnesty deal. Jim maceda talked to one of the band members earlier. He is in russia with the latest. Reporter thats right. Maria alyokhina was released from a prison much closer to moscow than we are here in siberia where her fellow member was released just this evening. Both are mothers of young children. Maria told reporters she was feeling physically and mentally okay as she left prison with her lawyer. She now wants to pursue a human rights career and lost no time today meeting with a local chapter of the committee against torture adding that shes not afraid to do anything anymore. Meanwhile, nadezhda told me in that interview she is joining maria in a human rights career as well. She thought that the pardon that freed her was an act of weakness on the part of president putin because it came with a few months to go in her jail term. She cant wait to go home and bond with family and friends and all of those that got her through what she called a nightmare. Jim maceda, thank you. Some passengers willi be lae getting to their destination. The flight was headed to atlanta. No confirmation it was weatherrelated, but bad weather has hampered travel in and around the area over the weekend. Lots of concern, but fortunately no injuries. And frightening moments for passengers in south africa. You see the wing of the British Airlines jetliner that into the building of the airport in johannesburg. All 182 passengers got off safely. Investigation is underway. Former basketball star Dennis Rodman did not meet with kim jongun. He arrived in beijing today after in north korea. He was there to train players for an exhibition game next month. It will mark kim jonguns birthday next month. A building in flint, michigan tumbled to the ground to make way for a new park. 1,000 pounds explosives were used to bring the tower down. S. Plans are to transform the site into a Family Friendly plaza with a science theme. Sometimes waiting until the last few days to do your Holiday Shopping does pay off after all because beyonce stopped by a store in massachusetts to do some shopping and to promote her new album and when she got out to the check out stand, she had a surprise for everyone. For everyone in the store right now, the first 50 of your Holiday Gifts are on me. Merry, Merry Christmas from beyonce. Making friends and fans everywhere. Beyonce picking up the first 50 of the tab for everyone there and picking up the baby as well. So cute. All the customers probably picking up the phone. As long as it wasnt like 10 00 in the morning with 10 shoppers there. What are we got going this week . Its warm here but not everyone is seeing the warm temperatures. Its so cold in some areas where we have wind chill warnings posted. Northeastern south dakota and into parts of minnesota as well. We are looking at your feels like temperature to be around 25 degrees below zero. Thats what it feels like in bismark. Feels like 30 degrees below zero in south dakota. Its going to be brutally cold out that way and unfortunately its not going to warm up any time soon. That colder air is going to continue to move into the midwest. Eventually into the east coast so by christmas we should see temperatures in the 30s and 40s. We do have a couple of rain and snow showers in seattle. Mostly rain in seattle. Thats a look at the weather o good morning. 7 14. Waking up to clear skies across the entire viewing region. You can find in San Francisco a beautiful sun rise here this morning. No fog to report of and thats what were going to deal with all day long. Plenty of sunshine will continue temperatures warm, talking about temps from 65 degrees to 70 with our warmest locations across the east and the north bay. And thats your latest forecast. Thanks dylan. Prince harry and his group of Wounded Warriors returned home to a heros welcome this morning following their trip to the bottom of the earth. Duncan is at Heathrow Airport this morning. Duncan, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Not even this london weather could dampen the joy here today as families welcome back veterans from the u. S. And u. K. Who trekked 200 miles across the antarctic. Cheers and hugs this morning for a heros return. Missing from the add venturous prince harry. After leaving the team, he returned to london alone. Last spotted out shopping in south africa still sporting his own personal souvenir. That bright, bushy beard. I think we all turn around and look and see him there and say is that really prince harry . But he was harry and a teammate and great fun to be with. He applied himself well. Reporter it wasnt just royalty joining the veterans, it was actors too. Pulling heavy sleighs they travelled across antarctica in freezing temperatures. Three of the team members suffered frostbite. This was a chance to show that life changing is injuries can be overcome. She was injured in baghdad. For me, it has given me a boost knowing that i can go to the south pole so why cant i start working again. Reporter team usa returned home this afternoon. No confirmation on whether prince harry will be joining the rest of the royal family for christmas but that would be con convenient for dropping off gifts. Savannah. Thank you so much. We can report flight 732 just landed on time in london. Yeah. Rain delay. 747 going behind you. Theres just 45 days now to go until the Winter Olympics and lindsey vonn is recovering from another set back. She missed a gate and clutched her injured near during a downhill event in france over the weekend but she insists her sights are still set firmly on sochi. So lindsey vonn now ready to kick out of her gate. All eyes were on lindsey vonn and her right knee as she took off downhill at the world cup in france on saturday. Look at her loading up the right knee there. No problems what so ever. She is close. She is in touch here in this one. But about halfway through her run she lost herbal. Oh, ouch. And there you saw it, the knee. No stability what so ever. Vonn skied out after missing a gate. Hunched over in pain but Still Standing and then skied to the finish. I was going fast and i hit a compression and my right knee just didnt hold up. It gave out and i tried to pressure again and it gave out again. With less than o two months until the olympics its a painful set back. Well, you know, its yes, i am. I guess i am suffering a little bit. Suffering but still olympic bound. She was very close to the fastest time before going out so the answer is yes, she can compete for a medal. Vonn has not ruled out further competition. Bummed about today. Skiing with no acl is hard. Well see how it responds over the next few days and then make a plan with the not giving up and sochi 2014. Im trying to make it through the season and get to the olympics and do the best i can there. Its tough. A tough road ahead but still leading straight to sochi. We have all spent time around lindsey vonn but you wonder, she keeps hurting the knee and keeps hurting the knee. Did i hear her right . She said i have no acl. Yeah. She said she will be there. Her teammate finished 14. She is racing with a hairline fracture in her arm. Were a little banged up. 45 days. Hopefully they get it together and feel better. Absolutely. Lets head over to the orange room. Mario armstrong is here. Hello everyone. Good morning everyone at home. How are all of you . Theres a lot of buzz happening over the weekend because vin diesel posted a tweet. Its about paul walker who passed on november 30th in an untimely death. A lot of people have been talking about the fond memories of him for all of his giving back for humanitarian needs. This is a message posted on his facebook page. This is the last imagine taken with vin diesel and here is the text you see here. The big question, will there be a fast and furious 7 . The answer is yes. It will be released april 2015. On the 10th of that month. Thank you so much. Thank you. Important to a lot of people. Will he really deep it forever . Ryan oneal is speaking out about his courtroom battle over a pricey portrait of his long time love Farrah Fawcett. 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