Today. And golden preview. The stars come out for the sag awards in hollywood. The winners, julianne moore, Eddie Redmayne and birdman. Why they might want to keep the speeches handy for the oscars. Monday, january 26, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today. The blizzard of 2015, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. 7 00 out on the west coast. When you good det the mayor of new york city saying prepare for something unlike anything weve seen before, you know you have a serious storm on the way. Happier waking up on the west coast. Trying to get to the east coast maybe not so much. Blizzard warnings from maryland to maine. This has the potential to be the citys biggest storm ever. Surpassing 26. 9 inches in central park nine years ago. If you do have a flight to the northeast, you can pretty much forget about it. 4,000 Flights Canceled today and into tomorrow including almost half of the flights into jfk and laguardia. Our weather team have got this covered for us. Al, lets start with you. Matt, since we came on the air this morning weve dropped a few degrees and its going to keep dropping as well the snow. Blizzard 15, we have blizzard warnings. 29 million under blizzard warnings, all told over 65 Million People under some sort of a Winter Weather advisory. From new jersey all the way to new england, all along i95, were talking about blizzard warnings. Snow in pittsburgh, there is snow in philadelphia. Both ends of the state. This is the system starting to warm itself up, wind itself up. You can see snow across both areas. Heres whats going to happen. The timing of this. We come out this morning on into later this evening, as the low pressure makes its way up the coast it intensifies, it continues to deepen. Were looking at snowfall rates 2 to 4 inches per hour. Thunder snow possible. Thats how intense this will be. Wind gusts of 65 Miles Per Hour. In order then as we go through tomorrow morning into tomorrow afternoon, boston youre involved, by 1 00 youve got 2 to 4 inches of snowfall per hour. The thunder snow continues, whiteout conditions and look at winds, wind gusts of 80 Miles Per Hour. Thats why were worried about major coastal flooding, Power Outages a big possibility. Look at the snowfall totals. You add those winds to snow from 12 to 25 inches of snow, some areas as much as three feet. You could be looking at drifts of snow, guys, anywhere from 4 to 6 feet tall. Were talking major Transportation Systems shutting down. If it comes to fruition, we think it will, this will be one for the record books. Certainly the top five from new york all the way into boston. Guys. Its going to be so cold the snow is going to stick around. Absolutely. Al mentioned pittsburgh where we find dylan dreyer. Snowing off and on. How does it look . The snow is light to moderate now and its hard to believe that this is going to be connected to what will be that blockbuster noreaster thats going to move to the northeast. I bought this yard stick. I know im going to need it in boston. I wanted to put into perspective how this storm is going to mutate and transform once it gets over the water. We have three inches of snow in pittsburgh. As we get into tonight and tomorrow well be measuring up to here and even in some cases all the way up to here. Especially into tonight and on tuesday in major cities like new york and hartford, providence and boston. So how does that happen . This storm is going to bomb out once it moves offshore. That is a shortterm for a phenomenon called bombogenesis. The storm intensify, we see a 24 mill a bar barometric Pressure Drop in 24 hours. It causes intense winds, in this case to gust near Hurricane Force near 70 Miles Per Hour. That leads to coastal flooding and seas as high as 25 feet. Well also be dealing with thunder snow, as you get to the height of the storm. My question is how am i going to get this on the plane to get to boston, thats if if my flight to boston takes off in a couple hours. Well see. Dylans got a few issues there. Thank you. Were going to have more on the storm throughout the morning. Lets turn to another story, a security scare at the white house, a drone found on the grounds overnight. Nbcs correspondent Kristen Welker has the latest. Reporter good morning. According to a Law Enforcement official a drone landed in a tree on the white house grounds early this morning, a secret Service Official says this started at 3 08 eastern time. Thats when the officer posted on the south grounds heard and saw the device, this is approximately two feet in diameter. It was flying at a low altitude before crashing. Secret Service Officials searched the grounds on the south lawn. The president and first lady are on a trip in india right now. The daughters and their grandmother are here. Josh earnest is traveling with the president , and made these comments while speaking to reporters a short time ago. There is a device that has been recovered by the secret service at the white house, early indications are that it does not pose any sort of ongoing threat right now to anybody at the white house. But reporter as the interim director joe receive clancey is with the president he was appointed after a series of security lapses here at the white house including when a man jumped over the fence and made it deep inside the executive mansion. He has not commented but this latest incident clearly raises new questions and concerns, secret Service Officials say they will have more on the investigation later today. Back to you. Kristin, thanks. Patriots are flying out ahead of the storm, heading to arizona for the super bowl. And deflategate will be front and center as a star player for the seahawks has weighed in. Peter alexander is in boston for us. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Patriots appreciate the change in atmospheric conditions. Zero degree, more than 68 degrees quhenl they arrive in the desert in phoenix later today. The fans are going to be out in droves a short time from now, all this against the backdrop of an outspoken Seahawks Richard sherman calling out the nfl commissioner and the patriots owner for what he calls a conflict of interest. Let the war of words begin. Just to get that right, i didnt break any rules or do anything. Richard sherman no stranger to sound bites. Thats the result youre going to get. Reporter took aim at an opponent and the nfl saying the relationship between the patriots owner and League Commissioner could prevent the team being punished. Will they be punished, probably not. Not as long as robert kraft and Roger Goodell are taking pictures at their homes. He was just at krafts house last week. Talk about conflict of interest. Reporter his comments came hours after the seahawks touched down in phoenix ahead of sundays game. While some of the teammates refused to fan the flames. Our focus is on playing the game. Thats all the distraction about the football have nothing to do with us. Reporter shermans words over deflategate that Bill Belichick vowed to put behind him. The coach reasserting the teams innocence following days of more research into the matter. I believe now 100 that i have personally and we as an organization have absolutely followed every rule to the letter. Reporter the league announced it conducted nearly 40 interviews so far. And some scientists took the matter into their own hands. Some dismiss the explanation, a lab separately conducted independent tests. To determine cold temperatures and moisture could lower a footballs air pressure in certain cases. All of it was fair game for snl. It had a field day with patriots quarterback tom brady. Guys, i dont know things. Im not a banker, im not a science computer. Did you just say science computer . Isnt that what you call it . I dont know. Well see the tom brady, he will be in attendance. Tomorrow is media day. He will be peppered with more questions from more reporters than you can count. He and the rest hoping the focus is on the game this sunday and not one a sunday ago. Peter, thank you. Media day is not going to be fun this year. Meantime, the fbi is investigating threats made against several passenger jets over this past weekend. At least two planes forced to evacuate in seattle. Nbcs Hallie Jackson is live in los angeles. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. Five planes made emergency landings in all in at least three different places. The alarms were raised after bomb threats including some posted to twitter targeted the flights. I was shocked. Reporter two flights were evacuated after landing in seattle sunday afternoon when officials received reports of possible bomb threats. When i was getting off the plane i asked the pilot what happened. Thats when he said there were he was informed there were two planes that got bomb threats and ours is one of them. Reporter a jetblue plane from long beach, california and a sky west jet from phoenix were midair when they received the threat. Both flights landed safely in seattle where officials later cleared the plane and all passengers and crew of security concerns. This is the first time ive been in a situation you had two aircraft fairly close in arrival times for them to be considered a security situation. Reporter at the same time, more than 2,000 miles away, another reported bomb threat diverted a delta flight from los angeles to orlando forcing passengers to land in dallas, texas. One passenger says the pilot made the announcement during the flight. He said we need to land the plane immediately. We believe there is a Security Threat to the plane. Somebody tweeted in a bomb threat. Reporter officials are investigating several twitter posted related including one that says we planted explosives on board our soldier waiting for signal. The threats come a day after similar posts targeted two jets flying to atlanta prompting fighter jets to escort the planes to safety. So all five of those flights have been cleared of security concerns but officials are still investigating, and right now they cannot confirm if any of those threats are related. Hally jacksen, thanks very much. Tamron is in fortunately. Big news in the political world. Some big news. Good morning. Nbc news has learned new Jersey Governor Chris Christie is one step closer to a run for the white house this morning. This after a weekend of key gatherings of republicans. Kelly odonnell is in washington. Good morning. Fast moving changes to the gop field. Aides to Chris Christie teal me the new jersey governor is building a Political Team that will take him around the country and making plans for a possible president ial campaign. Part one is forming a Political Action committee so christie can travel and raise money. Aides tell nbc news governor christie is taking a formal first step toward a white house run. God bless this country and god bless all of you. Unlaching overnight his Leadership Matters for america pac, his website is now live. And that new entipty created friday paid his way to iowa this weekend where he tested his message message, part of a fund raising drive in key early states. If i was too blupt, too direct, too loud and too new jersey for iowa, then why do you people keep inviting me back . Another feisty Campaign Development development. Three 2016 contenders on one stage where rand paul flatly dismissed another mitt romney run. No, no, no, no never. This video release is a look inside the private world of conservative influence. At the freedom partners winter retreat. A Group Related to the billionaire koch brothers. Ted cruz defended his gop donor hosts. They want to scare people painting a picture of nefarious billionaires. And marco rubio aides say instructed them to prepare a president ial campaign took a swipe at hillary clinton. I think it would be a mistake the architect of the obama foreign policy. And the senators did sparring with each other on the economy and foreign policy. This is quickly changing. When you think how many republicans may get into this from jeb bush to Mike Huckabee and more. About a dozen and they are all using the same catch phrase these days, they are seriously thinking about running. Game on. Thank you, kelly. A dashboard camera caught the moments when a driver escaped a rocket attack in eastern ukraine. The car was driving down a road behind a big truck and another vehicle when one of the shells hit, you see the video, at least 30 people were killed in this incident and more than 100 wounded by rocket fire. President obama is calling his meeting with indias Prime Minister a breakthrough on long stalled nuclear project. The president was the guest of honor sunday at indias republic day parade, the first u. S. President to attend indias annual show of military might. Miss colombia crowned Miss Universe. Vega says she will wear the crown with pride and excitement. Miss usa is the first runnerup and our own Natalie Morales will join us later. Bird man and orange is the new black sunday night, Michael Keaton won for outstanding kags in a Motion Picture increasing the oscar momentum. Diversity was evident. Orange stars both won top honors. Thank you to all the people who love me exactly how god made me. Julianne moore and Eddie Redmayne won for still alice and the theory of everything. A milestone for one of College Basketballs all time greats, duke head coach, coach k the First Division 1 basketball, 1,000 career wins. Mike who . After coach k said there will be others but its neat to be the first at 1,000. It is always neat say coach krzyzewski. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Al, what are we in for . Out west things are gorgeous. They got lovely weather. In fact, as you look youll see some clouds through Southern California. A few showers there, the good news is temperatures fairly mild. Out west, west of the rockies temperatures 10 to 20 degrees above normal. Good morning to you. Im mrlgds christina loren. Live picture pretty sky over point reyes, sfek tack collar. Little bit of patchy fog rolling through the trivalley and maybe all the way through the delta. 42 degrees in the south bay, on our way to the 70s. 71 degrees later on today, just spectacular conditions. Not a spare the air day. Temperatures will warm up as we head throughout the next couple of days. A little shower activity on the way for tuesday. Thats your latest weather. After church yesterday we went shopping at fairway. Howd that go . Handtohand combat. People are panicking. The line at safeway is like my waterloo. Youre what, checking your internet connection, it will survive. Over 30,000 tweets using the the blizzard 2015. The flurries are coming down. Heavy stuff doesnt come for a while. On social media thats what everybody has been talking about is the supermarkets, the lines, stocking up. Excuse me, wrangler. Pictures dan and jeremy sent in. Check out. Tracy writes in. Bread aisle looks like blizzard 2015 remembered by sandwiches. This is cute. They are taking predictions. Where they think the snow is going to go up. Look at uncle howie. He thinks they are going to get a lot. Melanie has a lot to do. I should probably get food, wine and a fireplace and a boyfriend. And guys, it was wrangles first snow this weekend. His first taste of snow. A little of the action. This must be from your cell phone . This is beautiful. Did he have so much fun . Looks like he was enjoying it. There is wrangler. Marking your press here using blid of 2015. Did you like the snow . Get ready. Its coming. Back to you. Carson, thank you. Coming up much more on the oncoming storm including the five things you need to know to prepare this morning. Plus, full of holes, new questions over a professional golfers claim he was beaten, kidnapped and robbed in hawaii. Well have the latest on that. 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