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WBAL Today December 27, 2012

Stars of them join us live in the studios, thursday, december 27th, 2012. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this thursday morning. Im savannah guthrie. Im willie geist in this morning for matt. We have the party music on for a reason. Its someones birthday in this room today. Happy birthday, savannah. Thank you. Im getting my musical request for today. A little techovibe. We will have the carbon daters to take us back to the day you were born. Do you need to tweet out my age . I gave some hints. Turning 30, very excited about that. Well let you have that one. A lot of wind in the new york area. Other parts of the northeast, it is a blanket of snow. Other areas could see two feet by the time the storm is done. Mark zuckerbergs own sister with a post of holiday settings she said was posted just for friends and how did it end up being viewed by tens of thousands of strangers. And a remarkable affaquariu with tens of thousands of sharks burst. I might have had a mirm lini like that recently. Now, we go to the christmas travelers. And mike seidel is just outside buffalo, new york this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. In buffalo, they picked up 11 inches. This is a city that averages 8 feet of snow a season. Until yesterday they were in a snow drought and until yesterday only had about 6 inches. Thats ended now. , high winds, dangerous driving conditions, all part of the powerful winter storm hitting the northeast this morning. In the suburbs of new york city, where theyre still struggling in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. Enough is enough now. Becoming a little bit too much. Reporter in the suburbs of new york city, where theyre still struggling in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. By windy night, the heavy snow in connecticut reduced visibility and blanket the roads. Frustrating, especially going down the hills. Reporter a similar scene in massachusetts, where drivers are taking it extra slow. The snow is causing headaches at the airports, over 7,000 flights stranded. And in the northeast, the weather system pounded parts of the midwest and spawn iing 46 tornadoes in the south including this one caught on a surveillance tape at a walgreens in ohio. In kentucky, authorities were on the scene in dozens of accidents. In arkansas, thousands were left without power after the snow dumped 15 inches in part of the state. Little rock saw its snowiest christmas ever. Beautiful here but it is just too cold and the power is out and i dont like it when the power is out. Im from iowa originally. I moved here about 30 years ago to get way from this. Reporter overnight, winds gusted to Hurricane Force on the jersey shore. They cant get a break after hurricane sandy. And thunder in new york central park. This weather system has impacted coasttocoast, either the entire country getting snow, wind or rain or tornadoes. A lot of us heard that thunder in new york city. Over 9300 flights have been cancelled or delayed by the storm and more problems today. Erica hill is at laguardias airport. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Up until 15, 20 minutes ago, there werent many delays at laguardia. Were just learning there is a delay of an hour for inbound flights because of wind issues. Almost 40 flights cancelled at new arc. Over 350 Flight Cancellations so far this morning, most in the northeast, much better than the numbers yesterday where we saw more than 1600 flights cancelled because of this storm. Many people are still stranded, trying to get home from their christmas holiday. The good news is american and delta we spoke with giving most of these cancellation, said in most cases they will reissue the ticket or do a change without a fee. You need to check with the airline. Good news there. If you do have a flight today, the thing to do is check with the airport before you leave your house. Dont forget to use your phone and you may want to hit twitter if youre looking for instant response. A lot of people feeling better about today and a lot of people strand aid cross the country and we will see a lot of changes as we saw in laguardia. Erica hill at laguardia airport. Thanks. The Weather Channel maria larosa keeping an eye on the storm where its headed today. Its still impacting the northeast. Watches and warnings in purple including new york state to maine. What youre not seeing, its still quite gusty. Even though its not snowing or raining, you will see airport delays because of gusty winds. Cover from the outer rondex. On up to maine. I95 is green but just enough to keep things ponding on the roadways. Tough tough travel. Major interstates affected including massachusetts pike. If youre headed home after the holidays, it is going to be a tough ride. These are additional snow mount s for the next 24 hours. Looking at a foot to foot and a half of snow in the next 24 hours from albany to maine. Savannah. Thank you. From the winter storm to the political storm over the fiscal cliff, president obama is returning to washington this morning to try and work out a deal. With just five days left now, is there enough time . Nbcs White House Correspondent, peter alexander, good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you and most importantly happy birthday to you. The president hopes to bring back sunshine from hawaii, 38 degrees here and 72 in hallelujhonolulu. Today, aides on both sides say no new negotiations are scheduled and no evidence of any post christmas compromise. Reporter cutting his christmas vacation short, president obama left hawaii overnight for washington trying to orchestrate a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff deadline just in the nick of time. If not, the consequences will be severe. More than a half trillion dollars in automatic tax hikes and spending cuts, not that lawmakers are necessarily feeling the urgency. Congress is at least officially in session today but house members, most still at home havent even been called back to the capitol. Aides on both sides including Republican Leaders havent spoken in days. Washington remains in the same fiscal cliff clitalks. Reporter senator leader harry reid and john boehner are both frosty saying its in the other guys court saying to avert the largest tax hike in history and reid saying its time for House Republicans to put middle class families first. If we go past no deal, the markets are likely to decline in a significant way and involve most americans and they dont want to have themselves blamed for that. Reporter already stocks have dropped three days in a row over fiscal cliff fears. From wall street to main street, it is building. Both parties to are to blame if they dont come up with something. We are really in what amounts to a fiscally irresponsible position trying to please everyone and please no one at all. Reporter even starbucks tries to hand out advice writing come together on every cup. Reporter washington could use a warm cup of coffee on a morning like this. Complica complicating conversations going forward. Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner says on the 31st, the u. S. Will hit the credit card limit, the debt limit and will have to take extraordinary measures to pay its bills. Peter alexander, at the white house. Chuck todd is the chief White House Correspondent and political director. Good morning to you. Reporter savannah. Its five days before going over the fiscal cliff. We know the president is coming back to washington but will lawmakers meet him there . Are lawmakers even talking at this point . Reporter its unbelievable. Its been ten days since there has been a meaningful conversation between the president and any republican, in that case, speaker boehner. Ten day, any exchange of proposals, any back and forth trying to come up with something. Since then, total political paralysis and doesnt look like anything more is going to happen. Harry reid saying i wont bring anything to the senate floor or call a vote until i know for sure the republicans in the senate and republicans in the house will actually take whatever bill they come up with an put it on the floor. Its looking more and more likely this is we will go over this proverbial cliff, wont be over it very long, you know the way washington works. Two weeks in they can pass a law retroactively and roll back the tax things but doesnt appear someh somehow new years eve and january 1st scares these guys into doing anything. The grand bargain of tax reform seems a distant thought. Whether it comes before or after, how do you think they will do a deal . Reporter it appears the white house has made a decision they wont try for a big deal anymore. Whether thats a good political idea or not, well see. They could try to do one more big deal, try to see if politically they get the republicans to either say yes to them or refuse them one more time in trying to gain higher political ground. At this point, they seem to be convinced the republicans arent going to work with them so try to come up with a quote minimal deal creating that line at 250,000 in income and trying to extend those tax rates and basically postpone the fight until february. Peter brought up the debt ceiling, secretary geithner said we have hit it essentially. They can move money around and delay the impact of that another couple of months so there has to be a vote in congress. At that point, the question is, does that trigger the idea of a grand bargain or big deal. Theyre not even speak, savannah. Theyre not even having basic communication. So the idea they will come up with a temporary compromise seems farfetched. Chuck todd in pensacola, florida, for us, thank you so much. You got it. Use your birthday wish for it. Good idea. Thanks so much. I didnt know i had a birthday wish. I used it on the dance music at the top of the show. Sorry. That came and went. To the other top stories of the morning. Natalie morales. Good morning. Good morning to you, willie and the birthday girl and everyone in the news. Former president george h. W. Bush is in intensive care at the houston hospital. The 88yearold is alert and talking but in guarded condition with a stubborn fever. The 41st president has been hospitalized since late november. He was admitted for a lingering cough and bronchitis. Former south africa president Nelson Mandela has been admitted to the hospital after being hospitalized. He was treated for a lung infection and gallstones. The government said mandela will receive top level care at his home after hes fully recovered. The late senator inouyes successor lands in washington aboard air force one. Schatz was tapped for senator and goes against inouyes final wish for colleen han abusa take over. And the Supreme Court justice sonya say it to otomayo a request to stop a mandated contraceptive pill. And still weighing the markets down, right . Absolutely. As you can imagine, the markets are waiting on the edge of their seats for any deal on the budget crisis or fiscal cliff, as we call it and a lot of ceos are telling us once that uncertainty is lifted, it will give them more confidence to lift or high more people. All in all, its been a good year for stocks. S p up 13 this year. The pick heavy nasdaq is up nearly 15 . Well see what next year brings us. Back to you. Well take the silver lining. A terrifying scene at a shanghai shopping center. An aquarium filled with sharks cracked and shattered sending the creatures and tons of water on to visitors. Luckily they were lemon sharks harm loss to humans. Three sharks did die. Some 15 people were injured by broken glass. The mall has no plan s s to bri back the aquarium. This brings back jaws 3d, remember that movie . No. Im trying to forget it. Terrifying. This is a busy weekend in the weather department. Every kind of weather has been coming at us. We still have it going in the northeast with the snow and rain and i95 corridor and winds. Weve seen them gust over 60 miles an hour. Travel will be highly impacted even if the snow and rain has ended where you are. A nice break in the south and southeast, it is chilly and below average. Look to the west, bringing much needed snow for the ski resorts. It will come out in the central and Southern Plains with another round of snow and eventually pushing to the south and northeast with other round of wet weather. It is sunny in southern california. Thats the weather in your country and well get to the local forecast right after this. . [ woman ] oh, i dont want to look. [ woman ] lets get it over with. Satisfaction satisfaction pizzazz pizzazz confidence. I like it joy [ female announcer ] tell us. What will you gain when you lose . Temperatures starting off above freezing. Temperatures hold steady into the afternoon with increasing winds. Thats a look at your weather. Willie, over to you. Thank you. The sister of Mark Zuckerberg finds herself in the middle of a photo flap an image she thought she shared only with friends somehow made its way to twitter. Reporter its a family photo made for facebook featuring the founder himself. Notice the guy in the hoody . None other than Mark Zuckerberg on his sisters personal facebook page. The problem is it ended up on twitter and randi was not happy, tweeting, not sure where you got this photo. I posted it to friends only on facebook. You reposting it to twitter is way undool. Thought, oh, my, this is the most ironic thing thats ever happened. Somebody in the facebooks n Nuclear Family complaining about the privacy settings. The woman who posted the tweeted, Callie Schweitzer responded sorry. It came up in my feed and thought it was public. Sorry. Im just sensitive to private photos becoming news. The entire exchange was posted on viral buzzfeed. It was not that the zuckerbergs were having a family moment, even those in the zuckerberg family, his sister, who worked for facebook for a time, is finding this so difficult. Reporter others picked this up prompted backlash against randi. If the zuckerbergs cant even figure out facebooks privacy settings how are we going to. Some found it ironic, she was pushing for privacy on a company about sharing. Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. The idea of complaining about that, hey, we wanted to share this but we wanted it to be private and controlled, strikes at least me, a little bit about wanting to have your cake and eat it too. Reporter neither randi zuckerberg, member of nbc Digital Advisory Committee nor Mark Zuckerberg would comment on this story. She did share digital et get, always ask permission before posting a friends photo publicly. Its not about privacy settings, its about human decency. I have to confess i dont know anything about facebook or privacy settings. A show of hands if you understand how the photo got on to twitter. I dont quite get it myself. Apparently the privacy settings is the issue that was it created some confusion. I guess the sister posted it and then it got she thought she was posting it to the privacy setting and got published to 40,000 people sent out. And tweeted out from there. And tweeted out. Im still trying to figure out my fax machine. Im not helpful. This is why i dont do facebook. My picture with my dog is the only thing i post. Thats it. All those other pictures stay private. Clearly, were not the panel to have analyzed this story. We dont know either. Coming up, a newspaper drawing criticism from publishing the name and addresses of handgun owners in the wake of a School Shooting in connecticut. More on the travel nightmare from the huge winter storm across the northeast. First, this is today, nbc. Coming up, we catch up with the stars of the 2012 most Popular Online videos here live. After your local news. A ve keig vue brewer . Oh, its great now i can brew my coffee just the way i love it. How do you do that . Well, inside the brewer, theres this train thats powerful enough to carry more coffee and fresh water to make coffee thats stronger and bigger. And even hotter actually, i just press this button. Brew the coffee you love stronger, bigger, or hotter with the keurig vue. Yeah, our low prices are even lower. 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So far, so good on the harrisburg expressway. 95 at mcdonnell, some police activity. Southbound 95 looks good. That is the very latest. Starting out above the freezing mark for most. 37 degrees right now at the airport, 40 degrees and ocean city and much closer to the freezing mark near the pennsylvania line. Do be careful north and west of the city for black ice. Pretty steady with the temperatures this afternoon. The winds picking up, gusting up to 45 mile per ho

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