The nfl do about it . An oregon man comes down with meezales after the outbreak at theme parks. Two people come down with the disease who had been vaccinated. Schools taking drastic action. A hole tooth . His teeth was not really knocked out by a cameraman, but his girlfriend lindsey vonn responded by saying tiger woods was not telling a tale. Announcer from nbc news this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Did you listen to the speech . A little bit of sassiness from both sides. Thats a moment a lot of people were talking about. Its our top story, the state of the union. Displayed renewed swagger as he outlined a vision for the final two years of his presidency. Lets go to Peter Alexander at the white house. Good morning. Hi savannah. Good morning. Tonight the refrain and this morning the reality check. Calling for action even if little is likely. With an audience of 30 million americans, president obama was upbeat ask optimistic touting major accomplishments and pressing republicans to turn the page. The state of the union is strong. For 60 minutes and more than 6,000 words, president obama in his next to last state of the union took credit. The stock market that double and Health Care Inflation at the lowest rate in 50 years. This is good news people. Casting aside his lame duck status and a confident president laid out a list of proposals in helping the middle class. Tax hikes for the wealthy, paid sick leave and free college tuition. Any challenge republican support of the keystone pipeline. Lets set our sights higher and pass a bipartisan infrastructure plan that has 30 times as many jobs a year. On policy he urged president obama to lift the trade embargo and the battle tow defeat isis will take time. It will require focus, but we will succeed. Despite calls for unity. Together we can do great things even when the odds are long. What may have been come back of the night i have no more campaigns to run. My only agenda [ applause ] i know because i won both of them. Joanie ernst delivered the republican response. Congress is back to work on your behalf ready to make washington focus on your concerns again. One of several republicans offering their take on the president. He wants to claim there has been a great economic recovery and a lot of people say its tepid. We still have these problems are income inequality and i wonder whose fault that is. In iowa voters will kickoff the president ial picking process. Three generations of the eller family judged the president s performance. I felt like the president emphasized the character of our nation. He speaks well gets the message across real well. Whether he can do it or not is another subject, you know. The president will hit the road again this morning to punctuate his message. Kansas tomorrow both red states. The bottom line it sounded like a Democratic Party platform speech putting the president on a collision course with republicans. Matt . Peter alexander, thank you very much. Joe biden is the Vice President of the united states. Mr. Vice president , good morning. Good morning, matt how are you . I want to talk about the speech in a second but i want to talk about the shooting in delaware over the weekend. Reports that security cameras did not capture images of a gunman or gunmen. Do you feel safe being there or having your family there . I feel completely safe being there. What they establish is someone going by at a fairly high rate of speed shot four shots probably in the air. They could have easily shot and hit the guard shack or there is a garage up front. No evidence of any bullet holes anywhere. Reports that an hour later, similar shots were heard about a mile and a half down the same road. Im not worried about it. I think the security of my home is fine. Lets talk about the speech then. A lot was made about the fact that this was the first time the president was delivering a state of the Union Address in that room where both bodies of congress were controlled by the republican majority. You were hitting there. Did the room feel different in more tension than normal . No it didnt. As a matter of fact it felt the opposite. I think whats happened is its not donned on but the republicans realize they are in control and have to govern. Its a split government and they have the responsible of governing. Thats why im more optimistic of getting things done than i was before. Everybody knows they won the election and control both houses and now what are we going to do about the middle class . What are you going to do to help the middle class . The one odd moment that a lot of people are talking about, mr. Vice president where the president was talking about having arguments worthy of the body and the country and he said i have run my last campaign and there was a smattering of applause and maybe laughter from some republicans and the president shot back. Did you see that as a moment of disrespect . Was it a symptom of the very pettiness that the president was referring to . Look matt. I sat through a lot of state of the union with eight different president s. Similar things have occurred. Its the nature of a body of 535 people and there is always Something Like that that comes out. I dont think it represented an institutional disrespect for the president. The president spent a lot of time talking about the economy. Did you get a sense in that room that there was a glimmer of hope that republicans in that room would be willing to go along with a tax hike on the wealthy to pay for that tax cut for the middle class. Taking care of the middle class is not a partisan issue. The way you want to pay for it seems to be partisan. There is nothing partisan about saying this unique group of people gets 210 billion. The trust fund babies. If you go out, matt and buy stock and buy 10 and it appreciates to 20 and sell it you pay a Capital Gains on 10. If the person dies and they get the money, they pay no tax on that. Its trust fund babies. Nobody thinks there is productive value to that and its going to damage the wealth or the capability of people who have that kind of money. The question is my dad said if everything is equally important, nothing is important. Is it better to spend the money with that tax expenditure or by giving middle class people a break on child care or a tax break on Home Ownership or education . I dont think its close. If you notice matt you have an awful lot of republicans claiming credit for the republicans. Everybody acknowledges the recovery. How do you deal with the middle class back in fully. For the first time i dont think you have heard in the last eight years republicans use the phrase middle class as much as lately. They know they need respect to restore wealth and their income base. Lastly matt the two things that will work as they said jobs and we will continue to track jobs from around the world and corporations from around the world if we had two things. The most highly Skilled Workforce and the best infrastructure. Based on the republican ideas. Im convinced there is a core of republicans who still think the basic principals have nothing to do with politics. You are known as a guy who can work a room. Do you think you can work that room Vice President biden . Could you bring those people together to work for the American People . Being president and being a leader in the senate are two different things. When i was in the senate i had the honor of being able to work the room. I was fairly effective and getting controversial things resolved. It was relating to Law Enforcement and violence against women act and it was reminiscent. I was told by everybody, there was no possibility republicans would support the violence against women act. We started talking about it. We brought it to the attention of the public. Everybody said well yeah i guess we have to do something. We got it done. Would you like the opportunity to work the room again from that podium . Yeah by the way to be blunt i think i could do a good job, but thats not my focus now. My focus is keeping the recovery moving and i had plenty of time to make the decision between now and the summer and will make the decision in that time frame. Vice president joe biden. Nice to talk to you, sir. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, matt i appreciate it. He had the best seat in the house with john boehner. You look over that state of the Union Address as the president delivers it and you are looking at democracy in front of you. With the presidency he wouldnt be the first Vice President to do that. We will hear from him. Lets go to natalie for the latest on isis. Involving the two hostages secretary of state john kerry spoke with his counterpart in japan vowing support against the state and they are threatening to kill the two japanese hostages. In a video released on tuesday, they demanded a ransom of 200 million from japan and criticized them for pledging aid to countries fighting the extremist group. Shinzo abe vowed to save the hostages saying his country would not give into terrorism. Frightening moments in israel today where a palestinian man stabbed at least nine people on a bus in tel aviv including the driver. Four people were seriously wounded and four others suffered minor injuries. Officers saw the suspect running away and 245i shotthey shot him in the leg. The palestinian man entered israel illegally a few days ago. A cardiac surgeon shot at a boston hospital on tuesday died late last night. A 55yearold man walked into the hospital and asked for the doctor by name and proceeded to shoot dr. Michael davidson. Just outside of an examination room and the gunman shot and killed himself. They dont have a motive for the shooting. The man was not one of davidsons patients. We know more about the final moments of the crash of air asia flight 8501. Indonesian officials said the plane climbed too fast before plunging into the java sea. It ascended at 6,000 feet per minute. Thats fighter jet speed considered impossible for a passenger jet. It killed all on board. Rescue crews will attempt to recover the fuselage using flowed floating bags. A group of tourists got the surprise of their lives while visiting the rocky steps in philadelphia. Of course you remember that scene, one of the most memorable movie scenes of all time. Sylvester stallone in the original rocky. Imagine if you were visiting there and ran into rocky himself. Stallone is in town to shoot another movie and he took the time to chat and pose for selfies with a group of guys who ran up the steps and Sylvester Stallone said hey, guys you are too fast for me. Making me look bad. The best scene in any movie. Isnt it . You want to go jog . I have done that run up those steps. Yo adrian thats good too. Iconic. Mr. Roker is in atlanta on assignment for the Weather Channel. Hi al. Best selfie ever. Fantastic. We are in the lab where all the weather experts here have every bit of input and information at their beckon call. They made it available to us today. We are watching this clipper coming out of the midwest from minnesota. It will dive to the south and bringing snow to cleveland into pittsburgh. Light snow. About to three inches before its over. It dives down to the south and bringing snow to pittsburgh into eastern pennsylvania and even new york by overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. The good news is not a lot of snow for this. 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This slab high tech and they go low tech. This is a black board. You always need a chalkboard al. Im going to go clean the erasers. Slam them together. Al thank you. The socalled deflate gate scandal is widening. We will have the latest on the investigation. Good morning. Espn is reporting almost all of these footballs used by the patriots and their victory over the colts were missing a little air. The fact that 11 out of the 12 balls was certainly a big disappointment. Overnight Chris Mortenson citing League Sources saying the nfl found 11 out of 12 patriotss balls were less inflated than required by two pounds. The league is trying to determine how it happened. This initial findings doesnt feel good to anybody. The colts grew suspicious after dequell jackson intercepted the ball late in the Second Quarter from tom brady. Relaying the info to league officials. Brady was asked about the report on monday. I think i heard it all at this point. The patriots were informed of the findings saying we have been in complete cooperation with the league and will continue to do so. If the patriots are found to have deliberately doctored the footballs, the nfl could fine the organization a minimum of 25,000 and take away a draft pick. Reaction came quickly on social media. Retired nfl great jerry rice tweeting 11 of 12 balls under inflated can anyone spell cheating . Just say in. A poorly timed post unrelated to deflate gate with the caption behind the scenes making the super bowl 49 footballs. When reached for comment, they said they are not commenting on the espn report and they reached out to the patriots and we have not heard back. If this is true this is a big deal and its cheating. I dont think in a 45 to whatever the score was, that made the difference. But there is a question. Why bother . One thing is for sure though. Media day on tuesday at the super bowl is a bigger frenzy than it usually is. I feel bad for the Patriots Fans whatever happens now will call into question this whole thing. They will take it i have a feeling. I mean they will put up with whatever criticism they get. How are you . Back to the state of the union. 2. 6 million. Take a look at the trending topics. Even before the state of the union began, the white house started trending or posting pictures here. President obama suiting up for the big speech. They are using the hash tag yes we tan. Thats not what he wore last night. Getting social media going and of course the first lady always a very heavy trending topic. She wore this lovely michael kors creation. The same as in the good wife. If that wasnt enough impact the thing is unavailable. It sold out last night. Sorry, savannah. Not going to happen. The most talked about moment of the night, many people refer to as the president shut it down and said i have no more campaigns to run and i know because i won both of them. 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Thats 5 00 in the afternoon. Temperatures will be colder by then and the snow will be spreading into delaware and south jersey. Mostly cloudy this morning. 9 00 29 degrees. First light snowfall in the western suburbs. Just lunchtime were going to see it spread across the area. An accident on 42 where jillian mele is watching this. This is right near 295. We do see pockets of volume here, this is 42 northbound at the new jersey turnpike. But youll notice traffic is still moving. It gets more congested approaching 295. In Monroe Township we have an accident at williamstown road blocked near tuckahoe road. Take clayton road to get around it. And the reminder as the snow approaches. Get radar and weather alerts to your phone or tablet. Download the nbc 10 first alert weather app for free at nbc10. Com. Another local update in 25 minutes. Get the latest news and follow the weather with the nbc 10 app. Now back to the today show. Im tracy davidson. Have a great day. Thank you for watching. 7 30 on a pretty wednesday morning, the 21st of january, 2015. We are in the 20s to start the day here in new york. Al said some of us on the east coast will get a little snow later today. Al is in atlanta. We will check in in a bit. President obama heads to idaho today. He is going to promote the ideas he laid out in the state of the Union Address. Tax hikes on the rich and a push f