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the news today, monday, december 31st, 2012. 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 very busy monday morning. i m willie geist. and i m erica hill. matt and savannah have the morning off. we ll have the latest on secretary of state clinton s condition in a live report straight ahead. it is the last day of 2012. you and i are both in the same situation with young children. people filing into times square in new york city. it is the world s biggest party. of course, security will be extremely tight. we ll check in on celebrations there and around the world. then we ll catch up with three women that had us talking in 2012, including a mom that sparked debate over this picture. and an anchor who caught flack about her weight. andrea mitchell joins us with the condition of secretary of state hillary clinton. her spokesman called a blood clot stemming ....
thank you very much. i m very disappointed that sallie mae did not come today, and i think it s important that we take a closer look at how all of our servicers are performing. but we need accurate data to be able to do that, so thank you. want to ask a second question, that s about the student loan program. you know, student loan program just from 2007 to 2012 are now on target to make $66 billion in profits for the united states government. just that small cohort. and let s keep in mind these are the best data we have available. these are government data, these are not data anybody else made up. the gao, the cbo to, the fed are all looking in the same direction at what s happening to students that are loading up on student loan debt. and right now best estimate we have is that the interest rate we re going to charge next year to our students is double, nearly double, the rate that undergraduates would have to pay in order to have the program break even. and as much ....
had been 17 years at that point. i got out and i went into the private sector. i actually had three jobs in the private sector. started out with united technologies corporation, did a couple years there. i went on to business executives for national security which is a nonprofit organization. and then i went to saic wishes science applications international. at a variety of jobs there, in the as being the president of the technical and engineering sector. so i was actually running a segment of our business and saic. saic does it solutions and technology services and solutions for the government. mostly the military. so you see the thread thread tht always links my career together has always been military issues. it s our national the fans. i have always been a civilian, never served in uniform, always been a civilian in support of defense, but i served as well is the way i look at it, including my time industry because we can t get our work done in government without ou ....
stay-at-home order for certain counties that will go into effect saturday night. right now we also have our eyes on capitol hill for an expected news conference from house speaker nancy pelosi. that s expected to start any moment now. in a few moments i ll talk to congressman james clyburn about the pandemic priorities for democrats and the incoming biden administration. we start on this friday with our reporters on the ground who are seeing how this pandemic is affecting american families firsthand. right now a top official overseeing the covid fight in colorado warns hospitalizations are the highest they ve ever been. as cases rise there in the state s largest city, denver, they re implementing new restrictions. those restrictions will take effect for businesses today. nbc s erin mclaughlin has made her way to denver. she s downtown and has been talking to business owners in larimer square, one of the main dining and shopping districts in denver. erin, what are they t ....
first responders and every day heroes risking their lives for strangers. a desperate search for lost loved ones. i might have lost my entire family. i don t know. who would make it out alive. i was just crying for help. i was so scared. i just told her that mommy was here. i m lester holt, and this is dateline. here s andrea canning with twist of fate. the hoosier state, the heart of america s heartland, where the motion of helping one s neighbor is as much a way of life as cornfields and barnyard basketball. but on a sultry august evening, that selfless indiana spirit would be put to the ultimate test. all units, all units. severe thunderstorm warning. oh, my god! and as lives intersected on a patch of race track dirt at the state fair, mothers, fathers, neighbors and friends would put themselves in harm s way. do you have an injury? in a desperate attempt to save the lives of complete strangers. a little girl! calm down! calm down! calm down! ....