This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist in for matt along side Natalie Morales and dylan dreyer. Our lead story this morning, despite everything you saw there, Savannah Guthrie turns 29 years old. Happy birthday savannah, again. Thank you so much. Turned 29, oh, 13 years ago i think. 29 and holding. Natalie just mentioned im the oldest person sitting at this table. By six months. Youre right on my trail. Meanwhile, willie has the gift that keeps on giving. Willie has the stomach flu this morning. I do. A lot of leaning in all directions this morning. We have the bucket and the purel right here. I would watch the full show this morning. Theres no telling whats going to happen. Lets get to todays top story. The effort to rescue dozens of people stranded on a ship to antarctica. They have been there since tuesday and the first ice breaking
Continue it looks like through tomorrow before some changes arrive for the weekend. We hope the changes will also improve our air quality. A full look at that and if well see rain in the forecast by the end of the year in the full forecast coming up in a few minutes. See you then, thank you, rob. A followup now. Its a day late, but the christmas presents are coming home. U. P. S. And fedex trucks delivered thousands of packages today that were supposed to get there yesterday. The Companies Say they were simply overwhelmed. Amazon. Com and other retailers are offering refunds on shipping costs. Business and tech reporter scott budman says we shouldnt just blame the old companies. Its time to take a look at how we shop in this new world. Reporter how hot was Online Shopping this Holiday Season . Amazon. Com says it sold 426 items every second on cyber monday. Paypal says we shopped on mobile devices twice as much as last year. Thats a lot of presents that needed to be delivered. And as y
Full ham and mcalister street in San Francisco. Thats where chase cain is joining us live this morning. We understand you just talked to neighbors and friends. Laura, i did, and they tell us that these two men are still in very bad case. They are in intense i care this morning after being rushed to the hospital last night in Critical Condition according to firefighters. At one point there were 115 San Francisco firefighters out here. You can see the victorian home is very los to the homes next door, and even though you cant really tell from the front, there is significant damage to the back of this house. Reporter firefighters kept watch all night making sure flames didnt spark up again in this home on baker street after an intense fire erupted just before 9 00 last night trapping the homeowners inside. Theyre the sweetest. Rapid where i and patrick were just patrick is like the most helpful, kind guy. He is just like is he the type of neighbor that would give you a cup of sugar when y
The queen looks back on 2013, welcoming her newest addition to the family. Here my family is a little larger this christmas. Shares never before seen video of Prince George today, december 26, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist. I hope you had a great christmas. Maybe youre just waking up with family. Were back to work. We had a great christmas. It was nice. Yours is a little eggnogy . Yes. Thats a good way to celebrate. We had the eggnog at my house. One day a year. Then you move on from it. The uncle make the mean batch of egg nog . That was a couple weeks ago. We were safe this year. All right. We got a big top story this morning. It has to do with christmas two of the nations biggest package shippers, u. P. S. And fedex under fire for failing to deliver on time. Gabe gutierrez is following this story
Nbc bay area chase cain joins us live from Childrens Hospital oakland, and, chase, you just talked with the familys attorney. Reporter i sure did. First, we want to actually just let you listen in live to omari steely, the uncle of jahi mcmath. He is talking about what the family is going to do next. Absolutely. What are your thoughts about hypocrites. I mean, just like you said, in court they said they had absolutely no problem if everyone goes back and checks the videotapes, youll see that. That in the courtroom they said, yeah, no problem. If they want to move her, were not going to stabbed in the way of that. Okay. Well, we found a place thats willing to take her, but, yet, youre willing to stand in our way. The place in her condition and all the determinations made by the absolutely. Were not hiding anything. Its national muse. Its world news. Everyone knows the condition of her. The hospital said that the judge ordered them to keep everything at status quo, so if anything has to