are thinning out as the minutes tick along. so as marcus dubbed it, it's a terrific tuesday instead of a traffic tuesday. >> there we go. don't forget those tacos on tuesday. that's going to do it for us. >> make it a terrific one. a live look at san francisco. the "today" show is next. good morning v-day. coronavirus vaccines begin rolling out in the uk overnight with a 90-year-old woman the first to receive the shot. >> if i can do it, well, so can you. >> the start of a potential turning point in the pandemic. >> it's amazing to seehis tremendous shot in the arm we can't afford to relax now. >> we're there live and will speak with one of the top officials overseeing that vaccination program. holiday season surge front-line workers being pushed to the brink once again as covid deaths and hospitalizations soar

from coast to coast. now, more than 15 million cases in the united states that new record coming with a new warning about christmas gatherings. >> for the first time in more than 30 years, i'm not spending the christmas holidays with my daughter. >> the advice dr. anthony fauci wants all americans to follow. historic pick. president-elect biden expected to nominate a retired four-star army general as the secretary of defense. the first black person to lead the defense department just ahead, why his military background is already drawing political pushback. legend lost. chuck yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier, has died this morning as tributes pour in, we will look back at the remarkable life of america's greatest pilot. breaking her silence lori loughlin's daughter opening up for the first time about the college admission scandal that landed both of her parents in prison. >> we had the means to do

something and we completely took it and ran with it. >> this morning olivia jade's message to her critics who want her to take some of the responsibility those stories, plus -- >> upset special >> tipped in the air and it's intercepted by washington. >> washington stuns pittsburgh to spoil the steelers' hope of an undefeated season today, tuesday, december 8th, 2020 >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza >> hey, everybody, welcome to "today." so happy that you are joining us on this tuesday morning. good morning, savannah. >> good morning. it is a historic day already in the pandemic the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine administered in the uk overnight. >> it's a program that's offering hope to the rest of the world and could provide valuable information to health officials

here in the u.s. in a moment we will have a live interview with the man who's helping run it but we do start our coverage with nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engle at the hospital where that first shot was just given. hey, richard, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the vaccine rollout has begun. it started here at this hospital north of london this morning in this very clinic in fact the first person to receive the vaccine was a 90-year-old woman originally from northern ireland. she's doing fine at 6:31 this morning, margaret keenan, who turns 91 next week, became the first person ever given a tested and vetted covid vaccine outside of trials. in the uk, they're calling her patient a. >> it was fine it was fine. i wasn't nervous at all. i don't know what to say it's just overwhelming to be first really. >> reporter: in a donated christmas sweater she's in good spirits.

after the shot, she had a cup of tea. >> well, i think i'll have a little rest. >> reporter: keenan, who was already hospitalized and worked in a jewelry shop until just four years ago has a message for others. >> well, i say go for it go for it because it's free and it's the best thing that's ever happened. >> reporter: she's expected to be discharged and go home later today. at 50 hospitals across the uk today, the rollout began the ground offensive counterattack against the coronavirus. british officials have declared this v-day for vaccination day, evocative of the ve and vj days of world war ii. >> you know, it's been such a tough year for so many people and it makes you proud to be british. >> reporter: back in coventry, the nurse who gave the first injection, mae parsons, 17 years' experience, told me this is the start of a new chapter. >> for me to be able to offer that today to margaret, i feel

very proud hopefully we'll see the light at the end of the unl >> reporter: everyone is talking about a fresh start, the beginning of the end of the pandemic they're starting off slowly. at this hospital alone they're planning to do around a hundred vaccinations today but to ramp that up to 400 vaccinations a day next week and keep it going seven days a week. the vaccination program the biggest in the uk and eventually the world is off and running the elderly, the vulnerable, and those who care for them are the first in line. it's a marathon no doubt, but the starting gun has finally been fired for now the vaccinations are only happening in a limited number of locations in this country, but next week british officials hope to push them out to doctors' offices around the country, which will greatly expand the program >> all right, richard, thank you so much. joining us now live is britain's foreign minister, dominic robb, one of the leaders of the united

kingdom's response to covid-19 and the distribution of the vaccine. mr. foreign secretary, good morning, sir, it's nice to have you with us. >> great to be on the show thank you. >> mr. secretary, i'm sure there's great pride in this moment there's also great pressure. the eyes of the world are upon you. how confident are you that you can successfully inoculate the british public >> well, it's been a real challenge. we've all gone through this pandemic in different ways, but it's affected us all economically in terms of loss of life and the health factors. so this is a really important day and we recognize it's an important day for the uk but also the world we got the regulatory approval from the nhra, our regulatory body, to the very highest standards, so we're confident that it's safe then it requires a big distribution effort, which you touched upon that, distributing the vaccine and making sure we can get the needles in arms as

we put it. we are prioritizing the elderly, those over 80, those in care homes, both staff and residents, and then over time other people above the age of 50 and those with vulnerability or a particular health condition. and that's the way the strategy is to get us through to the spring where we can have enough people vaccinated that we can start to move into a whole different place, something a bit closer to normal life. there's still some work to go. as you rightly said, it's a marathon, not a sprint, but there's a light at the end of the tunnel and not just for brits, but for the world, too. >> some americans are waking up and seeing that the brits have started, there are shots in the arm and are thinking what's taking us so long. over there do you have the opposite problem do some of your citizens say, wait a minute, why are we going so fast? how come the americans haven't yet approved this? are you battling vaccine skepticism or worry there?

>> i think there's always some people that will be concerned about this but you heard from margaret keenan telling people to go for it, it is safe i think our regulatory body, the mrhra has a world renowned reputation for the very highest standards. of course if you look at this pfizer/biontech vaccine, it was a german/u.s. research project manufactured in belgium and distributed in the uk. i think that gives you a sense to which this is not just an international challenge but the solutions are going to be international, which is why we're not just focused on, yes, of course vaccinating our people matters to us, we want to get life back to normal in the uk and protect lives, but we've also been working with internationally gabby summit, the so-called covax facility which is really all about making sure we can get equitable distribution around the world, particularly to the most

vulnerable people in the most vulnerable countries we recognize a global pandemic requires a global solution. >> you mentioned this is a marathon and not a sprint. in the meantime it will take time for the entire population to be vaccinated what is your message to the brit oklahoma public as i understand it, they are as pandemic weary as we americans are. but in terms of masks and social distancing, even as the brits are being vaccinated, what are you telling them in terms of those kinds of behaviors >> so we won't get to a stage where we can relax into a different world of much lighter restrictions until the spring and that requires us to go through the process of making sure we vaccinated the most vulnerable people, the elderly and those with latent conditions the real aim of the vaccine is to take the fatality rate out of it so it's much more akin to something like a normal flu, if i can put it that way. in the meantime we've got a tiered set of restrictions in place, depending on the locality, depending on where the

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and that's what i think >> absolutely.today shows. >> well, congratulations, sir. abs. >> congratul good luck with this important n. good luck with this important work ver work very quickly. did the queen, prince philip, d. do the you expect them to get rinc vaccinated and might they do it do on camera? you expect them to ge >> i'm not sure whether they'll vaccinated and would they do it on do it on camera but i'm sure c? >> i'm not sure they would do it on arrangements will be made camer according to the phased approac arrangements will be that i set out and like any ma according to the family, you know, they will hav approach like felt the pressures and all of d the worries that surround this felt the pressures and the worries that s pandemic as well. urround this >> yeah, british foreign pandem. >> secretary dominic robb, thank es british foreign secretary domini you for your time this morning, we appreciate it. ro >> thank you.b, thank you for y time we really good to talk to you. appreciate. >> thank you good t as the u.s. watches and o t. >> as the u.s. watches and waits waits for a vaccine, cases here for a vaccine, cases here are are continuing to rise.continuie nearly nearly 1.4 million and nearly 16,000 deaths in the last week 16,000 deaths in the alone. last week alone, and tha that surge has hospitals and su hospitals an icus reaching capacity across the nation as officials try to contain the spread of this virus. nbc national correspondent miguel almaguer is in l.a. with more. hey, miguel, good morning.

>> reporter: hoda, good morning. almost 11 months after the first case of covid was diagnosed in the u.s., there is still little consensus over health restrictions meant to slow the spread of the virus. now there are fears things will only get worse during another holiday surge. this morning a detailed look at the safety and effectiveness of the covid shot, with health officials posting a review of the vaccine. some highlights, the two-dose vaccine seems to provide some protection after just one dose. the documents saying the efficacy was around 52% after one dose. also revealed, patients who already had covid-19 may still be at risk of re-infection and could benefit from vaccines. but not all the news was positive. there's still insufficient data to make conclusions about children under 16, pregnant

women and immunocompromised individuals, and one died three days after the first dose. meanwhile, as the fda may be days away from green lighting pfizer's vaccine for emergency use, kristen choi is sharing side effects. >> i had a high fever of 104.9 degrees. >> reporter: the nursing professor who took part in the trial, says after receiving her second dose of what she believes was the experimental vaccine, she developed a fever, chills, nausea and body aches, but felt better within 24 hours. >> you know, the reality is that a lot of vaccines have these side effects. it's something that happens when our body's immune system is activated. >> reporter: in utah where covid cases are surging, there are still no rules against large gatherings. there's even discord among

school districts. of the nation's top 76 school systems, 27 are at least partially teaching in person. michigan's governor among those extending a partial pause on in-person learning. >> our progress is fragile. we cannot let up yet. >> reporter: this morning, the patchwork response, as our nation battles covid and many now fight the restrictions that come with it. now in states like california, the new restrictions are in place for at least three weeks, but there is no indication the situation inside hospitals is getting better. that's the indicator that would lift the lockdown. it's looking likely these new measures could be well in place into 2021. meanwhile, this comes amid a new report from "the new york times" saying that the trump administration passed when pfizer offered last summer to sell the government additional doses of that vaccine. during that time the u.s. bought about 100 million doses in pfizer. nbc news has not been able to immediately independently

confirm that report. the trump administration calls it force. americans next spring meanwhile, the vaccine is on progress. summer, hoda. >> miguel almaguer, thank you. . now to the presidential thank you. news on an transition and news on an upco announcement fro upcoming announcement from president-elect biden to lead elec the defense department, a ch that would be groundbreaking and historic but comes with some controversy. kristen welker joins us from headquarters in wilmington, delaware, good morning. >> good morning to you. this is not history-making nominee president-elect biden expected to nominate retired army general lloyd austin as his next secretary of defense. if confirmed, he would be the first african-american to serve in the role. the move comes amid pressure from black leaders on biden to have diversity among his most top cabinet positions. this morning nbc news has learned that president-elect joe biden is expected to nominate lloyd austin to be defense secretary, according to three people familiar with the decision. 67-year-old austin is a retired

four-star general. if confirmed by the senate, he would be the first black secretary of defense in the history of the u.s. he was also the first black american to lead central command, which oversees u.s. military in the middle east, parts of africa, central asia and south asia. >> i think he's a fine choice coming with a lot of experience. he'll settle the pentagon, he'll be a key member of president biden's team. >> reporter: if confirmed, austin would need to obtain a congressional waiver to serve. the reason, the secretary of defense is supposed to be a civilian position with candidates expected to have spent seven years out of the military before serving. austin retired from the military in 2016. only two other nominees have needed waivers. george marshall under president truman and james mattis, under president trump. during the 2017 mattis hearings, the topic of another non-civilian waver taking place

so soon was front and center. >> would not imagine in the next 20 plus years that we would see ourselves back in a hearing of this nature over another recently retired general officer. >> reporter: but biden's team says austin is a strong nominee who understands the intricacies of the pentagon, citing his logistics experience to help distribute a coronavirus vaccine. in this morning's "new york times," jim goldby, special adviser to mike pence and joe biden wrote an op-ed urging the need for civilian leadership in that role. he stressed a return to normalcy. now, even some democrats who voted for the waiver for mattis said they would not do so again, so this could be setting up a showdown in the senate. meanwhile, later today president-elect biden expected to officially introduce his nominee for health and human

services secretary. that is the attorney general of california, xavier becerra. if confirmed, becerra would be the first latino to serve in that role. savannah. >> kristen welker, thank you, welker. it is 17 minutes past the hour. how about we check out the weather with mr. roker. >> thank you so much. our weather kind of fine, especially out in the plains where we'll see record highs. a little cooler on the east. 10 degrees cooler than average for boston at 33, ft. lauderdale 64 degrees. that's 15 degrees cooler. kansas city warmer than usual. albuquerque 59. rapid city 66 degrees. that's 27 degrees above average. look at tomorrow, record highs from albuquerque, dallas, all the way up to minneapolis. chicago will see a high of 50 degrees. cincinnati 7 degrees warmer at 51. but then we cool down later in the week. rapid city drops to 36 by saturday, 46 in albuquerque. kansas city, you'll be down to 41 degrees. and then for the rest of the country today, we're looking at record highs in the plains. santa ana winds, we'll be examining that in the next half hour and plenty of sunshine in the east, although a little on the chilly side. we'll get to your local forecast

coming up in the next 30 seconds. chilly side we'll get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. ♪ and i know it's gonna be... a lovely day. ♪ ♪ lovely day, lovely day. lovely day. ♪ ♪ lovely day. ♪ lovely day, lovely day. ♪ shop pandora jewelry and receive a free sterling silver bangle as our special gift to you. good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. we are going to see some sunshine in the forecast for today as we take a live look outside in san francisco and our high temperatures will reach into the upper 60s and low 70s for today. another warm one as we go into the rest of the forecast. expect it to cool off. we'll also have some gusty winds as we head to the weekend we'll

see a chance of rain by late sunday into monday. until then we'll continue to have some dry weather. >> al, thank you. coming up, the overnight tributes to an american legend pilot chuck yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier. tom costello joins with us a look back at his extraordinary life. plus an nbc news exclusive you need to see if you have those popular home security cameras like the ring or the nest the new warning from the fbi on a dangerous way that hackers are using them, and how you can protect your devices

still ahead, the post-thanksgiving covid surge and a new holiday warning from our own stephanie ruhle. >> her message after she and her family got the virus now your local news.

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down completely. you see outdoor dining still available. behind me here in menlo park the public health officer acknowledges that people should be staying home as much as possible, but also believes the businesses should be able to stay open. also questions the science behind the shutdown. in a statement last night he writes, in fact, i think these greater restrictions are likely to drive more activity indoors, a much riskier endeavor. in the meantime you see our reporters bundled up in jackets. what's our forecast for today, kari? yeah, even though the sun is rising we are starting out very cold this morning. as we take a live look outside in san jose it will warm up quickly as we get ready for highs that will reach near 70 degrees, and we're going to see more of the well above normal temperatures continue for today reaching up to 71 in antioch and in morgan hill, even along the coastline in the upper 60s. but we'll cool off as we go into the next few days. our dry weather continues at

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we are oh, what a lovely shot of our beautiful norway spruce across the street it's tuesday morning, december 8th, 2020. why does that have special significance. >> does it you know what, four years ago today at just about this time, mike and i were giving birth -- really it was me, to charlie little charlie feldman is turning 4 years old today. >> i can't believe it. i remember you were pregnant through all the election last go-around and there's your little one. >> so i know he's watching.

>> happy birthday, char! >> happy birthday, charlie, we love you. >> i cannot believe he's 4 already. all right, kids, we're going to get started with our 7:30 headlines. a second federal judge blocked the trump administration's efforts to ban tiktok in the u.s. the judge ruled that the president overstepped his authority in his attempt to put the popular video-sharing app out of business. the trump administration says tiktok poses a national security threat saying the personal data of american users to be obtained by china's government. it's official, break dancing is an olympic sport. the international olympic committee announced on monday that break dancing will be a medal event starting at the 2024 paris games. hoda, you may be an olympian yet. also skateboarding, surfing and climbing also making their olympic debuts at the tokyo

games next summer. ioc president, thomas bach, said the addition of the break dancing will make it more gender balanced, more youthful, and more fun >> i was going to say more fun and then there were none the pittsburgh steelers the only remaining undefeated team in the nfl recorded its first loss monday night >> blitz is coming smith under pressure going end zone, he's got it, touchdown logan thomas >> there you go. alex smith finds logan thomas for the 15-yard touchdown as the washington football team, a big underdog, ties the game up at 17 they would kick a couple of field goals later and that was it it was an upset, 23-17. >> i know who was upset in your household. your mom. >> my mom and my brother it was no bueno. >> but you gave a very neutral read there. >> i tried. now we move to america paying tribute to a real legend. chuck yeager, a member of the greatest generation, passed

away he was the fearless test pilot who broke the sound barrier. he was 97 years old. >> nbc's tom costello joins us with a look at his incredible life tom, if you think about it, yeager stands with neil armstrong and john glenn he was an american superhero >> he was a true original. he grew up in west virginia. he learned to fly in the military during world war ii where he was right off the bat one of the best in the country and it was a very young age such a great fighter pilot. that was only the start of this incredible life. the year was 1947. >> history is made by this aircraft. >> dropped from a b-29 over the mojave desert, charles yeager lit the rocket that pushed his experimental x-1 aircraft soaring to 45,000 feet and passed mach one. >> for the first time, a man has flown an airplane faster than

the speed of sound >> the breakthrough captured in the movie "the right stuff." only 24 years old, america's new hero was as american as they come born in west virginia, he was a mechanic in the army air corps when he was selected for pilot training flying p-51 mustangs in world war ii, he was shot down over france and evaded capture, then became an ace in a single day, after downing five german fighters three years later he was preparing to break the sound barrier. no one knew if a human could even survive such speeds and the air force didn't know that yeager was in great pain, having just broken two ribs falling off a horse. he used a modified broom handle to close his own hatch. >> you don't look at it as being dangerous. it's something that you're sort

of dedicated to and you just sort of concede the fact that that's your job and that's what you're going to do and you don't really think about the outcome. and of course a lot of pilots got killed. >> chuck yeager was a pilot's pilot, testing more planes, training pilots and astronauts and flying missions over vietnam. >> he was supremely self-confident he was genial but had a razor-sharp mind on anything involving high-speed flight. >> in 1975 he retired as a brigadier general. at the age of 74, chuck yeager was back in a fighter jet to mark the 50th anniversary and break the sound barrier once again. >> i just tell people i'm no hero, i'm just a kid, you know, that was at the right place at the right time. >> in 1983 yeager talked to "today." >> i'm just lucky to come through it in one piece. that's the way you look at it. >> today yeager's bell x-1

aircraft hangs at the smithsonian for all to see. >> i think about chuck as the essential american he was a daredevil he knew what he had to do in the war. then when we started to think about space and taking it to the next level, he was right there. >> few names are as iconic as chuck yeager's, representing courage and service. one of america's very favorite sons he really was. overnight former nasa astronaut scott kelly, calling yeager a true legend with the right stuff. and yeager's wife, victoria yeager, writing an incredible life well lived, america's greatest pilot and a legacy of strength, adventure and patriotism will be remembered forever. back to you. >> and also such humility he had. tom, when you talk about breaking the sound barrier, that was remarkable, but that was also critical when it came to

the military >> it was a cold war top secret mission. yeager gave away very few details of the flight at the time the country was trying to engineer better, faster planes and yeager's flight really helped lead to superior american military aircraft designs for years to come. >> so glad we're taking a moment just to honor and remember a real pioneering american who took a lot of risks for his country. they paid off handsomely tom, thank you. still ahead the fbi's new home security warning you definitely want to hear this holiday season vicky nguyen will have exclusive details on what hackers are now doing and what you need to do today to protect your family if you have those nest cams, those doorbell cams. we'll get into it right after this we are back, 7:42 with nbc a snow day means a frozen afternoon.

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take right now to prevent this from happening to you. you're watching police in florida approach this homeowner's front door for an emergency that doesn't exist >> someone had called them and said they were my husband and said that they caught me having an affair and had murdered me. >> it's called swatting where someone calls in a fake emergency to trick law enforcement into sending a heavily armed strike force, often a s.w.a.t. team, to swarm a home but it can have deadly consequences in 2017, police mistakenly shot and killed this man in kansas after this fake call for help. >> shot him in the head and he's not breathing anymore. >> this is part of a new twist on the dangerous prank hackers are breaking into home security cameras connected to the internet so they can watch the swatting unfold in realtime. sometimes accessing the camera's speakers to shout profane and racist rants at the homeowners and even police.

>> hello >> yo, what's up -- [ bleep >> this is a safety issue. a lot of these devices are becoming more and more prevalent especially with christmas around the corner. >> reporter: fbi special agent ron manuel said the agency is aware of a dozen cases across the country. >> the fbi has an urgent message about what's going on. what is it >> you have to secure these devices. >> reporter: last december with the help of mark spoonauer the editor in chief of tom's guide, i show you how these devices can be vulnerable. >> it's not that common for devices like this to be hacked but if it happens to you, it's scary. >> reporter: he said the devices themselves are secure but warns hackers break in using compromised credentials. >> they usually come in through user names and passwords that are out there on the dark web. >> paul waggenfield is in another room logging into this nest camera to show you how easily it can happen. >> hey, guys, i'm logged in. i can hear you and i can see you. >> that is very creepy

that is not supposed to be happening with a security camera. >> no, it's not. the reason why he's able to get in is because he has access not to the device necessarily, but he's able to log in with our user name and password, which could be freely available on the web if you've been part of a data breac >> how do you know if you're part of a data breach? just search have i been pwned. use a unique, lengthy and complex password if you have a security camera, you should update the firmware and use a unique, lengthy and complex password the most important thing to do, use two-factor authentication. >> when a hacker tried to get in, you will get sent a text message. that unique code allows you to grant access. >> it alerts you before anyone can get in. >> that's right. it's basically a gate keeper. >> reporter: action to take know so this doesn't happen to you. [ bleep now, the fbi says it is not just home security cameras, any

device connected to the internet is vulnerable, doorbell camera, webcam ra, even smart toys where hackers can take over the speakers and control the device. >> you mentioned two-factor authentication what are the easiest ways to set that up? >> one, look for an app like google authenticator or just set up your account when you're logging in so you can receive a text when someone tries to log in. that means before anyone can get onto your devices, they'll be asked for an additional code to enter. don't use your email as a second factor because if your smart device is compromised, our email might be as well >> we just checked and we've been poned >> that's why you have to go in and change passwords >> that's different than al's famous sweet potato recipe, which brings us to al. >> that's a throwback. >> i know.

>> but if you go on today.com/food, you can find the recipe for the sweet potatoes. let's show you what's happening. as far as weather out west, strong pressure over utah, low pressure over baja and the flow is bringing critically dry air from the desert right across california and that makes for a high fire risk the high will move east and weaken and the santa ana winds will subside tomorrow, but in the meantime 26 million people are under high wind warnings and red flag warnings as well. you look at the wind gusts, fire danger, moderate to strong santa ana winds, wind gusts anywhere from 30 to 50 miles per hour and we do have an elevated to critical risk throughout much of southern california. these wind gusts could be up to 70 miles per hour. the humidity is only 5% to 10% good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. we do still have some calmer

winds for the bay area. the winds are calming down for us. as we look outside it's nice and sunny. a cool start to our morning, but we'll warm up as we go into the afternoon, as we reach into the upper 60s and low 70s. this is well above normal. and our fire danger does continue as we'll start to see some gusty winds picking up late tomorrow evening and the dry weather continues into the start of the weekend. >> and that's your latest weather. hoda. >> al, thank you coming up, lori loughlin's daughter opening up for the first time about her family's involvement in the college admission scandal that ultimately landed her parents in prison she does an interview, but we'll talk about that after these messages

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>> it's just overwhelming at first really. >> it comes as hospitals in the u.s. are reaching capacity from coast to coast. this morning, a new warning about holiday gatherings. our own stephanie ruhle sharing the lessons she's learned after she and her family contracted the disease. then breaking her silence. the daughter of actress lori loughlin speaks out for the first time about the college admission scandal. >> definitely ready to address

some things. >> just ahead, the candid conversation and why she wants to take responsibility now. plus, his legacy shines on 40 years after his tragic death. we'll hear from john lennon in his last major tv interview. what the former beatle reveals about his life in and out of the spotlight. >> i'd suddenly wake up in the middle of one, a concert or a happening, how did i get here. the last thing i remember is playing music in a club and the next minute this. and we're speechless. dynamic duo dan and shay will join us for a very special performance to get you in the holiday mood. today, tuesday, december 8, 2020. today is jack's first birthday. >> and he shares it with his grandfather. we love you, poppy!

it's owen's 12th birthday! >> and i'm sharing it with you, savannah and hoda. >> hey, "today" show. >> we've got two birthday friends here. >> in birmingham, alabama. >> how happy are you? >> i love it. >> welcome back to "today." so happy that you're with us on this tuesday morning. craig has the day off today. >> our executive producer, tom, is turning 50. >> happy birthday. coming up tomorrow on "today," a story for anybody who gets their prescriptions by mail. frustrated customers telling cynthia mcfadden why they feel trapped in a system that's left them with crushed pills, broken vials and life-saving drugs exposed to extreme weather. it's an eye-opening report and we'll have that tomorrow morning on "today." let us get started with our news at 8:00. overnight hospitals across great britain started the mass vaccination campaign that could help end the coronavirus pandemic. today senior international correspondent keir simmons joins

us with the latest on today's rollout. some great news there, keir. >> reporter: hey, hoda, it certainly is. this is the kind of vaccine operation coming to america soon. patients are coming in through that door, being vaccinated in the cubicles you can see behind me there before they come to these chairs to rest and recuperate, make sure there are no side effects and then leave by a separate entrance. it's this kind of local operation that will be crucial to the vaccinations both here and there as the uk vaccination operation gets under way. this morning the first patient in the world to receive the pfizer vaccine outside the clinical trials was a 90-year-old woman, margaret keenan. she called it an early birthday present. >> i'm happy it happened. >> reporter: soon the vaccination program was under way in 70 hospitals and health centers across the uk. the british calling it v-day. the foreign secretary speaking to savannah earlier.

>> how confident are you that you can successfully inoculate the british public? >> we've all gone through this pandemic in different ways, but it's affected us all economically as well as in terms of loss of life and health factors. so this is a really important day and we recognize it's an important day for the uk but also for the world. >> reporter: and this is what's coming to america, community centers like this one in wales turned into local vaccination hubs. at the back of a basketball court there are lines of immunization cubicles. each patient is ushered in one by one and then they're given this immunization card. on the back it says the date of your first vaccination and when you need to get your second dose. this icu doctor came for his vaccination after a night shift. >> how does it feel to be one of the first to be vaccinated? >> it feels great. i'm really privileged. there are so many people out there waiting for a vaccine. >> reporter: wales plans for 20,000 people to be vaccinated in total as part of the first

wave. not nearly enough for one of the hardest-hit countries in europe, but a start. >> i think having a combination of vaccines will be really advantageous to us. it will help us deliver the program a lot more easily. >> reporter: a light at the end of the tunnel, despite challenges ahead. and perhaps one of those challenges is that we've seen health workers here, but not many elderly and frail, getting them to places like this, hoda, is going to be a real problem. still, a real sense of victory today here in the uk. we saw a senior member of the government on british tv shed a tear, hoda. as you know, we british guys don't do that easily. >> yeah, it's a real emotional time. all right, keir, thank you so much. president-elect biden has chosen retired four-star army general lloyd austin to serve as his defense secretary. three sources telling nbc news that this morning. the 67-year-old will be the first african-american to hold that post. he's the former head of u.s. central command, which oversees american forces in the middle

east as well as parts of africa and asia. biden's team says austin's logistical experience could help with the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine. he would need a congressional waiver because he's been retired for less than the required seven years before serving in that civilian post. also this morning, the college admission scandal that transfixed the nation last year is back in the headlines. that's because olivia jade, the daughter of actress lori loughlin and clothing designer mossimo giannulli, is now breaking her silence. meagan fitzgerald is here with that story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. in olivia jade's first interview ever, she's speaking about the so-called operation varsity blues scandal while her parents serve time in prison for their involvement. in a new episode of "red table talk" on facebook watch, many are waiting to hear the 21-year-old explain her role in the scandal. >> how are you feeling? >> i'm nervous. you guys should feel my heart,

it's like -- >> reporter: finally breaking her silence, olivia jade is opening up for the first time about the college admission scandal that landed her in the hot seat and her parents in prison. >> excited. i think i'm definitely ready to address some things and i can't think of a better place. >> reporter: in a candid conversation, giannulli is sitting down with jada pinkett smith, her mother and her daughter willow on "red table talk," a show known for brutal honesty. >> so do you understand why different people in the community would be upset? do you have any understanding of why i would be upset at your being here and what you all did and the harm that it caused? >> i would also love to hear it from you because i feel like it's a good learning thing. >> reporter: after the scandal broke in march of 2019, olivia jade dropped out of the university of southern california where she was a freshman. both she and her family making headlines in the pay-to-play college admissions bribery

scandal. >> i think i can understand how wrong it is and we had the means to do something and we completely took it and ran with it. >> reporter: a social media and youtube star, the 21-year-old has also come under fire for old videos that resurfaced amid the scandal. >> i do want the experience of like gamedays, partying. i don't really care about school, as you guys all know. >> reporter: earlier this year olivia jade's parents, actress lori loughlin and fashion designer mossimo giannulli pleaded guilty to fraud, accused of paying half a million dollars to get them into the university. olivia jade's mother, who she calls her best friend, is set to complete her two-month prison sentence at the end of the year while her father was booked into federal prison last month where he's serving five months. though she's not formally charged with any crimes, a seemingly changed olivia jade says she's ready to take responsibility. and you can catch the full

episode of "red table talk" on facebook watching, dropping at 12:00 eastern, 9:00 pacific today. >> all right, meagan, thank you. >> that is the news. we need a hoda boost. >> i got you a great one. if anyone deserved a lot of attention on his birthday, it is world war ii veteran irvin frenchy la comp. he and his friends got together and arranged a safe drive-by parade. >> happy birthday, frenchy! we love you. happy birthday! >> love you, grandpa! >> thank you. >> happy birthday! >> that was beautiful. but when a guy turns 103 you've got to pull out all the stops. a pair of soldiers from the army recruiting station came by to give this veteran a proper birthday salute. the neighbor who arranged all of this said she wanted frenchie to have a birthday as special as he is. >> first i was smiling, now i'm crying. beautiful. happy birthday, frenchie!

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they have led to new concerns of what's to come in a moment, nbc's stephanie ruhle shares valuable lessons from her family's covid struggle first, nbc's stephanie gosk has more on the new warnings from health officials hey, steph, good morning. >> reporter: hey, hoda, good morning. the decision by millions of americans to travel over thanksgiving despite those warnings from experts are now starting to have devastating consequences with just weeks to go before christmas and new year's, experts once again are begging people to stop holding those superspreader gatherings and start helping to save lives. this morning, a dire warning from officials. >> without substantial mitigation, the middle of january can be a really dark time for us. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci, pleading with americans to limit hanukkah, christmas and new year get-togethers. no matter what, stay away from people who may have unknowingly been exposed to the virus. >> you want to make sure you

don't get people who just got off an airport or a plane or train and came in from florida and came in from wherever. that's even more risky than the absolute numbers. >> reporter: with hospitalizations and deaths now surging to record highs, americans are seeing the horrific impact of thanksgiving gatherings turned superspreaders, something dr. fauci predicted to savannah last week. >> do you attribute any of this surge that we're seeing in the last couple of days directly to thanksgiving and the travel and the get-togethers that did happen >> maybe a little bit of a blip, savannah, but we don't expect to see the full brunt of it between two and three weeks. >> reporter: it's a frightening concern our friend and colleague stephanie ruhle knows firsthand. >> i would rather miss a holiday and a few weeks than to risk spreading the virus even more, maybe killing my extended family. >> reporter: her husband tested positive just a day before thanksgiving and then stephanie and her three children did too. >> i want you to know i did all

the right things i wore a mask, i kept my distance, but still i got covid. and i realize that doing the right thing isn't enough. >> reporter: now stephanie is pleading for caution and calling for action >> had we not tested, our family would have potentially exposed our colleagues, our neighbors, our kids' schools. we were one day away from unknowingly potentially being superspreaders. >> reporter: one state is taking extreme measures to limit holiday travel right now in california, hotels are not allowed to accept guests staying less than two weeks accounting for the quarantine unless those guests can prove that they are essential workers. for some people, that will mean their plans to travel to california over the holidays are cancelled. hoda and savannah. >> stephanie gosk, thank you. >> let's get more from stephanie rule, our colleague at nbc how are you doing?

your three beautiful kids, your hubby, how is everyone feeling now? >> my kids really never got sick at all and we are still isolating together but we're okay we didn't get super sick but just because we didn't get super sick doesn't mean we wouldn't have been superspreaders. >> so why did your -- you said your husband had a scratchy throat and so he went to get checked. that was the first thing, right? >> you know, it's funny. if it were any other day of the year, even this year of covid, i don't think we would have gone for a test he basically woke up with hangover symptoms. you know, you don't need covid to have those kind of symptoms and i woke up exhausted. but because it was a holiday weekend and we didn't have any big plans scheduled, but we knew our kids would be out in the neighborhood, my sister lives a few houses down. i said, you know what, we're not doing anything this morning, why don't you run out and get a test because i was so sure he didn't have it, we had just been tested a few days before because my

kids go to school in person. he went for a test and i made the mistake of going in the car with him but it takes a while where am i going to get the test you're waiting for a couple of hours. when he got the rapid test results that were positive, suddenly we said oh, my gosh and we all separated and isolated. but we weren't prepared for that. >> it's so interesting, stephanie, because you've been practicing what you preach >> yeah. >> you said you feel like you and your family did what the experts say you should do and you got it too i'm just thinking if i'm sitting at home right now, what am i supposed to make of that what have you learned? what do you feel like you could have or should have done, if anything >> i definitely think now everybody should have essentially a game plan, a go bag, in your kitchen drawer. do you have a piece of paper that says here's my local testing site do i have a doctor what is his or her phone number? do we have a bag that probably has an n-95 mask or goggles or ibuprofen. when you do get that positive test, you can't run out to shop

so this is a time you want to make sure you know all your neighbors because you'll probably need your neighbors to be dropping food off you can't run out to the store so be prepared i don't want to say be dire this thing is coming, but look at the numbers. it's all over the place. i never got a fever. had i been able to go into stores for days? sure so know that this thing is spreading and make sure your house, as much as it can be, is prepared you know, my kids were on their own and they're 14, 11 and 7, for essentially a week we had to rely on the generosity of neighbors so just make sure you're communicating because when this thing hits, it's serious. >> just lastly, steph, a lot of people are going for tests the problem is they don't get the test results back for like a week so they're going about their normal business during those seven days and then later finding out that they did in fact have it and there's no fix to that. >> well, there certainly should be you know, we've been in this situation for such a long time, even me.

i have access to all sorts of support. it took us days to get test results. some of our test results never came back. and the fact that we're still waiting, the woman who cuts my hair, hoda, i exposed her. i actually didn't know i had it yet but my husband did so i exposed her. she cancelled her holiday, she didn't go to work for almost two weeks and she took her kids out of school and waited eight days for a negative result. so this is a call to action to our lawmakers that, yes, it's great that we have a vaccine coming, but we don't have a vaccine immediately. and when you do take that test and you're expected to quarantine for a while, we need to consider what that does to a lot of people financially. financially many people think they can't afford to quarantine, especially those who don't have symptoms so we need to start considering this because the only way to be safe is to take those tests and isolate. and we've got to be in a position where we can really do that >> one of the reasons why it's so important to get economic relief, so folks can do the right thing for public health. stephanie, we're glad you're feeling better.

>> we sure are good to see you. >> thanks so much. we've got coming up on 7:21. let's turn to mr. roker and get a check of the weather hey, al. >> hey, guys, good morning a quiet morning today. santa ana winds in california, southeastern chill and record highs in the plains. but in the mid-week period we'll watch a storm coming up from the southwest. rain, a few storms from chicago south to dallas. saturday it moves into the midwest. the rain could change over to wet snow from missouri up to michigan then on sunday it tracks up into canada, bringing wet weather, mild weather for the east, but northern new eng >> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall as we check out our high temperatures for today. it's going to be warm once again and it won't be as windy as we keep that sunshine. highs in the upper 60s to low 70s. and slightly cooler tomorrow. the cold front moves in. we'll also bring in gusty winds, and those winds may pose a high fire threat especially for all of our upper elevations. we'll be watching out for that,

but the dry weather continues into the start of the weekend. we may be watch something rain come in by late sunday. >> don't forget, you can catch us on radio too. sirius xm channel 108 today at 1:00, off the rails. popstart time. sheinelle is covering for carson. >> first up gwen stefani the pop icon has a new single out and she got fans excited by recreating her iconic look from the "just a girl" music video. >> she has not aged at all >> seriously the new track is called let me reintroduce myself and it's already blowing up listen to this ♪ i'm still the original me ♪ original me ♪ let me reintroduce myself >> people love it.

is that her now or is that her then >> exactly the song has been out for less than a day check out what fans or gwen's fiance, blake shelton, posted on twitter. a screen shot of the single at number one on the itunes chart blake writing i can't express how happy i am for you, gwen stefani. i love you so much it's pathetic isn't that cute? congratulations. and since gwen is out in l.a. shooting "the voice" look who she celebrated the milestone with. >> that's what i found on the itunes chart. >> oh, my gosh >> i don't believe it. you're number one! >> we're all smiling this morning. i hope you're smiling. next up, jon bon jovi, the rocker has gotten into the holiday spirit and released a series of songs including his take on tom petty and the heartbreakers "christmas all over again". listen to this ♪ everybody is singing

♪ all the bells are ringing ♪ and it's christmas all over again ♪ >> i like it, right? >> we all started swaying at the same time. >> he also covered fairytale of new york and ellis' if i get home on christmas day, so add those to the rotation. next up, courtney cox. every year around the holidays a specific food-related scene from "friends" starts to make the rounds we're of course talking about monica's famous turkey dance every year courteney cox says people send her the gif countless times and this year she decided to recreate it with a turkey of her own. now she has revealed how she got a turkey on her head it seems difficult and really gross. >> is that a real turkey >> yes >> hold on that bone hurts. >> ew. >> it really hurts

okay, it's so disgusting wait, what's not right about it? >> everything. >> that sums it up what's not right about it? everything >> maybe there was a lining or something. it's just gross. >> where did the giblets go? >> and finally, jimmy fallon -- >> you call them giblets >> jimmy fallon stopped by the drew barrymore show to talk about his new book but somehow they got on the subject of jack nicholson and jimmy talked about the time he went to a yankees game with jack and lorne michaels. >> so i get cracker jacks. i'm watching the game and he said, jimmy, did you get the prize yet? i get it and go, no, i didn't get it yet i opened it up and i said it's a sticker. it's a picture of a snake. he goes, you know when i was a kid we used to get things like tin whistles now you get a picture of a [ bleep ] snake.

>> and he's not even kidding that's a cool story. so there you go. >> sheinelle, thank you so much. straight ahead, harry smith brings us a breath-taking conversation with john lennon reflecting on the craziness of being a beatle and what led to good morning to you. 8:26. i'm marcus washington. well, things are changing soon for one group struggling to make it in the bay. the question is how soon. today rv dwellers living on the streets of mountain view may learn what's in store. voters approved an rv street parking ban last month and once the election results are certified it's only a matter of time before that ban is enforced. today council members are starting to weigh how and when to enforce the new restrictions which may come in a matter of days, weeks or even perhaps months. well, just a matter of seconds we'll get a look at the forecast for you. meteorologist kari hall has a look at that. >> and we do have more nice

weather across the bay area as we'll still see the sunshine today. but also not the wind and so our warm weather continues as we reach into the upper 60s, low 70s. feeling more like early fall as we'll see a cooldown in the forecast by the end of the week. we're still looking at dry weather for at least the next several days, but we could be opening the door for at least a slight chance of rain in the forecast between sunday and monday as our inland areas will cool down to the low 60s. in san francisco, reaching to the upper 50s after today. >> thanks, kari. we'll have another local news update coming up in 30 minutes. i'll see you back here then. in a land not so far away,

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good morning, everybody. it's 8:30, it's tuesday. it is december 8th, 2020 if you are a music fan and we all are, you know the significance of that date. >> that's right. we all kind of remember where we were 40 years ago today when john lennon was killed coming up, we're going to pay tribute to the beatles legend with a look at what's believed to be his last major television interview. harry smith will join us with that, a beatles fan himself. plus dan and shay have gifted the world with their first-ever original holiday song just ahead they're going to perform one of those songs for us. >> and ahead on the third hour,

josh gad on his excellent new project getting the cast of "wayne's world" back together. and i can't wait to share this with you guys tomorrow i sit down with three of hollywood's most iconic leading ladies they share the screen together it's a new movie there's a lot to discuss and a lot to unpack but we had a great conversation. >> just look at that screen. >> i know. >> that's incredible how fun. let's get a check of the weather one more time. >> let's take a look, first of all, for today it's kind of a quiet day sunshine from the plains to the gulf santa ana winds in southern california tomorrow that mild air starts to spread east with records in the central plains, snow showers in the northern new england and >> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall.

let's take a look at our seven-day forecast for the inland valleys across the bay area. we'll reach up to about 70 degrees today with sunshine and not as windy. but we could see the winds picking up again tomorrow as a new cold front comes in. it brings us some slightly cooler temperatures. we'll have to watch out for the potential of a high fire danger during that time frame but our dry weather continues into the weekend. we may be watching out for some showers by sunday into monday. savannah. coming up next, beatle mania through the eyes of john lennon. >> suddenly wake up in the middle of a concert or a happening and say how did i get here the last thing i remember was playing music in a club and the next minute this >> harry smith looks back at a rare and candid conversation that would turn out to be one of lennon's last interviews

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today marks 40 years since john lennon passed, killed outside of his home here in new york city. >> and this morning harry smith is taking a look back at the life of the beatles legend through a rare and candid interview that lennon gave to nbc. hey, harry, good morning. >> good morning, guys. this is a story as you may imagine i have covered numerous times in the past, so i was looking for something i hadn't really seen or come across before in the archives on a show that was called "the tomorrow show" with tom snyder back in the 1970s. i found interview gold with john lennon so as we remember john lennon on this day, we want to hear from him in his own words for baby boomers in the 1960s, the beatles were the bomb. >> we want the beatles >> the fab four inspired

something more than fandom idlery tri packed stadiums, record sales by the million. >> does all that hair help you sing >> yeah. >> all the while leading cultural shifts from hair cuts to psychedelics. >> it's like being in the eye of a hurricane. you wake up in the middle of one, a concert or a happening, how did i get here the last thing i remember is playing music in a club and the next minute this. >> the response to the group, the depth of their fans' devotion was called beatle mania. a fever that mystified and even angered many a grownup. >> it was mainly parents and they were against rock 'n' roll anyway before the beatles came along. people have been trying to stamp out rock n roll since it started. >> why do you think that started? what are they afraid of? >> i always thought that it came from black music and the words had a lot of double entendre the white kids are nice, wasps are going to go crazy moving their bodies the music got to your body the beatles just carried it a

bit further and made it a little more white even than elvis did. >> their reign at their parade nearly five years. the band broke up. for fans it was devastating. devotees debated the cause and took sides john was the recipient of much of the blame. >> we just broke up out of sheer boredom. boredom creates tension. >> how can you get bored doing what you do? >> because it was not going anywhere we'd stopped touring and we just sort of would say time to make an album you know, go in the studio the same four of us would be looking at each other and playing the same licks. >> lennon likened it to playing tennis with only one opponent. after a few years, you'd know all their moves. >> it just got like a marriage that doesn't work. >> each beatle then followed his own distinct path, but it was lennon who made the sharpest turn in yoko ono, he found his soul mate, a musical inspiration and philosophical partner.

♪ but we all shine on ♪ like the moon and the stars and the sun ♪ ♪ yeah, we all shine on >> lennon and ono's coupling, breakup and recoupling made headlines. the two skillfully turned celebrity to their advantage >> we knew whatever we did was going to be in the papers, so we decided to utilize the space we would occupy anyway by getting married with a commercial for peace and also a theatrical event. and the theatrical event we came up with, which utilized the least energy with the maximum effect, was to work from bed and what we virtually had was a seven-day press conference in bed. the story that came out was they

do bed for peace and we were just promoting peace like you promote any product. >> john lennon, the eldest beatle, the man his fans considered the smartest, most soulful of the fab four, was out of the eye of the hurricane and he found shelter from the storm in new york city >> having gone through the beatle mania thing, nowadays it's nothing like that i can walk down the street and somebody can say oh, hi, john. i might sign one autograph, two autographs i don't get hassled. i went through a period i couldn't go anywhere now we go and eat, we go to the movies and do whatever we want. >> which makes what happened 40 years ago all the more tragic. for john lennon was no longer a beatle his life and his music was his own. ♪ but we all shine on >> and when you think of someone of the superstar status of a john lennon to be able to live in new york in those days and basically be left alone, lennon once said about new york, if i'd

lived in roman times, i'd have lived in rome. america is the roman empire of our age and that's why i live in new york city. >> wow and i bet you today if you walk by 72nd street, there will be flowers out. every year at this time there are people who just remember him, right >> hoda, all year long because we live in normal life on the upper west side, i walk my dog once or twice a week somebody says can you tell me how to get to strawberry fields >> right across the street in the park all right, harry, thank you so much. >> a great find. a treasure we have a lot more ahead on this tuesday morning, including and we've been looking forward to this, a performance from our friends da

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special performance from dan and shay. >> they have been making music together for seven years their songs racking up more than 7 billion streaming views along the way. >> with their new original holiday song "take me home for christmas" here are dan and shay ♪ ♪ baby when december comes ♪ when it's getting cold outside ♪ ♪ and your bags are packed i don't want wanna say good-bye ♪ ♪ when i see the trees light up when they hang the mistletoe ♪ ♪ and i'm by the fire ♪ i don't wannabe alone ♪ baby, won't you take me home for christmas ♪ ♪ show me round your town ♪ take me where you used to watch the snow come down ♪ ♪ honor your traditions

♪ i wanna know 'em all ♪ you'll check every box off of my list ♪ ♪ if you take me home for christmas ♪ ♪ take me home yeah ♪ take me home ♪ take me home ♪ i wanna spend the night before ♪ ♪ drinking with your high schoo friends ♪ ♪ round the neighborhood ♪ we can do a little carolling ♪ watching santa fly across a christmas moon ♪ ♪ don't need gifts this year ♪ if i got you ♪ baby, won't you take me home for christmas ♪ ♪ show me round your town ♪ take me where you used to watch the snow come down ♪ ♪ honor your traditions ♪ i wanna know 'em all ♪ you'll check every box off of my list ♪ ♪ if you take me home for

christmas ♪ ♪ wannabe by your side ♪ when you open your eyes and say baby it's christmas ♪ ♪ yes, i do ♪ baby, won't you take me home for christmas ♪ ♪ show me round your town ♪ take me where you used to watch the snow come down ♪ ♪ honor your traditions ♪ i wanna know 'em all ♪ you'll check every box off of my list ♪ ♪ if you take me home for christmas ♪ ♪ yeah, baby ♪ take me home, yeah ♪ oh, yeah ♪

♪ ♪ oh, oh oh ♪ ♪ oh, ♪ oh, you know it baby ♪ take me home ♪ take me home ♪ won't you take me home for christmas ♪ >> that's good >> real good. >> just added it to my christmas list. >> dan and shay, by the way, the guys are back with us live on the fourth hour. >> i love that. guys, just ahead the story of a social media star we cannot wait for you to meet

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>> you know what the answer is the answer is always yes, because the thing is when you work with people you love, it shines right through. >> that's true it includes a lot of people. a lot of people that are breathing life into this show each and every morning you don't always see them on camera but now you do. one of them is our co-executive producer tom mazzerelli who we tricked. he thought we were doing a different story. but mazz turns the big 5-0 today. and we want to take a moment to celebrate our dear friend. >> we call him mazz, tom mazzarelli, the co-executive producer of the "today" show but to us he's so much more. >> hi, mazz, happy birthday! i can't believe it, you're 50. >> oh, tom, you got a birthday >> he is the heart and soul of our broadcast. >> hey, mazz, happy birthday >> i just want to let you know on this, your 50th birthday, that i'm thinking about you. >> and today he turns 50 and we are so lucky that he spent

nearly half of that time with us >> happy birthday, mazz! 50, whoo >> who knew that turning 50 would be the best thing to happen this year >> mazz has traveled the world and produced interviews in live locations all over the globe here in studio 1a, he's that steady voice in our ears when times get tough. >> there's absolutely no one on this earth who i'd rather have whisper sweet nothings into my ear at 7:00 in the morning than you, my friend >> but also ready with the laughs and his is an unmistakable kind of a giggle, which is one of the many reasons even our kids love mazz. >> hey, mr. mazzerelli, i'm helping my dad out and i want to wish you a happy 50th birthday. >> but as the saying goes, the ones you love -- >> 50 years, that's really

amazing. the idea that you've squeezed so much life into such a short little body. >> man, you don't look 50. you still look like you're about 25 or 30 it could be the height, though. >> mazz might only be the second most beloved member of the "today" show family. his amazing wife, karen, might be the first and we've had the joy of watching their two beautiful girls, kate and lauren, grow up from the day they were born. they are clearly mazz's best production mazz is usually the one telling us in our ears wrap it up, but we hope he doesn't any time soon, and we can't wait for all of the adventures ahead. >> you make every morning so much fun you're one of the smartest people i know. >> to me you'll always be a baby, honey, okay? 50 looks good on you i love you, honey. >> thanks for being so very good at your job, and thanks for also just being a good human being, especially over the past year.

guys like you have made it a lot easier to come to work. >> i just want to say happy birthday and, oh, my gosh, we're up against a hard out so happy birthday -- >> yay, mazz >> we love you. >> we love you so much >> that was beautiful! >> he makes the whole place work. >> he sure does. >> see, he tells us in our ear >> for a lot of us mazz is just constant, steady, reliable we're all -- and mazz is always there. >> we go through a lot on this show we go through fun, we go through heartache, scary times, serious times, hard news that's who you want in your corner, and he's in our corner. >> we love you, mazz. >> happy birthday! >> happy birthday! >> happy birthday! >> the poor folks on the smucker's jar have been waiting 100 years. it may not be as good as mazz's tribute.

>> mazz is halfway there, which is very exciting we love that let's spin the smuckers jars first up elias eliasof a world war ii veteran from maryland in addition to serving his country he was the mayor in new jersey for many years. we salute you for your service carmela hunt 100 she likes to stay active by hanging with friends and family. happy birthday 106th birthday to ma why he dushkind she created and owned her own clothing line. looking sharp. mr. tony jacks from wisconsin celebrating 100 years says the secret to longevity, he does 15 pushups and situps every day that's 15 more than me ms. beatrice smith of annapolis, maryland, is 100 she's got eight grandkids and nine great grandkids and two great great grandkids. >> wow. >> who help keep her young how about this

113th, happy birthday to bessey hendricks from lake city, iowa currently the oldest living iowan. when we asked for the secret t her longevity, she says it's simply hard work. >> wow. >> amen. and remember, if you know someone celebrating a milestone, we want to know all about them tell us, let us know on today.com/celebrates >> so many beautiful birthdays today. we have that beautiful group, we have mazz, we have little charlie. >> he just turned 4. he shares a birthday with mazz >> that was really cool. that was a great way to end the show. coming up later on hoda and jenna, jen atkins will share her incredible journey he's become according to "the new york times" the most influential hairstylist in the world. >> speaking of good hair -- dan and shay >> you're right. on point >> what about the third hour >> on the third hour, a consumer confidential that could save you money.

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good morning to you. 8:56. i'm marcus washington. at noon today, marin becomes the fifth bay area county to enact new tight covid restrikeses including a full-time stay at home order. people tried to get out for the last meals for the restaurants all move towards takeout and delivery only. hair and beauty salons will also

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