♪ for 60 years dick enberg was the voes ice of sporting's bigg events and news of his passing from a heart attack, details ahead. >> tomorrow is kicking off the busiest travel day of the year. >> and oprah winfrey on out with word on a scam. >> the firefighters that worked that dropped in fires from exhaustion. >> wonder what happens at over 170 miles an hour? "early today" starts right now. good morning. >> breaking overnight, legendary sports caster, dick enberg has

died. he was best known for covering some of sporting's biggest events and his catch phrase, oh, my appeared all over. his voice led him to the top of his field. calling the olympics, and bruin basketball games and was most recently the voice of the san diego padres before retiring in 2016 after seven seasons with the team. >> thank you to everyone. it's time for me to move on. and i'm looking forward to that. and i'm looking forward to calling another big league baseball game tonight. >> enberg's daughter nicole confirmed the news with the associated press and said he died at his home, apparently dressed and ready for a trip when the family believes he may have suffered a heart attack. he was 82 years old. >> that's the voice of my childhood there. loved listening to him. as we kick off the christmas holiday weekend, aaa predicts

that 107 million americans will be traveling by planes, trains and automobiles between now and new year's day and the wintry weather will not make the traveling easier. the national weather service has posted traveling advisories from the rockies to new england. we have the holiday forecast. bill? >> yeah, bad timing for busiest travel day. we are seeing snow developing in areas of central and northern new england. as we go lou the day. it's i-90 northwards that we will see the worst of the snow and the worst of the ice developing later on this evening. a bit of rain, cleveland and pittsburgh, big airports like new york certify and philadelphia and -- new york city and philadelphia and d.c., they will be dealing with rainy weather tomorrow. and further to the south, just a real big rain event is under way. we are going to see this developing during the day today, from dallas to little rock to memphis, and all the way through nashville and atlanta, and then in to saturday, a bit of snow on the back side of it.

we are watching you in st. lo s louis. but then some snow back in to areas like d.c. a lot of big cities and highways and big airports with delays. >> a lot to watch. thank you. a government shutdown has been averted for now. the there was a temperature funding deal passed -- there was a temporary funding deal to keep the government open. the stop gap is only good for a month with major issues still left unresolved as the lawmakers go home for the holidays. good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning to you and this morning, president trump is getting ared to leave washington like a lot of members of washington have. and go to south florida for the holidays. he is getting out of town as lawmakers have come to a deal to avoid a government shutdown and punting all the big battles to january. so when the president and the rest of congress, and the folks in washington get back in the city after the new year. they are going to be facing really big battles over

immigration, over the spending bill and more. still, we are watching it unfold on what is kind of a holiday friday here in d.c. for now, back to you. >> all right, thank you. >> now, to the dramatic vote at the u.n., delivering a rebuke to the u.s. and condemning president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capitol. the vote in defy answer ing of haley that said that the u.s. will take name on of the countri countries's not support on the deal. >> the u.n.'s single donor threatening to withhold the $3.3 billion. >> this vote will make a difference on how americans look at the u.n. and how we look at countries who disrespect us in the u.n., and this vote will be remembered. >> the warning after the united nations overwhelmingly condemning the u.s. for

recognizing jerusalem as israel's capitol, the only country planning to move its embassy there. countries are cheering the final tal tally, including major american allies. britain, france, germany and japan, all opposing the u.s. 35 countries including canada abstaining and still, against the white house decision. the president warning he is keeping score. >> we are watching those votes. let them vote against us, we will save a lot. we don't care. >> haley herself sending a letter to diplomats that the president and the u.s. take the vote personally. raising eyebrows by tweeting the u.s. will be taking names. protests throughout the muslim world ripping the president's decision. fearing it could end hopes for peace talks. despite the u.s. denials. already, leaders are telling vice president pence he is not welcome in legitimabeth llaham

meeting. >> multiple officials have told nbc news the administration's long promised middle east peace deal will be delayed for months. >> have the mike pence made an unannounced trip to afghanistan, it's the first trip to the country since he took office. he met with the afghan president and other top officials and he met with troops stationed in the country at a rally style event, bringing with him a message from the president. >> before i left the oval office yesterday, i asked the president, if he had a message for our troops here in afghanistan. and he looked at me without hesitation from behind the resolute desk and he said, tell them i love them. and during this special season, i know that president trump was speaking for every american. >> we turn to tracy potts in washington. good morning. >> hi had, francis, good morning, this trip the first for vice president pence or president trump to the war zone.

restressed the fact that there's a new regional strategy here, the united states promising to stay in this war until the u.s. achieves victory is a 16-year-older war. the message delivered not only to the troops as you see here, and also in that meeting with the afghan president and vice president pence. hundreds more troops have been authorized to go in country. there looks to be 16,000 at the beginning on of the year. now the trip happened under the cloak of secrecy. there was a refuelling stop in germany obviously because of the danger of the visit there for a high level official from the trump administration. francis? >> all right. tracy, thank you for the update. >> school is out for a winter

break and the parents of an ohio student decided to give his teachers a unique and unforgettable gift. as a joke and a thank you, they gifted the teacherers can bottles of white wine, and personalized label saying our child may be the reason you drink. >> i have a lot of friends that are going to be teachers they were like, oh, we would love to get it as a gift, as a joke, obviously. and it kind of blew up from there. >> over all the gifts were well received and the teachers thought they were funny. >> it was more of a thank you because i know i can't spend six hours in the room with my little brother and they have been doing it every day for however hong he has been in school. they all thought it was funny. >> the mom and the three children have cycled through the school and after next spring, the school will officially be free of them. >> all right, here we go. parents, next year's idea for the christmas gift.

tiz the season to be careful of online scammers. oprah winfrey has been warni ii people about people pretending to be her. >> it's a fraud, it's a fraud, it's a fraud. don't believe it. do not give up your bank accounts or personal information to anybody posing as me or anybody else for that matter and have a merry christmas. >> an instagram account was discovered that promised $5,000 to people that followed an account posing as the oprah winfrey network. they urged followers to be aware that social media accounts promising money using oprah's name are false. the talk show icon said she is working with various social media platforms that are working dill againstly to have the fake accounts deactivated. >> you get duped and you get

duped. >> okay, we have bill. >> it's great to hear and see her. let's get in the snowfall forecast. the storms are moving in. now, in to areas of southern new hampshire and vermont, we have storm warnings issued for the entire state of vermont and southern half of new hampshire, snow turning to sleet and rain. it's today and tonight improving in to tomorrow. here'ses the snow forecast. the purple is six inches with a few spots getting nine at the higher elevations, great for the skiers and horrible for the travel on friday. and the ice forecast, up to half an inch possible. southern new hamp ow who's dress?

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shot while helping out. four men jump in to help a couple and end up shot. police are searching for the boyfriend who pulled the trigger. miss america controversy. reported emails allegedly reveal leaders at the atlantic ci city-based organization ridiculing past winners. now there's growing backlash. millions on the move. from the roads to the skies, a record number of people are traveling for the holiday. what you need to know before leaving for your destination. i'm sure today will be a travel day or shopping day. good morning, this is "nbc10 news today" first look at 4, i'm tracy davidson. >> a lot to get to. good morning, i'm rosemary connors. we'll start with meteorologist bill henley and the most accurate neighborhood weather forecast. bill? >> a travel day should be fine. tonight i'm expecting rain.

right now, it is dry and chilly outside. look at the cold temperatures in new jersey. 28 degrees now. just below freezing in the suburbs, and 35 in philadelphia. we have clouds that have moved into the area. it's going to be a mostly cloudy day. there will be a few hours where we'll see some breaks of sunshine, for example 9:00, up to 40 degrees. the temperatures in spite of the clouds will be warming up nicely. 52 degrees for philadelphia. low 50s for new jersey and delaware, into the 40s for the suburbs and the lehigh valley. i'll break it down hour by hour, show you what the day looks like and give an idea of when the rain will move in when i'm back in ten minutes. first katy zachry has your first alert traffic. good morning. i want to start out with a look at the majors in pennsylvania. 95 as you make your way southbound between woodhaven and the vine. as we go later in the morning, that might be a trouble spot. right now, no crashes, no delays. a 13-minute drive. 76 eastbound as you make your way from the pennsylvania turnpike to the vine street expressway, that's an 18-minute drive. however, let's look live at 76. this is montgomery drive.

very light traffic. now just east of the camera here, as you make your way to i-76 where you see exit for 30th, you'll see a road closure. 76 eastbound between 30th and south street is closed because of overnight construction. that should lift around 5:00 a.m. finally, this is the theme this morning, i-76, right, market street in camden. light traffic as you make your way over the ben franklin bridge if you're that part of philadelphia. things looking good on the ben, and the walt whitman bridge looking good, as well. when i see you next, we'll look at 95. this morning four people are shot when they tried to break up a fight between people in southwest philadelphia. now police are trying to track down the boyfriend who they say fired the shots. nbc's dray clark has more from center city with how this unfolded. walk us through it, dray. >> reporter: good morning. police know the who, they just don't know where the gunman is this morning. meanwhile, four men remain in the hospital this morning. all suffering from severe