this morning on today's take, leann rimes has a merry christmas medley. and find out how nick cannon is on a giving spree. and spike lee on his new film that has everyone talking. coming up now. from nbc news, this is today's take with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to "today" on this

a beautiful crowd out there to say hello. i'm here, tamron, along with my girl dylan, and look who we have, "extra's" aj calloway helping us out this morning while natalie and al are on assignment. you say -- i feel like a slacker. somebody has to hold down the fort. >> your fort is in trouble. >> yeah. holding down the fort. >> we like that you're here and i love dylan's song pick, jam of the morning, "sound and color" by alabama shakes. >> alabama shakes is so incredible. i saw them last february when i went to "saturday night live." and i was like, what is this? oh, my god. and the sound that comes out of their mouth is incredible. and this song is just -- it's popular right now because -- part of a commercial. and every time i hear it -- just zone out. >> it's good. when they performed at snl, i wasn't lucky enough to be there

you work here -- to give your first born, a pint of blood, secret handshake. so i thought i would buy tickets for their concert. they were in concert here in new york. that didn't work out either. so the closest i've gotten to alabama shakes is a hand shake. so aj, you agreed to hang out with me and dylan. >> i did. >> you watch the take every day, right? >> i do watch you all of the time. i do! i text you and you don't respond after i see you do things on the show. and i'm like, i liked that. that was interesting. >> yes. is it awkward now? >> yeah. -- >> but you did invite me, so thank you. >> dylan and i discussed -- we had a list of men that we wanted on the show. >> alphabetically, you were at the top. >> that usually happens. >> so we didn't even make it j. >> thank you. >> i just found out that we grew up in the same town. in new jersey.

>> yeah, he was -- >> what's the town? >> freehold. >> freehold, new jersey and i was right on the border. bruce springsteen. >> ooh. >> that was the rumor. >> really early in the morning, i like this. >> there was a rumor started by >> yeah. >> and it made my story so much cooler. >> and you have two beautiful daughters. >> i do have two daughters. >> so they're amy belle and ava claire. there. >> and my wife deion. >> and your wife deion. >> patient and amazing woman. >> she is. doubt. >> tell me about the girls. >> they are absolutely adorable. amy belle calloway, abc and acc. avis claire calloway. >> so close to christmas. >> my wife's birthday is december 18th. my daughter's birthday is

and christmas falls in between. >> ooh. >> it's going to be rough. i'm august 29th. >> so they don't remember -- it's all about the ladies. the latter part of the year. >> yeah. you've got to save up for the end of the year. fourth quarter, december. >> i'm cutting out starbucks, i'm not buying anything for myself. so what's the christmas plan? what's the plan? because you're a big cook. you love a good party. >> i do love to cook. i was actually down in virginia with my wife's family and i deep fried two turkeys. >> isn't that the best? >> it's amazing. >> i love deep fried turkey. >> it's a religion where i'm from. >> and i season it. it's intense. >> usually -- >> christmas i'm going to smoke. >> did you bring anything? >> tamron is throwing me -- do you see that bus that i'm being thrown over? >> she brought ice cream, john cena gives us tickets for his match. >> i'm under the bus. >> so you're with "extra" so give us the hollywood scoop.

>> yeah. >> i will always take hollywood scoops, yes. and i usually will wait until 7:00 and watch tonight, but -- >> okay. i just came back from berlin for the world premier of "hunger games" with jennifer lawrence and the entire cast. at the after party, me and jennifer talked about the movie that's she's doing with amy. amy schumer. >> schumer. they're best friends. >> they are. >> so that's real. they're not -- >> that is beyond real. that is beyond real. and the film that -- well, they're showing "hunger games" now. that is unbelievable. >> i haven't seen it yet. >> no, it's the best one of the franchise. >> really? >> the best one in the franchise. it is absolutely incredible. >> what is she like? i've never had -- i've never met her, have you met her? >> no. >> she is one of the coolest people ever. you would get along with her. both of you all. amazingly. she is really cool, down to earth. that's one thing i love about her. she doesn't put on the airs.

so down to earth and cool. and that's why i think she is going to continue to rise as an amazing star. >> love that. >> yeah. >> clearly on her christmas list. >> the film she's working on with amy schumer, it's a jennifer lawrence you do not know yet. i will leave it there. >> more of a comedy. >> very dirty comedy. >> because i told dill ylan, i watched "train wreck" on the plain this sunday. and there was an 8-year-old child with her mother on the side of me, so there was like an angle. and there was a john cena scene at the beginning, if you've seen the movie you know. and i started to slowly move my eyes. as if i was watching. and i started scooting over. but i can't stop watching and the kid -- i'm like, okay, just -- >> this new movie is something you won't watch on a plane either. >> no, that's probably pg in comparison to what i have heard. >> ooh, j-law goes dirty. we'll see what happens.

know prince very well. you love prince too. >> i adore -- no pun intended. i love prince. >> all right. >> i don't send him pictures in the morning of what i'm wearing. >> oh, you do watch. >> you do watch. >> i do watch. >> girl code, dylan. >> no comment. wait, i'm going to sip my tea. >> supposed to talk -- spotify. >> top artist songs for 2015. most streamed artist of 2015 was drake. >> really? >> the hot line bling? >> the hot line bling. i like that. drake is an amazing artist. he's really taken over the airwaves. so i can understand why that is the most streamed. most streamed female of 2015. any guess? >> right there. >> dylan? >> you can read it off there. >> is it rihanna? it is rihanna.

place on earth, barbados. i go to barbados every year for cropover. >> what's cropover? a festival? >> it's a carnival. and re ihanna is an amazing artist. >> winter is over and dylan has been assigned -- >> do you want me to give you something right now? >> yeah. >> i'm inviting you all to cropover with me. i will take care of you. you come to cropover with me. look -- people -- i give. i give something extra. >> i'm concerned, because i've seen pictures of rihanna. do you wear -- you wear nothing. it's like carnival. >> it's carnival. i was with her in cropover this year. a little paint. >> i don't know about -- >> we have to talk to natalie. i'll figure it out. >> i don't know if i'm cool enough. >> you could do it. look, you can handle it. >> okay. all right. you know what, we have the most streamed song of 2015. i don't -- i feel bad, because i don't know this song. >> what? >> i wonder if you've heard it.

>> you know this song. >> oh! i didn't know it until i heard it. >> lean on. oh, that's -- >> okay. >> that's a great song. >> that's a great song. >> all right. so you know what else we have? this is an amazing story of generosity that we have been talking about. this couple, they choose to remain anonymous. they dropped a $500,000 check into the salvation army red kettle outside a grocery store in rosemount, minnesota, 20 miles outside minneapolis. the red cross, they know who the people are -- the couple. but the couple has decided, which i love, to remain anonymous. they say that they relied on discarded food from a local grocery store as a young couple and now they can afford -- and i would say afford, to help other people. $500,000. >> that is beautiful. >> and anonymously.

no airs, we don't want any publicity. with your kids, how do you teach them, because we're talking about giving tuesday. how do you teach them to be generous children? >> to give back? i donate a lot of my time all of the time and this is actually the first thanksgiving -- i usually deliver meals with my fraternity to elderly people throughout new jersey. so we go north and east orange and hand to hand to deliver the meals and this year a lot of them brought their families. and it's beautiful. every year i'm going to bring my girls, and you know, deliver the meals. it's all about giving back. >> so maybe we'll join you there, and -- >> there you go. >> for vacation. because it's getting chilly a lot of places and we need to go to cropover with you. what's going on, dylan? >> before we get there, can i say it's my husband's birthday? i just want to throw that in. he is turning the big 29. he has not even hit 30 years yet. >> break into song. >> happy birthday? >> i don't sing. i need to get to the weather.

>> happy birthday. >> happy 29th birthday. and looking at the weather across the country, we are looking at a little bit of snow, especially through northeastern minnesota. some wrap-around moisture, too. the whole storm system is fizzling out. we'll see 4 to 6 inches near duluth but it's on the back side where we'll get gusty winds. rain is a big story. 3 inches in appalachian and western north carolina, northern georgia. so watch out for the potential of flash flooding. that's >> good morning, a lot of clouds through the morning hours, isolated showers and sprinkles this afternoon. rain gear needed late in the day. chilly and raw for much of the day. temperatures only in the upper 30s to low 40s. and chance of rain as we work into the latter half of the morning and actual, scattered showers, upper 30s. isolated showers tomorrow, and temperatures tomorrow in the

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giving tuesday on "today" is sponsored by the salvation army. nick cannon is one of the busiest guys in entertainment, the actor is part of the nbc family as host of the hit reality competition, "america's got talent." talent." >> you'll also be seeing him in the new spike lee film alongside jennifer hudson, samuel l. jackson and angela bass. >> and he's helping underprivileged kids this holiday season and is here on behalf of our sponsor, salvation army. nick, good to see you. >> good morning. >> congratulations on this giving tuesday. >> thank you. >> everything you've got going on and you take a pause to be part of the salvation army effort to help so many people who need it this time of year. >> absolutely. i mean, i've been a true believer. to much is given much is required and especially during the holiday season. you know. we all want to put our red kettle reason of why, you know,

holidays and why we give back. you know, we're getting ready for this big shopping spree for underprivileged kids and people to have a better holiday season and top five finalists bringing out here to new york city. >> phenomenal. >> sound like fun. >> real cool. >> and speaking of how busy you are. you watched "shiraq" and talk about a transformation. >> what do you mean? >> there's "america's got talent" nick cannon and the shiraq nick cannon. what was it like being in the film? >> the first thing, our great director spike lee before he told meet story line or plot line, said he wanted to save lives in the south side of chicago. i'm in 100% and when you see the artistic approach where he took, you know, from over 2,000 years ago into modern day chicago, it's a real beautiful piece of

>> tamron is asking about your workout routine. >> let's face it. see you, always happy and this is the truth. every time you see nick a smile on his face and very dapper and know that side of you and this character in addition to being very intense, you were in the gym a lot. like you're buffing out in that suit. >> all the tattoos are real. a lot going on in the suit. >> do you recognize yourself in him? >> look at that. >> we have different sides of the coin, you know. >> it's like an onion, layers. >> layers and layers. >> largs of ab b -- layers of abs. >> you're in new york. >> amazing. spike knows how to bring it together and a lot of fun and people coming out and the film comes out this week so we're really excite sfld what do you think of simon cowell joining talent." >> first of all, always been

the boss and now he's going to jump into the seat where he always wanted to be in the first place because when you think about it he's on "britain's got talent ". >> the a nice simon or a hard simon? >> is there ever a nice simon? kind of always to the point. i feel like that judging seat has always been like the real harsh to the point honest. you had piers morgan, howard stern and now simon. i think he has to be that guy, and he's guy who created that guy. he is that guy. >> he's the original meany on all the shows. real quick with the kids. saw cute pictures on instagram of you and rock 'n' roll for the christmas season. >> doing a lot of cool stuff. obviously we had thanksgiving so that was amazing, and the personalities all over the place and they were helping me deejay at halo awards, so they are doing their thing at 4 years old. already taking over. >> you work very hard and now the kids are working hard. >> they have to. it's in the family. >> nick cannon, thank you so much for being here and all you're doing with the salvation army, too.

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road so it was nice to -- that was the time of year i got to be home and grounded. >> so you start decorations right after halloween? >> yeah. >> i've gotten a lot of grief. >> this year for reason, people are really divided, you can either decorate like right after and before thanksgiving and people are adamant about you waiting and, yeah, people. >> the tree goes up? >> the tree -- the tree went up last week actually so it -- i've been a little busy, and we have definitely -- we love to decorate the tree with the kids and so it was the one time everybody was at home and we could do it so we waited a little later this year so it was maybe a little bit more appropriate. >> your place is ready for christmas. >> my wife is obsessed with christmas so the decorations go up right away. >> we'd get along so well. you come home to it, right? >> i come -- i just came back from atlanta and came home and ribbons up and little trees. wants another tree.

>> we have a picture of a santa. >> and a picture with santa. >> i did 'tis my country christmas and he drove by. i love doing that, so fun. >> anything special you want for this christmas? >> gosh, i don't know. i haven't even thought about it. >> no time. >> very busy right now. >> yeah. >> the yeah, no. i'm going to be on the road and touring for the next like two and a half weeks so my december is packed and all in a good way. really, really excited about the >> you're going out to promote the new album. >> yes. we head out and start this on the 4th i think coming up in washington and going down the west coast this year. >> what do you love about hitting the road? >> i love the -- obviously the other. i mean, it's -- once you have experienced that, it's like it is almost like a drug, like you want -- you love being on stage and i've been doing it since i was a kid so it's always fun to go out and real kind of be able to play these songs for, you

listening live for them. that's the fun part of it. >> you'll sing another song for us in just a few minutes. >> absolutely. >> can't wait for that, but, first, we've got y with ingredients like roasted hazelnuts and cocoa, there's a whole lot of happy in every jar of nutella. spread the happy. feel a cold coming on?

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the rain we saw yesterday and the rain we'll see through wednesday. freezing fog also an issue through parts of oklahoma. keep that in mind. the roads could be icy. tomorrow we'll see a little bit of lake-effect snow. the rain heaviest across the southeast with spotty showers across the northeast. even icy through parts of northern maine. and in the northwest, another storm system will make its way mountain snow. for the tree-lighting in little bit of rain. temperatures in the mid 50s and even by 9:00, spotty showers. some could be heavy. but we'll be in and out of the rain clouds throughou >> good morning, a lot of clouds through the morning hours, a few isolated showers and sprinkles this afternoon. rain gear needed late in the day. chilly and raw for much of the day. temperatures only in the upper 30s to low 40s. and chance of rain as we work into the latter half of the morning and afternoon, scattered showers, upper 30s.

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say hello to friends you know and everyone you meet oh, ho, the mistletoe, hung where you can't see somebody waits for you, kiss them once for me have a holly jolly christmas and in case you didn't hear oh, by golly have a holly jolly christmas this year frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul with a corn cob pipe and button nose and two eyes made out of coal frosty the snowman had to hurry on his way well, he waved good-bye saying don't you cry i'll be back again, thumpity,

thumpity, thumpity, thump, thump, over the hills of oh, the mistletoe, hung where you can't see somebody waits for you, kiss them once for, kiss them once for me we will have a holly jolly christmas and in case you didn't hear oh, by golly have a holly jolly christmas this year this year >> thank you, leann and will be back with another song for kathie lee and hoda. the powerful new film taking on tough topic from the acclaimed director who never shies away from when the flu hits, it's a really big deal. the aches. the chills.

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timely with the tape of laquan mcdonald that came out and everything that's happening in chicago right now. who did you make this film for? >> everybody, because i think gun violence affects all americans. sometimes we just think it's just in the hood, just black folks, but gun violence affects everybody in this country. >> the name of the film "chiraq," i lived in chicago for ten years and there's a lot of controversy behind that name and what did you want it to be the title? tell people what does it mean? >> the term "chiraq," local chicago rappers came with that term because they felt that chicago's west side, south side was more dangerous than iraq, so it's -- it's a mishmash of chicago and iraq. >> your career obviously speaks for itself, but you recently got a big award. it's called an oscar i think, the honorary oscar. you had sam jackson, denzel

john singleton there as well. your entire family. >> right. >> your kids are both in college now. >> yes. >> what was that like to get that oscar? >> well, sam cook wrote a song. >> a great song. >> but i don't want to sing it though. >> well deserved. >> i was honored, and i really got a good shout-out to the president of the academy, african-american woman, whose agenda is really to bring diversity to the academy, to the voting members and everything else, so i'm almost humbled. >> you spoke about that in your acceptance speech. a lot of people talked about that afterwards. >> yeah. i said that -- that it's easier for african-americans, the black person, to be president of the united states and be president of a hollywood studio or tv network cable. >> well, you're in the afraid of controversy, but are you afraid

>> whoa, whoa, whoa, why is that controversial? >> i think it is because some people don't realize that and not ready to ingest that. >> controversy doesn't mean you're avoiding talking about it but certainly something people don't think about all the time. >> my sister, give me a hand. >> thank you. >> i'm just saying. >> i feel like i -- i get it. i've been black for a long time, for 45 years, i get it. >> i'm just saying. i think that people just word that word controversial and slap it on everything, controversial, controversial, controversial, controversial, you know. >> but sometimes it's applicable and true, right? >> you going to the knicks game sunday night? >> okay. kids because what people don't know and i know your wife very well, she's amazing. >> thank you. >> you have an empty nest. >> mm-hmm. >> what's the lee house like now with no children? are you getting on her nerves? are you making her not say controversy?

well, my daughter satchel was an exchange student in france, in paris, so she flew the morning of the massacre, she flew from charles de gaulle airport to >> wow. >> so she left that morning, and my son, he goes to school -- the school is here in new york city so he's home all the time. >> so you don't have an empty time? >> not really, no. >> well, congratulations, spike. >> new york premiere. >> new york premiere. >> and we'll both be there. >> and i would like to say for the first time since 1986, we're not going to have a party. we're having a march tonight, an anti-gun and anti-violence march after the -- no party, no dancing, no drinking, we're going to mark. >> keep the focus. thanks so much, spike. the movie opens friday. up next, another friend of ours, the comedian who got president

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he's a tv star, one of the best podcasters on the planet, and just saying, you know, okay human being. according to him. >> there's something between -- >> comedian marc maron. >> also the man who got president obama to sit down in a garage with him. now marc is about to debut a new stand-up special called "more later." >> the marc, good morning. >> hi. >> i'll talk to you, which of >> okay. >> we'll direct questions and you can i guess talk to whoever. so to start of course, i feel like -- and you've said yourself you have a river of rage running >> yes. >> why so angry, what's wrong is. >> it's just something i nurture and maintain. i don't know if i'm really angry anymore but sometimes creativity comes from that and sometimes charm and sometimes intensity

rage which i try to avoid. i don't know who put it there, maybe my mom. installed early. >> there's a source somewhere. >> she loves this show. minute. hi, mom, happy thanksgiving. i love you. how does that feel? >> has anyone made you mad today? >> today, maybe a little. no, not bad. nod bad today. but it happens very quickly and for no reason, and sometimes when you get angry for no reason, like if you're just waiting on line, starbucks or perhaps when a host comes up to you and say why are you twittering, why are you tweeting like that? >> who said that. >> what's wrong with your twitter followers, remember when that happened five minutes ago? >> your twitter followers are going on. >> well, i thought we did, okay, and maybe it's -- >> no? >> okay. >> i think we did that night. >> whoa. >> i'm kidding, in garage, you know, you interviewed me. what's happening? >> no, no, just kidding. but you did get this that garage of yours president obama. >> yes.

>> yeah. >> that's an interesting way to frame a question. >> i don't know. i guess -- i guess he felt like i needed some attention, you know, and he just took time from his national agenda. >> that's a huge fet for you. >> no, it was huge. >> for anyone. >> it was about a year in the making, sort of reached out and feeling whether he could do it and whether he wanted to do it and when it was happening it's happening. not a casual thing when the president comes over, like there was something i never thought i would have to do is ask my neighbor if it would be okay if we put some snipers on his roof. he was excited. >> true story? >> he's retired, too. yeah, let him. gave him a patch afterwards, and the president was very -- yeah, a little sniper patch, an official neighbor sniper helper. >> the interview is four minutes, it's over now. >> now you can get met. >> the special "later" premiers this friday on epic. >> yeah, good.

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