you watched this matt lauer interview, you hear him talk about what he was thinking.him talk about how he's handling it. it's bothering his sleep, he spilled some tears about it. i'm sure he's not the only one in seattle. >> no question about it lawrence. i'm so happy to be back on. seattle really is the quiteetest i've ever seen it. it's like a morgue here. nobody understands what happened. the one thing is with pete carroll, people would like him to say hey, we made a mistake. there is a sense that the call went wrong but playing the result is what is bothering some fans, that would like to see the coach say it was the wrong play call. obviously if the call works we're celebrating, but i'm not convinced even if the play resulted in a touchdown it was the right call. >> doctor what i was so impressed by psychologically, yes, this thing is never going to go away, and i think we all understand that part of it. but what moves him forward is being an optimist that belief that he has, that optimists have, i don't know where they get it but this belief the next thing is go

now matt lauer is speaking exclusively with pete carroll. matt joins us live for a look at what he said. >>> a developing story in frederick where the search is under way for a gunman who opened fire on two students of a high school there. while you were sleeping we learned there will be no classes today. we also have a first look at this new video showing parts s parents being reunited with their stud the scene. >> but we begin with the dramatic temperature drop overnight. the springlike weather has given way to windchills in the 20s in some places. temperatures will only fall more. >> tom kierein is here with the windchills you'll see throughout the day. >> february can be so cruel. we had the spring tease yesterday and today going to make you shiver as we'll have much colder air pushing in. it is beginning to push in and trigger a few scattered flurries. patches of gray you see getting the flurries now northern shenandoah valley maybe suspended aloft farther north. scanning the clouds over howard county carroll, frederick, eastern washingt

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>> matt lauer, wow, what an interviewer.0 minutes, he is tear jerking, trying to get pete carroll -- that's not easy for an nfl head coach to come out and at mitt. it was pretty stubborn he was saying this was still maybe the right call, but a bad result. as a new england native i'm perfectly happy he made that call. >> well, you're happy with the results. >> but it goes the other way and everybody is calling him a genius. i think sports -- everything is 20/20 in hindsight. as the daughter of a high school basketball coach, he definitely cried. he definitely felt that very deeply. >> do you feel sorry for him? >> i think at the end of the day, this guy is human. and i think he made a bad call. disclaimer, i know very little about football but in watching that game, it was clear that that was probably not the right decision to make. i appreciate his candor though. >> i'm a seahawks fans i was rooting for the seahawks. i was very angry at carroll sunday night, and i'm still very angry. >>> everyone stay with me, when we welcom

matt lauer, lester holt and savannah guthrie are just some of the names being tossed around right nowsinteresting. one online petition trying to draft jon stewart for the anchor spot. he is the host of the hugely popular daily show, but stewart just announced he's leaving that program. >> which actually makes him available. you want to haveeanother job? let's start with the news at nbc and how the shake-ups are ruffling feathers behind the scenes. >> it probably goes without saying for you folks at home, but this is a very difficult story for us to report on. >> there have been a lot of people calling on him to be fired. >> the news came from nbc that bri

lorne michaels spoke to matt lauer. >> in every sense it's kind of a reunion, you want to make sure thatou capture the feeling of what it was like, and also why it's important. >> reporter: there's someone else who's been there through much of the show's run. you may not see walley the cue card guy, but over the past 25 years, you've probably heard him laugh. >> it's craziness sometimes. but that's the best part of it. >> reporter: tonight's show likely to be no different. it's live, so anything could happen. and probably will. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new york. >> you can catch snl's 40th anniversary special tonight at 8:00, 7:00 central, right here on nbc. >>> the son of a coaching legend who's living up to the family name. >>> finally tonight, she's a legend of the hardwood as coach of the tennessee lady vols. pat summit racked up more career wins than any other college basketball coach in history. now, three years after alzheimer's forced her to retire, one of her team's fiercest rivals is being led by someone with a familiar last name. here's jacob rascon. >> reporter: he may not

this is the "today" show matt lauer asking "snl" creator lorne michaels the secret to becoming a primetimeayer. >> the criteria i used when hiring people if it was 2:00 in the morning and i was walking down the hall and i saw who i wanted duck into another office. i think you have to have people that you can drive cross country with people who you find interesting and bright and look at things in a different way than you do. >> catch the full interview this morning on "today." as part of the "snl" extravaganza, nbc released an app with over 300 hours of clips from the show's history. the 40th anniversary special sunday night on nbc. we were talking, how can you pick the best of 40? all these years. >> you can't. that's why lists are great because you can argue them. will ferrell's got to be on the list. >> who's your favorite? >> church lady. >> all of them are great. "early today." we hope it's your first stop here on nbc. almay celebrates the true spirit of american beauty. which rises from the heart of our great country... dreams are born. hopes fly high... we love this country with a p

instead in an exclusive interview with matt lauer, seahawks head coach pete carroll described the moment when it slipped away. >> take me back to when you weren't right and watched your expression as you saw that play unfold and bent over at the waist. and my heart broke for you, to be perfectly honest. how were you feeling inside? >> immediately, i mean within the instant of the turnover, the gravity of what just happened i understood. and there's only a second or two before you stand up and you start looking ahead and getting ready for what's coming. >> more of matt's exclusive interview with pete carroll that will air tomorrow morning on "today." >>> still ahead for us tonight, a new wave of hackers getting into your computer, locking you out, holding everything hostage unless you pay up. and so far over a million people have been hit. >>> also, our follow-up to a photo worth a thousand words and over a million dollars and counting. tonight, the extraordinary principal who inspired it all. >>> we are back as promised with this new rash of computer hackings, criminals who not only get

lorne michaels the mastermind who gave the world "snl" sat down with matt lauer as his creation reacheshe big four-oh. >> do you remember the original pitch meeting for this show? >> there was no pitch. >> there was no pitch? do you remember going to say let me tell you what i'm thinking about? >> yes, but everybody used the word "bold" and experimental and new. no one knew what it was going to be because i'd never done live and they hadn't done live here since the early '60s. >> why'd they trust you? >> i think -- i don't know why they trusted me. >> live from new york, it's saturday night! >> was that first group of people that you put together the reason that we're sitting here 40 years later? >> oh, no question. the show stands on their shoulders. them and the designers, the musicians. every aspect of the taste of the show came from really, you know, seriously creative people. >> one of the other things that people say about you all the time you have a brilliant eye for talent. >> yeah. >> has it always been thus? >> the criteria i used when hiring people is if it was 2:00 in the mo

matt lauer sits down with seattle seahawks head coach pete carroll to talk about the risky play thatu've heard the experts, not just average joes say it was the worst call ever. >> it was the worst result of a call. the call would have been great if they caught it. no one would have thought twice about it. >> that's on "today." for sports middleweight anderson silva broke his silence 24 hours of a the news broke he tested positive for steroids. in a statement provided by his manager, silva denied wrongdoing saying i have not taken any performance enhancing drugs. my stance on drugs is and always will be the same. i'm an advocate for a clean sport. silva is under suspension until he can be heard by nevada commission. >>> another nfl investigation. this one called text gate. investigating whether browns executives sent texts to coaching staffer during the game to suggest calls. they have neither confirmed or denied they could face loss of a draft pick fines or suspension of gm ray farmer. >>> a self-imposed postseason ban for men's basketball team. the ban includes acc tournament. the

but today he told matt lauer thing are coming together. >> i'm a serious guy but also nothing makes mepier, steve martin called me and was going over jokes of the monologue. i was so happy, laughing. because you've got -- you get lost in detail. then you go oh, right, that's the reason we're all here. >> the "snl" 40th anniversary special airs this sunday not saturday, at 8:00 p.m. here on nbc bay area. >> okay. continuing coverage of president obama touching down at sfo a few minutes ago. now some photo ops. chatting there on the tarmac of sfo for the last several minutes. he came there. you see mayor ed lee near the limo. now heading to san francisco. then tomorrow on to the stanford campus. >> thanks for joining us. see you back here at 6:00. roadcast tonight, frostbite. on the heels of record snowfall, the coldest temperatures of the season are on the way from the midwest to the east into the deep south. and now a blizzard watch is on for the hardest hit. >>> back from the brink. a deal to end the killing in ukraine, but serious questions remain over whether vladimir putin will act

it was announced before "snl's" 40th anniversary episode a red carpet special hosted by matt lauer, savannahrie, carson daly and al roker. join them february 15th at 7:00 6:00 central before the three-hour event. ♪ rockefeller center chilling out show with my crew ♪ ♪ when a couple of guys sick of the cold said maybe i should take the show on the road ♪ ♪ packin' my bag leaving today saying time to take "the tonight show" to sunny l.a. >> kicked off his week in l.a. not only performing famous rack from prince of bel-air but a new rap by none other than brian williams. ♪ ♪ depths of the sea back to snoop doggy dog still the same long beach is the spot where i serve my cain. >> i'm dara brown. this is "early today." we hope it's just your first stop of the day here on nbc. colourists know roots take colour one way... and previously coloured hair another. introducing new vidal sassoon salonist first, brush roots with rich colour cream. then, add serum... and blend through lengths. our most advanced system outside the salon. visible depths and tones. new vidal sassoon salonist. >>> leading the n

lorne michaels spoke to matt lauer. >> in every sense it's kind of a reunion, you want to make sure thatpture the feeling of what it was like and also why it's important. >> reporter: there's someone else who's been there through much of the show's run. you may not see walley the cue card guy, but over the past 25 years, you've probably heard him laugh. >> daze craziness sometimes. but that's the best part of it. >> reporter: tonight's show likely to be no different. it's live so anything could happen. and probably will. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new york. >> you can catch snl's 40th anniversary special tonight at 8:00 right here on nbc. >>> the son of a coaching legend who's living up to the family name. ♪♪ people with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. if you have high blood sugar ask your doctor about farxiga. it's a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. along with diet and exercise farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. with one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. and, although it's not a weight-loss or

the ouster of ann curry and the team that was almost as painful for viewers as it was for her and matt lauer two and a half years later they finished the deal for cur toe leave the network. >> debbie turness came to fix "today," some sininsiders are losing confidence. >> last fall david gregory was left to meet the door after a year of waiting in what can only be described as employment purgatory, forced to announce the news of his own departure via twitter after it had been leaked to various news outlets. >> more recently dr. nancy snyderman who violated an ebola quarantine torching her credibility. >> good people can make mistakes. >> and staffers have been reeling from a series of factual mistakes like the report that bowe bergdahl will be charged with dissertion. it still hasn't happened and then the management mistakes and turness sought a new captain, jamie horowitz brought on to right the ship as general manager, but just ten weeks later, this turness wrote in a memo to herself that she and horowitz have come to the conclusion that this is not the right fit. what? yes, he was dismisse

>> the "today" show's matt lauer asked lorne michaels to reveal the secret to becoming a not ready for time player. >> the criteria i used when hiring people if it was 2:00 in the morning and walking down the hall and saw what i wanted to duck into another office. you have to have people you can drive cross country with people you find interesting and bright and look at things a different way than you do. >> matt's full interview will air on "today." as part of "snl's" extravaganza nbc has released an app of 300 hours of clips from the show. be sure to download that. that special on sunday. "way too early" starts now. ♪ >>> we're house broken.-- heart broken, sad, but honored by all fellow americans who are supporting us. our family friends, our children were adored and loved by everybody. >> #muslimlivesmatter thousands turning out to mourn three young victims shot to death in north carolina as the community demanding answers. was this a hate crime or argument gone wrong? will he stay or gone? new details on the saga of oregon's governor and his indecision about resigning from his off

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michael is on the "today" show with matt lauer.ours and today nbc added an extra 30 minutes. 3 1/2 hours. the "snl" 409 special airs sunday night at 8:00 p.m. >> i'm not going to be able do anything else. that's going to be so much fun. all right, jeff. not exactly the day to stay in because it may be beautiful but we might have to consider it with the "snl." >> i know, exactly. we'll have beach weather out here beach weather throughout the afternoon and eventually at night they cool off to be inside. warm temperatures napa up to 88. morgan hills 7. also in san francisco, 75. so yes, it's been a record. not disruptive. you're walking around saying is it may, is it june no it is still february. let's go ahead and jump into that morning forecast. you see for tomorrow chilly. not too cold. not too mild. 48 in the east bay. 50 expected in the south bay and mainly clear skies. we'll have smooth sailing to start. for saturday sunday monday tuesday, and wednesday of next week, we really do not think this area of high pressure is going to

the "today" show's matt lauer spoke exclusively about that call and whether it was the right move. >> you still feel you made exactly the right call? >> well no. this is the way i look at it. i made the call that comes out of the process of the preparation and the practice. i think that we're going to do exactly the right thing, or we won't call the play. we won't go with the concept. won't ask our guys to execute it. so i nevere a call thinking it's going to go bad. >> this was properly planned. it just didn't turn out well. >> we knew we were going to throw the ball. >> the moments that haven't gone quite right in his head and they motivate him to keep getting better. you can watch matt's entire interview with pete carroll. go nbcwashington.com and search pete carroll. >>> and right now the fbi sin vest gating a massive breach at one of the country's largest health insurance companies. customers and ploememployees what they need to know. >>> and a new miniseries coming this spring beginning in the days after jesus' death. we'll talk about it with its >>> today we learn how the kenne

that drew a rebuke from matt lauer. >> becomes a hot potato. liberal "new york times" puts this way and let's make it clear, this does not break down completely between the right and the left. >> everybody wants to paint this as a right wing thing. it's not. >> still, there was strong criticism across the media over interviews with two likely 20167 contenders, chris christie and rand paul. >> i also understand that parents need to have some measure of choice in things, as well. >> i've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. i'm not arguing vaccines are a bad idea. i think they're a good thing. but i think the parents should have some input. the state isn't own your children. >> is the "new york times" justified in saying this is a political problem mainly for conservatives who don't like science? >> so outrageous. what it is the anti-vaccine movement grew out of the liberal community, not from the right. and in fact there have been maps done showing where anti-v

. >> for that we get a preview from matt lauer and is a thansavannah guthrie. >> took the words out of my mouth. we have a nasty storm that swept across the northern half of the country. guess what? al says another storm is on the way. >>> and with so much snow why are towns banning sledding? seems like fun, right? on rossen reports, the dangers that have officials cracking down. >>> and a live report from bit harmony, the music sensation. >>> and we have to countdown to our fan screening of next week's worldwide release of "50 shades of grey." >> tracy, didn't you get me the book for christmas? >> i would never do that. >> yes, i did. >> all right, guys thank you. see you then. >> thank -zphwyou. >>> 6:51 now with skyforce 10 on the scene of a problem we have been following on route 22. check out the eastbound side right at 15th street. since we went on the air at 4:00 we have been telling you 22 eastbound is closed. now here is a look at what is happening out there. this happened in the overnight hours. this accident involved a jackknifed tractor-trailer but the problem is the crews

like carson daly on "the today show" or talking about ryan seacrest or somebody that could replace matt lauerhe personalities lines have gotten blurred. this is one of the dangers, that folks out there get confused what their role really is. go ahead, final world. >> i think we live in the united states of entertainment. and i think in brian williams's particular case, he was trying to fulfill two dreams at the same time. one dream to be a top-notch tv journalist. the other dream to be a top-notch tv entertainer but oil and water don't mix. i think he is finding that out now. melissa: bernie goldberg, thank you so much for coming on. >> thanks, melissa. melissa: some breaking news we're watching really closely right now. three workers dead following an explosion at a petrobras oil platform in brazil. four workers were reported missing. another six injured. we'll bring you the latest on this story as we have it. >>> just in time for valentine's day. untie the knot in two days. the hotel lets you check in married and leave divorced. there is no reason to cry. how to shop without tears. we'll go

. >> good morning, matt lauer and savannah guthrie. great to see you both. >> good to see you both. bone-chilling cold spreading from the midwest to the northeast, even in the deep south today as new england prepares for another blizzard. al is tracking it all. >>> plus on rossen reports, the roof collapses. how to make sure yours is strong enough to handle the weight of winter. >>> and we are celebrating 40 years of "snl." the creator of the show is here to talk about the impact the stars and its future. >> and that's all as we get started this friday morning. >> eddie murphy is making his first appearance on the show in like 30 years, so lots of exciting stuff. see you in ten minutes. >> we get to host the pre-game red carpet special and talk to all those people. >> very fun, excellent. >> we are jealous. >> watch me throw myself across the stage. >> all right. >>> brutally cold this morning. the temperatures are plummeting overnight. and the wind is blowing and it may get worse but we're about to see bright sunshine. brilliant sunshine will warm things up. but right now it's 10 d

kennedy: yesterday on nbc, tom hanks spoke to matt lauer about making community college free for everyone. two years of debt free timeorder to discover who i was and figure out what the world was about, i don't think i'd be here talking to you today. kennedy: so great. tom hanks is a community college graduate, and so am i! and as a fellow alumna, i say tom, that's a horrible idea. free isn't free! free is a taxpayer-funded way to gut four-year colleges. am i crazy tong college is not an entitlement? some people think so. this is you're crazy, kennedy! that's right. tamara holder is a fox news contributor and a criminal defense attorney. i think it's criminal for you to defend free community college. what do you think? . >> i think you're crazy. kennedy: why? >> this has happened before, right? we have given money to the g.i. bill to veterans, spent billions of dollars, it has worked. i believe it was president bush who said education was the biggest civil rights issue of our time. and also i believe ronald reagan who's a favorite on the right, he said that greatest prosperity after world

downfall began with messy 2012ous ouster and break up scene that was almost as painful for her as matt lauer e bosses just finish a deal for lowery to leave the fet new york. then came to fix and guide but some losing confidence in capabilities. last fall david gregory of "meet the press" was left to meet the door after a year of waiting in what can only be described as employment purgatory. forced to announce the news of his own departure via twitter after it had already been leaked to various news outlets. more recently nbc trying to rehab dr. nancy snyderman who violated a -- >> good people make mistakes. >> factual mistakes like bowe bergdahl charged with desertion. it still hasn't happened. management mistakes. a new captain at the helm of the "today" show former espn executive jamie horowitz brought on to right the ship as general manager. just ten years later, this. she wrote in a memo to her staff she and horowitz came to the conclusion this is not the right fit. what? yes, he was dismissed. a head spinning change that triggered new doubts how the executive confidence. not the only o

. >> we get a preview photograph matt lauer and savannah guthrie. good morning. >> good morning. good to see you. straight ahead on a friday morning, rough weather on both coasts with brutal cold here on the east coast. out west they are fighting flooding rains. al is tracking it all. >>> also ahead on the national wear red day, a key risk factor for heart disease. the women of today learn our cholesterol level. >>> and it's all led up to this we're live this morning at the fan first screening of "fifty shades of grey" with dakota johnson and amy dornan. >>> and we'll have more this friday morning on "today." back to you. >> by the way, matt i loved your interview with pete carroll. thought it was very relegaling of him to do that. >> thank you vai. appreciate it. he's an impressive guy going through a pretty rough patch, as you might imagine. >> very very good. thank you very much. see you in ten minutes. >> thank you. see you soon. >>> a very cold start. this is one of the coldest mornings of the season. the temperatures are running 20 to almost 30 degrees colder than yesterday

pete carroll is going to be talking with matt lauer.s of the interview will air tonight on "nightly news" with brian williams. dequan jackson was a huge pick up for the indianapolis colts. he has run into some trouble off the field. according to reports, jackson was arrested in washington, d.c. on tuesday night. he allegedly punched a pizza delivery boy in the face and the back of the head after fighting over a parking spot. little bit better news. finally, tom brady won a 2015 chevy colorado pickup truck for being the game's mvp. he's planning to give the truck to the patriot's defensive back malcolm butler. butler became the patriots unlikely hero when he made the super bowl winning interception. we have a lot more coming up in "the ed show." stay with us. we are right back. put your best face forward. a face in need deserves puffs indeed. and try puffs softpack today. they're coming. what do i do? you need to catch the 4:10 huh? the equipment tracking system will get you to the loading dock. ♪ there should be a truck leaving now. i g

an exclusive interview matt lauer asked lauren michaels how he convinced nbc to do the show. >> do youe original pitch meeting for this show? >> there was no original pitch meeting. >> there was no pitch? you didn't have to go to the network and say, let me tell you what i'm thinking about? >> everybody used the word new and experimental. no one knew what it was going to be because i had never done hive and they hadn't done live here since the early '60s. >> why did they trust you? >> i think -- i don't know why they trusted me. >> one of the other things people say about you all the time, you have a brilliant eye for talent. >> yeah. thus? >> the criteria i used when hiring people is if it was 2:00 in the morning and i was walking down the hall and i saw them, would i want to duck another office. so i think you have to have people that you can drive across country with. people you find interesting and bright and look at things in a different way than you do. >> you can watch the rest of matt's exclusive interview with lorne michaels tomorrow on "today." chris hayes is next. >>> tonigh

. >> in fairness when matt lauer was getting beat up -- >> that was just sort of gossip and innuendo,cetera. there i defended matt. in this piece i didn't defend brian, but i said i'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. >> you said if more comes out, and it changes -- >> at one point. >> 74% of americans trusted the media in 1996. think about that. 34%. expectation level. >> i accept the responsibility. >> the expectation level. >> if i was so powerful obama wouldn't be president, and wouldn't have been elected. i want to get to the hillary question when we get back. a major announcement from comedy central about jon stewart, that, and more, on this busy news night on "hannity." shopping online is as easy as it gets. wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list now it is. start shopping online from a list of top-rated providers. visit angieslist.com today. if you're suffering from constipation or irregularity powders may take days to work. for gentle overnight relief, try dulcolax laxative tablets. duco

an exclusive interview matt lauer asked lauren michaels how he convinced nbc to do the show. >> do youoriginal pitch meeting for this show? >> there was no original pitch meeting. >> there was no pitch? you didn't have to go to the network and say, let me tell you what i'm thinking about? >> everybody used the word new and experimental. no one knew what it was going to be, because i had never done hive and they hadn't done live here since the early '60s. >> why did they trust you? >> i think -- i don't know why they trusted me. >> one of the other things people say about you all the time, you have a brilliant eye for talent. >> yeah. >> has it always been thus? >>> a war without soldiers? let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. president obama has got recruitment problems, doves on the left don't want foot soldiers in the war against isis. hawks on the right don't want to roll them out. can we go to a enemy that america hates, with politicians refusing to even sign on? >>> and the democrats pick philadelphia. can they regain not only the flawed, but

you know who's really funny in the pilot is matt lauer. >> oh, so funny. >> seth: he's great. it. and he was on 30 rock a lot. i'm always like, he is so funny. i wonder if he wants out of "the today show." >> seth: no. [ laughter ] i think he's got it. i think he's doing very well. >> i think he's got it down. >> seth: yeah, i think he's doing very well. >> he is so funny. i know. i know. >> seth: and so -- it's an interesting story about this show, because it was going be on nbc then netflix took it over. and now it's going to be on netflix. and right away, netflix not only took the first season, but said we want a second season. have you talked to, like, tina and robert now that the show is going to be on netflix, it's not a network television show anymore, are they going to take advantage of where it is? >> yeah, you can just sort of push the boundaries maybe a little bit more on netflix. tina made a great joke about next season, we're going to see a lot more shower sex. [ laughter ] she claims she was joking. i hope. >> seth: we'll find out, yeah. >> we'll find out. but, y

matt lauer in arizona and the gang is back in new york.you. mother nature had other ideas. >> good morning to you. you made the right decision. it wasn't a decision because we are standing in a dirt slurpee. it's gross. >> i don't know that you will make it back in today, my friend. >> oh, no. we will keep our fingers crossed. give it a shot. >> wrangler is not here today. he had a real late night watching the super bowl and thrilled his pats won. you owe him $5. he will be back tomorrow. >> all right. i look forward to seeing him. let us begin this half hour with the game. of course in that controversial ending a legacy defining win for the patriots and their quarterback, tom brady. peter alexander has more on that. good morning. >> this was a heck of an evening. almost immediately after the final whistle, we were rushed on to the field and felt like the arena from hunger games. lights and camera and confetti and battered athletes. marching along the stands while patriots fans chanted greatest ever. >> let's bring in tom brady, the mvp of

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. >> carroll sat down one-on-one with matt lauer, as we see. he goes on to say the outcome of the play was heartbreaking, but he's already looking towards the future. you can watch the entire interview on the "today" show website. >> you never saw the pull-out of it. you go to marshawn lynch in the end zone but you never saw the shot of whether or not he was there. >> everybody expected him to do that. coaches do what you don't expect and people say you're brilliant. >> he said we were planning on the fourth down not the first. we were going to trick them and then go to marshawn lynch. >> it's a sick world. up next at 11:00, we investigate. >> in seconds, i felt it was just seconds, the building was going down. >> decades after a southern california hospital collapsed during an earthquake the investigative unit uncovers why some local hospitals here are still at risk of the same kind of thing. >>> well certainly this list you don't want to be on. our investigative unit has found hospitals across the state are not ready for an earthquake. >> som

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seattle seahawk's head coach pete carroll sat down for an exclusive interview with matt lauer on theow." here's how the coach describeded the call. >> you've heard the experts, not just average joe, say it was the worst call ever. >> it was the worst result of a call ever. the call would have been great if we caught it. it would have been fine and nobody would have thought twice about it. >> next, the legion of doom welcomes a bouncing baby boy. seattle seahawks number 25 sees his son's birth a date of significant. he tweeted out -- my son sure does know how to make an entrance, 2/5, 15. >>> and finally drop it like it's hot. rapper snoop dogg is did dropping his aliege jeanian. >> i'm going to back him up 1,000% so i'm going to i'm going ucla 1,000%. >>> right-wingers are upset who is hanging out at the white house. we'll have that story next. stay with us. that's why i went pro. go pro with crest pro-health. for an intensive clean. i can really feel it deep cleaning my mouth. for a 4x better clean try these products together. that was a great check up. i've been called a control fr

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williams' colleagues matt lauer and savannah guthrie addressed the decision on the "today" show this morning. >> this is a very difficult story for us to report on because it is so so personal in so many ways. most importantly, brian is not only a colleague of ours here but he's a really good friend. >> we all care a lot about brian. that's what makes this so hard. we also care a lot about this place. the standards of nbc news. and that's what nbc is trying to balance here. so we can only say we wish the best for brian in this time. we hope the best for nbc as well. and we look forward to brian's return. >> what did you make of that, ben greg? >> it was like the serengeti out there. she just tore brian williams apart. oh, you know we're worried about him but we have these standards. basically she said he's screwed. i think nbc sensed a cascade of fibbery that was not going to stop, it was going to keep going, like an incontinent dog, got to get him outside before he ruins all the rugs. >> remember that? >> the incontinent dog. but i find it interest interesting that at lot of the def

. >> two years ago -- >> that was to matt lauer on the "today" show. >> as he's definitely running, theythey needed to change that story so they have her out there on skype in a very good natured way that she thenkz it's great he's running. we already know the father and brother were encouraging him to run. so you know not surprisingly i think jeb bush has a united family behind them. >> thanks so much susan page jerry peters thanks to you. supremely candid, ruth bader ginsburg describing why she was so sleepy. >> i have too ask you, everybody is talking about the state of the union, you said yesterday that you were not 100% sober. >> what i meant was that i had a glass of wine with dinner. and that on top of having stayed up all night, writing something. >> so you're a bit of a light weight as we call it? >> i thought to myself don't stay up all night but then my pen was hot and so i couldn't couldn't stop what i was doing and then i said just drink sparkling water, but the dinner was so good and needed to be complimented -- >> and justice kennedy had brought that wine that california w