savannah for christmas. i thought, here is a book. there is a title. savannah for christmas. and so i wrote a book about the march from atlanta to savannah, ending at christmas in 1864. and i wanted to title it savannah for christmas. my publisher didn't like the idea. he said it will sound like a travel book. go to savannah for christmas. i didn't tell him that was crazy, because he was the publisher of the book and he could veto it. so it became general sherman's christmas. they changed the cover after the book was already published and changed it to general sherman's christmas. according to my wife, no books would have been sold in the south as a result of it, because general sherman was so hated. nevertheless, that was book number three about christmas. and i continued writing about christmas but doing so in each case accidentally. i wrote a book about generals eisenhower, marshall and mcarthur, taking them from their beginnings to their ends. in effect, a tri-part hide -- apartheid, and i want totd call

sherman captured savannah, completing the march to the sea. a military campaign devised to destroy the confederacy's ability to wage war, and break the will of its people to resist. after destroying atlanta's industrial and business, but not residential districts, sherman's 62,500 men left that city in mid november, and marched over 250 miles, reaching savannah by mid december. contrary to popular myth, sherman's troops primarily destroyed only property used for waging war. food, railroads, train depots, factories, cotton gins and warehouses. abandoning their supply base, they lived off the land, destroying food they could not consume. they also liberated thousands of enslaved african-americans. sherman's hard hand of war demoralized confederates, hastening the end of slavery, and the reunification of the nation. erected for the civil war 150 commemoration by the georgia historical society, and georgia battlefields association. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> good job, as always. >> thank you. >> well, that concludes the ceremony. thank you all

savannah -- savannah -- >> savannah. savanny guthrie.uise wreath. how much she loves him, his name doesn't fit in the wreath part. >> go it with it tamron. i'm a huge mindy kaling fan. i have made no secret of that over the years much she is smart. she is cool. she is beautiful. she is fun. i like me some mindy kaling as well. >> would you hang that wreath in your home? >> i don't think my wife would go for that as much. >> your wife. >> but the one from mindy -- >> so in honor -- >> i'm honored, mindy. >> we are asking you, would you hang a willie wreath in your home? >> oh, my gosh. >> a wreath of willy? i don't know if i would do that. >> why? >> would you, tamron? >> put a wreath of you -- up next to the shrine i already have. good answer. good answer. >> a whole bunch of different willis, like willie mays? willie wonka? a whole bunch of willie cities in want to put a wreath of willis on your door. it could be a whole new thing. maybe you do it for festive. have you you never know. look for wet weather along the west coast. high surf

"savannah for christmas." and so i wrote a book about the march from atlanta to savannah, ending at christmas in 1864. and i wanted to title it "savannah for christmas." my publisher did not like the idea. he said, it would sound like a travel book. go to savanna for christmas. i did not tell him that was crazy, because he was the publisher and he could veto it. it became "general sherman's christmas." they changed the cover after the book was already published, and changed it to "general sherman's christmas." according to my wife, no books were sold in the south as a result because general sherman was hated. nevertheless, that was book number three about christmas. and i continued writing about christmas, but doing so in each case accidentally. i wrote a book about generals eisenhower, marshall, and macarthur, taking them from their beginnings to their ends. in effect a tripartite , biography. "15 stars."call it each one was a five-star general. it was called "15 stars." no one objected to it, although it got

. >> this whole video was shot by their teacher, savannah. they call her miss nanna.e whitney, the mom of the twins, savannah also known as miss nanna, tiffany the owner of room to bloom and anna who is ty's mom all via skype. welcome to the show. moms what did you think when miss savannah showed you this video? >> it was just hilarious. i couldn't stop watching it. so i wanted to show it to family so i posted it on facebook and viola. >> did ty ever get over his pulled heart? >> it's raining. >> ow. >> he poked my heart. >> he never mentioned that when he came home so i think he's probably doing all right because they've hugged and made up since the poking. >> since the poking. >> what made you start shooting the video? had this arguing been going on for a little while? >> it started off when i told them we were going out to recess. i looked outside and it was raining. i told the kids that we couldn't go outside because it was raining. then the little argument between raining and sprinkling started. >> tara was it raining or was it sprinkling? >> it was obviously spr

savannah. >> so, it's like this. website. tomorrow joy and jenna will be back with more ways to tackthal holidays without gaining an ounce. >>> up next the hottest his and her tech gifts of the year. but, first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> we are back now at 8:43 with our holiday gift guide "stuff we love," for the tech-loving guys and gals on your list. katie and digital lifestyle expert mario armstrong will tackle the men. you go that way. we'll go this way. we get to start, katie. >> let's do this. gifts for the ladies. always on the go and stylish. check this out. this is actually a very connected way to go. this is from express tech. lots of different styles. what the heck does it do? very cool. mobile charger right inside. >> oh, my gosh. >> conveniently comes in, comes out. starting at $30 at express.com. this baby here is a blue tooth speaker. there is white quilted, pink polka dot and also black quilted. you can actually take calls because it's a speaker phone. >> so much better than walking around with a bo

savannah and willie? >> thank you very much. >>> more stars getting caught up in that cyber hack at sony pictures. >> good morning, willie. sony is planning a town hall meeting today. hackers are still releasing files from the cyber attack and promising even more as sony tries to control the damage. for the eighth time, hackers have released a batch of files stolen from sony pictures. >> it's a mind boggling amount of data. the expectation is that they will continue to release data all the way up until christmas day. >> in fact, the hackers have told media outlets to expect a christmas gift, larger quantities of data and more interesting, putting sony pictures into the worst state. throughout the weekend, some websites, including the daily beast, published new revelations, unkind e-mails from execs about leonardo dicaprio and will smith's family. behind the next james bond film "spectre" says an early version of the screen play was taken by hackers, concerned that third parties who have received screenpla

sherman sent a telegram to president abraham lincoln announcing the capture of savannah georgia.ne of the confederacy's largest cities, and last remaining ports. with typical wit sherman presented the city to the president as a christmas present along with 150 heavy guns, plenty of sherman decided that the time to widen the kwurden and pain of the war beyond just rebel soldiers to include the civilian supporters of the confederacy, especially the common folk. sherman believed that forcing noncombatants to field what he called the hard hand of war was a military necessity. making the war as harsh as possible but bringing victory more quickly and with a minimum loss of life on both sides. it would undermine confederate morale on the home front. trigger a wave of desertions from the armies destroy the confederacy's ability to wage war and prove to the rebels that their cause was hopeless and their government impotent to protect them and their property. this new hard war doctrine was fully sanctioned by the united states government. the previous year president abraham lincoln had app

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matt, savannah? >> pete williams, pete, thank you very much. >> well, in the wake of the hacks and violence pete mentioned, sony took the unprecedented step of cancelling the movie's release. it's a decision not sitting well with a lot of people, particularly in hollywood. we are in los angeles with that part of the story. hi, joe, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. sony pictures says they have no further release plans for "the interview," a plan rocking hollywood, angering celebrities, and raising fears this has a chilling effect on the industry. the movie, "the interview," is no longer coming soon. instead, posters for sony's embattled film are coming down. >> never seen anything like this in ten years covering hollywood, and i can't imagine how they'll dig themselves out. >> reporter: celebrities are outraged they cancelled the release, and ben stiller tweeted, hard to believe this is the response to a threat to freedom of expression here in america, and from rob lowe, wow, everyon

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these were buffalo, savannah. we're talking really eastern western borders at that time. and that was the united states. so the muskogee nations and the haudenosaunee had similar goals. they wanted it as a matter of necessity as well as inclination. they wanted somebody to be in charge of stopping the aggressiveness and the lawlessness of the people who were flooding into their lands from europe. and these were europeans and new americans, settlers of all kinds, who were encroaching on the native lands. so they wanted that to stop. and they wanted the agreement strictly with the united states. hence, nation to nation. that's the way the law developed at that time in the 1790s. and that's the way the law is today. it's still nation to nation. our ancestors really knew these presidents. really knew washington and lincoln and other notable and in many cases, rightly so beloved people. the muskogee delegates when they arrived by canoe and over land, but mostly by canoe from savannah, they docked at the bottom of manhattan and were greeted with 300 white men dressed like india

. >> stephen: your district contains savannah.ell us a little bit about your town. >> savannah was founded in 1733 by -- >> stephen: that's enough. thank you. all right. congressman, do you recognize this woman? >> no. >> stephen: okay. that's interesting because you co-sponsored h.r.-1815, the lena horne recognition act, and yet you don't recognition lena horne. yet you voted to recognize her. >> i think that the purpose of the legislation was to recognize the good things she has done. >> stephen: such as? lena horne -- >> stephen: yeah? i just remembered who she is. >> stephen: yeah. he died about two years ago, right? >> stephen: yeah. my image of her is the heavier woman of later years. >> stephen: yeah. i wouldn't recognize that picture. >> stephen: yeah. all right. quick follow-up. do you recognize this woman? >> no. >> stephen: this is also lena horne. when she's older. about the age you said you would recognize her. and you don't recognize her again. >> i gave lena my best. >> stephen: do you know one of her songs? >> not

savannah? >> all right, willie. bitter cold gripping much of the country heading into new year's eve. out west the las vegas strip is preparing for a rare snow storm. al is out west in pasadena. what can we expect? >> well savannah it's kind of weird. we are also talking about bitterly cold temperatures here in pasadena for new year's day. the morning temperature could be a record 32 degrees. we'll watch that. let's taky look at this other record cold coming across the country. this is a big, bitterly cold air mass. it's not the polar vortex. don't worry about that. we've got windchill advisories and warnings all the way from the pacific northwest into the upper midwest and down into texas. temperatures right now are anywhere from 10 to 40 degrees below normal. look at the windchills. 14 degrees below, it feels like in dodge city. 25 in memphis. 2 below in chicago. those are current temperatures. afternoon highs, you can see anywhere from 10 to 40 degrees below normal. billings will be a high of 6. minneapolis, 5. 1

let's go over to savannah. >> thank you.a disturbing new video, an option of al qaeda is threatening to murder a man in three days from now. >> luke summer, 33-years-old, born in the u.k., an american citizen, spent self of his life here. he was kidnapped about a year ago. he was living in yemen. he initially went as a teacher. then he started taking photographs and became a photo journalist. he got kidnapped from al qaeda. we haven't heard much from him. then this video came out. an al qaeda member, known al qaeda leader is speaking on the video saying that unless al qaeda demands, which are unmeetable, that he will be killed in three days. >> you have knowledge about an operation to rescue him, a failed attempt? >> late last month, there was a secret mission to free him. it was led by u.s. special operation forces, yemeni ground forces were involved. they managed to free saudi and yemeni hostages. unfortunately, he wasn't there. this is the way for the grown-up to respond saying, you didn't get him. you missed him. now the

savannah? >> andrea mitchell, thank you very much. general michael hayden served as cia director during the bush administration from 2006 to 2009. general hayden, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> most of the conduct we just heard about took place before you were cia director. >> yes. >> yet we heard this morning about this waterboarding that escalated into near drownings, one detainee left naked, got hypothermia and died. and this is not pleasant to recount but many instances of recollect rectal rehydration that was medically unnecessary. does it sit right with you? do americans have the right to be appalled? >> i don't know if they have the right to be appalled. it's probably a good thank americans get to know with some accuracy about what the central intelligence agency did on their behalf. i don't know that the report that was released yesterday is that historically accurate report. it reads like a prosecutorial rather than an accurate. >> do you disagree with anything that andrea mitchell talked about here? >> i disagree w

savannah? >> joe friar in los angeles. thank you. >> this has corporations all across the country and probably all around the world rethinking their e-mail policies. individuals as well. >> people writing e-mails may be doing a little soul searching as well. definitely a wake-up call. >>> lawmakers narrowly avoided shutting down the government. >> quite a night in washington, d.c. again. it's up to the senate to pass a huge $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep the government running. the measure passed the house thursday after a day of arm twisting. capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell with the very latest. good morning. >> good morning, tamron. the drama this time came from liberal democrats who nearly scuttled the deal with hours before the deadline. the president got on the phone, the chief of staff from the white house was here. by the narrowest of margins, the house did pass a government spending bill that keeps the federal agencies and departments running for a year. now, democrats had objected to a rollback of

savannah and matt? >> rehema ellis, thank you very much. >>> we have a series of tragic story this is morning, learning more about that terrifying hostage siege in sydney, australia. the victims held for more than 16 hours, and we're also learning more about the man behind it. hallie jackson is in sydney with the latest. hallie, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. the australian prime minister says the gunman was not on a terror watch list and described him as disturbed. here in downtown sydney, many are choosing instead to focus on the victims. even at 11:08 at night, this plaza filled not just with flowers but with people, who came to pay their respects to the two hostages who died in this crisis, both now being remembered as heroes. just hours after this dramatic and deadly end to sydney's hostage crisis, a somber service honoring the two lives of the innocent victims killed in the downtown cafe. >> these heroes were willing to lay down their lives so that others might live. >> repo

comes to a close from february 12 12th through the 15th, the savanna book festival will be held in savannah, georgia the seventh annual tucson festival of books hosted by the university of maryland chief of arizona. .. >> over the past half century, nexn booktv. it's about an hour.

i'm savannah guthrienest.eels like it was a whole lifetime ago. i think it's because there's been so much stuff that's happened in the last ten years. >> have you allowed yourself time to process it? i always wonder when i see someone like you, that's had so much success in such a relatively short period of time, if you had the chance to stop and go, wow! >> that's what's been so great about putting together the greatest hits. i'm the worst at relishing the moments as they happen. so many of us don't really take the time to stop and take the time to look around and enjoy things as they happen. putting this all together has been really good for me to reflect and look through pictures and seeing songs on one album together. it goes in chronological order. it's so fun to kind of listen to how things have changed over the years. >> it's show business. they call it that for a reason. part of it is the show. but it's a business, too. does the business part of it ever weigh you down? >> i mean, a little bit. any time

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savannah, give me a minute here. i know you have a lot of questions. let's describe this spring of 2007 conversation i had with both chambers, with both the house and the senate. i was the first director of cia to go down and actually convince the white house that we needed to expand knowledge of this program beyond the narrow gang of four or gang of eight. i actually argued within the administration that we needed to tell all of the members of the committee. that going forward, we needed to device devise a plan that wasn't based on strictly raw presidential authority but hat political support from the other political branch so going forward this would no longer be identified as george bush's program but america's program. my plan was to put my arms around the other political branch and find a way straightforward. i was straightforward and gave information as i knew it to be and the agency knew it to be. savannah, the agency's rebuttal to this report broadly supports the outlines and testimony i gave in 2007. look, my objective here was to get these pe

savannah. >> that is an awful story. thank you so much. >> sheinelle jones has breaking news out of canada. >> a tragic story out of canada where nine people including two children are dead after a murder/suicide in edmonton. one victim was found in a home while seven in a second residence residence. the gunman was found tuesday morning. the killings appear to be a case of domestic violence. family members describe the man as depressed and overly emotional. >> more fallout following the revelation that majority whip steve kascalise gave a speech. >> a day after house republicans have pressured staten island congressman michael grimm to quit having pleaded guilty to felony tax evasion more problems for the gop, apology from a top house leader steve scalise for appearing at the conference hen he when he was a state legislateler. one of the rising stars steve scalise at home during the holiday break. acknowledging he did speak at a meeting organized by white supremacist in 2002 while a state official. a mistake he wrote in

savannah? >> that is an awful story. john yang, thank you so much. >>> sheinelle jones now has some breaking news out of canada for us. >> another sad one. tragic story out of canada. nine people including two children are dead after a murder/suicide in edmonton. one victim was found in a home monday night while the others were found early tuesday in a second edmonton residence. the killings appear to be a case of domestic violence. authorities describe the man as depressed and overly emotional. >>> following the revelation that majority whip steve scalise gave a speech 12 years ago to a white supremacy group. andrea mitchell is in washington with reaction. >> good morning, sheinelle. michael grimm quit pleading guilty to felony tax evasion, more trouble for the gop and apology from the top leader steve scalise, from a speech more than a dozen years ago. at home during the holiday break, acknowledging he did speak ate meeting organized by white supremacists in 2002 while a state official. a mistake, he wrote in a stateme

it turns out he went southeast to savannah, and it is not surprising that the confederates didn't know because even the federal planners did not know, and their logisticians had supplied positions all along the coast that wherever sherman struck at blue water he could be resupplied. once sherman made his march and captured savannah on december 21, the confederates were still not sure what he was going to do next, and they positioned their forces all around him to include south of savannah to guard against the danger that he might march against thomasville, the railhead in southern georgia, or to liberate andersonville, or perhaps to threaten tallahassee. it really wasn't until he moved north through the carolinas that it became clear to the confederates in richmond how dire was their peril. i don't think lee or anyone else foresaw that danger as early as any point in 1864, and that he is continuing to do his duty to bravely and honorably uphold the struggle. other questions or comments? >> thank you very much for a fine presentation. i have a question about leadership, which you just t

raise it up to savannah and louis, upcoming baby. kraelgss. all this preparation. we have all these notes we take, meticulous notes. this is what hoda prepared for the entire show, takes the script and throws it away. savannah and pike have a beautiful baby girl and she is stunning! i think she may be pooping. look at that one. >> i was up all night working on that ♪ >> today they're back together. >> rock, paper, scissors. ♪ >> take it to the head. >> ah! >> well, we talked about our tears. we didn't want to -- you talked about clowns. >> oh. o! >> tamron. >> ah! >> before i come on and be a co-host, i want to appoint you to head up noaa. >> that was big. >> hello, everybody! oh, what a great day. ho. >> ha, ha, ha. >> we are a part of the sochi olympics. okay. we have vodka. six are water, one is not. are they all vodka? >> one, two, three. >> oh! >> down down down down up. >> do you realize at one time you were an award winning journalist? >> let the games begin! >> ba, ba, ba, ba. >> you do mean the winter olympics, right? it feels a littl

savannah? >> katy tur, thank you so much. nbc news analyst and ntbs investigator good morning to you. >> good morning. >> how difficult a search do you expect this to be? >> it all depends f we're expecting to see lots of floating debris unlike with mh 370, it could be difficult because we're going to have to try to pinpoint exactly where that airplane and the bulk of the wreckage went into the water. and if there is any floating debris of course that has moved over the next 20 to 30 hours. we'll have to backtrack or pinpoint and try to identify where the main impact may be. >> still early but indications are that four minutes after -- or before the plane vanished the pilot had requested to climb higher to presumably get around the weather. what do you make of that? >> there are times you can go above the weather. knowing the weather types in that area aul of these pilots are very familiar that these thunderstorms blossom up to 30,000, 40,000, 50,000 feet. he thought maybe he would climb to get

good morning to you savannah, and all of you.nleashes its heavy rain, powerful winds and coastal flooding from new jersey all the way north to maine. new york, philadelphia, boston and all cities in between getting drenched at this hour. the storm could also dump as much as a foot and a half of snow in inland areas. outgoing defense secretary chuck hagel arrived overnight in baghdad to assure iraqi officials that the u.s. is committed to helping them retake territory seized by islamic state fighters. hagel is meeting with american commanders and troops to thank them for their sacrifice in the fight against isis. >>> the u.s. has mobilized 2,000 marine guards in the middle east to guard against possible attacks on u.s. embassies when the senate releases a report on cia interrogations after the 9/11 attacks. u.s. officials, who have read the report, say it contains graphic new details of alleged torture. cia defenders, meanwhile, say the interrogations disrupted terror plots and helped to locate osama bin laden. >>> and the ntsb is

savannah? >> ron, thank you very much. >>> a student conduct hearing involving one of college's biggest stars could wrap up today. jamis winston was accused of sexually assaulting another student at florida state university in 2012. while criminal charges were not filed, winston is now facing an investigation by the school. gabe gutierrez has the report. gabe, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. through his high-profile attorneys, jamis has strongly denied the accusations. again hearing the allegations here on campus. jamis winston is heading back into a student conduct hearing to face allegations of sexual assault. >> we are confident that justice harding, when he hears her multiple lies and jameis' truth will find, as every other entity has to this point, that she is lying. >> reporter: the star quarterback, she says, raped her in 2012. >> there was a long time where she felt like she had no voice and nobody would listen to what she had to say. >> reporter: the woman says she w

sherman captured savannah, completing the march to the sea. a military campaign devised to destroy the confederacy's ability to wage war, and break the will of its people to resist. after destroying atlanta's industrial and business but not residential districts, sherman's 62,500 men left that city in mid november and marched over 250 miles, reaching savannah by mid december. contrary to popular myth sherman's troops primarily destroyed only property used for waging war. food railroads, train depots factories, cotton gins and warehouses. abandoning their supply base, they lived off the land destroying food they could not consume. they also liberated thousands of enslaved african-americans. sherman's hard hand of war demoralized confederates hastening the end of slavery and the reunification of the nation. erected for the civil war 150 commemoration by the georgia historical society, and georgia battlefields association. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> good job, as always. >> thank you. >> well, that concludes the ceremony. thank you all for comi

savannah guys? >> all right, al. we'll talk to you later. >>> two american soldiers who tied the knot in hawaii now have a story to tell as president obama's golf outing inging made them scramble to find a different outing. chris jansing talked to them exclusively. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the golf course president obama plays the most when he is in hawaii. they always warn people planning events when he's in town expect last-minute schedule changes but neither the president nor two u.s. army captains who got married there sunday expected that the commander in chief might become their wedding crasher. newlyweds ed and natalie didn't mind when his cell phone rang right after their i dos. >> ed and natalie? >> hi. >> hi mr. president. >> both army captains their commander in chief phoned in some golf course diplomacy to make sure no one was teed off. >> congratulations on your wedding. i feel terrible. nobody told us. i hope the wedding went okay anyway. >> it did. thank you very much. it was a blessing

savannah?>>> breaking news from the middle east this morning where an arrest has been made in the brutal murder of an american teacher in abu dhabi. we have more on the story, richard, good morning. >> good morning. it seems that police officials and intelligence officials in the united arab emirates were effective in the police work saying they have a female suspect in custody, a local woman, that they believe was responsible for killing this american woman and also was plotting to kill an american man and potentially his family as well. >> reporter: a female suspect in police custody this morning for the brutal stabbing death of american ryan inside this mall. the police released it this video showing a person wearing a traditional all cover, and she boarded an elevator and went to the women's restroom. 90 minutes later, there's the suspect and people running from the restroom where they heard shouting. one appears to confront the suspect who leaves the mall. in a new video release by police

matt, savannah? >> ron allen, thank you very much. >>> with football now, will ray rice be given another chance to play professionally. the question this morning now that he's been cleared to return to the league. nbc's stephanie gosk has the latest on this. good morning to you. >> good morning, matt. technically, any nfl team can sign ray rice now with four weeks left in the regular season. there are plenty of teams that probably would have before the scandal. but now the signing rights is not just about his skill on the field. ray rice is free to play. if anyone will have him. >> it's going to take a certain team to be able to sign him. if it's a team that's kind of already gone off the rails, probably not the best to sign him. >> reporter: a couple teams might be interested, the indianapolis colts and the new orleans saints, according to espn, citing unnamed sources. but so far, no offers. janay rice, in an exclusive interview, with matt lauer. >> what's it going to take in your mind, janay, for a