Today
Jesse Kirsch, Sam Brock
Season 2024, Episode 9 · Aired 2024-01-11
Synopsis
After a career that boasts seven national championships, 11 SEC titles and 292 wins, legendary college football coach Nick Saban is hanging up his headset. The 72-year-old is credited with turning the Alabama Crimson Tide back into a powerhouse program after leading them to 6 titles. NBC's Jesse Kirsch reports for TODAY. Royal Caribbean has launched the largest cruise ship in the world, Icon of the Seas. NBC's Sam Brock hopped aboard to tour the massive ship to see all it has to offer, including the largest swim up bar at sea, Broadway's "The Wizard of Oz" and the Crown's Edge walk that allows passengers to dangle along the side of the ship. For 25 years, Mariska Hargitay's Olivia Benson has risen through the ranks of the NYPD on "Law & Order: SVU," tracking down sexual offenders and comforting victims. Now Hargitay is opening up about her own real-life experience, saying a man raped her in her 30s. NBC's Kate Snow reports for TODAY. Millions are continuing to pick up the pieces of the deadly winter storm that brought snow, tornadoes and torrential rain across much of the country just as a new threat of severe weather moves in. NBC's Emilie Ikeda reports and TODAY's Al Roker tracks the latest forecast.
In the series
This episode is part of Today (1952–present) on NBC.
Garroway, J. Fred Muggs, and the invention of waking up with television.
Key cast
- Dave Garroway as Host
- Jack Lescoulie as Announcer / co-host
- Frank Blair as Newsreader
- J. Fred Muggs as Mascot