A Toast To 2014!: Ice Bucket Challenge

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Event Location(s): New York City, New York | Description: INT MS: Jenna Bush Hager says, “2014 was a cold year in many ways.” INT MS: Savannah Guthrie says, “Chilly.” INT MS: MSNBC’s Toure says, “Man, it's cold.” EXT DAY BRIEF CUTS: Shots of people walking in the snow. MS: Rear shot of vehicles driving on the snow-covered highway. INT MS: Roker, standing next to the weather map, says, “We are looking at brutally cold temperatures.” EXT NIGHT MS: NBC News Correspondent Kevin Tibbles, holding a thermometer, says, “Minus 20 degrees.” INT MS: “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams says, “Snow is in the forecast.” EXT DAY WS: A snow-plow clears the road. EXT DAY AERIAL: Zoom out from a snow-covered field and stadium. INT MS: Roker says, “All due to the phrase we've all come to know and love.” CLIP: Montage video clips of Dylan Dreyer, of Bill Karins and of Roker saying “Polar Vortex.” INT MS: “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush says, “I still don't know what a Polar Vortex is. I love saying it, though.” INT MS: “Christina Lilian Turned Up” host Christina Milian says, “Polar vortex sounds scary. Like something that's happening in outer space and involves polar bears.” INT MS: Dreyer says, “The polar vortex is real. It exists, it lives up in the North Pole, and every once in a while we get this little chunk that cools things down in the United States.” CLIP: Montage video clips of Dreyer reporting the weather. INT MS: Roker, standing next to a monitor show live shot of Dreyer, says, “Dylan, make sure you get inside really quickly.” EXT NIGHT MS: Snow-covered traffic lights. MS: Person picks up an item off the ground. EXT DAY MS: A girl sleds down a hill. INT MS: Dreyer says, “It's a little warm in here, but I'll take it. I'll take warm over cold any day.” INT MS: Actor Ian Ziering says, “Just as the weather starts warming up, we get cold again with the ALS ice bucket challenge.” GFX: Amateur video clip of a man pouring a bucket of ice water on him. CLIP: Montage video clips of ALS ice bucket challenge. INT MS: Natalie Morales says, “We saw the ice bucket challenge go viral.” CLIP: Montage of ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video clips. INT MS: NBC Sports’ Bob Costas says, “ALS is commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Incredibly, the Ice Bucket Challenge has raised over 100 million dollars for ALS research.” CLIP: Montage of ice bucket challenge video clip. INT MS: Tamron Hall says, “It's proof that, if we join forces, we can educate people about a serious illness, raise money, and get celebrities to let their hair down.” CLIP: Montage of ice bucket challenges featuring Justin Timberlake, Steve Harvey, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Martha Stewart. CLIP: Clip from “The Tonight Show” featuring host Jimmy Fallon, guests Rob Riggle, Horatio Sanz, Steve Higgings, the Roots doing the Ice Bucket Challenge. CLIP: Clip of Oprah Winfrey saying, “I am ready for the ice, now.” INT MS: Menounos says, “I loved seeing Oprah participate.” CLIP: Clip of Gayle King dumping ice water on Winfrey. INT MS: Menounos says, “I don't know anyone who didn't participate.” CLIP: Clip of LeBron James doing the Ice Bucket Challenge. INTMS: Bush Hager says, “LeBron James. Tom Cruise, Anna Wintour. I can't believe Anna Wintour did it.” CLIP: Clip of Anna Wintour participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge. INT MS: Bush says, “My favorite ice bucket challenge was-- Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters-- a huge, huge production.” CLIP: Clip of the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl’s Ice Bucket Challenge. CLIP: Clips of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates welding pieces of met together, of Gates examining the weld and of Gates doing the Ice Bucket Challenge. VO: Bush says, “Bill Gates did a very good job.” INT MS: In an interview actor Chris Pratt says, “I wanted to add my own spin to it.” GFX: Video box of Chris Pratt’s Ice Bucket Challenge. INT MS: Pratt says, “I dumped ice on my head and drank some Vodka. It was pretty awesome. I did it for a good cause.” GFX: Video box of Pratt’s Ice Bucket Challenge featuring Pratt saying, “Refreshing.” INT MS: Pratt says, “At the end of the day, am I a hero? Yes.” INT MS: Bush Hager says, “I did it and then I challenged my parents. And they said no.” GFX: Video box of former President George W. Bush saying, “I do not think it's presidential uh for me to be splashed with ice water so I'm simply going to write you a check.” INT MS: Bush Hager says, “And then they did it.” GFX: Video box of former First Lady Laura Bush pouring a bucket of water on her husband. INT MS: Bush Hager says, “I was shocked.” GFX: Video box of Laura Bush saying, “That check is from me. I don't want to ruin my hair style.” INT MS: Bush Hager says, “Every wife watching a woman pour water on their head has always wanted to do that. So I think in some ways it was good therapy for them.” INT MS: Toure says, “The viral video of Ice Bucket fails was awesome. “ GFX: Video box clips of a man dropping ice water on himself rather than his friend, of a boy falling as he tries to lift a buck of water, and of a little girl saying, “I have to go potty.” INT MS: Actress Monica Potter says, “I saw a lot of people just falling.” GFX: Video box of two girls pouring water on a girl’s head and one of the girls falling in the lake. INT MS: Toure says, “There was the one that I loved of, like, the two girls were supposed to throw it at each other, and one of them ran. And the other one fell.” GFX: Video box of two girls each with a bucket of water and one of the girl running and falling and other girl standing over the girl and pouring water on herself and the girl. INT MS: Hall says, "You know what? Keep going. Raising money and you get to see Matt Lauer covered in ice? It's pretty funny." EXT DAY NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK MS: Guthrie, standing on a box behind Lauer, holds a bucket of ice water as Roker and Hall look on. MS: Guthrie pours the bucket of ice water on Lauer. CLIP: Clip from the movie “Frozen”. INT MS: Toure says, “You cannot stop the spread of Frozen.” INT MS: In an interview “The Real Housewives of New York’s” Bethenny Frankel says, “Holy Frozen balls. Ariel ain't got nothin' on Elsa. You kidding me? We don't know what hit us.” INT MS: Menounos says, “Everyone was gonna be Princess Elsa for Halloween. You just knew it.” GFX: Insert photos of girls dressed up as Elsa for Halloween. INT 2 MS: NBC Sports’ Johnny Weir, with Tara Lipinski, says, “There are cute little kids all over this country singing Frozen up and down my block, up and down my Chanel, up and down my telephone.” INT 2 MS: Olympic gold medalist Meryl Davis, seated next to partner Charlie White, says, “It's kind of a different approach to the Disney fairytale.” CLIP: Clip from the movie “Frozen”. INT MS: Comedienne and actress Sherri Shepherd says, “It had some very dark themes. I mean geez Louise, the parents got killed and there was some abandonment issues.” CLIP: Clip from “Frozen”. INT MS: Shepherd says, “It was everything I loved. And my son loved it too.” CLIP: Clip from the movie “Frozen”. INT MS: Morales says, “I saw “Frozen” many, many times. INT MS: Actress Katherine Heigl says, “At least a dozen times.” INT MS: Milian says, “Thirty times.” INT MS: Toure says, “So many times.” INT MS: Milian says, “I could do 31 viewings. Yeah. For sure.” CLIP: Clip of Fallon, the Roots and Indian Menzel performing “Let it Go.” INT MS: Guthrie says, “Let It Go on Jimmy Fallon with the toy instruments.” CLIP: Clip of Fallon, Menzel and the Roots performing “Let It Go”. INT MS: Guthrie says, “I really think that's how the song was meant to be sung.” INT MS: Bush says, “I saw a dad in a minivan, singing to Frozen, and I thought that was hysterical.” GFX: Video box of a father and daughter singing in the car. INT MS: Bush Hager says, “There has, you know, been all these parodies, of course.” INT 2 MS: Lipinski says, “I like the newsman doing Frozen.” GFX: Video box of a newsman singing. INT 2 MS: Lipinski says, “He committed and pulled out an amazing performance.” INT MS: Bush Hager says, “My favorite parody was the dad, who is basically saying "make it stop.” CLIP: Clip of the father singing, “Please, make it stop.” INT MS: Bush Hager says, “I could sort of relate.” INT MS: Shepherd says, “That song. In my head. It won't stop. My son sings it. It completely incapacitates him. He becomes a zombie.” INT MS: Heigl says, “My oldest daughter Naleigh can sing the entire Let It Go song from start to finish. I'm pretty proud of her. But by the third or fourth time that she does it. You're like, she's not going to quit until it's done.” INT MS: Miss Piggy says, "Let it go, let it go!" No, seriously, let it go.”