and they are from team adam jordan smith. and blake's robert s as and ba ba baber. okay. so then -- >> so there were - t singers we immediately sent home, and three left a that were competing for one final slot. so we will try to figure out t . ♪ live like you were dying ♪ live like you were dying ♪ hey now ♪ hey now the world comes in ♪ they come they go ♪ and just ale wall between ♪ ♪ make it rain ♪ make it rain ♪ make it rain >> i am going with mati the girl in between. >> she was good. bit like shania twain to me. i would go with the last gentleman. >> the female was from team pharrell and the last one was from team gwen. >> the votes have officially closed, co it is jeffrey austin. team gwen is in the finale. so put your harnds together for the players. >> and it is team gwen against team blake. >> we wi sustain this competiti competition. >> pharrell doesn't ha runner-up was jordan smith -- >> and you nknow he sang queen' "somebody to love" and he has dethroned adele at the top spot. ♪ can somebody find me somebody to love ♪ >> oh, my god. >>

., the newly crowned champion of "the voice" and the whole world, jordan smith's with us. we're going to catch up on what's going on, how he's feeling about everything, what he has planned for the future. >> that was bobbi dancing. they've got some christmas music. by the way, wait, i want that. they're the only two people who can hear the music and they're dancing. >> and looking ridiculous. >> that's trouble if you're the only one hearing it. people think you look weird. >> you're right. >> but alex looks weird all the time. >> we're going to try this thing. it's called a face swap. >> you can swap faces with this app. so in other words -- >> face swap. >> it allows us to swap faces with the person sitting next to you in real time. >> i don't think it's going to work, do you? >> yeah. >> okay, ready. >> oh, my god. wait, what just happened? i like yours better. wow. >> that's strangely exciting. >> can we do the whole show like this. >> how big can you mouth get, hoda? much bigger. >> oh, my god. >> imagine that at cocktail parties, how fun that would be? we'll take it t

from team blake, emily ann robert s a roberts and barrett baber, and jordan smith and austin. ♪ if i never get to see the eiffel tower at night ♪ ♪ i wish that we could go back in time ♪ ♪ and i'd be the one that you thought that you'd find ♪ ♪ till you tell me ♪ why don't you get down on my knees ♪ ♪ i'm so tired of being lonely ♪ don't give you what you need ♪ >> isn't it amazing how the world never runs out of incredible talent. >> incredible. so, of those? >> of those four, it is magnificent and i was moved by the --? jordan? >> emily ann and jordan. >> if you had to pick between emily ann who is blake's guy, and jordan, the guy with the fwlaszs, who would you pick? >> i would go with emily ann. >> i am going with jordan smith, and they are all credible and i love the song that barrett sang thomas rhett song. >> who told you about that? >> cassidy told cody and cody told me, but then he was mad from cassidy who was mad that he took krcredit. >> welcome to my world. >> and fantastic. >> all star wars all over the world, but the premier was in hollywood last n

. >> the winner of the voice is -- jordan smith! >> jordan smith is here. good morning and congratulations. >> congratulations. >> i have to tell you, i have a friend who is a super fan of the "voice" and told me nine weeks ago, i predict it, jordan smith goes all the way. >> that's so kind. >> did you feel good or were you sweating it? >> this show has been fun and i had a great time working with adam and the other contestants. it's a creative atmosphere. it didn't hit me until i was on the stage at the finale. i'm in the finale. we were taking it week by week. >> gwen stefani said you don't look like your voice. is that a good thing? >> i think so. i think this whole time, i've been proving that. those things aren't really what happens. last tuesday night, whenever i won the show, it was kind of a big moment for me. i proved to myself, what's on the outside doesn't matter. it's what's in your heart and what you love to do and doing those things. >> we've had front runners on the show before who, you know, were strong all the way down. they've grown fatigu

. >> the winner of "the voice" is -- >> reporter: for fans who watched all season -- >> -- jordan smith, team adam! >> reporter: -- the choice was hardly a surprise. the 22-year-old from kentucky beat out 17-year-old country singer emily ann roberts for the season nine crown. >> it was incredible. i never in my wildest dreams expected to be here experiencing this and having this moment. it was overwhelming. >> his falsetto stunned all four coaches in his blind audition. he made his mark throughout the competition. several performances topped the itunes chart. ♪ climb every mountain >> it was strangely effortless and harmonious the whole time. we really just had a good time. >> the teen runner-up had nothing but praise for the winner. >> it was such an honor to be up there with him. jordan deserves it more than anyone else here and i'm so proud of him. >> reporter: third place went to country singer barrett and fourth to power vocalist jeffrey austin. >> i knew right away the moment jordan sang his first note on the show that he was something special. >> he was one of the most insane v

smith coached michael jordan in college. jordan saying besides his parent, no one had a bigger influence on his life than smith. dean smith was also a trail blazer. in 1967, becomes the first coach at the university of north carolina and first in the south to offer scholarship to a black athlete. he has been dealing with health issues. his wife accepted the presidential medal of freedom on his behalf in 2013. smith was remembered fondly today. >> i think coach smith was the best there has[ court getting people to make sacrifices towards a common goal truly coaching to make people better and help them reach their own individual dreams. but at the same time he was better off the court. he cared more about people than wins and losses or records. >> he was a man of great humility and a man who i copied a lot of things off of in terms of being able to start your practice session off with some kind of meaningful worldly statement about what was happening other than just basketball. so my memories are always fond found themselves i

. >> reporter: on friday rescuers met up with smith giving him some cavs gear. although he knows they have given him the greatest gift. >> thankful i'm alive now. >> i want to thank our st. louis affiliate for the help with the story. smith has a cough. he is in physical therapy. the rescue squad had just practiced their ice rescues right before this happened. everything fell into place. >> listen to those nurses. i got the chills. imagine being in that room. incredible. >>> let's go over to dylan in the orange room. she is with the plaza fan of the day. >> i have paula here from rochester, new york. you are cancer free since wednesday. >> i finished my last radiation treatment then. >> congratulations. you are in the orange room. >> still to come on "today," having a ball where the adults are jumping for joy, but first these messages. i vow to wow my family with a vacation they'll never forget. it's royal caribbean's vow to wow sale, and there's no better time than now, to book your vacation. book today and get 50 percent off your second guest... ...and more mo

michael jordan is among the great players smith coached in his 36 years at the university of north carolina. smith won two national championships and was inducted in the national basketball hall of fame. he was a father figure to him. an incredible piece of video making the rounds online. take a look at this. as if jumping out of an airplane is not terrifying enough. imagine a few seconds later, the very airplane the one you jumped out of was nose diving towards you. take a look. you can see the instructor trying to tell the passenger what's going on and the plane just misses them. it came so close to the wing and clipped part of the parachute. 7 okay and the tandem landed safely. no word on why they got so close. it leaves you -- isn't that unbelievable? >> it's like the two planes about a year ago. everyone is fine? >> they are investigating, but everyone is fine. 7:15. >> mr. roker? >> what could possibly go wrong file. that's amazing. as we look around the rest of the country, we have a lot of wet weather continuing. rain as part of this system affecting the northeast down to the south.

we all know the legendary dean smith. it's really, really neat. he has played basketball for 36 years and even recruited michael jordan. how about having that on your resume. he died last month at the age of 83. he left each player who got a vorsity letter with him $200 and a note mailed to them saying enjoy a dinner out compliments of coach smith. $36,000. >> he was a great man. can you imagine getting that note? >> the athletes graduated. the student athletes. >> what's your favorite soft drink? >> diet coke. >> i like a good orange soda. >> i didn't see that coming. there is a shake-up in the world coming. coke has been number one. followed by diet coke and pepsi. pepsi surged into second place. even so we have to say that overall soda sales have fallen for ten straight years. freska is where on the list? it doesn't matter. we don't want to be high on the list. we want to be down for discovery. >> let me know when we are back to normal. >> in for matt and carson. you wear shorts? >> on the golf course where i am all the time. >> listen up. they