thanks for joining us on "today in the bay." hope you have a great cool weekend. another update in about a half hour. >> enjoy the weekend. see you on monday. good morning. good morning. scorcher and soaker, a dangerous heat wave set to bake the west. triple digit temperatures expected from california to wyoming. and in the east, rising flood concerns from powerful storms. texas showdown. the battle over abortion gets very personal as governor rick perry takes on a female senator whose filibuster helped block a controversial bill. this morning, what he said and how she is responding. >> and a reporter accused alex baldwin's wife of sending light hearted tweets during gandolfini's funeral sending baldwin into a tirade. his account deactivated today,

june, 28th, 2013. >> from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1-a. >> good morning everyone. welcome to "today" on a friday morning. i am matt lauer. >> i'm savannah guthrie along side natalie morales and al roker. out west they're used to hot temperatures but it's brutal. 115 in las vegas expected today. 119 in phoenix. >> if that's not hot enough, the high in death valley where you get lost if your gps messes up, could approach a world record high of 134 degrees this weekend. let's get to mr. heat and humidity al roker. what's going on. >> i'm triple h baby. let's show you. we have a big area of high pressure dominating. this happens normally this time of year but it's even hotter this time.

the jet stream pushes way to the north. we have rising air, a clockwise flow of air around this. it's like a giant heat pump. look at what we've got right now. excessive heat watches and heat warn tprings from parts of new mexico until, nevada all seeing temperatures expected to be dangerous temperatures. boise up to 99 degrees. salt lake 99. phoenix 119, temperatures even higher on saturday. the all time record high for las vegas 117. looks like it will be there, new mexico 121, boise again at 102 and on sunday it continues. a high of 100 in boise, phoenix 116, vegas at 117, and we're not looking at a real break in this until sometime on monday and tuesday, savannah. al, thank you.

we have new details on a story nbc news was first to break. a target of an investigation for leaking classified information. our correspondent has the story. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. questions are swirling over whether he'll face charges for leaking classified information about a u.s. cyberattack in iran. retired general james cartwright, a trusted member of the president's national security team. second highest ranking member of the u.s. military and former vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staffs. now legal sources say he is the target of a justice department criminal investigation into a leak about a covert u.s. cyberattack on iran's nuclear program, an investigation the president himself demanded last year. >> these are criminal acts when they release information like

this. >> reporter: the new york times had broken the story that president obama had ordered a stepped up cyber weapons attack using a computer virus known as stuxnet, a program cartwright oversaw from the pentagon. cartwright did not respond to request for comment from nbc news, his lawyer gregory craig said only i have no comment. the story disclosed key details about the attack, including the code name, olympic games, the cooperation of israel intelligence and disabling 1,000 iranian centerfuses. >> when is that understand by our enemies, that makes it harder for those meth kwrudz od

related methods to be used in the future. that's devastating. >> reporter: white house and justice department officials declined to comment of any aspect of the case but federal prosecutors developed their case without issuing a subpoena for phone records from the new york times. >> it's very timely michael and on another story you're covering, the high profile leak case you have an exclusive interview with edward snowden's father. >> right. today his father is sending a letter to attorney general eric holder saying he is reasonably confident that his son will return home if the justice department will promise not to detain him prior to trial, not to subject him to a gag order and let him choose where his trial will take place. he hasn't spoken to his son since april but said he had a message for him and is concerned his son is being manipulated by others, especially wikileaks. >> i love him. i would like to have the opportunity to communicate with him. i don't want to put him in peril. but i'm concerned about those around him. if you look at wikileaks, their goal is not the constitution of

the united states. it's to release as much as possible. that alone is a concern for me. at this point i don't feel he has committed treason. he has, in fact, broken u.s. law in a sense that he has released classified information and if folks want to classify him as a traitor, in fact, he has betrayed his government but i don't believe he has betrayed the people of the united states. >> so far there's been no response from the justice department on the letter, matt. all right michael, thank you very much. natalie is here now with details on a scandal and this one involves a vatican official. that's right. this is a big deal matt. we have breaking news from the vatican this morning where a catholic church official has been arrested. italian police say he allegedly plotted to smuggle the equivalent of $26 million in cash into the country from switzerland aboard an italian

government plane. officials say he was already under investigation in an alleged money laundering scheme that reportedly involved the vatican bank. his arrest comes two days after pope francis created a commission to investigate the vatican bank. history on capitol hill as the senate approved a massive immigration overhaul. next, the house and what is likely to be a stuff fight. nbc's capitol hill correspondent, kelly o'donnell, has more. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning natalie. stuff because house republicans don't believe the plan will stop future waves of illegal immigration and won't really secure the border but for those longing for and fighting for a new path to citizenship, this truly is historic. anticipation had been building for decades. >> the yays are 68, nays are 32. >> emotion let loose. >> the sergeant at arms will

restore order in the gallery. >> undocumented students shouted in support of the senate passing immigration reform. [ cheers ] >> while others released a new hope. >> this means a chance for life. a chance to be with my family. a chance to live out of fear of deportation. >> reporter: but while they celebrated their hard fought achievement. >> we have support from one end of this country to the other. >> reporter: they turned to getting house republicans on board. >> to our friends in the house we ask for your consider ration, and we stand ready to sit down and negotiate with you. >> speak with your voice. speak in a way you feel comfortable. just don't ignore the issue. that's all i ask. >> reporter: but conservatives who oppose it say the senate plan is flawed. >> it's not tough on those that have broken the law or fair to those that have been trying to come here legally. >> for the next week members of congress will be back home for

the fourth of july recess, where they will be able to get firsthand the pressure, whether it's for or against immigration reform from the people they serve, natalie. all right kelly o'donnell on capitol hill. thanks so much. a programming note. nancy pelosi will talk about the chances for immigration reform in the house. she'll be david gregory's guest sunday exclusively on "meet the press." president obama is on his way to south africa. the latest stop on his african visit. that's where nelson mandela remains hospitalized. how is he doing and is there a chance that president obama will get to see him? >> good morning. well, nelson mandela is still critical but the crowd behind me and the family have gained hope from the news that he is doing a little better and responding. meanwhile, president obama boarded a plane in senegal and there is talk about whether or not he would come here to the hospital to see nelson mandela. there is a remarkable picture of senator obama meeting nelson mandela in 2005 and nelson mandela's daughter is say fg the doctors say it's okay then it could happen.

the white house is saying they will defer to the wishes of the mandela family. the possibility of the president coming here to meet nelson mandela is just that, a possibility but certainly the president's focus will be on nelson mandela and his extraordinary life. thanks so much. new details are emerging in the case against boston marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. his 30-count federal indictment alleges that he learned how to make explosives on the internet and gathered material. he faces bombing and other charges in the april attacks. prosecutors have yet to decide if they'll seek the death penalty. tsarnaev will be arraigned next month. the cost of buying a home just went up. mortgage rates jumped more than half a point in the last week t. biggest one week increase in 26 years. the average right now for a 30

year fix is 4.46%. the highest in two years. the jump will cost home buyers thousands of dollars. and call this one a good catch -- make that a great catch. when the sky divers were descending to the ground one bumped into a parachute and his shoe went flying. the sky diving camera man went to the rescue, swooping down toward the shoe, getting closer and closer until he got it. all the sky divers and all the shoes made it safely to the ground. >> that's dedication. >> a hard landing if you're missing a shoe. >> makes for a bad day if you get hit by that coming down. >> that too. >> all right. mr. roker is here with the heat wave and much more. >> there you go. here in the east we're worried about a lot of rain. take a look at pennsylvania. parts of central pa near state college, heavy rain, flash flooding. folks had to be rescued by boat. streets turned into rivers,

literally been a matter of minutes they had to do a lot of high water rescues. we have a risk of strong storms stretching from the southeast all the way to new england. large hail, damaging winds, dangerous lightning. on the radar you can see we're looking at the swirl of clouds, of radar and rain making its way to the northeast. back behind it rain around the upper ohio river valley. some areas will be picking up over the next 24 hours anywhere from 2 to 3 inches of rain with, again, that risk of strong storms up and down the eastern seaboard. we'll get to your local forecast in the next 30 seconds. .

it's a great weekend for the movies if you don't have an ac in your home. we have some really hot weather oday, close to the century mark. 92 in san jose, 9 in los gatos. meanwhile you'll hit 87 in santa cruz, 75 degrees on the way today to san francisco. as we head throughout the next couple days, we really crank that heat all the way through midnight. we'll be at the peak on monday at 105. another day of compelling testimony is expected in a florida courtroom as the first week of the george zimmerman trial wraps up today. nbc's kerry sanders is there. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. the witness is back this morning after a second day on the stand

where defense attorneys hammered away at her credibility. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> 19-year-old rachel gentel back on the stand. this time appearing more subdued but as the day progressed her answers grew more intense. >> yes, sir. >> she testified she was on the phone with 17-year-old trayvon martin moments before he was shot and killed by george zimmerman. she told jurors an attorney for trayvon martin's family first asked her if race was a factor that night. she was asked about that again in court thursday. >> describing the person is what made you think it was racial. >> yes. >> and that's because he described him as a creepy [ bleep ] cracker. >> yes. >> but on thursday she testified she omitted that description in a letter to trayvon martin's mother. >> of course you wouldn't say it to sabrina fulton because it was

offensive, correct? >> yes, that was disrespectful. >> also in question, the last thing she heard. >> get off, get off. >> she testified she heard the words get off, get off, before the phone went dead. but she also said this. >> so the last thing you heard was some kind of noise like something hitting somebody. >> like trayvon got hit, hit. trayvon got hit. >> you don't know that do you? >> no. >> you don't know that -- you don't know trayvon didn't at that moment take his fist and drive it into george zimmerman's face, do you? >> no, sir. >> also on the stand thursday, jenna lauer who made the 911 call that captured the sounds leading up to trayvon martin's death. >> so you think he is yelling help? >> yes.

>> all right. what is your -- >> just, there's gunshots. >> it kind of just sounded like wrestling. at one point i felt like they were about to come through the screen. it sounded like it kept getting closer and closer. >> another neighbor testifying in spanish was asked by the defense to demonstrate what she did that night. >> i heard the noise, i ran. >> reporter: she says she went outside and saw two people on the ground. >> reporter: zimmerman says he acted in self defense. savannah. all right. kerry sanders in sanford, florida, thank you. a war of words is developing between texas governor rick perry and the state senator whose filibuster helped block a controversial abortion bill. this has gotten very personal. >> wendy davis talked for 11 hours on tuesday bringing attention to a controversial abortion bill and when the vote was not taken in time the bill failed sending some republicans into a frenzy and now governor

rick perry is bringing attention to her past and her past to politics. >> a showdown in texas. ask democratic state senator wendy davis's filibuster on tuesday helped keep a vote that would shut down abortion clinics in texas. republican governor, rick perry, comments about her, and made politics personal. >> she was a daughter of a single woman and teenage mother herself. she managed to graduate from harvard law school and serve in the texas senate. it's just unfortunate that she hasn't learned from her own example. >> davis quickly responded. >> i would just say that it really demeans the office that he holds to make a personal statement like that. >> reporter: davis's marathon legislative session made national headlines early this week. even the pink running shoes she wore became an online sensation.

now amid the latest war of word with the one time democratic nominee. >> he sees this as shutting down the clinics and the choices and wendy davis sees this as the government intruded on the lives of women and wendy davis's own life. i'm not sure there will be a dialogue here. the next time there might be a dialogue is at a debate. >> reporter: governor perry is calling for another session to begin july 1st. this is another example of how social media can turn a story into a whole other stratosphere. without twitter and facebook it wouldn't have been to this magnitude. >> not a national story. thank you. coming up, aaron hernandez already charged with one murder and now being investigated for another deadly shooting. is there a connection between the cases? >> and the ceo held against his will in his own factory in china

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at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? it is 7:26. good morning everybody. i'm jon kelley. this morning b.a.r.t. is holding a news conference for the first time since the union gave a çqeñ 72-hour strike notice just before 11:00 last night, the union informing b.a.r.t. if there's no contract in place by the end of sunday night, workers will walk off the job. that will bring the b.a.r.t. system to a standstill leaving an estimated 400,000 passengers looking for a new ride on monday morning. despite the notice, both sides are still negotiating. an early-morning fire destroying an rv in oakland near the corner of 20th and campbell streets near grand avenue just before 4:00 this morning. crews were able to control the fire in about 15 minutes. we're told the rv was empty at

the time of the fire and we're happy to report nobody was hurt. san francisco also getting all ready for what could be a record setting pride gathering out there. more than a million people expected to arrive in san francisco this weekend to celebrate an extra special weekend following the supreme court's decision to lift the ban on same-sex marriage in craft. for anyone out there or in i anywhere in the bay area, be ready. it's going to be a scorcher. >> we still have fog over the san francisco bay. watch out crossing the bridges. overall looking pretty good. high pressure starts to kick into high gear as we head through the weekend and especially next week. if you're trying to head south for your getaway friday, it's going to be a scorcher in palm springs, 20 degrees. today we're expecting 90s to low triple cvc%quá$p'd we see more triple digits in livermore, 96 in concord. 75 in san francisco. sunday into monday we crank the

heat even more. let's check your drive with mike. >> we're looking over here, a blurry shot, but the flashing lights is what i want to show you. this is =krll in lanes an hour after it happened. first reported north of 101 at alum rock avenue. there it is on the map. that's state route 130. traffic jammed up from capital expressway to the scene. coming up from 85, it drags. 87 taking up some of the slack. that's why it's closing it up. thank you very much. back in half an hour with more local updates. see you then.

7:30 now on this friday morning, it's the 28th of june, 2013 and we have a happy crowd on the plaza this morning. gearing up for a live concert from former "american idol" winner phillip phillips. we'll hear from him in just a few minutes. good morning everyone. i'm savannah guthrie along side matt lauer, al roker and nat lee morales. >> also we have the american ceo held captive in his own factory for nearly a week. good news for him, he woke up in his own bed this morning and he'll join us for a live interview and give us new details about that ordeal and how he gained his own release. coming up, calling all indiana jones out there, we have a new clue for the hidden treasure worth millions we have been following. will this lead someone to the

treasure? >> and in the wake of her scandal paula deen is receiving a lot of fan support but her corporate partners are dropping like flies. is there a disconnect? and we'll get into alec baldwin's latest twitter tirade. >> it's a beauty. but let's begin with developments tied to aaron hernandez. stephanie gosk is in north dartmouth, massachusetts. good morning to you. >> good morning. this case is unfolding rapidly. police announced a wanted alert for the man they're describing as armed and dangerous. there could be further legal trouble for hernandez. a possible connection in a double murder case. a drive-by shooting from nearly a year ago. this morning, massachusetts police are searching for earnest wallace described as armed and dangerous, last seen in a silver chrysler wanted for his unspecified involvement in odin

lloyd's murder. aaron hernandez is being held in jail without bail for the same crime. dumped from the new england patriot's roster after his arrest, the nfl player pled not guilty to the murder of 27-year-old lloyd but the trial for first-degree murder is not hernandez's only concern. law enforcement officials confirmed that nbc news that police are investigating the nfl player's possible connection to two other murders in boston last july. late at night, two men were shot and killed in their car. a third was wounded. charges have not been filed and no suspects have been named. >> this week it was considered a cold case. while officials won't comment on the record what they will say on the record is the case has become much more robust. >> reporter: on thursday, hernandez's legal team appealed the decision to deny bail in the odin lloyd case arguing that their client was not a flight risk. >> he didn't do anything to hide. he didn't do anything to run.

he cooperated fully when the police came to his house on multiple occasions. >> reporter: the defense lawyer called the case against hernandez entirely circumstantial. the judge was not swayed. >> this is a case that circumstantial to be sure but very, very strong. >> reporter: bail request denied. outside the courthouse, hernandez's fiancee tried to make a quick exit while fans chanted their support. not easy reconciling the alleged criminal with the star athlete. this was aaron hernandez talking to maria in april. >> i just try to be a role model and when i see hispanics that look up to me i try to lead them in the right direction. >> reporter: right now nothing is going in the right direction for aaron hernandez. he lost another sponsor. puma announced they were dropping their endorsement. in a statement they said it is the appropriate step to take. matt. all right.

stephanie gosk in massachusetts on this story. stephanie, thank you. lisa bloom is today's legal analyst. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> the police are looking for a guy name ernest wallace who is described as an accessory after the fact in connection to the murder of odin lloyd. what does that mean. >> he gave aid or assistance. maybe covered up evidence or destroyed evidence. >> they're describing him as potentially armed and dangerous. let's go back to 2012 and now this double homicide that perhaps -- and we should say, it's still a big question mark that aaron hernandez might be connected to. are you hearing anything from law enforcement that would indicate why they think he might be connected? >> the connection maybe that odin lloyd had information about this 2012 murder and he was killed in order to keep him silent about it. he is innocent until proven guilty. we don't know. it's an ongoing investigation.

but consider an nfl star as the potential serial killer. that's the idea behind the investigation. >> and if there is some connection he played the entirety of last season after being involved in the murder of two people. >> right. >> the bail hearing yesterday, any surprises for you? the defense attorney said this guy stayed in his house. he didn't attempt to flea. the case is circumstantial, bail denied anyway. >> almost every murder case is circumstantial. that doesn't mean it's not a strong case and when you have the judge from the bench saying it's a strong case, that's not a good sign from the defense. some say his own security cameras have incriminating evidence against him as well as other security cameras. i'm sure they would be looking at computers, blood, dna, and forensics and ballistics. >> he's a high profile individual in that area. >> it's always harder for law enforcement when they go after a celebrity or somebody with money. they put up a strong defense. you have to dot every "i," cross every "t." >> thank you so much. let's get a check of the weather

from mr. roker. >> today's weather is brought to you by bing. >> and good morning everybody. we have a beautiful crowd for phillip phillips coming up in just a little bit. lots of signs, lots of warm people. let's look at your weekend and see what we have got going on along the eastern seaboard. not looking great. a lot of wet weather making it's way from florida into the great lakes and northeast. sizzling out west. record highs there. hit or miss showers and thunderstorms through the central rockies and then on sunday, look for more showers and thunderstorms in the northeast, ohio river valley, more rain in florida. rain through the rookies. sizzling and hot through the gulf coast and more record breaking temperatures in the southwest on up into the pacific northwest. that's what is going on around the country. 7:36. made it to friday. it is going to be a holt day and

hotter weather this weekend into next week. san francisco shows you a nice clear start, a little hazy. we lost all the low cloud cover that would keep us cool. temperatures will be hot. look where we're headed. all-important weekend is going to be hot around here. when we meet back on monday, 105 degrees. we're going to peak. that's inland. 102 bybkt tuesday. for the 4th of july. 81. hope you have a great day. people, my people. my people, my people. back inside. >> your people, al. thank you so much. well, alec baldwin is making headlines for his temper again and this time it was in defense of his wife. we have the details on this story. good morning. >> good morning, savannah. after attending james gandolfini's funeral thursday morning reports surfaced that baldwin's wife was tweeting while others were mourning. well, baldwin wasted no time in saying that was not true, and then some. he is at it again in 140 characters.

thursday, famously short-tempered actor alex baldwin took to temper with an angry rant against the daily mail after they reported baldwin's pregnant wife was tweeting during actor james gandolfini's funeral. someone wrote my wife was tweeting at a funeral. hey. that's not true. but i'm going to tweet at your funeral. why so mad? "the daily mail" claims she posted light hearted tweets around 10:00 a.m. during the somber service including asking for wedding ideas. retweeting a message about her favorite summer smoothie. but according to the time stamp it appears her tweets were sent 3 hours later, at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. baldwin says he wife never touched her phone. my wife and i attend a funeral to pay our respects to an old friend and some toxic brit writes this trash. even when after the reporter directly writing, i'm going to

find you george stark, you toxic little expletive and i'm going to expletive you up. it's not the first time he lost his cool. famously flying off the handle on a flight in 2007 when asked to stop playing "words with friends" on the plane. last june he was in a scuffle with a daily news photographer. his account is deactivated again. his wife also stood up for herself tweeting she would never take a phone into a funeral. by the way, the couple is having a baby girl due later this summer. >> he has a way with words. imagine if he had more than 146 characters. >> the reporter was wrong. >> it appears he did the math wrong on the time they were posted. >> yeah, he was wrong. perhaps mr. baldwin overreacted a little bit, though. perhaps. thank you very much. coming up next, the ceo held against his will in his own factory in china. back on american soil this morning. will he ever go back to that factory? we'll talk to him exclusively. and on trending, the airport worker that took a joyride for

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us exclusively along with his family. mr. starnes and fami >> good morning. >> well, i know you got home late last night and you're up early with us. it was a short night but did it feel good to sleep in your own bed. >> it did. i more laid in the bed. i didn't really sleep but it felt great. >> after you reached a deal with york workers you high tailed it out of town. you were telling me how you did it. sounds like something straight out of a movie. >> it's absolutely out of a movie. a little something happened at the very end there, early morning time. we had one of our, actually, smaller vendors come in that his supplier actually threatened him. as it turned out we're his largest customer and his supplier found out that this was going on and he came and basically passed the threat on to me and so that's when things really kicked in that my heart really got going at that particular point in time. >> you switched cars three different time on your way out

of town to the airport. >> yeah. >> looking back at this now, you say that you're going to keep the factory open, are you really prepared to step foot back into that manufacturing plant again? wouldn't you be afraid this could happen again? >> yeah, you know, i think there's a lot of miscommunication over there. i don't know if it would be wise for me to go back in there. myself personally. but we have a partner, we have a cfo able to go in and take care of that. we have council over there right now communicating with the vendors and we have workers that are interested in coming back and getting the business up and going. it's part of communication but like i said earlier and before, we have significant investment of millions of dollars over there so that equipment is important to us and we have to figure out how to get our hands back on that and get back over there. >> some people look at this set of facts and they just can't

believe the workers would have acted this way without any provocation. can you honestly say you didn't do anything to cause them to take this drastic action where they literally held you against their will. they say they were denied pay. >> no. that's absolutely false, 100% false. everybody was paid and at the end of this, which happened just morning before last, they all got paid a lot more than they should have. some false information got out, i guess, spooked a lot of people in the factory that the whole factory was moving and not just one division of it and at that particular point in time the whole factory turned against me. i guess they thought i was going to pick up 100,000 square feet of machinery and carry it out in a backpack and not pay anybody but that's exactly what happened. i got held hostage or held ransom for severance pay. >> do you feel like you paid a ransom and can you tell us how much you had to pay to get your freedom? >> yeah, 100% i got held for

ransom. every single other person in the 35 people i let go had jobs there and the pay out was about, everything involved, 5 or $600,000 cash for my freedom. >> it's a ordeal. what are you looking forward to doing this weekend. >> you know, just adjusting. still kind of settling in right now and looking forward to something simple. going and grabbing a pizza, having a drink this evening and just letting things settle down a little bit. >> well, we see your smiling wife and the kids. i'm sure they're happy to have you back home. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up, get on your thinking caps. we have a new clue in the hunt for a multimillion dollars treasure somewhere in the southwest. coming up after this. in the hu for a multimillion dollars treasure somewhere in the southwest. coming up after this. ♪ [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me.

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it is 7:56. good morning everybody. i'm jon kelley. a member of the pta facing charges of embezzlement. keith dennis was the volunteer treasure of the pta at lynhaven elementary school. he broet checks for himself for nearly $27,000. his lawyer saying dennis is deeply saddened by the charges and plans to make sure there's no loss to the school. dennis is also suspected of stealing from school fund-raisers, is currently out on bail awaiting trial. a phony cop behind bars this morning. police in vallejo say this man, jesse capel would follow people to their home and act as an officer, even used a replica gun and wore a t-shirt with "police department" on the front and the back. as you get ready for the weekend weather, krochristina ln

we should brace for the heat. >> a good looking day shaping up over sunol. it is going to be hot. it's already hot out there, but by the time we hit about 5:00 and those highs come in, 93 degrees in santa rosa. scorching temperatures, about ten degrees warmer than yesterday and already flirting with records, even warmer weather as we get into the afternoon. 100 by sunday, 105 on monday. you can't get a break in the traffic department either. you know it's friday light. i'll show you a couple key spots that i have a problem right here in san rafael. we'll follow that in a second. san jose getting better. we'll start with the good news, we're recovering quickly because of lighter volume throughout the area. southbound 101 at embarcadero road. a crash in lanes blocking two of your four. that's why it's slow at university. here is the crash southbound

towards the curve. life in the slow lane. mike, thank you very much. we'll see you in half an hour.

the "today" show. >> i love al roker. >> i love phillip phillips. >> phillip phillips, will you marry me? >> it's 8:00 now on a friday morning. it's the 28th day of june, 2013 and we have got a lot of phillip phillips fans out on the plaza this morning. standing together on a day that can best be described as close, warm and sticky here in new york. there's phillip phillips nice and cool in our green room. he'll take to the stage in about 30 minutes. out on the plaza i'm matt lauer along with savannah guthrie and al roker. speaking of music, monday you have a big interview. >> we'll talk to the one and

only cher. she is a legend. the hair, the clothes, the music. we'll catch up with her 1-on-1. she has a special announcement to share with her fans. we'll tell you about that on monday. then a little more about paula deen. corporate america is moving away from her but her fans seem to be supporting her more than ever. her products are selling very well. so is there a disconnect? we'll be talking about that. >> and a little bit later, ladies and their hair. let's face it, it says that over the woman's average lifetime, they have 150 hair style changes. we're going to be looking at natalie and savannah's hair and matt's hair as well. my hair, all of our hair, how much we change through the years. >> that's any natural hair color right there. >> is it really. >> i'm not as blonde as you thought i was. >> i don't think anybody thought you were that blonde. >> you didn't think? >> it looks natural. >> we have a lot to go to -- >> wait, don't forget the treasure hunter.

we're supposed to do that right now. >> that's right. he's waiting. >> right. she has a new clue in the treasure hunt and the mastermind is with her. >> good morning to you guys here. >> hey, good morning to you guys. yeah, giving us an exclusive clue each month. this treasure hunt sent thousands of people out in the mountains in north santa fe this month. >> the treasure is not in idaho or utah. >> that's a great clue. >> will you exclude colorado as well? >> no. >> i tried savannah and matt. tell me, you have said that some people have been frighteningly close to this treasure. >> some of the searchers have been within 500 feet i know. >> 500 feet. so we have excluded a couple more states and we'll have all the clues today on our website, today.com.

>> all of these searchers are going to be walking in circles. >> double back. retrace your steps. >> thank you very much. >> now let's to natalie with a check of all the headlines. i'll take it away. good morning everyone. president obama is on his way to south africa where national hero and former south african president nelson mandela is hospitalized in critical condition. he left this morning from senegal, the first leg of the three nation african trip. white house officials said they would defer to mandela's family on whether president obama would pay a hospital room visit to nelson mandela. the first week of testimony is wrapping up today at the george zimmerman murder trial. on thursday the defense attacked the credibility of the key prosecution witness who was on the phone with trayvon martin moments before the unarmed teen was shot. the jury also heard from the woman whose 911 call captured screams before the shooting. she said she could not tell who the screams were coming from.

>> rescuers still hope to find someone alive three weeks after a boat with americans on board vanished in rough seas. sarah james is in melbourne, australia with the latest. good morning sarah. >> good morning natalie. a massive search and rescue failed to turn up any sign of a missing yacht and it's crew of seven including six americans and authorities now fear that the boat may have sunk. >> this is the boat at the center of the search. >> the comprehensive search the last couple of days indicated that if the yacht was still afloat they would have seen it. >> the nina's american captain and his wife and son david set sail on an around the world voyage several days ago and put photos on facebook. days before departing new zealand he made mention of

machine gun gales in the see. >> on june 24th, the crew member texted to ask for help to avoid a storm. meteorologist was the last person to be in contact. >> they were concerned but they weren't in trouble. >> the mainly american crew also included a 28-year-old man, an 18-year-old woman, and a british man. this voyage on the vintage scooner was poignant. a last hoorah before 17-year-old david went to college. instead he is missing with the rest of the crew. >> i'm just hoping that they had a small glitch and they're just sailing with the current. >> he faced rough seas before, here crossing the atlantic in 1992. as the days pass, hope is fading. >> well, there has been no

debris spotted, no emergency beacon activated so there is little to do but wait and wonder. natalie. >> we just hope there's a good outcome. sarah james in melbourne, thank you. what happens when you're hauling large containers of paint in your vehicle and the car crashes? this man found out the hard way. he was completed coated with paint and so was his dog. neither was seriously hurt. they're okay now. they're all cleaned up. they do look like work of art. 8:06 right now. let's go back outside to matt and savannah. >> do you believe it? >> you're a skeptic. >> that's all right. natalie, thank you very much. >> mr. roker is across the plaza with a check of the weather. that's right. we're behind the stage. i don't know how many of you are going to get to see phillip phillips. but you get a great view of the electronics and our security guy phil. actually, you don't get to see phillip phillips but you get to see phil hughes.

so that's cool. i don't know if that's the same thing but there you go. he's a nice man. not much of a singing voice but a nice man. there you see our pick city of the day. let's check out what else is going on. we are looking for more showers and thunderstorms as we move on the day today making their way to the northeast. we expect to see some record setting heat into the southwest and on into the pacific northwest. it will be hot with temperatures well above 100 throughout the southwest. risk of strong storms up and down the east coast. rain around the central great lakes. that's what's going on around the country -- leslie almost didn't quite make it. there you go. why don't you do a duet with ph 8:07. you made it to friday. this is all that is left of the fog over the golden gate bridge. you can actually make out the us for the background now. it is going to be gone quickly.

we have a hot day ahead, as a result, 75 in san francisco, 97 degrees into livermore. 89 in santa theresa. get through the next couple of days, temperatures stay hot, near 100 degrees inland all weekend long. into next week, with he peak on monday at 105 degrees. make sure you're drinking lots of water this weekend. all right. now let's go back over to matt and savannah. >> al, thank you so much. coming up next on trending, the first lady joins instagram and martha stewart dishes on her sex life. that coming up. >> and ann curry shares the emotional story of those involved in the face transplant. >> and what does it say about women that we'll try out 150 hair styles in a lifetime.

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talking about as we head into the weekend. so, trending on twitter, the prosecution star witness in the george zimmerman murder trial. rachel gentel was on the phone with trayvon martin during his conversation with zimmerman. her testimony over the last couple of days provoked quite a response. take a look. >> you got to understand what i'm trying to tell you. i was the last person, you don't know how i felt. >> well, maybe he decided to assault george zimmerman he didn't want you to know about it. [ inaudible ] >> i don't understand. >> well, i certainly wouldn't -- i don't know for sure. i would think we should plan on at least a couple of hours. >> what? >> this is an unconventional witness to say the least. the reactions have been divided. one twitter user wrote i don't

blame rachel jeantel. i would have reacted the same way. another said that rachel jeantel has absolutely no respect for this country's judicial system. a lot of reaction. this was the scene setter for the prosecution in this case. >> supposed to be a star witness in the case but she had a very different demeanor on the second day than on the first and the opinions that matter are the six jurors. meantime, on instagram, the first lady in africa. she launched an account on thursday posting videos and photos with her visit with young schoolgirls in senegal. take a look. [ music playing ] >> well, that was enough to do it. as of this morning, mrs. obama already has about 215,000 followers on instagram. >> yeah. >> i bet her girls are saying mom get on instagram.

>> they're rolling their eyes now. >> also trending on huffington post, martha stewart getting real about her love life. matt helped her meet potential matches earlier this month. martha appeared on watch what happens live and anything can happen and it did. she made frank admissions. >> has martha ever sexted. >> i think no. >> martha. >> yes. i'm so happy to hear that. okay. oh, that's who those texts were from the other night, martha. okay. has martha ever been to a strip joint, maggie. >> yes. >> no. >> you know what's funny about that, she doesn't actually say yes or no. she just nods. like if there were a transcript of the interview it wouldn't say. >> that was a clear yes, though. >> she has plausible denieblt.

>> she is 71 and hotter than ever. >> let's move along. trending on the website of the new york post, i love this, the joyride to end all joyrides, a worker took one of the stair cars on apparently to go to a nearby pizza place. i guess it was on the second floor. the spokesman told the post, the obvious, that taking the car out on a public street was illegal. he saw too much episodes of arrested development when jason bateman's character takes it out on a spin. >> i didn't think anybody would notice. >> that's what's trending today. >> all right. we want to also tell you just ahead in the 8:00 block, ann curry reports, a life changing face transplant for one young man and the family of the donor. we've got that story. plus, what leads the average woman to change her hair style a

staggering 150 times in her lifetime? we'll get to that, but first carson daly is here with the latest on the paula deen scandal. >> good to see you. corporations maybe severing ties with paula deens but fans are jumping to her defense. it's causing some to ask if the companies are out of touch. >> like i said, if you never committed a sin, please pick up that rock, pick up that boulder and hit me as hard as you can. >> paula deen's biblical illusion seems to have struck a cord with her fans but the list of corporations that ended partnerships with the celebrity chef is growing. from retailers like walmart, target and home depot to the diabetes drug maker at least 8 large companies distanced themselves. >> they're trading off short-term pain for the long-term belief that their brand needs to stand for >> short-term pain because the controversy has fans defending

deane. at her restaurant in savannah some customers blamed the media for stirring up drama. >> i'm a native savannahian and i took this as an attack on the city and also on the families and the staff that work here. >> she said she was sorry so that's all i need. that's all i need to here. >> reporter: since the scandal broke, deen's forthcoming cookbook has shot to number one on amazon. >> you've got to sign up for the cruise today. >> reporter: demand for her paula deen cruise has reportedly gone up, as well. online her fans are tweeting their support and going after the companies that dropped her. proof, say some branding experts, that it may have been a mistake. >> this is a tremendously short-sighted decision by all the corporate people who decided to let paula deen go. and the reason is because they let political correctness and a political and social decision interfere with a highly performing asset. >> would i have fired me? knowing me? no. >> reporter: fellow domestic goddess martha stewart weighed in saying she felt sorry for

deen. but when asked if she agreed with how corporations have reacted. >> i don't really want to say whether i agree with it or not. i just -- i just feel that you have to really watch yourself. >> right. >> especially in this day and age, with cameras all over you, and google. >> reporter: marketing professionals add that in today's media environment, corporations have to err on the side of caution. even at the risk of offending some of deen's loyal followers. >> companies are going to lose some sales because of it. but in the long-term the company image is key. and it's aligning the corporate image for their brand with people who share their values, and it's fundamental to their success. >> reporter: so far most of the companies actively supporting zeen are regional brands like epicurean butter and springer mountain farms. others like novo nordisk say they're suspending ties. >> now we move on to the most extensive facial transplant in

history. it happened in baltimore 15 months ago and for the first time the families and doctors are sharing their remarkable story with nbc's ann curry. >> reporter: this is a story of two young men. one richard norris, hid from the world for 15 years after a disfiguring shotgun accident. the other, josh yeah, was just emerging into the world, signing up to be a marine, wanting to serve. >> he just had a very loving spirit about him. >> reporter: but randy says joshua was just walking across a main road when he was suddenly hit by a van. >> 911, what's the location of your emergency? >> reporter: joshua was airlifted to baltimore trauma center, the same hospital where richard was a patient. >> the one thing i prayed, please don't let him die. >> reporter: the doctors told them joshua's brain injury was too severe for him to survive on his own. after they considered withdrawing life support, they got a request to donate joshua's

organs. they said yes. then they were asked to donate joshua's face. to richard. >> we just felt like this is something that he would want to do. you know, and this tragedy, something good could happen. >> reporter: it is one thing to donate your child's organs. but it is an entirely different thing to donate your child's face. >> it was -- it was difficult decision. i know we did tell randy at the time, if i ever saw someone walking around, the first thing i would do was go up and give him a big hug. >> reporter: but you didn't know if the surgery was going to work. >> well, it was all. >> reporter: the department of defense funded the experimental face transplant surgery to gain research into helping u.s. troops wounded on the battlefield. richard's doctor eduardo rodriguez. what was it about richard's injuries that made him perfect for trying to create the kind of

science needed? >> that was the same type of injury that our soldiers were experiencing in iraq. as a result of the ied blast coming from the ground up. >> reporter: the 36-hour surgery, the most extensive face transplant in history, would give richard a new life. and yield findings that would advance transplant medicine. it also gave a mother who lost a son a chance to see his face again, when she met richard. and did you reach out and hug him? >> yes. when he came in. yes, i did. >> reporter: were you hugging your son? >> yes, i feel like a part of him was there, saying that he was okay. >> and you can see more on this story tonight on "ann curry reports: a face in the crowd" at 10:00, 9:00 central time right here on nbc. >> incredible story. also, we're going to take a turn here, on a much lighter note, we all know that as ladies we're obsessed with our hair, some

guys may be obsessed with their hair. >> less now. >> turns out there's new research that reveals just how deep it actually runs. tamron's here with more. >> it's pretty cool. legendary designer coco chanel once said a woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life. believe it or not, though women will change their hairstyle at least 150 times in their lifetime. in the '70s farrah fawcett and her famous flip transformed the way women styled their hair. madonna was the trend-setter in the '80s, and in the '90s, jennifer aniston caused a storm with the rachel. these days changing your 'do has become a sport of sorts as new research founds a woman alternates between hairstyles at least 150 times in her life. and celebrities often lead the way. victoria deck up emphasized the cut from long to short, to even shorter. anne hathaway has flip-flopped from brunette to blonde and back

to brunette and beyonce has rocked those famous long curls as well as the straight lock. >> changing your hairstyle makes it better for them because what they actually have the opportunity to do is to change their persona. >> reporter: even the first lady shared with rachael ray that sometimes you just need a change. >> this is my mid-life crisis, okay? >> reporter: listen to these hair-raising stats women go to the salon at least five times a year which amounts to about 250 visit s by the time they're 65. and they experiment with 100 different styles and up to 50 shades. why so much? most women say they change their styles because of boredom, a life change or good old-fashioned celebrity inspiration. but the majority said they were tired of their current look. >> i went short when my twins were born because it was much easier. and now that they're older, i can take a little more time, and do my hair. >> reporter: on the flip side, 15% of women admit they've been stuck with the same look for more than five years.

that's a lot of time for something that some say defines you. >> if i walk out of a salon and i don't look any different than i walked in, what's the point? >> reporter: you know what they say? hair today, gone tomorrow. >> change it. because what it does is it makes you feel better. it gives you a whole new outlook on life. >> so one more stat turns out that 14% of women haven't changed their hairstyle in more than a decade. guess what? i've had this same hairstyle since i was 18. >> really? >> i cut my hair, i cut my hair the only time i've ever done anything for a guy. >> you know. it's the weekend. not worth it. >> -- styles though -- >> over the years the style hair evolution, what's this 'do? >> i don't know. that's just -- >> you were dark there. >> yeah, my hair is very, very dark naturally. almost black. that's my natural color. >> i love that. that's a cute bob. >> yeah, but then. okay.

so i've just been going blonder and blonder. as i get older. >> exactly. >> so there's -- >> i like that. >> then i got my hair cut short. >> oh -- >> i think you should stick with that. >> natalie, as well. your hair is talked about a lot. beautiful hair. >> that's me -- >> that's you. >> a little. >> and what's next? >> i had the bangs there. >> oh. >> the updo. >> the updo is gorgeous. a little different. >> i was in a dark phase, too. >> oh! >> that was like the rachel. >> i like it. >> yep. >> that's the bangs. >> mm-hmm. >> and here's a little -- >> that's me. >> i was going to say, natalie, that is wild! >> that's the first day i cut my hair, age 18. and that's me with actual big hair and that's me with. there you have it. women and their hair. guys you haven't changed it either. >> yeah.

>> okay. >> oh hello. >> hi, there. good morning i do, it is 8:26. i'm marla tellez. a lufthansa flight that left sfo late last night forced to make an emergency landing a short time later in seattle this is video from the tarmac moments after the plane shutdown at seatac airport. passengers say an electrical smell filled the cabin an hour into the international flight heading to munich. that prompted the pilot to make nobody was hurt. the passengers have been put on different flights. let's see what's going on on the roads on this friday. mike, how is it looking? >> really, bad right know, through palo alto, both directions, the backup southbound, toward university and passing it all the way down toward oregon expressway off-ramp. look at the slow traffic out of

redwood city, it is jammed packed there has been a crash blocking two of four lanes south of the embarcadero, toward the expressway, for about an hour and 15 minutes now. my family got stuck in the backup and they stayed is crawling through the area, why we know it is south of the embarcadero area. partly because of the distraction and the traffic. 101, north 80, 101 itself mostly recovered from the big backup, now slow because of the interchange. >> i hopes:% your family made i all the way through okay. we will be back with the next local news update at 8:56.

. >> 8:30 now on friday, it's the 28th of june, 2013. what a crowd we have out on the plaza this morning. they're up early. they are excited. they are here for one reason and one reason only. that's to hear -- one of the most popular american idols ever. and do not forget our buzz meter. all you have to do is tweet us throughout the performance and use the hash tag.

matt lauer and al roker. >> we are all about the buzz meter. no question about it. the music was nonstop this morning. next friday, the 35th of july, we have john maier life on the plaza. and we should mention that philips is going to be opening up for him. and then the week after that, we're talking about the 12th of july, we'll have a concert on our plaza as well. >> how many of you do this. you load up on all of your shows and you sit there and watch it? it's called binge watching. what is it doing to your brain? coming up, you're going to show you how maybe your brain is functioning and it's changing. >> can we get a check on the weather? >> i think i do. if you watch the weather over

and we have -- let's show you what's going on. saturday, we are looking at wet weather up and down the east coast. rain also in the ohio and mississippi river valley. hit or miss thunderstorms in the center rockies. record highs in the southwest. sunday, look for more rain in the mid-atlantic states into the northeast. rain in parts of of the central and southern rockies. record highs from the pacific northwest all the way to the southwest. 8:32. good friday morning to you, you made it, it's going to a hot day and an even hotter weekend. temperatures climbing all the way through monday of next week, so we will be flirting with records up in the north bay, 93 for the high for santa rosa. old records, 96, or getting close to it, likely shattered recording when we kick off next week and hit the peak of this heat wave, 97 for today, livermore, 75 in san francisco there it is, 105 on monday, cooling you down to 102 tuesday and then really cool you down

wednesday into thursday. and coming up this weekend, if you need the weather, you go to the weather channel on kanl or weather kpanl.com. >> now the changing way that we tend to watch our favorite television hoes. >> good morning everybody. you remember when we used to gather around and talk about the latest clip hanger? there's still cliff hangers. now now the way we talk about them has evolved. >> are you the owner of a face like this, this, or this? that day's look of indulgence is the result of bingeing. not on drugs or alcohol, but on tv. it's called binge watching, watching episode after episode after episode of your favorite tv show. >> peopling are flocking to television. the writing is stellar. the actors are all bringing

their "a" game. >> are you a home land abuser or a breaking bad junkie. a game of thrones drone who a house of cards addict? the way we consume tv has changed dramatically. nearly 80% of adults watch tv through subscription services. 62% watch you willty pell episodes back to back. netflix and others are billing business models around it. offering original series like house of cards only available on their series all at once. a concept that creators and stars fully embrace. >> people want it all. >> so why not give them what they want instead of dangling the bait. >> it's like eating or drinking or sex. as you devour the next episode of your favorite show, your mind

releases dopamine, the neurotransmitter that causes the feeling of pleasure. >> sometimes that balance goes away. >> dr. richard rosen thought who studied addiction, assess the new model for tv lends itself to binging. >> anything that causes pleasure is -- >> but unlike truly addictive substances like drugs, the only consequence maybe the empty space around the water water cooler. >> and the water cooler just exists now on social media. the consumer gets to watch what they want to watch. >> go ahead. stocks for both netflix and dream works just went up. they're going to have 300 new hours for programming, which means tons more opportunity of

binge viewing, for me it's arrested development, mad mountain, and abbey. >> i think i did five seasons in a summer. >> and at midnight, just one more. >> at midnight, no. i haven't seen midnight in a long time. but breaking bad on a plane, i will do that. >> coming up next, live in concert, stewart philips. this is today on nbc. t, this is n nbc. ♪

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♪ for you, for your >> announcer: the toyota concert series on "today," brought to you by toyota. >> we don't want to keep this crowd waiting any longer, here is philip phillips.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hold on to me as you go ♪ as you roll down some familiar road ♪ ♪ i know this way is stinging on for long ♪ ♪ just know you're not alone ♪ i'm going to make this place your home ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ settle down, it will all be clear ♪ ♪ don't pay no mind to the dee mons that fill you with fear ♪ ♪ the trouble that might drag you down, if you get lost you

can always be found ♪ ♪ know you're not alone ♪ i'm going to make this place your home ♪ come on new york ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ know, know ♪ no, no, no ♪ settle down, it will all be clear ♪ ♪ don't pay no mind to the demons that fill you with fear ♪

♪ the trouble that might drag you down, if you get lost you can always be found ♪ ♪ just know you're not alone ♪ because i'm going to make this place your home ♪ ♪ ahhh ♪ ahhh ♪ no ♪ no ♪ ahh ♪ ahhh ♪ ahh

♪ now, ohh ♪ ahh ♪ ohhh ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ applause ] [ applause ] >> philip philips, thank you. we'll have much more music in a moment. but first, this is "today" on nb

well, phillip >> well, philip philip's win was just the beginning of the debut career. >> thinks album is just about to

go platinum. we're thrilled to have him here on the plaza. as we mentioned, it's going really well. how does your post-idol experience match your expectations? >> it's been all unreal. you just keep going so much, going on tour with mayer summer is awesome. meet heros and meet so many great musicians. >> speaking of great musicians, you actually start as a guitar player when you were a teenager and you still feel like a guitar player than a singer? >> i do. because sometimes i don't feel like a voice can exceed some things. but i like playing the guitar. i'm a more musical guy. my voice can only do so much. >> you mentioned going on tour with john mayer. aren't you doing something with the boss too? >> yeah. opening up in rio.

i'm really nervous about that. it's a lot of people. >> that's got to be a bucket list kind of thing. >> yes, it is. >> when you were looking to sit down with your pen and paper and guitar, what inspires you? >> different things. happy things, sad, a little more serious. it depends on how i'm feeling that day and kind of just go from there. if it's a good day, i can write one. >> you crack me up. i'm reading about you, and you said, i'm still terrified by live tv. >> i'm nervous right now. >> you've done so much so far. >> anything can go wrong. it's live. >> have you ever seen our show. >> exactly. you'll fit right in. i have to ask you about your trademark shirt. if it now bans -- i'm seeing it

everywhere. drummer, guitar player. >> we didn't plan it. we're trying to like our best. they look a little better than me. >> what are you going to sing now? >> i call it "gone"! >> ladies and gentlemen, philip philips. ♪ when life leaves you high and dry, i'll be at your door tonight if you need help, if you need help ♪ ♪ i'll shut -- make you well, to make you well ♪ ♪ i'll carry you away for more, if you need help, if you need help ♪ ♪ your hope dangling by a string, i'll share in your suffering, to make you well, to make you well ♪ ♪ give me reasons to believe that you would do the same for

me ♪ ♪ and i will do it for you ♪ for you ♪ baby i'm not i'm going to love you long after you're gone ♪ ♪ you will never sleep alone, it will all after your gone, gone, gone ♪ ♪ and when you fall like a stat tu i'm going to be there to catch you, put you on your feet, you on your feet ♪ ♪ and if you -- not a thing will prevent me, tell me what you need, what do you need ♪ ♪ i surrender all these things, you always's have done the same for me ♪ ♪ so i will do it for you, for you ♪ ♪ baby, i'm not moving on. i love you long after you're gone ♪

for you ♪ ♪ for you ♪ you'll never sleen alone, i'll love you long after your gone, gone, gone. you're my backbone, cornerstone, my crutch ♪ ♪ you're my head start, you're my loving heart, you're the air that i'm always breathing ♪ ♪ like a drum, baby, don't stop beating ♪ ♪ like a drum, baby, don't stop beating ♪ ♪ for you, for you ♪ baby, i'm not moving on ♪ i'll love you long after you're gone ♪ ♪ for you, you never sleep alone, i'll love you long after you're gone ♪ ♪ for you, for you ♪ baby, i'm not moving on, i'll

love you long after you're gone ♪ ♪ for you, for you ♪ you will never sleep alone, i'll love you long, long after you're gone ♪ ♪ like a drum, baby, don't stop beating ♪ ♪ like, a drum baby, don't stop beating ♪ ♪ like a drum, my heart never stops beating for you ♪ ♪ long after you're gone, gone, gone ♪ ♪ i'll love you long after you're gone, gone, gone ♪ [ applause ] >> philips philips. he'll be back with more music, but first, this is "today" on nbc

♪ for you, for you >> a bit more music coming up in just a little bit. >> more music coming up. this is philip philips. when it comes right down to the supreme court decisions to the situation with nelson mandela in south africa including the high wire act that you covered. >> and your interview with paula

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welcome to today on this phillip phillips morning, june 28th, 2014. the crowd just enjoying a concert from the former american idol winner and we'll have another song from phillip phillips just a little later on. i'm al roker with natalie morales and carson daly. it's been terrific having you here this week. >> it's been a blast for me to be here. i feel like i'm in the wil welcome to today on this phillip phillips morning, june 28th, 2014. the crowd just enjoying a concert from the former american idol winner and we'll have another song from phillip phillips jus