>> more coming up at 11:00 for you. we'll have much more news for you as well as your weather. thanks for starting your wednesday morning with us. we'll see you back here tomorrow. have a great day. (música). good morning. breaking overnight. roaring ashore. tropical storm gordon makes landfall and turns deadly. the gulf coast lashed with high winds and heavy rain. >> seriously, we've got to get out of here. >> yeah, i know. >> this morning tens of thousands without power. millions facing a major flood threat. straight ahead, al on where this storm is headed. something to fear? overnight the president on a tear trying to control the damage from an explosive new book, the legendary reporter who broke watergate bob woodward with an insider's account of the trump white house. the extraordinary lengths ep he says senior officials go to,

to save the country from disaster. chaos on capitol hill. a combative start for brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination hearings. >> get a grip, and treat this process with the respect and gravity it demands. >> a new round of fireworks expected today. democrats zeroing in on everything from guns to abortion. we're there live. those stories plus fbi under fire. the criminal investigation over its handling of the usa gymnastic sex abuse scandal. "today" exclusive. the daughter of apple founder steve jobs getting very candid about their complicated relationship. she's with us live in studio 1a. and broadway bound -- the huge star getting ready to join the cast of the hit show "waitress" will join us for a big reveal today wednesday, september 5, 2018. >> announcer: from nbc news,

this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hi, everybody. good morning. so nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. i can't wait to break this broadway news. "waitress" one of the most popular musicals on broadway right now, i was shocked when i heard who is going to be starring in it now. >> that person is going to be revealed in our studio. you're going to want to stick around for this one. it's a goody. >> it s. it's a goody. >> we've got to get to the news. breaking news overnight. gordon is here and pushing inland. after striking the gulf coast overnight just shy of hurricane strength. the dangers to tens of millions and it's far from over. al in a moment but let's start with tammy leitner in fairhope along the alabama gulf coast. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. alabama has been getting pummeled all morning and a state of emergency declared in alabama

along with mississippi. one person killed in pensacola. a child. that was a direct result of gordon. this morning gordon downgraded to a tropical depression after packing powerful winds and drenching rains from florida to louisiana. officials reporting power outages and flooding from the storm surge. >> seriously, we've got to get out of here. >> yeah, i know. >> reporter: the national hurricane center reporting gordon made landfall just west of the alabama-mississippi border, calling the storm system life threatening. maximum sustained winds reaching 70 miles per hour, just shy of the 74 mile-per-hour requirement to be classified as a hurricane. >> if you didn't know better, you would believe this was a hurricane. >> reporter: the fast-moving storm hurling high winds and heavy rain. a local reporter warning

residents to stay indoors. >> if you continue to have to go outside, don't. obviously these are the kind of conditions that we're dealing with. >> reporter: this morning officials are assessing the damage. expecting rain through thursday, up to eight inches of rain and, of course, along with that comes the danger of flash flooding. so they're keeping an eye on that. >> tammy, thank you. the question, of course, is where is gordon going? for that we need to turn to al roker with the track. hey, al. >> guys, good morning. we're watching this system now that it's come onshore. it is still a tropical storm. probably get downgraded in the next few hours. 20 miles northwest of hattiesburg, 40-mile-an-hour winds, moving northwest at 14 miles per hour. still keeping a pretty good clip. we watch it continually make its way inland by thursday -- i should say saturday afternoon, it's going to be right along the arkansas-mississippi border. we watch this thing, gordon with

4 million people under flash flood watch. right along the coast, but some of these feeder bands could be dropping up to two inches of rain per hour. locally five to eight-inches stretching from pensacola all the way into arkansas as we get on into the middle of the week. this system is going to eventually interact with another system and bring it further inland. meantime winds are dying down but rain is a big problem, guys. >> all right. thanks, al. >> thank you, al. now to washington. the new tell-all book sending shock waves through the capital and beyond, legendary bob woodward, painting a harrowing picture of the white house with insider accounts from white house officials there. this morning the president is pushing back hard. we've got it all covered. we'll start at the white house. nbc's kristen welker is there. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: hi, savannah. good morning to you. bob woodward's bombshell book is rocking the white house this morning. nbc news a choired a copy of "fear" from a source. woodward tells nbc news he stands by his reporting in the face of an all-out assault by

the president and his top aides. bob woodward's explosive new book has not even hit store shelves yet but overnight trump lashing out at the veteran journalist. they have already refuted facts. their quotes were made up frauds, a con on the public. notice timing? the president's allies also taking aim overnight. >> the people who have the greatest standard for honesty are standing up and saying this book is not true. >> woodward's book called "fear" portrays trump's presidency in the midst of a nervous breakdown. in one alarming excerpt, mr. trump proposed sending a tweet declaring he was ordering all u.s. military dependents out of south korea. defense secretary james mattis reportedly warning the president that the u.s. remains in the region, "in order to appreciate world war iii." in another incident he told

mattis he wanted to assassinate bashar al assad after a 2017 chemical attack on his own people. mattis later telling aides, we're float going to do any of that. we're going to be much more measured. among the books more explosive claims, describes a white house paralyzed by the special counsel's russia investigation. the president reportedly saying ar robert mueller's appointment, everybody is trying to get me. woodward writes the president's one-time attorney john dowd so convinced mr. trump would commit perjury, dowd staged a mock interview last february and went so poorly, he told trump, don't testify. it's either that or an orange jumpsuit. mr. trump m's insisting he's in charge of the presidency. >> this administration is running like a fine tuned machine. >> reporter: woodward unveils dysfunctional white house, crazy town by john kelly, former aide rob porter removed papers from trump's desk to prevent him from

taking action on controversial policies they consider dangerous. the book confirms chief of staff john kelly called trump an idiot in an account first reported by nbc news. kelly calling the accusation b.s. and another pathetic attempt to smear people close to trump and distract from the administration's many successes. woodward also writes defense secretary mattis said trump had the understanding of a fifth or sixth-grader. mattis dismissing the account as a product of someone's rich imagination. woodward says his multiple request to talk to the president about the book went unanswered. the president initially claiming nobody ever told him about it in a phone call last month with woodward. >> i certainly don't mind talking to you, and i wish i could have spoken to you. but nobody called my office. >> senator graham said he had talked to you about talking to me. now, is that not true? >> senator graham actually mentioned it quickly on one meeting.

>> yes, well, see -- >> that is true. that is true. >> reporter: woodward with a little fact check on the president there, and this morning, a new development on a possible presidential interview with special counsel. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc mueller's latest proposal would allow the president to provide written responses to some questions. while there's no final agreement, the source tells me talks are moving in a positive direction. no comment from the special counsel's office or the president's office on this. >> thank you. >> bring in chuck todd on this. tell us how worried do you think the white house is about this book? >> i think they're worried more for what it means for finger pointing internally. i think they're worried, oh, my god, what did i say to bob woodward? what does the president think i said to bd bd? bob woodward? >> did everybody talk to bob woodward. >> that's what it looks like to me. the fear -- maybe misplaced fear, maybe the fear should be the larger issues of is this any

way to run the government. inside that white house right now it is finger pointing central. it's been that way for a while. you go back to the omarosa and her tapes. the lack of trust has already been there. this book -- i don't know how this white house is going to operate in a normal way when you think everybody around you is leaking. >> that leads to my next question. i mean, would you anticipate that some folks may be leaving the white house now? we have seen this movie before. i mean, don mcgahn, white house counsel. revealed he gave 30 hours of testimony to special counsel. three weeks later, he's out. supposedly under circumstances that were already planned for. >> they're always planned for. >> same goes on and on. people like jim mattis, john kelly, are they going to be around, who denied the stuff in the book. >> denied the stuff in the book. it is largely similar to stuff we on this network have been reporting for quite sometime. so, okay, on that front. but, look -- history says they are going to

be out. the president has this -- will have this distrust and it won't go away, but who do you replace them with? if everybody is leaving, jeff sessions is supposedly going to leave. where are they going to get people to replace these folks. to me interesting thing about this book, conservative point on trumper. to all you never trumpers out there, maybe there was a good reason to go into the white house and be a guardrail. say what you will about whether these people are enablers or not, at least if according to the woodward book, mattis, kelly, all those moments stopped the president from doing something crazy. >> it will be interesting to see how it lands and whether people are affected by what's written there. >> i don't know if outside of washington this is anything more than, oh, yeah, another crazy story involving the white house. i don't know if it penetrates that much outside of our bubbles. >> all right. we'll see. chuck, thank you. meantime, the president's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is returning to the hot seat on capitol hill this morning.

it was a contentious start to his confirmation hearings yesterday marked by delays, interruptions and outbursts. nbc correspondent hallie jackson on the hill with the latest. hallie, good morning. >> reporter: hi, savannah. good morning to you. day two may be more dramatic than day one. the live hearing happening now on capitol hill. already today there had been multiple interruptions by protesters. judge brett kavanaugh facing direct questions from senators for the first time. you see him there. interestingly already seems to be preemptively going after a line of questioning we expect from democrats on presidential powers saying this morning, no one is above the law. kavanaugh practiced for this moment, met with some senators privately but today it's playing out in front of cameras and in front of the country. new protests outside the supreme court. >> get out there! stop kavanaugh! >> reporter: after a day of them

inside the capitol. day two of brett kavanaugh's confirmation now following a chaotic contentious day one. the hearing had barely begun before democrats demanded it stop. >> we cannot possibly move forward. >> reporter: decrying what they see as a last-minute document dump for records related to kavanaugh's work in the george w. bush administration. >> we would hire an intern, sir, with 90% of their resume, we're putting somebody on the supreme court. >> reporter: multiple sources tell nbc news that was a coordinated sfrat ed strategy, republicans condemned. >> if you want to pick judges from your way of thinking you better win an election. >> reporter: the extraordinary exchanges. >> this is not a normal confirmation hearing. >> reporter: punctuated with questions about presidential powers. >> is this president or any president above the law? >> reporter: also expected to be part of today's questioning, key abortion rights and gun rights rulings with senator dianne feinstein inviting the father of

parkland school shooting jamie guttenberg. he said he tried to introduce himself to kavanaugh but was rebuffed. the white house says kavanaugh didn't know who he was and security intervened. the judge in opening remarks painting himself as an umpire of the law. >> i'm not a pro prosecution or pro defense judge. i am a pro law judge. >> reporter: hits family sat behind him, including his two young daughters leading to this emotional moment. >> i thank god every day for my family. >> reporter: ar for timeline, today is expected to be a long day expected to be 12 hours meaning get out of there around 9:00 tonight. hearings wrapping up by friday with a confirmation vote happening by the end of the month. sav, back to you. >> hallie jackson, in the room where it's happening today. thank you. and craig is with us with another story. >> facebook and twitter expected

to get their own grilling today. twitter ceo jack dorsey and facebook sheryl sandberg will talk about what they are doing to keep foreign agents from interfering in upcoming midterm elections. the executives are expected to call on the government to step up its intelligence sharing efforts. according to her prepared remarks sandberg said they don't have all the investigative tools the government has. as for president trump's recent accusations that twitter and other social platforms are silencing conservatives, dorsey plan to tell lawmakers that "twit sder not twitter does not use political ideology to make decisions." >> now what the primary is about. >> we won! >> yes! >> boston city counselor i pressley won over michael capuano. the results were what they were.

republican on the ballot in the fall. pressley is almost assured are becoming the state's first black congresswoman, turning back to mr. roker's forecast. what do you have for us? >> a quick look. gordon, our tropical system pushing through. the "today" map shows strong storms making their way through the upper midwest. looking at sunshine through the western plains out into the west and, of course, heavy rain through the southern gulf. we're going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. forecast, coming up in the next 30 seconds. anything. even "vengeful vermin." not so cute when they're angry. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪

good wednesday morning. that warming trend gets underway at the end of the week. 94 degrees on friday and hot on saturday. it does cool off early next week. san francisco more clouds than fog. drizzle for a little while today. up to 70 with less clouds for friday into saturday. all right. thank you. >> coming up the fbi under fire. there is now a criminal investigation into the agency's response to the u.s.a. g gymnastics scandal. ter of steve opening up about her very revealing new memoir about her childhood. she will be right here for an exclusive live interview. but first, this is a today" on nbc. for her fst

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7: 7:30 on this wednesday morning, september 5th. the eve of the new nfl season. the music kicks off tomorrow night right here on nbc with the reigning super bowl champion. savannah, please say it. >> eagles! >> hosting the atlanta falcons. guess who will be live in philly tomorrow? al roker and janelle jones. you guys are going to celebrate in a big way. >> comcast plaza. we're doing tailgating. >> football night in america? >> it's thursday night football night in america. eagles/falcons, finished my fantasy football draft last

night. favorite time of the year. >> and you know what it coincides with? >> what? >> every kid is back in school. >> yes! >> i know. parents -- >> feeling good. all righty. looking forward to tomorrow, mr. r on oker. thank you. let's get a check off today's headlines right now. tropical storm gordon making landfall just west of the alabama/mississippi border slamming the gulf coast can powerful winds and drenching rain. the national hurricane sensor says the storm carries the same winds reaching 70 miles per hour. that's just shy of the 74 miles per hour requirement to be classified as a hurricane. forecasters say remnants of gold gordon could cause flash flooding across seven states in breaking days. british prosecutors have charged two russian men with the nerve agent poisoning of ex spy sergei scrippel. the men are charged with conspiracy to murder and attempted murder. prosecutors are not asking

moscow to extradite the men because russian law forbids extradition of its country's citizens. they have blamed the russian government for the poisoning. moscow denies. former senator john kyl has been selected to succeed john mccain. he said he expected the 76-year-old to hit the ground running. kyl would likely be sworn in later today. he has agreed to serve at least through the end of the year. and also this morning, a disturbing new development in the usa gymnastics sex abuse scandal. and the question this morning, did the fbi drop the ball on the investigation? nbc's kristin dahlgren is here with that. good morning. >> good morning, guys. the justice department is now launching an investigation into how the fbi handled allegations against former team doctor larry nassar. at issue, why the agency took the better part of a year before investigating complaints. the fbi a's role in the larry nassar case being called into question this morning.

a department of justice official telling nbc news the department's inspector general's office has opened a criminal investigation into the agency's response to the sexual abuse allegations against nassar. the former u.s. gymnastics team doctor accused of abusing hundreds of young athlete sess behind bars for life. the probe is looking into why it took the fbi at least nine months to open a formal investigation after usa gymnastics first reported the athletes a' allegations in july of 2016. >> when there is an accusation of child sexual abuse, the fbi is there. i mean, they are investigating. that is a very serious crime. and you're dealing with the nation's highest level gymnasts and nothing is done. >> a source familiar with the matter confirming to nbc news that former olympic gold medalist michaela maroney, a member of the fierce five, has

been interviewed as part of the latest investigation. maroney first spoke with an agent by phone in september 2015 about her interactions with nassar. she told savannah last april, seven months passed before she heard from the fbi again. >> were you wondering, hey, how come the fbi.hasn't contacted us? >> yes. what is going on here. why are things stalling. >> the just department investigation comes after a fbi launched an internal review of the matter. one former fbi agent saying earlier this year, the agency dropped the ball. >> all i can tell you is based on my professional experience is that what we saw tran expire here is not consistent with conducting an investigation of allegations of this magnitude. >> the probe comes as usa gymnastics struggled to regain its footing. its new president and ceo carrie perry resigning under pressure this week just days after the u.s. olympic committee questioned whether she could leave the sport beyond the sex

abuse scandal. in a statement, usa gymnastics saying they're now searching for a replacement, saying the safety of our athletes remains at the heart of our mission. >> these gymnasts have been failed on so many levels. now the accusation that the fbi was slow walking the investigation somehow. so what is the next step? are they cleaning out at usa gymnastics? >> the calls for that are growing. just last week, this is a organization who promoted a coach who was a nassar defender. some say that shows the culture hasn't changed. >> mr. roker, a little friend of yours named gordon has roared ashore. what's going on? >> that's right. he's going be interact, mr. cold front in just a little bit. we can see showers and thunderstorms stretching from the great lakes down into kansas. and this system is going to be a slow mover, a concern for flash

flooding rounds the rain through the day and here come the remnants of gordon interacting with this system. so all this tropical moisture will be streaming north. this front will move slowly to the south. so we're going to be looking at flash flood watches stretching from kansas all the way to michigan. heavy rain on already saturated soils. look at this. we're looking at anywhere from 2 to 3 inches of rain all the way from kansas up into michigan and parts of illinois and indiana, as good morning. low 60s at half-moon bay. we keep clouds there and along the coast. inland areas start to warm up. today this oakland 72 degrees. upper 80s for antioch and concord. it is 88 in morgan hill. high of 82 and 83 in napa.

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personal, his daughter lisa jobs. we'll talk to her in a moment. but first, lisa's complicated relationship with her father. >> we are calling it iphone. >> steve jobs was the man who introduced life changing technology to the masses. a tight-lipped tech genius with endless ambition. >> i don't have a daughter named lisa. >> those who have seen the 2015 film steve jobs know jobs daughter, lisa brennan jobs, as a young girl desperate for validation from a father who appeared dismissive. >> you knew what i was going through and you didn't do anything about it. >> steve jobs was 23 when he met his oldest daughter days after she was born to his former girlfriend chris ann brennan. brennan-jobs said her father help name her but for years and despite a dna test proving he was her dad, he denied that. later he repeatedly refused to confirm that an early version of an apple computer called lisa was named after her. >> nothing was named after anybody. it's a coincidence. >> in her new memoir "small fry"

brennan-jobs shares her perspective to life with a father who could be cruel to moments of shared joy on the piano or roller skates. she describes a largely unstable childhood. at 14 she moved in with her father and growing family, though he had one condition. she could not see her mother for six months. brennan-jobs described that time as lonely but sprinkled with moments of joy and belonging, painting a very complicated picture of her relationship with a man she just called steve. lisa brennan-jobs joins us now. again, her memoir is called "small fry." hi, lisa, good morning. >> good morning. >> father-daughter relationships we know are very complicated. yours kind of is no exception. when i was reading this book, i have to tell you, i felt your pain as a little girl. i was thinking it's hard to read parts of it. it must have been so hard to put this on paper. was it? how was that part of it? >> it took a long time.

i think it was in some ways cathartic and joyful to go back and spend time with my young parents. they were younger than i am now, so it was nice to do that. there is this really famous person in the story. but i think in many ways, this coming of age story about a girl growing up in california in the '80s and '90s is also -- it's also a universal story. i think it's easy to forget, because there's distraction of this famous person. but we all have complexity in our lives. >> i was struck by so much of it. some of it was hard to read. i felt there was extreme cruelty in certain parts of your life. there was a scene, i'm just thinking of a couple of things, where your mom was on the phone. you were just a little girl. she was begging your dad for money, like sobbing and begging. you as a little girl walk up and take the phone from her and said, just give her some money,

okay, and hang up the phone. i was thinking about what that little girl must have been feeling in those moments knowing those things. what were you thinking then? what do you remember? >> so i remember -- that actually i talked with my aunt, and i also talked with my mother. my aunt was the one that witnessed that scene. i don't particularly remember that, as i talk about in the book. but i wonder -- but moments like that. i think i was kind of a tough little scrappy soul. i think sometimes you save things from your past that you don't quite understand. they are like little boxes and you preserve them for later when you can unwrap them and try to understand what they meant. i think this whole book was a way to understand. >> did the little girl like her dad? hate her dad? the little girl that we're describing. because there's another scene in there where your mother says to

your dad, hi, we need a house, could you get us a house. he says, yeah, i'll get a house and he gets it for himself. there were other scenes where i was literally reading it and i was like, ouch, if that were me, i can't imagine what i would be feeling in the moment. >> what was the first one you said? >> about the house or denying paternity, any of the specifics. >> i think some of the stories were really difficult. you were asking what the little girl felt about this man. i imagine -- i remember feeling just profound love and admiration, because he did have -- we did have joyful, tender, dear moments together. he made the decision to come back and get to know me after he hadn't really been around when i was younger. also i must have felt so confused and angry. i bet it was some combination of these things. yeah. >> tell me, what was the most

loving thing your father ever did for you? >> i think that -- josh, you know, i was going to say coming back to get to know me after he hadn't been around when i was little but i also wanted to say one day he came to a performance that my boyfriend was in a play. it was freezing cold. he didn't have a sweater. only he and i can know how cold that night was. he didn't complain. he sat through the whole thing because he knew how important it was to me. >> at the end, he was dying. >> yeah. >> you were at his bedside. a lot was being made when he said something to you like, you smell like a toilet. i read that, and i said, what could that have been? was that a cruel statement, do you think, or was that his personality? what were you doing there? >> i have to answer your question, which was at the very end, he was so apologetic about the times we had missed together. he kept on saying -- the thing he kept on saying is, i owe you

one, and i'm so sorry. >> did you forgive him? >> i think not at the time. i felt a little bit paralyzed. >> do you now? do you forgive him now? >> in many ways, yes. i understand him more and understand myself more. but the toilet -- i have to be clear about the toilet phrase. i think things have been made of that. i really did, i explained in the book i was spraying myself with natural "rosewater" that was turning over and over. so even though it wasn't particularly a nice phrase, it was actually true. it was a true phrase. >> the day your dad passed, what did you lose that day? >> well, that's a personal thing. i lost the chance to add more friendship with him, which is what i told him in the book is that i wished that we had had more time together. i think he wished that, too. we did like each other. when we spent time together and

we got along, it was kind of great. so i wish there had been more time. >> it's such a complicated book. i just want to read what some members of your family, i guess, weren't so fond of the book. this was written, lisa is part of our family. so it is with great sadness that we read her book, which differs dramatically from our memories of those times. the portrayal of steve is not the husband and father we know. >> so i was thinking about it. i've been written about since i was 3 years old. there was the article in "time" magazine. there have been books and movies since. so i know it can be really difficult to read about your own life and your own experience, a slice of it, in someone else's words. it can be hurtful. when i was thinking about writing this book, i realized that i believe people have the right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can. so in this case, you know, this book is -- it's about so much

more than my father. although, of course, it involves my complicated family. it's also a coming of age story about me. if you're going to read the 400 pages, have you to you can about emup for also whispering in libraries and adolescent angst and all that. >> lisa, i know it wasn't easy to share your story, we appreciate it. the book is called "small fry." you can find more about it on today.com. jon stewart stepping sboot jon stewart stepping sboot spotlight for ♪ ♪ ♪

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we'll cool it down a few degrees early next week. let's get an update on the commute now. i saw some folks really slowing down. it cleared up over the last two minutes. the bay bridge that has fast track lanes backed up. looking at the pleasant drive. 880 right here continues to be a problem. this time it's in the northbound side. a crash clearing to the shoulder. you're clearing once you head towards the san mateo bridge. north 101 recovers. back to you. >> all right. thanks. they expect to lose wreckage of a small plane that crashed fleer the palo alto airplane. the two passengers were badly hurt. toyota plans to recall about 1 million vehicles including the prius hybrid.

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it's 8:00 on coming up, breaking news. overnight. tropical storm gordon making land fall. one person has died. >> seriously, we got to get out of here. >> i know. >> the storm bringing fierce winds and drenching rain this morning. where is it headed next? live on the scene. >> plus, passion project. john stuart returns to the spotlight for a special cause close to his heart. live with two 9/11 first responders and an important message about health care and heros. and jack of all trades. stops by 1-a to talk about his

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>> freedom day. >> right to the news at 8:00. gordon turning deadly overnight. came ashore on the gulf coast. florida girl killed when tree fell on mobile home. tammy lightener in alabama. has the latest on this storm's destructive power. tammy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the storm was so powerful. state of emergency declared here in alabama and louisiana and mississippi. now, it pummelled the gulf coast overnight. it made landfall on the alabama/mississippi border. rain reached, wind reached 70 miles an hour. just shy of the 75-mile-an-hour cutoff of what is needed to officially becially be declared hurricane. nonetheless, they are calling this a life-threatening storm. it's soaked from florida to

louisiana, and that storm surge caused severe power outages. tens of thousands of people lost power. there was severe flooding. there were tornado warnings from alabama to florida panhandle. and if you come back out here live where i am, you can see it is still raining. this rain has been consistent. this is what people are going to be dealing with until thursday. rain and lots of rain, up to eight inches. of course, with that rain comes the threat of flash flooding. so they have that to look out for also. savannah, back to you. >> all right, tammy, thank you. the storm sheis heading north. we'll have more with al in a bit. president trump is fiercely fighting back about a book by journalist bob woodward that portrays him as unstable, vindictive, a leader that is in way over his head. kristen is with us this morning. hey, kristen, good morning. >> good morning. that book titled "fear" has not

hit store shelves yet but it's already rocking this white house. nbc acquired a copy from a source and it paints a dire picture from a president in the midst of what one calls an alarming breakdown. president trump sent a tweet saying he was ordering all military out of south korea which would hint that we were headed for war. reince priebus kept him from starting world war iii. the president said their quotes were made-up frauds, the president claiming no one, including top aide kellyanne conway, ever told him about the book in a phone call last month with woodward. >> i'll speak to kellyanne. i'm a little surprised she wouldn't have told me. she just walked in. i'm talking to bob woodward, he said he told you about the book. but you never told me. why didn't you tell me? i would have been very happy to

speak to him. all right, what are you going to do. >> reporter: in a tweet this morning, someone writing, isn't it a shame that someone with write an article or book, totally make up stories and form a picture of a person that is literally the exact opposite of the fact. woodward tells nbc news he stands by his reporting. hoda? >> and bob woodward will be here. he'll join us for his first live interview. we'll talk about his book monday on "today." he said he taped many of the folks that he talked to. >> it will be a fascinating interview, that one. meanwhile, terrorism is expected in an explosion that was caught on camera outside the u.s. embassy in cairo. a man seen walking outside the embassy's protective walls on tuesday, you can see him there, they said that man had explosive chemicals in his backpack. they said the chemicals started to smoke and then blow up, sending the man flying to the ground. he was not hurt but he is under arrest this morning. security officials say the 24-year-old egyptian is an

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issue for country's heros. rushed to ground zero on 9/11. help treat those in need in the aftermath of terrorist attacks. 17 years later, the battle over paying for their health care is back in the spotlight. comedian john stuart has long championed this cause, starting with very first daily show after 9/11. ters, policeman, people from all over the country literally with buckets rebuilding, that -- that is -- that's extraordinary. and that's why we've already won. >> jon stewart is here along with two men who rushed in to help on 9/11. an advocate for first responder rights and richard, former deputy chief of fdny. gentlemen, good morning, good to have you here. >> thank you for having me. >> i remember when that

happened. seven teen years passed and you're still fighting for the same thing. >> and i can't believe i look exactly the same. it's like i'm preserved in amber. >> it is. i want to get your face cream later when we go to commercial. >> i feel like i've been put through a meat dehydrator. what happened? >> you were youthful then, you're youthful now and i know you have energy for this fight. what do these first responders need? >> i've known rich and john for many years, john through feel good foundation and rich through the fire department. these guys were instrumental in lobbying to get this passed which brought health care to first responders, survivors and victims. unfortunately we just passed a horrible milestone, which is over 10,000 cancer cases, 9/11 cancer related cases. john has a park in long island, a really beautiful tribute to the first responders and to others, and he's adding names

every year. this year i think 106? >> >> every year. we're losing more and more you know, everybody has been to more funerals than they know who to do with. >> for those who think it's a memory and something fading into the past, you were there. you rushed in. you were told the air was safe to breathe and it wasn't. >> everyone in the community. most people just need to build it down that day. innocent lives lost to senseless violence. so many moving parts since then. tens of thousands of people paying with their health because of the aftermath of 9/11. i don't think the lives really change anything. i think we still would have got sick anyway. we weren't given the proper

protection, but it took ten years to get a bill passed. another five years to get it reneweded and now it's going to expire in 2020. we have another fight with congress to get the conversation act renewed. the bill is going to run out of money. rich, myself and others who were sick and many who took to d.c. with us in this previous years were no longer here. i'm going to ask sick men and women to walk the halls of thousands of people. >> just so people understand, you could be a first responder from 9/11 showing no symptoms and show tomorrow turn up have a case turn up of cancer. it's the lag period. so the need is still present. >> absolutely. not a week goes by where we don't lose someone from the community. fire department has lost 183 members post 9/11. in my retirement year, now i

work for a law firm. we handle victim's compensation fund claims. what i've been exposed to now is the survivor community. i was only representing first responders lobbying with john field. there's office workers, teachers, students, represent over 2,000 students, kids that were 10, 11 years old on 9/11. they move on with their life, go to college, relocate. come down with cancer. women with breast cancer. unpress dencedent instead the population. >> you were always an advocate on your show. you made us laugh and you also made us think. do you miss having that platform every day. >> no. i think working with john, working with rich, ray pfeiffer, all the guys down the hall. sometimes there's a great satisfaction. i love doing the show. i loved being a part of it. there's also a great satisfaction of being with a team, working on something,

getting your hands dirty a little bit and really being able to work with people on an individual basis as opposed to sort of you know, shout into the camera sometimes and you can feel a little helpless. sometimes when you do it on the ground, and these guys they're relentless in their advocacy. they have to be. the resistance down in washington was astonishing. and it was -- they had to walk through walls to get this done and it continues to this day. you know, the gestation period for other diseases like mez t o theo me what these guys were exposed to is stunning. >> i've got to go. i look at you. i look at your eyes. i do see a tear. is it because you're still having to fight or is it because of all that has been lost.

>> you know, i've been to 181 funerals. it's every day. it's not just because the anniversary is coming. so many of my friends who i walk the halls of congress with are dead. it's only going to get worse. people ask me the most common question i get. do you think we would have got the bill passed without john. i like to think we would have. i don't think i want to test that theory. i think we're going to have to go to john one more time, the yankees had a great closer. john will be up again. tens of thousands of people across the country are sick in 9/11. it's not just a new york issue. people are sick and dying and there's a deadline coming. i'm telling congress today i'm coming. i'll be wearing bells and probably wind up punching them in the how much. >> we know you to be very brave. you've been brave every day

since 9/11. thank you to your service. john, thanks for being here. appreciate it. head over to al now and get a check on the weather. we have the latest on gordon, now down to tropical it's moving northwest at 14. it will continue to track to the west and make a turn towards the north. move into saturday. rainfall amounts generally 5-8 inches likely down through the arkansas area. it's also going to interact with another front. could see 2-4 inches of rain

from kansas all the way to good morning. i'm kari hall. it is probably one of the most comfortable days of the week. temperatures are getting ready to heat up. by friday up to 94 degrees. it starts to come down from there with cooler temperatures for the beginning of next week. in san francisco more clouds than fog. more sunshine for friday and saturday. we'll see the return of the marine layer and some thicker clouds and fog for early next week. that's your latest weather. >> thank you. turn to the power of the mind. imagine using hypnosis in place of general anesthesia during surgery or to treat certain diseases. as channel explains, it's happening and transforming modern medicine in a remarkable way. >> i feel the grass under my

feet and i can hear trees, wind in the trees. >> cindy is in her favorite happy place. >> three acres of nothing, but grass with trees around. it's very familiar. >> but that's only in her mind. cindy's body in an operating room having breast cancer surgery, but it's what she's not having that seems unbelievable. >> surgery without general anesthesia. which is crazy, but kind of wonderful. >> it's all part of ground breaking new study. new at houston md anderson cancer center. >> what we wanted to do is try something that no one has really tried before which is can we modify the anesthesia regimen during surgery. by combining hypnosis with just a local. >> doctor is the integrative medicine program's director. >> pain is felt in the brain.

so if there's a way to deactivate that part of the brain, then the person doesn't experience pain. >> patients in the trial with stage zero or one breast cancer are given only local anesthetic instead of the general anesthesia. incredibly patients like cindy who had a surgery are actually conscious during the surgery. guided to a state of deep relaxation by a hypnotherapist. >> the use of the imagination to allow yourself to be somewhere else. >> of course anesthesiologist is always ready to jump in if needed. so far in nearly 50 surgeries, that's only happened once. >> i think this is quite a remarkable thing that we're able to achieve here. >> this md anderson trial is still ongoing. hypnosis is already widely used to treat a variety of other ailments. gastrointestinal issues. >> notice the relaxation

traveling down to your chest. >> i do think it's helping. you're imagining going through some sort of space or some other environment whether it's a cabin in the woods or garden. >> to manage digestive problems, sara has hypnosis to compliment other treatments and lifestyle changes. >> by getting the brain to not worry or fear having symptoms, it opens up the door to be able to go out and live your life. there are a lot of people who are watching who have all sorts of issues. would you say if they were apprehensive, they should give it a try. >> i would definitely recommend it for people to try. there's no possible harm. why not try it. >> as for cindy kneel. several months after surgery. >> i am free of cancer at the moment. >> we hope forever. it's a happy ending. >> so now we see how hypnosis can be a really incredible tool for medicine. also a form of entertainment. that's what we're going to do. pivot to the lighter side of hypnosis and attempt a life

hypnosis right here in our studio. >> recruited al, jenna, dylan. and also recruited renown ee ee hiptist richard barker. hypnotist. >> i'm going to enter into subconscious mind and share their personalities. >> if you are a control freak and you think it's not going to happen, can you not get through to those people. >> here's the deal. what the mind believes it achieves. if you want to block it, you can and will block it. if you want to listen and be receptive and just go with the flow of what i say to be true will become true. >> what do you use this for, hypnosis. >> usually all the removing anxiety, fears, phobias, but also for entertainment. we use it to help people feel better by using laughter. >> how will they know when they're under. >> this is the trick, there's no

feeling of hypnosis. they will feel relaxed and following simple instructions and direction. >> and they have the taste of dog food in their mouth. >> really fascinated. it takes a few seconds. we're going to start the hypnosis now and then check in with them. >> we'll just watch richard do his thing and relax. >> why are we here and you're not. >> because. we don't want to bark like a dog. >> let's be quiet. >> first and foremost what hypnosis is guided relaxation. focus. so from this point forward i'm going to be asking you to focus on me. this is your chance to have a wonderful pourwer nap in your seat. if you want to have a deep sense of relaxrelaxization. listen to what i say. we are going to be able to collectively relax from this point forward. one thing i asked you to do is please get comfortable in your chair. put your feet on the floor. and get to the point or where

you're relax in your chair and follow the instructions that i'm about to give you. in a second, but not yet, i'm going to ask you to focus on fixed object this this room. could be any object of your choice. when you find the object stair at it at all times. every time your eyes are open, i'll be asking you to stair at the fixed point. look at on object in the room. please don't look at me. i'm going to be moving. >> we'll check in with subjects in a moment. look over here, john, you are getting very sleepy. you'll answer all of hoda's questions. i )m ...

the search for the driver that led officers through a high- speed chase earlier this morning -- continues. our crew caught part of it as it good morning. the search continues. our crew caught part of it as the chase was going through danville. the pickup truck was going northbound at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour. the chase did start in the south bay and chp tells us officers eventually called it off on 780 with the driver still on the run. i got a tweet from my friend rebecca. definitely was something that early risers heard about. you're looking at a mostly

normal commute. the problem continues to be 880. this is northbound. look how jammed it is. a crash right now blocks your two right lanes. the distraction from the southbound side. that is slow all the way down here. as things ease up focus going for 580. this is north of the coliseum. you can see it jamming up here. back to you. >> all right. more local news coming up for you in a half hour. we hope you join us then and at 11:00 for midday news.

it's 8:30, wednesday morocco. check out what we've got right there. hypnosis live on our air p dylan, jenna, al under the knife. >> i think it's working. we'll check in with them. we have a nice crowd outside. it's rowdy out here. >> do we have someone named lisa here? where are you? hello, lisa. lisa, you happen to know somebody here. who is your friend here? >> this very nice lady named hoda kotb. we didn't call her hoda, we call

her hody. >> she's not just your friend but sister. >> sorority sister. lisa went on to be president of everything because that's the kind of girl she is. >> you winter on to be the queen of everything. >> let me ask you this, why did hoda have the nickname boozer in college. >> i can't tell because she knows more -- worse things about me. >> have you guys seen each other in all these years. >> i did see her in new orleans when you were anchoring 25 years ago. >> is that insane? >> everybody in new orleans knew her. i asked her, does this bother you? she said, no, not at all. how are you. >> peru proud of your girl? >> i'm so proud of her. we all are. >> love you, lisa. >> we do that delta love. >> delta love. >> speaking of love, a guy we just love john krasinski. he made us laugh, won our hearts in "the office." now he's taking on an action role, a thrilling new series

called jack ryan. we're going to head inside with that man in a little bit. >> first al is too hypnotized to >> good morning. i'm kari hall. temperatures reaching into the upper 80s today. it will be cooler. overall a very nice day with hazy sunshine. in oakland expect a high of 72 and 79 in palo alto. it is 64 in san francisco. we will keep breezy winds and giving us slightly cooler temperatures today. it is about to heat up. by the end of the week we are up to 94 degrees and cooling down early next week. >> we have al, jenna, dylan,

volunteers from the plaza. almost 10 minutes they have been through this relaxation process richard has been putting them under. we're going to pick it up live in progress. >> every suggestion i give you becomes truth, truth becomes reality, listen and hear every word i say. from this point forward, just for the hypnotized volunteers in front of me right now, i want you to imagine with your eyes closed that you feel like small gold fish getting ready to swim around in a small gold fish bowl. use hands, legs, feet to swim around that bowl. keep your eyes closed. the more you imsomewhere the better you'll feel on three. swichling in a small gold fish bowl. imagine your self a gold fish, one, two, three. use your hands, face, feet, keep your eyes closed. hands, feet. relax, friend, keep your eyes closed. imsomewhering in the gold fish bowl. the more you feel the better you feel. >> use your hands, legs, face, and feet, taking a swim. taking a wonderful swim. using hands, legs, face, feet,

the better you feel. swimming around in the gold fish bowl. just relax and sleep. in a few moments i want you to realize, imagine as if you're watching your own private movie. in a few moments keep your eyes closed, understand and realize in a few moments you'll see the favorite movie playing. in a second when i reach three, it's a funny movie. it's funny movie on three. one, two, three. movie getting so noney. you can see how funny the movie. it's like cartoon characters hitting each other on the top of the head. is that funny? see how funny that is. it switches to sad movie. poor orphan boy, sad movie. it's making you so upset and so sad, making you tear up. it's such a sad movie. actually i want you to realize right now that that movie gets funnier and funnier. he's crying. funnier and funnier and funnier. just sleep and just relax. sleep and just relax. actually as you relax in the chair, the person i'm touching now, i want you to realize something. in a few moments when your eyes

open you're going to realize your name completely vanished from your memory banks. the more you try and remember your name, the more your name has completely failed and disappeared. one, two, three. brother, what's your name? >> i'm not sure. >> try and think of your imna. the more you try and think of it, the more it's gone. take a deep think of your name. >> i don't know. >> sleep and relax all the way down. for the hypnotized volunteers i want you to realize in a few seconds you've all become exotic animals by your sell. by exotic animal, exotic animal you might find in the zoo or on safari. the more you relax, embed the stance of the animal, the action, motion stances of that exotic animal with your eyes closed on three. one, two, three. becoming an exotic animal. the animals of your choice. >> elephant. >> the more the animal, the more you relax. freeze. wide awake. brother, what are you doing, man? take a seat.

what are you doing down there. >> happy birthday. take a seat right there. take a seat everybody. look at the hand real quick. you like to howl at the moon, don't you, al? >> i did. >> look at the hand, sleep. thinking, drifting, relaxing. in a few moments i want you to realize you've become world famous answer dancers. you'll hear this music in the studio. you'll be able to dance. the more you dance, the better you'll feel. you'll have all those dance moves. you'll be world famous dancers. hear a piece of music. one, two, three. when you hear the music you'll stand up and dance. one, two, three. the more you dance right there, the better you will feel. the better you feel, the deeper you go. keep dancing, keep dancing. the problem is with your foot you've got glue on your foot, glue on your foot. yours is stick now. >> can we wake them up? >> one, two, three, eyes wide

awake. >> hey, what are you doing? take a seat. take a seat. >> great dancing everybody. >> take a seat, peverybody. take a seat. just relax my friend. that's right. just like that, eyes closed. there you go. eyes open, al. welcome back. >> thank you. >> richard, could you tell who was under and who wasn't the whole time? >> most everybody. >> almost everybody. you know, very relaxed, almost gave it a little swim right there. >> the only thing that was really dramatic was when you said open your eyes, open your eyes and i couldn't. i couldn't open my eyes. >> my heart started racing prosecute of open your eyes and i couldn't. but i couldn't get into the dancing. >> could you ask -- what is your name? >> i'm mark. >> your name is what? >> i'm mark. >> you know what's interesting mark, it's gone. your disappeared from your memory bank. you won't remember.

>> what's your name? >> i don't know. >> it's your name. you know your name. >> i'll give you a clue, mark. it's mark. try it again. it's mark. open your eyes. try it. >> what's your name? >> i'm mark. >> hi, mark. >> how are you doing, sweetie? >> can you teach me this? >> i'm not kidding, you guys. >> our ladies in green over here, you seemed to be really into it. how did you feel right now? >> did you know you were dancing and being animals? >> do you remember being on the ground like an animal? >> no. was i doing anything else? >> no. >> richard, if you ran into park tonight at a steakhouse, would you have that power over him? >> i would probably get a dinner. >> mark, there was a point you were crying. he said sad movie, happy movie. >> no way. >> it was really wild. it's amazing. >> emotions become real. tears are real tears. >> let's be clear, you guys are not actors. nobody is punking us. >> not at all. >> jenna doesn't remember laughing with the movie. >> you did laugh.

>> when they said swim like a fish, you all were all doing it except for dylan and al. >> why didn't they get up and dance? they were the most resistant. >> it's really quick, lots more responsibilities, lots more on the mind. >> i could hear you talking. >> i was trying to not get into it. >> could you use this for evil, this ability? >> no comment. >> take up break. up next, someone else mesmerizing, john krasinski was swimming like a little gold fish. there he is. your name is john. when you awake you'll be interviewed on the "today" so. this is "today" on n. bc california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones, - (phone ringing) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. call or visit

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quiet place." now he's heading back to a cubicle as jack ryan. from the looks of things he won't be bind the deck for long. >> run the interrogation. you're the one that knows the financials. i need you there to make shuure you know what questions to ask? >> i can't go to yemen. >> why not? >> i'm an analyst. i don't interrogate people, i write reports. >> so that's going to make a doozy. get on the plane. >> on that plane you go. >> before we get to this, can we talk about that hypnosis thing? >> can we talk about how unfair it is to hypnotize people before an interview. i don't know if any of this is real. in ten minutes, remember when you barked? no, i don't, i was talking boult jack ryan. >> let's talk about jack ryan. this role was tayli tailor made

you. >> i talked to clancy when i was four. >> part of it you're at a desk, part action hero. tell us why you decided to do a tv deal. >> to me used it as tv, content, good storytelling wins out. whether tv, movie or streaming, i love this character. >> you really did your homework. you went to the cia. you saw the people who you were going to be dealing with. >> yes. >> there's you in the middle of it. >> yeah. >> what did you learn from it? >> probably one of the reasons i was so excited to do the part. i'm such a nerve, so excited to go there. i thought it was going to be the most boring question i had they would say, we're not allowed to talk about that. instead the most generous, giving, unbelievable people. not only about work in and out of the home, what it's like with their families, what it's like

to be in the cia and their family and kids, which was really moving. >> speaking of kids, you shot this. did you shoot all over the world? >> yes, we did. >> you know what john krasinski did every weekend, you went back to london. >> i got professional jet lag. >> to see your beautiful bride and your kids. >> that's right. >> a lot of people might say you know what, a long trip, a lot of hassle, why would i do that? >> nonnegotiable. my kids are everything to me, my wife is everything to me. a lot of people have lives where they are away from their kids. you have to make the effort. it's tiring but you have to do it. you just have to do it. >> speaking of your wife, she's starring in this movie, a movie that's getting so many accolades, "a quiet place." there was a moment where there was a screening. we judge a movie by the kind of reaction it gets right away at one of these screenings. describe that moment. >> for me, my wife said what's one thing you want to focus on

during this experience. if you think about what people think during the movie, it will be nerve-racking. i was like i hear about people clapping. people jumped out of their seats. my wife said oh, >> and it's getting oscar buzz. do you let your mind go there. >> no. no. in fact when you said it shl, i just hypnotized. that was my trigger. >> in one interview, you said something about a christmas reunion for the office. should we mark our calendar. >> for sure. it would never happen. i think that would be the best way to do it. uk version had a christmas special. that was cool to pick up and see where they've been, but not necessarily dive into a whole show. i would do whatever. that's my family. they were the beginning of this new life. >> you're having a great life. >> you can stream the entire

first season of jack ryan right now on amazon. coming up, another iconic character. 20 years of harry potter, but first, this is today on nbc.

we're back. okay. we have a magical milestone to tell you about. >> huge milestone. seems hard to believe. it's been 20 years since american audiences first fell in love with a boy wizard who lived in a space under the stairs. one thing is clear, harry potter still casting a spell on the imaginations everywhere. >> 20 years ago, america fell in love with the boy who lived. >> you're a wizard, harry. >> i'm a what? >> harry potter and his adventures at hog worth school

stole the hearts of a generation who as an adult are passing down their love of all things magic to the next. >> harry potter means so much to me. it made me love reading. >> it can span generations and skids and parents can all experience it together. >> i remember sitting on my broom floor as my mom red me the first book. >> without reading that pobook, have no idea what my life would be. >> every single book hit one of the best sellers list. sold in 80 languages worldwide. series span eight blockbuster mov movies.y broadway award winning play and a theme park. the franchise now worth $25 billion. >> i love magic. >> magic that has kids today putting down their phones and losing themselves in a world their parents loved too. reading a new generation of avid young readers. >> i never get board of hearing

you taught my children to love books. what's better. that's an incredible thing to hear. >> the story is timeless. it's a story of discovery, complexity and the good and evil in the world. and that's what gives it its power. >> evil in the darkest of times, but only remembers to turn on the light. >> all right. hold on to your swording hats. big news this morning. we are celebrating 20 years of magic with a huge harry potter contest. get ready. thanks to sponsors at psychologic, three lucky winners will receive round trip airfare and hotel stay. tickets to harry potter and including a photo op with the cast and guided tour of the harry potter mystery of magic exhibit. there is more. also there will be a lunch with

arthur levine. publisher of the books. box set of 20th anniversary books. gift card and a live performance on today to talk about all the fun you had. >> wow. >> on your magical trip. >> and entered today.com/harry potter and answer the question on your screen. just keep in mind you only have until saturday to get your entries in. up next, we are going to reveal and meet the mega star. huge strar joining the broadway cast of waitress. you don't want to miss this. first, this is today on nbc.

so popular, sara bareilles, the show has an announcement.

a really big star joining the cast. the star is born right lower, right now. >> are you ready? huge star, come on out. >> al roker. >> have some pie. >> you're going to broadway? >> i'm going to broadway. ladies and gentlemen, it's hard to believe, starting october 5th, i will be in "waitress," that's right, for six weeks. >> what? >> i'm going to be singing. but remember. >> singing? >> you can sing. >> beauty is in the pie of the beholder. >> how did this happen? >> welcome to my very first vocal lesson ever. >> i'm very nervous. this is my normal nervous and now i've got this nervous on top of it. i have less than one month to prepare for a pivotal role in the broadway musical "waitress."

not just one show. i'm going to be performing every day for six weeks. real people paying real money to watch me. >> i think as a singer, i'm a terrific weatherman. >> i have to get these tones sounding more melifluous. my vocal coach has a lot of work cut out for me. ♪ silver linings >> a little shouty. linings. >> but he believes in me. ♪ take it from an old man ♪ times just sand slipping past ♪ >> perfect. >> this is my big broadway shot, and i'm not throwing away my shot. >> he's going to leave at lot of people crying, yes. >> especially sara bareilles.

♪ honey hold out your hands and take it from an old man ♪ >> al. >> he has his work cut out for him. >> how did this come about? >> they called and asked. i don't know, for some reason i )m - -... shut this down. new this morning: contra costa county sheriff detectives say they )ve arrested two people who apparently tried to kidnap a woman. good morning. it's 8:56. sheriffs said they arrested two people that tried to kidnap a woman. the woman was walking towards the lafayette bart station and a dark colored sedan walked up next to her. they were wearing masks. she was able to get away. we are expecting more details on

how it happened a little later this morning. happening now some residents plan to meet again later today to talk about a recent surge in crime. it comes after thieves stole a car from a woman outside an apartment building for seniors. residents of the village want to beef up security. rob rs attacked the woman but she is expected to be okay. investigators hope to remove wreckage of a small plane that crashed yesterday. this plane crashed near pa palo alto yesterday. the passenger, mom and daughter traveling from were badly injured. plan to recall about 1 million vehicles includes the i prius high braid -- hybrid. we have more on nbcbayarea.com.

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