updates to come. >> and it's been a busy friday morning commute. >> it's busy. the bridges seem to be the hot spots. the bay bridge is a bit of a mess. >> that's what's happening "today in the bay." we're back in half an hour with a live local news update. >> have a great morning. good morning. bracing for impact. all eyes on robert mueller this morning. the nation's capital watches, waits, and wonders is this the day the special counsel delivers his report? the president speaking out just this morning. >> for two years we've gone through this nonsense. there's no obstruction. they'll say, oh, wait, tre was no collusion. that was a hoax. >> we are live at the white house with the waiting game. [ ing overnight. breaking overnight. a major airline cancels an order for dozens of boeing 737 max jets. just ahead the $5 billion hit to the company over these deadly crashes, and a stunning revelation about the key safety features left off the doomed planes because boeing charged

extra for them. figure skating scandal. a u.s. star accused of slashing a rival with her ice skate during practice at the world championships. the incident caught on camera, but does the video tell a different tale? those stories, plus high wire fall. the shocking moment just revealed. a tight rope stunt with a world famous family gone horribly wrong. survival story. "game of thrones" star emelia clark revealing a secret battle and two life-threatening health scares. and embracing the madness. the ncaa tournament underway with fantastic finishes, major upsets and a historic win for wofford. >> bullseye! fletcher mcgee is not human! >> another day of bracket busting drama today friday march 22nd, 2019. >> announcer: from nbc news this is "today" with savannah guthrie

and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everybody. welcome to "today" on a friday morning. hoda's got the morning off, and craig is just the happiest person we have here. >> a little bleary eyed this morning, but man was it worth it. i know you weren't able to stay up last night. i watched it from beginning to end and those wofford terriers didn't disappoint. seton hall put up a heck of a fight. solid squad. fun game to watch. >> this is why we love march madness. we'll have more just ahead. our top story, new comments from the president on the mueller's report and his feud with john mccain's family. we have two reports from the white house this morning. we'll start with nbc's kristen welker. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, the white house and washington bracing for the report by special counsel robert mueller, which could be released at any minute. the key question, was there collusion? the president departed moments ago for florida reiterating

there was no collusion and said it is up to the attorney general to determine how much gets released. the anticipation is building with special counsel robert mueller expected to turn over his report to the attorney general bill barr soon. this morning the president speaking out in a new interview on fox business. >> for two years we've gone through this nonsense because there's no collusion with russia. you know that better than anybody, and there's no obstruction.y oh, well, wait, there was no collusion. that was a hoax, but he obstructed in fighting against the hoax. >> reporter: on thursday the focus was on key players, barr and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein at the white house for unrelated meetings, and mueller seen driving himself to work. president trump sticking to his schedule and script thursday, but his campaign fund-raising off the moment overnight sending an e-mail again arguing no collusion after days of attacks on mueller's credibility earlier this week. >> i know that he's conflicted

and i know that his best friend is comey, who's a bad cop. >> reporter: it was the president's decision to fire former fbi director james comey that prompted the appointment of a special counsel. comey weighing in in a new op-ed thursday saying he has no idea what mueller will find, adding i hope that mr. trump is not impeached and removed from office. a significant portion of this country would see this a coup, still the former district attorney for sdny said the president's rhetoric has been effective at sewi isowing doubt telling chuck todd. >> it's been damaging because the president has the largest, loudest microphone on earth. he has these chess moves that you scratch your head at, but they seem to work. >> reporter: another big question we are looking at, could there be more indictments once the mueller report is released? those close to the president say they just don't think that's likely. remember, there are other investigations looming. now, also once mueller hands over his report to barr, barr has to read it and decide what

to do with it, whether to release it. a process that could take weeks, savannah and craig. >> there are also sealed indictments out there that will be unsealed at some point. there's a skirmish between the white house and capitol hill over jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and top adviser and personal messages. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: tensions mounting about that, savannah. the chairman of the house oversight committee elijah cummings is demanding more information from ivanka trump, jared kushner and other officials amid that new information that cummings says they used private messaging services like whatsapp for official white house business. cummings saying it actually raises security and federal records concerns. the white house saying it's reviewing that request. kushner's attorney pushing back. disputing the allegations. he says mr. kushner did follow the protocol. still, democrats are just crying foul this morning after candidate trump as you remember frequently attacked hillary clinton for her use of a private e-mail server leading those

chants of lock her up. savannah and craig? >> a lot of news at the white house this morning. thank you. the feud between president trump and john mccain's family is still going strong this morning, and that's despite growing calls for the president to let it go. nbc's chief white house correspondent hallie jackson is following this one. good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, craig, good morning to you. the president is definitely not letting it go, seeming to forget that he is the one who instigated these attacks over the weekend in the first place. now this morning there's new reaction from the late senator's family and from some republicans. >> overnight, president trump keeping up his repeated attacks on the late senator john mccain, this time on the fox business network. >> he was horrible what he did with repeal and replace. it was -- what he did to the republican party and to the nation and to sick people that could have had great health care was not good. so i'm not a fan of john mccain, and that's fine. >> but mr. president, he's dead. he can't punch back. i know you punch back. >> no.

i don't talk about it. people asked me the question. i didn't bring this up. you just brought it up. >> reporter: but it was president trump who reignited those attacks on mccain this past weekend, first on twitter, and then again unprompted at a military factory in ohio. tanks behind the president as a backdrop. >> and i gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president i had to approve. i don't care about this. i didn't get thank you. that's okay. >> reporter: but mccain's 2008 campaign manager rick davis speaking for the senator's family back in august did thank the white house. >> the combined efforts of the trump administration, the white house, we really thank them for coming together very quickly and pulling together all the federal resources. >> reporter: mccain's family not backing down from the fight, but admitting it's still taking a toll. >> i don't like coming here every day and having to do this as all of you know. it's extremely emotionally exhausting. >> mccain's youngest daughter bridget never wanted to seek the

spotlight tweeting at the president everyone doesn't have to agree with my dad or like him, but i do ask you to be decent and respectful. it's not just the mccain family speaking out. republican congressman dan crenshaw, a former navy s.e.a.l. who lost his eye fighting in afghanistan tweeting this simple message, mr. president, seriously, stop talking about senator mccain. >> hallie, besides congressman crenshaw there, any other lawmaker personally confronted the president about his attacks on john mccain? >> reporter: apparently yes, martha mcsally who holds the seat senator mccain once held in arizona said she's talked to the president about this. she had a phone call with the president in which she made clear how she felt about senator mccain, and she says that the president heard her. you also have senator mccain's long-time friend joe lieberman out with a new op-ed in "the washington post" saying that while mccain probably would not have responded to the president's comments himself, lieberman writing that the

person who suffers the most from these strange post humous attacks on mccain is the president himself. >> thank you, hallie jackson. two u.s. service members were killed while conducting an operation in afghanistan. that's according to a statement from nato resolute report in kabul. no further details have been provided. the names of the service members are being withheld until after next of kin are notified. reaction is pouring in from around the world to a sudden shift from president trump that's upending decades of u.s. policy in the middle east. nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is on the ground in jerusalem this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah, president trump giving israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu a big boost in his tough re-election fight backing -- backing israeli sovereignty over a key territory that has been fought over for years. this morning secretary of state mike pompeo is a man on a

mission, arriving in lebanon from israel, pledging to keep up the pressure on israel's enemies. after president trump backed israel's right to the long disputed territory of the golan heights. telling fox business -- >> every president has said do that, i'm the one who gets it done. >> reporter: benjamin netanyahu facing a tough election in three weeks, was gleeful. >> president trump has just made history. i called him. i thanked him on behalf of the people of israel. he did it again. >> reporter: netanyahu has a lot to thank the president for, moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem, withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal, and now backing israel's right to keep the golan heights, a move expected to be widely supported in israel which has been targeted by iranian backed militants from the golan for the last year. >> there are many threats to

israel and the united states we will work on together in the days and weeks and months ahead. in a country where president trump is popular, netanyahu under threat of indictment on corruption charges has been adopting trump campaign tactics, calling the media fake news, attacking the prosecutor investigating him, using mr. trump in campaign billboards and ads. the two men reportedly talk often, but the president said he did not time the golan decision to help the israeli leader's campaign. >> i wouldn't know about that. i have no idea. i hear he's doing okay. i don't know if he's doing great right now, but i hear he's doing okay. >> reporter: today in lebanon, secretary of state pompeo will echo the call to isolate iran, which has a lot of influence in that country. in just a few days netanyahu get another big gift from the president, a white house visit. savannah and craig? >> andrea mitchell in jerusalem for us, thank you. also breaking overnight, boeing is facing new fallout

amid the ongoing investigations into those deadly 737 max 8 crashes. an airline now cancelling its order for the planes. keir simmons has the latest. good morning. >> lives have been lost, boeing's reputation damaged, and now news of the financial impact. this morning one airline is the first to say, we don't want the max 8. >> this morning indonesia's national airlines trying to cancel a major $5 billion order of max 8 jets. the 49 boeing aircraft no longer wanted because the airline says our passengers have lost confidence after two fatal crashes in five months. it's not clear if boeing will let the airline out of the contract. this year sales of the 737 set the total $35 billion, 90% of that from the new max model. the investment bank jpmorgan warning a max 8 production hold would be so significant it could

impact the u.s. gdp. for now max 8 flights are grounded around the world, as french investigators confirm experts from the ntsb are helping analyze the black boxes and cockpit voice recorders. one big question this morning. could the fatal lion air and ethiopian crashes have been avoided if the two airlines had paid for a safety feature extra. the upgrade includes an indicator that reads two exterior sensors to tell pilots the angle of the plane. and a disagreement alert if those sensors provide conflicting information. so the pilot can take action. the basic 737 max computer relies on just one sensor, not both. investigators believe one faulty sensor fed bad data to the plane's computer putting the lion air's plane into a nose dive. boeing says that disagreement alert will become standard and included in the new software update. >> if this is a failure of the safety system, the three parts

of that system are the airline, the aircraft manufacturer and the regulator, and ultimately it is up to that regulator, in this case the faa to say what is a safe and certificated aircraft. >> reporter: there are many questions too about pilot training. we're learning southwest airlines, which has the most max 8s of any u.s. carrier is still waiting on a pilot simulator. the pilot's union saying they want more training before flying the max. southwest's ceo insisting safety is always their first priority. >> still so many questions. keir, thank you. we have a lot to get to this morning. we cannot forget the ncaa tournament. it's in full swing, 16 games coming to a close on thursday. >> one of the biggest stories from day one goes to the murray state racers. the 12 seed upsetting marquette 83-64 thanks in part to moran's all star performance. he became the eighth player to record a triple-double in

tournament history. the first since 2012. many are looking at murray state to be this year's cinderella story. the auburn/new mexico state match-up came to a dramatic end. a.j. harris had the chance to tie it with an easy layup, but chose to kick it out to terrell brown for an eventual missed 3. he was fouled on the shot. missed two of three free throws. auburn ended up winning it. 78-77. let's be honest, ladies and gentlemen, the win that matters came from my alma mater, wofford. they took down seton hall 84-68. history-making night for fletcher magee. he became the ncaa's all time leader in three-pointers grabbing number 505 in thursday's matchup. next up, wofford facing number

two seeded kentucky tomorrow. >> i'm relieved for you that the team won. we had them on yesterday so early and they had the late night game. i was afraid america would blame you. >> i was a little concerned too, actually. we can be honest now that they've won. i was a little worried. >> they won and play again on saturday. number one seeds virginia, duke, and north carolina are in action today. we look forward to that. dylan dreyer's lsu tigers also won. >> yes, they did. thanks for letting me know. >> she's all in. >> i did not stay up or watch any games yesterday. we've got kind of a nor'easter out there. we can call it that because we've got the heavy precipitation. we've got the strong winds. it is falling in the form of snow across northeastern pennsylvania, up through vermont, new hampshire, even across new jersey and new york we're seeing the rain too. this will continue to affect mostly new england through the day. spotty showers remain. tomorrow, the storm itself pulls away. we are going to see the winds start to increase. tomorrow we could see even

stronger wednesday than we're dealing with today. additional rainfall could be as much as about a half an inch up to an inch i'd say max but you go farther north and up across the higher elevations, it's the snow that will be accumulating, especially upstate new york, northern vermont, northern new hampshire, we could end up with eight or so inches of snowfall. the winds could cause significant delays, especially tomorrow as they continue to increase. today we're looking at winds about 25 to 35 miles per hour. tomorrow gusts could be up to 35 to 45 miles per hour, so it is going to be a very blustery day on saturday before a warmup starts to move in for sunday as we get back into the 60s. that's a look at the weather across the country. we'll get to your local forecast in the next 30 seconds. have a seat, dan. hey, where's the food? what kind of meeting is this? there's no food, we just said that so you would show up. what?! no food? there's someone we think you should talk to. hey, dan! your coworkers told me you haven't done your taxes. i just want to say, you can call a turbotax live cpa for help. we'll help you get your refund and get back to your life. you'd really do that for me? yeah, dan. it's literally my job.

thanks, guys! so, there's no snacks...nothing? i brought kale. turbotax live now with cpa's on demand. good friday morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. rain back across the bay area to start out the weekend, and as we track it on storm ranger, we are seeing some of the heavier rain in parts of the north bay, and so it is also on the leading edge, moving into the tri-valley, moving into dublin, as well as pleasantton, within the next few minutes. we're going to see the rain off and on throughout the day, and as we go into our hour by-hour outlook, some of the heavier rain arrives this afternoon and tapers oft s off tomorrow but m rain next week. > coming up, stu at figure skating's world championships. did a u.s. figure skating star intentionally slash a rival with her skate blade? also ahead this morning, "game of thrones" star emelia

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well as san francisco. that quickly spreads into the rest of the bay area tonight and tapering off as we go toward early tomorrow morning. still some spotty showers possible, as we go into saturday morning. but clearing out during the afternoon, sunday looks dry. temperatures reach into the upper 60s, and we will see more waves of rain, possibly some heavy rain, going into next week, with highs in the upper 50s and low 60s. san francisco will see highs in the upper 50s. let's head over to vianey for an update on the commute. >> our speed sensors are showing a lot of traffic out there, but let's get right to this big one, and this is along the southbound side of -- or westbound side of 880 at stephen's boulevard. number three lane is blocked and seeing heavy delays on westbound i-80 right at the 580 interchange. the right-hand shoulder remains blocked. we have heavy delays backed up to el cerrito. we have another crash and this is along the peninsula. this one has been building because we had two earlier crashes. expect heavy delays. bridge drive times westbound 82

toward the san mateo bridge looking at 27 minutes. back to you. >> thank you very much. another local news update coming in half an hour. mo hope to see you then.

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. good morning, everybody. it's 7:30, friday morning, the 22nd of march 2019. lot of us in the north waking up to a messy morning. the storm might impact your weekend plans. dylan will have the forecast in a moment. remember what they say, spring showers spring flowers. it's all leading to something good. >> we're going to get outside in just a bit as well. let's get to a check of today's headlines. in new zealand this was a national day of reflection to honor victims of last friday's terror attacks at two mosques. 50 people died in that country's worst mass shooting. this morning 20,000 people gathered in a park near one of

the targeted mosques. they listened to the muslim call to prayer followed by two minutes of silence. a religious leader told the crowd, quote, this terrorist thought to tear our nation apart, but instead we have shown that new zealand is unbreakable: the president signed an executive order on thursday which would withhold federal research money from colleges that don't promise to protect free speech. the president was joined by conservative students who claimed their advocacy was shut down by administrators or went unprotected from intimidation by other students. >> taxpayer dollars should not subsidize anti-first amendment institutions, and that's exactly what they are, antifirst amendment, universities that want taxpayer dollars should promote free speech, not silence free free speech. >> public colleges and universities are already required to abide by the first amendment.

financial aid for tuition will not be affected by this order. facebook is back in the news this morning after acknowledging that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords for years in plain, readable text its employees could access. the social media giant says there is no evidence its employees abused the data. the company says the passwords were stored on internal company servers and no outsiders could access them. facebook plans to start notifying those affected. now to an incident on the ice and troubling accusations rocking the world of figure skating this morning. nbc's stephanie gosk is on the story, got the details. >> the head of the korean skating team is accusing american mariah bell of slashing lim eunsoo of slashing her on purpose with her skate. the accusation has shaken the figure skating world championships and reminds many of another scandal that left an

indelible mark on the sport. >> mariah bell was in the middle of a practice session at the world championships in japan when she clearly clipped 16-year-old korean skater l lim eun soo. this video obtained by nbc news catches the mountain home. lim reaches down to grab her leg in pain. soon after the head of the korean skating team leveled an explosive accusation, bell did it on purpose. the international skating union said the koreans complained but added in a statement there's no evidence that ms. bell intended any harm to ms. lim urging an amicable solution, but even so the news quickly triggered comparisons to tonya harding whose husband orchestrated an attack on rival skater nancy kerrigan. >> why? why? >> a crowbar to the shin so shocking that it was turned into a movie decades later. >> did someone just want to tell me to my face you're never going to give me the scores i deserve. >> harding stripped of her u.s.

championship title and a silver at the worlds, banned for life by u.s. figure skating. this week in japan, mariah bell may be feeling the pain of that legacy, accused of targeting lim. in a korean news article, lim's agency called the incident premeditated, adding that bell had been bullying lim for months. but u.s. olympic skater adam rippon jumped to bell's defense. this article is click bait. i've been to the rink multiple times, and no one has been bullying anyone. what happened in the warmup was an accident. they're on the ice at the same time every day and share the same locker room that i also sit in. the skaters also share the same trainer, even though they compete for different countries. neither one returned nbc's request for comment. lim competed later in the day, a band-aid on her leg, she still earned a personal best score placing 5th. bell finished 6th. overnight u.s. figure skating released a statement saying the

athletes met this morning and good luck wishes were exchanged. mariah is looking forward to competing tonight in the ladies free skate. >> so these practice sessions can get kind of crowded. it's not like it's one person on the ice. have accidents happened in a practice before? >> yeah, it does get crowded, and they have happened. in fact, far worse accidents have happened. the other thing to keep in mind, too, is that when mariah began her routine her music for her routine was playing, which by accepted etiquette meant she actually had the right-of-way on the ice at that moment. >> it's interesting to watch the video for sure. stephanie, thank you. now to some video that's just now emerging two years after a high wire stunt featuring the famed wallenda family that went horribly wrong. a warning this morning, some people may find it hard to watch. here's nbc's kerry sanders. >> reporter: this morning this video being made public for the first time. it shows the gut wrenching

moment the flying wallendas practicing the difficult and dangerous eight person pyramid lost their balance and toppled off the wire, five members plunging several stories to the ground. the seven generation wire walkers were practicing the new stunt with no safety net. nik wallenda posting on social media how painful it has been to see the video. >> i've shed a lot of tears if i'm being completely vulnerable. having to relive that accident yet again. >> reporter: admitting that terrifying fall gave him a taste of ptsd. >> i know that i struggled with having to relive that accident and actually struggled with fear for the first time ever. he said the fall was so bad it made him consider quitting the high wire for good. >> i'm almost ashamed to say that, but being honest with you, i came to that point. >> reporter: just five weeks after that fall, nick and the others involved talked to me ant that awful moment in an exclusive interview. >> everybody fought until the

bitter end. every single person fought as hard as they possibly could in until the last second. >> among the most seriously injured nick's sister leona. >> my mouth is wired shut. i broke every bone in my face, so they had to put it all back together with -- i have three plates and 72 screws in my face. >> reporter: nick and two others managing to grab onto the wire as they fell. two years later the daredevil troupe all on the mend. >> my family, my friends are all doing amazingly well. in fact, all of them with the exception of my sister have been back on stage performing in one capacity or another, which is nothing short of miraculous. >> reporter: reaffirming the wallenda family mantra, never give up. for "today" kerry sanders nbc news. >> that is hard to watch. >> my goodness. you've got the weather, you have all kind of dots on that map. please explain. >> still a lot of flooding

through the middle of the country, back through the plains. all these dots indicating the rivers that are at or above flood stage. the pink dots here indicate major flooding. that is going to continue to remain an issue for the next several weeks because the snow continues to melt and fills up the rivers, the ice jams clogging up the rivers, and additional rain could help exacerbate some of that flooding. now we're not looking at a lot of rain, but still on saturday expected to fall, especially saturday afternoon into saturday evening. it's a fairly quick moving system, and it moves through the midwest as we go into saturday night through sunday morning. it will continue to move through the ohio river valley. we're only looking at a half an inch up to 3/4 of an inch of rain perhaps down near southwestern arkansas. we could see closer to about an inch and a half. again, not a lot, but just want to bring that to your attention as that could lead to the good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall, tracking another round of rain

for the bay area, and we're going to see it started out widespread, and it gets heavier. we are under a microclimate weather alert for the north bay where the rain will be heavier. we're looking at more than a half inch of rain, as we go throughout the day, and some of the heavier rain will be here as we go into this afternoon. we'll see it coming through, and then gradually tapering off by the overnight hours. we'll catch a break from the wet weather tomorrow afternoon into sunday. >> and that's your latest forecast. duylan, thank you. in the wake of the college dpli admissions scandal, there's new attention on snowplow parenting, how your kids are impacted. and i'll look at the pioneering new technology that's being used to predict the risk of injuries before they happen. plus, oscar winner lupita nyong'o opens up to willie about being the hero and the monster in her new movie.

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good friday morning. right now at 7:56, rain falling again across the bay area, and we've been tracking it on storm ranger, as it continues to move in, and we will also see some of the heaviest rain in the north bay. so the north bay under a microclimate weather alert, where we will get over a half inch of rain and we will see it intensifying as we go into the afternoon. so expect the rain off and on, and once again, some of the heavier rain moving in around 3:00 to 4:00 for the north bay in to san francisco. the rest of the bay area gets the heavy rain later on this evening. this will all taper off later on tonight into early tomorrow morning, and then a dry sunday on the way. another storm will be moving in early next week, so our temperatures will stay in the upper 50s and lower 60s, very chilly for the next several days, and then for san francisco today, the high temperature only at about 56 degrees.

let's get an update on the commute now from vianey. >> it is busy. we're talking south bay a couple of crashes. i want to tell you about this new one popped up along highway 17. that's a rough commute. expect heavy delays, backed up almost to los gatos. expect a heavy commute through there as they work out to clear that crash. we still have heavy delays in through the east bay, southbound 880 at stephenson's boulevard, the number three lane remanins blocked. back to you. happening now, brace yourself to pay more money when you cross the golden gate bridge. bridge district leaders today will vote on a series of toll hikes, amounting to a nearly $9 toll by the year 2023. link to the full story on our twitter feed. north beach getting ready to celebrate a milestone building for, birth days for poet lawrence ferlandetti turns 100 sunday. he founded city lights book store in 1953. in the trending section on our

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. it's 8:00 on "today". coming up the waiting game. the president speaking out just this morning on the mueller report. >> for two years we've gone through this nonsense. there's no obstruction. wait there was no collusion. >> his feud with the late senator john mccain. >> he was horrible what he did with repeal and replace. >> we're live in washington with the latest. plus parental advisory in the wake of a college admission scandal. we'll take a closer look at snow plow parenting. how much is too much and when is it okay to let your kids fail? >> back in the friend zone. courtney cox returns to the apartment where it all happened.

>> i'm going home. >> the story behind this viral video including who convinced her to post it. it's friday, march 22nd, 2019. ♪ we're from mechanicsville, virginia. >> hi, from midland, texas. from terria haute, indiana. >> we're watching the "today" show in spartansburg, south carolina. >> we're from florida. >> good morning. welcome back to "today". a rainey one. a good one out there on our plaza friday morning. lots of folks out there. hoda is enjoying the morning off. hopefully she's in the sunshine >> those folks aren't deterred by the rain drops.

if you would love to be in media hora con la revisión de >> we have a check of the news. president trump kept up his attacks overnight on the russia investigation and on the late senator john mccain. kristen welker has the latest. good morning. >> savanna, good morning. the wous and washington bracing for impact with special counsel robert mueller expected to turn over his report soon. the key question, did the trump campaign clued with russia? president trump is speaking out in a new interview on fox business calling the investigation nonsense and a hoax. he sent out an e-mail to supporters calling it no collusion.

he lashed out at late senator john mccain for voting against appealing obamacare. mccain is not backing down from this might. his youngest daughter bridget is breaking her silence, asking the president in a tweet to be decent and respectful of her father. >> kristen welker. boeing is facing questions about aircraft safety features that were sold as extras and not installed on the two boeing 737 max 8 jetliners that crashed. the company is dealing with financial fallout from those disasters. today we have breaking details on that story. good morning. >> good morning. this morning, boeing facing a significant cancellation of an order. indonesia's national airline trying to cancel 49 max 8 jets worth $5 billion to boeing. the airline saying, quote, our passengers have lost confidence

after two fatal crashes in five months. it is not clear if boeing will let the airline out of that contract. for now, max 8 flights are grounded around the world. bun wig question, could the crashes have been avoided if the two airlines paid for an extra safety feature? it would have increased safety features to guard against million function. boeing saying those will now become included and are included in a software update. the pilot's union saying they want more training before flying the max. southwest's ceo insisting it is always focused on safety first. craig? >> keir simmons in london for us. complaints of consumers led to a nationwide recall of tyson frozen chicken strips. customers said they found small pieces of metal in the strips.

25 ounce bags of chris pea contradicten strips, and 20 pound cases of the buffalo style strips were sold to institutions. they all have a use by date of november 30th. former president jimmy carter might seem a little bit old to be out there sed setting records. but in this case, that's the whole point. as of today, the nation's 39th president is the oldest living former u.s. president ever. mr. carter is 94 years, and 172 days old that surpasses the late george h.w. bush. a spokeswoman at the carter center says they are grateful for his long life of service. president carter is still out there building those houses for habitat. >> yes, he is. that's the news. hoda is off. i get to do the boost today. it is a good one. kelsey and adam wanted their new baby to grow up with a pet and wanted a companion for their

older dog charlie who lost his vision to glaucoma. it worked out better than they imagined. the new puppy noticed charlie had a hard time doing thing on his own. he began acting as charlie's guide dog. he fetches toys so they can play together. he shares the window when they go for a ride in the car. maverick grabs the leash and takes charlie for walks. now the couple can't wait until their new baby is old enough to join in on the fun. >> just a head, could friends fans be any more excited? the reason courtney cox returned to the show's iconic apartment. >> first a warning for so-called snow plow parents s. overreaching to help your kids and clear out the obstacles for them, is that actually harming them? that, right after this.

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overparenting. move over helicopter dads and tiger moms and say hello to snow plow parents. moms and dads determined to clear any obstacle from their child's path. >> according to a recent poll 76% of parents have reminded their adult children of deadlines cluing for school work. 74% have made doctor or hair cut appointments for their 18 to 28-year-olds. 22% help their students study for a college test. 15% say they have called or texted their college students to wake them up for their classes. >> so what is the long term impact of this involvement on your kids? our relationship expert is here. good morning. let's define snow plow parents for us. how does that affect kids? >> similar to helicopter moms or parents but really the snow plow is you're moving everything out of the way. all obstacles so your children don't even know they have a problem because you can't really tolerate them being in distress

at all. >> kids don't see the plow. >> they don't see the plow, they don't see the problem. they don't see anything. they think there's a smooth path to life which is unrealistic. >> let's assume parents are well meaning. but if you're removing all these obstacles from your kids isn't that the ultimate vote of no confidence in your child? >> it really is. makes kids feel i'm not competent. i'm not good enough. as my kids say #adulting, i'm not going be able to do that. the truth is we're not promised to be here for the next journey with our kids. they have to have the coping skills and problem solving skills to deal with any situation. >> we have to let them fail. why is it such a good idea to let our children fail at things. >> i call it failing forward. when we fail that gives us fuel in. order to be motivated for not if but when the next curveball comes. so when you're failing at something that's going to give you that sort of motivation,

that movement to go forward for the next thing that happens. and we might think about failing. i say ditch the fear and then take on faith. right? when you take on faith that allows you to know even if you don't have the clear path that you're going to be okay. >> parents want to help their kids. is there a difference plowing little things out of their way versus big things. >> it's called launching. so you're preparing your children to launch them into adulthood. gradually yes you want to help and guide them and direct them but you don't want to do everything for them. that's unrealistic expectation of life. >> we were just talking about older kids. it's easy to snicker come on they are waking them up for class or whatever. we have little kids. so what about what we do now in terms of how much you let a toddler fail, for example or how much you let a toddler deal with an obstacle. i think probably it's all of our inclination to smooth the way. but does this behavior of

letting your child grow up for themselves does that start now? >> it does. so asking them the questions when they are upset and you guys know the difference between a cry for your babies when they are hungry or they need to be changed and as they get older. if they are asking you to help them solve the problem ask them what do you think? give them options. help them figure it out for themselves. again at the a young age to develop their problem skills. if they have none that's the worst thing you can to develop an adult. >> we didn't have the snapchat, or video. we didn't have social media growing up. what role does all of that play in this snow plow parenting? >> it's our normal inclination to compare ourselves to other people. social media what kids are doing is thinking everyone else's life is wonderful and theirs is crap. it's a false sense of identity for them. social media is not a great

thing to allow us to move forward. >> ripping this from the headlines what we're all reading are these parents helping kids get into college. paying for them. i can't help feel sorry for kids who had nothing to do with it. what's the long term effect of that? >> depression. i've had kids suicidal ideation thinking life is over. one setback is a set up for a come back. children have 0 have that resilience. if they feel they can't do it because parents are taking tests or fixing it for them so they can succeed that won't give them the confidence. >> whether it's the college admissions thing where these parents who really need to get their kids into they great schools isn't really more about the parents and like what's going on inside them and what deficit they are trying to fill up more than for the kid? could it be some of these moms they want their kids to stay babies, stay needy. >> so they feel good or didn't

accomplish what they wanted so they are living through their children. i say like the parents need to go to therapy. do some meditation. allow yourself to reduce your anxiety. get some therapy for the whole family and understand why you're living your life for your kids. >> if you're getting in for soccer but you never put shin guards on. >> lacks integrity. >> what are some warning signs? if i'm doing this or how would i know if i'm maybe becoming a helicopter parent. i'm asking for a friend. >> if your kid has no coping skills at all because you continue to fix it. if you have no tolerance for them to experience any pain or if you're fatigued because you're rescuing them all the time. that's at that problem. get help. >> always good to remember most parents in well meaning and good hearted. . but that's okay. >> get accountability partner who holds you accountability for not doing it. >> thank you. let's go over to dylan with

the weather. speaking of snow plows i hope we don't need them. >> you might need them across central and northern new england. the snow is coming down especially across eastern new york, new hampshire, most of maine seeing rain except along the coast. new york has the rain. starting to wind down in maryland. over in d.c. we're starting to see improvements down through delaware. as for additional snowfall we can see as much as six to nine inches especially in the higher elevations. even higher above 6,000 feet. wind gusts will be a major issue especially as we go through saturday. that could cause some significant delays at the airports as winds gust up to 35 to 45 miles per hour. all across the northeast. that could lead, again to some of those isolated delays at the airports from d.c. to philly to new york. today albany through boston that's where most of the precipitation is coming down right now. that could lead to some delays. that storm system is of a if he

wanting the northeast. another one the likes. this will produce rain to the middle of the good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. rain moving across the bay area starting out light. we'll have a break into late morning, a heavier round of rain is why we see the north bay under a microclimate weather alert. we could get a half inch of rain in the north bay. we will see some breaks in the downpours. some of the heavier rain gets here for the evening commute, spreading across the bay area. this moves out tomorrow. dry on sunday. more showers in the forecast for next week. latest forecast. >> dylan thanks so much. let's jump into pop start. we have a special guest, mr. willie geist. >> thanks guy. >> start with courtney cox. the "friends" actress shared a video that made a refrps to a

famous scene. she posted another video sure to make "friends" fans go while. look. >> good night guys, going home. >> does it took familiar? any "friends" fans here? >> that's the building. used the exterior for monica's apartment. last night the host asked cox how she found herself at her old stomping grounds and here's what she said. >> i was having dinner and someone said "friends" build is two blocks over. last night i posted i was at jennifer's house and she's like post that now. let's see what happens. she's not on instagram yet either. i'm thinking to myself it's better if i post between 9:00 and 12:00 because that's where my fans are.

and i didn't. i posted it late at night and it's still going on. >> i think "friends" would like her to post more videos. i knew there was a certain time. interesting. >> in other news ron burgundy made an appearance. will farrell stepped back in his role between the kings and the sharks. let's see how that went. >> all the way from san diego as we welcome you into a special edition of hockey night in l.a. presented by attendee.com. alex, jim and ron. >> we're about to begin the second period. let's take it away gentlemen. here we are controlling the puck passing over -- who's that guy? >> sean walker. >> one of my favorites. jones a former kings player, if i'm correct. >> you got that right. >> he joins -- no he doesn't in the offseason.

he works with puppets. >> he does >> yes. no. fully through. through the zone. dumps it in. i believe that was a dump. [ laughter ] >> ron burgundy. the kings won that game 4-2. yesterday pink released her brand-new music video for her new single "rock me home." ♪ rock me home in the dead of night ♪ ♪ say you'll stay with me tonight ♪ ♪ because there's so much wrong going on outside ♪ >> music video was directed from the same director from the greatest showman and pink announced the release date for her eighth studio album "hurts to be human" coming out on april. 26th. now to our special guest, willie has a preview of his sunday sit

down. >> so we got together ahead of the release of the movie "everyone is ta everyone is talking about, "us." it has become a modern master of horror. >> you know how sometimes things line up? >> yeah. >> like coincidences. >> i love the idea of scaring people. i'm not so much into being scared but i love the idea of scaring people. >> well, you did it. congratulations. >> lupita is not scared of a challenge. playing both hero and monster in the new horror film "us." the 36-year-old plays adelaid and red. adelaid's doppelganger and leader of a vengeful gang of

monsters. >> two parts extraordinarily different from one another. was that a big challenge for you as you looked at it at first, can i pull this off? >> well in the first reading, i was excited at the possibility of being offered an opportunity to work with jordan. then i saw i could work with him twice. i was really excited. >> jordan is director jordan peele the comedian turn filmmaker whose 2017 smash hit "get out" explored the horror of racism. in "us" he turns the lens on the monsters inside of us. >> so if i asked you what is the genius of jordan peele and why they movies are not just scary but good films. >> yeah. >> what do you say? >> i think jordan has been in incubation his whole life. geeking out over it. and he brings that enthusiasm, that wealth of knowledge to the

film that he makes. >> with the highly-anticipated "us," she finds herself in the spotlight again. just one year after starring in the cultural phenomenon "black p panther. "black panther" earned six oscar nominations and made a statement as the first film of its kind to feature a largely black cast. >> when you look back what was it like to be at the center not just a successful movie but a culturally important film as well. >> it's still hard for me to wrap my head around what that film has done, what it has achieved and the way in which it has launched itself in people's hearts and lives. i feel so proud to be a part of a film like that. just to have one in my career. that's the dream, to make work that resonates, that lives longer than you do.

>> as always you can see the full interview coming up this weekend on sunday "today". she was in the yale school of drama when she was given the part 12 years as a slave. it's a great movie but terrified. >> he's in the movie winston duke. >> he plays her husband in the movie. >> i think it got 99 on rotten tomatoes. >> jordan peele because they are so funny there are moments because he's so funny he takes you out of the horror and you can breathe. >> great read. variety an article talking about your life. balancing two shows. having a snack. >> me eating a cheeseburger. >> trying to stay up past 9:00 p.m. on a saturday. ryan reynolds wrote i don't know

what sort of black magic he's wrestling with. he makes his guests incredibly safe. >> i thanked ryan for that generous quote. told me they didn't include the second half of the quote which was a horrible insult, profane and it was down right cruel. i want america to know he's not as sweet as you think he is. >> it's a great read. very proud. >> we'll pick up that issue of "variety" on newsstands now. >> we talked about willie so much daily click just died. i don't know what black magic you are doing. >> i'm a special guest. just ahead glamour's editor-in-chief will give us a sneak peek at its annual beauty award winners. we're very excited for this. but first these messages. a live.

wet weather awiats drivers as they head toward the good morning. 8:26, i'm marcus washington. a live look at richmond. drivers heading towards the richmond-san rafael bridge. kari hall is tracking the rain for us. >> stormranger tracking that rain. it will start out light and get heavier throughout the day. by 5:00, we are seeing a rund of heavier rain rolling through. it will mostly be concentrated on the north bay. that's where we will see the highest rainfall totals. by tomorrow morning things are clearing out. a few spotty lingering showers

and sunny skies. our dry weather continues into sunday with more rain early next week. >> we are still seeing a bit of traffic down to the south bay and the east bay. i have an update on a crash along highway 17. all lanes are clear on the southbound side. traffic is recovering just south of brush road. expect delays in the los gatos area. a good recovery in the peninsula area. we have two accidents cleared. hopefully that will ease out the heavy traffic along 88. >> more local news for you coming up in the next 30 minutes. ♪ no hormones!

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. and we are back. it is 8:30. it is march 22nd, 2019. it's a bit of a rainy morning, carson daly, but hey, it's friday. >> impressed by the size of this crowd, encruise ythusiastic, dee rain they're here. they're in the marchedness fe m

feel. >> i love everything about the set today. >> carson called me fozzy bear. >> i was just shaking a hand and this lovely gentleman had a mitten on and it got caught on my ring, and we couldn't unconnect. >> you were stuck together. >> we were going to spend the rest of the weekend together, but we got disconnected. >> you want a crowd moment? >> i am looking for mary, kristen and alisa. >> how are you? >> nice, aggressive hug there. what's your name? >> kristen wright. >> lisa malone. >> and that makes you mary. >> mary, yes. what brings you guys to the city? >> we're celebrating friendship, 20 years, college bestties from st. ambrose university. >> how about that, 20 years of friendship. that's cool. where do you guys live now? >> davenport, iowa. >> kenosha, wisconsin. >> charlotte, north carolina. >> i'm heading down there later today. i understand you guys are fans

of one of our radio shows? >> oh, sirius radio, yes, off the rails! >> off the rails, they're big off the rails fans. perhaps you know dylan dreyer. not enough people listen to off the rail, so thank you. >> love it! thank you. >> mary, krista, and lisa, thank you so much for coming. enjoy the city. >> you'll hear us tuesday. >> love it. >> roker's going to hate he missed that. >> i know. u lo i love a little self-promotion. >> guys, coming up, glamour's editor in chief is here, you're going to love this. we got a sneak peek at their annual beauty awards. she's going to reveal the top five readers' choice winner including the must have sunscreen and the ultimate like cadillac of hair driers. >> weekend use that after this. >> we could. >> especially with your skills in holding an umbrella. >> i hope there's nothing else

in the show except that. we've got another one for you, new technology that can help predict the risk of injuries in athletes, how it's already changing the game for some college teams in the ncaa tournament. how it could help you as well, even if you're not a college basketball star. >> like that. >> right. why did they use that video? >> oh, you miss it had. >> of course i missed it. coming up on the third hour, look who it is, music super star t pane will talk about his new music and what he really thinks about auto tuning. >> my man right there. >> you're just not holding it over my head at all. >> i am. >> i got him in the eye. i have to find a happy medium. it's not easy to please your co-workers. >> there you go, thank you. i'm short. >> how's the weather? >> it's terrible. it's an awful day and it's going to stay this way all day long. we're going to see that whole storm system pull away as we go into tomorrow. windy day on saturday. winds could gust up to 35 to 45 miles per hour. about a half an inch of rain

possible through the plain states. just one more thing that that area does not need with the flooding that's ongoing right now. mountain snow works through the rockies on saturday, continues moving east on sunday. it clears out up and down the east coast. temperatures still cool in new england, but we should top out close to 60 in the mid-atlantic, and we are looking at 70s in the southeast, so finally getting some good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. it's a soggy friday. we will see the rain moving through. some of the heaviest rain in the north bay down to san francisco. the heavier rain off the coast will be moving in as we go throughout the day. make sure you have the umbrella hand handy. by tomorrow afternoon the weather is clearing and dry, more rain early next week.

>> i'm collecting gifts on the plaza too, thank you. that's your latest forecast, savann savannah. just ahead, samantha barry from glamour is here on the best beauty products. >> your readers chose these right. >> you're getting a sneak peek. >> first this is "today" on nbc.

this morning on "today" style we are talking all things beauty. glamour is about to reveal its annual beauty awards. before this full list comes out chr which is on monday, we have editor in chief samantha barry to give us a sneak peek on what the readers top choices were. >> we brought readers choices back this year, and the amount of people that want to ed to vote, it was women across the country. they voted on every beauty product we put in front of them.

you guys have the sneak peek of the first five we're revealing. >> were these clear favorites? >> clear favorites. there were so many in each category. makeup was the one most people voted on, have a lot of thoughts about what their favorites are in that category. i think as beauty companies are expanding their ranges of colors and including diversity into their mix, there's a lot of people have more opinion about what they buy and spend their money on. >> let's start with the first thing we should put on our faces, sunscreen. ne knew tree gina is the winner. >> this was the winner because people love this because it doesn't leave a white residue. it does not clog your pores, and it doesn't leave you sheeny and like you've just come off the beach. >> and you can put makeup over it, and it's not too sticky. our readers loved it. one person wrote in and said even if they're not putting on makeup, it gives them a lovely finish every day. >> very important.

determine torlrmatologists are e it us. eye shadow, this was the favorite pallettepalette. why? >> i call it the instagram palette. they are obsessed with it. beauty, influencers love it. our audiences love the naked palettes. and overwhelmingly the majority of people loved it. >> it's beautiful. >> the different looks they can do with it, the range of colors in this palette have grown. a lot of sparkle for a night out. >> you mentioned diversity, i feel like this would work on all types of skin types. >> that's what we saw. lots of people around the country, lots of different skin types, lots of different ethnicities. >> okay. urban decay. i love the name of this brand, drunk elephant. right there you're speaking to me. it's like a description of me on saturday night. anyway, tell us about this. >> there's two things i will always spend money on, your hair and your skin because you wear them every day.

that's really important. i'm a big advocate of facials. this is what my beauty department tell me is the best facial you can take home yourself. it is $80, but it lasts for months. our beauty editor is a huge fan of it. what it has, you know when you go for those expensive facials and they use some of those acid peels to take off some of the dead skin, sort of refresh your skin. >> it sloughs it off. >> this does that at home. we recommend you use it once or twice a week and our audience is obsessed with it. >> what is this? like a -- i just want to see. is it thick? okay. do you sleep in it or what? >> no, it's great for if you're watching something on netflix, catching up on one of your programs, put it on, leave it for ten minutes and take it off. one of our readers who overwh m overwhelmingly loved it said this is the best thing in her skin care arsenal. >> our producer said that's the one to grab, if i'm going to steal anything today that's the one.

>> i'll slip it in your pocket. that's fine. >> this is a bronzer. >> most of your audience is probably going to recognize this bronzer. this is the classic. it's been around for years. what's different about it this year, they've extended the range for much darker skin, and that is one of the things why the majority of our people when they were going for a bronzer, a lot of those people that had been using it before, and lots more new people have been using hulep, 230,000 people love it on sephora. it's a classic. this is the bronzer the readers chose this year. >> it comes with a little brush. >> people are very loyal to it as well. once they start using it they don't stop. >> i like it. we'll check it out. here we are to the granddaddy of blow-dryers. >> this is the investment piece. >> that's a really delicate way of saying it's $400. >> it's expensive. i was surprised this won over every other luxury, the vast

majority, nearly 50% of the people that voted in the hair drier category voted for this. why they voted for this? it is silent, or near silent. >> very quiet. >> if you're getting up in the morning and there's other people in the house, you don't want to wake them up when you're drying your hair, this is a great tool. it does not damage your hair as much as some heat products. it is great for all hair textures. we've got the diffuser. what was interesting in the voting for this is that every hair type loved it, curly hair, textured hair, wavy hair, straight hair. >> the size is nice. you can travel with it, that kind of thing fwl it's kind of pretty as well. >> it's sleek. >> monday's the day we get the full list, right? >> 8:00 on monday. >> glamour's beauty awards list on monday. you can check out these products on today.com/shop. thank you, sam. coming up next, our look at the pioneering new technology being used by athletes to predict the risk of injuries

before they even happen. first this is "today" on nbc.

this morning on "today" health, the cutting edge technology being used by some teams in the ncaa tournament to gain an edge on the court. >> players can't help their teams if they're on the sidelines, right? that's why 11 teams in this year ears tournament have started using a device called a force plate. it could soon be coming to a gym or training facility near you. >> reporter: march madness, it's filled with insane action with battles back and forth on the hardwood. it takes a lot to win a national championship. villanova has won two of the last three. this season as they prepared for their games, they used the force plate, from sparta science. >> it's all about physics. it's measuring how you produce

force and absorb forces in your body. >> john shackleton is the team's performance coach. and while the force plate is just one part of the team's training program, it could be an important part. to demonstrate, we get an assist from darrell reynolds who helped villanova win a national title in 2016. john has darrell jump up and down six times on a plate that looks like a larger, fancier version of your average bathroom scale, what the device is doing is taking darrell's movement signature. that means it's showing exactly what kind of force he's generating during three stages of each jump. when he loads his legs to squat to get ready, when he explodes out of the squat, and when he pushes off the plane to propel himself off the plate. the data is immediately sent to the sparta science cloud database where more than a million other scans live. the company's machine learning software immediately generates

specific performance needs and injury risks. darrell is recovering from knee surgery and a device picked of that. >> it's any number below 45 is considered a risk for injury, so right now he's an acl risk being that low. he's coming back from an acl. >> reporter: john knows the exact exercise program darrell needs to avoid another injury and get back to peak strength. this technology is gaining traction with top college programs, including 11 teams in this year's tournament. it's being used by pro teams in several sports as well, including the cleveland cavalie cavaliers, the pittsburgh steelers and washington nationals. but it's not just for the pros. the force plate has found its way to youth sports as well. we found it at the speed school in new jersey. >> this gives us a benchmark on all of our athletes. you know, we work with athletes as young as 7 all the way through high school, college,

professional, but all of those athletes at all those ages have a unique force signature. within a minute we can get some great data for that day, for that week, for that month to be able to prescribe and train accordingly around our weaknesses and at the same time enhance our strengths. >> i decided to see where my weaknesses and strengths lie. >> so john, based on these numbers, which specific injuries would i be most at risk for. >> your drive is very high, so it means you use a lot of your back musculature, your gluts and your hamstrings. you're using a lot of those muscles to explode. you're actually at risk for injuring your back or maybe even like a hamstring. >> after all that, i challenged darrell to a game of pig, and i didn't need a force plate to predict the results. that's enough. >> and that was it. >> wow.

>> i thought it might, clearly it did not. no. this sort of technology not cheap, about $20,000 for a subscription to the database for the force plate and the force plate itself. sparta science says it is working on a more affordable model. again, it can predict the risk of injury to your acl, leg muscle strains, lower back pains. >> then you can strengthen the right muscles to prevent that injury from happening. >> it was funny to see that coach in new jersey who was talking about this high end technology while he was sitting on that giant truck tire, almost like that rocky with the high end training done and then rocky's out there doing it the old school way. >> you looked good on the court. >> you're very kind. >> you sounded great kind and honest. honest. >> this is "today" on nbc.

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to -- >> day one in the books, the #marchmadness picking up a lot of steam online. as we mentioned earlier john moran lit up the court becoming the 8th player to ever report a triple-double in the tournament. after the game, having some fun with his followers tweeting this in the photo saying relax, i'm not done yet. basketball fans have shown that they are watching this whole tournament from all angles, impressive setups. there's three tvs set up there. wes has got four tvs rocking and here's jeff in the office, he's not going to be getting a lot of work done. he's got a bunch of screens up there. if you're worried about getting busted in the office, the classic ncaa feature the boss button is back. you just click the button when your boss walks by and a fake powerpoint presentation pops up, and it covers your screen so you can flip back and forth. after day one the real question on many of your minds, how did

your brackets hold up. all of our winning stands are still standing with duke and virginia tech set to make their debuts. as for the leader board, i believe we've got hoda leading as you'll see in a second here. sorry savannah, hoda's a 13, there's three of us tied at 11. savannah, last year's winner at the back of the pack. >> the tournament is long. >> you're in good shape, you've got wofford winning the thing. >> i have wofford going all the way. >> you're playing kentucky next? >> we are. >> who's you pick in that one? >>. >> we pled the first. >> we've got a daly click for you guys. here's a relaxing afternoon, hanging out at the pool. roll this tape, we saw a few angry iguanas. those are iguanas getting a little sun. >> oh, my gosh. >> they're just battling on the

pavement. >> i can't even watch that. >> they become very close to some of those people. look at that. the other iguana also finds his way in the pool startling swimmers everywhere. thankfully nobody was harmed in this bizarre brawl. hopefully those iguanas have worked out their differences. maybe they're at the pool bar having a margarita together. >> you could never close your eyes poolside again. >> i would rather run into a great white shark than an iguana slithering right up next to you. >> i wonder what it feels like. >> great white shark is probably equally as scary. >> mr. roker taking a few days off. that doesn't mean we can't celebrate birthdays. >> we have so many wonderful people to celebrate on this friday here. lets spin around those smuckers jars and wish a happy 100th birthday to harold nachman in delray beach, florida. he has also been married to the love of his life for 75 years.

congratulation and a very happy birthday. next we have eleanor levine of natick, massachusetts. this proud grandma is celebrating 100 years. she has four grandkids and four great grandkids. also a happy 100th birthday to rose baker of palm beach gardens, florida. she never leaves the house without red lipstick. and her favorite pair of heels to go with it. jesse celia is from chattanooga, tennessee, he's 100 years old. he served his country as an air force navigator and of course we thank you for your service. ms. alta may dun canne, in the past ten year alta's visited italy and france with her kids. she loves to travel. and happy 100th birthday to charles. he owned a dry cleaning business for more than 60 years and still owns a security agency. >> good for him. >> good for him is right. >> happy birthday, a lot of good people there.

sheinelle, what you got. we are going to go one on one with jared allen to talk about the big move he's making off the court to improve the lives of kids in his community. they love him. >> did you play some ball with him? >> i played some ball. >> how'd you do, better than craig? >> i got blocked. i'll just say that. up next on the third hour, the secrets to a spring makeover from a makeuphappening now... good friday morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. we see scattered showers throughout the morning into the afternoon. some of the heavier rain will be in the north bay, that's the reason why the north bay will be under a microclimate weather alert. we're seeing the heavy rain across central sonoma county.

throughout the rest of the day, expect the rain to come in waves off and on. this afternoon it will get heavier as a round of rain sweeps through the bay area. we could pick up on a half inch of rain. it will taper off tomorrow. a few lingering showers early. we are dry on sunday. more rain in the forecast early next week. we'll have more updates throughout the day. marcus? >> happening now, brace yourselves to pay more money when you cross the golden gate bridge. the bridge district leaders today will vote on a series of toll hikes amounting to nearly $9 total by the year 2023. a live report at midday. and san francisco mid beach gets ready to sell a birthday. laurence belgengetti founded city lights book store in 1953.

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live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza, this is the third hour of "today." >> good morning, everyone. i am dylan here with shanel and special guest willie geist. the mug is here. it's made an appearance. >> thanks for having me, guys. >> who do you have going all the way in your bracket? >> i hate to be cliche, i think i picked duke which everyone is picking. duke over tennessee i think was my final game. >> your penmanship is -- i feel like you have the nicest on the crew. >> we