everything else is light. >> all right. that does it for us on "today in the bay." we'll be back at 7:25 for a live local update for you. >> join us at 9:00 a.m. we'll have an update from cal fire. also streaming it online, nbcbayarea.com. good morning. breaking overnight, california burning, the battle intensifies as wildfires rage out of control up and down the state. dozens of homes in l.a. consumed by flames. tens of thousands forced to flee >> probably the last time i'm going to see this neighborhood. >> this morning, a live view from the front lines, and al's ominous forecast as things could get even worse before they get better firsthand account, a national security official who was actually on that phone call between president trump and ukraine's leader set to testify in the impeachment investigation today.

the red flags he says he raised months ago as the first formal vote on impeachment is scheduled for later this week. daring operation, what we're now learning about that brave informant who helped lead american troops to the world's most wanted man and the hero military dog that also played a vital role in the raid >> a beautiful dog a talented dog. those stories, plus charged, the stunning development in the tragic death of a toddler on a cruise ship. why her grandfather could be facing prison time taking a stand. >> i need you to know my fight is not over. >> the embattled congresswoman who resigned over allegations over affairs with staffers, reveals her plan to fight back. and happy birthday internet, how one event 50 years ago changed all of our lives forever. today, tuesday, october 29th, 2019 >> from nbc news, this is

"today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hey, everybody, welcome to "today," thank you for joining us on this tuesday morning where were you 50 years ago today? something big was happening. >> something really big, a little spark you might say that started the internet we're going to have a fun look back in just a few but we've got a big story to cover. >> we certainly do it's in california, it's our top story, the big fires out there. >> this is among one of the worst seasons they have had out there. more than a dozen wildfires burning from one end of the state to another the major focus is on two areas, the kincade fire, in northern california's wine country and the getty fire in los angeles. in all nearly 100,000 acres have burned, 200,000 people forced to evacuate and 10,000 buildings are under threat >> adding to concerns, some of the strongest winds of the season are set to fan those flames al is going to join us in just a bit with his forecast, but first, we're going to turn to nbc's gadi schwartz, he's in

hard hit sonoma county hey, gadi, good morning. >> reporter: some shocking scenes of devastation in sonoma county this was the home of a mechanic, and as you can see, all of his cars are gone, his home is gone. all of it incinerated when his family says it started raining fire from the sky, and now this whole area is once again bracing for more dangerous winds overnight, the worst fire in california growing in size, the kincade fire, scorching over 74,000 acres of northern california's wine country, forcing nearly 200,000 people from their homes as flames threatened to take everything they own. >> we were held it off just in time. >> reporter: over the weekend, the inferno fuelled by wind gusts as strong as a category 2 hurricane. >> in that wind, was there anything going to stop that fire. >> you couldn't have stopped it

with a hundred fire trucks >> reporter: from space satellite images showing thick smoke and hot spots spanning miles. firefighters using what little time they had left to fight the flames before the dreaded northern california conditions known as the diablo winds returned. >> we are not out of the woods yet. >> reporter: 400 miles away along one of the busiest stretches of highway, a terrifying wake-up call as the getty fire exploded on a los angeles hillside shocked drivers trying to escape through thick, smoke filled roads, capturing the terrifying scene. investigators looking into the possibility both the getty and kincade fire were caused by electrical equipment owned by the area's gas and electric company, both fires casting dark cloud as residents hope for the best. >> we're resilient, this county is resilient, and we're going to get through this. >> reporter: right now, the kincade fire is about 15% contained. meanwhile, across northern california, over a million people still do not have power it's still unclear when all of

that power is going to be restored as pg&e the electric company goes and checks all of its lines and now we are hearing from pg&e officials getting ready to cut off power to another 600,000 customers. they are going to start to roll the blackouts out starting in an hour, going all the way until 9:00 in phases this all means that some people in california have now gone without power for four days. guys, back to you. >> gadi schwartz, thank you, a terrible situation out there a lot of people are looking to the weather for relief it looks like it's not going to be good for a little bit al, what's going on. >> unfortunately the worst is yet to come. we look right now, first of all, northern california, the winds will be ramping up this morning, starting to get going. we move to the south and here's where we've really got the dangerous conditions we've got an extreme risk from coastal california all the way, wrapping around los angeles. the winds will be ramping up tonight, getting far stronger. red flag warnings today through

thursday they now extend into arizona 26 million people, this will be the strongest santa ana of the season, very low humidity and severe winds a big problem take a look at this. we are looking in northern california today, the winds will increase and peak this afternoon. gusts in the hills up to 70 miles per hour, but we move to the south, here's where it's really dangerous, we're talking category 2 hurricane force wind gusts up to 80 miles per hour, extreme red flag warnings in effect and those winds generally anywhere from 30 to 75 miles per hour and what that means is it's going to be blowing down power lines, bringing those lines down, and that is what everybody is so concerned about, guys, bringing in more fire and more problems and with those winds, what happens is the reason they are turning these lines off is when the winds knock the power lines down, they don't want them sparking and creating more fires, and even when they do have them turned off, the

insulation can sometimes burn and again, cause more fires. >> dangerous mix of conditions there, al. keep us posted, thank you. we've got major new developments to tell you about in the impeachment investigation, the full house is set to hold its first vote on the impeachment case this thursday, amid calls from the white house to be more open about the process. today, a key witness, the first who listened in on the actual phone call between the president and ukraine's leader is set to testify. nbc's white house correspondent peter alexander has the details. peter, good morning. >> savannah, good morning to you. from the beginning of this ukraine controversy the president and his allies have dismissed the whistleblower saying he or she was not on the ukraine call today lawmakers for the first time will hear from someone who was and he paints a damaging picture. this witness who currently serves active duty in the army still works here at the white house and he plans to testify today that he twice reported concerns about the president and his team's pressure campaign to his superior

this morning house investigators will hear for the first time from someone who actually listened in on that july phone call where president trump urged ukraine's leader to investigate joe biden. army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the top ukraine expert on the white house's national security council is an iraq war veteran purple heart recipient and self-described patriot according to a draft of his opening statement obtained by nbc news, he will tell lawmakers today i did not think it was proper to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and i was worried about the implications of the u.s. government's support for ou crane, adding it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our country irrespective of party or politics vindman says he is not the whistleblower and will not speculate who it is. the president has repeatedly said he did nothing wrong. >> we had a very good conversation with the ukrainian president. the conversation was perfect this was a perfect conversation.

my phone call as an example with the president of ukraine was perfect. >> reporter: it comes as democrats are preparing to take their impeachment inquiry public announcing the house will vote on a resolution thursday that outlines the next steps in their investigation. speaker nancy pelosi in a letter to colleagues writing democrats are taking the step to eliminate any doubt about whether the trump administration must comply with the inquiry announcing the resolution will set up some public hearings. top democrat adam schiff who will oversee those hearings saying the american people will hear firsthand about the president's misconduct >> peter, so this witness who's testifying came to the white house in 2018 and joined the national security council. what else do you know about his background >> reporter: he is a ukrainian-american immigrant who along with his twin brother fled

the soviet union at the age of 3 with his grandmother and father. jewish refugees escaping kiev after his mother died. a harvard educated ukraine expert at the national security council at the white house savannah, back to you. >> peter alexander, thank you very much. craig joins the table with another big story we're covering. >> good morning to you as well we are talking about new details emerging about the risky operation that ended in the death of the leader of isis and the informant who helped bring the u.s. military to him nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel remains in syria, richard, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, craig. the isis leader, abu bakr al baghdadi took extraordinary step steps to ensure his personal safety but the kurds here in

northern syria tell us they had a spy in his inner circle who helped lead the americans right to him the commander of kurdish led fighters in syria told us his intelligence service had a top isis informant passing information on to the kurds which they passed to the cia he was a personal security official to baghdadi, the general says. >> why was he doing this >> his relatives faced very harsh treatment from isis. he no longer believed in the isis future. he wanted to take revenge on isis, and on baghdadi himself. but abu bakr al baghdadi was not an easy target he used no communications equipment, only met a small group of family and advisers, most of them blindfolded on the way to meetings. but the spy was still able to collect vital information. describing the shape and distinguishing features of baghdadi's compound, to help americans find it with satellites, memorizing its internal floor plan, the number

of guards, locations of tunnels, even stealing baghdadi's used underwear and a blood sample for dna testing which proved to u.s. intelligence that the source had the access he claimed. the mission itself began with eight helicopters taking off from a base in iraq, delta force commandos on point, flying low across syria, blowing a hole into the wall of the compound sending in dogs to chase baghdadi during the firefight. baghdadi tried to escape but was cornered in a tunnel as u.s. troops moved in, al baghdadi's suicide vest detonated and that tunnel collapsed. president trump downplaying the kurds' role in the military operation when addressing the nation sunday. >> they gave us not a military role at all, but they gave us some information that turned out to be helpful. >> while taking a victory lap the next day in chicago. >> we killed isis leader

al baghdadi. he was a sick and depraved man, and now he's dead. >> reporter: the general says that informant was working right until the end, that he was present at the compound when american special ops raided it and that he left with those american special forces. for the kurds this is not about bragging rights. they don't want a thank you from president trump, they want the world to know they have been fighting alongside u.s. special operations forces for the last five years the kurds have lost 11,000 men and women, and they helped set up the operation, and the thank you they got is president trump gave turkey a green light to invade kurdish lands and now the kurds are being driven from their homes. >> richard engel in syria. thank you. a programming note by the way. too many you're going to have an exclusive interview, live

interview with the parents of kayla mueller, the american aid worker who was taken hostage and killed by isis the young lady that the raid was actually named for >> they have a lot of questions they are hoping the renewed focus will help give them answers. we'll see them tomorrow. we have a startling development overnight, tied to the tragic case of a toddler who fell to her death on a cruise ship her grandfather has now been charged with negligent homicide. kerry sanders is in miami with the story. kerry, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, savannah this morning, there are many questions that are left unanswered by this investigation. the child's grandfather now facing arrest in the u.s. territory of puerto rico they have already set bail at $80,000. he's expected to show up for a preliminary in court now next month. 18-month-old chloe wiegand was her family's pride and joy in july, the toddler fell 10

stories to her death from a docked royal caribbean ship as her family was about to embark on a cruise from san juan, puerto rico. her devastated parents speaking to savannah about this unthinkable tragedy in an unspeakable interview. >> it was just honestly, to lose our baby this way is just unfathomable >> reporter: now, after a police investigation, the child's grandfather has been charged in puerto rico with negligent homicide the family's attorney reacting to the charges overnight, releasing a statement that reads in part, these criminal charges are pouring salt on the open wounds of this grieving family clearly this was a tragic accident, adding had the cruise line simply followed proper safety guidelines for windows, the accident likely would never have happened. the girl's grandfather saying he picked the toddler up so she could look outside and look out the windows.

he set her on a railing in what he thought was a closed window in the play area >> i didn't know she had gone out a window i just saw sam standing next to the wall of windows screaming and banging on it. and there was like somebody from royal caribbean that kept trying to stop me and i just kept saying take me to my baby. where is my baby. >> has he been able to explain to you how this happened >> he was extremely hysterical the thing that he has repeatedly told us is i believed that there was glass. he will cry over and over. >> reporter: royal caribbean issued a statement following the charges saying in part this was a tragic incident. previously saying they were assisting police with the investigation. the family telling savannah they believe royal caribbean could have prevented the accident by taking additional safety precautions. the family spokesman adding in a statement overnight, royal caribbean still has not given us

the opportunity to view surveillance video they have of the incident, adding they plan to file a lawsuit very shortly the attorney representing sam anello, the grandfather tells us this morning that his client has now been released and is free and is heading home. the family still believes the attorney says that that security video will be the best evidence to show that this was a tragedy and an accident, but not a crime. guys >> horrible set of circumstances. kerry, thank you for the update. switch gears now, mr. roker with a check of the weather. >> we'll take a look at the rest of the country, show you what's happening. strong storms firing up down through southern california, i should say southern texas, snow increasing in the rockies, we're going to take a look at that in just a bit, but we're going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. to take a look at that in just a bit but we're going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds.

good morning, i'm kari hall, we'll have smog by conditions over san francisco. as we see some layers of fog mixing in with the smoke from the north bay wildfires. we'll see our fire danger returning within the next hour for the north bay. red flag warning begins at 8:00, we can see dust and mountains up to 65 miles per hour. for the east bay in the santa cruz mountains up to 50 today. we'll see temperatures reaching the low 70s our fire danger decreases tomorrow afternoon.

>> is that why you're wearing those glasses? >> yeah, yeah. sadly. >> you're getting a lot of reaction. >> doesn't look good for halloween. >> oh, it doesn't? >> the rain, not the glasses >> oh, okay. >> thank you so much coming up, a controversial case. why criminal charges have now been filed against a college student after her boyfriend took his own life and the ceo of boeing facing tough questions and anger on capitol hill over two deadly crashes and its still grounded 737 max fleet. we're there with a live report first, this is "today" on nbc. ♪

hey. hey. you must be steven's phone. now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network... only with xfinity xfi. download the xfi app today. in san francisco, if there's three people and you have music,

then it's a fiesta. ♪ my claim to fame is that i can teach you salsa in fifteen minutes. ♪ so i try to pass the cultural torch onto my guests. my name is nancy and i'm an airbnb host. ♪ the hero military dog who helped catch the world's most wanted terrorist. harry smith explores the event 50 years ago today that changed everything, the birth of the internet, how far we've come and where we may be headed but first, your local news

neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair's derm-proven retinol works so fast, it takes only one week to reveal younger looking skin. making wrinkles look so last week. rapid wrinkle repair® pair with retinol oil for 2x the wrinkle fighting power. neutrogena® so you have ten years experience... i do. but no phd? first kid. here's all the numbers, food's in the fridge, oh and lucas likes to pull on jewelry so you might want to lose the nose ring. by their second kid, parents are more likely to choose luvs. live, learn, and get luvs.

seaonly abreva cany to help sget rid of it in... ...as little as 2 1/2 days when used at the first sign. abreva starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. abreva acts on it. so you can too. here ma'am let me help you. at state farm, we are challenging ourselves to each do 100 acts of good. [reporter] i am here with state farm employee who's saving a beached whale. coffee? o... 100! giving back starts with us. join us at neighborhoodofgood.com®. ♪ ♪the happy heart, is a healthy heart.♪ ♪so find a fun way to make your style.♪ ♪do whatever makes your heart grin and take a spin.♪ ♪and go and do it over again. ♪honey nut cheerios, good goes round and around.♪ lashmakes every lash fullyrom maybsensational.ork. our fanning brush volumizes every kind of lash... ...for a sensational full-fan effect. lash sensational. only from maybelline new york.

♪ c'mom and say it now. ♪ just let the words come out. ♪ give me your love. ♪ no calories. no sweeteners. all smiles™. bubly sparkling water. crack a smile™. can your hair survive damage? dove conditioner proves it can. we treat one brush with dove conditioner and expose both to damaging conditions. the difference is clear. dove intensive repair conditioner. for smooth, touchably beautiful hair. dove intensive repair conditioner. the hazelnut spread m&m'sve all been wspokescandy! (clapping) (audience gasps) oh my what did you do?? (giggles) we ate him. forget injections

and look up to 5 years younger in 12 weeks with no7 laboratories line correcting booster serum. it works so well 76% of women said injections can wait. line correcting booster serum from no7. exclusively at these retailers. she's driven by a primal desire for meat. a lynx in the wild and your cat. for a lynx this need is satisfied by what the wild provides. for your cat it's meat rich blue wilderness. because your cat is wild inside. it's just a cough. yeah right, and i was born yesterday. (indistinct announcement over pa system) i'm a baby! what? treat your cough seriously with robitussin dm max. it soothes in seconds and delivers fast, powerful cough relief for hours. robitussin. because it's never just a cough. powerful cough relief for hours. seems like some are going at the speed of yesteryear. but not here. this is capital one. where banking moves at the speed of right now. you can open a new savings account in about 5 minutes and earn five times the national average. from here or here in our cafés.

plus, there are no fees or minimums on savings or checking accounts. welcome to banking's new frontier. this is banking reimagined. what's in your wallet? good morning, i'm marcus washington, within the last 25 minutes, a new round of planned power outages kicked in. pg&e plans to shut power to parts of napa, sonoma and solano. later tonight at 11:00 p.m., santa clarita county will see outages. the fire remains 15% contained. the number of buildings destroyed is about the same as yesterday, a little more than 100. as for the acres burned, this does not change much, about

75,000. and let's get the latest on the weather conditions from kari hall. >> chilly temperatures as the lights go out in parts of the north bay. looking at our winds, we're going to see winds picking up in the next couple hours, especially in the north bay, winds in clear lake and napa, 20 to 30 miles an hour. staying brisk the rest of the day. some of our highest winds will be in our higher elevations above 1,000 feet. as our red flag warning continues thru tomorrow. let's head over to mike for a look at the commute. >> great news for palo alto, redwood city, the crash at 101 and martin cleared just a few minutes ago. the traffic is lighter on that side of the bay. san jose still kicking in strong, 101-87, 85 until both

directions. northbound a crash around davis through san lorenzo and san leandro. the crash at gold hill looks like there may be movement, there's a fire truck there. >> we'll have another update in 30 minutes.

7:30 now, tuesday morning, 29th of october, 2019, a lot of smiling faces on our plaza, starting their morning with us, and we are glad to have you along. >> this is a good headline zero bark 30, everyone is talking about the dog who was instrumental in the raid that killed the world's most wanted terrorist. and of course we all remember the movie zero dark thirty >> we have a little more about the dog coming up. >> good new york post headline. >> a quick check of the headlines this half hour we start in california where several out of control wildfires

are burning throughout the state now. the kincade fire growing in size overnight. flames are now scorching more than 74,000 acres of northern california's wine country. almost 200,000 people have been forced from their homes. meanwhile, alongside one of the busiest stretches of highway in southern california, the getty fire exploded on a los angeles hillside investigators are looking into the possibility that both of those fires were caused by electrical equipment owned by the area's gas and electric company. former north carolina senator kay hagan has died at the age of 66. hagan served one term in the senate after defeating republican elizabeth dole in 2008 her family said the former senator died after a three year battle with encephalitis hagan was diagnosed with powassan virus in 2016 that virus is transmitted to humans by ticks and there is no cure hagan is survived by her husband and three kids.

now to a disturbing case out of massachusetts, a boston college student took his own life on the day of his graduation, and now it's led to a criminal charge against his girlfriend nbc's stephanie gosk is here with a story on this this is really disturbing. >> this is a tough one prosecutors say the 18-month relationship between these two boston college students had turned into an abusive one, physically and psychologically, eventually pushing alexander urtula to take his own life. this morning is girlfriend is accused of involuntary manslaught manslaughter it was graduation day from boston college for biology major, instead, less than two hours before the ceremony, he killed himself in a parking garage his girlfriend, inyoung you, was there. >> she went to the garage and was present when mr. urtula jumped to his death. >> a suicide that prosecutors are calling a crime. according to the d.a., yu tracked his cell phone there, something she had done before,

but even worse the d.a. said, she had been sending taunting messages to him, including go kill yourself, and go die. >> she was aware of his spiraling depression and suicidal thoughts brought on by her abuse, yet she persisted, continuing to encourage him to take his own life. >> now, you is charged with involuntary manslaughter prosecutors say family and friends knew she was abusing urtula emotionally, and physically, including, the d.a. says, 75,000 texts shared between the couple in the two months leading up to urtula's suicide, averaging more than 1,200 a day. prosecutors say you is currently in south korea nbc news has not been able to reach her for comment. prosecutors add they are in communication with a family representative there trying to get her to return voluntarily. if they can't, they say they will try to extradite her. the details reminding many of another massachusetts case, michelle carter, currently

serving a 15-month sentence in the state for urging her boyfriend, conrad roy, to take his own life, sending him messages like you just need to do it. eventually convincing roy over text to return to a carbon monoxide filled car even though he had doubts. >> the trial of a plainville woman accused of encouraging her friend to kill himself through text messages is now under way >> the case generated intense interest, including an hbo documentary. >> the defendant's own words, his death was my fault i told him to get back in. >> the d.a. acknowledged there are similarities in the two cases, accusing you of creating a life-threatening situation for urtula that ended in tragedy >> steph, you mentioned the girlfriend, she's in south korea right now, likelihood that she comes back voluntarily, likelihood that she ends up being extradited. >> they are cautiously optimistic that she returns voluntarily. they are ready to start the extradition proceedings, and said they would enlist

interpol's help to get her back. they're serious about this >> what makes them optimistic? >> they didn't say, and they weren't specific about how that extradition would go forward we have an extradition treaty with south korea, and having looked at it, south korea has a fair amount of choice on their own whether they send her back, so it could get complicated. >> thanks, steph. coming up, we are going to celebrate a birthday, a big birthday, a milestone birthday, if you will. can you believe it's been 50 years since the internet first came into our lives? it's changed it in a myriad of ways harry smith is going to walk us through it. coming up first, two deadly crashes in less than a year and still no answers when will the boeing 737 max plane be safe enough to return to the skies why we could get some answers today. that story coming up right after this with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable.

don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with... ...an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines and if you're pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. ♪

and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ is just like our originalhn sandwiches...only littler...so we bought a little ad...on lil jon. little johns, yeah! $3, what?! [upbeat music ♪] you got this.

you got this. you got this. you got this. (ma(woman) i'mwings.ng... (avo) only frigidaire's range lets you air fry... ...right in your oven. it's all of the flavor, none of the guilt. (man) so... (woman) good. (avo) that's using your frigidaire. and take an extra 25% off. everything for fall like jackets, boots, sweaters and more! plus - take an extra 20% off!... plus - save even more on cuddl duds... plus - free amazon returns now at all kohl's stores! stack the savings!... right now - at kohl's. have been recalled because of dangerous takata airbags. one of them could be yours. go to safeairbags.com to see if your vehicle is on the recall list.

it could save your life. schools are having acrto cut sports.y, i'm tony the tiger and i'm on a mission to fix that. ♪ bring back the tigers. ♪ your mighty, mighty tigers. [cheering sounds] buy a box and help all kids be tigers. ( ♪ ) only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol®. for fast pain relief. i'm working to make connections of a different kind. adp helps canyon ranch place the right people in the right jobs, so employees like dave can achieve what they're working for.

nbc's tom costello covers aviation for us. he is inside that hearing room. this is the first time dennis muilenburg has faced congress. what can we expect? >> reporter: good morning, that's right. in the room behind me he is on the hot seat being grilled by members of congress. also in this room 20 family members of victims who died. investigators have founding boeing failed to tell the faa as well as pilots about this new safety system onboard the max that is blamed for contributing to these two horrific crashes. it was one year ago today that a lion air 737 max crashed into the java sea off indonesia. all 189 people on board killed. five months later, an ethiopian 737 max crashed just after takeoff. 157 people dead.

a new software system linked to both crashes, demanding to know why the plane was ever certified, several victims' families wet privately with the faa on monday, including chris and clarise moore, who lost their daughter, danielle. >> we have to keep our heads, make sure we use that anger and that sadness and use that energy to make changes. >> reporter: the stumo family lost their daughter, samya >> we're trying to save lives and protect families because for all of the 346 families who have lost their loved ones, it's been devastating. >> reporter: boeing has released dennis muilenburg's opening statement to congress in which he says i wanted to let you know on behalf of myself and all of the men and women of boeing how deeply sorry i am. investigators have concluded that a flight control system called mcas misfired in both crashes forcing the nose of the plane down, pilots unable to recover.

text messages between boeing test pilots suggest they struggled with mcas in the simulator back in 2016 an international investigation found boeing never fully explained the mcas system to the faa. former ntsb chief, chris hart, led that investigation this plane was approved and the faa apparently never understood the new technologies. >> they didn't know all of the nuances they needed to know as the technology became more complex. >> reporter: every 737 max in the world remains grounded no airline owns more than southwest. >> i have been very clear, we're not happy about our situation. we put our future in the hands of boeing and the max, and we're grounded >> reporter: there have been allegations that employees inside boeing felt pressure to really cut corners on safety in order to get the max out the door boeing insists there was no undue pressure, but the ceo will today tell congress, quote, we know that we made mistakes, we got some things wrong, we own

that, he will say, and we are now going to fix that. guys, back to you. >> that's going to be a lot to answer for in ha hearing room. we were hearing from the southwest ceo talking about the 737 max not flying and what that means for them when are they saying it's going to be getting back in the air? >> reporter: that's right. the airlines are upset because it's gaucosting them a fortune lost revenue the faa is hoping to have a certification flight in late november and then certify the new 737 max sometime in december southwest hopes it will hopefully fly the plane again in february and united and american are hoping to fly the plane sometime in january. guys >> tom costello on capitol hill for us this morning. tom, thank you. >> all right, mr. roker, a lot of pressure on you this week a lot of kids wondering if they're going to be able to go out and get that candy. >> it's interesting, the decorations say halloween, but the weather says winter. look at this

this is rapid city, south dakota, and that's a spooky forecast with lots of snow, and we've got a lot of wet weather, and snowy weather to talk about. in fact, in the rockies, we are talking about winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories for 14 million people this system pushing to the east, new snow for the rockies, tomorrow enhanced moisture comes up from the gulf, heavy rain from texas on into michigan. on halloween, the eastern third of the country, a mess but look back behind st. louis, chicago, the backside of this system, we've got snow and friday, this large storm exits new england, cold and windy behind the front snowfall in the rockies, denver could see upwards of 6 to 8 inches of snow, and as we move to the east, into the midwest, upper midwest, anywhere from 4 to 6 inches of snow. chicago could pick up a couple of inches. and the rainfall through friday. >> come on, al >> boo. >> that's what's going on around the country.

good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall, we're under a red flag warning in the north bay right now. starting in the next 15 minutes and going through 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. we're going to see those winds gust from 50 to 60 miles an hour. breezy winds throughout the day tomorrow. calmer weather in the forecast, with some sunshine, and that extends into the weekend with temperatures warming up to slightly over the next several days. kids are still cute with their raincoats on. there. more candy for them. just ahead, call it man's and the military's best friend the dog being hailed the hero for his crucial role in the raid on the leader of i sisz. that's coming up right after this welcome to old navy tonight.

the holidays are here. (audience cheering) i love your material. so warm and cozy. and festive. - what material are you talking about? - and we're out of time! go mad for plaid with up to fifty percent off storewide. that's up to fifty percent off. at old navy. of millions of americans during the recession. so, my wife kat and i took action. we started a non-profit community bank with a simple theory - give people a fair deal and real economic power. invest in the community, in businesses owned by women and people of color, in affordable housing. the difference between words and actions matters. that's a lesson politicians in washington could use right now.

i'm tom steyer, and i approve this message. ♪ life is better with you ♪ whoa whoa ♪ whoa whoa ♪ life is better with you ♪ whoa whoa ♪ whoa whoa ♪ life is better with you ♪ i know just one thing is true... ♪ life is better with you ♪

in a vast desert completely wdevoid of basset hounds. [ back in baby's arms by patsy cline ] then, it appeared a beacon of hope. ♪ i'm back in baby's arms more glorious than a billion sunsets. we were found. ♪ i'm back where i belong found by the hounds. ♪ back in baby's arms drill? cordless. noted. introducing the capital one walmart rewards card. i love it! that's a good one. earn unlimited 5% back on everything you buy at walmart online... perfect for all their hints. okay! the capital one walmart rewards card. unlimited 5% back at walmart online, and unlimited rewards everywhere else. ♪what's in your wallet?

and unlimited rewards everywhere else. so josh, you going for our drive safe and save discount? ♪ yup, using the app. driving safe. heh. you wanna go? wanna go bro? hey, uh, do not mess with my discount. woooo! you could save up to 30%. let's go! nice to meet you, go get 'em tiger! woooo! sounds like you've got this? yeah. definitely. get a discount up to 30% with drive safe and save™ from state farm. good to have carson join us. you're going to like this, the story of one of the heroes in the raid that killed the leader

of isis, a military dog. >> and joe fryer joins us with that story hey, joe, good morning >> for security reasons, the military can't say much about this dog, which suffered some minor injuries, in fact, the k-9's name is classified, but its picture taken before the raid was declassified giving us a glimpse of the brave pup for the smiling dog with the praul ne prominent tongue, a tale of bravery. this k-9's courage never waivered even as u.s. forces raided the compound of isi leader, abu bakr al-baghdadi. >> a beautiful dog, a talented dog, we had nobody even hurt that's why the dog was so great. >> reporter: the dog is being created with chasing baghdadi as he fled down a dead end tunnel, cornering the world's most wanted terrorist before he detonated his suicide vest. >> the military working dog performed a tremendous service as they all do in a variety of

situations, slightly wounded and fully recovering. >> it was president trump who released a picture of the resilient pup tweeting the wonderful dog did such a great job. these invaluable military k-9s are no strangers to showcasing their skills during missions that often lead to dangerous and potentially deadly scenarios belgian malinois, known for their intense work ethic are often used by the military and police in fact, according to a report in "the new yorker" in 2011 a belgian malinois named cairo helped in the osama bin laden raid when president obama asked to meet the dog, he was told i advise you to bring treats now the spotlight is shining on another dog that many are calling a nation's best friend >> joe, walk us through why the military is keeping the dog's name classified? >> military officials say the dog is still in theater, has been returned to duty with its handler, which is why that

information is still classified. one retired general tweeted that you want to be careful not to reveal any information inadvertently about others who may have been involved in the raid by the way, we should note these military dogs actually outrank their handlers, which is one way to make sure that they're treated well >> that's pretty cool. >> that's interesting. i saw a tweet that said okay the dog's name is classified, we can just call him classy, like lassie >> how about ram bone. >> we could play this game all day. >> still ahead, a "today" exclusive, we'll take you inside the private world of the queen, one of her closest aides speaking out, her designer. plus, big news from jennifer aniston, what could she be working on with her "friends" co-stars we'll finding out after your local news and weather >> but it's not a reboot

feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that's the kind lincoln's about. ♪ fidelity now has zero commissions for online u.s. equity trades and etfs. and fidelity also offers zero account fees for brokerage accounts, plus zero minimums to open an account. and only fidelity offers four zero expense ratio index funds directly to investors. with all of those zeros, there are zero reasons to invest anywhere else. fidelity. ♪ so maybe i'll win

♪ saved by zero ♪ so maybe i'll win schools are having acrto cut sports.y, i'm tony the tiger and i'm on a mission to fix that. ♪ bring back the tigers. ♪ your mighty, mighty tigers. [cheering sounds] buy a box and help all kids be tigers. johnsbut we're also a cancer fighting, hiv controlling, joint replacing, and depression relieving company. from the day you're born we never stop taking care of you. skip to the good part with alka-seltzer plus. now with 25% more concentrated power. nothing works faster for powerful cold relief. oh, what a relief it is! so fast! good mormore treatment? we're going to try something different today. hi! awwww, so pretty. dogs bring out the good in us.

pedigree® brings out the good in them. and take an extra 25% off. everything for fall like jackets, boots, sweaters and more! plus - take an extra 20% off!... plus - save even more on cuddl duds... plus - free amazon returns now at all kohl's stores! stack the savings!... right now - at kohl's. lashmakes every lash fullyrom maybsensational.ork. our fanning brush volumizes every kind of lash... ...for a sensational full-fan effect. lash sensational. only from maybelline new york. but at t-mobile unlimited talk, text and data is still just 30 bucks a line for 4 lines. and now you can get it on our newest, most powerful signal. no signal reaches farther or is more reliable. that means... you can share even more selfies with friends. stream more of your favorite teams. and connect more this fall. switch to t-mobile now and get 4 new lines of unlimited for just 30 bucks a line.

the kincade wildfire. at midday - a live report from near the frontlines. happening now... a new round of power outages good tuesday morning, i'm kari hall, we're under a red flag warning that starts in the north bay as we'll see our winds increasing into the rest of the morning. and this starts in four minutes as we'll see our high fire danger for the north bay. our mountain gusts could reach 65 miles per hour today. and then for the east bay, we'll see the red flag warning and the high fire danger beginning at 1:00 this afternoon. for the santa cruz mountains we could see gusts increasing later this morning. the north bay, we see the bright colors shows the winds could reach over 40 miles per hour today. and then into the evening, we're still looking at gusty winds and

that red flag warning continues through tomorrow. this is something we'll be tracking throughout the day with more updates. bottom of your screen we have northbound san jose. steady and grad you'lly pushing up, same thing toward the westover toward the peninsula. we had interviews around the done barton bridge. that crash is over to the shoulder already now. nice drive, back to you. >> thanks, mike. happening now, a new round of power outages, it started in the last hour. so far it's affected people in the north bay. you can link to more on our twitter feed, including the map showing areas that will lose power. firefighters in sonoma county face a difficulty today. on our home page we posted a

link to the latest on containingment numbers as well as the acreage burned.

it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, battling the blaze, mass evacuations underway as raging wildfires tear through california. >> this is probably the last time i'm going to see this neighborhood. >> residents now bracing for the worst with the strongest winds of the season on the way. we're live with the latest. plus, royal chic, a first look at what the queen's long time dress maker is revealing about her majesty's fashion sense and herbal nature. and next game, we are celebrating the internet's 50th birthday today. >> you've got mail. >> harry smith joins us with a look back at how it all came to be and what life was like before

it existed. today, tuesday, october 29th, 2019. >> to our kids in indy. >> and baltimore. >> we love you. >> hello, from california. >> and buffalo, new york. >> last year we said hi to the "today" show from the two of us. four months later, good morning to the three in ventura, california. >> today is michelle's 60th birthday. >> happy birthday, welcome back to "today," we appreciate everybody who came out this morning on the plaza. >> yeah, guys. just a few more days left in october and our october to remember, and they're going to be good ones too. >> tomorrow, harry smith gets to sit down with two hollywood icons, robert de niro, and al pacino. not a bad assignment. >> no, and harry is an icon, too, so that just goes. talented actress here in studio 1a, perhaps you have heard of her, kerry washington.

kerry washington will be with us, and on friday, fashion designer, stella mccartney. >> you said friday, but what about thursday. thursday is halloween, we are counting the minutes until the big extravaganza on the plaza and another clue about our costumes just ahead. those clues are so hard, even people who know what the costumes are don't get it. >> i had a nightmare that i blurted it out. >> i know. >> i know yours. i don't know yours. i'm looking forward to your clue. >> you won't recognize me. there's a lot going on today, we're going to get right to your news at 8:00. after a week of battling massive california wildfires, exhausted crews are being told that the worst may still be ahead. nbc's gadi schwartz joins us with terrifying scenes from both ends of the state. hey, gadi, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, hoda, yeah, this is what's left of a mechanic's home. at the end of the driveway that home has been reduced to ashes and rubble.

everything that he had has been burned. all of these cars have been destroyed. in fact the fire was burning so hot, you can see this is an aluminum alloy wheel and it's melted. aluminum melts at about 1,300 degrees, so it gives you an idea of just how hot things were burning. this was an area that saw the worst of what they call the diablo winds here, effectively turning all of this into a blast furnace. the family that lives here says when they looked over at the ridge, they saw sheets of fire raining down on them. that's when they got out of here. these winds are expected to kick back up today, but the difference between then and now is then it was just one spark. now we have embers that are burning and smoldering all throughout this area. you can see this heavy smoke that is coming from all of those little spot fires. firefighters are out here on the lines trying to put them out before the winds pick up, but we're talking about an area that is twice the size of miami so

these firefighters are just praying that the winds stay down. guys, back to you. >> in washington, the impeachment inquiry could reach a new level today. an official listening in on the president's controversial phone call with ukraine's leader is set to testify. nbc white house correspondent peter alexander has latest on this. peter, good morning. >> reporter: today's witness, army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the top ukraine expert on the white house's national security council, an iraq war veteran, purple heart recipient, and he says he is not the whistle-blower but he is the first official to testify who was on that call, as you note, and he paints a damaging picture of the president's urging ukraine's president to investigate joe biden. vindman plans to testify that he twice reported concerns about president trump and the team's pressure campaign to his superior, and according to a draft of his opening statement obtained by nbc news, vindman is going to tell lawmakers today, i did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and i was worried about the

implications for the u.s. government support of ukraine. for his part, president trump is reacting this morning asking why people he says he's never heard of are testifying about that call arguing ukraine said it felt no pressure savannah. >> peter alexander at the white house, thank you, peter. now to embattled california congresswoman katie hill one day after she announced her resignation amid allegations of affairs with staffers, she released an emotional video about that morgan radford has more about that story good morning. >> good morning, katie hill had a promising political future she ran a grass roots campaign, openly talking about her bisexuality and college owns, rallying young people online and on college campuses. now her meteoric political rise has been cut short by what she calls a smear campaign of revenge porn, powered by her political enemies and by her husband. >> some people call this

electronic assault, others call it revenge porn. >> the freshman lawmaker on the offensive after sexual photos surfaced of her and a female member of her campaign hill, who is openly bisexual has called that relationship consensual but inappropriate blaming her estranged husband for leaking the damaging photos. >> this coordinated campaign carried out by the right-wing media and republican opponents enabling and perpetuating my husband's abuse by providing him a platform is disgusting and unforgivable >> hill has denied allegations of a separate, inappropriate relationship with a male congressional staffer, which is at the center of a house ethics committee investigation. we caught up with hill last year as she ran what she called the most millennial campaign ever. do you think the fact that you are young is helping you connect to these younger college students >> i think so. i think that young people want to see other young people in power. >> reporter: now, she's using the same grassroots messaging

and online strategy that catapulted her to fame to express remorse about her past and look ahead to her future >> i need you to know that my fight is not over. >> reporter: so as it stands, hill's resignation date isn't clear but it could be as soon as this week. once she leaves office, the ethics investigation, which was opened just last week will end hill's husband has not responded to our request for comment. >> morgan radford. thank you. how about a little boost, guys, would you like that. here we go a fort lauderdale priest is earning a lot of praise online for this amazing show of school spirit the cheer squad at cardinal gibbons high school was performing at a routine pep rally, and suddenly father ricardo rivera, he walks on to the court. just watch what happens next whoa >> that's good >> he's got moves.

>> that's good >> oh, my god. amazing. >> come on >> he hit all the moves. that obviously took practice it's not something he just put together at the last second. >> he's been going to cheer leading practice for a few weeks, it looks like that's so cool. >> thank you, thank you. coming up, taylor swift's grand return to "the voice," and speaking of that show we love so much, where is that guy carson. >> it's not just a song by maroon 5, it was actually once a thing. never mind, superman's closet as i know it, phone booths have gone the way of the dinosaur, one of the many ways our world has changed since the internet invention. we're going to celebrate its 50th birthday, harry smith is going to do that we're going to break out a few relics, but first a few messages a seems like it's frozen. but not here. with capital one, you can open a new savings account in about 5 minutes and earn five times the national average. open one from here. or here - in a capital one café.

plus, there are no fees or minimums on savings or checking accounts because that's how it should be. this is banking reimagined. what's in your wallet? play it cool and escape heartburn fast with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ tum tum tum tums with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. too many after-parties. new neutrogena® bright boost with dullness-fighting neoglucosamine. boosts cell turnover by 10 times for instantly brighter skin. bright boost neutrogena®. ♪ ♪ ♪

the holidays are here. welc(audience cheering)ight. i love your material. so warm and cozy. and festive. - what material are you talking about? - and we're out of time! go mad for plaid with up to fifty percent off storewide. that's up to fifty percent off. at old navy. making the most of family time means taking over the kitchen on the weekend. and while my breakfast might be different than mom's. that's part of the fun. make the most of family time with pillsbury grands biscuits. ♪ ♪ emreplenished,d, fortified. emerge everyday with emergen-c.

packed with b vitamins, electrolytes, antioxidants, plus more vitamin c than 10 oranges. why not feel this good every day? emerge and see. [baby crying] pampers is the first and only diaper with air dry channels they stay up to 3 times drier, so babies can sleep soundly...all night. pampers. somebody burned down my she shed. your she shed was struck by lightning. is my she shed covered by state farm? your she shed's covered, cheryl. that's wonderful news. home insurance trusted by more people than any other. state farm.

this morning, on mr. smith goes to, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the birth of the internet. is that crazy? >> happy birthday, internet, you hardly look over 49. of course we cannot imagine our lives without the internet now, but harry is here with some looks back at how it all came to be. >> this is what you need to know is 50 years ago, the size of computers, they filled basements in government buildings, in colleges, universities, at corporations they didn't communicate with one another. the government says let's put out a contract let's see who wants to figure out how to make that happen. companies like at&t and ibm said

why would you want to do that? some little company comes along, a researcher at ucla today tried to send a message to his colleague at stanford university the message was supposed to be log in the only thing that happened was lo and then the system crashed that was 50 years ago today. by the mid-1980s, personal computers were becoming more common but to connect you had to use a telephone line software was primitive and cell phones were, well, they were the size of a suitcase, and the worldwide web, www, did not come into existence until 1989. as machines became more sophisticated, the word "internet" began to creep into our collective vocabulary. >> allison, can you explain what internet is? >> that was 1994, 26 years after the internet first came to be. in 1997, half the households in

america which were connected to the internet were using aol. >> you've got mail. >> america online. we were getting connected by the millions, oftentimes to complete strangers. cupid was online, too. >> he did not know how old i was until the day before we met. >> she used to just say, oh, i'm a few years older, i'm a few years older. >> where all those people gathered, there was money to be made. >> investors are trying to hitch their wagons to all things internet. >> suddenly the words silicon valley were on everyone's lips >> internet companies are the hottest and most profitable investment in a generation >> in the year 2000, the dotcom bubble burst >> most dotcom retail companies will be out of business by next year >> while investors cried over their losses, inventors and entrepreneurs kept improving ways to use the internet >> the google search engine has gotten so popular, it's given rise to something called googling, where you type in the name of a friend to see how many

times he or she shows up on the internet, and then there's self-googling where you type in your own name. >> the power and speed of the internet made a lot of things obsolete a show of hands, please, for all who remember encyclopedias among the books you no longer bought were the ones sold in stores. >> we're trying to create something entirely new, something that the world hasn't seen before. >> first, a book seller, then a purveyor of just about everything >> actually, all orders do need to be placed online. >> thanks to or because of the internet, amazon has moved into our households >> alexa, how many ounces are in a cup? >> it's worth noting how the popularity of the name alexa has dropped significantly. by the mid-2000s, smartphones exploded into the marketplace, the first iphone in 2007, just about that time facebook entered the scene. >> connecting with friends is something that everyone needs to

do and facebook lets people in all different demographics all over the world do that. >> connectivity, we wonder if 50 years ago anyone imagined an america where we spend so much time on screens. as much as 12 hours a day including tv the first electronic connecter was samuel morse his message across a telegraph line in 1866, what has got broad. what indeed. >> wow >> think about this. right now, the average adult in america consumes five times more information than we did 50 years ago. >> wow >> five times the amount of information. of course a lot of it in my case goes in one eye and out the other, but this is an encyclopedia, older brother, right, sold these door to door back in the day. i had a set that he sold our family in my room and instead of doing homework, this is what i

did every night. >> you need that to do homework. >> that's better than doing tiktok videos. they were asking us all to pick something nostalgic, i remember the phone book, of course, and looking up people's phone numbers but even just as a reporter, 25 years ago, we didn't have the internet and, you know, you'd be like, i need a car dealer to ask about, you know, just going to the yellow pages and cold calling and the phone book was my lifeline now we would just look it up on the internet, google it. >> in the first bureau i worked in, we had a room full of phone books for all over the country. >> and the reverse index where you could look up a phone number and find out where they lived. >> mind blown. >> mine was the beeper and anyone who was ever a reporter. >> wait a minute wait a minute. >> if you were a journalist back in the day, you were driving to a shoot because you would drive your own car, carry your own gear, you would see the number of the station, oh, gosh, 911,

you would have to get out, go to a phone booth, call them, and like, hey, can you go to the fire, i'm already on the way, hang up and you continue this is how you had to pause and call that was part of the deal. >> beepers were what >> i remember getting a beeper and being very excited. >> '89, '90. >> what do you got >> this is actually mine it was a palm pilot. this is mine and it was the beginning of the smartphone, and had the keyboard, and also the apple newton, this was before steve jobs, and it had a stylus in it, and you would write on it. the problem was it was called graffiti it would misspell words. you could connect a phone line to this, and fax from it. >> you always had the technology >> early adopter >> it tells time, it's a wind up clock. >> what you got, craig >> i remember vhs tapes.

now obviously everyone streams everything but when i was growing up, we would go to block buster video, like on a friday. >> oh, yeah. >> movies for the weekend. very first vhs tape i remember, howard the duck. >> didn't they charge you like two bucks if you don't rewind. >> what you got carson. >> prior to 1979, if you liked music, you had to go to music. music didn't go with you if you did, you had a big boom box in venice, california, and skating around and it was very heavy. this came out, the sony walkman changed my life, and the headphones, invented for music they're in stereo. they're not mono listened to a dodger game. this is it for me. >> what might you have been listening to in your walkman. >> i used to make mixed tapes. >> of course you did. >> boyz ii men

house of pain, delight, ghetto boys, gnr came out that year snoop and drake came together for the first time enter sandman, metallica, mix it up >> he was hip. >> i was sell it to you for 20 bucks. >> harry, this has been fun. stick around for pop start. >> can we go back to this world? here's a question. >> i think that pendulum swung the other way. >> how would you do the weather? >> interestingly enough i got my first weather computer, an apple 2 e in 1998. >> worth a billion dollars now. >> it was crazy. but now we've got incredible satellite, you can see storm system now getting itself together, big storm, we've also got wet weather through the south. impacts travel today, denver for snow, dallas for rain and wind same with new orleans, on the roads a mess from kansas city to dallas, san antonio to atlanta to tampa, and tomorrow, more problems, chicago, kansas city, memphis and dallas that's what's going on around the countr

good morning, i'm kari hall, as we look outside in san jose, we have fog moving in and really cold temperatures. also our winds picking up in the north bay as go into the rest of the day and even early tomorrow our winds in the mountains could gust up to 65 miles per hour creating a high fire danger across the north bay as well as the east bay and the santa cruz mountains. the rest of the forecast we'll see temperatures staying in the 70s and mornings starting out in the low 40s. and that is your latest weather. gang >> mr. daly. >> let's get to it i'm going to start with arnold schwarzenegger, the actor and former governor appeared on jimmy kimmel to talk about his new terminator movie, but eventually got around to talking about the newest member of his family, chris pratt, who is married to schwarzenegger's daughter, katherine. they were married back in june arnold revealing the moment he knew pratt was the right guy >> he's a really nice guy and talented i get along with him, and the

first time we met, he says can we have a workout together, i need to have the inside scoop to the pumping iron >> and did that happen >> we went to the gym and worked out. >> were you impressed, was that part of how you decided whether he could be a part of your family or not, watching him work out? >> pumping iron was the decision making factor. we were in the gym >> yeah, we should all hold our respective son-in-laws to that standard jennifer aniston appeared on ellen, asked about a possible reboot or maybe a reunion. here we go again something about the iconic show "friends" and this time superstar fan, charlie puth, to everybody's surprise, jennifer aniston had this to say. >> this is his question for you and everyone's question, is there going to be a reunion, a "friends" reunion. >> like a reboot of the show >> sure. >> no.

we would love for there to be something but we don't know what that something is. so we're just trying, we're really working on something. >> i could be involved. >> you want to be involved >> i'll do all the new music. >> music you heard it >> i mean. >> is that something >> she said she's quote working on something >> not a reboot. >> so there's a chance. >> keeping the pipe dream alive, i guess. >> not happening >> kurt cobain is up next, the nirvana frontman is back in the news after this green cardigan sweater, you might remember from the mtv unplugged performance sold at auction for a record-breaking appear mount ♪ oh no, not me, we never lost d expectations, anyone want to control ♪

>> the final sale exceeded expectations, anyone want to take a guess. >> how much? >> $334,000 for that sweater, the most expensive sweater ever sold at auction, fun fact, literally hasn't been cleaned since that mtv performance. >> they paid that much for a dirty sweater. >> yeah, and that was before his death in 1994, one of the most recognizable pieces of memorabilia in music history. >> taylor swift swung by "the voice" last night where she introduced blake toot world of instagram filters to a horrifying effect. >> here we are at "the voice." >> oh, my gosh, look at those eyes. >> you have mascara on as a cat. that's one of the perks of being a cat. i'm here with blake lively, oh, it's not blake lively. >> some of us wish, but no, it's blake shelton. if you're wondering did taylor perform on "the voice" last night? you betcha the state song. >> did you not sing the state song alabama, alaska, arkansas,

arkansas, california, colorado, connecticut, delaware, florida, west virginia, wisconsin, wyoming. did you not know that song >> no. >> it's like my favorite song. >> that's one of my favorite performances in 17 seasons of this show was that moment right there. >> the state song. >> i've never heard it >> savannah knows it >> i only know it because vale can do it. i can't perform under pressure, no >> you heard what they did with the alphabet song, with the l, m, n, o, p, they slowed it down. they want to go l, m. >> no, it's l, m, n, o. >> it's l, m, n, o, q, rs, what happened to p, it's running down your leg. >> oh, my gosh >> we're all 12 today. >> today the royal secrets being revealed by the queen's

long-time dress maker. but first, your local news >> i can't believe you remembered that joke >> knock knock ck knock i'm laura garcia. just getting reports of an earthquake into our news room. here you see the seismograph. it went off and it was a 4.0 earthquake close to the hollister area. this one right now, early reports of a 4.0 magnitude. in other news, the latest round of power outages kicked in. that's when pg and e shut down

parts of the counties. they plan to roll in contra costa counties later tonight at 11 p.m. and the number of buildings destroyed about the same this morning. the acres around 75,000. we'll bring you another update at 9:00 a.m. >> we're seeing a lot of smoke going into fran. it will be windy all throughout the day and we'll be tracking that along with that high fire danger from now into later.

good morning, everybody, it's tuesday, october 29th, it's a great morning out on our plaza, a little bit cloudy but no rain yet as we stop and say hello to some of the folks that come out to say hi as october is winding down and we are getting ready for halloween, you're getting ready with these glasses. >> that's right. >> rocking the orange. >> we have to talk about the

glasses, we want to know what people at home think about al's glasses, you like the orange, thumbs up? >> do you like them? >> she likes it. we've got one vote yes. >> thumbs up go to twitter and vote >> deborah roberts gave it a thumbs down. >> yeah, she did. >> your wife said no, isn't that the end of the story >> no. >> we want to know what you think. >> they make me stronger >> who's got the crowd moment. >> come on over here for a second, i want you to meet some friends of mine. this is a nice little story. this is micah and her daughter olivia you are on a special trip. tell me about it. >> olivia leaves for the air force for boot camp in november right before thanksgiving, so this is our girls trip before she takes off. >> how about that. how about a round of applause for olivia in advance, thank you 4 service, we appreciate it are you excited, nervous a little bit of both. >> a lot of both fair enough. this new york trip has got to be special to be here with your mom. >> it is, it's going to be

really nice. >> you went to top of the rock. how was that view? >> it was amazing. breathtaking. >> it's nice to see you guys out here, and safe trip back to massachusetts, guys. >> thank you thank you so much. >> coming up, the woman at the right hand of royalty. wait until you hear the stories being shared by queen elizabeth's stylist. speaking of great styles, i would like to draw your attention to savannah guthrie's bun. can we get a closer shot of this bun. >> not my buns. >> bun singular. >> look at that bun. >> you know, i put it on the internet and siri daly says i have a bun but it doesn't look like that. she has a bun in the oven. >> we should do a little thing on how to do that. >> let's not get into the mystery of what's happening here >> it's a cool one. >> you think there's a critter riding in here, like a nest. >> i like it. >> tom brokaw is here.

>> he's wearing a bun? >> he doesn't need any hair extensions he has a new book all about watergate and comparing it to what's happening now in our country with a unique perspective. >> we'll talk to tom in a few moments. also, where do you guys stand on eating alone? >> i'm pro >> we're going to take a close look at what's driving this big spike in solo dining. we are two days away from our halloween extravaganza, it's been fun giving you our clues so let's keep that going savannah. >> let's recap craig is sitting on a throne that's his clue. carson is rocking a sweater. al is taking his costume to the bank that was a riddle. hoda, you have a clue. >> here's mine are we ready for this? are you guys ready for our clue? i'm ready to make my move as i dance to the groove. >> boy, what is going on makes no sense. >> i don't think we have had one correct guess. the clues are that hard.

the big reveal happens on thursday, halloween morning, we can't wait speaking of al, how is the weather looking? >> well, let's look at today for right now. whoa, hello. a little marilyn monroe moment >> giving us a little show over here >> wowzers let's take a look and show you the halloween forecast as you can see in the midwest, rain changing over to snow the eastern third of the country, strong storms, wet weather in the northeast, a cold trick as you get through the plains and windy and dry out west that's what's going -- a little too windy -- that's what's going good morning, i'm kari hall, our winds are starting to pick up and we're going to see high wind gusts in the north bay today that will increase our fire danger. we could see gusts in higher elevations up to 60 miles per hour between now and tomorrow

afternoon. we're also going to see drifts of smoke coming into the rest of the bay area. tomorrow, breezy early, but halloween we see our winds calming down and we have nice weather from thursday all of the way into the weekend. and that is your latest weather. >> all right, al, thank you so much coming up next, a "today" exclusive. we're going to introduce you to the designer responsible for maintaining the royals' image. her story of the life spent right at the queen's side. first, this is "today" on nbc. my parents never taught me anything about managing money.

the amount of student loan debt i have, i'm embarrassed to even say. we just decided we didn't want debt any longer. ♪ i didn't realize how easy investing could be. i'm picking companies that i believe in. ♪ i think sofi money is amazing. ♪ thank you sofi. sofi thank you, we love you. ♪ we're back with a "today" exclusive, an intimate look at the life of a royal. >> queen elizabeth has reigned for 67 years and for much of that time her long-time aide and dress maker adrian kelly was by her side kelly is releasing a new book called "the other side of the coin." kelly cobiella has a look.

hey, kelly, good morning >> reporter: good morning, guys, this is really really unusual for the queen to actually give her blessing to share personal stories and photos revealing a side of the monarch that we've never seen before. it's a rare look at the craft behind the crown angela kelly is the first ever in-house designer in british royal history and styles the queen. a role that the 61-year-old has held for two and a half decades. >> angela kelly is the unsung heroine of british fashion because she's responsible for fashioning the image of this extraordinarily iconic woman. >> "the other side of the coin" released today is an approved collection of anecdotes about a aristocracy, details like cleaning her majesty's diamond jewelry with gin and water and dyeing a hand stitched

christening robe to give it the right sheen. for all the high fashion, frugality delights the queen as well kelly writes when she buys fabric to design dresses, i always peep into the bargain basket, the queen loves a bargain, and sometimes i luck out. kelly says the monarch also does her own makeup year round. with the exception of her annual televised christmas message on the bbc. kelly who was spotted with the queen at last year's fashion week in london clears up a few misconceptions many thought the 2017 look by the queen was a subtle nod to the european union flag and a gentle rebuke of britain's recent brexit vote to leave the eu but kelly calls that a coincidence, and the rampant speculation certainly made her smile. and contrary to what many people believe, there are no strict rules that must be followed when one is introduced to the queen, such as a bow or courtesy. some say first lady michelle obama breached protocol in 2009

when the two put their arms around each other, but kelly writes it was natural instinct for the queen to show affection and respect for another great woman. a bond of trust and mutual respect that unites her and kelly as well. >> her majesty responds to someone forthright in her opinions and just respects her judgment and understands that the suggestions are all protective ones and positive ones >> it really is a fun book and a treasure-trove of royal secrets including this one, the reports that someone breaks in the queen's shoes for her. angela kelly says, yes, it's true, and she's the one with the job. guys, but the thing that really blows my mind is the fact that you can clean your jewelry with gin. >> not the good stuff, right, carson. >> a waste of perfectly good gin. >> one for the jewelry. >> going to try that one tonight. kelly, thank you so much, for more on the book, go to

today.com/shop. as the impeachment proceedings take center stage, tom brokaw is sharing details about his time covering the richard nixon white house. first, this is "today" on nbc. richard nixon white house. first, this is "today" on nbc.

welcome back, with the impeachment investigation playing out in washington, many are starting to look back at previous presidential impeachments nbc's tom brokaw has a new book out, and it's filled with remembrances from his time covering the richard nixon white house before the president resigned we're going to talk to tom in just a moment, but first, a look back it was august of 1973, and the investigation into the break-in of the democratic national committee headquarters at the watergate had been in the headlines for more than a year >> president nixon returns to washington this evening. the first president in more than a hundred years to be the subject of an impeachment recommendation

>> into that political storm stepped tom brokaw, a veteran political reporter but a white house rookie what he would experience over the next year until nixon's resignation has become the basis for his latest book, "the fall of richard nixon, a reporter remembers watergate," while the administration pretended everything was business as usual, watergate consumed the white house, no one more than the president. >> i welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook well, i'm not a crook. i've earned everything i've got. >> the pressure led to a constitutional crisis, the saturday night massacre. president nixon asked attorney general elliott richardson to fire the special prosecutor investigating it richardson refused and resigned as did his deputy until the solicitor general did as the president asked. >> one white house source said the president's motive was solely to remove the possibility of a constitutional confrontation as quickly and thoroughly as possible >> and brokaw was at the center

of it all. tom brokaw is with us this morning. good to see you, my friend >> good to be back >> so you know, let's start with then and now i mean, then you had a president under pressure, under investigation. now you have a president under pressure and investigation, but there's some differences in how nixon handled the impeachment investigation and how this president is handling it. >> there are big, big differences. by the time of the fall of 1973, the president's chief of staff, his domestic adviser, his lawyer, and other senior people in his administration were headed to jail for violating federal laws we haven't had that happen to donald trump yet at this point, it's as much political as it is legal so an impeachment proceeding really has to be well grounded it's the most serious thing that we have in our system of government to remove a president from office for malfeasance. and then how you sell that to the american people as well as the congress. >> you had a front row seat back then

when did you realize that the end was going to be what it became ultimately for richard nixon? >> i think we all had an instinct about it because as i say, all of the senior aids had violated -- john dean said at one point the president was in the room 35 times when they talked about the cover-up and what they were going to have to do the difference is that we didn't talk about it. you know, we took what happened on a daily basis as reporters, reported it, and then didn't come to a conclusion i didn't have one of these i had a land line telephone and a typewriter, so i couldn't go online immediately and say here's what i think. there's so much speculation now, it's a much different environment. >> we were just talking about the lack of technology back then you know, in the book, you write about this visit that you took with nixon to xenia, ohio, in the wake of a tornado there to tour the damage and in that moment, you saw the antipathy that a lot of folks had toward the president. >> there were two sides to

richard nixon, he was deeply moved, he was doing anything to appear to be human at the end of his tour he was in a very quiet area down by city hall it was dead still, and all of a sudden, a woman walked in and said is that nixon impeach him. impeach him. and it rang out across the air waves. and the secret service started to move on her and i said she has a right to say what she wants to nixon hunched up he could not escape, as hard as he tried the people were beginning to believe that he was guilty of everything that he had been charged with, and eventually he was forced to resign rather than be impeached which he would have been. >> what do you want folks to take away from the book? >> i think the big lesson i took away from the book at that time, everybody took it very seriously. it was not something that played out like a television game show, which we have a lot of that now with the president having comments about everything. everyone has access to an opinion of one kind or another

social media has changed everything, frankly. i think it's a great instrument but you don't know what you can believe and what you can't believe. that's a huge difference between then and now the republicans on the hill took it seriously, and they were not afraid to speak up about the fact that he's clearly violated what's going on. they became part of the process. we don't see that now. >> one of the things in the book i think folks might find surprising, you almost became a press secretary. >> no, not almost. >> but you were offered the job. >> it wasn't even close. before bob haldeman went to washington, he was a prominent ad man in los angeles and active in republican party politics you know, i had kind of a reputation as a young man who could cover politics and do it pretty well when they got to washington, ron ziegler wasn't working out for a variety of reasons, although he stayed loyal to the president to the very end so they had somebody say we want you to come to washington and be the press secretary. i almost threw up, frankly, at

that point it was not in my future by any stretch of the imagination i kept it secret for a long time and there were a couple of surprises in the book about how i found out that richard nixon knew about the offer and what halderman said to me once he got out of jail. he put his arms around me one day and said, i often looked at you, i could have sent him to jail there was no chance of that happening. it was something i kept secret for a long time. >> we're glad you didn't take the job. thanks for coming by the book is "the fall of richard nixon" written by our guy tom brokaw. just ahead, table for one. why eating alone is apparently suddenly all the new rage in dining but first, this is "today" on nbc. ♪

we build spaces for curious travelers. ♪ we create the things that we want to exist in the world. ♪ we want people to feel like they spent time with family. ♪ i'm damon. and i'm marcus. and we're airbnb hosts. ♪

it's a growing trend that is happening at homes and restaurants all across the

country. >> more and more people are now eating alone, and businesses are taking note of it. nbc's joe fryer has a closer look hi, joe, party of one. >> hey, guys, good morning so americans now eat nearly half of their meals alone the experts say this is driven partially by the growth of single person households with millennials getting married later in life. we found this is something that is happening at all age levels, and solo diners we spoke with say they do it because they like it those who eat alone are not alone. whether in the grocery aisle. >> sometimes i find eating alone is a breath of fresh air. >> or a trendy restaurant. >> i have a family but i dine solo often. >> why is that >> i'm good company. >> whenever i get a little moment to snatch some delicious food on my own, i celebrate it. >> research shows americans eat 45% of all meals alone, a number that has been steadily rising. hectic family schedules are certainly one reason, but many

say they actually relish solitary suppers because they can order what they're craving. >> and then i don't have to compromise with what i want, with what anybody else wants, my husband and daughter like to eat lots of things that aren't on my diet. >> page parsons says it's important to plan one sit down meal a week with her family but the rest of the time they're often on their own to her, solo dinners are an experience, a chance to savor quality food and take in the ambience >> sometimes i'll kind of sit and meditate and be sort of quiet, even though i'm eating, it's like a meditative moment. >> here at gracias madre, they have noticed patrons making reservations for one in advance. >> some people want to be tucked away in a corner, get cozy other people want to be sitting at the bar, they want the community aspect. >> as eating solo has become more socially acceptable, restaurants have made adjustments, catering to those who dine alone. >> the changes aren't just happening in restaurants, there

are all kinds of new options for solo meals that can be made easily in your own home. this ain't your parents' frozen tv dinner. food companies are changing packages in portions, for more portable options for those on the go, easy-to-eat bowls, mixing ingredients together, and single serving sizes for shoppers eating smaller meals frequently >> so i don't overeat and portion controlled and it's convenient >> experts say customers want restaurant quality at home with healthier options fit for various lifestyles, organic, vegan, keto and more. >> just pop it in the microwave and i'm good >> as for restaurants, they're adapting through design. l.a. hot spots have a communal bar and chef's counter, giving parties of one options for socializing. >> if you choose to engage with a chef or server or bartender, you can have that conversation or equally, you don't have to talk to anyone. >> for those dining out, going

solo is in another reason some folks don't mind dining alone, they have their phones to keep them company. we should note research shows family dinners have many benefits they are often more nutritious and can help parents stay engaged in their kids' lives, which can mean better grades and lower risk of substance abuse. back to you guys >> thank you, joe. >> do you guys enjoy a nice meal by yourself? >> every now and then. >> i like the thought of that. >> we're ending the show with a bang we showed you al roker's brand new orange glasses a closeup, please. we asked for twitter results and here they are, they are in al roker, your wife is going to be upset 69% said yay to the glasses, only 31% said huh-uh. >> i like them >> that's all that matters, al, is you like them. >> you have red, yellow, pink, blue. >> purple. >> what about green? >> not yet, but that's the next one. >> that would have been good for thursday. >> same company?

>> yeah. >> look at everything that has happened. >> like two little pumpkins on your eyes. >> should have saved it for thursday. >> my character doesn't have glasses. >> another hint. >> that hint is better than all five of ours combined. 3rd hour, more of our abandoned series, we're touring ellis island to tour a hospital left in a cave for 60 years. wait until you see it now. >> but first our local news. >> oh! good morning, i'm marcus washington. if you live near hollister you may have felt shaking this morning. the largest a 4.0 in the last 45 minutes. now poweroutages started at 7:00

a.m. sonoma, dmrks apa, and sonoma counties were shut down power today. the sonoma fire is around 15 bank accou15% today. the next update will be in a few hours from now. >> the big story is the winds and we're expecting them to pick up and bring in more smoke as we take a live look outside in san francisco. looking hassy and drifts soft smoke to the south bay right now. you might want to make sure you have one of those masks if you have breathing problems. we will see the winds shifting north and staying high with a high fire danger to come. >> more updates in just a bit.

kerrygold has a taste so rich it can take you to ireland's lush, green pastures. where grass-fed cows produce rich, creamy milk for a truly delicious taste. kerrygold. the taste that takes you there. >> power shut offs overnight while you sleep. >> live reports and live team coverage on and aeroon the nbc bay area app. >> tomorrow morning starting at 4:00. >> today on california live,

we're feeling the love from common. the rap super star opens up about his latest project. and hair loss solutions in a snap. all happening on "california live" today. ♪ ♪ big dreams start with small steps... ...but dedication can get you there. so just start small... start saving. easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. ♪ ♪ chase. make more of what's yours®.

live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza, this is the 3rd hour of "today." >> good morning to you and welcome to the 3rd hour of "today." i'm sheinelle here with al and craig. dylan is on assignment, she sent me a text last night, she's like i miss you. i'm like really. >> isn't she in l.a. >> she's i l.a. doing her show. >> she misses me more. >> she'll be back tomorrow. we have an incredible tra transformation from our taking off today series, you'll meet a woman who dropped nearly 200 pounds and her very good reason for turning her life around. she'll also talk about how she did it. >> i'm excited