a great time for you. join us. until then have a great day and we'll see you back tomorrow morning. >> on valentine's day. >> i love you. >> love you more. love you, too. >> thank you. good morning. what a mess. tens of millions waking up to nasty weather. everything from tornadoes and flooding to snow and ice. right behind the massive storm system, a bone chilling arctic blast. some of the coldest temperatures of the season. al is acking it all. breaking overnight, dramatic rise. thousands of new coronavirus cases reported, the death toll skyrocketing while the situation for americans on that quarantined cruise ship grows more dire. on the defensive, michael bloomberg apologizes for defending a controversial police

policy during his time as mayor of new york. >> i don't think those words reflect how i led the most diverse city in the nation. >> plus, the billionaire's new media blitz overnight. his message to critics accusing him of trying to buy the nomination. all that, plus, in the hot seat. attorney general william barr called to testify before congress as democrats demand an investigation into his role in the roger stone sentencing scandal. on the mend. the hockey star recovering after he collapsed and was revived during an nhl game. this morning, his teammates tell us how he is doing. and out of this world. the american astronaut who spent more time in space than any other woman, back on earth and talking about her trip. >> two minutes of being back on earth, i saw more people's faces than i had seen in a year. >> today, thursday, february 13th, 2020. >> announcer: 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 thursday morning. how happy is christina koch to be back on earth? >> you know when you're back from a long trip and you're like, i'm happy to be in your own bed? she's happy to be in her own gravity. she's thrilled. something different to eat. talking about the 328 days in space. >> incredible journey. she has a lot to say, and we'll talk to her in a little bit. first, our top story, wicked weather. overnight the south was hit by a new round of severe storms. this morning, tens of millions are in the path of a powerful winter system and a blast of brutally cold temperatures. al has details in a second. first, nbc's sam brock is standing by in atlanta. hey, sam. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. large sections of the country waking up under severe weather threat this morning. at least 10 million people sa saturated. rivers are swollen. the big concerns, flooding and

damaging winds. this as folks in the northeast and midwest better will bundling up. temperatures are about to drop dramatically. overnight, a possible tornado tearing across tennessee, southwest of nashville. power polls toppled with at least one home destroyed. across southwest virginia, heavy rain causing multiple landslides, residents forced to evacuate their homes. a mudslide pushing this home off its foundation. >> i've lived here for almost 14 years, never seen it this bad. >> reporter: in northern alabama, strong winds collapsed this garage. parts of the water-logged south can't seem to catch a break. it's been the wettest start to the year on record for some cities in alabama and mississippi. birmingham drenched by nearly 17 inches of rain since january 1st. that's 10 inches above normal. in many places the soil is saturated and can't absorb any more rain, but it's still coming down. >> we see heavy rainfall rates.

2 1/2 inches per hour. >> reporter: in mississippi. >> we're approaching 10 to 12 inches on doppler radar. >> reporter: forcing some residents out of their homes. near vicksburg, heavy rains washed out highway 80, shutting it in both directions. further north, near tupelo, this county road collapsed from all the water. meanwhile, starting today, folks in the midwest and the northeast are bracing for a very big chill. an icy blast of winter that could bring some of the lowest temperatures of the season. here in atlanta, as you look at the levels of the chattahoochee river behind me. that's one of the big concerns as we move forward. there are about 250 creeks and rivers throughout the region expected to either reach or exceed flood stage at some point today. keeping a close eye on that as the day progresses. savannah and hoda, back to you. >> sam brock in atlanta. thank you. >> let's see where it's headed. al has the latest on the brutal cold that's coming, too. good morning. >> good morning, guys. the good news is we're on the downward slope of the heavy rain.

11 million people under flash flood watches, 39 million under winter weather advisories. you can see very heavy rain stretching from new orleans all the way up into new england, especially as you make your way into the mid-atlantic. looking at 0.5 inch to 0.25 inch as far as rain. basically 3 inches of snow across the great lakes and northern new england. here comes the next big problem for a lot of folks. we have windchill alerts right now, windchills as low as 45 below in the northern plains. this arctic express pushes to the south for this morning. look at these windchills, feels like minus 30 in minneapolis, minus 34 in des moines. by friday, minus 5. 5 above in pittsburgh. by saturday morning, here into the northeast, a windchill of seven in morning. minus 5 in buffalo. 18 in washington, d.c. hold on through the weekend. the good news is we start to see temperatures on the upward swing.

by monday in kansas city, here it'll be 53. new york, 48. richmond by monday, 57 degrees. hoda. >> al, thank you. there's a lot of news overnight in the coronavirus outbreak. a 14th person here in the u.s. has been diagnosed. thousands of new cases in a single region of china have been reported. meantime the crisis on that quarantined ship in japan appears to be worsening. nbc's molly hunt is in yokohama, japan, for us. molly, good morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. at the epicenter in china, so many people with symptoms and no easy way to test everyone. it appears authorities are changing the way they classify those cases. all of these numbers, some days up, some days down, only goes to illustrate how tough it is for scientists to get a real grasp of the severity and the extent of the outbreak. overnight, the chinese government reporting more than 14,000 new coronavirus cases in hubei province. ground zero for the outbreak

that, earlier this week, has been reporting a drop in new infections. across china, more than 1,300 deaths, total deaths 60,000 and the government puts in place so-called wartime control, which includes mass confinement, food rationing, and temperature checks for millions. on the "diamond princess" in yokohama, japan, the number of confirmed cases also rising. this morning, 44 new cases, bringing the total to 219 on board. including at least 32 americans. this 75-year-old from florida is growing increasingly nervous. >> all of a sudden you felt like maybe it had peaked and then bam. >> when you have hope and you lose it for a minute, that's a really bad place to be. >> reporter: on day nine of the quarantine, jerry and mark jorgensen from utah remarkably upbeat.

>> starting their exercise plan. >> reporter: getting into routines, exercising, taking their temperatures, and eating lunch out of boxes. 771 people out of 3,700 on board have been tested, including mark and jerry. >> you've had one test now? >> i've had one test. they said if you don't hear from us, it's good news. i have not heard anything. >> i'm telling you we're healthy. >> reporter: on friday some passengers will disembark to quarantined facilities on land. the u.s. embassy sending american passengers this letter explaining the most medically vulnerable passengers will be first, including older adults with preexisting health conditions. >> molly, what's the expectation? do they think there will be more cases on the cruise ship as they're testing passengers? >> reporter: there are 3,700 people on board. they haven't even tested a quarter of them. so, of course, we don't know. thus far, that's certainly been the case. think about it. these guys have been on this

cruise ship for more than three weeks. they are tired. they want to go home. the 75-year-old, who we've been talking to, is hoping she gets asked to disembark tomorrow so she can quarantine here on the land. >> molly hunter, thank you very much. craig joins the table. another big story. >> good morning. we're talking about the firestorm over the roger stone case that is engulfing department of justice and the white house now. attorney general william barr will now testify before congress to answer questions about why his department suddenly got involved in the sentencing of the president's long-time ally. nbc white house correspondent peter alexander has more on that for us this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you. house democrats want to question the attorney general about their concerns over his leadership and what they call the president's improper influence over the justice department. this all comes as president

trump, post impeachment, appears to be testing the limits of the rule of law, thanking ag barr for softening the suggested sentence against a political ally while eyeing revenge against his perceived enemies. president trump praising attorney general william barr fofor intervening to reduce the recommended sentence for mr. trump's former campaign add si adviser roger stone. adviser roger stone. adviser roger stone. adviser roger stone. >> i want to thanks the justice department for seeing this horrible thing -- i didn't speak to him, by the way, just so you understand. >> reporter: stone was facing a stiff prison sentence, prosecutors recommending seven to nine years for his role in the russia investigation. before the president complained on twitter that the recommended sentence was horrible and very unfair. >> isn't your tweet political interference? >> no, not at all. you have murderers and drug addicts that don't get nine years. nine years for doing something that nobody can even define what he did. >> reporter: what he did is undisputed. the jury found stone guilty of witness tampering and lying to congress, prosecutors say to

protect the president, who on wednesday would not rule out pardoning stone. >> i don't want to say that yet. >> reporter: after all four prosecutors abruptly resigned from the stone case, the president is blasting their unprecedented protest. >> they ought to go back to school and learn. i tell you, with the way they treated people, nobody should be treated like that. >> reporter: democrats are demanding an investigation and while republicans are brushing that off, some of the president's allies are uneasy about his comments. >> i think this is a situation where the tweet was problematic. >> reporter: while several senate republicans have said they hoped the president would be more cautious and steer clear of controversy after impeachment -- >> i hope he's listened to the many voices in the senate who have pointed out that the call was very problematic. >> reporter: in the oval office, no sign of self-reflection. >> what lessons did you learn from impeachment? >> that the democrats are crooked, they've got a lot of crooked things going, that they're vicious, that they shouldn't have brought impeachment.

>> meanwhile, peter, days after the president forced the key witness in the impeachment trial off his national security team, the president's former chief of staff, talking about john kelly here, he's speaking out against it. what's he saying? >> reporter: you're right. the white house is insisting the decision to remove lieutenant colonel alexander vindman from his post was restructuring, not retaliation. the president suggested vindman could face disciplinary action from the military. former white house chief of staff general john kelly last night sounding off about it, defending vindman, saying, quote, he did exactly what we teach them to do from cradle-to-grave. adding, we teach them, don't follow an illegal order. and if you are ever given one, you'll raise it to whoever gives it to you, then tell your boss. the words of john kelly last night. craig, back to you. >> peter alexander from the white house, thank you. intensing intensifying race for the white house.

a lot of attention is on the democratic side and michael bloomberg, as the billionaire former mayor makes a big push towards super tuesday and rockets up the polls. this morning, his campaign is being hit with new controversies. nbc senior washington correspondent andrea mitchell has the details. good morning. >> good morning. after a devastating defeat in new hampshire for joe biden and his loss in iowa, the former vice president has two weeks to prove himself in nevada and south carolina. >> reporter: mike bloomberg hitting the super tuesday states that run next month. >> i am running to defeat donald trump. >> it comes as joe biden's aides are slamming bloomberg over stop and frisk, the program later ruled unconstitutional, and an audio tape. >> i don't think those words reflect how i led the most diverse city in the nation.

i apologized for the practice and the pain that it caused. >> reporter: still critics like a top sanders surrogate, new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, says it is not good enough. >> we all know stop and frisk. that was my family. that was my community. that was my neighborhood. and we know that it was a policy that decimated a lot of families. >> bloomberg picking up support from three prominent african-american congressmembers. from greg meeks, lucy mcbath and stacey plaskett, both camps competing for african-american support. a lifeline for biden in the south carolina primary. where veteran congressman james clyburn is a king maker and talked to craig about biden's poor showing in the first two contests. >> i think that what has happened with joe's campaign is he has not projected out into the future the way people would like for him to do.

>> reporter: bloomberg rising to third place in a national poll on a wave of tv and internet ads. >> i know mike is not afraid of the gun lobbies. they're scared of him and they should be. >> reporter: spending $38 a second in the first five weeks of his campaign, totaling almost $300 million so far. their newest tactic going viral, the campaign saying they're working with social creators to flood instagram with posts asking internet influencers to help make him look cool. >> what do you say to democrats who argue you're trying to buy the election? >> i'm not trying to buy the election. we've been at this for ten weeks and the best ways to communicate in ten weeks is through something like mass media. >> with his rise in the polls, andrea, michael bloomberg is getting more scrutiny. there's new comments that resurfaced about the financial crisis. what do you know about that? >> this video just surfaced from 2008 in the midst of a housing crisis. bloomberg said the financial collapse was partly because

banks weren't allowed to red line anymore. a controversial practice when banks refused to lend to whole neighborhoods, on the assumption they weren't credit worthy. bloomberg appeared to be arguing the end of red lining put pressure on banks to give mortgages to those who couldn't afford them. today, he's pointing to his tight against predatory lending, and his plan to counteract the effects of red lining. >> andrea, thank you very much. we have more to get to this morning. including the american astronaut who spent more time in space than any other woman. she's talking for the first time about her experience. christina koch returned last week after 328 days aboard the international space station. she described her first reaction to being home again. >> you know, within the first two minutes being back on earth, i saw more people's faces than i had seen in a year. that was really exciting. it's just fun to interact with people again. >> she needs people. koch's advice for others, do

what scares you and go after things that seem like they are out of reach. >> she's done that. what would your first meal be when you came back from 328 days in space? >> steak and my mom's mac and cheese. >> i'd do fried chicken and mashed potatoes. >> pizza. >> big bowl of ice cream. >> oh, yeah. >> come on, al. >> good pound cake. tasty. maybe a nice grilled cheese. anyway, enough. we've got a ground stop right now in atlanta. strong storms pushing through. looking at airport delays in the northeast. for today, the strong storms will start to come to an end as the system pushes through. an arctic blast behind us. snowy conditions. airport delays in chicago as well. looking at sunshine out west. wet weather making its way into the pacific northwest. we'll get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. ♪

♪ we only come out at night ♪ good thursday morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. take a look at this beautiful shot over san jose as the sun comes up and it's just below the clouds. we will see the clouds clearing out as we go into today and just slightly cooler as we see our high temperatures reaching into the mid-60s, up to 66 in napa and 67 in antioch. and we are going to continue on with some mild weather and valentine's day is looking pretty sweet, too, up to 70 on saturday, a few more clouds sunday. highs in the upper 60s next week. >> that's your latest weather. >> al, thank you just ahead, an update on an nhl star who suffered a cardiac episode and was revived during the game

we'll hear from the blues captain who just spoke to jay bouwmeester in the hospital. the high stakes race to protect every ballot coming up. >> ten years and almost $300 million later, mission accomplished >> i think so. >> cynthia mcfadden's exclusive look at the state-of-the-art system in the nation's largest voting district, los angeles the concern some are already raising about it

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a live look outside in san francisco and across the bay area. this is going to help cool us off a few more degrees but it's still going to be nice and warm. once the clouds move out by mid morning we're in for sunshine the rest of the day. 59 today in san francisco. our seven-day forecast shows highs in the upper 60s tomorrow. low 70s on saturday with sunshine. but then on sunday there will be some more clouds moving in with rain just to our north and we're back to the mild and sunny weather for the start of next week. mike, how are the roads moving? we're back to normal in the south bay once again from this map. if you didn't join us earlier, there was a fire, a palm tree along the freeway was on fire. that was a big distraction. now the slowing has crept up towards 17 and 880. meanwhile westbound across the bridge slow 84 and 19. typical pattern through san mateo and the struggle to get

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good morning everybody 7:30 thursday morning, 13th of february tell you what, let's zoom in that's our corner of the world, our window on the world, the plaza. a rainy one out there. we have some folks braving the conditions it's going to get a lot colder, a big blast. hello. love it when they do that. good morning, jimmy, our cameraman. >> al's forecast in just a few moments. first, your 7:30 headlines a 14th person in the united states has now been diagnosed with the coronavirus an american evacuated on a flight from china to san diego and in china this morning,

thousands of new cases of the virus reported in a single province there are so many people with symptoms in that country now, there's no easy way to test everyone, so it appears that authorities may be changing the way cases are classified meanwhile, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases on that quarantined cruise ship in japan has risen to 219 including 32 americans police in south carolina have released new video of a 6-year-old girl recorded just before she was reported missing on monday. it shows faye swellick live leaving her home it's in south carolina last seen playing in her yard shortly before that. it shows two vehicles in the area it was the time they say she disappointed they want to talk to the people driving them officers have been asking for doorbell videos to provide additional clues. folks on social media taking sides on a viral video that

revived the age-old debate, to recline or not to recline on an airplane american airlines customer said she put her seat back after everybody was done eating. apparently, the guy behind her didn't like it and started doing that, punching punching her seat over and over again. now, this woman says she has a bad disk in her neck, afraid of being hurt she says giving the guy the look and complaining to the flight attendant didn't help. american airlines says it's aware of the dispute and has a team looking into it. >> why is he fuzzed out. keeping his identity - >> we're probably fuzzing it out. >> protecting the obnoxious. >> do you guys recline >> sometimes i certainly don't do that if somebody in front of me reclines >> a 2-year-old. you can't kick the chair, no matter what happens. use your words. >> we'll get to the to bottom of it and follow that story also the morning, we are learning more about that frightening scare for a veteran hockey player who suffered a cardiac episode and collapsed during a game. nbc national correspondent

miguel almaguer joins us with the latest on this story good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. it was certainly a very terrifying scene for family, friends and players. the team is being guarded about exactly what happened to jay bouwmeester. but what we do know is he's in good spirits and with his father >> this is obviously a very, very serious situation. >> reporter: the st. louis blues will only say jay bouwmeester suffered a cardiac episode when he slumped over and tumbled off the bench, with his teammates frantically signaling for help cpr was started by paramedics. the team's general manager confirming his heart was jump-started. >> he became unresponsive and the medical personnel used a defibrillator to revive him. jay regained consciousness immediately. >> reporter: unfolding during a break in the first period, bouwmeester was rushed to a local hospital his father, who was in the stands, rushing to his side. >> obviously a great deal of concern. >> reporter: with the game

canceled, the captain joined the 17-year veteran in the hospital. >> it happened so fast felt like an eternity for us. >> reporter: the 36-year-old said to be in good spirits after talking to his team. >> we facetimed. made everybody feel a lot better, knowing he was in good hands. >> reporter: the scare on the ice reminiscent of a similar incident in 2014 when dallas rich peverley collapsed on the bench from a cardiac event he was revived and is alive and healthy today but never played again in the nhl last year a recreational player suffered a heart attack on the ice. he was luckily revived by a player on the opposing team who happened to be a doctor. >> bouwmeester, scores! >> reporter: a top draft pick and olympic gold medalist, bouwmeester is legendary for rarely missing a game. this morning, after this scare, his future on the ice is uncertain. >> miguel, is there any indication about when he may be able to return to the rink and play

>> he's currently undergoing tests to figure out how and why this incident happened his long-term prognosis is not clear yet. the blues placed him on injured reserve. the important news, guys, he seems to be doing much better with his father by his side in the hospital >> we wish him the best. >> the team doctors said had this happened in his hotel room, the outcome probably would have been different. >> wow coming up next, cynthia mcfadden has an inside look at new voting machines in california in the country's largest voting district. they were created to make elections more secure, but will they >> i think at first reading, it's terrifying. >> at first reading it's terrifying >> yeah. >> the concern just days before they're used for the first time. that's coming up right after this keurig k-duo brewer makes

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to address a growing problem, aging and hackable machines. >> los angeles county has 5.4 million registered voters, that's more than 42 states over the last ten years the county spent a lot of money developing a new voting system it's about to get its first major test are they ready nbc's senior investigative correspondent cynthia mcfadden posed that question. what did you find? >> l.a. county is complicated. voters can cast ballots in 13 languages in hundreds of districts and for ten different political parties which means, county officials say, 62,000 unique ballot styles little wonder creating the first ever publicly owned voting system has been challenging and highly scrutinized now, they call it the voting system for all people, but not everyone we discovered is a fan. >> if you could design the perfect voting system, what would it look like >> it would look like it looked

200 years ago. >> reporter: richard demillo is a distinguished professor in computer science at georgia tech, one area of expertise, voting security. >> it would be paper, pen, individual voters marking their choices on a piece of paper to be counted either by hand or by machine. >> reporter: in fact, most of the country, about 70%, does vote that way, but it's not the new system in los angeles. when it came time to replace the county's antiquated system, back when nixon defeated humphrey, the decision was made to create from scratch a publicly-owned voting machine system, a first of its kind. l.a. county registrar dean logan has supervised the process from the beginning. so ten years and almost $300 million later, mission accomplished >> i think so. this is a system that produces a paper ballot it is a human readable paper ballot that you can go back and audit and count. >> reporter: but many are concerned as this paper ballot

is not marked by a voter's hand. voters make their choice on the touch screen and then a machine-generated paper ballot is presented machines that can be hacked or simply make mistakes the solution, according to dean logan and two of his technical advisers, voters themselves who need to carefully review their ballots before casting them. studies show most people don't review their ballots. >> we did a study here and found voters were spending an average of 222 milliseconds verifying a ballot with 18 ballot choices. >> reporter: another recent study concluded 40% of voters check at all is the l.a. system different not much of 81 l.a. voters in a mock election, 51% reviewed their ballots for about two minutes, which means half of them didn't. but logan says the new system addresses another important issue that hand-marked ballots

can't, accessibility. >> this is the first system in the nation that allows a voter with a disability to vote complete lly independently, secret ballot for the first time, without having to disclose they have a disability and be relegated to a corner of the room and treated differently. >> voters with disabilities need to have reasonable accommodations to say that we all have to adopt an insecure technology puts the entire election at risk, and that can't be the price of accessibility. >> reporter: but there are other concerns on christmas eve, a technical report by an outside expert commissioned by the california secretary of state was released. it chronicles a wide variety of security and operational issues, many of them vital to protecting the integrity of the vote. >> i think at first reading it's terrifying. >> at first reading it's terrifying >> yes because there are things that are clear security vulnerabilities in the system that are brushed aside.

>> reporter: it's not unusual for new systems to have issues during the certification process, but experts say it is unusual to have them surface this close to a big election while many issued identified have been corrected according to logan, some of the more complex concerns with the system's software won't be addressed until just months before the general election in november >> what it means is that the version of the system that's going to be used in that presidential election, it will be the first time it's being used it's very high stakes. it's the sort of thing that would keep any clerk recorder awake at night. >> if this were a graduate student in cyber security who presented this system to you >> you don't get an a if half of your requirements aren't met you get an incomplete. >> a practical issue has surfaced the ballots sometimes get stuck and destroyed in the machines at five times the allowable rate in california which means that voters have to vote again. logan says that has been fixed

finally, a plan b. if all does not go well, the california secretary of state has mandated that all 1,000 new voting centers in l.a. must have paper ballots on hand. >> l.a. county, i guess they're already facing legal challenges over this new system >> that's absolutely right, craig. beverly hills is suing over the system complaining only four candidates appear on the touch screen at a time and voters must select a more button to see additional candidates. if they press next, they never see those names. this year there are more than 30 contests with five or more candidates now, that more button has been enlarged and circled in yellow a final note that i think is really important l.a. voters can request to vote at home on hand marked paper ballots. >> i'm telling you, paper is having a moment. cynthia, fascinating thank you. let's get another check of the weather from mr. roker. hey, buddy >> we're going back to magnetic

maps it's going to be great a lot of wet weather in the eastern half of the country. it has been wet coast to coast, wetter than average, so far this year 27 cities, top five rainiest starts six cities, the rainiest start on record. records stretch from washington all the way to columbia, south carolina look at some of these cities atlanta with 13 inches, dallas with more than 7.5 inches of rain you can see that's more than double what they would normally have in fact, as we go all the way to the pacific northwest, seattle 12.5 inches of rain. normally a wet time, but look at this almost twice what they would get. the rain continues and everybody is feeling soggy except for the bay area. we are now entering into a drought as we see no rain anytime soon in the forecast. as we check out our high temperatures for today we're reaching into the mid to upper 60s for the inland areas, and we continue on with some more dry

conditions going into valentine's day and the weekend. there will be some rain just to our north that will bring in more clouds. we go back to our sunshine next week with highs in the upper 60s. san francisco a little bit cooler going into the weekend with more clouds than fog. >> that's your latest weather. craig? >> all right, sir. thank you very much. ahead, our exclusive conversation with baseball legend hank aaron. we'll look back at his time in the negro leagues and its importance to his hall of fame career also, some of the joy out of chasing and eventually breaking babe ruth's home run record. we'll talk about all that. but first, these messages. to ma. hertz. ranked #1 in customer satisfaction by j.d. power.

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good thursday morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. right now it's 7:56. we're seeing more clouds move in this morning and it will take a little bit longer for us to warm up and keep our temperatures down a few degrees yesterday. mid-60s for the south bay, parts of the tri-valley and east bay as well as the north bay. our inland temperatures up to 66. tomorrow we are going to also see more sunshine and some mild weather. saturday perfect. inland valleys up to 70 degrees but more clouds will move in by sunday and rain moves to our north and back to dry weather as we see upper 60s. rice from now through at least sunday and mid-60s early next week. we'll be tracking that. mike keeping us updated on the roads.

the san mateo bridge westbound is moving. low clouds as well. look how the sun light is bouncing off the clouds. that is an issue. the dumbarton bridge even tougher. the stretch of bayfront expressway between marsh and university there. a slow drive through san mateo both directions and in the south bay bogged down through san jose. here's the bay bridge toll plaza. fastrak lanes built up more than the cash lanes. thanks, mike. happening now mayors from the bay area's biggest cities are in sacramento weighing in on governor newsom's new plan to fight homelessness wanting to spend $750 million to help solve the crisis. and leaders in one east bay school district are agreeing on an $8 million spending cut. the school district is facing a

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it's 8:00 on "today. coming up, to the extreme. possible tornadoes and heavy rain causing major problems in the south. >> i've never seen it this bad >> while out east, residents are bracing for bitter cold. how will this affect your holiday weekend? al is tracking all of it plus a living legend, in honor of the 100-year anniversary of the negro league. craig goes one-on-one with baseball legend hank aaron. >> if it weren't for the negro league, you wouldn't have ha as many black baseball players as you have now. >> just ahead, what he wants for the future of baseball. we'll sit down with award

winning filmmaker ken burns to talk about the impact the league had on the game. a baby is coming will there be a new addition to the jonas family new reports sophie turner and jo jo jojo -- joe jonas are expecting. we'll break it all down today, february 13th, 2020. ♪ i do my hair toss, check my nails ♪ >> from washington and california. >> from texas! >> to hug savannah and hoda. >> hello to my mom and dad in midland, texas. >> 55 years ago today. >> i married the love of my life [ cheers and applause ] >> happy anniversary 55 years welcome back to "today" on this drizzly thursday morning. >> guys, if you have not joined #mytodayplaza craze, what are you waiting for? it's so easy all you have to do is record your shout-out, that's one thing. then post it on instagram or

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you can see snow heavy showers and thunderstorms from the gulf into the northeast. we'll be watching that system move through generally, 3 inches of snow from chicago to upstate new york. 0.5 inch of rain to an inch possibly the big story now coming up, wind chills, 14 million people under windchill advisories and warnings 45-degree below windchills, that's the way it feels. this arctic express pushing down this morning. feels like 29 below in minneapolis. 34 below in des moines milwaukee, 5 below and then for tomorrow morning, green bay, you'll feel like it's 21 degrees below zero, 4 above in columbus, ohio, pittsburgh, 5. by saturday morning it moves into the northeast it will feel like 3 below in boston, 18 in d.c. 2 in cleveland hold on, once we get through saturday, temperatures start on the climb. cleveland, 44. monday it will be 48 in new york city almost 60 in louisville.

savannah thank you. now to the controversy brewing at the department of justice over attorney general william barr's involvement in the sentencing of longtime trump ally roger stone that led four veteran prosecutors to quit. peter alexander joins us with three things to watch this morning in washington. >> reporter: president trump is feeling emboldened, aides, say, thanking attorney general william barr for the justice department's decision to overrule its own prosecutors, recommending that lighter prison sentence for the president's longtime friend roger stone. the president defending his tweet that criticized the original recommended sentence in the oval office, telling me he was not interfering in the stone case republicans have stayed largely silent about it. now house democrats say the attorney general has agreed to testify on the topic next month. also this morning, the president's former chief of staff john kelly is defending lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, a key witness in the impeachment trial. vindman was forced off the president's national security team last week

kelly says vindman did exactly what soldiers are taught to do by refusing to follow an illegal order, and when he got one, going to his boss. finally, the clash is heating up between former vice president joe biden and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg both men trying to solidify support among african-american voters with biden aides slamming bloomberg over his controversial new york city police program bloomberg now touting a series of recent endorsement from black members of congress. savannah, back to you. >> peter alexander at the white house, thank you amazon is now america's favorite brand, passing last year's most beloved disney the online retailer has the strongest bond with its customers. that's according to a study that measures brands based on emotions the survey also found that one-third of amazon customers said they would never stop using its services which include, of course, amazon prime after runner-up came disney,

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♪this is the first day of my life♪ ♪i was born right in the doorway♪ ♪now i don't know where i am, i don't know where i've been♪ ♪but i know where i wanna go back at 8:10 with breaking through. it's our special series in honor of black history month >> 100 years ago today, in fact, the first negro league was founded, a place for black and hispanic players to play professionally, during a time when they were prohibited from playing in the major leagues among the many talented people who suited up, the eventual hall of famer, hank aaron we sat down with the legend for a rare and exclusive interview. >> swing and fly ball well hit

to left field. >> reporter: for generations, baseball has captured the hearts and minds of fans, but there is a painful history behind america's favorite pastime for decades in the early 20th century, only white players could play professionally until, on february 13th, 1920, legendary black pitcher rube foster formed a negro league in kansas city, missouri. >> if it hadn't been for the negro league, you wouldn't have had as many black baseball players as you have now. >> reporter: hank aaron is widely considered one of the greatest to ever play the game, but before he donned that famous braves uniform, he took the field for the indianapolis clowns of the negro league, leaving his alabama home in the early '50s >> i remember so well my first year that i left mobile, alabama. one little coat, $2.50 in my

pocket, and my mother told me that was all she had to give me and be very careful with it. >> what was it like playing for the indianapolis clowns? >> to play in that league and to play with the ball players that i played with gave me an opportunity to do some things that i wanted to do. >> is it true that there was perhaps more talent in the negro league back then than there was in major league baseball >> i would not doubt it one bit. there was so much talent. >> reporter: although thousands of fans came to their games, the negro league players were not treated equally. roadside restaurants banned blacks in their dining rooms gas stations closed restrooms. white hotels shut their doors. in 1947, jackie robinson broke baseball's color barrier >> was there any pressure on guys like you to stay in the negro league >> yes, it was, pressure from the players that you played

with, was telling you, you can't make it. you'll never make it >> reporter: hank aaron did make it debuting for the milwaukee braves in 1954 though he made 25 all-star teams, aaron continuously faced obstacles white players did not including death threats while approaching babe ruth's career home run record. >> i was surprised to read in what should have been the most exciting period of your life, you're chasing babe ruth's record, it wasn't. >> it was not. >> why not >> i couldn't go out of the ball park without an escort i had to stay in another hotel, rather than staying in the hotel with my teammates. it was the toughest moment of my life. >> here's the pitch -- >> and then it happened. >> and then it happened. >> the new home run champion of all time, and it's henry aaron >> 2,297 runs batted in, you're first. extra base hits, 1,477, you're first. years with 30 or more home runs,

15 pretty good argument could be made that you're the greatest that's ever played baseball. what do you think? >> well, i'm with you. >> reporter: at 86 years old, aaron still serves as the senior vice president of the atlanta braves more concerned with the future of the game than his own legacy. >> you think it's still america's favorite past time >> i think it's one of them. i believe football has caught up in some instances. i believe baseball is still number one. >> how does hank aaron want to be remembered? >> i've been fortunate and lucky in some ways i would just like to be remembered as someone that god gave him the talent to play this game, and he did everything humanly possible to make the game the way it's supposed to be played. >> the negro league museum is re-creating rube foster'

signing of the negro league. it's today in kansas city. major league baseball is donating $1 million to the museum in honor of the 100th anniversary and has celebrations planned throughout the year. >> happy to be joined by historian ken burns. he highlighted the negro league and its impact in his pbs documentary "baseball. how was that for you meeting hank aaron, were you flipping out >> it was a moment, another lucky moment. >> it's incredible to see. you think about how much talent. i think people said back then, right, craig, that maybe the negro leagues had more talent than the major league baseball >> when the barnstorming teams played, white against black in the off season, the black teams won way more than the others maybe they had something to prove. when you say what's the golden age of baseball, you cannot even begin to think about it

until april 15th, 1947, when robinson, the grandson of a slave, came up after that, when african-americans were brought up, quotas, one or two to the team, they won the mvp in the league nine of the next 11 years. that's my favorite baseball statistic, in a game where statistics matter. it just shows you what we all missed by having this separate but not athletically equal athletically equal in talent, clearly. but we missed. you can't call it the national pastime until you've included everybody in it. in a country that's dedicated, supposedly, to individual liberty. >> what struck me about your piece is when hank aaron defeated babe ruth's record, and what he went through you were pointing out -- this is recent. >> here is the statistic that doesn't show up in the baseball encyclopedia he was receiving more than 3,000 pieces of hate mail a day. i'm not talking about the '30s, not talking about the '40s or the '50s or the '60s this is in '74 when he says he had to be escorted out, it's right

people were angry that a record that they assumed was a white record was going to be broken by a black man. it tells you not only how far we've come, but also how far we've yet to go. the negro leagues are a perfect example. it's important to celebrate rube foster, one of the great pitchers, won 44 straight games in 1902 with the cuban x-giants. he became a manager, started the negro national leagues it is a really wonderful story that we need to tell, not separate, not just in february, the coldest and shortest month, but every day of the year because this is our story. it's not us and them and february, we'll take some time out and do this. it is every single day this is the story of us. guess what there's no them, which is what we all try to make up. in the u.s., it's us, no them. >> one of the things that struck me most about hank aaron, and you've done so many amazing documentaries and gotten to meet

some pretty incredible people, the most humble, the most gracious living legend i've ever come across. >> it's unbelievable he's an amazing human being. >> what i also did not know, hank aaron showed up for work every day, number three on the list of consecutive games played he did seem to be genuinely concerned about the future of baseball and where this game is going to be 20 or 30 years from now. you share that concern >> no. i think things are always changing and always in flux. people like to complain, there's the african-american participation in baseball isn't what it is that then assumes that all african-americans should like baseball and there should be 13.7% of baseball should be that 70% of nfl players are african-american what is it 85%, 90% of nba players are african-american dominating that game what jackie permitted, he opened a door that allowed not just african-americans to come through and then decide which sport they wanted to play, but he allowed latin players to come

through, so did rube foster. martin dihigo was a great star of the negro national league he was a cuban star. we have to remember how significant this moment is a separate but, in this case athletically equal league. >> ken burns, we could sit and talk with you all day. thank you. >> thank you. >> we'll have more of the interview with hank aaron on the "3rd hour of today" including who he thinks is the real home run king. >> wow >> i like that when you tell him he's the greatest, he's like, i'm not going to disagree. i love it. let's get a check of the weather. al is at the weather wall. >> he's not wrong. looking at an arctic blast coming into the plains a strong storm system pushing its way off the southeastern atlantic coast lake-effect snow and great lake snow to new england. good morning. i am meteorologist kari hall. a lot of clouds rolling across the bay area now, that will make our temperatures warm up a little more slowly today.

we're not going to be hitting the 70s like we did the past few days. look at mid to upper 60s. inland areas will continue on with pleasant weather going into start of the weekend. by saturday, mostly sunny and 70. then by sunday, there will be more clouds moving in with rain just to our north, more sunshine early next week. don't forget, if you're heading out the door, catch us on today show radio. sirius xm channel 108. >> thank you, al time for our favorite part of the day "popstart." >> is it hot and piping. >> will ferrell, the actor and comedian has been married to his wife vivica for 20 years talking to stephen colbert, he shared how he keeps things fun wen it comes to valentine's day notes. >> these are the actual cards, four of them, that she's received from me on various valentine's days >> okay. number one. >> starting with, happy valentine's day, vivica.

my love for you has grown over the years by a total of 3% honey, you're a great mother, but you're -- but you have no sense of personal space. back off happy valentine's day. this is short and sweet. happy valentine's day. don't be a witch >> that's what you can expect when you're married to a comedian congratulations in order to joe jonas and sophie turner, the celebrity couple expecting their first child together married in a surprise las vegas ceremony in may of 2019. before having that second wedding ceremony in france congrats to joe and sophie next up, justin bieber as we've covered in "popstart," last year, bieber and haley baldwin tied the knot in a ceremony surrounded by friends and family now on apple music reflecting on

his marriage and how it's affecting his song writing. >> i'm frickin married now i have the best wife in the world. she supports me through so much. i'm honored to be her husband. >> you made a whole album about it. >> this is an album i wrote in the first year of our marriage, you know it's so fresh and there's no -- there's so much more to learn about commitment and building trust and foundation i'm looking forward to continuing to build and make music that's going to reflect that >> you can catch the full interview with zain lowe who always does a great job on apple music saturday morning finally, hoda and jenna, "watch what happens live" when they take questions from callers and you revealed something surprising, hoda >> oh, no. >> something was revealed about you, hoda. >> jenna, what "today" co-host gave you the best baby gift after the birth of hal >> well, hoda, what's the name

of my child? >> hold on >> what is the name of her new child? >> you know it be honest. >> we practiced. >> hal. >> hoda came to visit and brought an apple as a gift actually haley brought the apple. >> we didn't have anything. >> they didn't have anything their advice is what's most important and their friendship not to be cliche or cheesy, but it's true. >> and the answer is savannah. >> you know jenna's baby's name now? >> it's hal. hank is her husband. >> that's what's hard about it >> it's lah smelled backwards. >> someone said you said hank. >> it was in between. >> you had an apple. >> we had nothing. we just wanted to go there. >> that was your gift. >> that was the gift

>> our time and love we have a click. have you ever had an animal get in your house? it can be scary, even a bird flying around. this guy in the video is convinced there's no way a squirrel was able to get inside. >> it is literally impossible. i'm telling you -- >> don't open that door. >> what did i just tell you? >> i know it is. >> literally, there's nothing in here literally nothing. nothing. i'm looking everywhere >> oh! >> how about that? >> oh, my god. >> is that for real? >> you tell me >> rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. >> that's for real >> is that real? >> oh, yeah. >> that's real >> can we see it one more time or no? >> wow >> we need it in slow mo >> here it comes >> you can't fake that >> i didn't know they were able to leap like that. >> they jump from tree to tree. >> oh, my god. like an acrobatic squirrel. >> a good clip. just ahead, david feherty.

>> what? >> cool. >> your fav. where is he? >> my buddy on the golf channel, starting the tenth season of his show. >> there he is >> there's dave. >> how are you >> doing great. thank you. hi, savannah, craig. >> happy to hear about your new show, new season of your show. plus, a kree kbrcreative wa you're shopping for your valentine, how to create your very own flower arrangement. you ever arrange flowers in your spare time >> no. i've got to be honest with you, flowers and i, no. >> no? we're about to change that, after a check of your local news and weather.

good morning to you. 8:26. i am laura garcia. maybe you noticed at b.a.r.t., new numbers show how bad a hit it is taking from fewer riders. the chronicle reports says they lost 10 million passengers in four years during evening and weekend service alone. riders say they're not traveling as much to locations serviced by b.a.r.t. weekend trains are too far. they cited crime and homeless people on board. the agency plans to discuss the new survey during a workshop later today. let's check the morning commute with mike. see how it is rolling. >> one car that wasn't rolling,

it was in the service lane. right here, the service area is clear from the vehicle. there are no incidents on the span. volume is moving better in general. bogging down for dumbarton. and that's the typical pattern. slowing or san mateo, the 101, and into mr. president view, slow drive as well. folks joining off 237, typical for south bay. looking towards the east bay, 880 and 580, back to you. back with another local update in a half hour. hope to see you then. have a good day.

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good morning everybody it's 8:30, thursday morning. it's 8:30, february 13th nice to have you along we'll say hi to our crowd. hi there, little one what's up? hoda is taking selfies. let's get one real quick >> that's the couple married 55 years. >> all right it's a good one. where is al? there he is. >> hello >> what's shaking? >> ready for a little crowd moment >> yes indeedy >> bob and carol, you've been married 55 years were you 6 when you got married? >> no. >> where are you from?

>> we're from near philadelphia, yes, married for 55 years. >> we're so excited that you're here and celebrating your 55th we have a little something thank you very much. our friends at the latte new york palace want you to come have dinner and drinks on them at the gold room to celebrate your anniversary. >> thank you >> thank you, guys >> thank you happy anniversary. >> thank you >> you get a kiss, too there you go. >> happy anniversary have a beautiful night >> have fun at the latte. >> you are gorgeous. >> what's the secret to being married 55 years what's the secret? >> it's an old joke, but when we first started seeing each over and we got married, our secret was we went to dinner two times a week i went on tuesday, she went on thursday. >> there you go. he's here till thursday. bob and carol.

very nice. wow, and they never had a fight. >> so cute >> that was funny. speaking of romance, coming up, we're making our own valentine's bouquets the big day is tomorrow. you can get a designer look for less by arranging the flowers all by yourself. >> that was so funny >> you set him up and he knocked them down. >> you're going to use that, aren't you >> of course. >> in the building, country singer cam is here with the television debut performance of her brand-new song happy to have cam. let's get to al's check of the weather. how is craig's flight looking? >> eh, eh. anyway, let's show you what we've got going on friday, much colder in the northeast, drying out in the southeast. sunny in the plains. wet weather in the pacific northwest. saturday another big storm comes in, bitter morning windchills in the northeast and new england. snowshowers across the great lakes. sunday, sunday mountain snows out west. looking at milder weather in the mid plains, showers through the gulf

sunny skies and slightly milder as we move into the northeast and mid atlantic good morning. i am meteorologist kari hall. we are seeing more clouds moving in this morning. we will still clear out by late morning and a beautiful afternoon. our temperatures reach into the mid to upper 60s for inland areas. then we'll reach up to 70 degrees by saturday, there will be more clouds moving in sunday, some rain develops to the north. next week, back to sunshine, highs in the upper 60s in the valley. san francisco in the upper 50s throughout the weekend. we will still see some dry weather in the next seven days. >> that's your latest weather. c and c? >> mr. roker, thank you. now to our friend from nbc sports and golf channel, the always entertaining mr. david feherty. >> keeps fans informed and entertained.

quick whit and self-deprecating humor. with the new golf season already in full swing, who better to break it all down. i notice you're wearing your masters green. maybe you're here to show off. last time you were here you predicted tiger woods would win the masters. >> he might win this year, too. >> that's the golf course for tiger. what is the course such a good fit for him? >> the greens are quick, and he knows them so well over the years, he's played probably 20 masters, maybe more than that. the golf course just fits his eye. there isn't a golf course that doesn't, except maybe riviera this week. >> he's also trying to qualify for tokyo as well. is he a shoo-in to represent the stars and stripes? >> not a shoo-in, no the talent out there now, the young players, a lot of them can really thank tiger for inspiring them, raising the bar to that height >> your show is back for the tenth season i was lucky enough to do it. we shot it where the tour is at

this week, the genesis open at riviera country club in los angeles, where tiger played his first very pga tour event in 1992 he was 16, i think hasn't won there, as you mentioned. tell me about the new season >> coming up, we start with henrik stenson, chuck schwab, van pelt, susan pedersen, gary woodland i haven't run out of gas which is amazing we've raised the bar just high enough that i can get underneath it. >> who is your favorite guest? i saw the one with you and barack obama a couple years ago. that was a great one if you had a favorite guest -- >> i've had four presidents, all of whom were just terrific. >> you like the non-golfers? >> it's more interesting for me because i'm in golf. i see these guys all the time. sam jackson, don cheadle have become friends guys like matthew mcconaughey, it's been wonderful. bill russell, who might be my

favorite interview of all time, such a kind -- you know you're in the presence of greatness when you're with bill russell. >> love your show, it's great. love the sit-down, really get to know somebody. congratulations on ten years. >> nothing lasts in tv ten years now. >> i can wa't believe it. >> it's like 100 years the tenth season of "feherty" premiers monday, february 24th on the golf channel. to hoda. coming up next, with just one day to go, we brought in an expert christina is here to show you how to create the ultimate bouquets for valentine's day a little dyi for all you boys.

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simple, right? >> they're simple. >> -- to make any bouquet after flowers look like a designer arrangement. have you ever done this? >> no. >> neither have i. >> first, how she started her multimillion dollar business from scratch >> reporter: if it's one thing christina stemble has, it's flower power. >> i think flowers make people feel loved. >> reporter: her rose s bundled up in burlap have become the centerpiece of this 42-year-old's online flower shop, farm girl flowers, which ships out around 10,000 bouquets every week >> when i told people in 2010 that i was quitting my very stable job to start a flower company, people thought i had lost my mind. >> reporter: disenchanted with her own experience buying blooms nine years ago, stemabble cashed in her personal savings and started the bay area business. >> i don't have a college education, so i read every business book i could find literally got up at 3:00 every morning, go to the flower mart and i would fill up buckets in

my bathtub and make these flower arrangements that i taught myself to make it was a lot of grind. >> reporter: a type of courage this ceo says that blossomed from her childhood >> these are beautiful, huh. i was always the black sheep growing up i grew up on the farm in northern indiana, the kid everyone made fun of in school i'm really glad that happened because it gave me a thick skin to be able to stand out. >> reporter: and stand out she has. last year, sales topped $32 million. >> i think it boils down to resilience and grit. that's something that both me and my team have in spades the thing is, though, i believed in myself. even though i don't think many other people did, i think that was enough >> christina joins us now to teach us how to -- >> quit your day job, quit your day job. startup. startup. >> a dyi budget. what a great story, by the way >> it is great >> thanks so much. >> from indiana to san francisco. >> help us out for valentine's day. >> are you ready >> you call this a paint by

numbers method >> yes, paint by numbers super easy carson, pick these up. >> ranunculus, french tulips pick these up. >> i didn't know there were different kinds of tulips. >> the secret sauce to flowers is staggering them you don't want a flower flat top. stagger them in your hands. pull them up really easy. >> i got it. >> different heights. >> yes, different heights. >> maybe not that high, maybe an inch, inch and a half. >> how do you know how much to cut off the stems? that dictates the height >> the magic of tv, yours have already been cut. they're perfect. >> how do mine look? >> very staggered. >> yours look great. they're wonderful. now just put them in i'm putting roses on the left. >> always roses on the left? >> you can put it anywhere color block it. into thirds. >> what do you mean always roses on the left? >> i didn't know if it was a

rule >> you're going to hell if you put the roses on the right >> tulips always next to roses. >> this is a very technical term you're going to zhuzh. >> zhuzh >> stagger it, cut the stems do you like purples together would you mix purples with other colors >> a tip is pick the same color family the biggest mistake you guys make is you like lots of colors. >> you just dropped some knowledge. i didn't know that >> i wouldn't have known that. >> why >> it's longer than i have here. i'd love to come back and talk color theory with you. >> start a podcast all about flowers. >> it's amazing. >> this is beautiful >> this is what we call the layer cake we like a lot of carb terms. farm girl flowers. you can do this at the grocery store in your cart all you guys will be going home from work and stop at the grocery store because you forgot to order valentine's day flowers. >> don't judge us. >> all you need to do is first go to the butcher section, ask

for butcher paper. >> get a steak for dinner. >> get your steak. >> then? then remember your wife. >> then go to the floral section. pick out three types of flowers. >> that's a great idea. >> just pick white. >> they come bundled already >> yeah. >> take that off >> when in doubt, just be quiet. >> go to the gift wrap section and get ribbon or twine from the meat section get some greens first. pick out three types of flowers and take the longest ones and you're going to put those on first, right on top. >> lay the greens on first, then the longest. >> did you take thorns off these? >> there's no thorns on anything >> these have no thorns. these are the ranunculus again right on top right below those. >> like that >> little higher right like this, yes >> what are these? >> carson, you're going to put the hyacinth right on top. wrap it up with the ribbons. it'll look like this it'll look so much better.

>> how would you begin to wrap this are these in the right place >> how much is something like that going to cost >> just like that. >> let's go to the third one >> carson has it >> wonderful >> this one, if you just want one variety of flowers, pick either all the same color family or, when in doubt, pink and orange it's a great one that always goes i'll cut this one at an angle again, just like that. i'll put one on the left you'll take this one -- actually put this one in the center and this is cut a little shorter, right in the center. >> those are nice and simple beautiful. >> then take this one, put it right on the right, craig. >> a nice arrangement, what should it cost, round about? >> from the grocery store you can probably get away with $30 or $40 by the time you get all the varieties. online, about $100

>> christina, do you say vase or vase >> i say vase. i'm from indiana >> present them to our ladies here christina, thank you >> you saved me. thank you. >> one for hoda and one for s.g. >> ah. >> i have one for cam, too cam is our guest >> she has a new baby, cam does. cam with a live performance, her brand-new song

>> announcer: the citi concert series on "today" is proudly presented to you by citi >> this is a special day for gram grammy-nominated singer and new mom, cam >> the country star is here with a debut television performance of her new song called "till there's nothing left." we want to talk all about your music, but first, can we just say welcome to lucy marvel, your

little baby. two months old >> eight weeks, yeah >> how is motherhood going >> it is wild. >> oh! >> i cry a lot more. >> that's what happens you said the sweetest thing on instagram. said you're feeling higher than the best gig you've ever played with more meaning than the best song you've ever written that's motherhood. >> it's hard to describe. everyone tells you your life is going to change, and you're like, i get it then you're like, whoa, hold on. this is something else >> your second album, you'll debut your first single. "till there's nothing left." when is it coming out? >> early summer. >> then you'll tour? >> probably everywhere lucy will come along >> oh, road dog already. >> she's here. she did good on the flight i think she'll love the bus. there's a good rocking >> we've been waiting for your new music.

why is now the right time? >> i wanted to do it all as i was pregnant and it didn't end up lining up i wanted to prove i could do it all while pregnant now that she's here and i've had a little time, this is it. it feels right >> this is the debut of your new song let's hear it, cam thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ i wanna steal every breath of fire from every star in the southern sky ♪ ♪ i wanna lay down in the dark and take a match right to your heart ♪ a ♪ i wanna hide with you in the rain, in the eye of a hurricane ♪ ♪ i wanna call it for what it i

and give you everything i've got to give ♪ ♪ till there's nothing left ♪ till there's nothing left ♪ me and you in the back seat driving me crazy, killing me baby ♪ ♪ till there's nothing left ♪ till there's nothing left ♪ with the windows up spending all my love praying god don't save me ♪ ♪ till there's nothing left ♪ keep me locked up in your eye before the sun pushes out the night ♪ ♪ before there's whispers in th air, come and take me without a care ♪ ♪ i wanna know what it feels like to disappear into you and never have to say goodbye ♪ ♪ i wanna call love what it is and give you everything i've got

to give ♪ ♪ till there's nothing left ♪ till there's nothing left ♪ me and you in the back seat driving me crazy, killing me baby ♪ ♪ till there's nothing left ♪ till there's nothing left ♪ with the windows up spending all my love praying god don't save me ♪ ♪ don't wanna go yet, romeo and juliet ♪ ♪ sunrise feeling like a final sunset ♪ ♪ oh, baby, driving me crazy ♪ windows up, praying god don't save me ♪ ♪ don't wanna go yet, romeo and juliet, sunrise feeling like a final sunset ♪ ♪ ooh baby driving me crazy, windows up praying god don't save me ♪ ♪ feels like nothing left

♪ me and you in the backseat, driving me crazy, killing me baby ♪ ♪ till there's nothing left ♪ with the windows up spending all my love, praying god don't save me ♪ ♪ till there's nothing left >> yes [ cheers and applause >> i love it >> y'all sound good. can we talk about your mic, too? i love it. >> thanks to the band, too >> hello, world, i've been waiting for this your drummer, look at the hat. >> that was awesome. >> sounded so good >> by the way, "till there's nothing left" is out now more music coming out early summer we'll be back in a moment. first this is "today" on nbc

a young man's birthday today. coming up on hoda, jenna and friends, nate berkus and jeremiah brent helping us zhuszh up our stoudio plus, ambush makeovers on the third hour, chance the rapper, we'll catch up with him, and he has a huge announcement first, your local news and weather.

very good morning to you. it is 8:56. i am laura garcia. police telling us more about the man arrested in a nine hour standoff that ended this morning in san jose. we now know he was wanted in connection with some kind of a homicide. police tell nbc bay area the suspect barricaded himself inside a home which happened to be empty.

the drama ended at 3:00 on vista verde. a police canine helped. the suspect received treatment at a nearby hospital. police aren't telling us what kind of homicide the suspect is wanted for. happening now, we are following developments on the arrest. when police give us an update, we will post it to our twitter feed. mayors are fighting homelessness. he wants to spend $750 million to solve the crisis. a link to the story on our home page. leaders of an east side school district agreed on spending cuts. they face a massive deficit. 250 teachers could be laid off. online, learn about the difficult decisions the district is facing. another update in an hour.

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live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. this is the "3rd hour of today." >> it's thursday. welcome to the "3rd hour of today." alongside al roker, sheinelle jones. dylan dreyer off on maternity leave. >> tomorrow i think she'll call in. >> we've got one heck of a show. you might say it's a home run. >> see what you did there. >> coming up, we've got a rare interview with a living legend, hank aaron, arguably the greatest to ever play the game of baseball. i recentl t