good morning. deadly storms, dark skies move in on millions leaving a massive path of destruction behind, destroying cars and homes. at least one person is dead in a system that showed no mercy from the midwest to the northeast. immigration delay. a controversial decision by president obama to wait at least two months before making any decision on immigration reform. >> the country is going to be better off if we have an immigration system that works. >> the president speaking exclusively with chuck todd, the new moderator of "meet the press." we'll talk to chuck about their conversation. final farewell. a star studded affair today, family, friends and celebrities expected at the funeral for the late joan rivers. what we're learning about the

private service for the comedienne as they roll out the red carpet, just as she wanted. lost and love. two huge upsets at the u.s. open. the top two seeded tennis players in the world knocked out of the semifinals. well, not too far away, a surprise proposal from one of the sport's all time greats. we have a full wrap-up today. and welcome to "today" on a sunday morning. i'm erica hill. >> i'm jose diaz-balart, alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer, lester holt is enjoying another day off, which he so richly deserves. >> he does. we didn't scare you away. you're back. happy to have you back. >> still a little tense though. 60 minutes left. >> we're down to 59. you're cruising.

you're on cruise control. >> i cleared another second, good. happy to be here. thanks. >> good to be here. >> a busy news weekend. >> we want to get to today's top story, the same storm system that we told you about on saturday, which was responsible for knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people in the midwest continue to wreak havoc on saturday moving into the northeast. dylan has more on that. good morning. >> good morning, yeah, a busy day yesterday. and one person was killed in that storm on saturday. there was a warning about the system moving through, severe thunderstorm warnings all day, but as the storms moved in, a lot of people were still taken by surprise. strong storms rolled through new england overnight, north of boston two women in their 70s were struck by lightning at the beach. both were taken to the hospital in critical condition. >> the storm arrived quickly and without warning. and they had no time to get out of the water. >> reporter: in new york, frightening moments captured on security video as a huge tree

limb demolished a car. >> it felt like a tornado. saw outside, the wind was crazy, happened in, like, a minute and it was gone. >> reporter: the same storm system knocked out power to close to half a million customers in the midwest friday night. some may be without electricity for days to come. five people were hurt outside detroit, trapped under a collapsing church tent. >> the winds started coming in, it looked like a big parachute. the wind was coming in through the sides, up through the top. >> reporter: chicago actress molly glyn, who starred on npc's "chicago fire" was riding her bike when she was struck and killed by a fallen tree limb. across the border in canada, social media lit up with the storms bringing rain and lightning to parts of ontario. now, that powerful cold front is moving away. we have no threat of severe weather today, but out in the pacific, we're still focused on hurricane norbert. it is weakening very quickly.

now winds at about 75 miles per hour. it is going to take a turn to the northeast and affect mexico. however, for parts of the southwest, we're still going to see some of the moisture stream in and produce some heavier downpours as we go into the next couple of days. we're looking at flash flood watches in effect. we could see rainfall rates at one inch per hour and, again, it just can't absorb into the ground that quickly and you end up with flash flooding. we could see some flooding with even southern nevada expecting two to three inches of rain, parts of southwestern arizona, including phoenix, and tucson could end up with three to four inches of rain. this is going to be an issue as we go through the next 48 hours. so we do have to keep an eye out for flash flooding. monsoonal moisture is grabbing extra moisture from hurricane norbert. it is going to be a little bit messy out that way. erica? >> dylan, thanks. a private funeral service will be held later this morning for comedienne joan rivers who passed away on thursday at the age of 81. on saturday, joan's daughter

mellas why a melissa and her grandson were seen walking into her home. ron mott is outside the temple where this morning's services will be held. ron, good morning. >> reporter: hi, erica, good morning to you. the entrance to the temple is back here this awning we see back here. we're expecting mourners to line the sidewalk, maybe wrap around 66th street. she was clear on what kind of funeral service she envisioned for herself, something very hollywood with all the pomp and circumstance and a little bit of drama. >> my wedding night, i should bring something along black and sexy. >> reporter: joan rivers was not the quiet shy type, not publicly. far from it. >> i was talking to melissa, ask me anything you want to know. what should i do when a guy gets fresh? i seaid, send them to me. >> reporter: no surprise, she wanted her funeral to be a

spectacle on multiple levels as she said in her book, i hate everyone, starting with me. >> i want my funeral be to to b huge showbiz affair. i want it to be hollywood all the way. don't give me some rabbi rambling on. i want meryl streep crying in five different accents. >> reporter: no word on whether meryl streep will attend the funeral at temple emanu-el, several blocks from the laid comedien comedienne's home, but it is expected to be the star studded affair she joked about. at friday night's stand-up to cancer benefit, remembrances. >> groundbreaking in what she did. for when she did it, and for as long as she did it. >> she was one of a kind, so colorful, and so unique and so i'm glad they're sending her out in style. >> reporter: one hollywood formality already confirmed for the rivers funeral is the ubiquitous red carpet, catching celebrity comings and goings. after the service, the red carpet outside the temple will

be rolled up and buried with the comic icon -- what caused her death. >> ron mott this morning, thank you. president obama decided to delay executive action on immigration until after the midterm election. chuck todd, the new nmoderator f "meet the press," sat down with the president and asked him about that. >> made the decision to delay any action. what do you tell the person who gets deported before the election that the decision was essentially made in your hopes of saving the democratic senate? >> that's not the reason. couple of things i want to say about immigration. number one, i have been consistent about why this is important. the country is going to be better off if we have an immigration system that works. that has strong border security, that is -- that has streamlined our legal immigration system, so

the best and the brightest who want to stay here and invest here and create jobs here can do so, that families can be unified and that a system where the millions of people who are here in many cases for a decade or more who have american kids, who are neighbors, oftentimes our friends, they have a path to get legal by paying taxes, and getting above board, paying a fine, learning english if they have to. the good news is we have bipartisan support for that. >> chuck todd, good to see you this morning. big day for you and a lot to talk about. shall we start with the immigration question, which is really creating so much buzz this morning. as a matter of fact, a lot of the immigration advocates are calling it a slap in the face, the president promised to do something about immigration, unilaterally when he came back and the end of the summer. by taking this off the political table, isn't it in a way putting it back on the political table

for elections that are less than two months away? >> you know, very much so. and potentially he makes it even -- so he set up a criteria, you'll see, later in the interview, about what it is going to take for him to take executive action. he said basically the politics did shift, he did admit politics was involved in the decision. he said it is not about senate races, that it was the politics of what happened that it changed that happened after the surge of undocumented children that surged the border back during the summer. he did acknowledge the political shift there. but he said he's got to have a little more support behind him with the public if he's going to take executive action, which you find fascinating, because you're right, jose, if there is a republican senate, is really thinking the politics are going to have shifted on immigration after that, with the republican senate to do that, that it isn't going to be an even tougher political decision and even tougher political fight if he attempts to do this. so i guess he was in the proverbial rock and a hard place, a guy like mark pryor, the democrat in arkansas, who is

begging the president not to do this. and so they caved. >> chuck, you and i had off the record discussions with people at the white house and people are saying a lot more democrats that won't go on the record off the record were begging the president to delay this decision. do you think that regardless of what happened in the senate he's going to act forcefully after the elections? >> i don't know. you know, i don't know if he's going to do that. we'll see. i think he's going to -- i think it depends on the makeup of the senate, which democrats survive, which don't. i can tell you this, the irony of this is six months ago, some of the same democrats that were begging the president in the last six weeks to not do anything, six months ago were begging the president to put this issue on the table. so there is a little bit of political whiplash between the relationship of senate democratic leaders and the white house and this decision. but right now, with the president's approval rating basically below 40, in almost every one of these senate battlegrounds, i think the white

house felt politically they had no choice but to cave. >> and let's talk about isis overnight, more air strikes in iraq by united states armed forces. do you think the president is getting much closer to honing in to the policy he should have towards isis in syria? >> you know, jose, i think that's the meat of this interview. we ended up spending a lot more time on isis than maybe i planned going in, but he clearly now does have a strategy. he clearly now does know he's got to share that strategy with the american people, with the u.s. congress. you're going to hear a lot more detail about how he thinks he can go after isis both in iraq and syria. there is still a reluctance about how to go about doing it in syria, but an acknowledgement in this interview he has no choice but to do it. the question is who is going to help america do it. >> chuck todd, thanks, we'll all be watching. so good to see you. don't miss "meet the press" today. jenna has a look at this morning's other top stories. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> hi, everyone. shelling overnight near ta

ukrainian city is raising a warning that they are on the verge of collapse. it came hours after vladimir putin and petro poroshenko agreed their truce was holding. one civilian has been killed. the peace plan was intended to end a five month conflict between russia and ukraine that has killed nearly 3,000 people. we turn now to the ongoing search off the coast of jamaica where a small plane with two people on board went down on friday. so far rescue crews are coming up short. mark potter is in jamaica with the very latest on this story. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jenna. at first light the search for the missing plane resumed in the waters behind me. they're working a large search area that keeps shifting because of the currents. all day yesterday a jamaican defense force helicopter and coast guard cutter were on scene trying to find the plane but found nothing. authorities say they fear the plane and the debris may have sunk to the bottom by now in waters more than a mile deep. on friday, helicopter crews saw

and photographed what it believed was an aircraft debris field, but ships sent to that area were unable to confirm that sighting. there has been no sign of the victims, larry and jane glazer, the u.s. embassy in kingston is in contact with the glazer family, keeping them updated on the status of the search. jenna? >> mark potter, mark, thank you very much. a french journalist held hostage for months in syria has identified one of his captors. and he says it is one of the same men that imprisoned american journalist james foley and steven sotloff both beheaded in recent weeks. he said his captor was medi medin mush. his claims have not been var fide by nbc news and the lawyer has questioned them. we have an update on the medical condition of a doctor who contracted ebola.

he's very sick and very weak but improved since arriving at nebraska medical center on friday. he's the third american to be flown back to the u.s. for ebola treatments. the u.s. open men's final is set and it is novak djokovic and roger federer who will not be in it. big upsets at the open yesterday. japan's kai nishikori will play after a pair of semifinal surprises on friday. first japanese player to advance to a grand slam final ever, by the way, man or woman, and chillitch victory over federer in straight sets. but before all of that, you're not doing anything before football today, why don't you sit around and watch serena williams and carolyn wozniacki face off later today. and, oh, by the way, thank goodness the match didn't go five sets or it would have cramped martina navratilova's

style. she popped the question between the men's semifinal. she proposed to long time girlfriend julia lemigova on the big screen of arthur ashe stadium and then went on to play a champions double match, which she won, no big deal. all and all, a pretty good day for martina navratilova. >> not a bad way to spend the day. a double win. >> amazing. >> big upsets. really, really great tennis, absolutely. >> jenna, thanks. dylan is back with the check of the rest of the country's forecast. >> we are looking at the -- some video that came in from phoenix yesterday, take a look at this dust storm. phoenix area saw winds at 40 miles per hour. and the dust just came billowing in and then eventually the rain followed. look at this. can you imagine what it is like to see this coming over the buildings? cars driving through it. this is a time lapse video of this dust storm. it is not moving all that quickly. so that was a big concern out

west, where the heat is on. we have this ridge in the jet stream, it is going to be another hot one including the pacific northwest as well. topping out in the 80s and 90s. same story for tomorrow. very dry. so that is going to increase the fire danger risk, especially across parts of the interior pacific northwest. so we will have to keep an eye out for any fire that develops to spread rapidly in those types of conditions. elsewhere, across the country today, it is going to be much, much nicer in the northeast, we have lost the humidity, but could still see scattered shower and storms in the southeast and the gulf coast. drier today and better weather for sure. temperatures are also going to cool off today. 81 degrees for the high. less humid under partly sunny to mostly sunny skies. winds slightly breezy from the north. keep that in mind. breezy down the shore.

chance of showers return tomorrow and tuesday. temperatures stay cool in the early part of the week, then we warm toward the end of the week with showers and thunderstorms by thursday. have a great morning. and that's your latest forecast. >> dylan, thanks. turning now to the close encounter happening over our skies. later today, the asteroid known as pit bull, mr. 305, mr. worldwide, not kidding with that nickname, pit bull is hurdling towards earth at tens of thousands of miles per mile. jose is svery excited. they go all the way back to miami. this is -- this pit ball ull is going to come that close to our planet. here with a closer look is miguel almaguer. >> reporter: it is the stuff movies are made of. a killer asteroid hurling towards earth, the end of mankind. >> damage, total, sir.

it is what we call a global killer. >> reporter: drama fitting of hollywood, though not exactly what will zip past our planet today. >> it is much more dangerous here in southern california, across street or get in the car than it is to worry about what is out there in space. >> reporter: astronomer ed crop has been tracking the asteroid. he's not the least bit worried. >> it is on the cosmic scale coming fairly close to us, but of course not close enough to do any damage. >> reporter: there has been close calls before. last year over siberia, a 65 foot meteor exploded 18 miles above earth. that near miss so powerful there was widespread damage and injuries. this time, the house sized asteroid double dubbed pit bull for its scary demeanor will miss earth by 25,000 miles. catapulting by at a speed of 40,000 miles an hour. >> concerned, a little bit. scared, not much.

>> reporter: at the griffith observatory in los angeles -- >> not really worried about it. >> reporter: -- no one here seems to have lost any sleep over pit bull. >> i feel safe, hopefully. >> reporter: when the asteroid passes over on sunday, it will be the middle of the afternoon. even with the high powered telescope, you won't be able to see it with the naked eye. you can watch pit bull's rare flyover online. though it may lack the drama of a good hollywood flick. for "today," miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. >> and we'll be right back. musical chairs. fun, right? welllllllll, not when your travel rewards card makes it so hard to get a seat using your miles. that's their game. the flights you want are blacked out. or they ask for some ridiculous number of miles. honestly, it's time to switch to the venture card from capital one. with venture, use your miles on any airline, any flight, any time. no blackout dates. and with every purchase, you'll earn unlimited double miles. from now on, no one's taking your seat away.

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poppy, yaya, grandma, grandpa, there is no denying grandparents play a very special part in many of our did i mention all of them? i hope i did. finish the sentence, my grandparents taught me. let's check out a couple. lori said, unconditional love. that's adorable. my grandparents taught me faith, they taught me family, and my brother taught me friendship. that's great. i love that. and then judy said, my grandparents taught me to be grateful for the good and the bad. grandma used to say someone out there had it worse, which is so, so true. another one here. to be myself and never give up. love that. that's so perfect. we still want to hear from you. why don't you let us know what's going on and what your grandparents taught you. tweet us using the #orangeroom. guys? >> my grandma taught me how to play 500 rummy. >> good. >> fun. >> well, still to come, thank you for that information, a

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good morning. i'm rosemary connors. a a stormy saturday we're starting with a calmer and cooler weather pattern. ted florendo is tracking the changes in the forecast. >> that's right. what a difference a day makes. 68 philadelphia, allen town 63, down the shore 64. yesterday at this time we were mid 70s and felt the humidity out there. not the case today. humidity landfall drop big time. by noon 78 cool and nice. our high 81 degrees, mostly sunny with low humidity. thank you ted. overnight, philadelphia police found more than two dozen marijuana plants at the scene of a double shooting. officers have not said if drugs were involved. investigators could be seen carrying the evidence from an apartment in cobs creek. hours earlier, police were called for reports of gunfire. one of the victims is identified

as ben cook shot dead in his door way when he got in an argument with someone else. sources identified the other victim, his friend eric clenahan now in critical condition. family and friends will gather to remember a teen killed in a car crash. tonight the visitation is for ashlyn cooke. she and four friends were on their way to a charity tournament when they crashed. i'm rosemary connors. now back to the "today" show. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know you that former pro football player ickey woods

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♪ we flew all night to be on the "today" show. >> good morning. emily garrett from bakersfield. >> hi, brodie and zoe. >> el brcelebrating my 18th. >> and i'm celebrating my 40th on the "today" show. >> good morning, tommy and terry. >> my grandmother is 101. happy grandparents' day. >> 101st birthday is impressive, but that hat is amazing. we're back on a sunday morning, september 7th, 2014. a lot of great folks out there on the plaza, helping to make this an extra fun day. we'll be out there a little bit later to say hello for our

tailgating party, which we're excited about. want to get you caught up on half past the hour on the headlines. tens of thousands of people without power after violent thunderstorms rolled through the northeast this weekend. one person was killed when she was hit by a tree. the storms started in the midwest. a private funeral service will be held later this morning for the late joan rivers who died on thursday at the age of 81. her red carpet will be laid down at the synagogue where her funeral is being held here in new york city. and the third american ebola patient said to be doing a little better this morning. doctors at nebraska medical center where rick sacra is being treated said his condition is slightly improved. sacra arrived in the u.s. on friday after contracting the virus in liberia. and still to come, sunday football about to kick off in style. mario armstrong has one great idea for everything you need to know about the games. and then what would football sunday be without a little tailgating party? we're throwing one right out here on the plaza in honor of

our viva "today" series. how to make mexican tortatas. >> do any of you think you could possibly do this? check it out. this "america's got talent" duo, we're going to meet them. we're also going to get a live performance a little later on. i can do everything the dog is doing, just not the human. >> totally down with those moves. we begin with a 3-year-old golfer who would put a lot of people who have been golfing for decades to shame. this little guy makes it look easy, but there is more to his story. t.j. holmes has that story. >> i hate golf. and part of the reason i hate golf is because now there is a 3-year-old who can outplay me. tommy morrissey is his name, 3 years old, inspiring folks with how he plays golf, but not just how well he plays that is inspiring folks. check this out. >> what do you think? >> reporter: meet 3-year-old

tommy morrissey, your typical active toddler and is crazy about sports. but look a little closer and you'll notice there is something different about tommy. but that doesn't stop this pint sized prodigy from hitting a golf ball nearly 100 yards. >> yes! >> i have given him very little instruction. he just naturally did it. tommy has no idea that he is different. >> good hit, wasn't it? >> yeah. >> reporter: his right arm never developed below the elbow. but that's made no difference to his golf game. >> tommy would watch golf with the two of us on the couch, and literally he got up from the couch and started emulating what he saw on tv. >> reporter: he was only 18 months old and unlike most toddlers who clung to stuffed animals when they sleep, tommy's parents would find him clutching his golf clubs and sometimes an ipad. >> he was watching instructional video by tiger woods. i walked in, asked him what he's doing, he said, daddy, i'm

taking a golf lesson. >> reporter: they decided to sign him up for real lessons. >> when they called me about giving him instruction, i was very skeptical. i stood back when he hit first shot, just lost it a little bit, thinking, wow, because it was not at all what i expected. >> reporter: and while he clearly has talent, to him, it is still just fun and games. >> he does like to hit the ball in the water, but that's because he's 3. you have to understa he doesn't understand that's bad yet. >> he's 3 years old, having a good time. he thinks it is a good time to hit the ball in the water. that's not fun for me, however. but we're going to see this kid down the road, no doubt. this is why i hate golf. the kid is clearly good. >> showing you up. >> yeah. >> i'm with you, man. >> he's putting it in the water for fun. i'm doing it and cussing. >> it will all change soon enough. thanks. a final check of the weather from our own golfer, dylan dreyer, who is out on the plaza. >> golfed yesterday. don't need to mention my score,

but i golfed yesterday. it is your 13th birthday. where are you from? >> virginia. >> a yankees fan. we have another -- no, a cardinals fan, but you're -- this is a yankees jersey, the attempt here, but go cardinals? >> yes. >> we're figuring it all out on the plaza. let's look at the weather across the country. scattered showers across the southeast, down through the gulf coast. doesn't look like anything severe, but still watch out for some of those storms today in the southwest. we have that monsoonal moisture, helped in a little part by hurricane norbert, that will make some of the thunderstorms a little more intense. we'll see a lot of rainfall. we have flash flood watches in the southwest today and tomorrow. also tomorrow, in the southeast, we'll see another round of scatter ared show eded showers . we could see some brief heavy drier today and better weather for sure. temperatures are going to cool off today.

81 for the high. less humid under partly sunny to mostly sunny skies. winds slightly breezy from the north. keep that in mind especially down the shore. chance of showers returns tomorrow. also on tuesday, temperatures stay cool off in the early part of the week. we warm up towards the end of the week with the chance of showers and thunderstorms by thursday. have a great morning. today's top spot to washington and our affiliate king. it is the washington state fair. this one is always a huge turnout with over a million people stopping by every year. my brother is one of them. the fair has everything you expect from crazy foods to amusement park rides, agriculture shows and plenty of musical performances. it lasts 17 days. if you can't make it today, you have plenty of time. hopefully within the next two plus weeks you can get out to the state fair. >> football fans are gearing up

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season. >> shoutout to fran this morning. all the frans watching today, this is your take. >> you have as always lots of good stuff and we start with april. >> a lot of speculation with apple. the announcement coming up in a few days. people are, like what is going to happen. we don't know. i've not seen a new phone. here is what i think will take place. new iphone 6 comes out with two different screen sizes, 4.7 and 5.5 inch. so for those of you that have really been waiting for that bigger screen, this should be the phone for you. thinner, faster processor. >> is that the same size as the samsung galaxy? >> yes, competing with the phablets, phones that can be a tablet but big enough to be a tablet. >> and fabulous. >> and fabulous, right. >> anything else besides the iphone. there is talk of a watch. >> yes, lots of anticipation about the watch, the iwatch. that's been talked up. that's going to be announced. we'll see that. i don't think they'll be available right away. i think it will take maybe to the end of this year or early next year before we can buy

those. what is cool about those, we're expecting them to also be able to have what is called nfc technology. that means near field communication. one of the things you may be able to do with a watch in the future is go up to a cash register, tap with your wrist and automatically pay for an item and keep going. not to mention they also have the health app and health kit, so health things with this wearable device as well. >> like a lot of the bands we have. any idea on pricing? >> no idea on any of that stuff. i just was wondering when am i going to see my r2-d2 hologram. >> if you could get on that. number two, we're talking football. you have your special football cuff links on today. >> i do. these are made from instagram photos from i broke plates.com, a woman in baltimore, my hometown, made this for me, customized, huge ravens fan. i have this nfl now app on my phone. this is a free app with tons of nfl video, highlights, anything you want to learn about your team or favorite players, you can personalize this.

this is great for football fanatics and those that are big into fantasy football too. >> it is free. this isn't one of those you download it, it is free, you pay for more video later on. >> you do. there is a premium portion of it that is $1.99 i believe a month for a subscription. if you're a huge fanatic, you'll want to pay that fee. if not, you can get through it without it. >> maybe in the shower, thinking about football, you want to write it down -- we have 30 seconds. >> aqua notes. i get my ideas in the shower. how many of you get great ideas in the shower? this works with hi mario or is it mario. spray water. i'll spray. it is writing, it is writing, it is writing. it works. >> this is amazing. >> it will erase, so if your idea wasn't that great, it erases. >> $7? >> $7 for a pack -- >> amazing. >> you can tear it off and take it with you. >> i'll take this one with me. and with that, we'll send it over to dylan in the orange

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this morning, as we wrap up our week long viva "today" series, a celebration of heritage and culture what better are way to end it with a tailgate i tailgating party on the plaza. jimmy shaw is the executive chef of lotoria grill in los angeles. you have a number of restaurants, actually. you'll help us make that this morning. great to have you, first of all. >> thanks for the invite. >> thanks for coming out. >> we're starting with a base of a chicken tinga. >> what we laid out here is a tailgate that anybody can have. you can lay it out easily and then have a great party. >> easy and great.

>> we'll start with a great stew from mexico. i have caramelized a little onion. i'll put a little bit of chorizo. wean l we're going to let that cook. as it cooks, we're going to put in a tiny bit of chipotle. >> okay. tomatoes. >> and tomatoes. >> and garlic too. as you mix this around, can i ask you about chicken? this is chicken you've shredded. can i buy this in the store? >> you can take the time to make the chicken or buy a chicken at the grocery store, shred it up, after a little while, this would cook and we would come over here. this is what it looks like when it is cooked. >> and smells. can i tell you, if you don't have smell-o-vision on your tv, it is fantastic. >> if you can pass me the chicken right there. >> yes. >> we have had this cooking for about 15 minutes.

doesn't take very long. very, very quick. you put in the chicken. >> yeah. >> and then you mix it up. >> can you make this ahead of time or better to make it day of? >> you make it ahead of time, leave it out, people can make their own, super easy. >> if you set this up for your football party, for example, made this ahead of time, kept it warm in a crock pot or something, it would be there for everyone to use? >> absolutely. we mixed up the sauce with the chicken. you finish it off with chicken broth and that will cook for are a while. >> and as you're finishing that off, let's start making these -- we're making two different things, what is the difference? >> tostatas is like a pizza. the torta is a great mexican sandwich, we have some right here. you open up -- if everyone wants to start, you open up -- >> i'm ready to eat. >> we're learning from you. >> no training. so start with a little bit of beans. >> start with the beans?

>> i got a whiff of that down there. >> these down here. >> these are black beans. >> black beans. >> always black beans? sometimes pinto? >> pinto or black. i like black beans, i'm from mexico city, and that's what i love. >> building up from there. that's beautiful. >> i mixed in pork and chicken. you can go crazy. do whatever you want, right? >> okay. >> perfect. you're a pork fan, right? >> yes. >> cuban tostata. >> is there a technique to eating or just go in. >> it is so easy, great to do on -- >> we're going to eat. >> how is this? we're going to eat a little bit here. chef jimmy shaw, good to have

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back now on a sunday morning with a man and his dog. where maybe we're making a lot of people smile with their incredible act on "america's got talent." a feat of strength and coordination. >> it is really impressive. christian and scooby made time for us this morning. great to have you here. >> thank you for having us. >> you come from a long line of performers.

but you're the first in your family to graduate from college as i understand with a degree in broadcast journalism. >> that's right. i graduated from illinois state university in may of 2013 and like you said, i was the first in my family, quite the accomplishment for all of us. >> this act was a ploy to get to the "today" show. >> make some connections. >> news reading. >> talk to me about this, you don't give your dog treats to do this. how have you been able to -- >> scooby gets his fair share of scooby snacks right after the show. i just -- during the performance, he knows his business. scooby, he plays, when we're performing, he's playing, it is a game. and honestly, that's how it developed. it was a game starting out and just developed into this act. he gets a lot of scooby snacks for sure. >> how much of all of this has gone to his head? clearly -- >> the tacos are going to his head from the last segment. >> perfect. >> he definitely -- he's loving this. he loves the attention and everything. >> all right. >> we're ready. >> we're ready to see. >> take it away.

>> thank you. >> christian and scooby or scooby and christian? >> that's a good question. ♪ ♪ i get strong from the loving ♪ ♪ she only cares when she's got the time ♪ ♪ i feel so much about her loving ♪ ♪ i wish she'd let me be ♪ ♪ destiny has us intertwine intertwined ♪ ♪ i get a shiver when i see her with those other guys ♪ ♪ i can't help but lose my te my temper and i don't know ♪ >> unbelievable. thank you so much, christian. thank you, scooby, for being with us. you can catch "america's got talent " on tuesday and

wednesday nights right here on nbc. good luck. >> thank you. >> good luck to our friend chuck todd as well, beginning today, first of what will be a long run on "meet the press." good morning, chuck. >> thank you, erica, and good morning. my exclusive interview with president obama on the isis threat, on why he's play deldel action on immigration. we have a little bit of -- a little document -- a segment we call "who needs washington," and enacting significant change without the help from washington. i'll have mayors here who will tell us what they can teach washington. back to you guys. >> chuck, looking forward to it. see you later this morning and have a great show. that's going to do it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart, great to have you here. thank you for being with us. >> from a chihuahua to me being a guest, what a good way to spend sunday. thank you so much. >> stole the show. >> see you later on telemundo. chuck todd's show and then we'll cover the --

>> and they can catch

this morning the u.s. broadens the fight against isis hitting a key target in iraq. we'll tell you why the air strikes were launched in the particular location and what america's top defense official has to say about the attacks. police investigating a deadly shooting in philadelphia make a surprise discovery. dozens of marijuana plants. now they're trying to determine how that fine figures into the case. here's a live look outside at linkin financial field just in time for the home opener today. how long will the conditions last? we'll talk about it in