have a great day. good morning. breaking news. in utah a wall of water out of nowhere catches drivers off guard. at least eight people swept to their deaths. others still missing. farther west massive wildfires on a path of destruction. more than 700 homes now destroyed. the headliner. donald trump's rally in dallas looking more like a rock concert. the huge crowd trump turned out in texas. >> i hear they are all going after me. whatever. whatever. >> as he tells supporters he's expecting a slugfest at tomorrow night's debate. mid-air meltdown, a woman attacks another passenger and a flight attendant on a flight to chicago. the plane has to be diverted. >> ow.

ow! >> you're good. >> and she is escorted off in restraints. and first on "today," a rare live intercview with chelsea clinton, opening up about her passions, parenting and the future of her famous family, today, tuesday, september 15s, 2015. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everybody. welcome to "today" on a tuesday morning. interesting to talk to chelsea clinton. she's got a new book, a new baby and that's about it. >> not about it. we're going to sit down with it, and rumor has it that her mom is also running for president. it's going to be very interesting to hear a daughter's perspective on what's going on in that race. >> looking forward to speaking with her. >> let's begin on a tuesday morning with our top story though. two natural disasters causing big problems in the west. folks in california are dealing with mounting issues from one of the worst fire seasons on

record, highly in southern utah the problem is flash flooding. nbc's ron mott has more on that. ron, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning. officials say the death toll stands at eight with another five missing including mothers and children who were traveling in a pair of vehicles carrying 16 people in all when a large wave of water hit them from behind sending them into a channel. this morning a small town is picking up the pieces after powerful flash floods swept through southwest utah. the tragedy unfolding late tuesday in hilldale near the border of utah and arizona where a powerful storm triggered the floods and mud slides. >> there are stranded vehicles and hikers. >> do you have any how many personnel they need? >> whatever crews you can spare. >> reporter: officials say two vehicles were washed off a road and swept into and down a channel 100 of yards. >> the wall of water is 15, 20 feet tall, maybe 25, maybe 0 years ago i've seen something this big but never with this many people, of course. >> reporter: authorities with at least three of the vehicle

occupants survived. search teams are working to locate several people believed to be missing. after the national weather service issued a flash flood warning for the area two and a half inches of water fell in two hours. hildale, utah and its sister city in utah are home to a pill mist sex once home to warren jeffs, the area hit by rains and rescue workers and volunteers struggling to recover. >> you know your heart gets ripped out of your chest and you hurt and you want to do all you can, and that's what everybody here is doing. >> reporter: the weather is hampering the search and recovery effort this morning for the five people still missing as additional thunderstorms move over the area. officials say the rain is making things, quote, difficult and treacherous. >> ron mott, thank you very much. >> meantime, the number of homes destroyed by the waging wildfires out west is growing. at least 24 fires are spread across washington, oregon and california. one of the most dangerous is the so-called valley fire.

it has already consumed more than 580 homes and 62,000 acres. nbc's joe fryer is there this morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. this is one of the 185 homes destroyed, all that's left standing is the chimney and strangely part of the white picket fence. this fire 10% contained and even with cooler temps it is far from over. destructive and now deadly, so-called valley fire is roaring through small communities tucked along drought-stricken forest land with flames scorching enough ground to cover san francisco twice. fast moving fire killing a 72 disabled woman who was unable to escape her home. >> look at the flames right there. >> reporter: evacuees are now posting video of their harrowing escapes. >> hidden valley may be going up in flames. >> reporter: and sharing stories of survival. >> something out of a science fiction movie. >> yet the stevens family

refuses to flee staying behind to protect their home i'm not going to let this outrageous beautiful place go down. >> this is all i have. i grew up here. i live heard my whole life. i love it. i want to save the last little piece of it. >> reporter: across california at least eight firefighters have lost their homes, including robert taylor. for a time his girlfriend mary swella did not know the fate of her house. >> it's terrible. i really want to go back up. i just don't know when we can go see everything. >> reporter: our camera crew checked her address taking images of what they discovered, a home untouched by flames. is that your house? >> yes. okay. that's what our crew found. >> oh, my god. >> wow. >> oh, my god. thank you. thank you. >> reporter: a surprising piece of good news pulled from the rubble of a community overwhelmed by loss. two huge wildfires are burning right now in northern call.

700 homes destroyed and 20,000 people evacuated. the weather has cooled down and rain is in the forecast, but firefighters also need winds to calm down. savannah and matt. >> all right, joe fryer on the fire lines, thank you. let us turn now to the presidential race and a couple of campaigns that appear to be going in very different directions. while republican donald trump packed a house at a massive rally in dallas, his democratic rival hillary clinton is trying to win back support from a group once firmly in her corner. we have two reports this morning beginning with nbc national correspondent peter alexander. he's at the reagan presidential library. that is the site of tomorrow's second republican debate. peter, good morning to you. >> hey, matt, good morning to you. this is hallowed ground for republicans, actually this morning it's wet and hallowed ground, but tomorrow night there will be 15 candidates here all trying to outdo one another to claim the mantle of ronald reagan, but will any of them break his 11th commandment? thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow republican.

once again donald trump is not holding back. for candidate who does everything huge, a texas-sized welcome. donald trump rallying supporters in dallas predicting a rough and tumble debate. >> i have a little debate coming up on wednesday. i hear they are all going after me. whatever. whatever. >> reporter: trump's harsh criticism of undocumented immigrants resonated with the border state crowd. >> we have to stop illegal immigration. we have to do it. we have to do it. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: but outside tempers flared as trump protesters clashed with supporters over immigration. with mounted police moving in to break it up. ahead of tomorrow night's debate trump isn't laying off his republican rivals. >> carly is giving me a little bit of a hard time even though her poll numbers are horrible. jeb, nice guy, really a nice guy. jeb, hillary, well, jeb's more

popular than one person i know. >> reporter: six weeks after their first showdown in cleveland, trump will again be center stage flanked by bush and the surging ben carson. >> look at this face. >> reporter: and debuting on the main stage carly fiorina. in her first face-to-face appearance with trump since his controversial comments about her looks. >> this is the face of the 61-year-old woman. i am proud of every year and every wrinkle. >> reporter: one more thing. this network nbc which parted ways with donald trump months ago after his controversial comments about undocumented immigrants has now announced the man who will replace trump as the host of the "celebrity apprentice," the state's former governor, perhaps its most famous immigrant arnold schwarzenegger. trump last night congratulated his friend saying he'll do great. matt and savannah, since he can't say you're fired, it's either hastra la vista, baby, or my personal favorite, you won't be back. >> peter, thank you very much. >> the fact that this is all

intertwined now, what can you say? on the democratic side meantime hillary clinton is targeting women voters, group essential to her campaign. she's trying to stop a recent skid in the polls with that very group. nbc's andrea mitchell is on that story this morning. andrea, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. hillary clinton is reaching out to that group that she had always counted on, white women voters, who are now abandoning her in droves during the last two months. >> make these hard choices, and i really hope you will join our campaign in iowa. >> reporter: criss-crossing iowa monday, hillary clinton trying to shore up her support among women. >> today i want to send a message to every survivor of sexual assault. don't let anyone silence your voice. i want to defend a woman's right to choose and fight against de-funding planned parenthood. >> reporter: even stopping for popcorn at a business owned by a woman. >> got to try that. >> reporter: this after seeing her support among white woman in one new poll go from 71% in july to just 42% now, a 29% drop in

only eight weeks as clinton has been hammered with questions about her private e-mails. >> polls go up and down. people's attention and decision-making changes over time. >> reporter: clinton is also doing softer interviews on entertainment news, talking to "extra" about meeting kim kardashian. >> she came to one of my fund-raisers in los angeles, and i really enjoyed meeting her. >> reporter: and bernie sanders campaigned in virginia, clinton supporters are focusing more on joe biden who they think is running a shadow campaign to test the waters. this week biden heads to battleground california, michigan and ohio where like clinton he will speak about sexual assault on college campuses. state legislators in south carolina where the bidens vacation say if biden wants to run his wife jill will be on board. >> the information i get is, you know, she's going to be supportive of him. she's supportive of him running if he is ready to do it.

>> reporter: and supporters argue that joe biden is in no hurry. as long as he decides by the end of october after clinton testifies to the house benghazi committee but before the november filing deadlines for those super tuesday primaries in march. savannah? >> all right, andrea mitchell in washington, thank you. as we mentioned at the top chelsea clinton will be joining us in our next half hour live. turning now to a disturbing situation overnight, this happened on a chicago-bound american airlines plane. the flight had to be diverted after a woman assaulted a fellow passenger and a member of the cabin crew. nbc's tom costello has that story. tom, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, matt, good morning. it started off as a routine flight but passengers aboard american flight 1284 last night quickly realized something was wrong. the captain even reportedly asked the passengers to help restrain a woman who had become violent, hitting another passenger and a friendant. . >> ow. ow! >> reporter: incident caught on camera by fellow passengers. >> i thought it was a kid crying

in the back, but it ended up being she was kind of being belligerent, drunk on the plane. >> reporter: american airlines flight 1284 from miami headed to chicago was diverted to indianapolis after a female passenger struck a flight crew member. >> apparently during the process she also kicked one of the airport police officers. >> most of it was profanity and just, you know, just very disturbing, and, you know, you feel very bad for her. >> police pick me up. >> reporter: just the latest incident of passengers behaving badly. this time the passenger was arrested and now facing a list of charges, including battery and two felony charges. >> it was a good decision that they made. they had to do what they had to do. >> reporter: the flight finally arrived in chicago about an hour later or so. it's a federal crime to interfere with a flight crew, and this morning the suspect is waking up in the marion county jail. guys, back to you. >> all right. tom costello on this, tom, thanks very much. meantime, a professor wanted

in connection with the murders of his girlfriend and a co-worker is dead, this after one of the shootings led to some frightening moments and a frantic search on a college campus in mississippi. nbc's janet shamlian is there this morning. janet, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you. terrifying moments on this campus. not just for the students and faculty but for the moms and dads who received that same text message of an active shooter on campus. this morning it's all over, but the motive, why one professor gunned down another, still remains a mystery. this morning a sigh of relief in cleveland, mississippi. the crisis is over. van none lamb, the man authorities say shot and killed fellow delta state professor ethan schmidt is dead. police say he took his own life. >> he pulled off to the site of the road, exited his vehicle and went into a wooded area. there was one gunshot that was heard. >> 1272 en route to washington county. >> late into the night,

authorities spread a wide dragnet looking for lamb, finally locating him using license plate recognition technology, all less than a day after terrified delta state faculty and students are alerted to an active shooter on campus and forced to barricade themselves in classrooms. >> we all just froze, and we all huddled in there and put book shelves against the wall. >> reporter: police arrived on the chaotic scene in minutes and make a grim discovery. 39 years history professor ethan schmidt gunned down in his office. they connect the killing to another crime scene 300 miles away where earlier in the morning police say lamb called 911 to report the woman he lived, amy prentiss, had been shot and killed in their home. still unanswered the question of motive. >> we can't answer that. we don't know why this man did what he did. >> reporter: even at school lamb was something of a mystery. >> he wasn't one of our faculty members. even on a small campus whom i knew. >> reporter: but the two

professors did know each other. in schmidt's book lamb was one of those he acknowledged writing i'm so lucky to have such wonderful people. schmidt was married with three children. friends called him a terrific man. >> he was a special guy, a great scholar, comary of native american history, and we're heartbroken. >> reporter: this was scheduled to be a big day at delta state, the celebration of its 80th anniversary. instead the events will be rescheduled and the campus here and faculty, staff and students will be praying tribute to professor schmidt. matt and savannah, back for you. >> all right. janet shamlian, thank you. >> other people waking up this morning to a startling announcement from north korea. natalie's got that. >> more saber rattling from north korea and a strong warning there, leaders there saying the country is working to improve the quality and qualintity of i weapons it could use against the united states at any time. north korea has revamped and started all of its atomic bomb

fuel production plants coming on the heels of monday's announcement that pyongyang is ready to launch satellites aboard long range rockets. many outside analysts say both threats will push north korea further to a standoff with the u.s. and its allies. mexico is condemning egypt for an accidental air strike on a group of tourists. the weekend incident left 12 people dead, including at least two mexican citizens. mexico says the tourist convoy had come under an aerial attack with bombs launched from an airplane and helicopters. egyptian officials say the tourists were mistaken for terrorists. two kayakers had a close call when they paddled into a pod of whales feeding just off of monterey bay, california. you can see they were nearly crashed when the massive humpback whale breached and landed almost on top of them. they managed to keep their kayak afloat. humbacks can weigh up to 50 tons. you don't want to come near one of them like that. and a touching tribute monday night to the late frank gifford.

espn commentators jon gruden and mike tirico wore the gold jacket just like the ones gifford used to wear during his run on "monday night football." gifford, of course, was an icon in the broadcast booth working as an announcer from 1971 to 1997. he died in august at age of 84, and who could forget that gold jacket that he wore? such a nice thing that they did for him. >> i was reading in another part of the opening, part of a highlight package. they lit the number 16 just above a highlight clip in his honor as well. nice gesture. >> thank you, natalie. let's turn to dylan in for al. what's shaking? >> a lot more rain out west, much-needed rain in parts of california, but in utah we could see the chance of more flash flooding today. we've got heavier pockets of rain through utah and up into idaho and it doesn't look like a lot of rain, but it's the topography that causes all the problems in that part of the country so with this pattern more rain will continue to stream in off the pacific and because of all the mountains here, you have the rainfall and then it funnels into these

canyons. it causes the creeks to rise and feet within minutes so we have seen yesterday some of the reports coming in in just 17 to 19 minutes. some of those creeks rose three to five feet with some of the heavier downpours so that's the biggest concern again today for the flash flooding because we could end up with another inch or two rain especially near salt lake city and up into jackson, wyoming. that's where we've got most of the rain today. scattered showers along gulf coast and down into florida. the rest of the country looking like a pretty

i'm brittney shipp. perfect weather on tap for us, our temperatures will warm up between 80 and 83 degrees. lots of sunshine, nice low humidity, light wind speeds 5 to 10 miles per hour. you can't beat this weather. we start to warm up as we head into the next couple dafs. staying in mid-80s with lots of sunshine toward the end of the week, i am tracking a cold front that will drop our temperatures back down to 80 sunday. >> and that's your latest forecast. >> all right, dylan, thank you very much. anticipation is growing. preparations are well under way for pope francis' first ever visit to the united states next week. huge crowds are expected wherever he goes, and with that comes major security concerns. nbc's kier simmons is at the vatican this morning. kier, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, matt, good morning. the vatican behind me this

morning confirming that they do expect the president himself to meet the pope as he touches down in the u.s. for the first time, but you'll know that pope francis will have been in cuba beforehand, and they are saying now that they think that it is likely that he will have met fidel castro there. meanwhile the vatican saying that they expect the pope to conduct some of his tour in an open-top jeep, a kind of converted pope mobile as you would like. as ever with this pope, expect the unexpected. this morning new details from the vatican spokesman as the pope gets ready for his first trip to the u.s. next week. >> president obama. >> reporter: president is expected to meet his holiness at andrews air force base. pope francis will begin his tour on the 23rd at the white house before an historic speech before congress. meanwhile in new york, officials are gearing up for an unprecedented security test. >> an ied explosion from a backpack. >> reporter: screens at police headquarters showing many high priority concerns during an exercise led by homeland

security. >> this event is going to be the largest security challenge that the department and this city have ever faced. >> reporter: the papal visit coincides with the seventh year anniversary of the united nations which will bring 170 of the world's leaders to the city at the same time. >> we can say safely we've literally never seen something like this before and we welcome it, we embrace it and we look forward to it. >> reporter: pope has a habit of breaking away to approach people or hole imprump you events. pope francis say those who know him will not stick to the script. >> this pope has made it quite clear as he's traveled around the world that's not what he does. for those of us wearing security hats it's always a concern. >> he answers to a higher authority. >> reporter: mayor de blasio not impressed with reports that people are selling some tickets for the events, guys on craigslist and ebay. those tickets, of course, were part of a lottery for free and the mayor saying it's completely inconsistent with the principles

that the pope stands for. guys. >> kier simmons at the vatican this morning. thank you very much. coming up, imagine how you would feel, why lottery winners in one state who are owed some $180 mi $280 million in all are being given ious as well. >> and chelsea clinton in our studios and we'll hear a little

coming up, would your kids actually learn more by going to school less in the new push, fet this, four-day school weeks which i think could four-day workweeks be far behind? a parade at the lauer house. >> and should you take an aspirin a day to lower your risk of certain cancers. a look at some new guidelines you need to know about, but first on a tuesday morning we've got these messages, a check of your local news and weather.

breaking news this tuesday morning, investigators will be looking for the cause of this fire in center city that is now out. take a look at the video from a viewer. the flames broke out at a restaurant under construction at 13th and chancellor streets just before 4:30 this morning. the fire spread to two apartment buildings, people inside had to be evacuated. there are no reports of anybody being hurt. the red cross and city officials are helping. tap the nbc app for updates. there are road closures around the fire scene. a check on traffic with reporter jessica boyington. >> thanks, vai. we have a lot of road closures around the scene of 13th and chancellor and septa. bus 9, 12, 21 and 42 detoured as

well we're dealing with 13th between locust and walnut, broad and 15th, chancellor, and june a per between walnut and locust. lots of delays. 95 at kerlin street. the accident cleared but you can see we haven't recovered. we're having delays northbound. >> 62 degrees, cool out there. let's get our forecast with brittney shipp. >> a cool start. am we head into the afternoon lots of sunshine expected for us once again. it's going to be a perfect day. a loov at the poconos, we'll show you today's forecast. between 81 and 84. plenty of sunshine, low humidity, light wind speeds. i'll have a closer look in a bit. >> the eagles lose to the falcons. we work weekends here.

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> we are back now 7:30 on this tuesday morning. the 15th day of september, 2015. take a look at and say hi to some nice people gathered out in our plaza on what's supposed to be a beautiful morning. >> we'll check that out for ourselves in a few minutes. what's making headlines this morning. at least eight people died and several others still missing, the aftermath of dangerous flash flooding on the border between utah and arizona. heavy rain with a huge wall of water that washed several cars down the street. >> officials are looking for information for an arrest in the string of freeway shootings out in arizona. now stands at $50,000. 11 vehicles have been hit on

i-10 in the past couple weeks. and a packed house at an arena in dallas last night where republican presidential front-runner donald trump held his latest rally lashing out once again on the issue of illegal immigration saying the u.s. has become a dumping ground for rest of the world. coming up chelsea clinton will join us live. she's got a lot going on in her family, a new baby and new book and we'll talk all about that when we talk to chelsea in a couple of minutes. >> a story we loved when you told this story a couple years ago. two families whose lives were changed in a fatal car crash and heartbreaking case of mistaken identity. we'll catch up with both of them in our where are they now series? >> remarkable, remarkable people. let's begin with some outrage out in illinois where lottery win remembers not being given their big pay days. a federal lawsuit says all lotteries stop statewide until that happens. nbc's kevin tibbles has that

story. good morning to you. >> reporter: just imagine the euphoria of checking your lotto numbers and finding out and finding out, hey, you're a really big winner. of course, that's something i've never experienced, but if you were a really big winner here in illinois, what would you think if you found out, hey, you can't collect on your pay day. rhonda rash won $50,000. susan rick's boyfriend 250,000 and for the whitfield family an even bigger windfall. >> one, two, three, four, five, $400,000. >> reporter: instead of cash illinois lotto winners who have won prizes of more than $25,000 are instead getting ious. more than two dozen winners since july 1st are in lotto limbo because the state lottery says it won't make the payments until lawmakers passes a state budget. >> they are all going to have to

wait in line until we get a budget. >> reporter: lawsuit demands that lotto sales be stopped until winners who have hit large jackpots can collect with interest. >> we don't know if there will be a budget, when there will be a budget and why should the lottery winners have to suffer? >> reporter: zimmerman says there's an estimated their 280 billion in prize money that's sitting uncollected in the state's coffers. >> have to cancel most everything we planned on doing. >> my best friend's mom just pass and i wanted to take her and her sister on a trip. >> reporter: the whitfield family has already packed boxes. they are planning to move to florida when their jackpot comes in. >> we're not going to be able to enjoy it as old as we are if we don't get it. >> reporter: lottery hopefuls here are still buying tickets, but for many winners hitting the ja jackpot has left many dreams on hold. still no word on when illinois

is going to get a budget. until then, lotto winners, it is dreams deferred. guys, back to you. >> kevin, i can understand why that would upset a lot of people. >> yeah. kevin is still buying tickets. >> i know. >> yeah. dylan, let's get a check of the forecast. >> yeah, we've mentionled a lot about el nino this year, and we're are still looking at this el nino to perhaps rival one of the top five el ninos of all time. this is the warm water in the pacific down near the equator. this is what we look at to determine how it compares to other years. 1997 was a huge el nino year, and it's very pop this one could be within the top three, so what does that mean as we go into winter? that's good news for california because normally during an el nino year we end up with about five to seven inches of rain above average. some areas across central and southern california end up with about one to three inches of rain more than average. in the northeast it could mean less snow than we've seen in past seasons that don't have an el nino. the temperature is the reason

for that because it's usually above freezing on average which decreases the amount of snowfall by about five to seven inches so that could be a glimmer of hope, especially for the boston area after the winter we had last year. back through the midwest, temperatures do tend to be a little milder by a couple of degrees. however, it's still only in the teens and 20s on average so a couple of degrees is noticeable. snowfall does tend to go down. we could see in detroit nearly 20 inches less snowfall than we get in a typical year so it's possible that that's how it could play out this winter. something to keep in mind. elsewhere across the country today, high pressure in control through the plains up to the eastbound. that means lots of sunshine and temperatures will get back into good morning. i'm first alert meteorologist brittney shipp. our temperatures will warm up today between 80 and 83 degrees, lots of sunshine, nice low humidity, light wind speeds 5 to 10 miles per hour. you can't beat this weather. we warm up as we head into the

next couple days, in mid-80s with lots of sunshine toward the end of your week. i'm tracking a cold front that will drop our temperatures back down to 80 sunday. and that's your latest forecast. >> dylan, thanks very much. coming up, who could possibly fill julie andrews shoes? the new plans to bring mary poppins back to the big screen. >> get your resume ready, natalie. >> and coming up next, chelsea clinton is here. to you to get your kids informed and inspired. her new book is all about that. we skeel her about motherhood and helping her own mom out on the campaign trail. >> natalie is mary poppins? isn't there singing involved? >> let's start a campaign. >> natalie sings and chelsea clinton righ

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we are back at 7:42. it is shaping up to be a busy fall for former daughter chelsea clinton. she's written a book, "it's your worth" a guide to help younger generations make a difference. mom to baby daughter char slot, her mother is running for president and definitely expect to see chelsea out on the campaign trail. good to see you. >> thank you, savannah, good morning. >> you could have written any kind of book. this is for a certain age group, what, 10 to 1-year-olds? >> 10 to 1-year-olds. >> it's serious stuff. >> yeah. >> you're trying to get kids

interested in the world around them. >> well, when i was a kid i read "50 simple things that kids can do to save the earth" and it had a big impact and informed me about things like climate change and solutions and empowered me with practical solutions to make a difference. kids today are cure carouse about the world around us and more engaged than adults often think they are and they want to know what they can do, and so i hope that "it's your world" impacts one kid in the way that "50 simple kids" impacted me. >> i was wobdering if you feet you need to fill a need because these days aren't interested in these issues, they are not being well fed or given this kind of substance. >> absolutely the latter. in my book i talk about issues like climate change but also education, the reality that so many girls don't have the opportunities that their brothers do around the world, poverty, inequality, but also i talk about kids who are already making a difference in these

areas and some adults, too, but mainly kids because i believe that with a little bit of information kids with make a difference, and the stories i share in my book are real testament to that. kids are engaged, and i think it's up to adults to not only help them inform but empower them and give them opportunities to make our world better. >> you even share some personal stories. we see a letter that a 5-year-old chelsea clinton wrote president reagan. i was probably doodling on my note pad at 5. you're writing presidents. talk about a time when you were a little girl and were you bullied because you were a little girl and i was thinking, you know, for a governor's daughter to have to go through that, what are you hoping people draw from hearing your own personal experiences? >> well, i hope it gives kids and parents opportunities to talk about these issues. often people ask me what do you think kids should care about? and i say we should ask kids what they care about and the issues that i highlight and address in my book are the ones that i've heard that kids care about, questions like what doesn't every kid around the world have a chance to go to school? why do we still have bullying?

how do we help every kid get healthy? so i hope that we as adults will really listen to kids. certainly that's what my parents always did with me, and i'm so grateful to one of the greatest gifts my parents gave me is to ask me what i care about, to expect me to have an opinion and also expect me to be able to make an argument to support whatever i thought the right answer was to whatever question we were talking about around the breakfast table or the dinner table. >> you talk about gender equality. you talk about the lack of female leadership around the world and don't name names and make a pretty good case for a female president. >> i'm very biased towards my mom and i certainly hope my daughter charlotte feels as much love and admiration for me some day that i feel for my mom today. >> you are one of her most trusted advisers as well as her daughter, and i know you know that the campaign recently has hit a bit of a rough patch. she's down in some of the polls. and there was a recent poll that was really striking because it asked voters what is a word you associate with hillary clinton,

and, you know, they weren't complimentary words that were at the top of the list, dishonest, untrustworthy, liar. why do you think that is? what's not getting through in your mind? >> well, savannah, i'm not a pundit, i'm a daughter, and as i just said i love and add mire my movement i know she's talking about issues that are important to families across our country. i believe that it's starting to resonate. i believe as more and more americans hear from her they will come to know why i'm so proud to be my mother's daughter and even more why i'm so proud that my mother is my daughter's grandmother. >> you grew up around it and you're a real person and you're human. does it hurt to see those things? >> well, it is always surprising to me because my mom is my hero and one of the people that i admire and love the most in the world, but i just continue to believe as more people see more of her will come to know why i believe so strongly that she would make a great president and they will reach the same conclusions. >> she has said that she's looking forward or would get a

kick out of debating trump in a general election. is that a debate would you like to see? >> i think you were going to say she wants more grandchildren. >> that we know. >> she was very public about wanting a grand child, and it's been such a joy to see her as a grandmother and i thought maybe we'd have a little bit more time but always talks about wanting more grandchildren. >> it's funny to say that, and by the way, charlotte gets mentioned on the campaign trail more than her husband, your dad does, more than president clinton. >> well, i think that makes sense. campaigns are about the future, are about what we want to see our country become for our children, for our grandchildren. so i understand why charlotte is really her north star in this race. >> what is she like as a grandmother? paint us a picture of hillary clinton at home hanging out talking baby talk. >> oh, it's the best. i mean, i didn't know it would be such a joy of parenting to see my parents as grandparents, but it really has been. i love watching my mom read to charlotte, sing to her, support

her quite literally because as we were talking earlier, savannah, charlotte is starting to stand and trying to figure out how to walk so there's a lot of actual support, just not figurative support, and nurturing. i love seeing mom my as a grandmother. >> you say see sings. does she have a good voice? >> not at all. not at all. "wheels on the bus" is very popular so everyone around charlotte at some point will get conscripted to "wheels on the bus." and my mom is a great "wheels on the bus" singer >> you said your husband marc who is a wonderful dad, hands on, doesn't like to change the diapers to which i think he needs to read chapter four of this book. >> he's working on it. he was really rather mortified that i shared that so he's been changing lots of diapers in the last week. i didn't know that that would have the impact it would. if i did, i would have talked to people much earlier. >> a pleasure to have you here. >> thanks, savannah. >> the book is called "it's your world." good luck. >> thanks. >> coming up, should more of us

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about 4 minutes before 8:00 a.m. we're following breaking news. investigators will be looking for the cause of this fire in center city that is now out but take a look at this video a viewer sent in to us. the flames broke out at a restaurant under construction at 13th and chancellor streets just before 4:30 this morning. the fire spread to two apartment buildings, people inside were evacuated. there are no reports of any hurt. the red cross and city officials are on the ground helping the evacuees. some allowed to go back to their homes. there are a few road closures around the scene. let's get a check from first alert reporter jessica boyington. >> vai, that's right. we're seeing delays in center city as rush hour is in the heart of rush hour now. for the road closures watch

around 13th, june per, chancellor, because the fire scene, expect delays with the fire department activity. we have septa bus win, 21, still delays for route 12 bus. for patco, this is not involving the fire but we have a disabled train on the tracks causing delays. >> thank you. a cool start to what is a nice day. let's get our forecast from brittney shipp. >> that's right. temperatures today pushing into the 80s. so it's going to feel like we're still in summer because we are. there is a live look outside now with plenty of sunshine. 63 in philadelphia, the air is calm. humidity is at 63%. our 8-hour city planner shows us we'll warm up nicely. by the time you head to lunch 77 degrees, the high 84. >> philles and eagles lost. another update in 25 minutes.

♪ it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, health alert. is the an aspirin a day just what the doctor ordered to prevent heart attack, stroke and even some cancer? the controversial new recommendations out this morning. plus, where are they now? nearly ten years ago a tragic case of mistaken identity. >> i said can you tell me your name, and she said whitney. >> how a fatal car crash changed the lives of two families forever. and the lost episodes of "the carol burnett show." >> could you come right over. gramps is really sick this time. i think it's serious, thank you. oh, just in case, would you pick up my black dress that's at the cleaners. >> the legendary comedian shares

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our very own ninja warrior course. competitors who made history last night. the reason i was up way too late. it was so exciting. >> are you going to give it a try in. >> i am not going to give it a try. leave that to the american ninja warriors. we're excited to have them on hand and tell you the story about what happened last night on a great, great finale. >> it's 50 feet. >> at least. >> and we'll put them to the test. the twofies who completed the course. we have a little challenge for them this morning. it's on matt. >> let's go inside. natalie has a check of all the top stories. natalie in. >> hey, guys, good morning once again. tragedy struck a small community in southwestern utah overnight. flash floods swept at least eight people to their deaths and several others are still missing. nbc's ron mott has the very latest for us. ron, good morning. >> reporter: natalie, good morning to you. as you mentioned, eight people are dead, officials say, including mothers and children. they were traveling in a pair of vehicles when a wave of water rushed in behind them and swept them to their deaths. now officials spent the night

looking for five people still believed missing. another three survived. an estimated two and a half inches of rain fell over hildale, utah, near the utah-arizona border in two hours late tuesday afternoon quickly overwhelming waterways and triggering mud slides. what's complicating search and recovery efforts today, natalie, thunderstorms are forecast for that area. back for you in ron mott, thanks for you. the largest of two dozen wildfires in washington and oregon is still raging out of control this morning. the so-called valley fire has burned more than 95 square miles near the napa valley area. fire officials said overnight about 700 houses and other buildings had been destroyed. about 10,000 people have been evacuated. republican presidential hopefuls are preparing for their second debate tomorrow night. meantime, in an exclusive interview earlier here on "today" chelsea clinton talked about her mother's campaign for the democratic nomination. savannah asked chelsea what it's like when she hears that some voters think of her mother as dishonest. >> savannah, i'm not a pundit.

i'm a daughter, and as i just said, i love admire my movement i know that she's talking about issues that are important to families across our country. i believe that it's starting to resonate. i believe as more and more americans hear from her, they will come to know why i'm so proud to be my mother's daughter. >> and chelsea is out with a new book. it's called "it's your world" designed to help young people face the future's biggest challeng challenges. and we have some wild video to show think morning. two men on a motorcycle in india fairly escaped serious injury, perhaps even death, when you see this elephant attacking them as they tried to ride past it. the elephant walked under the highway from the nearby forest. it attacked the bikers when they were approaching it. both men though managed to get away suffering only minor other injuries. they are very lucky. let's head back over to savannah. >> natalie. thank you so much. more than 40% of americans over the age of 50 already take a daily aspirin to prevent heart attack or stroke. now the u.s. preventive services

task force which sets treatment standards is out with some new recommendations, and they are controversial. the new guideline suggests a daily aspirin regimen can be effective in preinvestigating heart attacks, stroke and colorectal cancer for many americans over the age of 50. so what's new about these guidelines? previously the recommendations for daily aspirin use were only for those with a high risk of cardio vascular disease or a history of heart attack or stroke. also this is the first time aspirin is being recommended for the prevention of cancer. in this case colorectal cancer, but the guidelines are controversial because even a low dose of aspirin daily has been known to increase the risk of internal bleeding, but the u.s. preventive services task force believes for some the benefits outweigh the risks. dr. natalie azar is an nbc news medical contributor. doctor, good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. >> a lot of people will hear that, okay, that's easy. can i just take an aspirin a day. why not in. >> right.

it's not as easy as that. first of all, i think it's important to say that this task force's recommendation is a draft recommendation, open for public opinion for really until the end of october and it's a controversial subject to begin with. in fact, last year the fda released a report in may of 2014 that did not esdoris aspirin for primary prevention. >> why. >> the point is here. this is also something for primary prevention, not for somebody who has already had a heart attack or stroke, people otherwise healthy but do have an increased risk for cardio vascular disease. they have to have a certain percentage risk over the next ten years. they have to not have an increased risk of bleeding. they have to also take it for ten years to see a potential benefit in terms of colorectal cancer. the irish here is why? it's a baby aspirin, what's the big deal, 81 milligrams a day. >> yeah. >> not necessarily a benign intervention. people did have gi bleeds, right, so they can have an ulcer that bleeds, eis off jities or something called a hemorrhagic stroke, that is, if they have had a history of uncontrolled

hypertension, can actually have a stroke that bleeds. who are the people and what do the -- does the task force actually say? between the ages of 50 and 59 it's generally recommended if you fit the cite yeah having risk. from the age of 60 to 69 it's worth a discussion with your doctor. younger than 50, older than 70, the benefits don't appear to outweigh the risks. >> dr. natalie azar. i hear talk to your doc. that's the main thing. >> absolutely. >> two tamale whose lives were changed forever by a fatal car crash and a case of mistaken identity. and the new wave of jimmy fallon and justin timberlake are celebrating their friendship and who wants in on this bromance and josh brolin on conserg everett, his f

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we're back. 8:13 and time for friending. >> we cover a lot of stories here. studies and studies. exactly. last week we had an item about school start times, remember that? >> yeah. >> okay. how about this one. this morning there is this, the push for the four-day school week. for the first time there's real evidence that going to school four days out of the week helped lift math scores for kids in fourth and fifth grades. >> hmm. >> you may not know this but a lot of schools around the country already have this. in colorado, for example, 30% of school districts there have four-day school weeks. do you think this would have benefited you, four days? >> yes. >> give the kids an extra day to sheet. that's why the scores are higher, an extra day to focus on the cheat sheet. i like it because it opens up a small window to potentially the idea for us parents that maybe we, too, can share in that in a

four-day work week. >> parents have to be. >> i want my kid in school five days a eke. >> if the parents tonight have a four-day work week this is a real problem, a huge problem. >> exactly. >> i'm for it. >> i'm for it. >> yay. >> my kids are currently conducting a stud on three-day work week and we'll see how that turns out. >> a little focus group at lauer house this morning. >> exactly. some amazing images that were almost lost. two years ago a group of students from stanford attached a go procamera to a balloon and then release it had so the gopro ended up climbing up more than 982,000 feet into space. >> oh, my gosh. >> did you often wonder what would happen? >> captured stunning images along the way including the grand canyon and the crash down to earth. >> isn't it hazard flying through airspace with a goproballoon. >> it's tiny, not big and an amazing piece of footage when the balloon burst, literally and you see the fragments of the

balloon go past the camera. >> my gopro always died. the battery life wouldn't have lasted that long. >> remember when we used to write notes if you find this message in a bottle. >> yes. >> you get the feeling that those students at stanford did not go to high school only four days a week. >> exactly. >> took two years for them to finally get this video back. >> in a remote part of the dese desert. >> how did they find it? >> some hikers went by and actually saw the remains of the camera and then chased the, what do you call, the card in it and actually got it back to the students. >> you call the card the little hoozie what'sy. >> amazing that it landed back in arizona, did it? that's where the hikers found it. you would think it would get taken to another part of the world. it's up in space. >> i love when we drill down on the facts. >> the meteorologist there. >> maybe the jet stream carried that thing. >> only in the air for a few days or day or two. >> did it have an if lost please return. >> exactly. >> we've exhausted this topic. >> carson, please take us away from this. >> all right. let's do it, guys.

we'll start the popping, since the prompter is ready and it is. and here we go. get ready to say supercalifragilistic- expialidocious all over again. >> well done, carson. said it the first time. a new mary poppins is now in the works. the original musical a classic starring julie andrews. the new movie will pick up 20 years after the last one ended and will feature a whole new plot, new songs and speculation already start begun who could fill julie andrews' shoes. that would not be easy, names being thrown around, anne hathaway, kristen bell and emily blunt, lee great names. >> amy adams. >> the songs, shouldn't they name it like something else? >> you'll have to write them a letter. >> you can tear down every story. >> such a disrupter. >> if it's going to change that much why even call it mary poppins. >> hard to remake such an amazing class glick dylan is like do we have a six-day school week, that would be good. >> now to the corny tribute to a pop music icon. this is a corn maze in frederick, maryland, can you guess who that is supposed to

be. >> taylor swift. >> yes. >> why do they do that to the kwornfield? >> the owners of the farm creating a 12-acre tribute to swift. >> isn't that a waste of perfectly good corn? >> what do they do with all the uneaten corn. >> with the phrase dare to be different above her head. taylor shared this picture on instagram. that opens, by the way next week and runs through nobody 1st and theboro mans between jimmy fallon and justin timberlake on "the tonight show" said they don't need words. one look is all it takes to communicate. turns out somebody else wants in on that bromance. ♪

>> will ferrell speaking for all of us. hey, guys, let me in. let me be a part that have. >> i love that. >> and that is your pop star. >> that's good stuff. >> all right. carson, thank you very much. mrs. derogatory, let's have a check of the weather. >> i'm just going to stick with the weather today. it seems to be much better for me. >> too late. >> we've got an area of high pressure building through the plain states and this huge ridge in the jet stream. not only is it going to be above average, but it's going to feel more like mid-summer for some areas as highs get back into the mid and even upper 80s over the next couple of days this. will stretch all the way into the northeast and into new england, too, with the summer-like warmth sticking around through the week and through the weekend as well. as for temperatures today. amarillo, texas. 90 degrees. 8 degrees above average and wichita, kansas in the upper 80s. heat will build in kansas city up into minneapolis, 12 degrees the average with a high of 84. northeast today nice and comfortable, warm, sunny, humidity low,

good morning. i'm first alert meteorologist brittaney shipp. light wind speeds out of the northwest, 5 to 10 miles per hour. you really can't beat this weather. we start to warm things up as we head into the next couple of days, staying in the mid 80s with lots of sunshine toward the end of your week. i am tracking a cold front that will drop temperatures back down to 80 degrees sunday. and that's your latest forecast. matt in. >> dylan, thank you very much. now day two of our special series where are they now? we're looking back at stories that captivated the country through the eyes of the people who lived through them. this morning two families brought together by tragedy and an unimaginable mistake. wednesday, april 26, 2006, a date that would forever change the lives of two families. a semi truck truck a van filled

with nine college students returning from a school outing. whitney cerak's mom colleen received a call later that evening. >> i think they just told me that they were sorry that whitney was one of the victims in the accident and that she had died. >> 22-year-old laura van rhijn was also in that van. her parents done and suzy and her sister lisa received a call as well. hauera was alive but in critical condition and unconscious. >> they told us at that point expect to see her in an altered state. she's got tubes coming out everywhere, you know. she's bruised up. >> not going to look like herself. >> she's not going to look like herself. >> for five weeks the family sat beside laura's bed encouraged by slow signs of progress, small movements in laura's arms and legs and then they started noticing other signs. you noticed something about her teeth. >> these two on either side in the front looked different to

me. >> the van rhijns began to have doubts and then came the startling confirmation. >> i said can you tell me your name, and she said whitney. >> it was a heartbreaking realization for the van rhijns. their daughter laura was gone which meant newall and colleen cirak's daughter was alive. >> i remember when anna said, it's whitney. >> a case of mistaken identity that changed lives forever. whitney has made a full recovery to her boyfriend matt in the same church where her family held her funeral. whitney had no memory of the vigil at her bedside but the affection for her family remains everlasting, and i welcome back some of my favorite people in the world, the van rhijns and

wheelers and ceraks. i try to keep up with you guys, three beautiful children. whitney, how old are they in. >> samantha is 6 months old, rebecca a year and a half and zach is 3 1/2. >> must have made for an interesting flight here. >> yeah, it did. >> done and susie, i want to start with you, learned so much about your faith and grace, and i know you were all together last night, and when i see you with whitney and matt and their children, i think that there must be joy mixed with heartache because this is one of the milestones you had wanted for your daughter. >> well, that's certainly true, but what a joy to see whitney and matt with their three kids. it's wonderful. yeah, it's nothing but joy for them. >> and you and colleen ten years ago wouldn't have thought this

was possible. could you november have gotten your arms around the fact that you would be sitting here with these three grandchildren. >> yeah. >> so pressed. >> it is a true blessing. i mean, we did not know and never thought it was at this point but it's a true joy to see these three kits with matt and whitney. >> these two families have remained close. i know you don't get to see each other all time, but what's it like when you get back together, don? >> it's a lot of fun. we love the cerak family, and we catch up on what's been happening and just encourage each other. >> it's impossible for two families or any individual to go through what you have all been through without being forever changed. lisa, i think of you when i say this because for all those days you spent in that hospital by the bedside of what you thought was your sister you came out of of it with a desire to help

others and it's become a career for you. tell me about that. >> yes. after that time spent with whitney and helping her through some of her therapies i was encouraged to go back to school and get into that field which i never would have done had we not had that experience, so now i work at a school with special needs kids, and it's just been a -- it's been a great experience. i love it. >> matt, you served in the military. you've been to afghanistan a couple of times. i know you're going to spend some time in the iraq in the not too distant future. it has to be very hard to leave this behind when you go overseas. >> yeah. it's always difficult. i mean, difficult for anybody. it's actually more difficult for them to be home without me. >> the reason this story has impacted me so much and we were together, full disclosure last night, and i told you all this and susie, i'll turn to you on this is that i learned so much about your faith, your unshakeable faith through all of

this. at one point i said to you, susie, i said you're so strong, and you said to me, no, i am so weak, but my faith is strong. is that what you want others to take away from this story? >> we certainly want others to know that there's a heavenly father that loves and cares about each one of us and to trust him and know that he's hanging on to you is just -- it's a wonderful gift. >> is it also important for people to know that some things simply can't be explained? >> yeah. >> yes. >> there are just some things that can't be explained but the faith that we have in christ, faith that we have in god has gone so deep, even in the midst of the crisis, it's been that which really has given us the strength to get through all of it. >> well, i have enjoyed keeping track of all of you. whitney, if we do this again in five years, are we going to have more kids to talk about?

>> we'll see. >> it's great to have you all here. >> thank you. >> thank you, matt. >> thanks for staying in good morning. i'm tracy davidson. let's get your first alert forecast with meteorologist brittney shipp. good morning, brittany. >> plenty of sunshine, low humidity and temperatures in the 80s. we have the perfect forecast for you. we'll have a great day on tap. take a look outside right now. those flags are blowing. in philadelphia, 57 in millville. 56 in allentown. temperatures in the city at 84. poconos, 76. still a comfortable day along the shore at 80 degrees. tracy? >> thanks. at 8:26 let's get a check of the roads with jessica boyington.

jessica? >> we're still watching out for delays in center city due to that earlier three-alarm fire at 13th and chancellor streets. road closures around 13th, juniper, chancellor, locust and fire department activity as well as septa route 12 bus still being detoured around the scene. you can still see an accident on the northbound side. tracy? the operator of a funeral home where bodies were found will go before a judge. after neighbors complained of an odor, three bodies were found. the bodies were only there for a few hours, she told us, waiting to be picked up. the funeral directors state board will review her license. another update in 25 minutes. you can always get updates with the nbc 10 news app.

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and duran duran. that's nbc "late show" on nbc tonight. >> we're back now. 4:30 on a tuesday morning. it's the 15th of september. it is stunningly beautiful all in new york city. welcome back, everyone. >> it is a beautiful morning to climb that. what do they call that? >> mt. medoriama. >> which is technically four stages, 24 obstacles, history was made and we'll talk about american ninja warrior coming up. >> do you watch ninja warrior? >> i'm an aficionado.

>> 30 seconds, do it. >> the guys were so great. two of the american ninja warriors. really incredibly compelling television. >> we'll catch up with these guys. >> speaking of climbing, also how do you make a movie about mountain climbing if you're not a fan of heights? we'll ask josh brolin, the star of the new movie "evrest". >> and the great carol burnett will join us and tell us more about the lost episodes of "the carol burnett show". >> and looking for something fun to do, don't forget "best time ever" with neil patrick harris premiers tonight at 10:00, 9:00 central right here on nbc. >> and a check of the weather. >> natalie's bright blue dress and the bright blue sky. absolutely gorgeous. the fall crisp feel. there it is. we've got some warmer temperatures moving in though, even though it does feel a little touch like fall this morning. we've got high pressure pumping in the southwest winds and temps will get into the upper 80s

through plains and eventually spread eastward as we go through this week. we do have a chance of pox of heavier rain that could produce flash flooding back in the rockies. the southwest in california and also seeing some rain today and tomorrow heavier rain likely through california and the pacific northwest. could end up with a couple of inches of rain, especially in the mountainous areas. elsewhere, quiet upper 80s and low 90s through texas and upper oklahoma and midwest and should get back into the upper 80s in new york. perfect weather on tap for us. temperature also warm up 80 to 83 degrees. lots of sunshine. low humidity. wind speeds out of the northwest 5 to 10 miles an hour. you really can't beat this weather. we start to warm things up as we head into the next couple of days. mid 80s with lots of sunshine toward the end of your week. i am tracking a cold front that will drop temperatures back down to 80 degrees sunday.

and a big happy birthday out on the plaza. >> thank you. >> 50. >> wow. >> it feels wonderful. >> well, you look wonderful, too. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> matt? >> dylan, thank you. there are times when this is the best job in the world. this is one of them. legendary actress and comedian carol burnett has kept the world laughing for decades thanks largely to her head variety show "the carol burnett show." and the laughs roll on with the release of a new dvd, "the carol burnett show, the lost episodes." >> that absolutely did it! i am leaving this house and i am not coming back until the end of the football season! >> marches to the goal line. >> in case you missed it, here's the instant replay.

that's it. i am leaving. >> carol, welcome back. >> thank you, matt. >> so nice to see you. >> thank you. >> 48 years ago last -- i'm sorry. 34 years ago last week that show debuted. can you believe in a in. >> no, i can't. oh, a little side note. 48 years ago september 11th. >> right. >> 1967, harry connick jr. was born. just thought i'd tell you. >> wow, nice, a little trivia. >> that's fantastic. people that have seen so many of the bits from the show. >> mm-hmm. >> but what a lot don't realize is we've only seen the bits from seasons six through 11. >> correct. >> what happened to one through five in. >> well, when we were going to go into syndication all those years ago we had to do the last six years because there was some kind of legal mumbo-jumbo or something about the first five years so we just syndicated the last six. >> so were the first five in a

vault somewhere? what happened? >> well, tim kept them in his basement. they were locked up, you know. no. they were just not -- we couldn't show them, and now all of that has been worked out so here it is, you know, after all these years and nobody has seen them except when they were first aired. >> what shocked me, i was looking back at the numbers, carol. the height of this show's popularity, something like 30 million people a week watched it. >> yeah. >> that's almost unheard of these days. >> of course because there were only three channels. >> right. >> that was back in the covered wagon days, so, you know, everybody got a lot of numbers, you know, big numbers. >> did you ever stop and try to analyze why, why it hit such a nerve and became so popular? >> you know, no, i don't. i never did, and -- and it wasn't conscious on my part but now thinking about it i don't think you should analyze anything. you just go out and do it and have fun. >> you have received through this show and so many other gigs

you've had so many awards. you're about to receive one that i would imagine is very special. you're going to get a lifetime achievement award from the screen actor's guild. what does it mean? >> well, it's a biggie. that's a big one, and the only thing i'm nervous about is having to give a thank-you speech. >> have you started on it in. >> i don't know what i'm going to do, because the thing is i'm such a movie nut, you know, and there's all these movie stars that will be out there. i remember watching dick van dyke get his award and it panned everybody and i said, oh, my god. there's meryl streep. oh, god, there's brad pitt. oh, wow, you know, there's josh brolin, you know. i would be really nervous because i'm still in love with movie stars. >> don't you understand you're in awe of them and when you walk in that room they are all in awe of you? >> well, i would hope so. i would hope that they would be, but i doubt it. >> i can't wait to see what i missed from those first five seasons. >> well, it's fun to watch because, you know, vicki lawrence was 18.

>> yeah. >> right out of high school and it shows the growth in her, even in me, you know. >> a whole new generation is going to get to experience the genius of carol burnett. >> well, aren't you sweet, thank you. >> love you. always great to have you here. >> thank you, matt. >> and the dvd, "the carol burnett show, the lost episodes" is available today. >> up next we'll reveal the secrets of travel agents to help you get the most out of your next vacation. but first on a tuesday morning, this is "today" on nbc.

8:39. if you've been dreaming your next getaway. here's some good news. now is a great time to book a trip. >> with some new travel trends out there how do you find the right destination? nbc's joe fryer has the story. >> reporter: before the crystal blue views or the four-star food or front row seats to newspaper, a lot of vacations start here at the bellagio resort in las

vegas. >> bonjour. >> where are you taking her today? >> we are going to cabo san lucas in mexico. >> italy. >> we're going to paris. >> reporter: this is called the virtuoso travel week. >> this event is a lot like fashion week. the travel advisers come here to see what is the new hot destination. >> we're going on a journey to india. >> no visit to london is complete without the changing of the guards. >> literally face-to-face with the arctic. >> reporter: it's a place to learn about the latest travel trends. >> chile is becoming hot. >> reporter: from cruises. >> going to be largest cruise ship in the world. >> to resorts. >> we're the only resort within walt disney world. >> reporter: to all kinds of other adventures. >> we're going to africa. >> we're going to africa. >> yeah. i can tell. you brought props >> reporter: week is highlighted by a series of four-minute one-on-one meetings. it's like speed dating with travel destinations making their pitch to travel advisers, the

folks who plan trips for those of us itching to escape. >> these are the people that will make the wow factor for my clients on ground when they are traveling. >> you ready for some magic? >> yes, tell me. >> reporter: went on a dozen of those dates. >> if you go to india you get to ride an elephant, right? >> reporter: some went all out to impress. >> chilean cowboy. >> reporter: showing me cabo san lucas through a view finder. makes me want to sit on a beach right now. >> absolutely. >> reporter: and offering a virtual reality tour chile. >> oh, i see the water. i can see the water. experts say right now the most popular tourist places are the ones where can you learn something and immerse yourself in a country's culture that's why a major hot spot is southeast asia, especially vietnam. >> it's really about the personal enrichment and less about the simple relaxation. >> reporter: another trend, culinary travel. global trips based entirely on food create iin trading into th

restaurants and cooking schools and even one trip that offered a meal in a home and trips to iceland or greenland or any part of the arctic where you can get up close and personal with nature. >> it looks like these tourists get really close to the polar bears. >> they do, safely. >> reporter: and for family it's an idea that you might not expect. >> family river cruising is very, very popular. >> you unpack once which when you have children is a big selling point, but it also slows down life a little bit. >> reporter: virtuoso also offers these travel trips. don't just budget for flights and hotel. remember food and activities. fall is a great time to visit europe with spain and germany the best values, and for the holidays plan sooner rather than later. a world of travel ideas courtesy of a conference that shows sometimes what happens in vegas can lead you across the globe. for "today" joe fryer, nbc news, las vegas. >> when you go on vacation, are you a sheer relax person or

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we are back at 8:45 with josh brolin, star of the new movie "evrest," a real story about a group of commercial climbing groups that tried to scale mt. evrest in 1986. josh plays a texas doctor making a bid for the summit. >> this is suffering. >> suffer a few more days. the rest of your life you'll be a guy that got to the top of evrest. hmm, huh? >> i just hope i get there.

>> yeah. hope i get there and get home. >> josh brolin, good morning to you. >> this is a fascinating story about this doomed climb and somehow we -- you seem to capture everything. you've got the adventure and heart what. drew you to this project? >> it's walt what captured everything, safely tore cortino who captured everything. they wanted us out there. he has this kind of viking mentality or at least that's what he uses and he says, look, this is an incredible story. i knew the story, you and i said we read crack hauer's book "into thin air" and i said i want to be involved in a story. a lot of times a movie will come along and you'll go i'll think about it, i'm not sure. this is a story i want to be involved any way i possibly can but i remember being moved by what happened in '96. >> it feels so real the way it's portrayed on the screen. >> good, good. you can't obviously climb mt. evrest for a shoot but this

was not exactly a cakewalk. >> we went up there. we were in nepal, went to base camp and almost to base camp and got as high as 16,000 feet. the dole mights in italy and ended up in london in stages with salt being thrown into 100-mile-an-hour fans which i hated so much. i would satch rather be in 20 below zero than be in that situation again. >> most people think that's a green screen. >> the worst part. >> did you also -- i heard you had done an altitude simulator with jake gyllenhaal. what was la that like? >> competitive and biologically completely threw us and got up to 28,000 feet. >> explain what that does to the body. >> it's horrible because you're actually cellularly dying at 25,000 feet. anybody who goes up above 25,000 feet is cellularly dying so we look at each other. we know nothing is going to happen. there's an emergency oxygen mask there, but you see the thing go

from 25,000 feet, 26,000 feet. he goes white. you can't do the one, two, three, four, four, three, two, one anymore. can't do anything. don't know your name or what you're looking at but, you know, it's like, i don't know, two guys looking at each other going i'm going to beat you, no matter what. >> you're like trying to -- >> it's manly. >> macho here in the altitude simulator. >> so dumb. >> you play beck weathers whose character -- >> matt interviewed him 17 years ago. >> i remember that like it was yesterday because he interviewed beck weathers not long after he was saved and rescued from the money taps. as you well know, he lost a limb and suffered terrible frostbite. >> i spent a lot of time with him. had some jack daniels with his. he likes the jack daniels. >> does he. >> he's got mentality you don't climb anymore. your wife doesn't want you to climb, that's part of the story and i said what do you do now? do you read, do this? and he said no i fly jets now so

it's like once you have that thing, i think it has to manifest in one way or another. he definitely has it. >> not surprising he doesn't play solitaire or something. >> yes. >> one thing level to the movie that's interesting, not just an adventure story but also what moves a certain type of person. >> to do that kind of thing, knowing that you have a one in four chance to survive and now especially, rob holz thing, the 100-mile-an-hour wind came and the storm and now you have a lot more people climbing it and if you have the $65,000 people to do it, do people belong up there or not? >> you didn't think i'd let you go without asking you about your wedding planning. >> okay. >> i heard you're getting into the planning. >> you're engaged. >> i plan other people's weddings now. >> what about yours. >> is that what you're asking in. >> should have been more direct. >> you're getting married. >> i am. >> and here you are actually involved in the planning. >> i like it. it's fun for me. i don't know, is that wrong, because i'm a man, i'm supposed to -- >> that's why i picked it. are you picking out doylies and

things like that? >> i am. well, not doylies, i don't go that far, but, you know, i do, i like it. she doesn't have to draw me into this thing. i like it, so we're looking for a place and deciding on a place. deciding on doilies, the whole thing, color coordinating. >> if you need any doily advice, just a call away. freight to have you here and congratulations on the movie. it's great. >> thank you very much. >> we'll hear from jake gyllenhaal next hour. >> "evrest." >> he's so cute. >> he's a stud, too. should have seen him in the altitude simulator. september 18th, nationwide. the 25th, what am i talking about, when the movie opened. >> the men who made history last

welcome back to today. "american ninja warrior" pit some of the country's best athletes against a grueling obstacle course for a chance to win $1 million. >> enough of it. it was amazing. seven seasons of this great show. nobody has ever finished the darn thing, and last night finaled we get two incredible competitors who are both here. you've been the host since day one, the most exciting tv on tv last night. you must have been shocked that after seven seasons without getting through stage three to stage four you get two.

>> totally unanticipated and geoff britten barely survive at end of stage three. we thought he was falling into the water. his fingers giving out and gets through and has to climb 75 feet in under 30 seconds. >> come on. >> it was unbelievable. >> after you, guys. >> history-makers. >> no one has ever done this and suddenly two people do. >> yes. >> i mean, were you in shock at your own ability? >> very in shock, like it's non-stop shocking moment all the time and especially when you get into stage four. >> isaac, take us to the final stage four. 77 feet high the rope. you had a time to beat. geoff went first and he was there. 27 seconds. what was that like? >> when you're in that moment everything disappears behind you, and i was going and going and doing what i know pest and as i got to the top the arms burned out and i went into this mode where your body just does not want to go anyfurther and that's when you say you've got it, got to keep doing it and pushing all the way to the top.

>> you did it. you completed it. it's huge and then you've got to watch this guy go. >> i'm so proud of isaac. he's an animal. the better man that night. nothing but respect for him. for me it was really hard. i had to go into battle mode. stage three almost killed me. >> took the life out of you. >> so tired. >> the big ladders. barely hang on and then you had the arms burn on this rope thing. >> so for fun we thought we'd have you guys show it. >> our version of myth midoriyama. normally 40. see if they can beat the clock. >> beating it defies gravity. i have no doubt they will both get up there. >> who wants to harness up. >> rock climbers. >> isaac is a guy who will define paths that people have never climbed before and challenge them to follow him. geoff, on the other hand, has a history of climbing but is a family man, a sports camera man and what's been interesting now

he's on the other side of the camera and completely risen to the occasion, amazing. >> people who want to train to be american ninja warriors see these two individuals. >> last year we had kacy cat anzaro, the first woman and applications went through the roof and seeing it can be done, already had a record number of applications and we haven't even started the push for next season so i think it's going to be incredible. >> one minute. let's get geoff up there and isaac, we'll harness you up, too, because we'll get you right behind. >> time on the clock if you wouldn't mind, please. >> okay. >> this is for you, carson. >> okay. >> come on, popeye and see what you've got. >> do i get a count. >> through, two, one, go. >> look at the form. it is unbelievable. >> such technique there. >> explosive. right up there. >> just like last night. >> oh, my gosh.

no problem. >> that's awesome. >> 30 seconds. >> if you can get a little harness going. >> everyone asked if i can do it. i want to let you know i got on the rope earlier and i did get off the ground about a foot. >> good for you. >> if we can get isaac over there. ten seconds left. >> my 6-year-old is into american ninja warrior, really transformed into tv. >> kids love it, families love it and m good morning. i'm tracy davidson. not a cloud in the sky. let's check in with first alert meteorologist brittney shipp. brittney? >> that's always nice to say, not a cloud in the sky. temperatures heading back into the 80s.

live look right now. temperatures 80 degrees by 1:00 pm. 4:00 pm, 82. lots of sunshine expected for us. well above average. average this time of year 79 degrees. by tomorrow, up to 87 and we'll stay hot for the rest of the week. tracy? >> a three-alarm fire ripped through a center city building earlier this morning. this is what's left behind. right now, investigators are looking into a cause. they say flames broke out at a restaurant that is under construction at 13th and chancellor streets before it spread to two nearby apartment buildings prompting evacuations. no reports that anybody got hurt. red cross officials are helping evacuees, some of whom are being allowed back into their homes. police lieutenant tweeted after someone shined a laser at a police helicopter. you can see the red light reflecting off the windows. someone inside the building.

they will not go after the person responsible this time but they want people to remember pointing a laser at aircraft is illegal because it can temporarily blind the pilot. i'm tracy davidson. we'll have another update in 25 minutes. the latest news and weather with the nbc 10 app. free download. check it out at nbc 10.com. now back to the "today" show.

this morning on "today's take" jake gyllenhaal on going to the extreme for his new film evrest and our buddy mel b. is here to spice things up and 16 weeks to 2016 and we want you to join us for a get fit challenge, all that and more coming up now. from nbcnous this is "today's take request al roker and willie geist and tomorrow ron hall live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today" hon this tuesday morning, september 15th, 2015. dylan has dialed up another beautiful day for us here. >> yes. this whole week going to be gorgeous. >> september weather. >> september into beginning of

october. >> just warm enough but not cool. >> noise and comfortable and night. love it. >> this is jay-z "rock boys" 2007, one of my favorite songs of all time. i read "rolling stone" named it the best song of 2007. >> wow. >> good horn section. >> was it just named the best song of 2007 or back in 2007? >> great song. "rock boys" download it today. fantastic. talking a lot of donald trump these days aren't we because of the presidential campaign. another massive event last night in dallas and at sold out american airlines arena, but there 's the little matter of who will take his job on "the apprentice" and it is arnold, arnold schwarzenegger is the next host of "the apprentice." trump left the show and ended his relationship with nbc after he announced the presidential campaign and what donald had to say at rally yesterday about schwarzenegger. >> they have announced or will soon announce, you know who is going to take the place of trump?

arnold. arnold. arnold schwarzenegger. good, right? i think it's a good choice, and he's a friend of mine, and i approve it 100% and i'm with him 100% and think he'll do great and will raise a lot of money for charity. >> i think he's going to be brilliant. >> i think it's going to be fun. >> it's going to be really fun to watch, yeah. >> trump's catch phrase of course was "you're fired." >> you're fired. >> if schwarzenegger is not hasta la vista, baby. >> or you're terminated. >> something crazy has happened. >> you've been terminated. >> you won't be back. >> go with the obvious. sometimes the most obvious one is the correct one, hasta la vista, baby, get out of the board room. >> and maybe he'll come up with a whole new one and throw everybody for a loop. >> what, something was terminated? >> like a tumor. >> that's my favorite line from "considering the cop." >> maybe that one will work. >> have you ever caught a foul ball at a baseball game? >> cheated at a spring training game. one went up into the empty stands and i went up and get it.

>> my husband caught one front and center that sits in front. >> which game? >> red sox yankees? >> that's a great ball to catch. >> what did he have to do to catch it in. >> it bounced off the rafters and he just went like this and it just landed right in his hand. >> wow. >> like of those things we talk about on news. let's talk about one, right? this fan might have gone a little bit too far to catch the foul ball. check this out. >> all right. >> at last night's l.a. dodgers game, first baseman adrian gonzalez reaches in and it's in his glove, and he's taking it out of the glove. >> and then the battle ensues. >> he want that had ball. >> what did they do in. >> he's out and caught it. >> he ripped it out. >> like you can't do that. >> is that a red sox cap that guy is wearing? >> i can't tell. they were playing the colorado rockies. >> now i'm embarrassed, i'm a red sox fan.

>> they threw him out, right in. >> the dodgers did win. the dodgers beat the colorado rockies 4 da-2 and he still hass hand. adrian gonzalez still has a hand and a mitt. >> front row at the dodgers game and have a red sox hat on. >> that just looks bad for all red sox fans. >> gonzalez made the catch. >> and the try got ejected from the game so that's good. what do you do when we have kids' parties and families over at the house. the kids make a little bit of a mess or a lot of a mess. how do you handle the situation? so the reason we're asking the question a woman wrote into "boston globe" asking for advice. recently is hosting a party. there were kids there, and the kids got a little crazy. so she said she asked the kids to help clean up the place, and then she got a little stink eye from one of the other parents. >> oh, the mom gave the stink eye. >> yeah, gave her a stink eye. >> where do you draw the line, it's your house and having the party and having kids that you know most likely will make a

mess at your house. >> i figure there's going to be pop corns everywhere, plates, tracks, broken thing. i do the cleanup. >> if the kids really made a mess the parents could step in. >> i use my kids in that example. i say kids clean up, right near the parents and i'm hoping through os mowsies. >> and they say, okay, mom, i'll go clean up. >> always, every time they say that. i wouldn't give the stink eye though if they asked my child politely to help clean up, george, lucy, you helped make the mess, go help clean up. >> i think you're allowed if it is your house but i do expect some degree of chaos in the house. >> right. >> that's going to happen. i think you have to go in knowing that's going to happen. >> everybody leaves, pour yourself a drink and you look at that mess and you go phew and then you clean it up. >> left with the mess. another great clip. we absolutely love james cordin, got that carpool croaky that he

does and this is a legendary carpool karaoke because stevie wonder was in the carpool with him, okay. this is on "the late late show" last night and they teamed up with some of stevie's favorite songs and phoned james' wife julia and had no idea who was on the phone so i think you know where this is going when stevie picks up the phone and take a look. >> julia. >> who is this? >> this is stevie. julie, this is stevie from england, not the stevie wonder that you know. ♪ i just called to say james loves you ♪ ♪ i just called to say how much he cares ♪ ♪ i just called to say he loves

you ♪ ♪ and he promises me that he'll let me be on his show for an hour ♪ >> oh, so good. >> that's awesome. >> he's crying there, so moved by that. the funniest part, you've got to watch because they sing the greatest hits of stevie wonder but they started interview. they cut to it and stevie wonder is in the driver's seat putting on his seat belt, and james cordin calmly puts his on and stevie says something, you know what, i forgot my license, i better not drive and then they switch seats. that's a great bit. >> so great. would you hope that the wife, hold on, let me just roll the record button. >> must not have known what the heck was going on. amazing. >> got a look at the weather out there. >> yes, another beautiful day for most of the country. fantast fantastic. >> leather seats and leather skirts do not allow you to get yourself off the chair. let me peel myself off and walk myself over to the weather monitor where we do have some

scattered showers this morning through parts of florida where it seems like these fronts have just been getting stalled out all summer long and that's going to trigger all summer long and some of these could lead to heavy downpours and flash flooding. next several days up until saturday, every day we have a chance of scattered showers and storms. the good news is the heaviest of the rain will be out over the atlantic and gulf and we could still end up with two to up to three inches of rain within some of the heavier downpours. elsewhere here's the big area of high pressure, keeping it high and dry through the plains and midwest and northeast. temperatures today will still be on the comfortable side with low humidity but humidity will start building over the course of the next several days and out towards parts of the rockies we could also see more scattered showers and good morning. i'm first alert meteorologist brittney shipp. 80 to 83 degrees this afternoon.

low humidity. light wind speeds 5 to 10 miles per hour. you can't beat this weather. we start to warm things up as we head into the next ten days. staying in the mid 80s with lots of sunshine toward the end of the week. i am track a cold front that will drop our temperatures back down to 80 degrees sunday. >> i'm stuck back in. >> did you make it back. >> here for the rest of the show. >> dylan, thanks. coming you, we'll meet the three brave viewers who are about to get whipped into shape over the next 16 weeks by our diet and fitness experts joy and jenna. >> ready, guys. >> 16 ♪ ♪ ♪ and off you go, ♪ ♪ ♪ and off you go,♪ ♪ ♪ and off you go,♪ for every step, every stride, every start,

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believe it or not, there's just 16 weeks left until 2016. we don't want you to wait until january to start your diet and fitness resolution. >> so we'll start moving and eating right today along with three fearless "today" show fans taking our 16 to '16 challenge. >> i am ready and motivated to lose weight because i need to be strong for my family. this past year has brought many obstacles to my life. my husband of 31 years is dealing with a traumatic brain injury. i'm now working three jobs and have become the sole supporter of my family. the result, stress, overeating, not enough time for exercise and weight gain. i have put everyone else first this past year and i strongly believe it's time to put myself a little higher up on the totem pole. >> my motivation to find my fitness and return to my old self comes primarily for my love for my family. about 15 years ago i followed my dreams and opened a bicycle shop with my wivch when the business

went under last year i went from an avid athlete to an unmotivated struggling business owner. i don't eat as well as i should and it's hard to find motivation to work out. i want to get healthy so i'll be able to enjoy a long life with those that i love. >> i don't feel comfortable in my own body. i'm concerned that if i don't make changes spoon it will become increasingly difficult to get healthy. i know the odds are against me because i have a family history of hypertension and my father passed away from a heart attack. dieting is hard, but i'd like to eat the soul food i grew up with, even if i have to modify the recipe. i need to be better for myself, for my family and friends and for everyone watching. >> and so here they are, mary jean, ken and rachelle all here along with "today" nutritionist joy bauer and fitness expert jenna wolfe. go down the line and tell us

what you're most looking forward to once you get to that point, mary jean. >> i want to get healthy for 2016 and feel comfortable in my clothes because i'm kind of stuffed in everything right now so. >> yeah. >> ken? >> you know, i want to be active and healthy for my family and my kids are super active and i want to be able to just go with their speed. >> and are a chil >> i want to run a half marathon. >> great goal. >> you weighed in at 196.5, you don't like that number. i saw the look on your face but guess what this is the last time you're going to start at that number. embrace that hand join that. >> ken, you weighed in at 221 pounds, same thing. not crazy about it, but this is your starting pain, and that's the whole point of all of this is we all need a jumping off point and 773. let's hope that's the highest we are going to be. >> yes. >> because from here we are moving in one direction and one

direction only. >> you'll be seeing less of them next week. >> what are some of the things can you start to do as you look at those numbers and goals. >> first, let me say that you're going to see a remarkable transformation in their bodies but most importantly, great for all the viewers watching, they are get to get life-changing health perks as well, lowering cholesterol, blood pressure, steadying their blood sugars and i'll walk you over here and this is the very first tip that i want everybody to start doing this week. >> walk on over. >> this is a big one. >> yeah. >> so every day prior to lunch and dinner you're going to front load with vegetables, so it can be soup, a salad, baby carrots or cherry tomatoes, one cup of vegetables prior to lunch or dinner and here's why. they are loaded with fiber and water so they will start to expand in your stomach as you eat them and it's going to take the edge off your hunger so you're going to eat less, and, of course, big bonus, they are loaded with anti-oxidants and nutrition.

>> everyone can do this as home. >> everyone. >> come on over to jenna because she will get you started on the fitness part of it. >> the deal with you guys and the deal with me is all about account ability so stand in front of a chair. the deal is we're not doing this for me. we're doing this for you. there's no cheating to do. i want you to be honest and true to yourself, a journey we're starting from the beginning. given fitness trackers. you'll start out with steps that monitor your steps, your calories and sleep, an all-encompassing journey. 7,000 a steps a day is what i want you to start with, number one. number two, once a day i would like you to get moving up and down. everyone has a chair in their house. i want you to sit down really quietly and an southern it and sand right back up. sit down, stabbed up. do it ten times, rest and do nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one and do that small workout once a day and then we'll move on. >> you people at home, got to get going on that.

>> there you go. >> there you go. >> are you ready for this, guys, you ready. >> you've signed yourselves up and nothing like the pressure of live television. >> totally ready. >> all right. well, good luck to all of you, and you know you've got these two to answer to. >> oh, yeah, oh, yeah. >> and they are hep here to help you. congratulations and good luck, everybody. every pound that the participants lose "today" show will be donating $16 per pound lost. >> we'll check back with you lost. >> some of the country's most creative teachers in the classroom and the tricks they use to get their kids to learn right after this.

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for now on our series cool school week and we want to shine a spotlight on some. most creative teachers in the country. >> we received a slew of online submissions telling us about awesome educators so let's show you some of them, and we're starting off in montara, california where fourth grade teachers liam murray and erin fitzgerald have come up with a really good idea to get kids to read. their mission is to make reading fun. every friday afternoon they hold tea time reading, where kids bring in a mug, sip tea and listen to classical music and read. >> i love that. it's perfect. >> you're my swiper. >> let's head to allen texas and teacher michelle siegel who uses music to keep her middle school

students involved math and take a look at how she teaches ratio but rewriting a song. ♪ my function is a line so you will notice all the time ♪ ♪ that what's not change is its slope ♪ ♪ so please check out the rise over the run and you will find the equation that is meant for you ♪ ♪ to see the slope, it's the ratio ♪ >> now i finally get what that's all about. >> now we know. the best way to know math. just play it to music. now want to head out to illinois and park ridge, and there are -- there's a social studies teacher who is trying to teach his sixth graders about michelangelo and what it might have been like to draw and paint upside down so he has his kids tape the paper to the bottom of their desk and they play on their floor to make the sketches. >> just like the christine chapel. >> exactly. next, beth joyner from millerville, georgia.

she has an interesting way to teach students about action verbs. take a look. >> all right. give me a great verb. >> spinning. >> good. >> i like this. >> turning. >> she even gets a workout while she does it. >> working on the arms. >> beth says she began every lesson this way for the last 26 years. >> gets the blood flowing to the head. >> whatever works. >> our thanks to everyone who sent in a submission. some great teachers all across the country at today.com. we'll have more from our cool school series tomorrow when we play probability plinko. >> everybody loves plinko. still to come, my conversation with the cast of "evrest" and the bromance brewing between jake gyllenhaal and josh brolinch that's all coming up after your local news and weather.

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good morning, everyone. i'm chris cato. it's 9:26. it should be warming up out there right now. let's check your weather with first alert meteorologist brittney shipp. >> low humidity, light wind speeds. pretty much a perfect day. live look at the philadelphia art museum. it would be a nice day to jog the rocky steps. if you're heading to work, temperatures as you head out the door, 68 degrees in philadelphia, 66 in washington township. 68 in northwest philly. 61 in allentown. low 60s in the poconos. 65 in dover and our temperatures today will range between 81 and 84, sunny and nice. low humidity. wind speeds out of the northwest

5 to 10 miles per hour. chris? >> a three-alarm fire ripped through a center city building earlier this morning. this is what's left behind. the view from sky 4's 10. fire broke out at 14 and chancellor street. it spread to two nearby buildings prompting mandatory evacuations. no one was injured, though. red cross and city officials are helping those evacuees, some who are being allowed back in their homes now. check nbc 10 for updates. funeral director who stored bodies in a garage will go in front of a state board about a hearing for her license sheechlt owns the garage in strawberry mansion and also operates the funeral home. police found three bodies inside that garage after neighbors complained afternoon odor. powell's funeral home is currently closed for renovation. she told us the bodies were only there a few hours waiting for

pickup. the state board that oversees funeral directors will review her license today. i'm chris cato. see new 25 minutes with more.

taking a look at the headlines, authorities are searching for several people missing in a flash flood that washed over a utah town. at least eight people died when waters swept away two vehicles carrying women and children. three people survived. a government task force says a daily low-dose aspirin could help certain people in their 50s and 60s prevent a first heart attack or stroke, and they might get some protection against colon cancer at the same time. the guidelines from the u.s. preventive services task force are only for people with a high risk of heart disease and a low risk of bleeding side effects. vitamin d supplements might help to ward off dementia, according to a new study in the journal "neurology." a researcher at rutgers university found that on average people over 60 with low levels of vitamin d experience mental

decline up to three times faster than those with normal levels, but you'll want to talk to your doctor as always before taking supplements because too much vitamin d can be dangerous. more proof this morning that air pollution is deadly. according to a new study from new york university, the most harmful type of pollution involves microscopic particles that are absorbed into the lungs and bloodstream which can't be sneezed or coughed out. even small increases were linked to 10% more deaths from heart disease deaths and 27% more death from respiratory disease among none smokers. >> if you're looking to shed a couple of pounds you'll want to listen up. portion size affects how much people eat. british researchers looked at data from more than 6,000 people to see how portions and food packaging influences eating habits, and they found, that yes, people ate more when they were offered larger portions or ate from bigger plates. experts say completely eliminating larger sized

portions from the diet could reduce american calorie intakes by nearly a third. well, if you think your commute was bad take a look at this. two men on a most cycle in india narrowly escaping serious injury or perhaps even death here when this elephant just went on the attack, tried, to as they were riding past them. the elephant walked on to the highway/1 from the nearby fores and it went after the bikers. both men though managed to get away suffering only minor injuries thankfully. let's get a check of the weather once again from dylan. >> thanks, natalie. i just want to mention i was so excited to tell you about the sixth grade social studies teacher who has his tape the paper upside down to see what it could be like what it was paint like michelangelo. i was owe excited that i left out his name. chris, here's the forecast. a lot of sun and humidity. good combination.

temperatures topping out in the mid-80s. northeast, too, gulf coast, a couple of scattered showers and watch out for flash flooding especially across the northern rockies where we could get heavier downpours that lead to some of the flash flooding and tomorrow same story, scattered showers and rain moves into northern california. much-needed rain and central and eastern good morning. i'm first alert meteorologist brittney shipp. temperatures will warm up between 80 to 83 degrees. lots of sunshine. nice, low humidity. light wind speeds out of the northwest. 5 to 10 miles an hour. you can't beat this weather. we start to warm things up into the next couple of days. staying into the mid 80s with lots of sunshine toward the end of your week. i am tracking a cold front that will drop temperatures back down to 80 degrees sunday. >> and that's your latest forecast. >> thank you, dylan. in 1996 a group of intrepid climbers battled an extreme

blizzard in their quest to summit mt. evrest. some survived and some did not an their journey gained worldwide attention and inspired the best-seller "into thin air." >> "dylan, you had a chance to sit down with the cast. >> i did, an amazing cast. a widely documented tale of tragedy and survival and now can you see it in true hollywood style, imax 3-d. i talked to "evrest" cast about what it was like to work on thennic film. >> evrest is another beast all together. >> it's an epic and emotional tale that plays out on the world's highest summit. >> i'm going to come out to you. >> i know this is not an easy shoot. there were extremes of all kinds. do you think everybody, the cast and crew dealing with those extremes, made it that much more realistic? >> yes, i do think so. we decided to -- or i decided to make it as hard on the actors as possible. >> i think the nature of the whole experience was set up by

bot. he said early on if you are down for the experience to be real and make this movie and if you're not don't do it. >> my whole team made it up, ya in. >> you played scott fisher. he was the leader of mountain madness. how would you explain his attitude to the mountain from the people that knew him is. >> i think he had extraordinarily positive and very loving point of view about climbing and expedition -- this expedition in particular and everybody he was climb with, and i think he was in my opinion the strongest climber really up there that year. >> in prepping for "evrest" the cast and crew were deliberately pushed to their own extremes. >> i heard you and josh went into an altitude simulator. >> we did, that together. >> how did that go? got to mess with your mind? >> it was beautiful. >> my soul was naked. that was -- you know, i can't think of any better place than to be with josh brolin that in an at tuiteitude simulator.

>> you're at the beginning of the movie, don't know what you're getting into. bot makes it sound like you're going to war and you're like, okay, i've got to really show up here and then you have two es go that show up in the thing and we're looking at each other and our eyes are completely pinned and we're pale and you can see the capillaries. >> i'm thinking he looks really pale and i was fine. >> i've got to ask the question, i know you do. >> michael, you play jon krakauer and so many people are familiar with the book "into thin air" and he was the guy documenting everything that happened on this climb to evrest. do you think that because he was there people pushed themselves harder thanny that would have? >> you know, i think that first and foremost scott fisher and rob hall cared about getting everyone to the top safely and done safely. >> when you're playing real people and a lot of them are still alive and just a real

sense of integrity amongst the cast that we had to honor what happened in the best way that we could. >> jake, a lot of the roles you've been playing are mentally, physically exhausting. how would you say preparing for "evrest" compares to preparing for "southpaw" or "night crawler." >> i have no idea what it's like to prepare for the actual "evrest" but preparing for the movie, you know, you're with a group of people. i think when you're climbing a mountain and particularly making a movie about that, you know, we were all in this together. >> just recently jon krakauer who survives the climb considers this 1996 expedition the biggest mistake of his life. "evrest" by our sister company universal hits theaters in 3-d this friday and you have to go see it. it's both visually and emotionally powerful. >> i cannot wait to see it. >> head right to the theater next friday. >> the book was one of the most riveting i've ever said. can't wait to see the movie. >> fantastic. >> good interview, dylan.

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does he actually swallow, and i have no idea. it's fascinating. >> it is, and i can't take my eyes off of him. >> he's one of your favorites. >> one of my favorites, and the mentalist. he can predict exactly what you're thinking. it's crazy. >> we talk about this it feels like every time you come but after a season of this show you feel like you can't see anything new. >> and then that happens. >> and then that happens. >> it's all craze. >> i wonder how a guy gets to discover that he has this. >> we did discuss that in the break. we won't go there. too early, too early. hilarious. >> hour, this is his last show, howard stern. how does that make you feel, have such great chemistry together? >> i know, i'm kind of sad. i hope i do it next year. i haven't been told or asked yet, nbc. >> come on, nbc. >> and now there's more money because howard's gone but i'm sad he's not going to do it because he's so great and a great guy to work with. he's a great judge, a bit moody and grumpy sometimes.

>> aren't we all. >> yeah. >> you have a dream replacement for howard stern? who would be like pie in the sky. >> just me. just me. i don't need anybody else. >> whatever howard was making. >> all mine. >> now i know you guys are taking about the spice girls reunion, too. >> yeah. >> last time we were here we put you on spot and you just said during the break it's going to happen. >> i want to make it happen. >> okay. >> our 20th year anniversary. >> victoria, she's going to be there in. >> i want everybody to do it, but there's no official annou e announcement. we're just kind of talking to get five girls together is tough. >> you know if you don't have victoria you know who is so thrilled about the spice girls. take a look. >> maybe not just me. my cousin. >> a little something extra. ♪ ♪ tell me what you want, what you really, really want ♪ ♪ tell you what i want, what i

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>> reporter: >> he knows it's going to be a special day, not just because of receipting, writing and arithmetic. more than 200 kindergarten through fifth grade schools tile into the school auditorium where they are introduced to visitors waiting to surprise them with free and filled backpacks. >> thank you, mr. davenport. >> dave smith heads up the kids in need foundation. >> part of the foundation is really to see that every child can have the basic supplies in the classroom. >> thank you go. >> there you go. >> we go by our student who receive free or reduced lunch, roughly 65.4% of our students qualify. nearly 72% of our students at some level or another are living, you know, at or around poverty. without a doubt we have students who begin the year without backpacks, without paper, without pencils. >> kids in need serves as a gateway between schools and a sponsor. in this case that's local businessman and attorney mike morse. >> my mom was a detroit public schoolteacher and librarian for

several years and always engrained in us, education as well as giving back so when this came up it was such a natural fit. >> time for the big reveal. and celebration. >> those items, now they are able to feel good about themselves. it makes a huge difference to not only the students but to us as teachers because it took a weight off of us as to how we can supply our kids with the things that they need to be successful in school. >> the playing field is level. you have pencils. i have pencils. you have a notebook, i have a notebook. can you get your work done and so can i. >> there's big message in giving them hope and dignity and now they can be like all other kids. >> second grader max mitchell showed us his new stash. we've got two notebooks, some scissors and some folders. i used the crayons. >> and the reaction from the parents of another section grader alexander who did start

school with supplies they had purchased themselves. >> it's going to be a long year and no telling how much he's going to run through so it all helps. >> my hope is that they can focus on their teachers and pay attention and study and learn and not be distracted by things such as looking for a pencil or a crayion or a piece of paper to write with and do their homework with. >> i wanted my students to take the day's event assics operation to one day be the givers. my kids are just awesome young people and i'm positive that mike morse and kids in need foundation, they will have future partners here at edison elementary school from the seeds that they have planted today. >> happy smiles all around. the kids at edison elementary weren't the only ones to get a backpack and supplies. in fact, they were delivered to a total of 66 detroit public elementary schools thanks to the partnership between the kids in need foundation and mike morse. if you would like more information go, our website today.com. got to have the tools to

succeed, right. >> first day of school, get all your supplies and ready to go. >> and your trapper keeper. >> right. >> don't tell the kids that yet. >> we'll be back in a mom. this is "today" on nbc.

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it's shaping up to be a beautiful day out there. let's check in with first alert meteorologist brittney shipp. brittney? >> plenty of sunshine, light wind speeds and our humidity stays down. 73 degrees right now, 44% in our humidity. wind speeds out of the northwest at 7 miles per hour. across the rest of the region,

you're checking out temperatures at 66 in chester springs, 72 in trenton. 65 in the poconos. along the shore, 70 and woodbine at 68. today's temperatures ranging between 81 and 84 degrees. seeing more sunshine toward the end of the week. >> someone shot a 21-year-old man to death overnight in south philadelphia. the gunman fired at least ten shots at the man near 24th and montrose streets. someone saw the suspect riding a bicycle before and after the shooting. that the.they've made no arrests. new information about an allentown woman charged with killing her son by pushing him off a bridge and into the lehigh river. 20-year-old perry will pursue an insanity or mental health defense at trial. she is charged with child endangerment in the death of her 20-month-old son in may. prosecutors said they plan to seek the death penalty in the case. i'm chris cato. we're back with another update

in about 27 minutes. you can always get the latest news and weather through the nbc 10 news app. now we go back to the "today" show.

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