good morning. breaking news. disaster in the carolinas. deadly rains wash away homes, roads and cars. dramatic rescues caught on tape. thousands without power, schools shut down, and officials are warning residents do not go outdoors. >> if you are in your house, stay in your house. this is not something that be out taking pictures of. this is not something that you want your kids playing in. >> we'll talk to south carolina's governor, and al is live in columbia as the rains keep coming. holding out hope. the coast guard discovers more debris in the search for the missing cargoship that

mysteriously sailed right into americans. >> until there is confirmation that the materials within the debris field came from the el faro we'll continue to hold out hope. why didn't the captain call off the trip? and doctors without borders demanding answers for the attack on its hospital in afghanistan. staffers are dead. pancakes and politics, fresh off her return on the "snl" stage. >> all anyone wants to talk about is donald trump. >> donald trump? isn't he the one that's like ugh, you're all losers. >> hillary clinton joins savannah live from new hampshire for a special ten houn hall meeting today, monday, october 5th, 2015. >> announcer: from nbc news,

this is special edition of "today," a town hall meeting with hillary clinton. with matt lauer live from studio 1a and savannah guthrie live from new hampshire. good evening, everyone. welcome to "today" on a monday morning. savannah, i'll take my pancakes with syrup and my politics straightforward. >> that's great, math. i've been flipping flap jacks all morning long. you'll have people come in and get up this early you have to feed them so we'll give them a few pancakes and politics straight ahead. >> i don't know what the weather is up there. i hope it's okay but as you can see the rain is still coming down in the carolinas. this is being called a once in 1,000-year event, that's columbia, south carolina as the light starts to shine there, water everywhere. it's been a devastating weekend. al has made his way down there. we'll check with him in a bit. meanwhile, savannah, let's get more on this special town hall

meeting with hillary clinton. >> that's right, matt. this is, of course, in new hampshire. these are residents who have gathered to ask hillary clinton some questions. you should know that we have invited the front-runners in national polls from both parties to participate in special town hall events live here on "today" so this morning we are proud to present our first. it's with secretary clinton, who is, of course, the national democratic front-runner. we should also mention on the republican side we're pleased to announce that donald trump has just accepted our invitation for a town hall, so we look forward to bringing you that event in a few weeks, we hope. so, matt, back to you for now. >> we'll see you in a couple of minutes. meanwhile, let get right to our top story, the deadly rain in south carolina still coming down, and a state of emergency is in effect as the record-setting storm literally washes away cars, roads and homes, stranding drivers and homeowners, many of whom were rescued from rooftops by helicopters. in a moment we'll talk to south

carolina's governor nikki haley urging people to please stay inside and let's start with al roker in the devastated state capital of columbia. al, good morning to you. >> good morning, al. it is still a mess here. we are dealing with a dire situation, the rain letting up a bit but we could still see another 1 to 2 inches in columbia and 4 to 5 elsewhere and this is what the latest we know so far. at least seven people have died in north carolina and south carolina. hundreds rescued, thousands evacuated. we've got 30,000 people without power right now. in columbia alone, all 375,000 residents have been told to boil water, and, in fact, the university of south carolina says they are in an emergency situation because they are without water. the dorms are without water so they are having big problems. here along the congaree river, you can see the water level has actually dropped 12 to 14 inches

from yesterday, but harry sanders, this water problem, as you were saying earlier, the big problem is you've got too much water and now a lot of people >> exactly. problem. people need this, they need fresh drinking water and there is none because not only is there no water pressure in some homes but those that do have water pressure can turn it on and maybe put it in a pot and boil it, but there's no power to so many people as al just said. this morning because of that, this morning there is a plan instituted, may pull the tryinger to evacuate two hospitals here, and if they do that, because they don't have enough clean water to support the patients, it will be a very complicated day. this morning the misery in south carolina is not letting up. scenes like this playing out across the state as raging floodwaters swallow everything in their path. this man rescued from his pickup alive. instead of traffic, boats are

floating down flooded streets, carrying people to safety. >> the waters are rising and cars are under water, stuff is moving and who knows what could be lurking in the water right now. >> reporter: a mom and her 15-year-old daughter were plucked from the roof of their home by the coast guard. >> we haven't seen this level of rain in the low country in 1,000 years. >> from charleston, to columbia, to greenville, from the elderly to the youngest, no one is being spared spared. >> you just had a baby when? >> two days ago. >> overnight curfews in several cities kept people off dangerous roads, more than 200 impassable, in some cases gone all together. >> the water was on the top of the car. >> reporter: this morning surrounded by floodwaters thousands of columbia residents faced widespread outages of drinking water. >> this is not something you want your kids playing in. the water is not safe. >> two stalled cars in the middle that have water. >> reporter: dispatch centers

for help, first responders joined by the national guard are scrambling to keep up with all of the emergencies. relentless rain leading to relentless pain. >> this is ridiculous. we're at a total loss. everything is gone. >> if >>. >> reporter: if they choose to evacuate the hospital it will be complicated, some patients put in buses and others in ambulances, and because there are so many patients and so much need there's talk of a possible airlift because some of these patients, al, will actually least state. >> we'll speak with the mayor coming up at 8:00, and we will update us on that. kerry sanders, thank you so much. more rain. let's look at the radar and show you quickly what's going on, what to expect. this coastal low eventually lifts out, but as you can see, we're looking at additional heavy rain through carolina, north carolina, 40-mile-per-hour winds near the coast.

rainfall amounts, expecting another 2 to 4 inches and the wind diminishes eventually and here at the congaree river, our river gauge to show you what to expect, we'll be looking at a little more rain gauge rise for right now. the record, 39.8. we're nowhere near that, 30.4. we expect the river to continue to drop as we get towards tomorrow morning, but in the meantime we still have a very volatile situation here, matt, and we're going to continue to track because there are still power. it is a dangerous time here in >> all right, al. thank you very much. we'll be pack with you shortly. nikki haley is the governor of south carolina. governor haley, good morning. how are you doing? >> good morning, maimpt we're hanging in there. >> you've called this a 1,000-year event. it's still raining down there. what's your priority? what are you going after first this morning? >> well, just to put it into perspective, that's exactly right.

they talk about 100-year rains and they are referring to this as a 1,000-year rain so obvious priority is safety. we have 381 roads that are closed and we've got 127 bridges that are down. we've had six fatalities right now. we've got people without power and water. the number one thing is to keep people inside. keep them safe. our goal is to get supplies where they need to have them. we've got 27 shelters open, but the real heros of the day, matt, we've got 1,000 law enforcement men and women out there on the streets. we've got utility crews all over the place trying to get these 30,000 outages back up again, and we've got 1,000 d.o.t. maintenance crews out there just trying to get the roads safe. >> you talk about the roads. you asked people over the weekend give us the space we need to do our job. it's easy for them to obey that on a weekend. they can stay home. the workweek has begun again. are you worried that some people might start to venture out? >> i think they get it, you know. all you have to do is look out

window and see the flooding. it doesn't take long for you to get in your car and realize that you've got to turn back around. this is historic levels of rain. we've never seen anything like this before and we're used to rain on the coast. to see it all the way in the upstate and mountains, that's not something we're used to. i think the highest level we've seen so far is 24 inches so this is not anything people want to get out in. we have a lot of county closings, school closings. our focus is keeping the power on and right now we're dealing with clean water issues and making sure people have water. >> i was thinking about you a couple minutes ago. so many tests for the people of south carolina this past year with the charleston shooting and, of course, now this. >> right. >> what have you learned about the citizens of south carolina? >> oh, i continue to be very carolina. when these floods happen, the first thing they did was make sure they had their families together, make sure they were safe and then they started checking on their neighbors and that's what we're seeing right now. we've having generous donations of supplies. a great job.

you know, people are really for the most part listening to us. there's always going to be the chosen few that don't, but south carolina, we're strong people, and right now i feel for those. they have lost their homes. they have lost a lot of their -- their, you know, belongings, but at end of the day they recognize their blessings, and so right now we're a state in a lot of prayer and a state that's really trying to take care of each other. we're a strong state and will get through this. >> the people of south carolina are in our thoughts. governor haley, thanks for your time. i know you're busy. >> thanks very much, matt. now to a new discovery in that desperate search for a missing cargo ship carrying 28 americans. the coast guard says it's discovered some more debris that could be connected to the "el faro" which vanished four days ago in the eye of hurricane joaquin. nbc's kristen dahlgren is in jackson with more on this. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. two coast guard cutters searched through the night and two coast guard planes are headed back out

to sea and the question is that debris from the "el faro" and when does it mean? that's what families in jacksonville are desperately waiting to hear. from the air above the search the ocean appears spotted with clues. a 225-mile debris field with things like life rings, life jackets, cargo and an oil slick. overnight nbc confirmed three new missing crew members as 46-year-old jeremy rime, 51 griffin. >> we just continue to wait with the hopes of finding survivors. >> reporter: this weekend the coast guard definitively linked one of the life rings to the 7290-foot cargo ship missing since thursday when the "el faro" sent a distress call from its last known position near crooked island in the bahamas as hurricane joaquin bore down. now rescue teams are looking for signs of the crew on board. >> we're starting to look for

the crew had to abandon ship. >> reporter: lori bonio, the ship's second mate, sent her an e-mail before the "el faro" disappeared. >> there's a hurricane out here and we're heading straight into it. love to everyone. >> reporter: now she waits holding on to hope. >> she always said me if anything happens to me out at sea, mom, it's okay. i died doing what i want to do. >> reporter: the families though aren't giving up hope, they are gathering again today, hoping for what they finally would be some good news. the coast guard, matt, plans to hold a news conference later on this morning. >> all right. kristen dahlgren, kristen, thank you very much. we're going to turn to a major story developing that involves the u.s. military. doctors without borders is now calling for an independent investigation this morning after its charity hospital in afghanistan was bombed in an apparent u.s. air strike. this as the death toll climbs.

that from london. keir, good morning to you >> reporter: u.s. military has launched an internal investigation, the president offering his deepest condolences to this apparent u.s. air strike on a hospital. 12 members and staff were killed alongside 10 patients saturday according to that charity doctors without borders and this morning it's calling the american air raid a war crime and says it's pulling out of afghanistan. the raid happened after the taliban stormed into a crucial provincial capital of afghanistan kunduz. the hospital is in the city. the chaired the strongly denies the taliban were firing from inside that hospital building. this was the most important city to fall to the taliban since they were evicted from power by u.s. forces 14 years ago with all the blood and treasure spent. u.s. and afghan forces have fought back through the weekend but the president plans to withdraw u.s. combat troops from afghanistan by the end of 2016. matt, the world may be focused on syria, but afghanistan is rapidly becoming another

>> key simmons in london, thank you very much. want to go back to savannah now up in new hampshire getting ready for politics and pancakes. savannah? >> i don't know if it's the politics or pancakes but we have a fantastic turnout for our town hall this morning with hillary clinton fresh off of her appearance on "saturday night live." secretary clinton will join us to answer questions from residents, but she's also unveiling a controversial plan to stop gun violence. let's turn to nbc's andrea mitchell here with me in new hampshire and has the specifics on this plan. >> reporter: good morning, thank you to you and to everyone here. today hillary clinton is unveiling controversial new proposals that would close the gun show loophole if congress doesn't act and also for the first time permit gun victims to sue gun manufacturers. as hillary clinton unrolls her gun proposals here in new hampshire today, our new poll shows her losing to bernie sanders in the primary. sanders would also do better in clinton against leading

republicans in a general election in both iowa and new hampshire, sanders is already surging and if joe biden enters the race sanders lead over clinton would jump from 9 to 14 points and biden and clinton drew separate cheers over the weekend before lbgt activists, a major democratic support group. >> there's plenty of homophobes left. president. >> i've been fighting for you and others for equal rights and i'm just getting warmed up. >> reporter: clinton has started breaking with president obama on major issues, the latest, endorsing a no-fly zone in syria, prompting him to take a subtle shot at her friday. >> there's a difference between president. >> reporter: but if running for president means trying to be likable, clinton hit her stride on "saturday night live" as a bartender. >> i wish you could be president.

>> all anyone want to talk about is donald trump. >> donald trump? isn't he the one whose like "ugh, you're all losers." >> reporter: also in "snl"'s crosshairs trump and his wife. >> i don't say i raise this thing from poll numbers. i speak from my heart. >> really, because i hear your numbers go down a little week. >> mexicans are stealing our children. >> you think? >> reporter: trump is still leading republican field in both iowa and new hampshire, but our new polls show his lead has shrunk in new hampshire in the last month from 16 points to just 5. for the candidate who trumpets he's a winner, trump even hinted to chuck todd he could drop out if he starts falling behind. >> if i were doing poorly, if i saw myself going down, i'd go back to my business. i have no problem with that. >> reporter: and as for joe biden aides say he will not decide in time to appear in time for next week's democratic debate and knows that time is

running out and by the end of this month he has to decide something because next month are the filing deadlines to get on the ballot in the first primary and caucuses. he could be deciding very soon. >> andrea, thanks. we've heard that hillary clinton is on her way, a few minutes away from starting our town hall and will take questions from the residents here as well as an interview with us. first, let's go the back to the flooding in south carolina. al, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, savannah. as we look at congaree river. you can see it's still moving very fast. it continues -- it's not rising now, but the water is going so fast, and we expect it to start dropping in the next 24 to 48 hours, but, still, it is a dangerous situation here. we'll look at rest of your country's forecast. you can see that we are going to see showers, thunderstorms through the southeast. also a lot of wet weather in the southwest as well. sonny skies pacific northwest and northern new england starting to see sunshine as well.

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7:30 now on this monday morning, it is the 5th of october, 2015, and you are looking at devastating flooding in south carolina. a state of emergency has been declared. we're going to go back to al who is in the hardest hit areas of that region in just a moment. good morning. we are here in hollis, new hampshire, this morning. we're going to be holding a pancakes and politics town hall meeting with hillary clinton. we're talking to her as a new poll shows she's on top nationally but losing the lead to bernie sanders here in new hampshire, and we've got a barn full of democrats who are self-identified and independents ready to ask her some of the tough questions.

we'll send it back to you. >> something you don't get to say very often. we've got a barn full of people. we like that. >> that's right. >> look forward to that meeting coming up in a couple of minute. joined here by carson and natalie. we'll take a look at a couple of headlines. the coast guard says it has discovered more debris that could be connected to "el faro," the ship carrying 28 americans that disappeared four days ago in the eye of hurricane joaquin. officials have discovered life jackets, life rings and other materials. also in other news, doctors without borders calling for an independent investigation after its hospital in afghanistan was bombed in an apparent u.s. air strike. at least 22 of its staffers and patients were killed. and north korea freed a south korean national a student at new york university. the 21-year-old was arrested back in april for allegedly entering north korea illegally across the chinese border. earlier he was handed over to

south korean officials at the border. let's begin this half hour with more on deadly flooding in south carolina. al is there and we'll start with gabe gutierrez in charleston. >> reporter: matt, good morning. a short break from the rain, and as you can see many neighborhoods in this state remain under water. there were more evacuations last night, more emergency shelters are open. now we've seen many dramatic scenes like this, water rescues where the driver of a pickup truck was rescued just in time and managed to survive. we expect more water rescue teams out and about today, checking on people that are trapped in their homes and making sure that they are okay. but it wasn't just people being rescued by boat. the coast guard managed to pluck a mom and her 15-month-old daughter from the roof of their homes in another part of south carolina.

that this is a 1 in 1,000 year rain event. there's rivers that are still rising and fears it could reach record flood stages. many areas in the state are under boil water advisories, and they are considering evacuating two hospitals in columbia. all around, matt, utter devastation here in south carolina. back to you. >> gabe gutierrez, gabe, thank you very much. let's go to the state capital, al in columbia. still raining there, al? >> it's let up quite a bit. kind of comes and goes. we've got a great bird's eye view of the congaree river. right behind me it's fairly calm, but you look there to the left, and you can see how fast that river is raging and it continues. the good news is it's reached its peak at 30 feet and will start to drop. in the meantime the flooding does continue. the evacuations are still under way and we continue to track this. let's also show you what else is going off.

this is the latest on joaquin. remember, we were all worried about joaquin. the good news is category 1 storm moving away, 125 miles northeast of bermuda and 85-mile-per-hour winds, and it moves quickly out to sea. it will become probably a bit of a problem for the folks in the uk, but meantime no other problems for us. that's what's going on around >> reporter: good morning. another cool day. mix of clouds and sunshine. temps at the coast line. upper 50s boston this programmingham at 64. through the day tomorrow. more sunshine. not as breezy. not as cool. upper 60s tomorrow. wednesday close to 70. sunshine. temps cool once again near 60. only chance of rain this week with a cool front on friday. a scattering of showers. temperatures on friday mid >> and that's your latest weather.

now let's head back up to new hampshire and savannah. >> all right, al. thank you so much, and hillary clinton has arrived for our town hall. a lot of folks with questions are you ready? >> i am ready. i'm looking forward to this event. >> all right. our politics and pancake town

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hampshire, for what we're calling a pancakes and politics town hall event. we'll get to the questions from the voters that we've assembled here in this barn in just a moment, but first, let me say good morning and welcome to secretary clinton. >> thank you. it's great to be here. >> we have a few minutes to talk before we get to hear from the voters. >> great. night. here you were on "snl." let's take a look. >> you are really easy to talk to, hill. >> thanks. that's the first time i've ever heard that. >> secretary clinton, it's a funny skit. does it raise a serious point? there are those who say, look, we get it. we know your resume. you were secretary of state. were you a united states senator, but they just don't connect with you. they don't trust you. they might not like you. >> oh, that really hurts my feelings, i have to tell you. you know, look, i think that i was elected to the senate twice from new york. i was asked by my former opponent to serve as secretary

obviously in this campaign i'm fighting for what i think is important for our country and particularly for families in america, and i believe by the end of this campaign people will know that i will fight for them and they can count on me. >> that's surprising to hear you say that because you've been in politics for 0 years, so it's not like people don't know you so just to get real about it are you having a problem connecting? >> i don't know. you can ask me that and obviously it's not the nicest question to hear because i feel like i have a long record of working on the issues that i believe are important to people, and i'm going to continue to do that, and, you know, i think some of it is just the -- the idea, that you know, people want to know what you really feel like, and, you know, i'll add mitt, i'm a more reserved person than maybe some people in politics, are but as you can see from the skit i also like to

up a little bit in the campaign. >> we just have some polls out this morning, i'm sure you've seen them. it shows bernie sanders winning >> right. >> at moment. >> and it shows me winning in iowa, south carolina, nevada and nationally so i'm happy to be in new hampshire to talk to the people here. >> it's interesting to talk about bernie sanders. >> right. >> because as you mentioned he's winning here, not everywhere else, but he's raising some serious money, raising hillary clinton money for his campaign. what do you think he has tapped into, and is it at all a reflection of your campaign? >> well, as you point out, i've got work to do in new hampshire. i'm very excited to be leading everywhere else, and i'm going to keep working hard everywhere else, but i always thought this would be a great contest, you know. it's important. we're trying to elect the next president of the united states. that's a tough job, and the people of our country have to evaluate candidates, bernie is a neighbor here. he represents vermont.

day doing the best i can to communicate what i will do, and i'm looking forward to the debate that we'll be having next week. >> let's talk about your favorite subject, the e-mail >> mm-hmm. >> i think i read every single thing you've ever said about it as i was researching for this interview, and i have to tell you i see two things. on the one hand you've said sorry and you've apologized for the confusion that it creates. >> right, right. >> on the other hand, sometimes you say it's the work of your republican rivals going after you. it's the same old partisan attacks. >> right. >> and i guess my question to you which is it, if you're blaming the republicans, some apology? >> well, actually it's both. i mean, i'm sorry that i made a choice that has result the in this kind of, you know, situation and i've said i've made a mistake. obviously if i had to do it over again, it was allowed and everybody has confirmed that, but it's also as we now know

republicans are trying to bring my, as they admit, poll numbers down, so, you know, i'm very committed to answering questions and being as transparent as possible. i'm scheduled to testify before their committee which we now know is nothing but a partisan exercise, so it's really both, savannah. it's both, hey, you know what, turn the clock back, it was allowed. i was thinking about many other things in my e-mail account when i became secretary of state. >> it's allowed, but you know, this and anybody who works in government knows it's really not encouraged to use your personal e-mail, and i just -- do you get how bad it looks? it looks like you set up a personal server, you set up your own e-mail so that you would have control of those e-mails and you and you alone would decide when to release, whether to release them and that's in fact what happened. >> well, savannah, first of all, it was allowed and i've said it wasn't the best choice, and every government official gets

work-related. if i had had two separate accounts, as many people do obviously, i would have decided every hour what was personal and what was work-related. the law also says that the official gets to determine that and that's what i did, and i have gone further than anybody that i'm aware of in american history, it's not a long history because we haven't had e-mails that long but as long as we've had them, i've gone longer and possible. nobody else has done that, and by the time this is over, i'm a little, you know, i'm a little embarrassed that the e-mails are so boring in many instances, but, they will all be out there and people will be able to make their decision you. >> mentioned your republican rivals making hay of this. i have to ask you, if the tables were turned and it was dick cheney or karl rove who had a private e-mail account and a private server on which they conducted all their government business, would you be as understanding? >> i never would have done that. look at the situation they chose

political reasons, the death of four americans in benghazi. i knew the ambassador. i identified him. i asked him to go there. i asked the president to nominate him. there have been seven investigations led mostly by republicans in the congress, and they were non-partisan and they reached conclusions that, first of all, i and nobody did anything wrong but there were changes we could make. this committee was set up as they have admitted for the purpose of making a partisan political issue out of the deaths of four americans. i would have never done, that and if i were president and there were republicans or democrats who were thinking about that, i would have done everything to shut it down. >> you're scheduled to testify before that committee. >> that's right. >> do you think it should be disbanded? that's what nancy pelosi has called for. >> well, i have to say that now that they have admitted it's a political partisan committee for the sole purpose of going after me, not trying to make our diplomats who serve in dangerous areas safer, that's up to the congress.

still running, i'll be there, and i'm looking forward to answering questions about real things when i'm there, and i'm looking forward to having a chance to explain everything we've done, everything that i asked to happen, but it's not -- it's not appropriate what they own admission. >> you've mentioned there have been seven or eight benghazi committees. this is the first to actually discover and find your e-mails. was that a public service? no. i mean, before this whole thing, you know, was a big controversy, you know, the state department was looking for information. my e-mails were on the government account, more than 90% of them. the state department was pulling them out. they had been handed over. you know, look, i've been around this political situation for a long time, but some things are just beyond the pale, and i'm happy to go if it still is in operation to testify.

i'm happy to turn over my e-mails. i've gone further than anybody ever has. that's okay. i'm willing to do that, but the real issue here is what happened to four brave americans. >> well, secretary clinton, this group has a lot of questions for you on gun control, on middle class economics, health care. we have a lot to get to and we'll do that for the full next hour. thanks for being here with this morning. we'll hear from the candidates and voters here this morning and online. your questions right after this. >> hi, i'm christina from new hampshire and i want to ask hillary how we can make paid

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it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, it's a morning of pancakes and politics as we bring you a special town hall meeting with hillary clinton live from new hampshire. >> how will you as president be able to do what you did when you were senator which is work across the aisle to get your important policies passed? >> i want to ask what your thoughts are on gun control after the shooting in oregon. >> if you had one piece of advice for young girls being told that they can't do something because they are female, what would it be? >> we'll get answers from the

monday, october 5th, 2015. >> good morning, everyone. welcome back to this special split edition of "today." that's hillary clinton live greet willing some of the people who have come to attend this town hall event in hollis, new hampshire. in a moment we're going to get the questions that voters here have for secretary clinton and online carson has been monitoring the questions you've been sending to us via facebook, twitter and instaxwram. we want to know that we have extended an invitation to donald trump who is the leading republican candidate for a town hall of his own. he has accepted. we'll keep you posted on when and where that event will be, but for now let's send it up to matt for the news in new york. good morning, matt. good morning again. >> we know secretary clinton will be say a lot about the politics part. has she been taking part in the pancakes as well in is there she's not had pancakes this morning. she's been very disciplined. is meeting a lot of people but hopefully we can get her to do some carbo loading with the rest

of us in a few minutes. >> all right. savannah, we'll check back in in a little while. let's start this half hour with a developing story in south carolina. thousands of people there without power after historic rains have pummeled that entire region. al's in the state capitol of columbia. al, good morning to you. >> good morning, matt, and now that the -- now that it's gotten a little lighter out here you can get an idea the congaree river right now is down from its highest point, but you can see it is still fairly high and with the rain it's probably still going to stay high, at least until the end of the week and then continue to drop, but yesterday the swift water rescues that went on here, there were literally hundreds and hundreds of people rescued by first responders, people who drove into high water got caught and all of a sudden people from homes had to be airlifted off of their roofs. people formed human chains to actually get to other people to make sure that they were safe. this was a dire situation, and

rescues for the most part are over, the big problem now is the waters. we have too much water. now a lot of folks here, all 375,000 city residents, have been told to boil their water, but i spoke with the mayor steve benjamin earlier, and he told me the big problem now, the hospitals in south carolina. >> we've had several system breaks. this is a 1,000-year event, so our staff is out identifying obviously where these system breaks are, and if there's not gathered water there attempting to repair them. we have three hospitals in downtown columbia. at least two of them require 100 100,000 gallons a day simply to feed their chillers and keep their equipment running. if in fact we're not able to rectify those system breaks right now, then we'll be working with the hospitals on the phone, with the president of the hospital, one of the hospitals about midnight last night. we'll have to move additional people. we moved some yesterday.

repaired. those hospital residents, it will be a combination of airlift, buses, ambulances. it's going to be a really complicated system in an already dire situation. >> all right, al. we'll check back with you a little later. thanks very much. let's get a check of the rest of the top stories from natalie. >> all right. searchers have spotted more debris believed to be from that cargo ship that disappeared in the eye of hurricane joaquin, but the fate of the 33 crew members, most of them americans, remains a mystery. the "el faro" sent out a distress call last thursday and hasn't been heard from since. coast guard air crews said they spotted life jackets, containers and an oil sheen in the search area near the bahamas, breaking news out of north korea where the government freed a 21-year-old student.

sao won moon was arrested past in april for allegedly endering north korea illegally across the chinese border. today he was handed over to south korean officials. in oregon, umpqua community college's campus opens but there will be no college for yet another week. staff and student will be able to retrieve their belongings and speak to grief counselors after last thursday's campus massacre. nbc's miguel almaguer has now details into the calculated killing. >> he's exchanging shots and he's in a classroom. >> the suspected is down. >> reporter: he took nine lives in ten minutes and then his own. christopher harper mercer murdered classmates and staff one by one. >> she said, daddy, all of a sudden i heard a horrible bang. >> amen. >> reporter: pastor randy scroggins speaks for his daughter lacey too traumatized to break her silence.

taylorans batch saved lost his life he saved hers. >> i'm frozen to the ground and can't move. >> reporter: covered in blood and unable to move lacey's life was spared. others weren't so lucky. she then heard another lady say to the shooter i'm so sorry for what you've gone through. i'm so sorry that you've been hurt, and with that he shot her. >> the shooter's father wonders how his son could ever amass 14 weapons. >> they talk about gun control every time something like this happens they talk about it, and nothing is done. >> reporter: a campus full of heartbreak. nbc's miguel almaguer. >> the supreme court gets back to work with some politically charged cases. the justices will decide to take up a case on a texas abortion law that requires abortion

facility meet the same standards at hospital-style surgical centers. opponents say it's intended to limit access to abortion. in another big case the court is likely to consider a challenge to the birth control mandate in the affordable care act. on a lighter note, most family dogs require that you take them for a walk, but there's one dog that is returning the favor, take a look here. this is daisy. now, if you needed a ride daysy is more than happy to take you where you need to go. only requirement though, you have to be fit enough to fit in daisy's shiny tiny red car >> is that dog steering. >> looks like it. so the little boy in the video, you see he's good to go. i don't think any of us will get into that car any time soon, but, yeah, turns the corners and all. >> drives better than some people here in new york. >> that's pretty accurate actually. let's get a check of the weather once again with al who is in columbia, south carolina. hey, al. >> i love that the little boy is telling the dog where to steer. that's pretty good. looking at radar you can see we still have rain in the southeast

and also wet weather out in california as well. the southwest looking wet so we've got a lot of wet weather hanging around, but for the most part things dry out after tomorrow. that's what's going on around the >> reporter: good morning. another cool day. mix of clouds and sunshine. temps at the coast line. upper 50s boston this afternoon. programmingham at 64. through the day tomorrow. more sunshine. not as breezy. not as cool. upper 60s tomorrow. wednesday close to 70. thursday a continuation of sunshine. temps cool once again near 60. only chance of rain this week with a cool front on friday. a scattering of showers. temperatures on friday mid >> and that's your latest weather. i've got to tell you, savannah, those pancakes would taste pretty good right now. >> i'll save some for you. they will taste delicious tomorrow, just you wait. >> coming up next, as you can see hillary clinton is here and

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>> and welcome back to our special edition of "today." we're calling it pancakes and politics. this is a town hall meeting with hillary clinton. we're live in hollis, new hampshire for answers this morning. this is a crowd that's well fed and they have also decided to participate, all from new hampshire, some are democrats and some are independents and we've got willie geist here who has made his way here to facilitate and take questions from voters. willie, we'll send it over to you. you've got our first question. >> thank you. secretary clinton, welcome to new hampshire. this crowd is well fed and have a lot of questions. this is anna birch, secretary clinton, 45-year-old democrat, has an 8-year-old son and has a question for you about guns. >> that's right. >> hi. thank you for taking my question. >> yes.

>> like so many i'm very distressed about the recent mass shooting last week in oregon, and frankly a bit ashamed to be -- about the uncontrollable gun violence in our country right now, especially compared to other developed nations. again, my son is 1. i'm nervous to talk to him about it. there's regular lockdown drills at his school now. it's part of life and yet i feel like i'm not alone in saying enough is enough and i would like to know as president how -- what specifically you would do for gun control or gun control. >> first of all, i -- i share your feelings and, you know, just the sense that we have to take action. you have these terrible oregon. children being killed in school, people in bible study in a church being murdered and on campuses and so many others, and then there are about 92 deaths by guns every day, and most of them don't make the headlines.

and there are more than 33,000 a year. if anything else we're killing 33,000 of our people we would come together and said hey, what are we going to do about this? so i've introduced my platform for dealing with gun violence because i think we've got to as a nation do exactly what you said, enough. what do we have to try to accomplish? we need universal background checks. we know that they will work. we need to close what's called the charleston loophole. the young man who killed the nine people in the church in charleston, there's a loophole in the brady bill that if you go to try to get a gun and they don't finish the background check in three days you can get the gun. they were still trying to find out about this young man, turns out he did have a criminal record. but because of, quote, the loophole he was able to. we need to close the gun show

loophole, you know. and i think it's 40% or so. gun sales in america are done online or in gun shows and done by people selling out of the back of their cars basically, and we know where we enforce that kind of check. we do keep guns out of hands of people who are domestic abusers or in a hot rage, you know, go out to get a gun because of a domestic dispute, and we have far more women being killed by their partners than anywhere else in the world. it's not that we don't have disputes everywhere else in the world, but they become lethal in america. so i really do want to push hard to get more sensible restraints on gun ownership in the wrong hands and then to try to keep track of people who shouldn't have guns and i want to work with the congress. we got very close. there was a bipartisan bill. it didn't go all the way, but i will also look for ways as

of these checks, particularly, you know, to get more of the background checks done on more of the sales at gun shows and online than we currently have because i -- i don't blame you for, you know, looking at your 9-year-old son and thinking do i have to tell him to be scared, duck and cover, you know, exercises in the school in the united states of america. that's just wrong so i'm determined to do something about it and i'll try in every way i can to get those guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them. >> there's a supreme court case that says the second amendment is an individual right and it was decided somewhat recently in the last few years. do you agree with it? >> well, look, i -- i think that there were a lot of cases before that that were different in terms of what the second amendment made, but that's what the court has decide, but even in that decision justice scalia said that that doesn't mean that there can't be restraints on gun purchases and gun ownership.

that's what i'm advocating. we'll take the law as it is, but we'll have to look to see what we can do to make sure, that you know, we prevent these kinds of terrible crimes that are happening in our country. i've got no problem with people who are responsible gun owners. there are millions of them, but if you actually ask not only americans but gun owners the majority of both say, hey, background checks make a lot of sense. let's do everything we can to make sure the irresponsible and the criminal and the mentally ill don't get guns. >> willie's got our next question. secretary clinton, bob carter, 59 years old, unmayor i'd from rye, new hampshire, undecided and has a question about income inequality. >> right. >> a lifelong democrat and i've admired your service to our country for many years but you don't yet have my vote. my biggest concern is what i see as the growing disparity between

i really feel it to my bones this is becoming an existential threat to our country. we're increasing becoming a country of haves and have notes and unfortunately for many of us we have come to know that the game or the system or whatever we call it is just rigged against us and we really desperately want a champion who will stand with us. >> right. >> so my question to you and if you would please set aside the issue of who -- which candidate is more electable in the general election, help me understand why i should vote for you rather than bernie sanders. >> okay. >> thank you. >> let me talk about my self-. i'll let senator sanders talk about himself. we'll have a chance as we go through the debate to contrast our positions but i believe strongly that raising incomes is the issue, the top priority. that is what i'm going to spend all my time on, and there are different levels of what we have to do. we have to raise the minimum wage because right now you can work full time and you're still in poverty. we have to create more good paying jobs.

more infrastructure jobs with a infrastructure bank putting people to road, repairing our roads and building what we need to be competitive and strong and also why i've said i want to combat climate change and the best way to do that is to create more clean energy jobs. those are good jobs that can't be exported because we'll be putting solar panels and wind, you know, turbines up. we'll doing things right here at home that will not only combat climate change and create new jobs and new businesses. i have advocated for profit sharing like market basket which i'm sure you're aware of, right? because more people deserve to share in the profits than just the ceos, and if you have contributed to the productivity of a company, you should be able to do that. now, i believe that if you look at the last 35 years, democratic presidents have inherited big problems with the economy from the republican predecessors.

national debt, big problems and problems with job creations, at end we had 23 million jobs, incomes rose at every level, the top, middle folks and the poor people. that's what i want to do. when president obama came in he was handed the worst financial crisis since the great depression so our real differences are with the republicans. they want to take us back to trickle down economics. if they get a chance they will once again wreck the economy and the inequality that you and i care so much about will be even worse. i know what to do because i've watched it up close and personal and i understand how we can get incomes once again rising, how people can feel they have a stake in our country and where we begin to narrow that inequality gap so we have broad-based prosperity that everybody can benefit from. >> secretary clinton, to bob's question about bernie sanders though. he leads here in new hampshire. he's got huge crowds wherever he goes, 20,000 people in boston and he's raised a lot of money,

almost as much as you did in the quarter. are you surprised by the rise of >> oh, no. look, i really believe that is great for the democratic party and for this election because we want to turn out as many people as possible in order to understand and believe what we both believe, that the difference between us on the democratic side and the republicans is a huge gulf, and if you care about your income, your family's income, then you've got to look at the democrats. i happen to think my plans and my experience are going to get us where we need to go, and >> let's move along. me. candy is a 71-year-old married, four daughters from here in hollis and what's your question for secretary clinton? >> well, secretary clinton, like you i'm a grandmother, i have my grandson evan simon here today. >> that's great. >> i'm concerned about my grandchildren and young children

in this country, and my question for you is how and what can you do, what will you do to make college more affordable so that our grandchildren here, from middle class families, can get the education they need without overwhelming debt? >> thank you. >> that's one of the biggest concerns that i hear about everywhere, and i -- i have a plan called the new college compact because i think every young person who wants to go to college, number one, should be able to go to a community college for free. that's two more years of education on top of high school. i support president obama's proposal for doing that, but i want to go further. i think everyone who goes to a public college or university should be able to do that without having to borrow a penny to pay tuition, and i think that if we -- if we do i'm proposing, we will have many more young

people being able to afford to go to college. now, i'm a little different than those who say free for everybody. i'm not in favor of making college free for donald trump's kids. i'm in favor of making college free for your grandson by having no debt tuition, and then i do think because i worked when i went to college, i had a job. i went to law school. i had a job, and i also had loans when i went to law school. i think that if you are then having to figure out how to pay for your living expenses if you're eligible for a pell grant, they should be able to be applied for your living expenses, and if you are willing to work ten hours a week at your college you should get extra help. if you're willing to go into a public job like being a teacher you should be able to have your education as close to debt-free across the board as possible, and if you are a national service of some other kind you should also get a big discount,

because, you know, we have a lot of young people in their 20s and 30s going to college, you should get more help. we should have much more earl el childhood programs on campuses so that young parents can afford to have their children safely looked after while they are studying, so my plan is very comprehensive, and i think that it would very much meet your concerns and mine about what we're doing to our kids, but then there's another element of it. i think you should be able to refinance your debt if you already have debt. >> secretary clinton -- i'm sorry, we're up against the break. that will be the cliffhanger. i didn't want to interrupt you mid-sentence. we're just getting started with our town hall. a lot of questions and we'll come back and here also what your questions have been online. we've been getting a social media #hillarytoday and you're sending your questions for all of that, but first a check of your local news and your weather, and i promise you can

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8:30 now. it's monday morning, the 5th of october, 2015, and welcome back to our barn, our little neck of the woods here in new hampshire and we're here with secretary clinton, live politics and pancakes town hall. >> we've done the pancakes. >> i guess you've probably flipped a pancake in your life. >> yes, i have, i have, never in

a barn in new hampshire. i love these new experiences that come with campaigning around our country. >> this crowd has a lot more questions for hillary clinton in just a moment, but for now we'll send it back to matt, carson and natalie in new york. >> hillary clinton trending this morning and in a moment carson will have questions and comments from people who are using the #hillarytoday. >> also coming up in our next hour, actor veteran broadway actor tay digsz will be here to talk about fatherhood. first back to al in columbia, south carolina, where he's been tracking this all day long. al? >> as we send our drone almost water level at the congaree river here's an interesting statistic, at height of this yesterday 1.4 million gallons of water was flowing per second past this point. to put that in perspective, that

would fill two olympic pools per second. it's now down a little bit, down to about 1.2 million, but it's still an amazing amount of water that continues to flow. let's show you the rest of your weather across the country for the next couple of days. for today we do have that upper level low lifting away. winds are going to pick up here in the mid-atlantic and the southeast. also a lot of wet weather through the southwest. they had flash flooding yesterday in death valley, sunshine through the northern plains and tomorrow we look to see more sunshine in the northeast. the winds will drop down a bit, but more weather, wet weather in the southwest and the four corners area. that's what's going on around the >> reporter: good morning. another cool day. mix of clouds and sunshine. temps at the coast line. upper 50s boston this afternoon. programmingham at 64. through the day tomorrow. more sunshine. not as breezy. not as cool. upper 60s tomorrow. wednesday close to 70. thursday a continuation of sunshine. temps cool once again near 60.

with a cool front on friday. a scattering of showers. temperatures on friday mid >> savannah, i think for the donald trump town hall it's going to be bacon and waffles. >> al, i'll put your request in. thank you so much. as you know, willie and i are here in new hampshire and the people who have joined us get a chance to ask the secretary what they want to hear about, and we've got carson in new york and he's monitoring the questions we've been getting in with the #hillarytoday which i guess is trending this morning, carson. what are people asking in. >> it is trending. people have a lot of questions. this question coming from facebook for ruth wanting to know did hillary ever get fired from a job and if so why? >> oh, that's a question. well, actually i did get fired from a job. i went to alaska after i graduated from college, and we worked our way -- i was with

we worked our way, we washed dishes and then we ended up in valdez, alaska, and we got a job at what was called a cannery, a fishery where the fishermen were bringing in salmon and then they were being packed to be sent, in this case it was to japan, so i showed up. high first job was i was given a spoon and some boots and i was told to clean out insides of the salmon, so i did that for a while, but the japanese workers who were taking out caviar thought i was too slow so they were yelling to me in japanese which, of course, i couldn't understand to go faster and then they literally kicked me out of that job and they put me on this little conveyor belt where you had to pack the salmon head to tail, head to tail, head to hail, and i don't know anything about salmon other than to eat it which i love and they were like green and black.

they looked hoshld so i rrible so i went to the guy running the operation and i said are you sure this is okay, just do the job. don't ask any questions and i said don't look very good and they don't smell very good and he just yelled at me and then when i left i came back the next day, whole operation was gone so i think that was the equivalent of being fired. >> i guess so. >> they got out of dodge. >> yeah. >> they did. >> i think we've got one more question, carson. >> enjoy those pancakes after that. we'll go to twitter. kristin writing how has your experience for played it prepared you to be in the oval office? >> you know, that's a really good question because i'm usually asked about being elected to serve in the senate or being appointed to be secretary of state, but i have to say having been in the white house for eight years and, you know, watched how you have to work with everybody, even when you don't agree with them, and i watched my husband do that. i think it was a very important

and strong position for him to be in. that's exactly what i would do. you don't get everything you want for the country right away, and in some cases nothing what you had hoped for, but you have to keep working to find common ground, and i lived that. i watched that, and i think it has well prepared me for what lies ahead because the next president is going to face some really hard choices can and you have to be willing to keep working at them day in and day out. >> secretary clinton, stand by. we're going to get back to our questions right in this room. we'll let you finish your sentence from earlier, too. a lot more questions from here

we're live in hollis, new hampshire, this morning with a rowdy pancakes and politics crowd.

all their carbs and secretary clinton is nice enough to spend this hour with us answering questions and were you in the middle of a question on student loans. >> 40 million people in the country who have student loans already totaling 14 trillion and i want them to refinance their loans and get a lower price. if you can refinance your car and house you ought to be able to refinance your student loans. i also want to cap what you have to pay when you are making that monthly payment, at a percentage, a small percentage of your income as opposed to a fixed rate with an interest rate, and i want to forgive loans if you go into public national service of some sort, and, again, you know, social work, teaching, fire fighting, police work, all of that would be eligible for that lower rate, but mainly i want to get the costs down and i want to get the costs of going down and i'm expecting colleges to lower the costs.

it's gotten too high and i don't think the federal government should -- i don't think the federal government should make a profit off the loans that the federal government offers so we have a lot of work to do to make it affordable for you. >> let's get to willie who has another question. >> this is cliff hurdle, an undecided independent, 39 years old from portsmouth, new for you. >> sure. secretary clinton, you've had a this more. this may be the toughest one you get all day but many years ago we saw another clinton in the inauguration playing an instrument or having a song. what song or instrument would you play at yours? >> well, you know on "saturday night live" i sang "lean on me" with kate mckickon who plays me better than i play me, and so maybe that will be the song because it wasn't as bad as i feared. all my friends from literally grade school in high school were just e-mailing me like crazy, i can't believe you sang, you know. the person who the choir

instructor would say, you know, hillary, you can sit with your friends who are sopranos as long as you don't sing, so probably that's a good start i think. >> and wise decision not to get up with miley cyrus on "snl." >> yes, right. >> let's turn to kristen, undeclared independent, a question for you. >> great. >> secretary clinton, thank you for this opportunity. i think when i talk to my kids, i talk to my kids about politics, a bit of a junkie when it comes to that sort of thing, and i tell them about how in order to make government work there needs to be cooperation, needs to be compromise and there needs to be consensus. honestly is there anyone left in the republican party, talking about the senate and the house, what you can work with. you're not going to be able to do most of what you want to do by yourself. who is there? >> that's exactly the right question. you know, when i was in the senate, well, actually as first lady even, i worked with republicans to pass the

program and to reform foster care and adoption, and i worked with republicans i didn't have anything else in common to work on. when i was in the senate i worked a lot across the lines. in fact, with someone now running for president on the republican side, lindsey graham, him and i teamed up to, you know, to make sure that national guard and reserve members got health care, not just when they were deployed, and the same as secretary of state, constantly working to try to find that common ground. i know it's not easy and our politics become way too polarized but i have a track record of actually doing it and getting it done and i think that as president i would start literally on hour one to start to try to reach out to see what i could do to reach what you tell your kids we need to do in a democracy which is some kind of consensus. thanks very much. >> good luck, he says. >> esther, come on back with me, esther dickinson from concord, new hampshire. >> have a minute for one.

>> i want to thank you for your candidacy, such a role model for people my age so thank you for putting yourself out there. >> thank. >> so in your e-mails you told senator mccluskey you should go out and celebrate with something unhealthy to drink so i'm wondering what your favorite unhealthy celebratory drink is. >> a martini, a vodka martini. and the james bond way, shake it. >> all right. >> more questions for hillary clinton. we're going to take another break and stand by, secretary clinton. we're back in a moment.

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make your tummy happy. mmm, yoplait. welcome back to our special town hall meeting with secretary of state -- former secretary of state hillary clinton with us live in hollis, new hampshire. we're going to get right back to our questions and carson has one

that came in online. what's the question? >> from facebook, randy asking do you think you have what it takes to take on the trump and are you ready for the insults? >> i can't hear that one. >> the question is do you think you have what it takes to take on the trump, and are you ready for the insults? >> well, as you might have noticed, i'm kind of used to being insult the, and he's had his fair share of insults about me, and, you know what? what's important is what's happening in your lives. what's important is all these questions you have on your minds about how we raise incomes and afford college and make it, you know, possible for people to once again feel like they are succeeding in america, that basic bargain, so i've said if he gets the nomination, i'm looking forward to meeting him on had a debate stage. >> willie, a question. >> yes, secretary clinton, a veteran of the united states military, william hopkins, independent, married with two kids. what's your question, sir? >> secretary clinton, a bit of a long question. i'll probably mess it up. i've been practicing for a

while. >> that's okay. >> do you mind if i read it? >> no, go right away. >> yeah. >> all right. >> what's the core of the question, what's -- >> secretary clinton, i served in iraq as an army infantry man in 2004 and 2005, i lost a friend, a year of my life and i suspect i'll be coping with the experience the rest of my life and you gave a ranting rousing speech in support of the war powers act that allowed president bush to go into iraq. given your history and your close ties tollments within the military industrial complex, what assurances can you provide that companies and individuals who profit from war and militarism will not have undue influence in the clinton administration? >> you know, that's really an important question for everybody running for president, william, and -- and i appreciate it, and i also appreciate your service and i'm well aware that you and now millions of americans who

living with the consequences of that. i've said my vote to give bush the authority was a mistake. i misjudge the what he would do with it and i -- and i am very -- it's very regrettable about that so i am probably much more wary and prepared to say no because i saw what was done with a vote i gave a president so i will be even mor cautious. i believe in diplomacy. that's why i worked so hard to put together the coalition to get iran to the negotiating table while you hear other voices, you know saying, no, no, we need to go to war, absolutely not. i'm with winston churchill. talking is always better than going to war and with my four years of experience in the state department i have a very clear idea of how we try to solve problems and how we work to bring people together around american values and interest and that's what i'll do. >> let me ask you about that. you recently called for a no-fly president obama has not done

that so far. he was asked about your position on friday and he said there's a difference between running for president and being president. what do you make of that? >> well, look, i know that, and i have said repeatedly that when you're in that situation room, as i was many, many times and you bear the full weight of the choice you're about to make, you have to be very sure and very careful. what i was advocating was putting together a coalition of those countries that have a real stake in trying to prevent this flood of refugees and trying to find safe spaces so that people can actually stay in their homes, and i know it's complicated, but i think we should be, number one, looking for a diplomatic solution to end the conflict, remove assad who is really one of the major reasons why the conflict is going on and seek a diplomatic solution, and i think trying to provide some safe areas for people which from my reading cannot be done unless we get

everybody together to try to patrol the skies is going to be very difficult so that's why i looking for that. >> sorry, the fly was not invited to this. willie, one more question. >> what's your question for secretary clinton? >> hi, secretary clinton. my question is what is your favorite book? >> oh, my gosh, my favorite boar, probably "brothers care" because i red it when i was young and i read it every ten years or so since because it's such an amazing story about, you know, faith and how people how people have to think about what they believe in on earth to try to get along with each other and whether they have any faith that will rein in their behavior and make them treat people better. i think it's a constant theme that i'm always reflecting on because i always wonder, you know, why are there people like assad in syria who are barrel

women and children with no thought at all? i just -- to me it's just such a continuing challenge of human nature so i like to, you know, delve in and and out of that from time to time. >> thank you. >> let's go to carson, a few more questions from our original room. this one coming in on facebook from sheila asking hypothetically speaking would you consider a vice president position? >> it says hypothetically speaking would you consider a vice president position? >> hypothetically speaking no. >> secretary clinton, would you consider a female running mate on your ticket? >> i would consider the qualified people of whom we have a large number in the democratic party because the most important choice is if something happens to the president, do you have full confidence that that person

great job for the country, that's the most important thing to me and it doesn't matter who that person is if that's what i believe about him or her. >> i think you said your husband is not eligible. >> no, he's not. >> secretary clinton will be with us for just a few more minutes. back in a moment but first this is "today" on nbc. leadership isn't given.

final moments of our town hall meeting with secretary hillary clinton. thank you for being with us this morning. the crowd has enjoyed our time together. i have to ask you before we go, of course we know that vice president joe biden is mulling a run for president himself. there's a moment for him right now where his poll numbers are high and it seems like there's groundswell and everyone is almost beckoning him into the race. you experienced something like that yourself. do you have any words for vice president biden about how that looks once you're six months into it? >> well, as i've said repeatedly, this is a decision for the vice president to make, and he needs whatever time and space he wants to be able to make that decision. once you're in the political fray, he knows this better than anybody, he's been elected for many, many years from delaware and now in the white house with president obama. once you're in the political fray, then, you know, everybody begins to ask you questions and you are being pushed and pulled in many different directions.

it's up to him to make his decision about what's best for him and his family. you often say you're not running because you're a woman, you're running on the merits and one of woman. >> right. >> so my question is what are the merits of a female leader? what does a female leader bring that a man doesn't? >> we have a very different life experience, i think it's fair to say, and i think that, you know, a lot of my agenda about how do we support families and how do we support working women and how do we get paid family leave, how do we do care giving, just talking to one of the people here, we're going to have a huge challenge on helping to take people with alzheimer's, people getting older with autism and a lot of other conditions. we live that in a much more real, you know, day-to-day way, and i will bring all of those, you know, feelings and experiences with me to the white house and people say to me, well, you know, folks want an outside near this election. what can be more of an outsider than a woman president? just by definition is an outsider, the very first time in our history.

>> secretary clinton, thank you for your time this morning. i'll send it back up to the guys in new york. >> all right, savannah, thank you very much. secretary clinton, thank you. >> comfortable in that situation. i thought the questions were great. >> really great questions, informed crowd and great questions online. >> still have a ton that hillarytoday was the trending topic all morning long. very successful event. >> absolutely. >> look forward to trump next. >> right? >> we're going to set a date for

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