good morning. breaking overnight. a dangerous fugitive wanted for opening fire on an officer in tennessee killed in a shootout with police. at massive week long manhunt now over. we're there live. nbc news exclusive. the mother of the victim in that sexual assault case at a new hampshire prep school speak out for the first time. >> it's been excruciating for her, but she wanted to do what was right. >> as owen labrie is sentenced to one year in prison and a lifetime as a registered sex offender. grand old problems, republican candidates planning to meet about changing how future

debates are organized as jeb bush tries to fight his way back despite reports that his campaign is nearing a state of collapse. >> are you having any fun? >> oh, yeah. you saw t.having lots of fun. and costume party. we've done scary munsters, been there, done that on "star wars" and even "saturday night live." so what will it be there war? we've drawn all our resources together for a reveal to remember today, friday, october 30th, 2015. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. woman to "today" on a friday morning, a day before the actual halloween, but halloween for our purposes, the day that my kids call me and go really, dad, i've got to go to school and deal with the fallout from this. >> our last name is lauer, too, dad.

this secret without blurting it out. i hope i can do it. >> a lot of fun and lots to talk about starting with our top story. deadly end overnight for a manhunt for a dangerous fugitive. the suspect on the run for near lay week after he allegedly shot a police officer. he was killed in a shootout in kentucky. nbc's gabe gutierrez has that story. gabe, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning. police said he was armed, dangerous and desperate. two state troopers and a federal marshall found him overnight. he had a gun. there was a shootout no officers were hurt, and now a community is breathing a sigh of relief. this morning the man month for 62-year-old floyd cook is over. >> at about the 12:21 a.m. this morning officers called in to post dispatch 15 in columbia saying shots had been fired. >> reporter: police shooting and killing the convicted rapist and robber overnight. >> he brandished a gun. he did have one, and shots were

exchanged, and cook sustained wounds which ultimately led to his death. the county coroner pronounced him dead at the scene. >> reporter: the search began last weekend after police say cook, who was wanted on drug warrants, opened fire on an officer during a traffic stop neither tennessee-kentucky border. >> shots fired, shots fired. officer down. officer down >> reporter: officer survived. his bulletproof vest saved him, but cook managed to escape. that same night he got into a shootout with a kentucky state trooper before disappearing again, this time on foot. the fbi and u.s. marshalls joined the search as a school district was shut down for three days. >> kind of weird of us to think that one person could terrorize a community that much, one person. >> on thursday authorities say cook approached a home in the berksville area and asked for a ride and residence called police and cook ran into the woods. authorities shut down part of highway 61 and set up a perimeter tracking cook with canine units, night vision and heat-sensing equipment.

earlier this week two of cook's known associates were arrested following a foot chase in whitehouse, tennessee and now after nearly a week on the run, police say the threat over. >> this is not just a kentucky state police problem. it was not just a tennessee highway patrol problem. this was a community problem, so it was a collective effort that brought it to a conclusion. >> reporter: so how exactly were police able to close in? well, a helicopter was able to detect the suspect's body heat signature which allowed authorities to tighten their perimeter. right now, matt and savannah, investigators here are still processing the scene. >> gabe gutierrez covering that story for us. gabe, thank you very much. another closely watched manhunt, this one in california, came to a peaceful end overnight. kern county deputy edward tucker was recorded two days ago escaping from the back of a patrol car after being arrested on drug and weapons charges. >> the 44-year-old managed to slip out of his handcuffs and then carefully open and close

the door, all while officers doing paperwork. he was recaptured late last acquaintance. moving now to the presidential race and new republican debate. the campaigns are planning to meet this weekend to discuss possible changes to future debates, this as jeb bush is insisting his campaign is far from over. nbc national correspondents have all the headlines from washington the peter, good >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you. this morning the republican campaigns appear to be in full revolt against the republican national committee after major complaints about how this week's debate was handled and the rnc's role running things. nbc news has now confirmed that the republican presidential candidates will meet, at least that's their plan, this sunday in washington to plot how to fix this debate process. not invited, any representative from the rnc. overnight two surging senators, marco rubio and ted cruz back at capitol to cast their votes bill.

>> jeb, i don't remember -- >> reporter: under fire, rubio who defended his attendance record against jeb bush during the gop debate making a last-minute change in plans to appear alongside his rival. >> i can fix it. >> reporter: while for bush the writing was on the wall. jeb can fix it n.new hampshire, with nbc's casey hunt. >> i'm going to have to do what other candidates do which is brutally interrupt, not answer the questions that are asked. it's going fine. >> reporter: are you having any fun? >> oh, yeah, you saw it. i'm having lots of fun. >> reporter: after losing altitude in the mile high debate, nbc news has learned bush is privately reassuring nervous donors, vowing to improve as a candidate and a debater, and new overnight "u.s. news" without this 112-page bush campaign internal blueprint adding that marco is a risky bet saying those who have looked into marco's background have been concerned about what they found but the rubio campaign tells nbc news it's been contacting bush donors directly trying to peel them away. cnbc proved to be good business

boasting a spike in fund-raising. while front-runners donald trump and ben carson keep motoring ahead with trump even complimenting carson. >> we get along very well. laughing at each other each other and winking at each. >> we're talking about fantasy football! >> reporter: and in the wake of chris christie's feisty debate performance, the "new york times" called on the new jersey governor to drop out. overnight christie fired back. >> if the "new york times" hates me that means i'm really getting some place. >> reporter: and nbc news has learned that during a private event with donors former president george w. bush tried to reassure his brother's supporters to, quote, keep the faith, emphasizing this campaign is focused on a long-term strategy. jeb bush will get another opportunity try to improve that performance at the next debate. savannah and matt, it's now less than two weeks away. >> all right. peter alexander, thank you. new house speaker paul ryan says he's not interested in settling old political scores. the wisconsin republican was elected speaker and handed the gavel on thursday, and this morning we're getting a new look

or a closer look at his official name plate. >> ryan, of course, is taking over for john boehner. he says he wants to wipe the slate clean and move for a. he secured pledges from house conservatives before agreeing to serve, he was confirmed by a wide margin and nine republicans did vote against him. >> want to talk about two incidents involving passengers planes, first an american airlines flight heading from los angeles to philadelphia that. flight had to be divert the to phoenix overnight because of an unruly passenger. natalie's got more on that story. >> police say the passenger is not under arrest but he is getting psychiatric care after refusing to take his seat and making comments about the government and the september 11th attacks. it was a mid-air scare for passengers on an american airlines flight headed from los angeles to philadelphia on thursday. in this video from tmz a passenger can be seen being removed from the plane after his behavior forced the crew to make

shortly after takeoff passengers say the man walked to first class where he stood at attention in military style refusing to take his seat. >> he was angry, swearing and talking about the government was after him and he's mad at the government and he's got plans. >> reporter: police say the passenger was also making comments about the september 11th attacks. >> they were, although alarming in nature, it gave the indication that this person may have been suffering from some type of mental illness. >> chip yates says he and two other passengers subdued the man until he jumped out of his seat again, this time talking to passengers in coach. the passengers joined by three flight attendants finally managed to core rat man, fastening him tightly into a seat. >> we didn't have to drop him on the floor or anything like that. when he saw the kind of overwhelming force of all these guys closing in on him, he said okay, okay, okay, and he sat down. >> police have not named the passenger but say he was removed

airport and transported to a facility for evaluation. >> a spokesman for american airlines says the plane was refueled and able to head back to philadelphia. >> that's a scary one. in florida investigators are trying to piece together what caused a boeing 747 to catch fire at plane was taxying to the runway. dozens of passengers were forced to evacuate use emergency slides. nbc's kerry sanders is at the ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport this morning. kerry, good morning to you. >> reporter: overnight that dynamic air jet was towed to the other side of the air. it's where accident reconstruction engineers with the national transportation safety board will begin looking for the caution of this dramatic fire. along their first points of inspection will be a fuel line that may have been leaking. >> after escaping flames and what some thought might be death this morning the 90 passengers from dynamic air flight 405 have a new challenge, finding the courage to climb on board

another flight to their original destination, venezuela. >> so scary. oh, my god. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: those fears may be well-founded after the chaos on the charter airline thursday afternoon. >> engine's on fire. engine's on fire. >> reporter: moments after pulling away from the gate, leaking fuel on the left side of the plane ignited as the plane was still moving passengers scrambled to evacuate. >> i'm like what's happening so i turn around and look in the window and it's like flames all over the turbine of the plane. >> reporter: officials say within six minutes 101 passengers and crew escaped to the tarmac. 21 rushed to a nearby hospital. a 62-year-old man admitted to intensive care with a serious head injury. dynamic air, based in greensboro, north carolina, is a only five jets. >> we're standing at tango 4.

just, there's a big huge puddle of fuel, and it smells really, really strong. >> reporter: one focus. investigation this morning, did the pilot do a so-called walk around, a visual inspection under the belly of the plane and around the engines? >> the in general if there's a fuel leak like this a little bit out of the ordinary, even though it doesn't happen very often, there are procedures in place to make sure that the fuel leak is handled appropriately. >> reporter: dynamic air executives say they will be working with the federal investigators. their plane is 30 years old, but by airplane standards aviation experts say that is not particularly into old. meantime, there are two people who are still in the hospital this morning but everyone this morning said this could have been so much worse. savannah. >> kerry sanders, thank you so much. crews are taking a new approach to deflate that runaway army surveillance balloon that crash-landed in the pennsylvania forest the. it broke away from its mooring in maryland on wednesday and

then drifted more than 120 miles. well, now, pennsylvania state police are using gunfire, firing more than 100 shots at wreckage to try to help release that helium so the balloon can then be retrieved for investigators. for the first time now we are hearing from a young boy who survived a shark attack in hawaii earlier this week, and video of the tear five-game encounter has now surfaced. here's nbc news national correspondent miguel almaguer. >> reporter: a body border with a goerp row captured this from a discontinues, the 10-year-old bobbing in the waves when a shark appears to lung out of the water taking the boy under. >> i was on the boogie board just waiting for a wave and it pop out and bite my leg. >> reporter: from his hospital in hawaii the fourth grader described wednesday's attack. >> one bite, this leg. it jumped on and grabbed me. i kicked it with this leg and then i kicked him in the nose and then i didn't pan -- i didn't panic after that.

>> reporter: body surfing in the warm waters 60 years off the shores of oahu raymond was seriously injured, bitten on his right leg and thigh. on the crowded beach first responsibilitiers rushed him to the hospital, his mother there among witnesses. hysterical. he wasn't. okay. >> reporter: with warning signs dotting the beach raymond is in no rush to get back in the water, but this morning this brave 10-year-old is already bag on his field. for "today," miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. we're getting a few look at the huge biker brawl that left nine people dead and more than 175 people under arrest. now video has been leaked to the media showing bikers at the twin peaks restaurant back in may reacting to gunfire in the parking lot, some taking cover and others pulling out their own clash. >> police say the clash was part

the smaller cossacks club and the state's largest club the bandidos. 500 weapons were recovered after that fight. both the waco police and the district attorney are saying they are did not leak the tape. a grand jury is still weighing possible charges. let's take a turn now and get check of the weather, 9 halloween forecast. >> not a treat in texas, more rain to talk about and right now a very volatile situation going on. we've got a tornado warning in effect for san antonio. in the broader area we've brought a watch in effect until 12:00 noon and we are look at flash flood watches and warnings that will continue to plague this region, so we are seeing more showers and more thunderstorms. in fact, there's a risk for severe weather, 58 to 65-mile-per-hour wind gusts and two-inch hail and the possibility of tornadoes. add to that the heavy rain, look at rainfall today. rainfall rates of up to two inches per hour and san antonio, austin and houston under the gun

for that and then as we move on into tomorrow rainfall rates up to an inch per hour moving into parts of the central gulf coast. we're going to get to your local 30 seconds. purchases. that's a win. you can with the citi double cash card. it lets you earn cash back twice. once when you buy and again as you pay. it's cash back then cash back again. and that's a cash back win-win. the citi double cash card. the only card that lets you earn cash back twice on every purchase with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. with two ways to earn, it makes a lot of other cards seem one-sided. >> reporter: good morning. breezy and cooler than yesterday. no 70s in the forecast today. seasonal, though. temperatures this afternoon upper 50s to around 60. that northwesterly breeze may make it feel a little bit cooler at times. clouds and sun. halloween, partly the mostly sunny skies tomorrow, no wind.

and sunday more clouds as sunday temperatures will reach the upper 50s. halloween forecast, tomorrow evening a lot of clouds out tomorrow evening. temperatures moving through the >> that's your latest weather. >> all right, al. thank you very much. now to a story out of washington state. religion in school. a seattle-area high school football coach has been sidelined for praying on the field. this is a decision that is dividing a community. nbc's joe fryer has the story this morning. joe, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. the school district says a coach can not lead players in prayer calling that an overt religious public display so the coach was placed on paid administrative lead, but he was allowed to attend last night's game. when the bremerton knights took the field their assistant coach was benched. joe kennedy watched from the stands like any other fan, but in a way he was the one with

>> i'm just a guy standing up for the constitution who happens to believe in god and praise. >> reporter: kennedy was put on administrative leave for praying on the 50 yard line after games, something he's done for years, often joined by players. >> he says if you want to be in here, join me. if not, that's your decision. in here. it's your total decision. >> reporter: but when the school district learned about the prayers last month it ordered kennedy to stop, citing supreme court cases. the district says students can pray on their own, but it is as constitutional violation of students' rights for a district employee, acting as such, to initiate prayers with students. >> you know the warriors, they competed for the past 48 minutes. >> reporter: coach abided at first instead delivering a post-game motivational speech. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: and this month he resumed praying after attorneys from a legal religious group said it's okay as long as he's not coercing students.

>> he personally expressed their personal faith in prayer and him. violation there >> reporter: school system disagreed, putting him on leave, a move applauded by some parents. >> i'm a parent. i'm an employee here. i'm a taxpayer, and it's not okay to use public funds and public resources to showboat your own personal opinions and personal beliefs >> reporter: connection between sports and prayer runs deep from the pros to high school games, both private and public. >> been doing it for 22 years. i've got to the think that 99.9% of the teams have come to the center of the field afterwards. >> reporter: back in bremerton after the knights pulled off a dramatic victory in the final moments, coach kennedy once again led a prayer, not on the 50 yard line but in the bleachers, not as a coach but as a fan. sglfrmt >> amen! >> reporter: school district says it's offered kennedy a private location to pray that

duties, but he has declined. kennedy's attorneys say that the school district simply hasn't done enough. they plan to take this case to the federal government claiming civil rights violations. savannah? >> joe fryer, keep us posted on it. thank you very much. coming up on this friday morning, an nbc news exclusive, the mother of the victim in that sexual assault case at an elite prep school in new hampshire is speaking out for the first time. natalie will have that interview, but, first, this is "today" on nbc. we love,

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nothing can be sweeter than that. sun out there to start the day. here's jeremy reiner. >> mostly sunny skies. temps in the upper 40s. downtowns be at 50 degrees. breezy, cooler than yesterday. seasonal. upper 50s to around 60. halloween looking grand. no wind. a little bit crisp tomorrow evening. temperatures tomorrow evening in the upper 40s. >> anchor: classes are set to resume at sullivan middle school after dozens of students "mysterely" became ill. crews spent the night sanitizing the lowell school. 60 students said they came down with illness. they were nauseous, they had headaches yesterday. officials think it was some sort of virus. the dcf employee whose work involving bella bond was cited is being examined by the agency. the report found the worker copied and pasted years old reports while preparing a case on bella's mother, accused of child neglect at the time. now back to the "today show" in

amountnous music this morning. we're getting into the spirit at 7:30. it's a friday morning, the 30th of october, 2015. it's halloween eve, but it's the day of our halloween party on the plaza. our crowd is getting into it, and very soon we will have our soon. >> look forward to it every year. we have something else you want to get excited about also. we're happy to announce that adele will be playing live on 25th. >> oh, my goodness. >> wow. >> the new single "hello" has already generated more than 146

million hits online. her new album comes out november 20. she's also going to be performing a one-night only concert at radio city music hall just a block from us here on tuesday, november 17th. for more on how to get tickets to that, just head to "today".com. >> i think i played that song 2 million times just personally. >> i love it. by the way, you'll be able to see that concert on deese 14th recording it for nbc. >> we might have an in. >> we might have an in. let's take a look at headlines on this friday morning. a fugitive accused of shooting a police officer in tennessee triggered a massive manhunt, he has been killed now in a shootout with police in kentucky. 62-year-old floyd cook had been on the run since saturday. also, a prominent iranian-american businessman is reportedly being held by authorities in iran. he was detained while visiting his parents. the u.s. state department is looking into those reports of the arrest. and ntsb investigators are

sparked that engine fire on a crowded plane at an airport in ft. lauderdale, florida. it happened as the flight was getting ready to take off. everyone on board was quickly able to evacuate, but one passenger was injured running away from the plane. we want to begin this half hour with a one-year prison sentence for owen labrie, the former prep school student, convicted of sexually assaulting an underage classmate. this morning we're hearing from his victim's mother exclusively. natalie had a chance to sit down natalie. >> that's right. guys, this is the first time she's speaking out, and she had a lot to say about what happened to her daughter and the trial that has consumed their lives for more than a year. >> guilty. >> the dramatic trial brought national attention to an elite prep school and a hidden sexual practice that's been part of the school's culture for years. speaking out exclusively for the first time the mother of the victim told me her daughter up. >> it's been excruciating for

her, but she just wanted to do what was right. >> reporter: in a tense courtroom owen labrie made one more quiet appeal waiting for the judge to pronounts sentence. the judge already knew his decision. >> you are sentenced to the house of corrections for a period of 12 months. >> reporter: one year followed by probation, pending an appeal, a suspended sentence for the felony of using at community to lure a minor and labrie has to register as a sex offender. >> this was a sexual conquest. >> reporter: each side made its final appeal to the judge. an impassioned videotaped statement from the victim. we're concealing her identity. >> what he did to me made me feel like i didn't belong on this planet and that i would be better off dead than having to deal with the terrible things that every day were thrown in my direction after doing the right thing. >> reporter: labrie's defense council.

labrie has suffered to date is the enormous for him. he's now known by so many people as the st. paul rapist even though the jury rejected that moniker >> reporter: trial revealed a ritual at the st. paul's school known at senior salute. seniors ask out freshmen sometimes for sex. >> did she not have an idea of really was going to happen? >> reporter: >> her experience was extremely limited with young men and certainly zero with an 18-year-old man. i know she regrets going. >> reporter: they thought the prestigious prep school was a dream come true. >> we were an ex-pat family that we're always searching for community. sorry. we just we'd found it. >> reporter: in a written statement from st. paul's, we

students our core values, that they live honorably, respectfully and never forget to be kind. labrie was accepted to harvard hoping to study at the divinity school. a friend says his faith has kept him going. how does he go on from here? >> he's never even through this whole process once spoken to me about the fact that he thinks his life is ruined or over. he's going to go on to do great >> reporter: your daughter to us. >> yes. going through this legal process i now understand why victims feel as if they can't speak up. yet i cannot see how i would have lived day-to-day life without telling the truth. >> now, owen labrie was also sentenced up to to seven years on the felony conviction of using a computer to lure a minor, but the judge suspended that sentence during this appeals process which starts now.

a sex offender as of yesterday. >> we'll have much more on this case, including more of that exclusive interview with the victim's mother that. happens on "dateline" tonight at 10, 9:00 central time here on nbc. >> all right. let's get check of the weather now from mr. roker. >> all right, guys. a lot going on right now. we'll start in the pacific northwest where they have some uncharacteristically heavy rain going on for this time of year. already moving into seattle, we could see some areas picking up to 6 inches of rain, and as you get into the mountains up to a foot of rain in the cascades. and then we move further down. we've got a big area of high pressure dominating, and so we're seeing our first santa ana winds over the area and we'll have the winds from north to southern california, especially in southern california, where we've got red flag warnings, high wind warnings and wind advisories and gusts of up to 55 miles per hour, and, of course, with that come increased fire danger, especially with all this dry weather. that's wha >> reporter: good morning.

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>> good morning. >> the first one has to do with statins. a lot of people take statins for cholesterol, and now there's a new study that says perhaps it effective. >> which is exactly the population that we don't want to see that in, right? if you think about how many people over the age of 65 or 75 take statins, it's same shot. why am i saying vulnerable? number one, we see a rise in flu in elderly patients, number one, and number two there's an age-related decline in your immunity as you get older so now we have two studies that are hypothesis-generating. not definitively saying they do reduce the effect i wasness but it's raised the possibility that it can reduce the response to the vaccine which could illness. >> this puts people in a pickle. you mentioned if you're older you're more susceptible to flu, more likely to die of the flu and if you're on statins the flu hot is not effective, what am i supposed to do? >> a really important bottom line.

study that has even looked at this the there's absolutely no formal recommendation that if you are take aggrastatin you should forgo the flu shot, and if you are planning on getting the flu shot that you should saying that. >> there's a high-dose flu shot. important, approved last year there's a high-dose flu vaccine which is roughly four times as strong as standard dose. it is recommended for all people over the age of 65. it does boost the response to the vaccine and also has a modest effect on efficacy. next topic. >> yes. >> there was a study that read essentially as i read it low-fat diets don't really work. >> not the headline, not a good headline. >> what are we supposed to take from this. >> this was interesting, actually what we call a meta analysis over 63 randomized controlled trials on all these different dietary interventions. headline red low-fat diets don't work to lose weight.

that's not exactly true. the real find some things that low carb diets edged out low-fat diets in terms of weight loss, but real thing was low-fat diets actually do result in weight loss. it's just if you compare them to people who don't make any dietary intervention, that's where they really come out on top. it's kind of like if you think about a high -- put it this way. anything you do to try to lose weight is going to work. it really depends on the individual. if you want to do a low-fat diet, great, that's going to work for you. if you want to do a high-fat low carb diet that's probably going to work for you also as long as you're including exercise, physical activity and all those other things and you stick with it. >> just with the bottom line, if you say i'm going to go on a diet, should i do low carb or low-fat. >> seems like the low carb works better better. >> the low-carb works better over the low-fat but any diet will work as long as you stick with it. that's really take yoem. >> dr. natally azar, thank you so much. appreciate it.

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here's a few if you would hike to get start. from newborns to six month no, big changes needed sell developing their slip rhythm and kids six months to lee years old start tonight by pushing their bedtime an hour later and do that for both days and ages 4 through adult years keep electronics out of sight an hour before bed. if you do all that and follow the tip little guys like owen here will be able to eat their candy and get their sleep and speaking of candy. >> trick or treat. >> this is the original room. >> trick or treat. >> oh, my gosh. >> has to be quiet. >> oh, here we go. >> trick or treat. >> that's like really asome. >> it works off the air. >> trick or treat. >> very nice. >> a treat for wrangler. >> carson, thank you. just ahead, our fun-filled halloween bash and much

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>> happy halloween! >> the happy halloween, willie! >> it's my 50th halloween birthday tomorrow. >> happy halloween from las vegas! welcome back to "today," this friday morning, 8:00, a day before halloween literally but this is our halloween day. >> our super bowl, our christmas, our thanksgiving. we live for this all year long. >> a lot of great costumes on the plaza, we've got to go get >> i know. >> it's easy for us. we just dress into our dressing rooms and get in the costumes undertaking for all the people behind the scenes at the show. >> big team effort, our hair folks, wardrobe, makeup, our set designers. >> graphics people as well. >> yeah. >> turning matt into a woman every year, not that easy, not that easy. >> getting easier though.

>> it's getting easier. >> is that tradition going to continue, that's the question. if you're celebrating along with us at home, be sure and put your photos up and use the the #halloweentoday. >> our big costume reveal moments away but first sheinelle jones with a check of the morning's top stories. good morning. >> good morning to you. it's a done deal on capitol hill, the senate approving a two-year budget and debt deal despite republican opposition. this heads off an unprecedented national default. it's now on its way to the white house for president obama's signature. a nearly week-long two-state manhunt came to a violent end early this morning. fugitive floyd ray cook was in a shootout with officers in kentucky after being discovered hiding along an embankment. no one else was injured. cook was wanted for shooting a tennessee police officer and firing at another. cook's long rap sheet included

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back on a friday morning, time for a little halloween edition of what's trending today. ready, gang? >> yes. >> let's do it. >> you're impacting your groceries, mr. roker, because you do a lot of shopping, right in. >> yes. >> you take the bread out of grocery bag. where does that bread go? goes on a counter or in the counter or refrigerator? >> my little bread box. >> goes straight to my thighs. >> does it? >> guys. >> pantry. >> pantry. >> we put it in the fridge to make it last. >> okay. guess what, it doesn't keep your bread fresh. >> really. >> how dare you, matt lauer. >> it makes it go steal more quickly. >> faster. >> cole d makes the stashches go back to the crystallized state making the bread hard or sale so tell siri about that.

longer purchase whole lopez, not life. >> if you order a dozen bagels and you eat four of them and put that -- different. >> why is that different? >> they don't have geist them. >> you'll learn the way of the bread. if you're one of those people who earn an ice non-fat whipped double latte today.com rounded up the most annoying things us customers do, beside the obvious, extravagant drink requests, not saying hi. >> that's interesting. >> talking on a cell phone. >> rude. >> definitely rude. >> reaching hands into the service area. not being ready to pay and holding up the line. >> pet peeve. >> i've been in long lines and then people come and they are like they say what do you want, oh, like? >> can i be honest. >> a lot of time it's women, and then they start opening up their pocketbooks waiting for the wallet. >> whoa!

>> did you not think you were going to have to pay for that >> no! >> wallet right there. out. >> don't even go there. then -- your minds. all the time. let me tell you something, matt, enjoy your hate mail, my friend. >> on the couch tonight. >> using starbucks-ese when you're not in a starbucks. you go to like the normal coffee venti. >> we all say hey, when you make the machine noises as they are making the coffee. >> i've never seen anybody do that. >> that's a little disturbing. >> all right. now a very important message to all of the weekend trick-or-treaters. please beware and watch out for giant jack-o'-lanterns on the loose. >> oh, no. >> take a look at this video, from pier yeah, arizona.

a 350-pound pumpkin broke free from a halloween display. this is not going to end well. tumbling down neighborhood streets for a quarter of a mile. >> oh, my gosh. >> and ultimately landing in a neighborhood park. >> perfect. >> like ghost busters. >> 350 pounds, that's crazy. >> that's a big pumpkin. >> like the military blimp caught loose. will have its own memes and werbes sfwlit looked like mr. kool-aid. >> didn't that happen with an art display ball in the street recent. >> i what happened, what did they do? >> how did it all end? >> it ended in pie, i don't know. >> time for some "pop start," harrison ford revealing details about his plane crash and ariana grande has a new video. hey, carson. >> first up harrison ford reunited with his former "star wars" lover, no, not that one, this one. the actor sat down with jimmy kimmel in yes, a hot dog costume.

fatal plane crash and the crashed. >> do i take the normal routed to land, and i knew i was going to do that so i said no. >> good call. >> and that's the last thing i remember until about five days afterwards. i'm told by the doctors that the amount of general anesthetic that i got induced a retrograde amnesia. >> people do forget stuff like that when it happens, but it's usually in a movie. >> this was not a movie. >> the hard to take him seriously dressed like a hot dog, just mustard, no ketchup, interesting. >> up next. got to get this right. up next, leonardo dicaprio, i remember that. take a look at throwback photos. leo is looking good. guess what. that is not leonardo dicaprio. his name is conrad. he's a 22-year-old swedish

bartender. >> oh, my gosh. bar. >> those photos going viral because of his uncanny resemblance to the actor and on the comparisons conrad says it's fun to be like him. he's handsome. must be one heck of a last call. ariana grande, her fans got an early halloween treat last night. the pop star dropped her single called "focus" and dropped it one hour earlier than planned. ariana sporting a new platinum look. take a listen to the video. just come and get it because i'm about to put them all away >> there you go. kidding. >> what? >> i'll have an ariana grande. that's the first single off her

be released in 2016. there's your "pop start. " >> the that's the weirdest "pop start" ever. >> the whole day is weird. halloween has gone to our head, for sure. >> by the way, the twitter address is @carsondaly. >> halloween costume reveal straight ahead, but, first, al, a check of the weather. okey-dokey, mr. lauer. everybody trick-or-treating tonight, ghost treat, oklahoma, and pumpkin center beautiful south carolina, clear skies and some wet weather in salem, oregon, and we're looking at pumpkin center california, clear skies, and then we move on into saturday night, actual night of trick or treat, and, again, more wet weather from the great lakes all the way down into the gulf coast. along each coast looking pretty good though heavy rain in the pacific northwest, and you have >> reporter: good morning. breezy and cooler than yesterday. no 70s in the forecast today. seasonal, though. temperatures this afternoon upper 50s to around 60.

that northwesterly breeze may make it feel a little bit cooler at times. clouds and sun. halloween, partly the mostly sunny skies tomorrow, no wind. and sunday more clouds as sunday temperatures will reach the upper 50s. halloween forecast, tomorrow evening a lot of clouds out there, but no wind out there tomorrow evening. temperatures moving through the >> today's costume reveal is brought to you by snickers. this halloween nothing satisfies like snickers. my heart is the a ghosttown

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ready for school. >> yes, miss auckmore. >> sir. sir. >> pepperminute patty, pay attention, sir. >> stop calling me sir, marcy. sir, we are going to get in trouble with the teacher. okay, but are you going to the school dance later? >> why isn't anyone dancing? it's called a dance. >> hey, guys. >> oh, no. here she comes. >> no need to get this dance starting. >> oh, it's my sweet baboo. >> don't call me, that sally. >> isn't he the cutest thing? >> what's that noise?

>> is it a plane, is it a jet? is it a drone?

>> i'm going to kick this ball all the way to the moon. >> oh, good grief. >> where's lucy? >> you blockhead, charlie brown! i'm right here. oh, look, the gang's all here. but, wait, what's that smell? >> it's me, i can't believe i'm dirty. >> it's pig pen. >> this is going to be the best halloween ever.

>> look as pig pen. >> pig pen over here. >> how are you? >> that's disgusting. >> thank you. >> you guys are great. >> you never miss halloween, do you? >> i never miss it. >> brings me back. this is typecasting. >> can i just say will you look at carson's hair. >> that's so disgusting. >> wow. >> he's so cute. >> so good. >> very nice. i mean, this is crazy. snoopy, this is hoda and kathie lee, we have snoopy and woodstock. >> kathie lee lost her -- woodstock lost all her feathers. >> can't talk.

>> doesn't talk. >> all down the block. >> hard to do your show if you can't talk. >> by the way, we should say to pull this off everybody behind the scenes here at the show worked like crazy. >> yes. >> on short orders. we want to thank them all for a job very well done. >> that's right. you know, it's never easy to transform us, and you might say that this year we went a little nuts, peanuts, that is. >> okay. >> that's the way to go. >> the process of peanutizing our gang takes weeks, or as charlie brown would say ugh. >> i just would love a little more exaggeration. >> okay. >> i want more cartoon feel. >> yes. >> there's a real chafe to these shorts.

>> i love it! >> matt may have been thinking more like good grief. >> oh, nice. >> i've got the legs to carry this off, i really do. >> okay. >> some of us had to make personal sacrifices for our craft. >> yeah. >> i started out in these. >> like trading in their stylish stilettos for stability. >> a dead wringer. i mean, tell me when you see >> yes. well, our sight. >> i don't even know what i'm look like, i'm sure it's fine, sir. >> while some of us who shall perfect fit. >> can you identify with this character pig pen? >> well, apparently the people of "today" identify me as this character. i like a dirty boy. >> and then again some of us had to get in touch with our inner tweet. >> this is really unfortunate.

he doesn't talk so why did they choose me? >> halloween wouldn't be halloween without a trip to the "snl" makeup lab where we like to say nightmares come to life. >> okay? >> carson and al needed to get plastered and not the good kind. >> it was starting to look more scary mummy than peppy peanuts. >> three more to go to pop this whole thing off. >> and even their tormenter louie had a little halloween humor. >> an exact likeness. >> the that was something else. that is like being buried alive. >> but the rest of us had our own potential horror shows, wig fittings. you're not shooting this, right? >> oh, my gosh, i love it! >> oh, god. >> don't look, hoda. >> i saw that character in "amadeus" wasn't it?

>> he looks like the guy in "shrek." >> just another day at office all in the name of halloween and a boy named charlie brown. >> so, again, a tribute to all the people who worked behind the scenes to do this. charlie brown, are you charlie brown's brother? >> i'm actually charlie james brown. >> did you check out al's ears? >> it's amazing. >> you know the funny difference is al did the whole plaster max, you sat relaxing, and carson did it and -- >> i was freaking out. he had a pencil and he was tapping, and the tapping would get further away and i -- i almost ripped it all over. i was in a full panic. >> you look linus or yoda. >> matt could go out tonight and be spock. >> by the way, can we just point out tamron needs a pedicure.

>> willy's schroeder, not hard for willie to get in character. that actually is willie as a kid. >> he looks like schroeder. >> my natural hair color, me, yellow. >> and take on the tallest guy and cram him with the piano. >> and half of woodstock is in the gutter behind kathie lee there. it all blew off in the fan. >> so great. >> well, guys, we're going to have much more fun, including we're going to talk about last-minute halloween costumes you can accomplish for your family and then we're going to do a little halloween-themed food, including a candy dip. >> there's billy with the food. much more ahead on our version of halloween morning but first -- >> this is "today" ." >> one more time.

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back on a friday morning, it's all good. there's no grief on the plaza this morning for our peanut-themed halloween boonanza, and i think this is the most i've seen this gang get into it in a long time.

>> can't stop doing the shimmy dance. >> we have a big thanks to hand out. >> yes. we absolutely do. our friend of the "peanuts" movie and, of course, the schultz family they have inspired us and for the entire production team making us look as authentic as possible. >> and we have got a great treat for all "peanuts" fans out there. we've got a brand new clip from "the peanuts" movie opening november 6th. >> it all comes down to this one pitch. let's see if you can handle my fastball. >> and next week on "today" the young voices of charlie brown

also megan trainor who is here on the soundtrack and will be here for a special performance. also coming up, we'll dive into halloween treats with a peanut theme, naturally, and if you've been inspired by our antics this morning, we'll show you some awesome last-minute costumes that you can throw together yourself. >> but, first, can i just say this is probably a lifelong dream for you. >> oh, absolutely. >> there is no more bigger "peanuts" or charles schultz for you. >> my honor was interviewing him twice and this truly is a dream come true. this might be his nightmare. but this is a dream come true. all right. let's show you what's going on as far as your halloween weather is concerned. first of all, hey, got a world series game tonight, that's right. the royals come into citi field in flushing, new york, first pitch breezy, first pitch 58 and last pitch 47. breeders' cup in lexington, kentucky, friday sunny high and 56 and saturday late-day showers

and temperature about 62 degrees. catch all the coverage starting on nbc sports network starting at 1:00. that's what's going on >> reporter: good morning. breezy and cooler than yesterday. no 70s in the forecast today. seasonal, though. temperatures this afternoon upper 50s to around 60. that northwesterly breeze may make it feel a little bit cooler at times. clouds and sun. halloween, partly the mostly sunny skies tomorrow, no wind. and sunday more clouds as sunday temperatures will reach the upper 50s. halloween forecast, tomorrow evening a lot of clouds out there, but no wind out there tomorrow evening. temperatures moving through the >> and that is your latest weather. >> guys. >> all right, big brother, thank you. let's see you don't have a team of say 100 people getting your halloween costume ready? we have a great idea. we want you to join in on our theme. >> aylana oakin is the senior lifestyle editor at "buzz feed life" and here with two creative

ideas to take you back to the sunday mornings with the comics, aylana, nice to see you. happy halloween. >> thank you guys so much for having me. >> got great ideas that you brought with you today and the nicest thing is they don't take a lot of time. a day before halloween and people can still pull these off. >> exactly. super cheap, all under $25, and they are things you can make around your house. >> okay. >> so first we've got charlie brown, of course. and so this is a super easy costume that you can make with a yellow t-shirt. all you're going to need is a piece of black fabric, we used iron-on material that you can find at any marker. >> even use black tape. >> use electric tape. >> yes. >> and then you have the doghouse. >> of course. so when in doubt be an inanimate object for halloween. snoopy's house which is just a piece of poster board we've hung around her net and add in little lines for sharpie and for the

extra touch add a headband that you glue ears on to. >> a little black marker or makeup for the nose. >> eyeliner. >> and you are snoopy. >> thank you guys very much, appreciate it. >> and now we're getting away from the comics and we're bringing back memories of those great sunday mornings. >> yes. we love lazy things, lazy mornings. right here we have our very own crossword puzzle. buzzfeed just launched its own crossword so we had an editor make a puzzle. if you want to try it. the middle is -- 10 down. >> a show on nbc, a morning show. >> think really hard. >> called "the voice." >> the beautiful, beautiful. >> this is super easy. again, just a piece of poster board. you can print it out and write it by hand, whatever you want and very interactive as parties. >> cute. >> next up everybody's faim favorite male of the day, breakfast.

paint, ironon tape, felt, bacons, anything you want to be. >> can't start without a good cup of joe. >> this amazing coffee cup is made out of a lamp shade, something you may have in your garage, or attic. just remove the inner workings and a brown piece of paper and the handle on the top, a piece of foam, easy as pie and add a nice little detail add some steam, pab rick paint, what, to a t-shirt. >> really cute and at last minute like that. >> can make these all in an house, i promise, and we did. >> under 25 bucks, most importantly. >> aylana, thank you so much. >> and for diy halloween ideas head to facebook and like our "today" style page. >> coming up next, today's fear factor and we're unwrapping the

>> we're back now on a friday morning with today's fear factor as we uncover the truth about your favorite monsters. >> nbc's keir simmons is back with one final adventure. keir, that isn't you, it was a the peanuts theme this year. >> well, hello there. how the devil are you? i'm the wee british ghost. keir simmons asked me to let you know he's been to egypt to investigate a 3,000-year-old tomb and a monster that will have you screaming mummy! >> we are in serious trouble. mummy movies almost always begin with a group of intrepid archaeologists riding off into the deser to the find a lost

>> look at these high row glifs. >> reporter: well, not exactly. in 1922 an archaeologist and british aristocrat unlocked a 3,000-year-old intact tomb packed with treasure and the mummy of the pharaoh tutenkomon and then mysteriously members of the expedition began to die. the first to die was a pet canary, but the next victim was the financier of the expedition, lord canaan, and then one man after another fell to the curse. at least that's how the world's press report it had. in the truth, there was no truth in king tut's tomb. >> spun from the depths of doom. >> reporter: but that didn't stop universal studios in hollywood who had their mummy come to life and take revenge on his enemies. >> where will we find the mummy in. >> don't worry. the mummy will find you. >> reporter:

>> the bandaged guy dragging his leg. the mummy is basically a classic zombie >> reporter: ancient egyptians mummified everything, birds, bulls, even cats. >> mumification happened for >> reporter: in this temple in the shadow of the sphinx they made the royal mummies, a 70-day process and gruesome. >> first step must be empty brain from nose. through the nose. like a horror movie. >> yes into in the classic universal movies the mummy would cam after you. the trouble with mummies is they are just so slow. they are never going to catch you. >> though he moved slowly it required victims to be paralyzed corner. >> reporter: hand now they speeded the mummies up. >> in the recent run of the mummy films the mummies have

>> reporter: like these mummies, including these on-screen moments. >> mum is. >> reporter: inspired by egyptian mythology. >> egypt, it's full of secrets. >> reporter: and with thousands of miles of desert, that's a lot of places to hide those secrets. can we go back now? excuse me, can we -- can we turn around? >> by the way, keir, i'm so sorry. you are charlie brown's ghost with all the holes. >> they still haven't found keir actually. >> and can we thank you for coming across this week and doing this whole kind of fear factor thing. >> it's been great fun, really fun. >> take that off so people can see who you are. >> no, no, no, never mind. coming up next, easy-to-make sweet tweets that goes with our

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. we are back with a special "today food" to go along with our "peanuts" party this morning. >> this is the owner of rocket bar and grill in chicago. he's got some perfectly peanuty recipes to make this year happiest of halloweens. billy, nice to see you. >> you look fabulous. how you guys doing? >> chicago cubs. >> cubbies. >> we'll start out because we're peanuts. you're going to do a little peanut butter and jelly french toast. >> and i'm amping up this peanut butter, fantastic. let's talk about ingredients. buttery breech bed, peanut butter, cream crease, maple seerp, cream, eggs, concord grapes to sprinkle on top, equal parts cream cheese and peanut butter together and we'll mix that up and get at great creamy butter, almost like a frosting. >> oh, my gosh. go ahead and each spread in some jam of your choice. we're using grape today.

use any flavor that you like. >> okay. >> and then you go ahead and do the jam on yours and marry your two sides together. if you wanted you can switch out the jam for bananas, nutella or chocolate chips, throw that in right now if you want to. >> okay. >> once you get that spread bring those together and make a >> pop those together. >> you can do this. >> you'll spread the egg and i'll put some heavy whipping groom with that. >> i don't want to get this on our costume. don't do the that. >> why do you use brioche bread? >> it's buttery and when cooked on the griddle it will have an awesome crust. >> dip that into the eggs. >> this is a great thick custard, drop it right in and do that and then you flip this over. this is like -- >> this is like a heart attack. >> no, this is like --

big day. >> warming our maple syrup here. can you actually do some crush toasted peanuts in the maple syrup, right? >> this looks really good. >> and we'll drizzle that over our french toast and golden brown on each side a couple minutes and right there. here we go, fresh concord grapes on top and put some maple syrup with the peanut in it. lunch and dinner. i'll grap one without, do the simple version. >> and then you'll have so much leftover halloween candy. >> really good. >> what we're going to do with that, do a leftover halloween candy, apple dipping station with caramel and chocolate. >> you're melting it all down. >> first you take your candy bars and using snickers and milky ways and just crack them up g.ahead, you guys. start breaking these into pieces. >> yeah. >> and fantastic. yes. or you can cut it up. >> has a lot of aggression.

>> has a lot of aggression. >> and take your apples and skewer them. can i help you right here. a little trick of the trade for the apples is to sprinkle a little lemon just so it doesn't get brown. >> oh, okay. >> and then what you're going to do is take your apple slice, and can you go hot fuge, chocolate or caramel, whatever you want, dip it on in, totally interactive for the kids, switch out pearce, bananas, pretzel rods, whatever you want. >> i love that you did the apple to make it healthy. >> and then you have your dipping station, any dip you want. >> looks amazing. >> last but not least we have deep fried candy bars. these are amazing. >> yes. how did you do it though? >> take them and drop them in the fryer and there you go. >> kids won't go to sleep until wednesday which is fantastic. >> you're introducing healthy apples and that's small stuff.

your figure shows in that dress. >> oh, no, look what happens. >> an m & m on your skirt. >> oh, good. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> have you ever tried dipping the fried chocolate bar into the chocolate. >> into the candy of your choice. >> let's make it happening. >> more ideas for creative halloween treats at today.com. back in a moment, but, first,

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we're back now on a friday morning with our ongoing series "together we make football." willie, i should say not willie but schroeder. what do you have for us this week? >> got a good one, a little bit lighter okay giving it to you this way. if there's one thing we know about nfl is that they love a capella. a story of green bay packers who became pitch perfect. >> the movie "pitch perfect" premiereded in 2012, and immediately struck a chord with an unlikely demographic. >> mire brother showed me the move, and as movie went on i like fell in love, awesome move, and just like laughing the whole time. >> green bay packers offensive lineman david bakhtari showed his love of the movie on social media caring the eye of the producer actress elizabeth banks.

>> he was tweeting about it and i followed him on twitter and he immediately bm eid me they would love to be in the film. >> they were offered a cameo but the packers were nervous about stepping off the field and on to the silver screen. >> well, professionals, you know, in football, but in this we were completely new. >> the and there was one other problem. >> i would like it to be known how much i detest the pack ers ers. >> as a lifelong chicago bears fan, kay canon didn't want to write a part for players from the bears' biggest rival. >> i had this visceral response of like, no, i cannot have this happen. >> despite the obstacles the players took a chance. >> we were terrified going into the filming of this. >> the first day we showed up on set and we had to rehearse, and they were like, all right. packers, your turn and we were like, what?

we were definitely out of our element. >> t.j., can you handle this. >> david, can you handle this? >> clay, can you handle this. >> i don't think they can handle this. >> what they could handle was the glowing reviews from their hollywood co-stars. >> they could do the whole finale number back to front. >> wow. >> like knew it inside out. >> and they can actually sing. >> they are great. they are really good singers. really good. >> they are really good. i don't think you're ready for this jelly i don't think you're ready for this jelly because my body is too bootilicious my body is so booty-licious >> well, people don't expect us to really have any other role in laugh so, i mean, it just shows our personality. i mean, people forget sometimes we're human, too. >> strike me down for saying this, like i actually love them. what they are doing is like they

>> oh, oh, i'm all about this. nobody in this room has loved more tenors than i have, please pick us. >> it reminds us that these big men have a of the sorry side to us and i think that's always a good thing to remind those of us that love football. >> the boys can sing. when they accepted they thought they would have quick cameos but shoot went on for four days with as many as 80 takes on some scenes. two of the packers songs actually ended up on "the pitch perfect 2" soundtrack. >> they really are good. >> asking for your stories all season. the deadline a few days away. you've got until this monday to head to today.com/twmf to share your story. if we feature, it you'll get a chance to win a trip to super bowl 50. >> that is so cool. by the way, you know what just happened? snoopy, not that snoopy, not hoda, the real snoopy, has just tweeted about our halloween costumes. look at this. you all look incredible. beagle hugs. >> oh, snoopy.

>> by the way, we just want to thank everybody who helped create our halloween koss teams. >> we've got to give credit where credit is do you, philip hegamin, louie zacari and betty rogers and, of course, the "today" show makeup, hair and wardrobe team. >> and for the props on the sthaet "today" design department, our hard working crew, of course, do a great job every day. our friends from the "peanuts" movie plus amazing graphics and animation team, holly, jason and paul and barry and mark perricone, all told they were led it took them 270 hours to do this show. >> crazy. >> speaking of hard work, charlie james brown you're getting ready for the rokerthon 2015. >> attempting to set a new record by doing the weather live in all 50 states. >> yes. >> one weatherman in one week to bring you the weather from all 50 states.

>> rokerthon 2, taking america by storm in theaters nowhere november 6th. >> and we're also using our epic journey to help put food on the table for the folks who need it during this upcoming holiday season. we're working with the folks at feeding america. can you learn more about how to donate to today.com/rokerthon. every dollar raised helps feed 11meals. if you're in the new york area, we'll also be collecting none perishable foods right here on the plaza. >> good luck with that. that's a great idea. >> there's a lot more halloween straight ahead. >> that's right.

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