mie in mexico. ages just in from the scene of that aeromexico crash.ve 103 people sur the plane in flames. that flight saw and heard. on it's happening again. facebook sounds e alarm after rt discovering a campaign to influence the november election. >> i can say with pretty high confidence, i think this is russian related. >> just ahead, what's the u.s.'s next move. no jail time. the first penn state fraternity member sentenced in connection with the hazing death of a yound , given three months of house arrest. this morning timothy piazza's

parents speaking out about the sentencing. >> the first step of some level of justice. d > those stories plus roato recovery. what we're now learning about demi lovato's apparent overdose as she remains in the hospital one week later. hail mary? the big changes coming to movie pass and thousands of subscribers calling foul. total "met"down. >> see you later. >> the new york mets suffering the worst team defeat 25-4eam history, >> big statement by the mavs tonight, in case you're in wonderg. >> the record fans are trying heart to forget today wednesday, august 1st, 2018. >> announcer: from nbc news, thh is "today" with savanna guthrie and hoda kotb, live frod 1a in rockefeller plaza. g d morning, everybody. welcome to "today." nice to have you with us on

wednesday morning. i don't know a ton about sports but if you lose a baseball game by three touchdowns, that is bad. >> i'm sure mets are u wakingp and thinking did that really happen? >> we asked the guys in the control room, what happened? they said these just bad. >> not their year. >> whatre a story the is, a fiery plane crash. when you see the pictures, smoking deis, you can't believe it but everyone on board survived. we're going to talk to a guy from chicago. he was on the plane and has a let's get to tom costello. he has the latest on the crash. good morning. >> mexican authorities say 85 people injured and treated, mostly minor. for everyone to get out of burning plane alive is pretty remarkable. in mexicohe witnesses sayy are amazed it wasn't much worse. shortly after takeoff, a packed

aeromexico plane crashed into a eld at the end of the runway in durao, mexicoursting into flames. amazingly more than 100 people survived including all four creb meers. ten passengers who made it out alive are from the chicago area including an american priest, the director offur lady o guadalupe in des plaines. a statement from the amp diocese resting.rt and another reached by our chicago station wmaq. she describes the terror when the >> people were on top of each other and trying to get out. i grabbed my daughter's hand and some medicine that basically keeps her alive. i tried to get out with her. somebody lerally pusheder back to get through. >> this woman interviewed on mexican televisn said she escaped by jumping through a hole in the plane. i saw a lot of fire, she says, i don't know how people could get

out. people showing aftermath of biowing flames. first responders can be seen helping passengers to safety. some able to walk away from the disastern their own, others being carried out on stretchers. officials say it took emergency crews 15 minutes to get to the scene and start knocking down the fire. the flames engulfed the entire fuselage. the searing heat leaving the plane a gutte shell. flight 2431 was a 190 like this one. it departedrom durango in northwest mexico headed to mexico city around the time the plane took off, a violent storm through the area, rinn c in waves with fierce winds, even hail. the governor of durango said initial reports and weather was a factor adding the plane, after lifting suddenly, was affected by a gust of wind causing it to descenforcefully. aeromexico says in a statement we deeply regret thisccident and the families of those

involved and affected are in our thoughts and prayers. one obvious question for investigators, given the very bad weather, why did the crew decide to take off in the first ladies. >> okay, tom. thank you. >> we are now joined by one of the survivors. alberto herera who was flying back home to chicago. alberto, good morning. describe those moments on the plane. ofe've felt turbulence and thought, that's scary. put it in context. what was it feeling like up there? >> i've felt turbulence before. to put in weirdest terms, if h you'verd of fire sense, felt like something was wrong. at that point i just started out of instinct bracing for impact as the pla started jolting and slammed into the ground. >> we know about the spidey sense when you feel like so tthing is about happen.

when you hit the ground, we know that the plane started toburn. what did you see and hear next? >> essentially as the plane was hitting thefground, mys included, we started screamin we didn't know what was going on, so we went tour first -- our first gut reaction. we were bracing for impact. ce the actual plane stopped, we could see the flames on either side of the engine obviously because we hit the ground and kind of rolled -- not rolled but skidded. so basically thein c just started filling with black smoke. at that pointe what wanted to do was find the nearest exit. obviously as i was walking towards the back, i was checking the seats to see if anybody was knocked out or anything, if they needed assistance to help drag out of the pla essentially.

>> well, i don't have to tell you, dialberto, it's ince not only that you survived but that everyone survived. how are you thinking about that this morning? i knowt's early but how do you feel? >> well, i was talking t one of my relatives last night. basically what -- i went into how can i help other people kin of mode. when o stepped outf the plane in the back, i stood there and i s helping the people that were behind me come down.ah ye, the slide was there but you couldn't use thelide to slide down. the plane was at a weird anglee wh could reach up and grab senior citizens as they wanted to exit the plane and help them come down or use my hands as kind of like a springboard to jump out kind of. i feel that it's kind of a miracle that we alle m it.

so it's just a blessing i'm here to tell the story the next day. >> it is. it is a blessing. >> it certainly is. we're so happy you're okay and so happy everyone on that plane survived. t albertnk you so much. >> any time, ladies. well, now we move to a disturbing warning from scebook. theial media giant said it has detected new efforts to use facebook to influence the upcoming midterm elections. while it isn't clears yet who behind this, officials fear russia might be involved again. nbc national correspondent peter alexander at the white house with this story. peter, good morning. >> savannah, good morning to you. president trump yet to comment on this. a new round of what appears to be more russian interference accordg to leading lawmakers, facebook deleting dozens of suspicious political accous and sounding the alarm that america's adversaries may be trying to in flame divisions ead of another election. with less than 100 days until

the midterms, electi facebook says it's happening again. a coordinated campaign on the platform fueling deep divisions among american theocial media giant working with fbi and others saying it can't say for sure who is behind the latest ondisinfor campaign but this morningis lawmakers i there's no doubt who is responsible. high an say with pretty confidence, i think this is russian related. >> republican lindsey grahamin endo new sanctions against the kremlin. >> the sanctiom bill f hell and any other country who is trying to interfere with our election should suffer the same fate. >> facebook announcing it's removed 32ages and accounts from instagram one called resisters, a counter-protest against upcoming white nationalist in d.c. urgin activists to bring medical supplies, helmets in anticipation of a clash.

purks left wing campaign to abolish i.c.e., part of a growing political firestm. >> the new platform, what they want to do, the democratic party, they wt to abolish i.c.e. >> running last year until may garnering 290,000 followers. >> security is an arms race and it's never >> facebook touting its quick reonse after a series of damaging headlines. last week losing $120 billthn, e largest single day loss in stock market history. all of it coming just months after ceo mark zuckerberg faced congressional grilling handling of russian interference in 2016. >> unfortunately enforcement isn't perfece need to make it more proactive and i'm going to dohethat. >> president aware of the response. kirstjen nielsen delivering this warning, for any foreign power at interferes in u.s. elections. >> any attempt to interfere i oulections is a direct attack

on our democracy. it is unacceptable and it will not be tolerated. >>eter, the creators of these fake accounts, are they using the same method they were using in 2016 a >> that's good question. facebook says there were some similarities. they say whoever set up these accounts went further to sguise their identities than the russian-based firm did t ahd 2016 election. that's what facebook sheryl sandberg was referring in my piece, security is an arms bora. fa is changing its tactics now to keep up with those spreading disinformation. >> all right. peter alexander. cter, thank you. the presideling for voters to show photo id when they go to polls.k the remame at a rally in tampa, florida. he was talking about the idea of noncitizens voting in elections when he raised some eyebrows with this statement. >> the time has come for voter id. if you go out and you want to

buy groceries you need a pictu on a card. you need id. >> photo ids are required for some purchases at the grocery store like alcohol and cigarettes but not else.hing the president in tampa to promote campaign of two florida republicans ahead of that state's primary. the presidt's former campaign chairman paul manafort is returning to courtin this mo for the first full day of his criminal trial. the only case brought by the special counsel robert mueller to go before a jury so far. correspondent pete williams is at a courthouse in alexandria. pete, good morning to you. what can we expect in court today? >> today the jury will hear from people who know about paul manafort's work overhaas. that's the trial is about, not about the three months he spent as trump'sampaign chairman. prosecutors say he made millions doing political consulting work forhe government of ukraine and former president but say he stashed about $15 million of

that income in foreign banks to avoid paying taxes on it, and they say he lied to get millis in loans an bank account loans on the deal in the u.s. >> pete up to now, we haven't really known what the defense might be. do you have a better idea of what they are going to argue? >> we heardut that here in court for thest fir time since mueller -- since manafort was arrested last fall. his lawyers say his problem was he trusted his right hand manned rick gates. hethey say gates hid money from irs and he was embezzling ney from the firm. he'll be a key witness. he pleaded guilty earlier ts year and cooperating with prosecutors. >> pete, is the jury hearing anything about russian meddling and president trump because this trial isn't really about tse things. >> the name donald trump was never spoken in court. mueller's prosecutors say that the name russia will never even be spoken by any of their

witnesses. it's likely that mueller wants to question manafort about that. if manafort is found guilty c thld try to compel him to talk about it. if on the other hand manafort is found not guilty, that would be a blow to mueller's prosecutors and unubtedly embolden their critics. >> pete williams in alexandria. pe, thanks. new this morning, remains of service members handed over and on tay home. there was an overnight ceremony. now the very difficult process of identification is getting under way amid new tensions with north korea. keir mmons. >> hi. when you travel to north korea, they leave no doubt north korean war is so important to them. this is a big deal for north korea koreans, a big deal for american families whose loved ones fell fighting as u.n. soldiers. among them are helmets, uniforms

and a single identification tag. on their way home with full honors this morning, dozens of coffins wrapped in the u.n. flag believed to contain the remains of fallen american soldiers, leaving the korean peninsula nearly 70 years after the end of war.orean >> encouraged by recent cooperation with north korea on this humanitarian effort that enabled the transfer of 55 sets of remains. >> the repatriation of u.s. troops stepped towards agreements reached at june's historic summit between president trump and north korea's leader kim joth-un. president praising at a florida rally last night. >> there's been no nuclear testing. there's bee no missiles or rockets flying. >> but both leaders also agreed

o work towards north korea's denuclearization. now arms control experts tell nbc news this july 7th satellite photo shows three heavy duty trucks indicating north korea is building long-range missiles at a plant outside pyongyang, a plant often visited by kim. >> when we loo at satellite photographs and the country's propaganda, it's been business as usual all year before and after the summit. >> north koreans haven't tested a missile since november of las year. kim jong-un vowing to stop all missile and nuclear testinggr beforeing to work towards denuclearization at the singapore summit. now the state department promising to keep kim jong-un to his word. >> what we're going on is the commitment that chairman kim made to our president. that is the commitmento denuclearize. >> pompeo is on his way to hawaii where those remains will be identified through dna.

st week he admitted north korea is still producing nuclear weapons. that doesn'tri neces mean the agreements made with president trump have been broken. of course, one of the big issues with thoses agreeme is that there isn't much detail. >> the hard part was to come. >> all right, keir, thank you. what do you say we bri

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flooding. you can see a car surrounded by water on brownsville road in vienna. now let's get look at the morning commute with wtop's jack taylor. a lot of problems becausef the rain overnight, jack. >> we certainly do. one of the big ones if you're familiar with ridingn 7 near the mill, eastbound lanes closed and all traffic has to divert on to colvin run road. walker road putting you on to georgetown pike. westbound lanes are open. difficult run. a lot of water running across the roadway this morning. >> thanks, jack. we'll take a break now. your forecast is nex stay with us.

the heavy rain overnight is gone, but we still have a slight risk f strong to severe storms this evening especially out in the shenandoah valley. keep that in mind. stay weather alert during the day.tu current tempes mid 70s. mid to upper 80s today. tomorrow, very high rain chances. download our nbc washington app.

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we are back 7:30 on wednesday morning. our crowd is saying hey to us. a few raindrops but it's drying up. umbrellas aredown. it's august 1st. that's no lie. the physical of august. what happened? >> rent. the first of the month, that's what i always think of. everythi, everybody. nice to have you along. let's start with the headlines. what a miracle in mexico. everybody on board survived aftero aeromexic jetliner headed to mexico city crashed in a field on the plane had actually just taken off in a blustery storm. the airport was in durangost e. it went down, skidded to a stop. it stayed intact essentially but burst into flames.

all 103 people on the plane were ab to get off before one tssenger said plane just burned in a matter of seconds. >> wow. a federal judge issued a temporary retraining order to stop a texas company from publishing blue prints on how to make undetectible 3d plastic guns. eight attorneys general filed a lawsuit seeking to block the federal government's settlement th allows t company to make the plans available online.. a u.s district judge in seattle issued a restraining order tuesday putting those plans on hold. wo dozen cars destroyed when a texas parking garage collapsed twice in one day.d it happen the city of irving. look at the aftermath there. you can see cars on top and underneath giant slabs of one section of the garage collapsed before noon on tuesday. the second section about five hours later. thankfully nobody was hurt. yes, a investigation is under way. all right. so if you are a new york mets

fan, just waking up this moy.ing, we're so it was not a bad dream. it happened. to say the mets had a rough night iset complely understatement. they lost t washington nationals. the final store, plug your ears if you're a mets fan, 25-4. the worst loss in franchise history. at one point in the game 19-0. the mets manager called the loss, quote, embarrassing and said we've got to do better an that. >> and we move on. galso this morning we've new reaction to the first sentencing that's happened in connection with the hazing deathf a student and fraternity pledge at penn state university. we have followed this case closely. nbc's morgan radford is here. good morning to you. >> good morning. ennsylvania attorney general was seeking jail time for the first and the only former penn state fraternity t memb plead guilty to charges related to the death of tim piazza. in the end the judge spared them

defendant f jail and we're hearing from the parents. this morning the distraught parents of timothy piazza are speaking out about the first legal punishment in connection to tth hazing d of their son. >> it's never easy. it's never easy. you're just constantly reminded lowhat you >> the first step in some level of justice for tim being killed. >> ryan burk, the execruitment chair sentenced to three months of house arrest, 27 months of obation, and 100 hours of community service. >> our hearts go out to the piazza tmily. i think it's important that everybody understand that ryan the is certainly not cause. >> prosecutors say he certainly played a role. the 21-year-old pleaded in june to misdemeanor alcohol and hazing charges. he briefly apologized tuesday in open court. i am very sorry for the piazza's loss. i am haye todo accept responsibility for my itions. hope one day to be forgiven.

jim piazza requested hisre rse. >> he's remorseful he's in the situation. >> in a memo the attorney general lambasted burke's behavior as seen on surveillance video from inside the house. prosecutors say burke is seen rrying piazza's limp body upstairs. ded to any brothers t mr. piazza as he lay on the sofa,re the defendant app unconcerned. he's seen playfully hoisting a girl on hisshoulders, jumping on the sofa next to piazza and rollg on top of piazza as he's getting up leaving the room. >> we have ariend who is unconscious. >> prosecutors say no one called 911 until almost a 12 hourser piazza first fell. his alcohol level estimated to be up to four times the legal limit. piazza later died from trauma to his head and abdomen. >> we are trusting the justice system. >> piazza's parents have several steps left in their son's case.

with more than 24 hour fraternity brothers facing various charges including zing. >> i often think there's this hand on my shoulder that's telling me to keepgoing, it will be okay. >> so hard for the trents. >> d judge talk about the reasoning for this sentence? >> he did. he said he was shocked byhat happened. but because he knew there were many people involved that night, he said that it is incumbent on them. he ruled those found guilty must pay the $27,000 funeral expenses for timothy piazza. defendants, they are now required to show up for a preliminary hearing date scheduled for later thisdonth trial date set for early next year. >> it's a long road. morgan, thank you. >> all right. turning now to a growing headache for youtube. videos of conspiracy theories and fse information about a-list celebrities that appear on the site,any from a group up signs een holding at the president's rally in tampa last night.

nbc's business correspondent jo ling kent has that story. good morninin >> good mo to you. youtube is the most popular platform in the world but now it's coming under fe once again for allowing conspiracy a theories mostly sunny information to spread, attempting to discredit hollywood stars andajor corporations. this morning two hollywood icons the target of fal conspiracy theories on youtube. >> stephen spielberg is a 'mdophile. >> just showing you tom hanks is part of theem sy >> the casual search for tom hanks on youtube turned up videos accusing the movie star of being a pedophile. director steven spielberg getting the same treatment. the videos come from a fastow gring right wing internet community called qanon. it pushes theories, uncovered.

a couple hundred in five days. we're talking millions of people and growing. >> their content is posted across social mediafo platrms, including on a popular app recently banned from the apple app store. celebrities like roseanne and curt schilling has pushed the group's bogus conspiracy o social media. the apparent goal to discredit dividuals who do notupport the trump administration. >> this particular point of view is being i pushed part because of just straight upal politic malfunction on the internet where thng wildest this sort of gain tracti. >> after n news contacted youtube, the search results changedith legitimate videos coming up first.t the conspiracy veos still show up further down in the search results. youtube has not been taking t sm doing in part they have created tools to fix the problem, saying as these toolsa to apply more widely across youtube, we believe they will make authoritative content

readily available and help address these types of results. but these false online conspiracies have real world consequences,in bng with pizzagate in 2016 when a man opened fire on a washington, d.c., pizzeria because he believed hillary clinton was running a child sex ring inside. moreecently last month when a follower blocked the hoove van with an armoredve cle. >> it's totally made up information pushed by platforms that don't know how to stop it. >> tom hanks and steven peelberg did not return our requesten fo co corporations have been hit by these as well. as for howoutube wants to we'd out this kind of material they are telling me they are ranng authoritative news searches higher in searchy results so t will click on those more often than false conspiracies. >> s disturbing jo, thank you.

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> it's 8:00 "today." coming up, miracle in mexico. more than 100 people waking up thankful to be alive afterg surviv fiery plane crash. >> we were bracing for pact, that once the actual plane stopped, we could see the flames on either side of the engine. >> so what caused that packed plane to go down n the first place? we're live with the latest. plus road to recovery, singer demi lovato remains hospitalized this morning more than a week after an apparent overdose. >> she had some complications over the weekend. she came down with a a fevernd she showed signs of an infection. >> what her inner circle is revealing aorut her fight ready

the funniest women in hlywood kate mckinnon in our studio to talk about her return to the big screen today, august 1st, 2018. >> it's our fourth trip to the plaza. >> st. loui go rammiblsserous.ri. >> the her birthday. >> cross it off the bucket list. >> selling cookies to get to "today." >> hoda hitting the high note. good morning, everybody. welcome back toto "day." what an adorable crowd out there. we're waving right back. t niceo have you at home as >> t ponchos on and well. we'll get out to say hello in a bit. news at 8:00, pictures were alarming but outcom was amazing

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singer's family and wilbur valderrama stayed by her side while she received the best possible care. >> she had some complications over the weekowd. she came with a fever and showed signs of an infection. she's being treated, according to a source, withat comions that are common after an overdose. >> in this week's issue, "people" magazine offering new insight into lovato's struggles with addiction and the time leadingp to this 911 call. >> this is definitely a medical emergency for her. we need to get there as fast as possible. >> paredics rushing to lovato's home in hollywood hills where they revised the unconscious singer with narcan, a drug often used to reverse the effects of a narcotic overdose. a source familiar with her problems telling "people," this is absolutely what so man people feared would happen. it sources close to demi lovato indicated her ae started to change regarding her sobriety. she started to believe in th myth of moderation, controlled

consumption. she could maybe dabble here and there and not let that lead to harder drug use. >> lovato, who said she started using drugs at 18 has never shied away from discussing her demons. >> i was eithe craving drugs or on drugs. >> while lovato just celebrated her sixth year of sobriety hass month "people" reports in recenh monthser loved ones noticed i red flagsluding distancing herself from friends that helped her get clean. one long time friend suggested she folded under the pressure of dfame sayingi never wanted to be a role model. her sobriety was a fight every single day. >> sources say sying healthy became almost too much pressure for her, and it was something tough for her to deal with and having it all out in the public eye. >> lovato issuing a call for help in june with her release io ju "sober." ♪ sorry prime minister i'm not sor anymore♪ >> lovato grew up in the

spotlight entering show business at age seven. former member of her circle telling "people," h demi never a day off of she needs to get out of this whole system. this morni it remains clear if lovato will take a break from the stage or if her recovery will involve another stint in rehab. lovato will likely remain hospitalized for a few more days. it's a long road to recory, guys. >> certainly is, natalie. we're all rooting for her. >> thanks, nat.

good morning. weave a large number of thunderstorms. fortunately the heavy rain is over fornow. we have a slight risk for more severe weather this evening. no rain now. will be dry for the remainder of the morning and aeajority of afternoon. there's the slight risk for severe weathern the afternoon. temperature wise mostly in the mid to upp80s. s. storms likely after 5 or 8:00 this evening. and that is your latest weather. >> al, thanks so much. sheinelle jones in th orange om for carson. you've got important news. you've got your head in the phone. >> yes.

we have an exclusive announcement from facebook and instagram this morning. both apps are launching new tools to help you manage the time you spend on social media. here is the deal. if you go into your settings on either app, the first feature you notice is the dashboard where you can see the amount of time you've spent on the app in the last week as well as break it down by each day. n you want to put a limit time, you can set a daily reminder. u choose how much time on the app each day, then you'll get an alert when you've exceeded that amount. lastly if you're trying to disconnect for a bit, you'll be able to mute youric notions for a set amount of time. you'll get a break from push notifications attempting you to open the app. facebook and instagram are adding the features to make sure the time you spend on the app is intentional. you're not just wasting time. these tools will roll out to all of us over the next two weeks. i don't even know if i want to know how much time i spend on the app. >> repress it.

>> now you know and even every day it will tell you, 25 minutes, an hour, 3 hours. >> you know what you can also do is take the app off your phone. >> there's that but now you're just talking crazy. >> itid it l night. this morning i took off instagram and twitter. i got into a twitter hole and kept reading it over and over. henry said, maybe let's talk and we talked. >> you tweeted this morning talkg about us doing megyn kelly. t> i put it back on. i took off for the evening to have some time with my husband. i'm addicted. >> the message for youoday -- >> i need therapy. >> you can say for overnight hours. >> so proud of herself. >>listen, i did the best i could. >> six hours. six hours i stayed off instagra let's talk first, shall we? first up and breaking this fe morning, jen aniston gracing in-style september

issue, sat down with friend and wife omy kimmel and the two discussed a possibility of a "friends" comeback. aniston said before that show ended people were w asking if were coming back. courtney and lisaened i talk about it and fantasize about it, it was the greatest job i've er had. sounds like she might be open for a reboot. ten years since it ckded. up the issue when it hits news stands august 10th . while "friends" isn't getting a revival sdlot will have a prequel. no word but hollywood reporter confirms the origil film's director and writer, mickey evans is on board for the project. he reunited with the sandlot cast in april back in may.el they cebrated 25th anniversary of the film and played ball with nbc correspondent gadi schwarz. hopefully we'll learn more details about the prequel soon. that is your "pop start." you have a great daly click.

>> familiar face at the yankees game. peter alexander's sister rebecca threw out the first pitch. >> the lady is rebecca alexander, who has beedi agnosed with usher syndrome. she was told by the age of 30 she would be completely blind. so she is going to throw out the first pitch. she has a great attitude and bad arm. actually a good armut bad -- >> we have peter with us. go morning,peter. >> this is the most proud brother ever this morning. for s one myter was on espn, how much do we love that? i talked to her this mornin i said, how did it feel. she said it was so fun.id as they in major league, just a little outside. i were practicing this weekend. she's been central park over and over. major league basebal wholly

embraced my sister. she gets another try atpa fenwa next month. this was really cool. >> that is cool. >> maybe tuld use her on the mets. >> exactly. thank god for thatbackstop. >> peter, we love your sister. we kw you do, too. >> thanks, peter. >> thanks, guys. >> wait. i've got to go. i've got places to go and people see. >> what? >> look, look who is over here. , you stayin. don't leave. oh, i'm sorry. oh, i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> may approach? may i approach? >> kate mckinnon., oh my god, we can't wait. we're going to talk. >> we're talking now. >> it's now? i had no idea. can i have my notes? ug t this was a >> don't worry. >> okay. we're going to. ch

all right, kate, first of all -- nes the other ones, the that are happened written. >> hi. >> how are you? >> i'm very well. how are yo >> we need to do a little tee up. you've got this great movie. thank you, thanks, al. we have a gre movie out, action packed, the comedy called he spy who dumped me" check it out. >> what? >> wait, wait. this is the boss. you're theboss. a real life judi dench in our midst. your the boss but not sacrificed one ounce of feninity. why have we been talking to the men when this being has been floating through the building. >> that is a hampliment. >>s beyonce of government. >> by the way, people say your name and we start la shing. peop you on the screen and we start laughing. >> happy to have that effect, my sweet. >> first of all, we had mila

here yesterday, mila kunis. >> isn't she the greatest thing. >> you k sw whathe talked about the whole time? you. you were the conversation. you guys have crazy chemistry. >> we really do. it just happened instantly. she's an incredible person. >> she said she signed on because of you. >> when i found that out, i was like, oh, my god. i can be with who? becauseou know, if you're an er an, you're a lifelong fan of mila kunis. everyone loves mila kunis because she's probably the most loveable person in the world. when i met her, i didn't know -- i thought she looks wonderful, but you never know what someone is really like. sheeally ishe most down to earth,smart, good gal. >> she outed you on something. >> what did she say? >> she totally outed you in the interview yest dday. >> wha i do? >> i'm going to show you what you did. she let us in on the secret.

just take a look. >> i'm afraid. the fake kate mckinnon laugh. >> show me >> there's t laughs. from now on when you interview her you'll notice there's two laughs. one is a genuine laugh and one is i'm laughing because i'm supposed . i learned this early on. hell, no, kate, i don't want ur fake laugh. >> what wasthat? >> fake. that's true. >> is that the real? >> that was the real one, yeah. you did it. congratulations. good morning. yeah. >> you make people laugh. what makes you crack up? >> oh, my gosh imean, mostly this. like i think thatf u do this and just stay like that, that's one of the funniest things. right? >> dyou have a t? >> do i have a cat?

yeah, i've got a cat. >> somebody said something where your cat makes you crack up? >> my cat has these two -- eve cat has two top teeth but mine only has one. so his lip gets caught on his bottom tooth.'l often just look over and he'll be looking at me like this. he looks to angry. god, it makes me laugh. every time i look at him i laugh. >> you are not on social media. mila said the same thing. she's not on it. what's the story? are you guys just not -- you're not interested in whate people talking about or you don't care or what? >> i love to know the haps, hod, but the thing is when it started happening, it just was not in my nature to post a picture. i don't know why. i don't judge it. i think it's a wonderful thing that does wonderful thing for people and bring people together who needbe brought together. but i also just -- it just was

not for me. >> do you everook on there and see what's happening? do you have troll? >> maybe. a little >> you know what i was surprised toisearn, i did not know y the longest running female cast member on "snl." is that true? r d that. >> you mean currently. >> no, i think like ever,n terms of the run. >> i have to say i'm sorry that's not true. >> it's it? >> know amy poehler worked there for eight seasons and i'm about to enter my seventh. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i know you have your i'search. so sorry. i think that's true.nt i don't o contradict the research. >> the seventh. >> currently i'm longest running female cast member by five episodes. i joined five episodes earlier. >> that's what that is. you've done tons and tons of impressions. >> i have. >> what are your top two? what are your go tos you love to

do the most? >> right now i like to do the attorney general jeff sessions becausere get -- t this thing i can do with my mouth that actually mil thinks is the grossest thing. >> what is it? >> it's this. the whole summer if she looked away, i would do is. she would look back and say, don't do it, please don't do it. shit hated oh, my god, she hated it. oh,e had a good time. >> how long did it take you to perfect one of those good es? >> well, you know, a short amount of time because things happen soqu kly. >> we've got to get that. >> it happened over a period of episodes. >> that's will ferrell. >> i can't handle you. >> isn't whel ferrell funniest. >> love both of y'all. >> first of all,ongrats on your latest emmy nominations. we love you. >> ce backnd see us next

time. >> i would love to. bringour notes next time. i'm kidding. >> "the spy who dumped this is a news 4 news break. hi, it is 8:26 on this wednesday, august 1st, 2018. i'm anggoff. it's a storm team 4 weather alert day. we want to get to wtop's jack taylor. >> 7 east bound we've got our troubles at culvin run near the mills. neeoeasnilangun 7 o beercause of the flooded out roadway. westbound is open. bleed road andrving street, crash cleanup still has the right lane blocked.

northbound route 4 at marlboro, the right lane gets by. >> thanks, jack. a check on your forecast return. stay with us. eenwh

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out theret yankee stadium. >> i have a big secret to share with you at 10:00 hour. a big one. >> a hint? one. big >> do you have any clue? >> i want kathie to there. i want to tell you both. >> this is big. that was like the tease of the century. this is going to be awesome. >> how is your summer going, by the wa alex. >> so much fun. we spent a lot of time with the kids. we j bahamas.ck from the now i get to go to yankee stadium and spend the hour with you. >> you celebrated a birthday, jennifer celebrate add birthday. look at you guys. we can't wait to see you. >> n we're on the edge of our seats on what you might be saying. meanwhile, al and jenna are going -- >> not exactly a-rod but filling in more>> megyn. we're ahab. >> that sounds complimentary. >> we have a dial, where

we can eat carbs. that's my type of tune in, it will be fun. >> the pizza diet. good morning.tu ly a pretty nice start to the day aside from the rain we had very early. 7 it degrees. we're seeing sunshine and we're going to warm up today.nd showerstorms off to our west. th a'll stay there we go through most of the day. areas north and west could see a chance of late day severe storms andee still have s flood issues for parts of northern virginia because of that early rain. through the afternoon showers north and west and thunderstorms

later on and then r chances hang around all the way into the weekend. >> don't forget, if you walk out the door, you can u still take with you. check us out on "today" sirius xmchannel, channel 108. it's fantastic. these folks over here, you have your ponchos. where are you from? >> south florida. >> south florida, it's very wet down there, too. >> yes, it is. >> we'll stay here. just stay here. all right. let's head back inside. savannah. >>l, thanks. timely and important message about your digital life. tow do you prevent your p from affecting your future? some on erasing your footprint. good morning. for aof people looking job think, i wish i wouldn't have tweeted that, too personalt er. is it easy to erase your digital footprint. >> it's such a trend to go back and delete per history. i say it doesn't matter if

you're a celebrity in the spotlight or looki for that w job, your digital media presence, social media presence is a billboard to the world. it is the modern day cover letter. we think about people trying to comb through and find somethi onyou. now social media in many casess al media, ten years of archives to search through. a searcli engine p up a key word that pops up early when somebody google's your name. this is a time to think, hey, do i need a digital cleanup. now i'm imagining tleegt twe -- weet by tweet. there's got to be a better way. >> on twitter, a big trend going ba on all those tweets looking at the archive, what can be deleted from here. there's a program, tweet deleter, a limited subscription. a lot of my friends have used it, too. it's worked quite well. it can go through batches and a whole time line and threat

significant number of tweetsr to delete after a certain period of time. or bring out big guns, complete all at once. a lot o people, on trend, it's what they are looking for. >> what about facebook. is it difficult to erase facebook history. what if you want to keep some stuff, have your own record, but not public >> lot of people in that scenario. theres a chrome extension, kind of a tool to add to your web browser, use chrome. it's nice, it's caused social book post manager. what it'v does -- used this on my personal page for facebook. it can go through and ink b actually delete a ton of posts. it can unlike and hide them. you can options. it's putting that power back into your own hands. if you're not ready to make the full delete, get rid of a batch of them. >> if you do want to save some haveies, is there a way to that middle ground. >> i'm surprised at a lot of people when they ask me, how do i delete my facebook page, i have so many photos and comnts on there and so many milestones.

inke advantage of both twitter, facebook and agram. you can archive all of your content. a lot of people aren't awaref that. go into settings, they will send you a digital file, a zip file you can download and have all there.ight maybe that's the first step if you're not ready for a full on yelete. >> there's rea a simple step if you want to go big, just delete it. >> a lot of people are turning to reputation management. this is tangential than just deleting social media. if you have stuff you name when you del it, pulls up articles you don't like or t ngs said about you, there's a way to pull it down. i have to tell you it's pically not cheap. it can go $400 a month. i know who have wiped their history and it cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars range. reputation management, more about that as the world goes digital and online. thank you. a hidden gem in arizon take you to a remarkable natural dayer that just 20 people a

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all this week on "today's" tlafl we're exploring our country's hidden gems. >> wait until you see this, this is beautiful. the desert southwest filled with beauty. one spotn particular stands out called the wave. once you see it, it's pretty obvious why. america is beautiful. award winning photographer wants to give you a closer look. >> the beauty of this part of the world is there's many hidden gems with so muchty diver spled throughout an area. >> dozens of national parks, landmarks spread throughout southern utah and northern arizona, endless wonder in some of the most remote and harshest terrain on earth. >> a lot of people know about

alaces like zion in the grand canyon. around we have places like slot canyons, amazingr views ove the lake, horseshoe bend. >> najo nation little river gorge, dinosaur tracks, 1,000-year-old petroglyphs, hidden gems within 100 square miles. it the wave, a one-of-a-kind colorful undulating rock formation created by 190 million years of wind, rain, and sand that's most coveted by those who take t chances at the bureau ofge land mant's daily lotter >> number18. >> which to preserve the site permits just 20 people a day. no exceptions not even for our cameras who applied a dozen time over three weeks to make this seven-mile hike to the slopes of the coyote view, which until 1960s was mostly unknown to

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be the first to walk it. it really is paradise. >> beautiful. with only 20 mermts ppermits pe it's literally like winning the lottery. they try to strike a balance between preserving theprrea and iding access to people who want to see it. absolutely gorgeous. i grew up in arizona and i didn't know about it. >> can we give kudos to our photographer. she travels to alaska, all places all around the world by herself. >> had to wait 12 days to win the lottery to get in there. >> she t won lottery for you. >> we did, too. >> a lot ahead i performance from rising star bazzi, but firsthis is "day" t

back now 8:46 with a breakout star in music. his name is bazzi. >> his hit skyrock charts.he now the singer songwriter following up that success with his newest single, "beautiful." >> you can find both songs on his debut album called cosmic bazzi. bazzi, l k atyou, you're having quite a moment, aren't you, right now? >> it's been r ally beautiful year. >> how old are you, 21? >> twenty. >> you're 20 years j old,t getting started. playing with camila cabello, justin timberlake. are you pinching yourself. >> it's insane. you spend sf up make your life working towards something. to see it come to fruition is >> i read your dad had a vision or dream when yoursere 7 y old about all this. what happened? >> he did. he actually took me outo

breakfast one day and he was so excited. there he issc on en. he took me out to breakfast and said i have this vision, you showed at madison square garden. you were there. i was like, you're crazy, bro. here we are, a couple more years, we'll see what happens. >> he's watched you perform. >> he'sbs byutely biggest fan. he keeps up with everything. any news article,hat does this mean? >> a google alert on you. >> he does. >> sending in the fog. that meansou're supposed to sing. >> what are you going to sing for us? >> i'm going to sing beautiful today. ♪ beautiful beautiful beautiful angel ♪ ♪ove your imperfections everye

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♪ back on wednesday rng. where did jenna go? >> they have the 9:00 they are hosti hosting. going to be good. >> they are filling in for megyn. >> birthdays. >> myhono let's bring those jars of smucker's and see who we'rele ating this morning. first up happy 111th birthday to henry, active guy from l.a. if you're looking for henry you can catch him at the gym. he works out every day. clara from walnut, north carolina, is 100. she's proud to s she mowed her own lawn until 97. judith gaines, avid reader, loves to spend time with grandkids andre grandkids.

lawrence celebrating 100 years, this world war ii veteran from wisconsin. he and his wife created an organization that helped kids with developmental disabilities. opal tawny 100, loves to bake and eat chocolate chip cookies. in fact, eating one sweet a day every single d is her secret to longevity. happy anniversary to richard and barbara gibbs from kansas, these two lovebirds enjoy spending time with their 13 grandkids and 32 great grandkids.om if you havene you want to celebrate, tell us on co todacelebrate. don't forget to send us a picture. >> in addition to al and jenna going across the street, a-rod is co-hosting. >> he teed up a secret he's going to revl

8:56 is o your time wednesday, august 1st. 2018. good morning to you. i'm eun yang. it is a storm team 4 weather alert day. let's get to jack taylor. how are the roadslo ing, jack? >> it's been pretty busy. we're waiting for a lot of the roads to dryt. we have issues with flooded out conditions eastbound. e eastboundve lanes blocked. westbound lanes are open.

upper marlboro tards water street, crash. still has only the right lane getting by. eastbound on the toll road still slow coming off the green w towards hunter mill. two accidents on the fairfax unty parkway. we'll take a quick break and check the forecast when we come back. stay with us.

good wednesday morning. we're dry right now, but we do have some rain back off to our west and later on today chance of some severe storms possibly north and west of d.c. we'll be watching that through the evening. for today we'll stay mainly dry th the afternoon. upper 80s and later on this afternoon chance of a shower. evening thunderstorms north and west. ra chances hang around through the weekend, eun. >> sheena, thank you. get the latest news and weather at any time through the nbc washington app. have a good day. 1 d

grning, everybody. thank you for coming, thank you for joining us. thank you all for joining us. i'm al roker. >> i'm jenna bush hager in for megyn key after s deservedly took a vacation. we're having so much fun. al brought coffee.e a-rod on ten but i'm here with my man al roker. >> thank you. we're all here with nbc's keir simmons. we all love keir because he's got that accent. he's unbelievable.