t,> good morning. breaking overni terrifying scene as an airline employee steals an empty passenger plane from one of the country's largest aports and takes i on a wild joyride on the skies outside seattle. >> that is not a drone. at is a real plane. >> the man talking to traffic control the whole time. >> flying around, and he just needs some help controlling his aircraft. >> i don't need that much help. i played video games before. >> fighter jets scrambling to chase him before the plane crashed into a remote island. how could this happen? was there any terror link? we're live on the scene. sta of emergencych lottesville, virginia, on lockdown with the anniversary of that deadly white nationalist protest just a day away.

police out in force on the streets as washington, d.c., prepares for its own massive protests tomorrow. harsh reality. a, prince villain, and -- apprenti apprentice, villain, and top adviser to president trump writing a book, saying the president usedhe "n" word, and new questions raised about her credibility. all this and horrific shoot-out on the side of the highway. a suspect pulling o a gun police after they tased him. how one officer survived being times.our mission to the sun on hold. nasa launching an historic launch this morning. and heart healthy. ewa revolutionary way to treat dogs suffering from heart disease. today, saturday, august 11th, 2018. from nbc news, this is

"today" with sheinelle jones, craig melvin, and dylan dreyer live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, welcome to "today," and thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. >> scary scene in the skies out in seattle 'sovernight. ot a lot of folks asking some questions this morning. >> in fact, it is our top story thismorning. this wild overnight bheaking news wre an airline worker -seater plane a from washington's sea-tac airport a started flying it. luckily no one else was at the time, and the plane evenally crashed into a remot island. hans nichols is near the scene where the plane went down. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to au. right behind mut a mile away is ketron island. that's where the plane crashed. it was a fiery scene. a lot of questions tonight about just how this happe ad what security measures might be put in placeo make sure it doesn't happen again. smoke rising overnight from a

small remote island o the coast of seattle after a hijacked horizon airlines plane slammed into t ground. this after a wild scene in the >> hey, you think about landing this successfully? give me a job as a pilot? >>. >> reporter: jovial and strange mords from a man who had stolen an airplane f the sea-tac airport. >> what the [ bleep ] is he doing over here? >> flying around, and -- >> what is happening right now? >> he needs help controlling hit airc >> no, i mean, i don't need that much help. i played some video games before. orter: officials say a ground service agent employed by horizon, part of alaskan airlines, somehow stole this urbo-prop aircraft with seats. he was then able to take off, flying for 15 minutes before that fiery crash. >> that is not a drone. that is a real plane. >> reporter: stunned onlookers watched as the pilot attempted stunts in the air.

>> did a loop-de-loor. >> rr: fighter jets scrambled to get by his side. the whole time air traffic conthl, in contact w the pilot, tried to coax him down. >> we're trying to find a place for you to land safely. >> reporter: the man apparently suicidal >> i've got a lot of people that care about, and it's going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. >> there's no indication that there was any -- an attempt to attack anybody or anything other han taking an airplane without permission, stealing an airplane, and flying it around. >> just a broken guy. got a f screws loose, i guess. never really knew it until now. >> reporter: moments later, a huge plume of black smoke rose from ketron island as the air force pilots trailing the s aircra they witnessed it go down. >> our hearts are with the family of the individual aboard, as well as all our alaska airline and horizon air employees. >> reporter: the pieounty sheriff's office tweeting,

"confirmed info. this is single suicidal male. we know who he is, no others involved." >> how concerned should national security officials be about this? >> reporter: national security official and officials here are saying it isn't a national security threat, but there are questions and concerns about how an individual like this is able to get aboard a commercial jet, a commercial plane, especially in a part of the country here in theuget sound area where there's so many military installations. you have air force, navy, army, that may be one reason that they are able to scramble those jets so quickly to intercept thise. pl guys? >> a good point. good reporting. thank you. let's bringap inin john cox, an nbc news aviation analyst. to you.ni let's pick up right where hans left off there. commercialng about a jet here, a plane that can carry upwa70s of people. here's a guy somehow able to get behind the controls and fly for about 15 minutes. how does something like this

happen? how easy is it to do something like this? >> we have to t puts in perspective. this is an airline employee. he's been vetted, had a background check, has identification. it's routine that people maintain clean they're going to and from airplanes all the time. what's unusual here is the level of knowledge that this individual had tbe able to start the airplane, taxi it, to know where the runway was. thos are things tha not normal -- normally knn. for him to get airborne and be able to fly the airplane even though he had,quote, played some video games, that's one of the surprising features here. >> there's another piece of this. at least air traffic control were on top of it. they were on to this guy, talking toryhim,g to get in contact as he was on the runway.

what did they do right? >> i think the air traffic controllers deserve commentatdan re. when you listen to the control tower who knows that he'srp an ne he's not talking to there and keeping other aircraft away from it, he's repeatedly asking nwho's 1-6 center, the runway. when it takes off he immediately en notifies the security people that they've got an unauthorized departure off of sea-tac, and they respond accordingly. then the oth controllers that talk to the airplanen flight, when you listen to those controllers, that is consummate professionalism on t part. they did everything they could to reach out to this individual and give them the opportunity to land it. >> is there something that we can be doing that we're not doing from a security standpoint to prevent something like this from happening again? >> i think today will begin an

in-depth investigation of exactly what happened and to see if there were any weaknesses ins the securittem exposed. until that investigation's complete, we really don't have enough information to answer that yet. >> nbc news aviation expert, john cox. thank you. now to another big storyin this mo police in charlottesville, virginia, are on high alert this weekend with the one-year anniversarse of tho violent white nationalist protests just a day away. all protest permits denied with the city under a state of emergency. nbc's maya rodriguez is there with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is the placere w 32-year-old heather heyer died last year after a man attending the unite the right rally plowed into a group of te counterpers. they've renamed the street in her honor.y one of m changes since then. and now they are bracing for what this weekend might bring. this morning, the statue of robert e. lee looms large inside

the charlottesville park tha once bore his name. the site of last year's violent clsen between those attng the unite the right rally and counterprotesters. afte criticism of how law enforcement handled the protests last year, the new chief of policessserting that t year there will not be a repeat. >> we will not tolerate any forms of violence in the community. >> rorter: unite the right organizers planned for a second rally here, but the cityttf charville denied their permit. instead they now plan to hold an in versary rally sunday washington, d.c., at a park across from the white house. despite the cnge invenue, the state of virginia and charlottesville remain under a state of emergency with a heavy polisence and multiple street closures. >> i'm hoping that nothing terrible happens like last year. >> reporter: alongith heather heyer, virginia state police troopeurk bates and jay colon also died last year on the day of the protests after the

helicopter they were using to monitor what was going on from the air crashed outside of to t. forhe mother of heather heyer, the past year has brought her pain a purpose. what would you like her legacy to be? >> a personal call to action. that's what heather would want, is for peoe to stand up and pay attention. >> reporter: this as she picks uphere her daughter left off in crusading for social justice. >> it's truly a heart movement. it has to start from inside the heart, and that takes having difficultconversations. >> the robert e. lee statue that was thef focal point this last year, tell stay in the park in charlottesville? >> reporter: right now it'smi d in a legal tug-of-war, and it has been for the last couple of years. i part of theue is that there's a state law preventing the removal of confederate monuments. for now that statue is goi to stay right where it is in the park. >> thank you. also this morning, president trump's former aide and

"apprentice" star omarosa is making explosive claims in her tell-all book about her time with the president. omartia w that mr. trump used the d "n" word while aroun the set of "the apprentice," a claim the white house says is completely false. key o'donnell is traveling with the president. she is near his new jersey golf club. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, even aft was fired last saig. december from the whitefouse office public liaison, omarosa said the president's aughter-in-law offered h job with the campaign at $15,000 a month. she says it came with are rictive nondisclosure agreement that would forbid her from ever talking about the president or the trump family. noan strger to controversy, omarosa manigault newman has plenty to say now. damaging but unverified claims from omarosa manigault newman about the president who made her both a reality tv villain --

>> she helped make me a star --a >> reporte a white house official. >> omarosa's a very nice pers. no one kno that. >> reporter: ousted from the white house last december, she hasbo new , "unhinged," where she claims -- >> i was told exactly what donald trump said, yes, the "n" word, and others in a classic trump-goes-nuclear rant.>> eporter: she writes that she was told about tapes that were allegedly recorded during the production of "the apprentice" where trump is used as describing as using --s described as using the "n" word but she contradicted herself -- >> i heard the tape. >> reporter: when challenged -- >> it sounds like youuneard his ac did you hear the tape? >> i did. girl, did you read my book? >> reporter: she also writes, "the person i'd thnght i'd kno well for so long was actually a racist."

but after she waad out of the nistration, she had defended the president. >> donald trump is racial, but .e is not a raci >> reporter: she also describes president trump as behaving like "a dog off the leash" when at mar-a-lago events without his wife. the white house punched backwi a statement. "this book is riddled with lies and false accusations. it's sad that a disgruntled former white house employee is trying to profit off these false attacks." >> some other news, michael en ti, attorney for stormy daniels, made this appearance at a democratic dinner in iowa last night. is michael avenatti really layihe t groundwork for a presidential campaign? >> reporter: he's certainly hinting. this is one of those dinners where often candidates debut to the all-important iowa voters. avenatti was talking about some of the political work he' done in the past but also urgingat demo to be tougher against a re-election campaign where donald trump would be a efighte, asescribed it.

avenatti also told democrats to sort of put aside michelle obama's advice that when they low, we go high. avenatti said when they go low, we should hit harder. craig? >> thank you. a programming note, omarosa i going to be joining chuck todd for an exclusive interview tomorrow morning on "meet the press." now to the stunning verdict a case against a biochemical giant. monsanto ordered to pays hundr of millions to a man who got terminal cancer after using thed company's w killer for years. steve patterson has more. >> reporter: this morning, fallout from a monumental verdict. >> this case was historic. f >> reporteday a jury in san francisco found biochemical giant l monsantoiable for former scho groundskeeper dewayne johnson's cancer. he said constant use of roundup led to non-hodgkins lymphoma.

doctors have given him months to live. a jury awarding $2 million i damages. >> if you know you're going to die, you might as well not die in vain. you might as well say, well, let's put this out here what happened to me. >> reporter: joonts's lawsuit is the first of hundreds against monsanto alleging it knew t weedkiller was linked to cancer and failed to notify the public. thelt world h organization identified the active ingredient in roundup as, quotrobably carcinogenic to humans. >> a unanimous jury in san francisco has told man s-- monsan idnsanto, enough, you d something wrong, it's time to pay. >>he verdict today doesot change the science. >> reporter: for thousands of plaintiffs, ma suffering with cancer, the verdict is a beacon of hope. >>s tha global. that's bigger than me -- way bigger than me. i hope that that light will be

shined. >> reporter: for "today," steve patterson, nbc news. we'llet a first check of weather with dyl>> good morning. it is going to be a rainy day across the northeast unfortunately. we do have some flash flood watches and even flash flood warnings in effect. 39 million people at risk for the flooding potential today. it's all because of this systemy ther see heavier rain moving through the new york city area. this is going to just be a lingerin type ofain as we go through the day all across new england, ack to nyork, new jersey, pennsylvania and down through parts of the mid atlantic as well,ug down th maryland and into the d.c. area. we will see rounds ofra heavier , too, with some of the thunderstorms that will developr not looking at much severe werth. still we could see a widespread one to three inches if you get stuck in some of the heavier downpours, they could produce rainfall rates about one towo inches per hour. while it will not be raining every single second of the d in the northeast, it is going to be one of those days where rain

could htipen at any . keep the umbrella handy and maybe make your plans for indoors today. that's a look at the weather across the country. here is a peek out your window. >> out our wdow we'veot temperatures in the 60s and 70s, pushing 80 degrees in the district and annapolis at this point. temperatures will stay in the mid to upper 80s for daytime highs today. w on your out the door, grab the umbrella. e'me of you may need some sunglasses as going to have peeks of sun. other than that, justes sprin and rain chances as we continue through the morning. we'll have more rain chances as we get int afternoon, even a few thunderstorms, not raining the whole that's your latest forecast. >> all right. thank you. still ahead this morning, a wild shoot-out on the side of a busy highway after a suspect takes on police who pulled him over for speeding. plus, a delivery dance gone viral. the pregnant woman who decided to get down before going into labor. first, this is "today" on nbc. >> you could h>>e done that. he's ready. [ chee ] rs wow. look at jim go. man, that guy works hard.

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we are back on a saturday morning with "the weekly o download look back at the week that was. >> the headlines were dominated by those raging wildfires out west and a disturbing find at a compound in new mexico. there were a lot of other stories we covered, as well, starting with the special elotion race in ohi that is still too close to call. [ cheers ] a special congressional election in ohio may have been a warning sign f the republican party. >> i'm going to d everything can to keep america great again. >> republican troy bald ebalder current leading democrat danny o'connor in less than a point in a critcal republican distr president trump won oceanly. >> can you -- won easily. >> can you believeow close this is? >> no matter who's declared the winner, they'll both face off again in november.

newhrork congressman collins fighting back after he was indicted on insider trading charge >> and will mount a vigorous defense in court to clear my i will mount a vigorous campaign. >> facing 13 criminal counts altogether including securities fraud and false staments to investigators. >> prosecutors say collins, a board member for an australian biotech company tipped off hist son and family members that a crucial clinical trial had failed. news that y was not public. the others then dumping their stock in the company before it plunged. a small plane plunging into a parking lot in southern california kilng everyone on board. >> devastating to see everything, the debris, the crash, the car, the plane. >> amazing no one on thewa grou hurt. singer demi lovato broke her withce on her struggle

addiction nearly two weeks after an apparent overdose. >> the singer posting on instagram, what i've learned is that this illness is nth someing that disappears or fades with time.om it is sething i must continue to overce and have not done yet. >> the 25-year-old superstar celebrated six years of sob bright in march but hinted she had relapsed in a songelsed in june. ♪i'm so sorry ♪ i'm no sober anymore >>stonishing moments caught on camera. a marine biologist trying to tag a great white shark in massachusetts got the scare of a lifetime. >> whoa! >> atlanta slaufrsuccessfully rescued a man from a carta hit a utility pole and caught fire. and video of a careless driver earlier this morning forgetting to lower his crane, snagging a

power line and bringing down a traffic pole. a woman about to give birth in florida decideder to dance way to the delivery room. the mom--be got down with her nursing staffnd end up in labor for 30 hours before delivering a baby girl. >> rhythm. >> i will s when i was pregnant, it actually gave me new dance moves because you do the wle belly dance. >> that's a dance? >> something to do with yourha s. >> that's her husband, by the way, the guy there, also getting down. it's a rhymic family. >> did she have the baby right after this? >> no, hours. >> they tell you to move around when you're trying to make it happen. i guess she figured, let's try to make it happen. >> with the sevenids that you have, did you ever do a dance? >> no, i never had to. my mom did. in philadelphia, she said shent o wanna makers, remember

then? >> no. >> it worked becausehe i'm . >> you see this other guy here lucky to be alive thismorning. >> whoa! >> that could have gone another way. >> can you imagine? ha would you ever go on something like t knowing there were sharks below you? >> no. >> would you? >> no! >> still ahead on "today," how docts are using cutting edge technology to help save our favorite pets from heart disease. bond, james bond. a rumout whether idris elba will become the next 007. d you date out of their league.

>> let's start off in the district with some of your top stories. final preparations are under way for morrow's white supremacist rally right outside the white house. the uniteig the r 2 rally will be in lafayette square across from the white hous at least five groups of counterprotesters plan to rally nearby. mayor muriel bowser will not be in town but will be monitoring the conditions. here is a look at the roads that will be shut down ahead of the rally tomorrow. traffic impacts should last all day. you can find a full list of all the road closures in thebc washington app. we'll get a check of the weekend forecast with lauryn ricketts on the other side of this b.

back at 7:29. lauryn ricketts tracking your forecast. it's warm but could start raining i- think we'll have a few showers as we continue throughout the day. not going to be raini all y. a few streaks of sunshine out there right now. scattered showers today and tomorrow andhen more widespread on monday, and then mo scattered on tuesday. by wednesday that's when we start to dry out. we're seeing a few light showers out there right now,ia especy by baltimore, montgomery county, a few just rolled through, fairfax county. a lot of sunshe out there as well, especially in the shenandoah valley. frontal system hanging out over our area through the weekend. it will create waves of rain not just today but also tomorrow. monday will be the best chance for rain showers. we don't dry out until wednesday of next week. more rainn friday.

all right. we'll be back in 25 minutes with another check of your local news andwe her. for now let's send you back up to new york and the "today" show. we're back on this saturda morning, august 11, 2018. thanks for waking up with us on this saturday morning. >> let's start this half hour with a chelk of today's headlines. we start with the breaking news of night in washington state where a man stole a plane from washington's sea-tac airport before crashing it on an island off the coast seattle. >> he's just flying around. he just needs some hel controlling his aircraft. >> no, i don't need that much help. i've playedid veo games before. >> officials say theedan belio be a ground service agent, somehow told the plane and was then able to take off and fly for 15 minutes before the crash. authorities belieas the man

suicidal, but at this point it's not clear wheth the crash itself was deliberate. they say at this point there's no connection to terrism and no one else is believed to be on board at the time. >> this morning charlottesville is under a state of emergency with hundreds of police keeping the streets of the cy on lockdown. tomorrow is the one-ar anniversary of the viole white nationalist protests there. their bid for another rally this year was denied. white nationalists as well as counterprotesters will hold demonstrations tomorrow in washingtond.c. nasa's groundbreaking mission to the sun is on hold for now. t this morning launch countdown was stopped two minutes before takeoff keeping the delta 4 rocket at cape canaveral with the parker solar probe. the $1.1 m millionsion aims to take us closer to the sun than ever before. nasa says it's goingo try again tomorrow. more nfl players protested social injustice during the national anthem overnight hours after the president slammed them on twitter once again.

marshawn lynch sat during the anthem fridayevening. he was the only player to protest as their opponent, the detroit lions stood with their arms lenninged. at least 15 players from fiveff ent teams demonstrated during the anthem. the league has yet to announce a policy for the seon. an unbelievable scene caught on a police dash cam a sobering reminder of the dangers lawmaker face every day. the video shows an individual fighting with police and opening fire on thetate troopers. the video has just been made public. nb national correspondent miguel almaguer has that story. >> reporter: it starts as a routine traffic stop. >> is everything okay? you were going 87 miles an hour. >> reporter: a speeding ticketa a failed field sobriety test. when sdenly the roadside

encounter turns unto a struggle for life and death. the suspect, 22-year-old daniel clary is tased and punched multiple times after resisting arrest along the pennsylvania highway. dash cam captures clary reaching for one of the state trooper's guns. though he appears to be restained, he breaks free, making a run for his ca pulling the gun and opening fire. [ gunsho ]. >> corporal seth kelly shot four times applies a tourniquet around hiser leg rolling over a guard rail. with his back window sho out, clary speeds away and is later arrestam. the dash video helping to lead to his conviction, two counts of attempted murder. >> that video confirms everything thathe police said and confirms everything that

they did. er onep the t >> the newly released video shows what corporalel can't remember, the violent encounter leaving the officer in a coma for 12 days. >> i extremely lucky to be here right now. >> reporter: a story ofl survi after a tasing and shootout along a busy stretch of highway. for "today" miguel almaguer, nbc news. >> dylan, how about another check of the weather? >> we talked about the rain in the northeast. we also have heavy rain falling across texas. in and around dallas this rning, we hav heavier rounds of rain and we will see the rain continue to fill in across texas through the day. we have this stalled front and the stalled front means it's not going anywhere. as long as this hovers around central and northern texas, we'll see the showers ands thunderstormiring up along this boundary here. flash flooding is certainly a ssibility. weould end up with also in this area one to three inches with isolated higher amounts when you factor in heavier

downpours. the south and the northeast dealing with a rainy saturday. that's a look at t weather across the country. here is a peek out your window. >> we alsoave a stalled frontal system just to the north of the mason-dixon line. have a chance to see rain showers throughout the temperatures out there right now, 60s and 70s across the board. it is warmut there right now. we'll continue to take those temperatures into the mid to upper 80s today with storms around, withwe isolated s around. so again some showers out there right now, only increasing in coverage throughout the afternoon. not everybody getting buwet. we'll have a chance out there all day. >> that's your latest forecast. >>la thank you. still ahead, justin timberlake set to release a new tell-all . bo his thoughts on love, music of course, nsync. >> as your kids head back school, saving hundreds of dollars on the much-needed school supplies. but first these messages.

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disease every year. many like misty are born with it, but others develop it later in life just like humans. >>iv humans to 70, 80 years old and tend to get heart disease in their 60s or 70s. dogs live 15, 20 years, they still get heart disease, even in thosounger disease? >> dogs get degenerative diseases of the heart heart muscle diseases. >> reporter: now veterinarians are using cutting edge technology. >> these procedures a done exactly as they are in a human. the anatomy is a little different. >> different is an understatement especially compared to the human treatments. here a 9-month-old miniature dachshund is having surgery. colorado hospital is the only surgical center in the world yhat can do this. that's because t have specialized high-tech imaging that allows vets to perform

minimally invasive surgery. it's exactly like cardiac cath labs i've seen at some of the top cardiac hospitals for humans. >> we're able g toe them treatment that either cures or rdramatically improves th heart condition. >> reporter: after she was collapsed, misty was rushed to csu and underwent surgery to repair a hole in her heart. her recovery, almost instantaneous. >> now misty isn't good as new, she's better than ever. >> did you get your misty back or did you the misty that was meant to be? >> it's a new improved misty. >> definitely misty as she should have always beenhe >> reporter: keeping man's best friend healthy is good for everyone's heart. >> dr. thres is here w us on this saturday morning. this cutting edge technology, it's available at colorado state. is this something we're going to start seeing around the country, perhaps even in our local vet's

office. >> that's what these vets are hoping. a lot of places have basic cath labs. these guys cano advanced things with the technology they have. they're proving it works and hoping it sprets quickly throughout the country. is saving dog's lives. >> how can you tellf ur dog may have a heart issue? >> symptoms are subtle. , you see them slowing do getting fatigued, panting a lot, coughing, lose appetite, lose weight, that's the big sign. cats will throwp instead of cough, but same symptoms. that can a procedure work in cats as well? >> ican: it works in cats just like it does in dogs. >> is there a chance we can learn from this procedure and transfer the knowledge to humans. >> that's a goal. it's a two-way street. it's easier to do them in dogs less paperwork, let's oversight so they do this on dogs that they can't necessarily do on hum humans. they're hopg it's a two-way street that goes back and forth.

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good morning. it's n7:56 this saturday, august 11th. i'm meagan fitzgerald. want to get straight to some of the top stories this moing. nal preparations are under way forrrtomo's white supremacist

rally. the unite the right 2 rally will be in lafayette square across from the white house. at least five groups of counterprotesters plan to rally nearby. mayor muriel bowser will be out of town but says she'll be monitoring the situation. a metro project is starting today, the work will affect the bl silver and orange lines. some stations are closed for the weekend. you can get more information in our nbc washington app. just search metro shutdown. we will have a look at your forecast coming up. stay with us.

we few sho out there right now, just some isolated ones coming out of baltimore at this point, but for the most part, we'reust seeing a little built of cloud cover. some areas getting some sunshine. our frontal system is stalled across the region. heaviest rain to the north. the frontalysm will stay with us all through out the weekend. we'll have areas of showers but areas of dry time. it won't rain all day. pect more to fill in through the afternoon and evening. even a few thunderstormsov night tonight. same deal tomorrow. a few showers out there, maybe a few thunderstorms. best chance of coverage will be on monday. it will be wednesday and

thursday before we dry we'll be back with more of your headlines and weather at 8: 30. but for now, back to the "today" show. have a great day everyone. good morning. breaking overnight. a terrifying scene in the skies above washington state. an airline employee steals a passenger plane from one of the country's largest airports, taking it o w ad 15-minute ride, talking to air traffic control the entire time. >> he's just flying around and he just needs some help controlling hisft ai. >> nah, i don't need that much vehelp. i' played some video games before. >> figer jets scrambling before the plane crashed into a remote island.ou how this happen and does he have any ties to terrorism? we're live onsc the ene. state of emergency. the city of charlottesville, virginia, on lockdown preparing for a tragic an verse ray of the