good morning. collision course.ll coision course. hurricane florence barreling towards east coast. the monster category 4 expected to become a categ y 5 today. >> get ready now. >> mandatoryat evacuns for more than one million people underway. residents bracing for what could be a catastrophic strike. >> i don't care what you do. you better get ready. >> this morning the race to prepare, t path it's on and an exclusive look inside the storm. >> breaking overnight, new protests in dallas over thatde ly shooting of an unarmed black man in his own apartment. the shooter and off-duty police officer cls a

mistake. court documents revealing her version of events. will she now face murder ch arges? >> doubling down. >> i seems like a careless and reckless way to write a book. the trump white hou launching new attacks bis bob woodward,xpis elosive tell-allve releasedight. >>, plus never forget. ceremonies across the nation marking today's 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attack >> compensation controversy. cbs under fire after stepping down skocandal. >> and two for the price of one. monday night football returns wi a doubleheader. >> touchdo new york! >> the new york jets hammering the detroit lions and the l.a. rams crushed the raiders. >> touchdown rams! >> to wrap up the nfl's opening weekend. today is tuesda september 11, 2018.

>> from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio rockefeller plaz. >> >> thank you for joining us on this tuesday morning. i had to loot the calendar and look at it again thinking td been 17 years since september 11th. >> yeah, 17 years. a still so fresh in our minds. a shot ofre ground zero w a memorial stands. at the pentagon there will be today, and also in shanksville, pennsylvania, and the president will speak there today as we honor 9/11. >> the hurri bne is the story this morning. it's powerful. a categoryac 4ng 140-mile-per-hour winds and just this morning hurricane have been issued in north south carolina. underwa in both of tse states as well as

parts of ve u.s. navy is moved virginia-based ships out to as. storm florence is closer to the u.s., we are seeing its fects already. dangerous surfs and rip curre from florida toe capcod. >> we are covering it this morning. we start with al. al, what's the >> here we go. to give you an idea how active the tropics are from the pacifia to theantic, the one we are watching is florence. look at that defined eye. that is a classic hurricane ght now and a dangerous one. category 4. 975 miles east-southeast of cape fear. 140-mile-per-hour winds. this could strengthen, moving t 15 miles per hour. to the north carolina/virginia border hurricane watches ap and storm surge watches up from north carolina, virginia, all the way down to edisto beach. that storm surge one of the most dangerous and deadly parts of the storm.

here is the track ashe we get latest at 5:00 a.m. from the national hurrica center. just before landfall friday, :00 a.m., cone of uncertainty 320 miles across. it's a category 4 storm. then it comes onshoree l thursday night/early friday t this.. stays a tropical stormigntil rale sunday at 2:00 a.m. then it's going to meander. why? because we have two double-barreled upper level high-pressure systems building also fromtlantic and the great lakes. it's going to block this thing and just sit and sta through the weekend into earlyext week. what are the impacts from florence? here'soohat we areng at. storm surge to the north and east of the storm, that's where it's most dangerous, but look at the w storm-forceds north of cape hatteras, south of norfolk, down to charleston, a high risk, nd washingtonolk, in that possibility as well. and the storm surge threat, look

at this. a 6 to 12 foot wall of water making its way onshore between more head city and south of wilmington, myrtle beach four to six feet, cape hatteras could see four to five feet.ai isolatedall amounts. 30 inches of rain. look at this area. 10 to 20 inches from roanoke to kinston. this is goine a devastating, life-threatening as well. kerry sanders is in carolina beach in north carolin kerry, what's it looking like down there right now? >> reporter: it's beautiful this morning, but the roads aree goig to packed today. there is expected to be more than a million tourists and residents evacuating under those ndatory evacuation orders. that is the largest peacetime evaction we have seen in our country. hurricane florence is a srm that even hurricane veterans who have been through dozens of decades of hurricane recognize that it will change this

beautiful beachfront landscape and, a you just noted, the impacts will be felt well nd this morning a monster is creeping towards the coast. the international space station capturing. florence intensifying into a category 4 hurricane, tak aim. but where exactly she will make landfall remains uncertain. >> category 4 is really, it scares knee. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations began monda on north carolina's outer banks, expanding this morning to carolina beach and portions of coastal virginia. the governor of south carolina ordering evans along the state's 187-mile coastline beginning at noon today. what are you going to do? >> i am going to try to stay here. >> reporter: even when you hear it is this big of a storm? >> try to. >> reporter: inland hotels report they are already booked with states of emergency

declared in four states, shelters will begin opening their doors today. >> going to get out of dodge, man. >> reporter: stores overnig restocking food and water shelves that were emptied monday. gas sto resupplying monday night after some of gas.t the last cat 4 to hit here, hurricane hugo almost0 years ago. that sto destroying much of charleston and flattening a wide path all the way up to since hugo, 23 named storms taking different paths, but all targeting coast. call thishey hurricane alley. >> north carolina is taking hurricane florence seriously. and you should, too. t ready now. >> reporter: for those who have flight plans that may be upended now by hurricane florence, airlines are waiving change fees. they encourage you to call them, see if there are any seats available to perhaps cut a vacation early or get an early flight out for the travel plans

that were maybe later in this week. doozy. going to be a >> thanks. we will have the latest coming up a8:00. >> all right. breaking overnight, new protests in dalla after the btal shooting much of an unarmedck man. she is now facing a char. gadiz has the latest. good morning. >> reporte, yeah, good morni savannah. manslaughter may not be the final word in this case. many in this community are calling forurder charges a the district attorney of dallas is saying that that is a possibility. this morning about what happened inside that apartment before shots rang out. overnight demonstrators marching through downtown dallas demanding justice for 26-year-old botham jean killed by dallas police officer amber

geiger. dramatic details about the tragic shooting. ame stigators say guy ger home after her shift, walked up to what she thought was her apartment. she lives in 1378. she was one floor above in of 1478, jean's apartment. both hallways identical or extremely similar. according to dallas news.com, this distinctive red mat was in front of jean'soo she noticed the door slightly ajar, the apartment nearly completely dark. pushing open the door she noticed a large silhouette acrosshe room. it w jean. the affidavit says geiger drew her firearm, gave verbal commands that were ignored and firedtwice, hitting jean once in the chest. it's not known if the female officer in this eyewitness video she started first-aid and later paramedics rushed jean to the hospital where he died.

a lawyerbc telling news by phone. >> the affidavit doesn't comport with common sense. the door wasn' ajar. we know that from credible corrobecated testimonyse he says there was witnesses who heard her banging on the door. >> guyger is facing a manslaughter charge.ed the upgr to murder, according to the dallas d.a. >> we are g to unturn whatever we need to unturn a we are going to present a full case to the grand jury. >> reporter: jean's mother w questionint she has been told so far. >> the number one answer that i want is what happened. >> what abouerthis off where is she now? >> reporter: officer guyger posted bond, a $300,000 bond. she is out of jail. so far no comment from her or her family, and jean's funeral is scheduled for thursday morning. >> in dallas. thank you.

>> another big story this morning. >> good morning. bob woodward's explosive trump tell-all "fear" is out today and the war of words between the legendary journalist and president trump is heating up after savannah's interview with woodward yesterday. peter alexander is at the white house with more on this. good morning. >> good morng to you. president trump said to mark the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks this morning. he will visit the flight 93 memorial in shanksville, pennsylvania. solemn nors this anniversary and amid the looming threat that have hurri presidet and his allies are ramping up their assault on the bookhat hits book stores today. this morning president trump is still lashing out at "fear," bob woodward's bombshell book overnight. mr. trump asailing the veteran journalist on twitter as a liar like a damn operative prior to the midterms and trashing his book as a joke. just another a ault against me in a barrage of assaults using

now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. press secretary sarah sanders joining the attack. >> seems like a careless and reckless way to write a book. >> reporter: woodward with savannah on "today" standing by his reportin >> the incidents are not anonymous. it gives a date, it gives a time, who participates. most often, the president himself and what he sa a. >> reporteng the explosive anecdotes in his book, woodward reports chief of staff john ke py calling thesident an idiot and defense secretary jamespa mattis cng mr. trump to a fifth or sixth grader. the white house pointing to denials. chief of staff john kelag gressively pushed back. general mattisshggressively g back in e claims. >> reporter: woodward's reaction? >> are they lying? >> they are not telling the truth. these are political statements toct pro their jobs. >> reporter: all the president's controversies overshadowing the strong economy across the

country. but even that president trump has turned controversial after tweeting that economic growth in the u.s t is highern unemployment. the unemployment rate for the first time in more than 100 years, the white house had to correct the president's comments. his facts simply were not true. economic growth did top the jobless rate, but it's done it at least 60 times in the last 70 years. >> all r we will turn to the vote in the midterm elections eight weeks from today. it's crucial. nbc's steve kornacki to take us inside the numbers. a really important number. the president's approval rating. >> this is the single most impoant indicator if y want to know how the campaign is going. with he can put thisp. the president's average approval rating, a lot of different polls, but the trend not the friend for republicans. it's falling now to the very low 40s. you have seen the president clearly take a hit the las couple o weeks. this is not where republicans want to see it if they want t hold the house. can there be a rally in

september or october o is this the new normal for him? that would be a big problem for tpublicans. t approval rate is better than president bush's in '06 but not by much. >> but trending in the lot direction. >> the sene of key races? >> two nt polls l week from nbc week, and they sent a tremor thugh the political world. indiana, the key here, this is a state that president trump carried by 20 points in democratic incumbent joe donnelly in our poll leading by six points. this was a very sur prizing vult. it was followedp this in president trump card by 26 points. so you add that together,ale have beenng about the house. the senate, though, could be in play witts the democ needing a net gain of two states. if they are winning in a state like tennessee, if they are holding gund in a state like indiana, you start to look at fwhatle groun map, there is a

possibility. we weren't talking about this at the start of the year, but a possibility democrats taking back the senate. >> let's look at the house. that's where republicans are very nervous about this blue wave and perhaps losing control ofsehe h >> and here is a fascinating district. this ylow blob on you screen, kentucky 6th district, one of the first states we get a read-out on election night, it went for president trump by 16 points. how aut this new poll in this district? "the new york times" did this poll. the republin incumbent, andy barr, basically running dead even with a democratic kentucky. in so first thing we will look at on election night is this district. it will tell us h night is going. >> it could be a bellwether. we will see a lot this fall we will take a closer look at the issues that actually matter to votersusthead. back to you. >> thank you. >> now an nbc news. exclusi breaking overnight, we are learning more about the policery surrounding those possible sonia

s against americans in cuba and just who could be responsible for them. andrea mitchell has the story. good morning. >> good morning.he well, today strongest indications yet of who was responsible for the medicaly mysthat sickened 26 u.s. diplomats and intelligence officis in cuba. the main suspect of the agencies, russia did it. it's been a mystery for more than a year. who or what caused american offici in these havana homes and several hotels to suffer headaches, dizziness, and in some cases more serious brain injuries similar to a concussion? last year cuban investigators ia and former u.s. national security officials suggested to nbc news it could be russia. now russia is the leading spect, nbc news has learned. according to three current u.s. of tcials and others briefed on the investigation, evidence backed up by highly communications secret intercepts

collected during a lengthy and ongoing i the fbi, cia, and other u.s. agencies. also pointing to russia, their massive intelligence presence in cuba, a ldover from the cold war. d> that's not new that russia is in cuba or involith cuba. russia has been the lifeline the tire period o time. >> reporter: russia has microwave technology that the u.s. suspects may have bn used againsthe americans. u.s. officials also tell nbc news the atte most likely not accidental. foreign ministers,endevices. sohat has the u.s. government looking for new types of technology that could cause brain injury from afar. >> reporter: to solve the mystery, the trump administration has turned to the air force testing various devices to see if they can t duplicathe effects. according to trump administration officials,

congress onal aides andthers briefed on the investigation, whyou russia possibly with inside help from some rogue cuban hard-liners target american diplomats andin lligences officers? to disrupt president obama's opening to then cuban leader raul castro. they say that the investigation is ooing and they have made no determination as to who was behind the attacksa if rusid want to get the u.s. out of cuba, it certainly succeeded because since the attacks the trump admn has all but broken diplomatic relations with nbc reached out to the kremlin overnight which has not commented. more recently, a similar incident against a u.s. official in china. >> all right. thank you, andrea. that's fascinating. >> al, the rest of your forecast? >> that's right. tharound the rest o country, the western half of the country not much going on. there is a strong fire risk throughout the southwest. rain in the pacific northwest.

flood watch down in texas. we will tell you about that coming up in the next half hour. as well as what's going on with olivia, threatening hawaii. your local forecast in the n. >> good morning. i'm meteorologist chuck bell. low clouds and fog over the city here early this morning. advise until 10:00 in g for most of the metro area where visibilities are close to zer some neighborhoods. not muc rain, but take your umbrella this morning.

we are keeping a 30 40% chance of rain in the forecast. temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s. near 80 today. so warm and humid, but off and on rain chance. >> we will have more on this storm. inside the storm aboard a > and after stepping down in scandal ashe chairman of cbs, why do les moonves have a new "le at the network? >> first, this iday" on nbc.

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now let's get the forecast from storm team 4 meteologist. >> we are in weather alert mode as we get you prepared for any tential impacts from florence. that wouldn't happen until probably friday or the weekend if at all. r will keepou posted. 60s, low 70s. take your umbrella with you. a 40% chance for showers with highs near 80 degrees. we will have the ten-day t bottom of the hour. >> we will take a break and check your for. >> nbc4 today is brought to you by next day blind.

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>> it's 7:30 now. it's tuesday morning, september 11th, 2018. our hearts and thoughts are with everyone who rememberst t tuesday morning 17 years ago. the attacks on america. reiembrance cerem being held at ground zero which you see there, at the pentagon and inll shanks pennsylvania. and nbc news will have special coverage of thosevents throughout the day as we p and remember. >> definitely a moment seared in our memories forever. we are going to check the other headlines of the day. we florence, on a collision course with the east coast. right now it's a category 4 hurricane churning in the atlantic ocean just south of

bremuda. the projectedast has it slamming into the coast of north carolina thursday. more than a million people have been ordered to evacuate. schools in the affected areas will begin closing as early as today. >> also this morning, the trump administration is preparing for a second summit between president trump and kim jong-un. the north korean leader sent a letterde to the pre asking for another face-to-face meeting despite nli u.s. intelgence that north korea is producing between five and eight new nuclear weapons this year, and then building new structures to hide them. the trump adminisation has launched what it calls a maximum > let's turn to the nfl now, re and a-doubleheader on monday l.night footbal the jets and lions. a shakytart for new york rookie quarterback sam darnold. he throws an interception on his first pass. it was returnedor 37 yards touchdown, a pick six there. after that darnold settledsown. showome real promise, in

fact. finishes with two touchdown passes. the jets rout the lions 48-17. gat's the firstame. here was the late game. the rams taking on the raiders in oakland, of course. that's oakland. it was tied up uil t end of the third quarter. jared gof finds cooper in theiv execute privilege. l.a. goes up by 7. late in the game the rams cap it of with their own interception,n return 50 yards for a touchdown. they win it 33-13. >> carson is hanging h head this morning. >> we haven't seen him yet. >> we may not. >> moving now to this new controversy surrounding les moonves and his abrupt departure as athairman of cbs. is said t staying on at the company as an unpaid advisor. this is all part of his rmination agreement reportedly. ann thompson has been covering it for us. >> good morning. les moonves may be out at cbs,

but he certainly is not gone. e tarnished former ceo may be around for another year andom could take a whopping $120 million in severance that's all depending on the outcome of an independent investigation into dozen claims that moonves sexually harassed women. >> reporter: overnight former cbs ceo les moonves becoming a punch lineorhe networks late night funny man stephen colbert. >> it'soo never ad sign when you are a o subject a ronan is/farrow double-dip. the articletr is ely disturbing, and i'm not surprised that's it. les moonves is gone. >> reporter: moonves may have stepped down, but he is not changing channels just yet. a corporate filing reveals moonves will remain an unpaid advisor to the company for will securi services paid by cbs for two years. he could exit with as much as $120 million if independent

investigators find there is no reason to fire him for cause. this morning former tv executive phyllis golden gottlieb will tell h story to the investigators. >> hebbed my head and pulled it all the way down. >> reporter: one of six woman to go on the record. she says moonves forced her to perform oral sex on him in 1986 when they worked at a television production company. she says he then destroyed her career after she rejected another advance. innt a state after stepping down moonves said untrue allegations fromecades ago are being made against me that are not consistent with who i am. now cbss trying to contain the fallout. moonves' replacement joe eyenello made no mention of thn ac nat said memo to staff, never has it been more important abundantly clear that cbs has a steadfast

commitment todiversity, inlution, and a safe positive working environment. on the network julie che noticeab absent from "the talk's" season premiere monday saying she is taking a few days off to be with my family. her co-hosts addressed the s not been convicted of any crime, but obviously the man has a problem. >> moonves has reportedly made more than $650 million as ceo of cbs, and had been wide byed ed with successfully turning around the company, one he has been a part of for some two dozen years. ir for severance, the cbs board oftors must make a final decision within 30 days of that inpendent investigator's report and no later than january 31st. >> you mentioned these investig tions. i thire are a couple of them. are the public going to see? >> that's then big quest because there is a confidentiality clause. so we may not know the

specifics. what will tell us is they have to file a report that says how much they compensate moonves for. so if he gets nothing, then we know they found him guilty. if he gets somethinfo they d, you know, various degrees of truth. >> okay. thank you, ann. >> we are going to head over to mr. roker, a check of the forecast. hey, al. last we showed you in the half hour it's an active tropic season right now. all of a sudden we have a new area 9 tl just off mexican coast. we have 30% chance over the next two days. 60% chance of development over the next five days. here is the development zon xi m become a system.f of either way, whatever itoes we are looking for a lot of rain here, upwards of 7 inches throughout parts of the gulf coasas of t and fourth out west we are looki g atol olivia. ia is currently a tropical storm. it's going to be about 360 miles east-northeast of hilo,

70-mile-per-hour winds. rainfall amounts five to seven inches. be 10 to 20 inches across the big islands. florence is the big story. one. rare occurrences you get to go thh iso fly on a hurricane hunter. dylan is in lakeland, florida. you got a chance to do tt, dylan. what was thatlike? >> reporter: al, it was everything i majjed as a meteorologist. it was such an opportunity to fly with noaa's hurricane hunters. the missionon we were we did not fly into the storm. instead we flew out t hurricane florence and cirque couple navigated the storm, collecting data along the way. we were on a gulf stream g 4, tiny plane decked out with computer equipment. itn eight-hour mission. the data went dectly into the commu models that sal showed you. we took a picture of the atspherehead of the storm to

better predict the path as it moves westward. e mis is all about these. these are what we drop from the plane every 10 to 20 minutes. they colct pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction. each of these costs $800. we dropped 30 of them just from our plane alone. but the information we collect priceless. as it makes forecasts more accurate, it saves money and saves lives. so people in the pthh o storm can better prepare. >> that's yesterday, from11:00 the 11:00 briefing to 12 noon because of the information from the hurricane hunters, they jumped from a category 2o a category 3. that's really important. thanks so much. of course, you will have a complete reportn that coming up this weekend on "weekend today." thanks. th what's going on around the country. here is what happening in your neck of the woods. >> we are watching hurricane florence as well f any potential impact by this weekend or early possibly next week. it's 71 degrees right now. we have fog inherea. dense fog advise for the d.c.

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nbc's jacob soboroff hit the road. >> what will decide the elections and that balance of power in whington? will it be president trump's tweets, the russia investigation, something e oe? they way to find out, of course, what matters is to spend days at a time in america's toss-up district. that's what we ar going to do between now and election day. we headed as far a north you go to maine's second congressional district and this is what we found. this is the northeastern edge of the united states and this right here is canada. you can see the border clear cut through on the mountain right there. t of the largest, longest stretch of unguarded inrder in the world. this is the begiof maine's second congressional district, which is what we came to check out. we wondered wt people do for a living along this border without walls. we headed to the town o mars hill. you guys produce millions of potatoes a year out of operation here? il millions and millions, yeah. >> reporteons and millions. they produce potatoes from chip's like lay's i the county

that produces more potatoes than any other in the u.s. >> can i pull one out of the ground? >> oryes. >> repr: come on. i'm bad at this. is idaho a dirty word around here? >> a little bit. >>eporter: one of the issues around here that people care about, is this it? >> that' part of it. it's a big part of it for us, obviously. paychecks and their jobs. >> reporter: nick mentioned that paychecks and jobs had been drying up for another local industry, so we headed to a town hit hard when maine's paper mills startedlosing because of competition. we drove to the great northern paper mill, or it usedo be. when we were checking it out, this is mike o who is here fishing, guess, right, mike? >> yeah, a little small mouth fishing. >> reporte how p manyple lost their jobs when this closed? n the thousands. >> reporter: we go a 700-foot-long building that used to house giant paper r machines.

what matters to people here? >> jobs. people would love to come back and living hereut they have to be able to support themselves. >> reporte to find where residents of the district are going for jobs, we went to ba banker there was one other majoe industryidn't check out so we drove southeast past another closed papl to stonington. workers were w lobster boats to bng in the catch. it doesn't make you feeo . >> reporter: how lon are you working in the paper mill? >> 40 years. >> reporter: could you normally vote? >> no, not normally. >> reporter: why not? >> i don't think that our opinions matter. >> reporter: do you care about it? >> of course. affects my livelihood. >> reporter: do you think that

people in washington kind of understand what life is like out here? >> no, are you kidding me?no >> reporter: how are you guys doing? you ar can i comit down there you? >> sure. >> reporter: this is my first time on a lobster boat. you are a brother/sister team? >> yes. > reporter: this is a family business? >> re yichlt is there one party or candidate for ngress, for instance, that for you makes a difference or no? day to day out here, what do people care about? >> i know they try to change the laws a lot. how many traps we fish or when we fish. >> reporter: it's funny. when you say talking changing laws, i thought you would say the laws that people talk about changing in washington. >> i got you. >> reporter: like gay marriage, medical marijuana. >> that's politics. >> reporter: politics and lobster fishing collide? >> yes. >> reporter: to you know who paul manafort i >> i don't. >> reporter: you don't? how about robert mueller?

>> no. >> reporter: that makes sense. you guys got other things you are thinking about? >> yes. >> reporter: they have other things they are thinking about. i don't blame them. from the potato farm to the mill to that paper factory, people just care about what their daily lives are all about. you know what? sometimes they talk about things, the national politicians would prefer theyisten to. >> you have been doing this a while. have you found that there is a disconnect betweth the things we talk about here in new york or d.c. and what folks in maine are talking about? >> yeah, it doesn't mean, of course, if the president colluded with russia it's important, but it's not top of mind for these folks. gettg out of bed, putting on their shoes, and getting a job. >> their li their kids, their paychecks. makes sense. >> coming up, why did somebody bring massive pieces of rock to a place in england.ha oh,s stonehenge. we are going to tell you about

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>> this is a nbc4 news break. >> 7:56 is your time on this tuesda september 11, 2018. good morning toou. i'm eun yang. right now we want to check in with meteorologist sheena parveen. how is it going? >> we have a lot of fog o there. temperatures are pretty mild. it's pretty humid because of it. visibility is about less than a half mile in some spots. dense fog advise for the d.c. metro area until 10:00 a.m. for a high today. we will stay cloudy with scattered showers in the forecast. tomorrow we have that chanceor so showers. another round of early fog expected tomorrow, and into the weekend and early nexeek we will be tracking hurricane florence. >> tnk you. >> we will take a break now. we will check with traffic when .e come back.

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> it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, states of emergency. g forced to evacuate as ople hurricane florence intensifies into a category 4 storm. get ready now. >> so when will it hit and how bad will it be? al is tracking it all. plus, the fluso sea after last year's deadly outbound, what you cr to keep y family safe, included something it too soon to get that all-important shot. >> and we will take a closer look at stonehenge and how new technology is being used to answer ancient questions. this is where stonehenge began. >> has the mystery finallyeen

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national hurricane00enter at nd here is where we stand. still a category 4 storm, 950 miles east-southeast of cape fear.eut down a ten miles per hour to 130. that's because we are seeing an eye wall regeneration and replacement. it goes from one eye wall to another. it's still moving west-northwest at 15 miles per hour. here is the track as we have it right now. still a category 4 storm. we look for strengthening over these open waters. can we rule out it goes up to a category 5? no. we hope it stays a 4. friday rning, 2:00 a.m., 130-mile-per-hour winds as it comes onshore. high oblem is blocking pressure is going to m and spin and dump tons of rain. here are the impacts s w as far as florence is concerned. storm surge, that wall of water that will come in, we are talking about from cape hatteras down to charleston, a high risk. modera ris in roanoke and norfolk, a slight risk up to

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>> we are back with today's talker. fall officially arrives next saturday, and tha means we are just a few weeks away from flu season. for the ear's was one record books. so what can you do this year to make sure your family stays safe and healthy that dr. john torres is here with the answers. dr. torres, we remember last year's flu season. it was brutal. tell ushi aboutone. >> we don't know what it will be like because you can't predict ahead of time what it's going to be like. a year ago we thought it would be a mild season. turned out not to be. you want to protect yourself each and every year because you have no idea what's going to pp . >> it's almost flu season. should we run out today and get the flu shot? >> you should. the fluhots are here right now. the american academy of pediatrics and c the recommend start getting them now, especially for the groups that are we are talking young children, the elderly, those with underlying medical conditid pre.

they recommend everyme get t by the end of october because flu season kicks in november/december timeframe. >> last year the vaccine, as i understand it, was effective in about 25% of cases according to some reports. what are they doing, if anything, to make sure thecc e is more effective this year? it was 25% effective for h 3 n 2. it sounds bad, but it's not. this year i got access to a flu lab tear where they make the vaccine. g you have t dressed up sterilely, andhedo everything. it's amazing what the researchers do to make that flu vaccine andt how long takes to make. they are making this guess as to what the flu is going toli b in the fall and winter. usually it's a very good guess. sometimes they miss a little bit. >> andu sean comes and they are like, it's like christmas. were we right? either way, there is still some benefit to having t flu shot. >> last year, the 25% effective,

you still want the vaccine d you e it from dying because of the flu. >> talking aomut kids,imes you want to opt out for something lessn painful t a shot like the mist. >> it was gone last the american academy of pediatrics say the shot is t first line. if children can't get the shot, get the flumist. >> lastly,nc diffe between the cold and flu? how do i know?>> ith the flu, have you high the feeling of not feeling good overall. a lot of people say it's almost like a light stch going off. you go from feeling kind ofad really bad and can't get out of bed. that's the flu. >> get >> thank you, dr. torres. >> let's go to carson. he is checking out a new look getting a lot of attention. >> i will take two shots and three mifts, please. the 36th season of "jeopardy"

appeared mony did alex trebek'. he acknowledged it at the top of monday's show. take a look. >> no need to inquire how i spent my summer vacation because so many of you people asked about it, i decided to regrow m mustache. as you can see, things got a out of hand. these hairs kept attracting friends. hopefully, it won't be a distraction for our players. >> i would be a distraction on the internet. the #alextrebeard took off. carter writes, i thought i was prepared for trebek beard, but i was not. trebek launched a survey, beard or no beard, on all forms of essocial media. p so far 64% ofeople when voted said beard and 36% said no beard right there. this isn't t first time trebek

shocked viewers with his facial hair. that was in the '80s then the early 2000ds he sha it off. that was big news. his mustache reappearedver the years. can you believe this? this is his facial hair we are dissecting on television. you think we are a divided nation, we are, over alex trebek's beard. there is a bunch of articles online about it. people were dedicating their day sterday to mustache, beard, the whole thing was quite the shake-up. there you have it. >> do you like beard or no beard trebek? >> i like beard. >> i like the clean shaikn look. >> ithe d was your day occuhaed by >> lady gaga, the singer and actress is gracing the october cor of voting magazine. gaga suffers from fibromyalgia. it worsened over time due to stress and thees press of fame. she says i am irritated with people who don't think fibro

pain is no joke and it's every day u waking not knowing how you are going to and it's getting better every day. bradley cooper speaking to voting about meeting gaga for the first time. he said he went to discuss this movie. she came stairs. i saw her eyes and it clicked. she said, are you hungry? i said i am starving. we went to her kitchen for spaghetti and meatballs and the re is history. you can pick up the latest issue of vogue on september 18th. peppermint garner in where she plays a woman seeking jue and revenge after her fmily is taken away from her. them is in theaters now. we will see h she handled that assignment. >> i have never done this before. now i know why. hi, i'm in a movie theater and i have a movie out and i have to be here with my fans.

m afraid people are going to hate the movie and take pity on me, think i'm obsessed with myself. nonetheless, buy tickets. >> she was mortified. i don't know how ie is some of there. she learned a little something about herself through the experiment, that she is a chicken. >>s carrie underwood i going to be finally receiving her star on e hollywood walk of fame next thursday. she will get a star in front of capitol records ande joined by simon cowell and brad paisley.di her sixth s album is set to be released september 14th. that friday. you know what else is happening that day? ,aunderwood is going to be here li performing songs from her newest album. we cannot wait toch c up with her, hear some new music. that is it. >> we got one for you.

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florence. it is another cloudy day here in the washington aa. low clouds and fog overhead this morning. dense fog advise for the metro area until 10:00 a.m. visibility pockets. zero in so be careful out there this morning. not a whole lot of rain on radar. just the low clouds and drizzle. take the umbrella t play it on the safe side. temperatures are in the upper 60s and low 70s now. they will be in the upper 70s to 80 for highs today with a 40% chance of showers coming along . >> that's your latest weather. take us with check out sirius xm channel 108. ta>> we areing a new special series this morning called "case closed." it's about age-old mysteries. >> and we are starting -- it's old. it's stonehenge. kelly cobiella joins us now. si'm glad you areving it nor us this morning. >> of course. no problem. just doing that i my off time, right? this is one of the oldester

mys of all time. one of the greatest mysteries. why would people take these stones, some of which came from 100 miles away, and bring them here to this hill in england? well, now a new theoryn based new geological findings that some of these stones were already here long befo >> reporter: for 5,000 years,t stood here. aou mysteris stone monument in the english countryside. up close it's magical. so are the legendsin behd it. created by the wizard merlin? some even s b ancient aliens. modern-day druids come here to celebrate the summer solstice. for years, scientists have been digging for clues as to who built stonehenge and why here. now archeologist mike pitts thinks he might have an answer. >> this is where stonehenge

began. >> reporter: pitts has been studying stonehenge for nearly 40 >>years. excavated some years ago. we found an enormous pit wi clear evid a big stone in it. >> rt may have been this stone. >> lying there naturally, half ground. out of the it would have stood out in this landscape. >> reporter: on the other side of the cirthe a unusual stone. >> it's a very strange shape. it's very bold and then it tars to a point thetop. there are no other stones like that. >> reporter: two stones put here by nature long before man that just happen to line up with the sun on two key days of the year. two ttones ins natural clearing, so the theory goes, this site evolved over hundreds of years into the stonehenge w. some of these massive sla weigh 40 tons, dragged over the rills to this sacred gathe site.

what was this? >> stonehenge is whatever you want it to be. it's a temple. it's a religious site. it's a polical location. it's a work of art. ♪ stonehenge >> reporter: and a cultura today drone technology is clue ancient world. traces of a henge in ireland appearing for t the firste after an unusually hot, dry summer. a tool archeologists use to study stonehenge, too. >> it doesp show where we think there are stone poles. it was a very special. pla it has commanded respect for rsover 2,000 y i think it still does. >> reporter: and although researchers say theyor know about stonehenge now than ever. >> have we solved the mystery of

stonehenge? >> there are two answers. one, no. two, there is more than one mystery. it's always going to be a gigantic puzzle. >> but they are finding more pieces of this puzzle and they are doing it at an incredible pace. this summer, using cutting-edge technology, they figuredheut some of people buried here 5,000 years ago also came from a place about 100 miles away. and they think this was probably a healing site as well as a temple. ut, guys, these are theories based on science. until we have a time machine to take us backea 5,000, we're only going to have theories. >> all right. get to work on tha time machine. we have to do something about yr kids! >> thank you. >> all right, people, brace yourselves. >> yay! >> meredith! >> oh, hi!

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>> this is a nbc4 "today" news eak. >> goo morning. 8:26 on this tuesday, september 11. i'm aaron gilchrist. a look at your first 4 traffic. >> outerloop 450 a crash in the right lanes. after annapolis road. anacostia drive near good hope road, street flooding, street closures there this morning. and district heights iitound nd parkway, a crash there. we will have a check on your weather alerforecast whe >> nbc4 is brought to youliy next day bnds.

>> fog and cloudy outside this morning. temperatures in the upper 60s tr 70. may want to take the umbrella with you. a chance ofho passingrs later this afternoon and some mist and drizzle this morning. afternoon highs today upper 70s to around 80 degrees. and another day tomorrow with a passing shower chance, but att warmer and a peak more

sunshine with highs in the lelow y80s. >> tha and you can get the late news and weather any time in the nbc washington app.

it is tuesday morning, september 11th. we are out here on the plaza saying good morning to some o the fine folks who have come out on a butiful fall day. a little cloudy, but we are happy to be with sure of closest friends on the plaza. good morning, everybodt friends inside studio 1 a, meredith vieira to tell us about the book, the booze, and the boot. >> she makes the boot lk good. >> she does. >> we need to bedazzle it. >> the g who literally wrote the book too big to fail, here with lessons learned and losses still happening from the

economic collapse ten years ago. >> in the weather world checking with mr. roker. >> we are lo a lot of rain on the east coast the westd of the country. showers in the pacific northwest. we move into tomorrow. look for spring storms in the central and northern plains. th southwest. more flooding possiblexa throug and wet weather through the southeast. that's what's going on around the country. look at hoda run! she is trying to get inside. come on, hoda! here's what's happening in y >> good morning. we still have fog outside this morning. it's 71 degrees right now inwa ington. a little drizzle and even some rain chances later on today. so have the umbrella with you. are in the upper 60s and low 70s across the area. looking at dense fog advisory until 10:00.ig 80 for a today. expect the cloudy skies to stay

rarnd. rain chances the arrest of t-- of the week. we are tracking hurricane florence into early nt week. that's your latestaneather. you to say high to larry in calgary. who is larry? >> he isy spouse in calgary. >> who is your spouse here? no, oy joking. just kidding. very nice. say hi. wish him happy birthday. >> hi, larry. >> all right. now let head back inside. >> here is a question for anybody. read any good books lately? look at meredith. she is already trolling me. go >> millions of people have jumped on board with the great american reed on pbs because meredith vieira. >> th on the search the country's best loved novel. tonight the big reveal. take a look. >> i voting for crown and punishment. >> "to kill a mockingbird." er>> the cat in the rye.

>> the eyes are watching god. >> our dear, dear friend -- >> really? >> meredith vieira the host of the great arican read. >> i am so sk of you already. >> two million people have voted so far. >> i know. iurn on the show. what am i going to see? >> i don't know. no. well, it actually premiered in may whe i was here describing the show t >> i remember. >> what it is, we put together a list, a survey of 100 novels, amica's favorite 100 novels. we asked people over the summer to read them. >>nd to vote. >> and to vote on their favorite. you can vote every day. so you can switch your favorite if you are a little confused. and quite frankly, a million books they t love. in fall we have come back. the first episode we will remind people of the list. we have five episodes that break the books into themes because we have seen that. there are books about love,

books about heroes, about who am i, self-discovery. i love the >> of course you do. >> we don't know your dark side. well, a little bit. you were fascinated, if i understand from my n that i read very carefully. >> outde on the way in? >> that was one of your favorites? >> yeah. gillian flynn wrote "gone girl." she said some people likeo look under the carpet and others don't. she loves to look under the carpet. i am, too, within the safety of the bk. i love to explore to evil. i love murder mysteries. i like a dead body, in a book. >> it doesn't give you nightmares? >> no. remember, you close the book. it's not like watching -- sometimes i watched "breaking bad" and i binge watched it. that gave >> people voted -- what was your favorite book? >> my favorite is "to kill a mockingbird." it's a wonderful book. i read it as a young teen.

i didn't know much about racism and bigotry and that book opened me. world up to but it also showed me human decenc and that you can make a difference and that it's important to stand up and to step into somebody else's skin. when your an impressional kid, books can make such a difference. caey can guide you, e you, the same way your parents or teachers do. >> i love that the series is getting people r exactly. >> excited about books. also getting the talking about books. some cases i understand it, fighting about bks. i hear that "pride and prejudice," i love it.my favorite -- i love pride and pre prejud i hear people are debating it online. >> totally. people whose books didn't make the lis are really mad, livid. they say, you know, this is a -- idn't pick the book.

>> right. >> exactly. getting on the >> no, it is. >> yes, it >> i saw that. >> wow. >> so, wait. you know you read it twice. other than that -- research. by the way, how are the kids? how is e everybody? rybody is great. yeah, gabe turned 27 over the summer. they all live on the west coast. ay converged in seattle to get to see them that much. that's the picture from seattle. when we do, it' so wonderful. >> our producer said they gotne thaticture of the kids and like seven pictures of jasper, the dog. how is jasper? >> jasper is 15. yeah. he is still barking? >> not as much. >> did we ask you what happened your toe? >> i don't mean to blame jasper, but in july, this goes back a while, i was in the family room and going to open the door to

le jasper out after h ate and i walked into -- we have a heavy coffee table, and i slammed it and i broke the toe next to the pinkie.e or the baby i call it. and i ignored it, which you never should do. i wore heels. i just thought it was a sprain. by the time the orthopedist saw it, he was like, this b. now i amn the boot. >> you wear it well. >> i am healing well. so yesterday'm telling you the one advantag broken bone, i got a bone smulator. >>oh, boy. >> no, no, you wear it? >> it's my fault. >> i'm just saying unbelievable. we will talk about that t stimulator in fourth hour. you will be back with that. >> we love you so much. what's in there? >> it's booze. american read tonight. >> coming up next, we are g ang

to tak look at the true cost of the 2008 financial crisis. are we any better off? safer one decade later? this is the guy that literally wroek the book on it.on this is "todaybc. thiss "today" . is is "t >> coming up next, we are go

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worried about their every d acceptance from other banks, what we learned in that particular panic was the fact that we're all we're all very close together. >> cnbc anchor andrew ross sorkin is a producer on that documentary. he is the author of the best-seller "too big to fail" which chronicled the financial collapse. go morning you to. e first question people probably ask when they see you is, how are wedoing? cohis happen again? none of us normal folks saw this coming. so you tel us, are we on the edge? >> so the bad news is there will be a sequel.no we will haveer crisis. the question is whether it looks like this crisis. i don't ink we have a crisis on our hands any time soon,th b gs in our economy are slowly buildingco up. ourmy is in a way better position than it probably deserves to be. i don't think people appreciate what the other side of the cliff

looked like. 3.9% uneloyment in this country is so -- the idea of that ten years ago when i was r conceived we would be " lower thanefore the crisis. >> yeah. and we remember so distinctly those years. n remember every day reports on job losses, the jobless report every month was falling of d cliff. so h you think that changed our country? >> i think it clear changed our country from an economic perspective. when you lose your jo your home, you lose your dignity, that is a real impact. but think that has transferred itself to today in terms o our politics and our culture, in terms of the bitterness and anger, the divide that we have this country, the populism. you could draw a line between e thction of president trump and the crisis. really the end of experts and expertise. nobody trusts anybody. >> fundamental breach happened those ten years ago.

andrew, thank you. you wrote the book on it. crisis on wall street premieres tomorr night 10 eastern and pacific on nbc. we are back in a moment.

>> this is an nbc newspecial repo >> good morning from new york. i'm savannah guthrie withnd hod kotb araig melvin. this is a soliam morning. remembrance ceremonies marking 17 years since the 9/11 attack. >> a moment of silence is about to be held at the world trade center site in lower manhattan. that will happen at 8:4 in about 30 seconds, the moment the first plane struck the n tower. >> later this morning president trump will beeading to shanksville, pennsylvania for a remembrance ceremony there. there will also be aeremony at the pentagon, of course. the names of the victims will

this morning. >> family members, officials come for this solemn event that happens atme this every year since 9/11. let's listen. ♪ and the home ofhe brave ♪ [ bell ringing ]

[ bagpipes playing ] ♪ >> that's the scene at ground zero. 17 years ago today, everything changed. 9/11. we gather every year to remember. a moment of silence, the namesh ofictims read outloud. a ceremony that takes hours because, of course, so many

lives were lost that day. >> nbc's rehema ellis is right there. rehema, good m >> good morning. it's a very emotional day. not only for the families who lost their loved ones today, but for many people in new york and certainly all around the country. the weather seems to reflect the mood of the day. take a look behind me. at the one world trade center that stands ihe shadows, a footprint of thed there, it's covered in fall today. againomewhat reflective of this mood. there is going to be a simple andy.ignified cerem as you point out, each and every one of the names of the victims, all 2,983 people who lost their ground this day at zero, are being read right now. they are being read by people who loved them and are remembering them today, and also promising that they will never forget. back to you guys. >> r of course, weember the

impact. there will be moments of silence, of course, not just at ground zero, but at the pentagon aittle later thi morning and then shanksville, pennsylvania. >> that's where president trump andhe first lady will b taking part in a cerony. fourth plane, of course, united flight 93 went down in a field there in shanksville, pennsylvania. peter alexander is at the white house ahead of the president's departure. peter. >> reporte yeah, craig, t president should be arriving in shanksville, pennsylvania in a short time from now. he will participate in what real is a dedication of this memorial, the flight 93 as they hohe lives, celebrate the lives of those 40 heroes who fought back before that flight crashed there. there is a new memorial called the tow voices with chimes to honor the voices of those who lost their lives. craig. >> peter, thank you. >> thank you very much. andoe will continue watch these images and reflect and rememberye 9/11, 17 ars ago. the coverage continues on msnbc,

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>> welcome back. we want to take a moment to celebrate the people who he birthdays today. >> our friendst smucker's helping us let's spin that jelly jar and see what we have. happy 100th birthday to wilbur cross, a writer fromacworth, georgia. published 50 books, completing the last at the age of 89. frank sayu cebrating 100 years. served his country during world war ii. happy 100th birthday to may from

bellmore, new york.wn best k for his rice pudding. keith roll is fromno olk, nebraska, an artist celebrating 100 years,arried to the love of his life for over 60 years. mildred parker of columbus, georgia, is 100. this beautiful lady says the secret to longevity, live a simple life. and last b not least, happy 102nd birthday to helen shaffer from hackensack,innesota, and a great wearer of hats. she loves to tell fishing stories, especially t one where she caught 1-pound marlin. that is a big fish. don't forget ifmeou know dy celebrating a milestone birthday or anniversary tell us about them at today.com. >> that wraps it up for us. megyn kelly is coming up t'next

>> t right. later -- >> we are pouring the wine at 10:00, y'all. >> i know, we have a lot. >> we have meredith. she is talking books. >> you hope that's alls talking about. with meredith, you nev c be the hour. >> we are back after your local news and weather. >> a great day. >> bye. ha great day. >> bye. ve a greatreat da

>> this is a nbc4 today news break. >> 8:56 is the time on this sues, september 11th. melissa molett is keeping an eye on the roads. >> good morning. alexandria, a new crash. new carrollton, after annapolis road, all lanes open. have delays hanging around this

morning. a look at the rest of the beltway, inbound 395 is very slow. >> melissa, thank you. >> we will take a quick break and check your forecast when we come b.

>> good morning. still off to a soggy start. we have a dense fog advise d.c. metro area to 10:00 a.m. cloudy, afternoon passing showers, high temperatures locle to 80 degrees. we will be stuck in unsettled weather pattern to friday. early next week we will be tracking hurricane florenc and weather any time in the nbc washington app. . day.

[ applause ] good morning, everyone. good morning, everyone. welcome to the show. i'm megyn kelly. today, as you know, is a somber day. it has been 17 years -- 17 years since the september 11th attacks. right now, ceremonies are taking place here in new york and washington and in shanksville, penne lvania. and mes of the nearly 3,000 victims are being read aloury as they are e year at this time. it was a morning that shocked the nation, indeed the world. it changed our wayn of life this country. joining me now to talk about this, this day and what's happened since, nbc's ownni stepgosk, jenna bush hager