. good morning, bracing for im good morning. bracin for impact. all eyes on robert mueller this morning. the nation's capitol waits and wonders. is this the day he releases his special report. the president speaking out. >> for twove years we' gone through this nonsense. ere's no obstruction. well, there was no collusion. that was a hoax. >> we're live at h the wouse with a waiting game. breaking overnight. a major airline cancels the airline for dozens of 747 max jets. the $5 billion hit to the company over these deadly crashes and atu snning revelation about the keyafety features left off the doomed planes because boeing charged traor them. figure skating scandal.

a u.s. star accused of slashing a rival with her skate. does the incident tell a differt tale? those stories plus hig wire fall. the shocking moment just revealed. a tightrope stu t withhe world famous family gone horribly wrong. "game of thrones" staria emil clark revealing a secret battlend two life-threatening health scares. embracing the madness. the n krnchtcaa tournament undea historic win for would have fofrd. >> fletcher magee is not human. >> friday, mar 22nd, 2019. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with seannah guthri and hoda kotb live from

studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning and welcome to "today" on friday morning. hoda has the morning off. craig is the happiest person we have here. >> a little bleary-eyed this morning. but n, was it worth it. i watched it from beginning to end. those would have fof terriers, they didn't disappoint. seton hall put up a heck of a fight. fun game to watch. >> this is w we love march madness. we'll have more just ahead. first, our topnestory. comments from the president on the mueller report and his feud with john mccain's family. we have two reports from the white house this morning. we'll start with riflbs'sen welker. kristen, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you. the white house and washington bracing for the report byun special l robert mueller which could be released at any minute. mueller aiming to answer the key question, did the trump campaign collude with russia to meddle in the 2016 election. the antication i building

with special counsel robert mueller expected to turn over his report to the attorneyge ral, bill barr soon. this morning the president speaking out in a new interview on fox business. >> -- thisns se. there's no collusion with russia. you know that better than anybody. s no obstruction. they'll say, aswait, there w no collusion. that was a hoax, but he obstructed in fightin against the hoax. >> reporter: on thursday the focus was on players, barr and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein at the white house r unrelated meetings. o eller seen driving himself work. president trump sticking to his schedule and script thursday, but his campaign fund-raising off the moment overnight, sending an e-mail again arguing no collusion, after days of attacks on mueller's credibility earlier this week. k >> iw that he's conflicted, i and know his best friend is comey who is a bad cop. >> reporter: it was the present's decision to fire

former fbi director james comey that prompted the appointment of a special counsel. comey weighing in on thursday saying he h no idea what mueller will find, adding i hope that mr. trump is not impeached and removed from office. a significant portion of this country would see this as a coup. still, the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york says the president's rhetoric has been effective in ciwing doubt in the sal in coag ecliau tsese the president has the largest, loudest microphone on he has these chess moves that you scratch your head at, but they seem to work. >> reporter: so another big qu ltion we'reking at, coulde there b more indictments? thos close to the president say they just don't think that's likely. remember, there are other investigations looming. now, also, once mueller hands over his report to barr, barr has to read it and decide what to do with , whether to release it, a process that could

take weeks. >> also sealed indictments out there that will be unsealed at some point. meanwhile there a skirmish between the white house and capitol hill over jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and top adviser and personal messages. shat can you tell us about that? >> reporter: tensi mounting about that. the chairman of the house oversight committee, elijah cummings is demanding more information from ivanka trump, jared kushner and others, cummings says they use private messaging services likep whats for official business. kushner's attorney really pushing back, disputing the allegations. he says mr. kushner did follow the protocol. still democrats are just crying foul t morning after candidate trump, as you remember, frequently attacind hillary n for her use of a private e-mail server, leading those chants ofoc her up.

>> kristen welker at the white house, thank you. > the feud between president trump and john mccain's family istill going strong. and that's despite growing calls for the president to let it go. te house correspondent hallie jackson is following this one. good morning to you. >> reporter: good mning to yo the president is definitely not letting it go, seeming to forget he's the one that instigated these attacks over the weekend in the first place. now this morning there'sew reaction from the late senator's family and some republicans. overnight president trump keeping up his repeated on the late senator john mccain, this time on the fox business network. >> he was horrible what he did with repeal and replace. what he did to the republican party and to the nation and to sick people that could have had great health care was not good. i'm not aan and that's fine. >> mr. president, he's dead. he can't punch back. >> people ask me the question. i don't bring this youp. u just brought it up.ir

>> reporter:st on twitter and then on unprompted at a military factory in ohio, tanks behind the president as a backdrop. >> i gave him the kind of neral that he wanted, which as president i had to i don't care about this. i didn't get thank you. that's okay. >> reporter: mccain's 2008 mpaign manager rick davis speaking for the senator's family back in august did thank the white house. >> the combined efforts of the trump administration, the white house, we really thank them for coming together very quickly in pulling together all the federal resources. >> reporter: mccain's family not backing down from tfight, but admitting it's still taking toll. >> i don't like coming here and having to do this as all of you do. it's extremely emotion exhausting. >> reporter: mccain's youngest daughterweeting at the president, everyone doesn't have to agree with my dad or like him, but iou do ask to be

decent and respectful. it's not just the mccain family speaking out. republican congressman dan crenshaw, a former navy s.e.a.l. o lost his eye fighting in afghanistan tweeting this simpl. mess mr. president, serious stop talking aboutor sen mccain. >> hallie, besides congressman crenshaw there, any other frikted personally con the president about his attacks on john mccain? >> appantly, yes, craig. martha mcsally who hds the seat that senator mccain once held told reporters she had a phone call with the president in which she made clear how she felt about senator mccain, and she says the president heard her. you have senator mccain's lo longtime friend joe lieberman out with an op-ed inwa "the ington post" saying, while mccain wouldn't respond himself, lierman will. the person who suffers the most is the president him several.

>> hallieso ja thank you. breaking overnight. two u.s. service members were killed while conducting an operation in afghanistanin acco to a statement from nato resolute report in kabul. no further details have been provided and the names of the service members are being withheld until after next of kin are notified. reaction is pring from from around the world to a sudden shift up ending decades of u.s. policy in the middle east. andrea mitchell is on the ground in jerusalem this morning. good morning to you, andrea. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. president gump giv israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu a big boost in his tough re-election fight, u.s. backing israeli s a key territory that has been fought over for yours. this morning secretary of state mike pompeo is a man on a mission, aiving frin lebanon

mpom israel. after president t backed israel's right to the long disputed territory of the golan heights. telling fox business -- >> every president has said do that. i'm tea one that gets it done. >> reporter: netanyahu embattled and home and facing a tough election in three weeks was lethal. >> president trump has just made history. i called him. i thank him on behalf of the people of israel. he did it again. >> reporter: netanyahu has a lot to thank the president for, moving the s. embassy to jerusalem, withdrawing from the iranuclear deal and now backing israel's right to keep the golan heights, land israel won from syria in 1967, a move expected to be widely supported in israel which has been targeted by iranian backed residents for many years. >> there are many threats and we have to work together in theys and weeks and months ahead.

>> reporter: in a country where president trump is popular, netanyahu under threat of indictment on corruption charges has been calling the media fake news, attacking the prosecutor investigating him. using mr. trump in campaign billboardsond ads. the men purportedly talk often. the president says he did not time the decision to help israeli leader's campaign. >> i have no idea about that. i don't know if he's doing okay, doing great right now. i hear he's doing okay. >> reporter: today in lebanon, secrary of state pompeo wil echo the call to isolate iran which has a lot of fluence. in a few day, netanyahu gets a big gift from the president, a ite house visit. savannah and craig. >> andrea mitchell in jerusalem, thank you. boeing is facingt new fall amid the ongoing investigations into those deadly 737 max 8

crashes. an airline now canceling its order for the planes.ni international correspondent keir simmons has the latest. keir, good morniniv >> have been lost, boeing's reputation damaged. now news of the potential financial impact as thisorning one airline is the first to say we don't want the max 8. this morning indonesia's national airline trying to cancel a $5 o billioner of max 8 jets. the 49 boeing aircraft no longer wanted because the airline says our passengers have lost confidence after two fatal crashes i five months. it's not clear if boeing will let the airline out of the contract. this year's sales of the 737 set to total $35 billion, 90% from the new m model. investment bank jpmorgan warning the halt would be so significant, it could actually impact the s.p. for now max 8 jets are grounded

around the world. experts from the ntsdb are helping analyze the black boxes. could the crashes have been avoided if the two airlines havr paid a safety feature extra. the upade includes an indicator that reads two exterior sensors to tell pilots the angle of the plane the disagreement alert. if those sensors provide conflicting information so the pilot can take action.e th basic 737 max computer relies on just one sensor, notb . investigators in indonesia believe one faulty sensor fed bad data to the computer, putting the lion air plane into a nosereve. that disent alert will become stan dord and included in the new stware update. >> this is a failure of a safety system, the three parts are the airline, theircraft manufacturer and the gulator.

ultimately it is up tohat regulator, in this case the faa, to s what is a safe and certifated aircraft. >> there are many questions about pilot training we're now learning southwest airlines has the most max 8s of any u.s. carrier is still waiting on a pilot simulator. the pilots union saying they want more training before flying the max. southwest ceo insisting safety is always their first priority. nk still so many questions. keir simmons, tyou. a lot to get to this morning. e can't forget the ncaa tournament. 16 games coming the a close on thursday. >> one of the biggest stories goes to john moran ais missouri state team. thanks in part to the all-star performance. the eighth player ever to record a triple-double in tournament history. the first since 2012. y stateareking at mur

to be this year's cinderella story. the auburn/new mexico state match-up, with just three seconds to go, a.j. harris had the chance to tie it with anay easy l up, but chose to kick it out to brown for missed three. brown is fouled on the shot, missed two of three free-throws. auburn won it >>78-77. great games early on. let's be honest, ladies and gentlen, the one that matters offord om my alma mater college, tipped off at 9:40. history making night for wofford's fleher magee. he became ncaa's all-ti leader in three-pointers, grabbing 505 in the match-up. they face number two seeded kentucky tomorrow. you'll know where to find me. >> so relieved, first of that your team won. also we had the team on yesterday morning so early and then theyhe had late night

game. i was afraid that american would blame you if they lost. >> i was concerned, too. i was a little worried. >> they won and play again onay satu games pick up at noon eastern. number one seeds virginia, duke and north carolina are in action today. dylan dreyer's lsu tigers also won. >> yes, they did. thanks for letting me know. >> she's all in. >> i did not stay up or watch any games yesterday. we've got kind o nor'easter out there. we've got precipitation, the winds. it is falling in the form of snow across northeastern pennsylvania, most of eastern new york, up to vermont and new hampshire, boston seeing evin. across new jersey and new york, we're seeing rain, too. this willffect mostly new england. spotty showers across the mid atlantic today. tomorrow the storm itself pulls away. we'll see t winds increase. in fact, tomorrow we could see stronger winds than we're dealing wh today. additional rainfall could be as

much asalbout a inch to an inch. arther north and up against the higher elevations, the snow accumulating. upstate new york, northern harmont and new shire, across maine. we could end up with eight inches of snowfall. w thds could cause significant delays especially tomorrow as they continue t increase. today looking at winds 25 to 35 miles per hour. tomorrow gusts could be up to 35 to 45 miles per hour. it is goingo be a blustery day on saturday before a warmup starts to move in for sundays we get into the 60s. that's a look at the weather across the country.l weet to your local forecast in the next 30 seconds.

good morning everybody. sun coming up here. the heavy rain from yesterday has completely come to a end. that's the good news. take your umbrella with you on your way out the door this morning. there is a likelihood of more showers this afternoon. northwest winds are reallyck g up. averaging 23 and alreadyng gus to near 40 miles per hour. very windy today. wind advisory out for areas north and west for gusts that could go over 50 miles per hour. temperatures now in the 40s. again, a likelihood of mid afternhan showers. t's your latest forecast. , coming stunning scandal at figure skating's world sh champis. did a u.s. star intentionally slash a rival with her skate blade. ga"game of thrones" star emilia clarke opening up about

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the safest forester ever. good morning everybody. 7:26 on this friday, march 22nd. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'mte molgreen. we're in weather alert mode again today. the wind is taking the rain's place. chuck bel will joi us with the forecast. take a look at these pictures from chopper 4. a portion the gw parkway is shut down in both directions because of a giant pothole. t dave isck it for us. dave. >> no two ways about it, this is turning into a big deal nith both ways, traffic not flowing the george washington park police closed both directions between the beltway and 123 chain bridge road. this is causing backups on both

sides o the beltway and northbound of the parkway toward the division23n to through langley. we're back to chopper 4 now. you can see the extent of the damage. onre's no flowing traffic the george washington parkway. we'll keep you posted. back over to you. >> dave, tnk you. we'll have a check on your forecast next.

ood morning. another storm team 4 weather alert. winds could gust from 50 to 60 miles per hour this afternoon. temperatures right now in the mid to upper 40s. there won't be a big jump in temperatures. only getting to the low 50s today. a likelihood of mid afternoon showers which will be quick movers. but could be rather intense at times. futureth w between about 2:00 and 6:00. be on the lookout for a burst of rain andery gusty winds with some of those showers as they come by as well.

highod into the 50s. tomorrow also rather blustery. >>k.hank you, ch another local news update in about 25 minutes. for now back to the "today" show after this short break. find a world of inspiration. find something you love today. unique selection. unbelievable prices. homegoods. go finding.

. good morning, everyby. good morning. it's friday, march 22nd, 2019. lots ofin us wakg up to a messy morning. the storm might impact your tekend plans. dylan will hav forecast in a moment. remember what they say, spring showers, spring flowers. all leading to something good. >> l's certainly hope so. we'll get outside in a bit. let's get to a check of theli hes. new zealand was a national day of reflection to honor victms of l friday's terror attacks. 50 people died in that country's wooot mass ng. this morning 20,000 people gathered in a park near one of the targeted mosques. they listened to the muslim call to prayer broatcast nnwide

followed by a moment of silence. the president signed an executive order on thursday that would withhold federal research money from't colleges that d promise to protect free speech. the president was joined at the eite house by conservat students who claim their speech and advocacy was either shut down by administrators or went unprotected from intimidation by other students. >> taxpayer s dollarsuld not subsidize anti first amendment institutions, and that's exactly what they are, anti first amendment. university that want taxpayer dollars should promote free speech, not silence free speech. >> public colleges and universitire are already ired to abide by the first amendme amendment. administration official says financial aid for tuition will not be affected. facebook is back in theews afte acknowledging it stored

hundreds of millions of user passwords forears in plain readable text that its employees could access. the social media giant says there's no evidence its employees abused the data. the company says the passwords were stored inernal company servers, and no outsiders could access them. facebook plans t notifhose affected so they can change their passwords. now to an incident on the ice rocking the world of figure skating this morning. nbc's stephanie gosk is on the story. good morning. >> good morning. the hd of theorean skating marias accusing american bell of slashing lim eun-soo on purpose with her skate. thenternational skating union says there's no proof she tidid. the accu has shaken the figure skating world championships and reminds many of another scandal that left a inelable mark on the sport. >> mariah bell was in the middle of a practice session at the

world championships when she clearly slipped 16-year-old korean skating lim eun-soo. this video shot from the stands and obtained by nbc news catches the moment. soon after t head of the korean skating team leveled an explosive accusation, bell did it o purpose. the international skating union says the koreans complained ut added in a statement there's no evidence that ms. bell intended any harm to ms.lim. even so, the newsck qly triggered compariso to tonya harding whose husband orchestrated an attack on rival skater nancy kerrigan. >> why! >> a crowbar to the shin, so shocking it was turned into a movie decades later. >> someone want to tell me to my oice you're neverng to give me the scores i deserve. >> harding stripped of her u.s. championship title and a silver at the worlds, banned for life by u.s. figure skating.

this week in japan mariah bell might be feeling the pain of the uslegacy, a of targeting lim. in a korean newsarticle, lim's agency callingemhe incident itated adding that bell had been bullying lim for months. adamipn jumped to her defense. i've been to the rink multiple times. no one has been bullying anyone. ice at the same time every day and share the same locker room. the skaters also share the same trainer. even though they compete for different untries. neither one returned nbc's request for comment. lim competed later in the day, a band-aid on her leg,ti shell earned a personal best score, placing fifth. bell finished sixth. >> overnight u.s. figure skating released a statement saying the athletes met this morning and good luck wishes were exchanged. mariah is looking forward to

competing tonight in the ladies free skate. >> these practice sessions can get kded of cr it's not like it's one person on the ice. have accidents happened in the practice? befo >> it does get crowded, and they have happened. in fa, far worse accidents have happened. the other thing to keep in mind, too, is when mariah began her routine, her music for her routine was play which, by accepted etiquette meant she had the right-of-way on the ice at wat moment. >> interesting toch the video for sure. stephanie, thank you. now to video that's just now erging, two yearsfter a high wire stunt featuring the famed wallenda family that went horribly wrong. a warning this morning, some people may findt hard to watch. here is nbc's kerry sanders. >> reporter: this morning, this video being made public for the firs time. it shows the gut-wrenching moment the flying wallendasti prng a difficult and dangerous eight-person pyramid

lost their balance and toped off thewire. five members of the circus act plunging several stories to the ground. family ofh generation wire walkers were practicing the new stunt with no safety net. overnight nik wallenda posting on social media p hownful it has been to see the video. >> i've shed a lot of tears, if vulnerable,mpletely having to relive that accident once again. >> reporter: admitting thatte ifying fall gave him a taste of ptsd. >> i know i struggle with having to relive that accident and ear fory struggle with the first time ever. >> reporter: he said the fall was so bad,t made him consider quitting the high wire for good. >> i'm almost ashamed to say that. being honest with you, kay 'em to that point. ive weeks r: just after that fall, nick and the others involved talked to me about that awful momt in an exclusive interview. >> everybody fought until the bitter end, every person fought as hard as they possibly could

until the last second. >> reporter: among the most seriouy injured, nick's sister lethna. >> my m is wooird shut. i broke every bone in my face. they had to ut p it bk together. i have three plates and 72 screws in my face. >> reporter: nick and two others managing to grab on to the wire as they fell. two yealater, the daredevil troop all on the mend. >> my family andll friends doing amazing well. in fact, all of th with the exception of my sister back on stage performing in one way or another. nothing short of miraculous. >> reporter: for today, kerry s, nbc news. >> that's hard to watch. >> yeah, it is. my goodness. dylan, you've got the weather. all kinds of dots on that map. please explain. >> still a lin of flood back through the middle of the country, back through the plains. all these dotsndicating the rivers that are above flood

stage. the pink dots her indicate major flooding. that is going to continue to remain an issue for the next several weeks because the continues to melt and fills up the rivers c the ice jamcking up the rivers. additional rain could help o exacerbate som that flooding. we're not looking at a lot of rain, but stilln saturday, expect it to fall especially saturday afternoon into saturg.y even it's a fairly quick moving system and it moves through the midwest as we go int saturday night and sunday morning. it will continue to move into the ohio river valley. only looking at about half inch up to .75 inch ofpe rain aps near southwestern arkansas. we could see closer to about an nch and a half. again, notlot. but just want to bring that to your attention as that could lead to theotential of c mroorsse t country.fl here is a peek out your window. >> goodorng everybody. skies are clearing temporarily. very windy outside, already between 25 to 35 miles per hour,

gusting t near 40 already in some places. high today 52, but again, northwest winds will be very, today.rong and there's a risk of some quick-moving rain between 2:00 and 6:00. around future weather, a burst of rain likel around the middle and later parts of the afternoon. take your umbrella with you today. windy through the first half of tomorrow. that's your latest forecast. >> all right. dylan, thank you. coming up, in the wake of t college admissions scandal, there's new attention on what they're calling snowplow parenting, how your kids a impacted and not in a good way when you try to plow out obstacles in their way. also this morning, i'll look at the pioneering new technology being used to predict thek r of injuries before they happen. plus oscar winner lieu pito nyong'o opens up about being the hero and the villain in her new movie. whya emili clarke has

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we're back. carson is here. good morning. "in-depth today." "game of thrones" star amelia clarke. >> nbc's joe fryer has her story. >> as amelia clarke's career was taking off with "game of thrones," the actress says she was hiding a secret health are. in an interview and essay for "the new yorker" she reveals she almost died suffering two brain aneurysms that required lifesaving surgery. >> you reign is over. >> my reign has just begun. >> as mother of dragons, amelia clarke is a fighter on screen, a quality the "game of thrones" star now reveals she needed off screen. clarke told fans thursday she survived not one, but two brain

aneurysms early on in her career. "the new yorker," just when all my childhood dreams seemed to have come true, i nearly lost my mind and then my life. clarke says it all started in 2011 when she was 24 years old. she had recently finished filming the first season of t "game ones" and was at the gym. >> i suddenly get this unbelievable pain that felt very much like an estic band aroun my brain, excruciating. >> reporter: clarke bollapsed aname violently ill and was rushed to the hospital. doctorsheold her suffered a life-threatening type of stroke caused by an aneurysm, a spot in the blein thatd with blood and burst. she would be lucky to survive and neededn to s off on emergency surgery. clarke remembers her reaction. brain surgery? i was in the middle of my very busy life. i had ano time for brain surger.

finally i settled down and signed. the road to recovery was painful and terrifying. at one point she was unable to answer a similar question. what's your name. my brain was screaming the answer but i knew i wasn't forming the words. >> reporter: that fear led clarke to question her future. >> it was in that moment i asked them to let me die. >> reporter: determined to return to work, but it wasn't easy, admitting she sipped on morphine between intervi ws to ith the pain. while her suir qly rose with "game of thrones," she wasn't in the clear yet, she was forced to monitor a second aneurys in 2013. she had surgery to remove it but there was a complication. at one point doctors delivered a devastating update ter family. >> they're like, we really don't think she's going to make it. we really think she's going to die. >> reporter: clarke once again pulled through, determined not to reveal her personal fight.

>> i just didn't want tbe a bother. >> reporter: the 32-year-old actress is now going public. >> i reallyep -- i quiet about something that's happened to me for quite ayeew s. >> reporter: all in an effort to help others. clarke now says she's 100% and has srted a charity to help others recovering from brainnd injury stroke. >> such a scary story. she describes the immense head pain she felt at the gym with the first aneurysm. what are some of the othersy toms? >> first of all, strokes are most common for adults between the ages of 30 and 60. while a severe intense headache is the primary system of aru ured aneurysm, other signs include vomiting, stiff neck, blurred or double vision, sensitivit to light and loss of consciousness. experts say, if you're exhoriencing those, youd get help immediately. >> joe fryer for us in l.a. thanks. >> her opening up about that is

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it's 8:00 on "today," coming up, the waiting game. the president isaking out just this morning on the mueller report. >> for two years we'vero gone h this nonsense. there's no obstruction. they'll say, oh, wait, there was no collusion. that was a hoax. >> and his feud with the late senato>> john mccain. he was horrible what he did with repeal and replace. >> we're live in washi ton with the latest. plus parental advisory. in the wake of the college admissions scandal, we'll take a closer look at snowplow parenting. how much is too much and when is it okay to let your kids fail. back in the "friends zone." courtney cox ret wns tohere it all happened. >> good night guys. going home. the story behind this viral

video including who convinced her to post it. today friday, march 22 pd, 2019. ♪ >> from mechanicsville, virginia. go raiders. >> hi to midland, texas. ♪ >> from terra haute, indiana, celebrating the big fi5-o. >> good morning and welcome back to "today." it's a rainy one but a good one oute there on th plaza. friday morning. lots of folks out there. hoda is enjoying the morning off. hopefully in t sunshine somewhere. >> those folks aren't deterred at all by the raindrops. we'll get outsidejo an join the

in a moment. if you'd like to get involved, share your photos using #mytodayplaza. we'll get it and put you on tv. we'll beginning this half hour with a check o the news. president trump kept up his attacks overnight on the rusioa investig and on the late senator john mccain. nbc's white house correspondent kristen welker has the latest. good morning. >> savannah, good morning to you. the white house and washington bracing forit impact special counsel robert mueller expected to turn over his repor. so the key question here, did the trump campaign collude with russia to meddle in the 2016 idelection. prt trump is speaking out this morning in a new interview on "fox businessalng the investigation nonsense and a hoax, also fund-raising off of it. his campaignding out an e-mail to supporters arguing no collusion. it comes as the president is refusing to stop hisea rd attacks against the late senator john mccain, lashing out at him again overnight for voting against repealing obamacare,th sog mccain says he did

because lawmakers hadn't figured out a way to replace it. cain's family is not backing down either from this fight. his youngest daughter bridget, never one for the spotlight, asking the president in a tweet to be decent and respectful o her father. boeing is facing new questions this morning about aircraft safety features that were sold as extras and not installed on those two 737 max jet liners that crashed. the company is also dealing with faw financial out from those disasters. today's senior international correspondent keir simmons joins us with breaking details on that story. keir,mo good ing. >> good morning. this morning boeing facing a significant cancellation of an order. indonesia's national airline trying to cancel 49 max 8 jets worth $5 billion. the airline saying,ur quote, passengers have lost confidence after two fatal crashes in five months. 's not clear if boeing will let the airline out of that

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snowplow parents. mone and dads deter to clear any obstacle from their child's path. >> according to a recent "new york times" morning consult poll, 76% of parents have reminded their adult children of deadlines, including for school work. 74% have made doctor or haircut appointments for their 18 to 28-year-olds. 22% help their students study for a college test. and 15% say o they have calle texted their college students to wake them up for their classes. >> what is the long-term impact of all this involvement on your kids? dr. wilson is a relationship expert and family counselor. good morning. >> good >> let's define snowplow parent and how does it ultimately affect tds. >> simil helicopter moms or parents, but really the snowplow is you'r moving ever out of the way, all obstacles so your children don't know they have a problem because you can't tolerate them being in distress. >> the kids don't see the plow?

>> they don't see the plow, the problem or anything. they think there's a flu path to life which is unrealistic. >> let's assume parents are well meaning, butim uely if you're removing all these s, obstac isn't that the ultimate vote of no confidence in your child, that they can dot by themselves? >> it makes kids feel like i'm notconfident. my kids in my practice, #adulting, i'm not going to be able to do that. the truth is we're not to be here for the next journey with our kids. they've got to be able to have e coping skills and the problem solving skills to deal situation >> we have to let them fail. why is it a good idea to let our children fail at things? >> i call it failing forward. when we fail, that gives us fuel in order to be motivated for, not if, but when the next curveball comes. when you're faing at something, that's going to give you that sort of motivation, that govement to forward for the next thing that happens.

and when i thinkbout failing, i say ditch the fear and then take on faith, sfliethen you take on faith, that allows you to know, even if you don't have the clear path, that youge goo be okay. >> parents want to help therapy kids innaly. is there a difference between plowing little things out of their wayers big things. >> glad you asked that. it's called launching. you're preparing your childre to launch them into adulthood. gradually you wan to help a guide them and direct them, but you don't want to do everything for them. that's anli unric expectation of life. >> we were talking about older kids and it's easy to snicker, come on, waking them up for ass or whatever. we have little kids. what about what we do now in terms of how much you let a toddler fail forexam, or how much you let a toddler deal with an obstacle. i think probably it's all of our inclination to try to smooth the way, butoes this behavior of letting your child grow up for themselves, does that start now? >> it does, itdoes.

asking them the questions when they're really upset. ou know the difference between a cry for your babies when they're hungry or they need to be changed and a they get orlando. if they are asking you to help them solve a problem, ask them, well, what do you think? give them some options, helpem figure it out for themselves so they begin at a young age to develop problem solving skills. if they have none, that is absolutely the worst thing you can do to develop >> another thing. we didn't have the snapchat -- i call it snapchat. >> you're 100. >> we didn't have social media growing up. what role does all this play in this snowplow pa inting? s our normal inclination to compare ourselves to other people. on sial media, they're thinking everyone else's life is wonderful and theirs is crap, right? it's a false sense o intity for them. social media is not a great thing to allow us to move forwd. >> rippi this from the headlines, what we're rabding

t is parents helping get their kids into college. i can't help but fee sor for the kids who maybe had nothing to do with it. what's the long-term effect of that? >> depression. suicidal ideation thinking life is over. one setback is just a setup for children have to have that resilience. if they feel theyan c do it because their parents are taking tests or fixing i for the so they can succeed, that's not going to give them the confidence. long term it's not good for anybody. >> whethert's college admissionse, or these are pare that really need to get their kids integrate school, isn't it more ahe parents and what's going on inside them and what defreit the trying to fill up. >> living vicariously f the kids? >> absolutely. >> maybe some of these moms want their kids to stay needy so they feel good. >> so they feel good or they didn't accomplish what they wanted. they're living vicariously

through their children. i say the parents need to go to therapy. do somemeditation, allow yourself to reduce your anxiety, but get therapy for the whole family to understand why you're living the life for your kids. >> a lot of kids have to know. if you're getting in for soccer, on a soccerrs schop, but never put shin guards on -- >> lax integr >> what are warng signs? out of doing this, how would i know if i'm maybe becoming a helicopter dad? i'm asking for a friend. >> if your kid has no coping skills at all because you continue to dpiksit. if you have no tolerance for them to experience any kind of pain or you're fatigued because you're rescuing them all the time, that'sob a m. so get help. >> always good to parents are really well meaning and good hearted. that's okay, you can still move on from this. >> get an accountability partner, someone to hold accountable for not doing it. >> thank you, r.g. over to dylan with the weather. speaking of snowplows.

>> you might need them especially across central and northern new england. the snow has been coming down for quitee sme now, most of maine seeing the rain except right along the coast. in new yorke have the rain falling. that extends down through new jersey. although it is starting to wind down through maryland. it's over in d.c. we're starting to see improvements down through delaware. as for additional snowfall, we could see as much as six to ninp inches,ially in the higher elevation, higher above 6,000 eeet. wind gusts will a major issue especially as we go through saturday. that could causeca signi delays at the airport as winds gusts up to t 35 45 miles per hour all across the northeast. that could lead again to some of those isolated delays at the airports from d.c. to philly to new york. today albany through boston, that's where mt of the precipitation is coming down right now. that could lead to some delays iday. that storm system affecting the northeast. we have another one moving through the wrockies. thl produce a little more rain through the middle of the country going into tomorrow. in the lmeantime,s of

sunshine, temperatures in the 60s and 70s. not too 'sbad. th look at the weather across the country. here is a peek out your gwindo d morning everybody. 47 degrees in washington. the rain is over for now. it's going to rain later this afternoon. take your umbrella with you. it's also goingo be a very windy day today. northwest winds are averaging 20, gusting to as high as 40 miles per hour. going to be a very windy afternoon. expect the winds to be continuing. anotheound of showers which could come with gusty winds and even smallailpotentially. that comes through between 2:00 and 6:00 today. windy weather for the first half of the weeke g. sunday looat. >> that's yourst latest fore >> dylan, thank you very much. let's jump right into "popstart. we have a special guest, willie geist. >>yea! >> great reception. thanks, guys. courtney cox shared aat vid ade reference to the famous scene on the show. she did it again earlier when she posted anotherur video to make "friends" fans go wild.

>> good knight, guys, i'm going home. ♪ >> look familiar? any "friends" fans here? >> that's actually the building used as the extior for monica's apartment. la night cox was asked how she found herself at her old stomping grounds. lear is what she said? >> i was having dinner. someone said the "friends" building is two blocks over. last night i posted -- i wast jennifer's house. she's like post that now. let's just see what happens because she's not on instagram yeteither. >> we geerting her on. >> i'm thinking to myself, it's probably post it between 9:00 and 12:00 because that's when my fans are, i didn't. i posted it late at nigh it still worked. >> it's going.

>> i think "friends" fans would like her t keep posting more videos. i didn't know there was a certain time. >> i didn' know either. >> maybe we don't have fans. ron burgundy made an appearance. ferrell stepping back into his anchorman role. in last nht's hockey game between the kings and the sharks, let's see howwe that nt. >> all the way from san diego as we wel you in to a special night of "hockey night in l.a." presented by a ten dee.com. alex, jim and ron. >> we are about to begincohe se period. why don't we take it away, gentlemen, turn down to the ice. here we atr conling the puck. who is that guy? >> sean walker. >> sean walker, o of my favorites. >> martin jones,in former player -- if i'm correct. >> yes. >> he enjoys -- what he does in the off season, he works with puppets. >> he does? >> yes.

looking for half shfer shaw. no. through the zone, dumps it in. i believe that was a dump. >> ron burgundy. the kings went on to win the game 4-2. up next, yesterday pink releasing her brand new video for her latest single "walk me home." lengths take a look ♪ walk me home in the dead of night ♪ ♪ i can't be alone with all that on my♪ mind ♪ say you'll stay with me tonight ♪ ♪ because there is so much wrong going on outside ♪ >> great song. music video by the same director of "the greatest showman," michael gracie. pink also releasing her eighth studio album, "hurts to be man" coming out on april 26th. now to our speal guest, willie has a preview of his suay sit-down with oscar win nyong'o.ita

>> so lupita and i did get head of the release of the movie everyone is talking about, the horror film "us." she stars as two characters in a vie directed by jordan peele and has become a modern master of "horror." >> you know how sometimes things line up, like coincidences. >> i love the idea of scaring people. i'm not so in to being scared. i love the idea of scaring people. >> well, you did it. >> lupita nyong'o is not scared of ach lenge, playing both hero and monster in the new horror film "us." the 36-year-old plays adelaide and red. >> be careful. >> elaide's doppelganger and leader of avengeful army ofte mo called the tethered. >> two parts that are extraordinarily different from one another. >> uh-huh. >> was that a bigen cha for

you as you looked at first like, can i pull this off? >> inhe first reading, i was so excited at the possibility, the opportunity to work with jordan. then i saw i would be working with limb twice. i felt kind ofy greed about that. i was really excited. >> jordan is directorordan peele, the comedian-turned-filmmaker whose 2017 smash hit "get out" explored the horror of racism. in "us," he turns his lens on the monsters inside of us. >> i a ied you what is genius of jordan peele and why these movies are not just scary, but great films, what do you say to that? >> i think jordan has been in ink bags for his whole life, excited over it, geeking out over it, he brings that enthusiasm, the wealth of knowledge to the films he makes.

ip>> with the highly anticed "us," nung nyong'o finds herself in the spotlightagain, one year after starring in the culturalo phenomen "black panther."e it made mt than $1 billion the worldwide box office i. earned six oscar nominationsnd de a statement as the first film of its kind to feature a largely black cast. >> when you look back on that, what was tt likebe at the center of, not just a successful movie, but such a important film as well? >> you know, it's still reall hard to fully wrap my head around what that film has, do what it has achieved and the way in which it has really lodged itself in people's hearts and lives. i feel so proud to be a part of a film like that, javt to one in my career. that's the dream, to make watk resonates, that lives longer than you do. >> as ways, you can see the full interview coming up on "sunday today." when you think about lupita's

career, she was in the yale school of drama when she earned the part in ""12 years a slave."" shjumped from there to a oscar, to black panther. you guys haven't seen it. like et out," iet es a great movie, but it's going to terrify you. >> winston duke is in the movie, plays her husband. they went to yale school of drama together. >> in think it got 99e rotten tomatoes. >> i believe it. jordan peele, there are moments that he takes you out of the horror and lets you laugh, which you need. also "variety," an article talking all about your life, balancing two shows, having a snack -- >> me eating a cheeseburger. >> trying to stay up past 9:00 p.m. on saturday. >> check out, ryan reynolds, i don't know what sort of black plajic he's messing with, but he makes his guests feel incredibly anfe. like you open up and tell

him anything. is that a roofie? >> i thanked ryan for thatot generous he told me they didn't include the second half which i a horrible insult, profane and downright cruel. i want america to know he's not as sweet as y think. >> that issue of "variety" is on news stands now. we've been talking about click justuch, daily died. >> i'm so sorry. >> i don't know what black magic you're doing. >> well, i am a special guest after all. >> you are. we're proud of you. ahead, glamour's editor in ief is going to give a sneak people at annual beauty award very excited for this. first your local news and weather.

good morning everybody, 8:26 on this friday, mch 22nd. i'm aaron gilchrist. there's a big closure on the gw parkway that could affect your commute. let's get right over to dave with first 4 traffic. >> it's affecting a lot of commutes. are george washington pay closed. you can see chopper 4 is flying ovhead between the beltway and 123. there is no traffic flowing for safety reasons. delay on the beltway itself with the ramps at exit 43 blocked. also a traffic jam on the george washington parkway toward the division. that's the la tst. back ove you. >> dave, thank you. we'll have a check on your forecast when we come back. stay with us. [ ding ] show me the crown.

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>> carson called me fozzy bear. >> i was concerned with fozzy bear's assistant. a this lovely gentleman had mitten on and it got caught on my ring. we couldn't uncon next. we were going to spends the rest of the weekend >> you want a crowd moment? i am looking for mary, kristen and hey!. how are you. >> nice aggressive hug there. what's your name? >> kristen. >> we're celebrating friendship, 20 years, college bties from int ambrose. >> 20 years of friendship. that's cool. >> where do you live now? >> davenport, iowa. >> kenosha, wisconsin. >> charlotte, north carolina. >> i'm headed down there ali le later today. i understand you guys are fans of one of our rio shows. >> oh sirius radio, yes, "offe th rails."

>> "off the rails," big fans. perhaps you know dylan dreyer. >> not enough people listen to "off the rails," so thank you. >>thank you. mary, kristen and lisa, thank you for coming. >> you'll heartus day. >> love it. >> i love a little self-promotion. >> he'reing umbrella wars here. i love it. guys, coming up, glamour's editor in chief is here with a sneak peek of the annual beauty awards, will unveil the reader's top five choice. including must-have sunscreen and theltimate cadillac of hair dryers. >> we could use that after this, especily with your kills o holding an umbrella. >> there's nothing else in the show except that. actually we've got new technology. this is really cool. new technology thatic can help

prt the risk of injuries in athletes. how it's already changing the game for some college teams in the ncaa tournament, how it could help you as well, even if you're not a college basketball star. >> like that. >> coming up on the third look who it is, music superstar t-pain will talk about his surprise win on the masked singer, what he really thinks about auto tuning. >> my man right there, og. >> you're not holding it over my head at all. >> i got him in theeye. finding a happy medium. >> there you go. >> first, lau is the weather? >> it's terrible. it's an awful day. and it's going to stay this way all day long. we are going to see that storm system pull away as we go into tomorrow. windy day on saturday, winds could gust from5 to 45 miles per hour, about a half inch of o rain possible through the plain es. just one more thing that that area does not need with the

flooding that's on goigoing rig now. storms start to develop in the ledwest. its out up and down the east coast. temperatures stillool in new england. we should top out close to 60 in the mid atlantic. 70s in the southeast. finally warmer, more spring-like temperatures in some now here is a peek out your window. >> good morning. windy and chilly outside. northwest winds already over 20 miles per hour and gusting to near 40 miles per hour. that's going to be the case the rest of the day. and iti camera shimmyi shaking in the breeze. winds gusting over 50 miles per hour this afternoon. a likelihood of a rou of showers between 2:00 and 6:00 this afternoon and this evening. take your umblla with you o your way out the door. dry for the weekend. still windy on a saturday. ni sunny for your sunday. >> collecting gifts on the plaza, too. that's your latest dpraft,

savannah. dylan, thank you so much. samantha barry from glamour is here on your best beauty products. your readerslose these, right? >> you'll get a sneak peek. >> first this is "today" on nbc. ♪

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style," we're talking all things beauty. glamour is toobt reveal its annual beauty awards hand pifed by a panel experts. before the full list comes out, we have editor in chief samantha barry giving us a sneak peek of what the readers top choices are. the amount of people that wanted to vote, plus voted.le it was women all across the country. they voted on every beauty product we put in front ofyo th. guys have the sneak peek of the first five. >> were thesear c favorites? >> clear favorites.

it was interesting, there was so many in each category. makeup was the one thing that most people voted on. a lot of thoughts in that i think as beauty companies are expanding the ranges of colors anddi inc diversity into the mix, a lot of people have more opinion about what they buy. w >> let's stah the first thing we should put on our faces. >> always. >> sunscrn. neutragena is the awinner. s we come into spring, more people are thinking about it. this was the winner becese people l this because it doesn't leave a white residue, pores.s not clog your >> you can put makeup over it, not too sticky or anything. >> exactly. our readers loved it. one person wrote in and said even if they're not putting on makeup, it gives them a lovely finish every day and wear it every day. important. dermatologists are going to love us. now let's get to some fun stuff. eye shadow. this wasorhe fe pallet.

why? >> i callt the instagram pallet. they are obsessed with it. beauty influencers love it. ouie ae loved it. they took it away and came back with this cherry pallet. overwhelmingly people loved it.t obsessed ahe different looks. the range of colors in this pallets have grown. a lot of sparkle for a night out. >>ou mentioned diversity. i feel like this would work on all kinds of skin types. >>hat's what we sawrom the readers' votes. lots of people around the country, lots of different skin types and ethnicities. they all loved the nak pallet. >> okay. urban decay. i love the name of this brand, drunk elephant. right there you're spooking to me. >> like a description of me on saturday night. but anyway, tell us about this. wouldre's two things i spend money on, your hair and skin because you wear them every day. i'm a big advocate of facials. this is what my beauty department tells me is the best

facial you can take home yourself. it is $80 but it lasts for months. beauty editor is a huge fan of it. what it has is, when you go for those expensive facials and they use some of those acid peels, light acid peels to take off the dead skin, this does that at home. we recommend that you use once or twice a week, and our audience is just obsessed with it. >> wntt is it? i wao see -- is itk? th do you sleep in it or what? >> great if you're watching something on netflix, catching up on one of your programs. you put it on. leave it for ten minutes and take it off. one of our readers overwhelmingly loved it, said tht is the b thing in her skin care arsenal. >> really? our producer said that's the one to grab. if i'm going tth steal ag today, that's the one. >> i'll slip. it in your pock >> this is a bronzer. >> most ofr ydience will

recognize this bronzer. this is a classic, been around for years. what's different, they extended ker skin. for much d that's one of the things while the majority of our people when going for a bronzer, a lot of those people using it before. and lots more people have been using hoa. 230,000 people love it on sephora. a classic. they've extended the ranges, and this is the bronzer that the readers chose this year. >> i loveit. it comes with a little brush, too. >> people are very loyal to it as well. once they start using it, they don't stop. some people using it for a decade plus. >> i like it. we'll check it out. here we are to the grandaddy of blow dryers. >> this is the invest knt piece. >> dat way of saying it's $4000. >> i was surprised a little bit that that won over every other drugstore, every other luxury. the vastri ma, nearly 50% of people voted in the hairdteer ry coated for this.

why they voted for this? it's silent -- near silent. >> very quiet. >> if you're getting up in the morning early and there's other people in the house, you don't want do wake them po. more ant, it doesn't damage your hair as much as some heat products. it is great for all hair. textur you see here we've got the defuser. what wasti inter in the voting for this, every hair type loved it, curly, textured, wavy, straight hair. >> it's nice, you can travel with it. i didn't know it came. in bl >> is this the case? >> sleek. >> monday is the day we get the full list. >> 8:00 on monday. glamour's beauty awards list on . you can check out these products at today.com/shop. thank you, sam. the new pioneering technology used by athletes to predict the risk of injuries before they even hispen. first t "today" on nbc.

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this this m morning on "today technologytting edge some teams are using in the ncaa tournament to get an edge on th cour >> players can't help their teens if they're on the sideline. that's why 11 teams in this year's tournament have starting using a device called a force plate. it can help predict the risk of in and could soon be coming near aym o training facility near you. march madness is filled with insane action wh battles back and forth on the hardwood. it takes a lot to win a national championship. villa nova has won two of the last this season, as they prepared for their games, they used the force plate from sparta science. >> it's about physics, measuring how you produce force and absorb forces in your body. >> reporter:on john shackls

the team'serformance coac to demonstrate, we get an assist from darrell reynolds who helped villa nova win a national title in 20as. john darrell jump up and down six times on a plate thato like a larger fancier version of your average bathroom scale. what the device is doing is taking darrell's movement signature. that means it's showing exactly what kind of force he's generating during three stages of each jump. when he loads his legs to squat to get ready, when he explodes out of the squat and when he pu off the plate to pro pole himself off the plate, the data is immediately sent to the sparta science cloud database where more than a million other scans live. the company's machine learning software immediately generates specific performance needs and injury risks. darrell is recovering from knee

surgery and the device picked up >> any number below 45 is considered a risk for injury. righ now he's an acl risk being that low. he's coming back from acl. >> john knows the exact exercise program darrell needs to avoid another injury and get back to peak strength. this technology is gaining traction with top college programs including 11 teams in this yea.s tourname it's been used by pro teams in several sports as well, including the cleveland cavaliers, pittsburgh steelers and washington nations. butt's not just for the pros. the force pla has found its way to youth sports as well. we found it at the speed school in new jersey. >> this gives us a benchmark on all of our athletes. we work with athletes as young as 7 all the way through high school, college, professional. ll those athletes at all tho ages have a signature. within a minute we can get great

data for that day, that week, that month, to be able to prescribe a train accordingly around our weaknesses, and at the same time enhance our strengths. >> reporter: i decided to see where my weaknesses lie. >> based on these numbers, which specific injuries would i be most at risk for? >> your drive is very high, it means you use lot of your back musk la tour, your glutes and hamstrings. ou're using a lot of those muscles to explode. you're at risk for injuring your back or may even the hamstring. >> reporter: after all that, i challenged darrell to a game of pig and i didn't need a force plate to predict the results. >> ha! that's enough. >> by thi way, sort of technology, not cheap, about $20,000 for an subscripto

the database for the force plate.ay sparta science it's working on a more affordable model. ain, it can predict the risk of injury to acl, leg muscle strains, lower back pain. >> strengthening the right muscles to prevent the injury. >> to see the coach in jersey in the piece talking about this high-end technology while he s sittingn that giant truck tire. it's almost with the high-tech d training done rocky is doing it the old school way. >> you looked good out there o thurt. >> you're very kind. >> well, hend sou good. >> kind and honest. we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc. onbc.n

welcome ba welcome back. sheinelle jones joining the fun. carson is in the orange room. >> day one of the ncaa tournament in the books.

#marchmadness picking up a lot of steam online. murraystate's joh moran lit up the court, becoming the eighth player to ever record a triple-double in the tournament. after the game, having fun with ghis followers tweetinhis and the photo saying, relax, i'm not done basketball fans have shown that they are watching this whole tournament from all angles, setups.ve here is scott's living room, three tvs set up. wes hasour tvs rocking. here is jeff in the office. he's not going to be getting a lot of work done. he's got a bunch of screens up there. don't forget, if you're worried about getting busted in the office, the classic ncaa ur feat the boss button is back. click the b and a fake powerpoint presentation pops up and discoverssc your en. after day one, the real question on many ofis your mindow did our brackets hold up. all our winning teams are still standing with de and virginia tech set to make their daw bus

today. as for tle erboard, let's go to it and check it out. i believe we've got hoda leading, as you'll see in a second here, hoda at 13, al at 12. three of us tied at1. savannah, last year's winner, back of the pack at nine but it's early. >> the tournament is long. >> you'r in good shape because you have wofford winning. >> i have wofford going all the way. >> you're playing kentucky next? >> we are. >> good luck with that. >> who did you pick in that? >> kentucky. >> we've got a daly click f u. here is a relaxing afternoon, hanging out at the pool. roll this we saw a few angry iguanas. be careful. [ screaming ]. >> jumped intohe pool. coming very close to some of

those people. the other iguana finds its way into the pool, startling swmers everywhere. nobody was harmed in this bizarre brawl. maybe they're at the pl bar having a margarita together. >> never close your eyes poolsi ain. >> i would rather run into a great white shark than one of those little iguanas slithering up next to you. >> that's a good clip. >> great white is probably equally as scar mr.oker taking a few days off. >> so manyo wonderful people t celebrate on this friday. let's spin around those smuckers jars and wish a very happy 100th birthday to harold frnachma delray beach, florida. also married to the love of his life 75 years. congratulations and a very happy birthday next we have eleanor

nay tick, massachusetts, celebrating 100 years. four grandkids and four great grandkids. also happy 100th birthday to rose baker of palm beach gardens, florida. she never leaves hhese without red lipstick and her favorite pair of heels to go with it. jesse seeley is 100ol years served his country as an air force navigato we thank you for your service, sir. ulta may duncan i a world travelers from leland, north carolina. she's visited both italy and france with h kids. she loves to travel. happy 100th birthday to charles jarrett from gary, indiana, he owned a dry cleaning business for more than 60 years and still owns a security agency. od for him. >> happy birthday. a lot of good people there. sheille, what have yougot? >> i have a guy you are going to like. we're going to go one-on-one with nba start jared allen to

talk about the big move he's making off the court to improve the lives of kids in his community. they love him. >> did you play some ball with him? >> i played some ball with him. >> how diddo you better than craig? >> i got blocked. on the third hour, the artiss from a makeup plus t-pain is in the house. 8:56 is your time on this friday, march 22nd, i'm molette green. parkway re on the gw that could impact your commute. let's go right to wtop's dave dildine. >> this is reminiscent of the closure in december 2014, significant structural damage identified between 123 and the beltway. that's where the george

washington parkway is and will likely remn closed. diversions, bailout on georgetown pike. with beltway delays both ways towards the closed exits tohe gw parkway. back over to you. >> we'll get the latest on the forecast when we come back. stay with us.

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live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza, this is the third ur of "today." >> good morning, everyone. i am dylan here with sheinelle, al is off. craig is off, he had to catch a flight. >> we have scial guest willie geist. >> thanks for having me, guys. >> who do you have goingll the wain your bracket? >> i hate to be cliche. i think i picked duke, which evyone is picking. ke over tennessee. >> what about you guys? >> your penmanship, i feel like you have the nicest penmanship in the crew. >> if craig was here we know he'd be talking about it, so