good morning. breaking news. she's out. embattle british prime minister nnouncing moments ago she's stepping down. >> it has been the honor of my life to hold. >> what finally pushed her to leave and what's next. we're live in london. bracing for mo. >> we've seen the damage and then i was shaking like a leaf. >> a ninth straight day of severe weather for the midwest. picking up the damage from >> and in the east, fierce storms causing damage and knocking out power to thousands. bitter feud, the war of words between president trump and house speaker nancy pelos h new lows. >> she's not the same person.

she's lost it. >> i wish his family or his wouldstration or staff have an intervention. >> this extraordinary moment between the president and his staff. >> kellyanne what was myt temperam yesterday? >> very calm. >> and the fak videos ofpelosi the president and his allies are circulating this mo those stories plus breaking overnight harvey wes ioalitis accurs. cold war, could new informaon settle the agermld theostat battle between men and women and getaway day. a record number of americans heading out for the long me mirl d -- memorial day roekend. >> fm nbc news, this is "today" with savnah guthrie and hoda kotb, live fromtu so 1-a in rock feoc-- rfeller

plaza. >> good morning. nice to have you with us. the friday before memorial day. so many people looking to get out and start summer. >> we're going to get to that holiday forecast in a moment. >> absolutely. we want to startithreaking news from overseas. teresa may stepping down as british prime minister after repeated failures to win that brexit deal. kelly is standing by in london with the lates on this. good morning. >> good morning to you. ayteresa m has been under pressure for months and this morning she says she is finally giving into that pressure. in an emotional statement before her official residence, 10 downing street, she said she rwould besigning officially on june 7th after that state visit with president trump. the prime minister brought down by brexit. her plan to leave the european union. it's divided this country, ivided the parliament and divided her own party. learwastihi c mornlying. her voice cracking saying her

three years as primeis minr were up. >> i will shortly leave the job that it's been the honor of my ffe to hold. the secondale prime minister but certainly not the last. i do so with no ill will but we nor mouse and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. >> she isen essally a lame duck prime minister now. she will meet with president trump as planned in about ten days time. she will stay in office until a new prime i ministers chosen. imat could be somet this summer and the leading candidate, a familiar name to both president trump and to the u.s., former london mayor and foreign secretary boris johnson. savannah, craig. >> kelly with that breaking news this morning. thank you. >> the major story here at home,

the on going threat of severe weather as the memorial day r weekendh gets underway. the midwest dealing with the impact of dozens of tornadoes and widespread flooding now. the east coast hit hard by strong storms overnight as well. al has a look ahead to the weekend in a moment but first morgan is in jefferson city once again for us. good morning. >> day two since this massive tornado hit. power is still out and roads are closed and a city curfew has been put in place. but somehow, despite all of this destruction, no one was killed and no o seriously injured. >> we barely made it before all the windows bust in on us. it wasar scy. >> stunned residents are literally picking up the piece of their lives. >> our house has just crumbled. it's this one right here. >> one day after an -3 tornado with winds of 160 miles per hour

devastated the state's capital. >> i wasn't scared until after i seen the damage and then i was shakin like a leave. >> buildings collapsed, roofs peed off homes, everything in the twisters 19 mile path torn apart. >> the damage is devastating up here. >> 150 miles to the south, three people killed when a tornado sliced through golden city. the storms alsoarching to the northeast. >> my whole house shook. >> an ef-1 twister ripping up trees. severe storms battling the southern plains and midwest for a week. in oklahoma, rain causing widespread flooding. >> water is going to continue to rise. >> no clear end in sight. >> it's gng toremain high for the next several days. >> the small town of weber's falls under mandatory evacuation. thereere fears these two ru bwayarges would seriously dama a dam when they slammed i

into but thankfully the damage was minor. back in jefferson city, tsidents siftingough what they have left. >> total loss. total loss. >> and this morning, president trump has ten to twitter sharing his support for the state of missouri describing these people here as strong and resilient and saying federal help is there if theyeed it.>> folks in the midwest have been through so much, al, what are we expecting? >> we have had 8 consecutive days with tornado. we've seen 194 tornado recordsu and not j tornadoes, 1375 severe weather reports. so this has been a huge, huge outbreak and we continue to see it again today. look at the radar. from minneso all the way down to texas. strong storms. tornadotc s, severe

thunderstorm watches and severe thunderstorm warnings. some of those warnings could produce wind gus of 65 miles per hour or more. we also have flash flood watches and flash flood warnings from xas all the way to michigan so we're watching that closely. the severe storm thrt today midland to chicago. 9 states. 26 million people at risk for damagingwinds, hail, and tornadoes possible. tomorrow, 14 stlies, 25 mil people at risk. texas all the way to western new york and western pennsylvania. tornadoes still pos oble and sunday, the tornado risk comes down a bit but we still have the risk for rail, daging winds from nebraska all the way down to texas. as far as travel is concerned, there's a big travel y.da first unofficial weekend of summer. chicago-kansas city likrpy ait delays. on the roads, bismark to chicago on i-94.

demonis moines to oklahoma city problem. and minneapolis, they could all see de on the road. minneapolis to oklahoma city i-35 and the s longestetch from salt lake to chicago on i-80 a big problem as well. we'll continue to track it for you right through the morning. >> all right. 'll come back to you in a moment, alw no to president trump making a controversial move tied to the muellereport and the multiple investigations surrounding his administration. it's a move raising red flags among democrats.wo we have t reports this morning starting with pete williams. good morning. >> good morning. >> the attorney general already laun a review of how and why the fbi opened it's investigation of the trump campaign and rsia and election meddling. now they give them a power they

jealously guard. the president directed u.s. intelligence agencies to cooperat quickly and fully with attorney general william barr's investigation of surveillance activities during01he 26 election. the white house also gave barr the authority to declassify documents related to the investigation. in a statement the white house said the action will help ensull that ahe americans learned the truth about the events that occurred and reactions taken duringhe last presidential election. the order came the same day he repeated his claim without offering evidence that the focus on the campaign amounted to treason. >> the constitution says treason is punishable by death. you accused yourdv asaries of treason. who specifically are you accusing of treason? >> a number of people. they unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person. if you look comey, if you look at mccabe, if you look at

him and his lover lisa page, that's treason. they couldn't win the election and that's what happened. the attorney general believed the fbi spied on president trump's campaign. >> i think spying did occur. >> though he didn't necessarily mean it's illegal but it's a word the president used. >> there wasut absoly spying into my campaign. i'll go a step further. in my opinion it was illegalnd spying unprecedented spying. >> in a late night tweet, adam schiff called the attorney general's investigation un-american. he said the president and the attorney generalon cspired to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies. also overnight, gerald nadler told rachel maddow that robert mueller has expressed an interest in testifyingo congress but only behind closed doors. >> he is willing m toe a statement but in private and we

think it's important for the american people to hear from him and to hear from his answers to questions about the report. >> so what's the point of giving the attorney general this authority to declassify documents? >> well, the people of the justice department doing this review already have security clearances to look at these classified documents so presumably the reason to declassify them would be to maki them p when the review is over and that's likely to take at least several months. >> all right. pete, thank you. >> now we turn now to this back and for between the president and house speaker nancy pelosi. it's turning personal and nasty. the president firing back at the house speaker after she uestioned his fitness for office. peter catches us up on all of this good morning. >> good morning to you.t presidenrump heads to japan but he and nancy pelos head into the holid weekend trading insults. posting an edited video mocking

her, pelosi questioned his leadership and competency and a source close to her tells me this was a deliberate effort to pick a fightre with the pdent designed to get under his skin. >> this morning, bitterness and biting attacks. the feud between president trump and nancy pelosi getting mor personal. >> crazy nancy, i have been watching her and i have been watching her for a long period of time.e sh not the same person. she's lost it. >> the president taking aim hours after pelosi took her own sharp jabs. >> i pray for the president of the united states. i wish that his family or his adnistration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. >> asked whether she is concerned about the president's wellbeing. >> i am. and the wellbeing of the united states of americsi >> the prent defending his mental fitness. >> i haven't changed very much. aye been very consistent. i'm an xtremely stablegenius. >> pelosi responding on twitter

when t extremely stable genius starts acting more presidential i'll be happy to follow him. that follows the three minute white house meeting where the president said he couldn't work with democrats because they're focused on investigating him after the mueller reportnd democrats accused president trump of having a temperru ta >> i walked out. i was so calm. you all saw me minutes later. >> prompting aine up of his top aids to vouch for him. >> what was my temperament yesterday. >> very calm. i've seen both and this is definitely not angry or ranting. >> pelosi offered another explanation for why president trump abruptly ended tuesday's meeting. >> the white houst crying out for impeachment. at's why heeft yesterday. >> do you want to be impeached? >> i don't think anybody wants to be impeached. they don't feel they can win the election so there tryingo do the thousand stabs. keep stabbing. >> late thursday the president escalated his personal attacks

tweeting an edited video ofha pelosi tsplices together times she either stuttered or stumbled over her words. amid this bitter backndth forth washington post posted a video of pelosi spreading online. the video was altered to make it sound as if she was drunkenly slurring her words at a public event. savannah and craig. >> peter alexander at the white house, thank you. >> also this morning, the scandal surrounding disgraced movie mog harvey weinstein is ith word he headlines of a massive settlement with millions of his. accuse joe has the latest on this. good morning. >> good morning. nbc new can confirm a deal has been reached to the tune of $44 million. the majority of which will go to hiscc aers and their attorneys. it's important to note this is a civil deal only and does not effect the criminal case against weinein set to begin in

september. >> overnight a new bombshell involving harvey weinstein. according to a source familiar with the terms of the deal the disgraced movie moguld agree to en$44 million civil settlement with dozs of women that accused him oua sexl misconduct. a source adding board members of his studio the weinstein company also signed off. as many as 100 women accused weinstein of inappropriate behavior ranging from harassment to rape including huge hollywood stars like angelina jolie, gwyneth paltrow and rose mcgowan. >> he should go to jail forever. he stole so many lives. >> their stories helping the movements me too and times up. the agreement first reported by the wall street journal involves the new york attorney general's office and would settle 15 lawsuits filed against weinstein and his former company. all will be covered by insurance companies which were facing tore

thanee times that amount in claims and litigation from numerous paeies. thource telling nbc news $30 million will go to weinstein's accuse a theirttorneys and creditors. 14 million will go to cover legal fees for members of the weinstein board accusedf covering up his alleged bad behavior and have been named as defendants in multiple lawsuits. fder the terms o the deal, there's no admission of wrong doing. the settlement does not effect a harges him se which with rape and other sex crimes. that trial is set to begin in september. the former movie mogul currently out on bl has pleaded not guilty. has also repeatedly denied all ausations of nonconsensual sex against him. >> we reached out to harvey weinstein's representatives and the new york attorney general's office for comment, but we

haven't heard back. >>mario batali is facing a criminal charge for kissing and grg a woman at a boston restaurant. he is charged with indecent assault and battery. he denies those allegations months after that alleg incident in boston is when foure other women c forward accusing him of inappropriate toe touching. we'll hav more on this in the ne hour. >> the toronto o raptors justne win away from a trip to the nba finals for the first time in franchise history. the raptors beat the bucks last night. game 5 of the eastern conference finals. the final score 105-99. kawhi leonard is practically unstoppable. he lead the raptors with 35 points, 9 assists. game six tomorrow night. back in toronto. raptors fans. >> keep us posted. al, what's shaking with the torecast? >> let's look what's going on around the rest of the country. we have mountain snow in the

northern rockies. severe storms but in th next half hour record highs in the southeast. going to be awfully toasty and we'll get to your local forecast coming up in the nex 30 s. second good morning, i'm storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. the northwest wind is back. it will be on the brey side today. those winds will average 20 to 25 miles per hour later on into rne aften. but it will be a comfortable day with falling humidity. temperatures in theow 70s now. back up into the low 80s for afternoon highs today and if

you're wondering about the rest of the holiday weekend, i think wou're going to like it. today and tomorroill be the better half of the weekend. that heat that al was talking about in the deep south that comes our way through sunday and into the next week. >> that's your latest weather. >> thank you still ahead here this morning, yet another fatal accident involving people looking for that perfect picture. the new warning after a college student's death at a scenic overlook. >> then an nbc news exclusive. an inside look at gaza and a rare interview this morning with the leader of an armed milit tt groupre and he has a direct message for the president. but first this is "today" on .is not all water reated equal.

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good morning, everybody. a refreshing northwest wind is back. temperatures are still on the warm side. 're in the low to mid 70s across most of the metro area now already falling into the 60s but that being said there won't be a big climb in the afternoon curtesy of that northwest wind. only a tiny chance of a shower

tomorrow. everyone has a cha of an isolated storm or two sunday and monday afternoon as the heat and h humidity returns. >> another update in 25 minutes. >> for now back to the today show after thi

7:30 now, friday morning, the 24th of ma heay,ding into memorial day weekend and our plaza is filled with men and women in uniform. 's fleet week here in new york city. we love to see them and say hi a little bit. also, harry smith has a remarkable story about world war ii veterans and this effort going onri tong back their remains. it's really powerful and important work. it is a busy fridayleorning. s start with a check of today's headlines. theresa may says she is going to step down p as u.k.me minister. that announcement coming a few hours ago outside 10 downing street, bowing t pressure from

her party to quit after failing to win support for her plan to thdraw from then europea union. >> i do so with no ill will, but with enormous and euring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. >> may says she will stay ons prime minister until the new leader is chosen. a process likely to take several weeks. wikileaks founder julian assange is facing more than a dozen new charges this morning. the justice department accusing him of violating federal espionage laws. the espionage act has been used to punish government please who illegally reveal classified information. it seeks to criminalize activity that journalists engage in every da some say. prosecutors say he deserves no such protection. he is accused of helping chessy

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in march a woman was mauled by a jaguar after authorities say she hopped a barrier to get a closer picture. at the edge of a volcano and national parks like pyosemit. >>ple are doing that everywhere. >> officials are reporting a growing number of accidents and deaths from those pushing limits. one study says more than 2 people died taking selfies. in texas he fell 50 feet off a bridge while snaing photos of himself. >> you can see it all over social media. >> with more people taking photos to the extreme, this morning officials are pleading for sight seers to exercise caution. especially as a growing number go one step too far for the perfect picture.

people are ignoring the signs or jumping barriers meant to keep them safe. these are all examples ofci nts that could have and should have been prevented. >> what a shame that is. i hope people are getting the message. >> no selfie is worth it, right? mr. roker, we turn to you. our friends down south there, it's hot. >> i hope the air conditioning is working. it's going to be toasty. for example, atlanta, they have a possibility of records all this week. and look at how hot. all above 90 and, in fact. all of these cities have a record coming up this memorialy daweekend. looks like it's going to be a near normal season as you see,

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we were able to secure a rare interview with the leader of the islamic jihad. it's described by the u.s. as a terrorist organization. e wants to wip out israel. just this month a militant in gaza was killed by the israelis accused of trying to funnel money from iran toik groups islamic jihad. we wanted to know if there was a conflict with iran, would it set light to places like gaza. this is o of two ways from and out of heavily guarded gaza, a bar yir separating the two million palestinians living there from israel. been through multiple document checks. metal gates. you don't just walk into gaza. if america's tensions with iran ever escalate to armed conflict gaza could be a flashpoint. at least 25 palestinians and four israelis died in case of violence just this month. the armed militant group islamic jihahas been supported for

decades. ne leader agreeing to an intervie and he has a message for presidenmtrump. >> i here to say he is a thug than. >> reporter: a thug? >> a thug president. >> reporter: a phugsident? >> of the president trump, america, many european countries, many countries around the world would say that you are a thug. describe you as a terrorist. >> i am und israeli occupati t fighting with missiles like these from a recent propaganda video yet we found them careful not to threaten a wider war with america. >> if iranians ask you to fire mi iles would you doit? >> our mission is to be in palestin the iz roadwe israelis would li

delete our history in this land. >> they say you want toet d them. >> no. >> extremism here is fed by a hand to mouth existence. we find the 2-year-oldsut witho shoes while this 5-year-olde collects freoodor f her grandmother. >> so you carry it to your grandmother every day? >> gaza's young people like these students fear for tir future. >> we're living in an open day. >> since they were children, thousands of palestinians have died in gaza's wars. >> we're scared. we're so used to it that even when we hear rockets, like just like the normal. >> who is to blame? >> all of them. >> they do not see president

trump's proposal this week of massive investment without a political solution. a view we encountered everywhere here. >> our land not for sale. gaza not for sale. >> this poverty stricken strip of land, politics comes first. no matter what the cost. >> meanwhile the israelis say the barrier you saw there around gaza is there to prevent groups from killing israelis and that if gaza feels like an open jail, that is the responsibility of groups like islamic jihad. >> howex nsive is iran's influencen gaza? what do we know about that? >> well, look, experts suggest that tens of millions of dollars are fed from iran. islamic jihad and other groups

are proxies of iran and their ambition is to provoke israel into a war. ofourse stuck in the middle of this are the young people that you saw, young people here in israel that ie been speaking to this ek. it was significant that that leader was not prepared to threaten war. that indicates just how worried everybody is in this region. >> a very telling interview. thank you so ch. up next we'll shift gears considerably. carson is going to join us and we have results of a new study. this couldettle that office fight. the age old debate over the office thermostat. right after this. >> hitting c. guys, what's the matter? the great outdoors is supposed to be fun. i heard there were fleas out here. and t-t-t-t-t-icks!

that is the truth right there. t sets up our next story nicely. carson, you are back in time for this age-old debate, how cold is too cold in the office? >> never cold enough. >> i rest my case. guys, a recent stud science suggests your work productive could be more connected to the work thermostat than you >>think. id you conduct this study? >> i didn't nor didn commissio it. >> it found women excel in warmer work places and overall productive couldcrease by turning up the temperature. >> well, that begs the question why are so many offices on the colder ayside. so back when a scientist created a model to predict a eferred temperature forindoor workers. >> that's right and 70 degrees became the go to for many

buildings. >> write down their preferred office temperature and then we'll discuss. preferred office temperature. >> all right. >> we should note that the temperature in the studio right 82. is a balmy >> it's not 82. >> it's only humid in new york. >> it's actually perfect. >> i said 70. >> i said 70. >> 75. >> i think 75 is like the iversally acceptable temperature to all people. >> i get lethargic. i don't think. i need cold to have my wits about me. >> he usedto keep i famously at 65 degrees. >> they used to hang beef in there. exactly. people are more alert when they're colder. >> studies show women at work like it at 77. guys prefer it around 72. research in nature climate

change says 75 degrees, a comfortable happy medium. >> that's not comfy. >> we need to check. >> but do u like it that warm in your house. >> yeah. or no ac at all. but that's fine you guys. i want you to be comfortable. i want you to be so let's get it down to 64 or whatever you like. ft get it cold in here. .> we'll be back a you with vvideo connect, powered t-mobile, vets can speak to their doctors from virtually anywhere, and get the care they deserve, without it counting against their data, so they can return to their most important post. soulmate, best friend, or just dad. the va provides the care, t-mobile provides the coverage.

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7:56 isim your on this friday morning, may 24th. good morning to you. a lot of folks heading out of town to the beaches for the long memorial day weekend. you're driving somewhere today try to hit the road before 10:00 a.m. tovoid the gridlock. so let's get right to melissa in first four traffic. hey, melissa. >> good advice. right now the bay bridge looking good. eastd and westbound. no big complaints.r inne loop the ramp from 95 left side is now blocked at a bra new accident. the rest is okay. >> all right. a check of your forecast is

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that's going to be with us all day long start to finish. temperatures aren't going to climb too much. we're in the low to mid 70s now and afternoon highs today will only be in the low 80s. 83 is the foreast. few fair weather clouds around but a zero peent chance of rain today. tomorrow a little bit ofce a chan for a shower later on especially w otf the blue ridge so our friends and neighbors a little better chance of a shower there tomorrow. but most of us will note effected by rain plentially unsunday. if you're beach bound, the beach forecast dry todaynd dry tomorrow and our extended forecast around here is going to get hot and humid on your saund it s -- yourday and stay hot through the middle of next week. >> thank you so much. local news update coming your way in 25 minutes. now back to the today show after . ♪ rhythm is dancer ♪ is a soul companion ♪ you can feel it everywhere

♪ lift your hands and voices ♪ free your mind and join us ♪ you can feel it in the air ♪ oh sorry, we were running late. no problem, me on in. ♪ no end in coming up, no end in sight. people picking up the pieces after tornadoes and dangerous floods slam the midwest. >> our house is it's this one right here. >> how wl the severe weather threats impact holiday weekend plans? al's forecast is straight ahead. plus hero's homecoming. the organization working to identify and bring home the remains ofn missing chirom world war ii. >> when you lose someone it's good to closure. >> a look inside their meaningful work r as weember those that made the ultimate sacrifice on this memorial day

weekend. >> no man lef behind means we'll do what we have to do to come back and get you. >> hollywood legend harrison ford stopping by studio 1-a as he takes on his very first animated role. >> there, you're cured. >> plus we'll ask who he thinks should take over one of his most iconic rolls. today friday, may 24th, 2019. >> from the uss new york. >> from kansas. >> go rockets. >> class of 2019. >> celebrating my 80th. s turnin. woo! >> good morning, >> g back from today friday morning ande are heading into the holiday weekend my friend.ha

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than enough to do damage, a 19-mile path from before and through jefferson city where powepow is still out, a city curfew is in place and roads are still closed. stross this region, that's not the bigge concern. right now in florida, right now in oklahoma rather, floodgates have been opened and many lakes, alleviating levies from bursting. tulsa having to openam d as many people are afraid they may lose their homes to rising waters. a lot to keep an eye on with this upcoming weekend. british prime ministe theresa maynnounced her after tion this morning failing to win approval of her brexit deal from britain'swi drawal from the european union. >> i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love.ay >> m said she will step down as the head of her conservative

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back with a fitting seres as head into this memorial day weekend. honoring our military today. nbc's harry smith joins us now. >> you just got back from germany. i know there are a group of dedicated volunteers doing important and meaniful work. >> think about this. more than upwards of 70,000 americans liste as missing in action from our wars in the 2h century. that's a whole lot of people. now, scores of those as listed as m are being found. >> reporter: deep in germany's forest, a sniffer dog is on to a scent. something happened here 75 years ago. the locals remember as if it were yesterday. otto was 9 oears. he tells us, the air raid sirens went off and wei heard the crh and came running. it looked like the plane came straight down.

>> somewhere over germany american b-17 flying fortresses. >> reporter: in december of 1944 deepehind enemy lines two of thos b-17s collided in midair. one of them nicknamed the fuddy-duddy with the crew of nine crashed here. two americans survived that day, were captured and became pows. the bodies recovered from the crash site brought to the village of steinbach. 94-year-old maria points to the spot where they were buried a mass grave their remains were eventually recovered. but three of the men aboard the fuddy-duddy were neverby found. he late 194.s the government had given up the search.>> it's unfinishedusess. the country owes those people and theirmi falies. >> reporter: these men are volunteersith an organization called history.

recovering world war ii aircraft, they realized they had they had a higher calling. >> the pilot and co-pilot are missing today. it's likely theare in this wreck keen, possibly the bottom of the crater we are about to excavate. >> reporter: the founder says it will take a month or more to sift through the equivalent of two football fields of earth. >> there will be hundreds of that stuff. this is essentially junk. amongst the junk you find remains of the flight crew, the equipment that they wore.ll you wiind identification tags that they had. enough to identify them. >> reporter: god bless you, man. >> it's amazing to think about the t serenity ofs, what it must are have been like when the crash happened. >> repter: a forensic anthropologist with the department of defense. their labs will determine the identity of th remains here. >> we are approaching now eight

decades since world war ii to be out here and doing that task. it's monumental and really amazinr: >> reportehese are the faces of the men history flight has helped. noon lger missing. but found. among them marine private fred freet of indiana. proud. mericans can be >> reporter: after a bloody battle in the pacific he was listed as missing. in letters his grieving mother swgged the military for ans. >> and the report didn't say where or how he was killed or buried. i realize you're busy, but i'm also a mother. i have to know. >> reporter: herrandchildren still have them. >> when you lose someone it's good to have a closure and tha a place to go visit them at a cemetery. she didn't have that. >> reporter: but now they do. last month private freet was

brought home with full military honors. hisometown of marion gave him a hero's welcome. >> our uncle fred is home. we are so glad to have him back on indiana soil again. >> our own piece of world war ii victory. >> reporter: back in germany locals point to a tree carved 75 years ago. >> 13th of december, 1944. >> reporter: and with the letters "usa" it's near the spot with the fuddy-duddy, that b-17 crashed. corated veteran and history flight coo justin lehue says it's part of a sacrad promise. >> we do what we have to do come back and get you. >> reporter: even decades later he sees this place as a battlefield like the ones where he fought. places where young americans

died fighting for their country. >> memorial days come and go. what do people need to know who are only thinking about going to the beach this weekend? >> that the reason that they are able to go to the beachekhis weend is because of a bomber crew that flew in on to ata rget, held their mission, did not return home. those men 75 years ago are giving them that right today. it matters, doesn't it, harry? it really matters. >> reporter: it does matter. the pow mia flags, m torial day, idea that those who heed the call to serve know full well they may have to give all. in marion, workers have pulled the stone marker that declared fred freet missing in action. a new stoil w mark his grave now as his remains have now joined so many osters.

n peace, privateet fre you answered the call, and we are grateful. >> so an amazing combination of csi and indiana jones st of archeology, they are sifting away. they can get a tiny, tin fragment or sometimes it's just pieces of a metal or pieces of somed of identification. >> when you think about that work, so painstaking, and going inch by inch and how meaningful it is and how profound for a family in indiana all these years later. >> s here we are on memorial day, which is a day that goes all the way back to the civil war. it was a decoration day. at's whatt was called once upon a time. we go up, hey, summer sales, let's go, let'swo go. h taking a moment. >> need a reminder, right? >> perfect story for this memorial den weekd. >> it was. >> no man left behind. >> dove tling on what you all did yesterday, too. d> we can't remember enough, you

know? specially this weekend. >> there you go. >> thanknk you, harry. >> pleasure. let's talk about the weather. folks are going through a hard it's been very tough. unprecedented. with 8 days in a row we may see 9 today of severe weather and s.tbre we have still severe thunderstorm watches. the tornado watches are down. we have flood watches from illinois and all the way down into texas because of all the heavy rain and we still have a risk of severe ather from texas on into michigan today. 26 million people at risk. we're looking at risk for severe weather tomorrow stretching back into the northeast and down into texas and the make our way into sunday still in the same area texas into the plains, hopefully no tornadoes out of that system. travel is going to be a mess for today for minneapolis, chicago, kansas and oklahoma city as far as the airports are concerned. roads, bismark to chicago. chicago to des moines.

isicago to loulle and then on your way back on monday problems in minneapolis, chicago, kansas, denver and salt lake and the drive stretching from salt lake city to chicago, i-85, i-95 and i-35 will have weather problems. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> it's a beautiful morning. we get to enjoy a very low humidity day today, tonight and for the first half or three quarters of the day tomorrow. right n temperatures in the low 70s. we'll reach the low 80s for afternoon highs. tomorrow also in the low 80s. a little bit more cloud cover later on in the day tomorrow and a slight chance for a shower on your saturday. chance has at least a for an isolated storm on sunday and monday as the heat and humidity returns. >> your latest weather. >> all right, mr. roker. thank you. good to have you back by the way. >> thank you. i got this thing. let's see how it goes. we're going to start. we got a big announcement from

the voice to make this morning. after 16 seasons adam levine, our beloved coach and friend decided to leave the voice. he was one of the original coaches that launched the show winning the competition three a time inspiring many of the dtists he woro closely with over the many viewers will miss watching relationship with blake shelton. you may be wondering who is going to be sitting in that chair. i'm happy to share gwen stefani will be returning. she met her current boyfriend through the show and we're looking forward to have gwen back. fun. eason should be >> that's great news about gwen as well. >> gwen is not the only thing coming back. so is shark week. announcing promo the return of the popular summer series.

>> shark! ar>> >> shark! >> shark! >> shark! >> we're all chomping at the bit for the week long event that's going to bring us thearatest sh discoveries. shark week returns july 28th on thean discovery chl. >> we're going to need a bigger tv. >> yes we are. olivia wilde, the actress and irfirst time dector had a chance to sitown with willie geist and open up about reacting. r> i hadn't really called myself a directoet and i asked him the other day and i said do you know what i do? and he said yeah, mom, you're a director and i got like full body chills. thanks. somehow i needed my son to let me own that. >> rit. >> but i love it. like now i'm the only kind of director he's been in ctact with so as far as he knows all

directors are women. >> that's good. >> three things that every movie that wewatch, did you direct this? toy story? >> no, i wish. >> book smart hits theaters today and you can watch more of th interview this weekend on sunday today. and finally on pop start today, after 2,000od epis, tonight marks the final episode o my late night show last call which started back here on nbc i 2002, if you can imagine. over the past 17 years i've had the good fortune of getting to have conversations with somth o most incredible guests. toght or much later tonight, tomorrow morning, while americans are fas asleep, our last episode is going to hav some highlights. here's a quick pe. >> welcome dave chapell. >> say hi to tina fey everybody. >> welcome jay-z. ♪ >> i have the worst cover up

from an ex-girlfriend you have er seen. i have jennifer love hewitt's name. this is what i gotwi left . it's a pocket knife with a crab claw coming out of it. i got mine covered up. why get i removed? >> i couldn't think of anything as cute as that. >> not only did i get interviews heu can see throughout t years the show has changed quite a bit. every time they slashed our budget we figured out how to tweak the show's format eventually taking it out of a studio. in new york. that was here. lauren michaels nice enough to let us squat where snl shoots. then los angeles and then eventually out of the studio. obviously the musical performances were the most important things to me. lot of fans made their tv debuts, the killers and ed sheeren and kendrick lamar. i met my wife on the show. a young writer's assistant. >> there she is. ur

>> in one of o sketches and we became friendly and would start to meet around the corner from the studio and shoot poolnd drink beer and make babiesnd got married. i want to thank everybody at the network for an awesome run. years on last call. it's great. you can watch that show if you are up late. feel free. last edition of lastt call toni on nbc. >> ah. >> howo you feel? >> great. great run. >> are you kidding? >> 17 years. >> in this business doing that r 17 years. >> everyone said talk shows are so hard to sustain andlihey're good luck and transitioning from mtv they were like good luck. had i known i wasoing to be on for 17 years i would have saved myself anxiety and worry. >> look at you. >> i've had a great staff throughout the years. so a huge thanks to everybody that's worked on last call. that's about a thousand people. >> we'll be toasting y'all tonight. thank you. >> congratulations. just ahead, we're going to sit down with one of the biggest stars really in the galaxy.

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items. sunscreen, bug spray and more. we willeveal consumer reports' best>>f the best. hen we have been talking to the stars behind "the secret life of pets 2" this week. another star are joins, harrison ford himself. >> and speaking of that awesome movie, let's walk down here and fiend gianna and angelo. they are in our crowd. all the way from detroit. let's keep going, let's keep going. keep going. let's keep going. hi, everybody. >> how about these guys? how are you? >> good. >> are you from detroit? >> yes. >> who are you here with? >> my mom. >> mom. how is new york going. >> amazing. ah do you like it? >> ye >> what's the coolest thing you have seen so far? >> statue of liberty. >> good answer. we think this will cool for you guys too. we have sething specialor you. these lovely passes right here. you'll be among the first to see the secret life of pets 2. take mom. there'se tickets to early

screening tomorrow and you'll see it two weeks before your friends are going to see it which is cool so enjoy that and enjoy new york and thanks for stopping by the show. but that's not all. we're sending everybody in the crowd so check oar the ely access screening of the secret life of pets 2. soverybodys going. >> very cool. all right. thanks carson. meantime, red nose day kicked off last night on nbc. stars pitching inai to rse awareness to end child poverty.a the cn has raised more than m $190lion in it's first yi mifillion. veclose to 40 million last nigh alone. >> wow. >> coming up on the third hour of today we're going to wrap up our hometown glory series.

queens.er going back to a visit to his childhood home. it was quite the trip. >> ran into some old friends of my mom. >> yeah. >> looking forward to that. >> just out of the blue. >> before that how about a check of the holiday forecast. >> let's start it off. first of all we have the indy50 0 sunday 11:00 a.m. on nbc for the first time. it's going to be the best time. showers, thunderstorms likely temperature about 80 degrees. the rest of your weekend outlook the aturday and into interior sections of the west. record highs in the southeast. gusty storms. that continues sunday. heat wave continues in the southeast. scattered showers western plains into the west and then on memorial day monday itself we're looking for rainy and cool twest.r soaking rains in the upper midwest. steamy weather continues through the southeast and the gulf coast. that's what is going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods.

>> there's a northwest wind averaging 15 miles pr already. that will increase. it will be a little breezy or blustery this afternoon. that's all right. it's pushing the humidity out so we'll have a 24 to 36 hour humidity situation.il it wbe around 80 degrees with plenty of sunshine. ifou're using today to drive to the beach and spend the weekend at the coastline, great weather all through the weekend. toasty warm her onsunday. >> that is your latest weather. love ed to show a littl on this end of theplaza. here you go. there's everybody. now let's head back heinside. >> tre all going to watch it on slomo later. there i am. >> you have an eye opening look at women on the forefront of the war on poachers and it's closer than we might think. >> pchers kill 100 elephants a day for their ivory and it's a legitimate concern. the women featured in the new

film breaking their silence will sat big reason why and down with the film maker that captured their stories and their heroism. >>y' the the women breaking ground under some of the most vital and volatile circumstances. >> they didn't actually think a woman could do the job. >> the new documentary breaking their silence, women on the o olont linef the poaching war explores the re of women fighting to save the world's most endangered animals from total extinction. >> what made you want to tell these stories of these incredible women heping in efforts against poaching. >> i think it's time for strong female leaders. we need them and dferent role models. these women are the true influencers. >> they span a spectrum of roles and continents. from the first female ranger of south africa's famed national park.

>> we are doing our best to fight poacng. >> to a conservationist that had gone undercover in vietnam. >> we try to change people's mind about using wildlife products as medicine. >> to a star prosecutor best known for her work against rhino poachers. >> i'm proud to w saye have 100% conviction rate. >> all as an enhanced compassion as different >>perspective. omen do it differently and the solution is men and women working together and women having high profile roles whole system and a lot of the men i spoke to agree. >> one of those women is petra. >> it's a critically endangered black rhino female. >> who left her ceer to run a sanctuary for rhinos. many who were orphaned or left for dead by poaching. >> it's anolute blessing working with an iconic species like this. we have to teach her to eat. we have to teach her to eat the

correct stuff. you're completely mom in your role. >> while much of the work takes place on the ground in africa, the importance of fighting poachers reaches far beyond that >> the same crime cindicate that found poaching found illal arms and drug trafficking. they just go ere the money is. you may not care about animals but you want to travel the world safely, y need to understand that the crime cindicates fund poaching. >> they kill for their horns and others for tir scales, dozens of species are on the brink of extension and withor repng 100 elephants killed by poachers every day, it's a dire situation. >> if they were gone, i think us as humane w would lose something inside us. >> but the tireless efforts of these women are a cause for

hope. >> a it's passion. it's literally whye i wak up every morning. >> i'm going to stand up and do o and change things. >> one the beautiful things is that they don't think about the danger they're in. they're going to do everything they can to dedicate their lives to protecting these animals and preventing extinction. >> i mean, this is important work. it's dangerous work for these women. >> very dangerous work. in ct, a lot of the women featured in the film, most of them have been beaten. the star prosecutor in the film e and her husband were both beaten and robbed in their home and now she has to keep her trial detailsnd locations secret. the women featured in the film wouldn't give their location to the film maker. they gave gps coordinates and they would travel to safer locations. >> why? >> the poachers are beating them and robbing them andry tg to silence them and silence the important work they're doing. >> the punishment and crime for

these poachers if they're caught should be upped. >> absolutely. that star prosecutor has 100% prosecution rate. thank goodness for people like her that are making sure they pay for their offenses. >> they need to address the market for this stuff. >> it's a horrendous market. obviously the iry and the horns are used mostly in asia, southeast asia andiewed as a benefits as well. me believe >> it's a heth heinous crime. >> it absolutely is. >> they have to kill the animals in order to getryhe i or the horns. >> natalie, thank you for shining a light. thank you. >> up next, we are going to sit down wh a hollywood legend. harrison ford right after this. but first, this is "today" on nbc. is "today" oc.

harrison ford is one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but he has never done an animatedowilm until n he is joining the cast of the

"secret life of pets 2" as a farm dog who has some wise words for our friends from the big city. >> that's liam. he likes to run. >> so let him run. >> well, liam's super fast. we blink and he is up a tree. >> so then your kid's up a tree. what's the problem? >> well. >> he could fall. >> he might. >> and then he hurts himself. >> oh, so he got really high up in this hypothetical tree? to etseaurt, he ls not do it again. you know how many electrical cords i have chewed? >> multiple? >> one. >> harrison ford, goodo t have you. my two kids, we watched this last night. they loved the first one. they are big fans of the sequel, too. >> i hope so. >> yeah. but one of the things that struck me as i'm listening to rooster, rooster sounds a lot like harrison ford. >> it's type casting, yeah. when i first came into the recording studio i said you gave

me a lot of money, thank you very much. do you want me to do a dog voice? they said, no. i said, well, what do you do? they sai just be yourself. >> they wanted harrison ford? >> it's type casting. >> yeat' you think t a bad thing? >> i thought it was, too, but it worked out this time. >> i'd say what made you decide to do this one? >> they asked me. >> that was it? nobody ever asked me before. so i was happy to do it. i really led the first one. i watched it with my family. laughed a lot. but i had not been asked before, d i was delighted to be asked. i thought this was a great bunch to work with. great fun doing it. >> we asked our viewers, we conducted this twitter poll, and we asked them to identify the

breed that harrison ford most reminded them of. overwhelmingly 52% said german shepherd. at's the kind of dog you would be. if you had your druthers would you be --? >> a chocolate lab. >> a chocola? lab not just a lab, a chocolate lab? >> a chocolate lab. >> why is that? >> because i have been drawn to . i have had several chocolate labs. my current dogs are sll dogs. and there is my dogs. >> three dogs. >> they are great dogs. but they are not -- they don't hang out with you like a chocolate lab does. >> i could s a chocolate lab in your future. >> yeah. >> what's gng on here? you got a little? >> this? >> yeah. >> this is -- >> gruffier than usual. >> this is for a movie. we are making another version of "call of the wild."

a few additional scenes to shoot. it's based on the jack london book "call of the wild." >> so many iconic roles. so many films. my personal favorite, "air force one." like a lot of folks, that line, "get off my plane." it got me to thinking of all of the roles that you have had, all of the one-liners that you have uttered, what's your favorite? what's your favorite one-liner from a harrison ford film? >> i'm sorry, mr. president, i don't dance. >> that was quick. >> that's cle"clear and prese danger". >> indiana jones, number five. >> he is in here somebody. >> he better be because it's coming out. >> he wants to come out. >> when you are done with that role, who would you like to see as indiana jones? >> nobody else.

nobody else is going to bejo indians. >> ever? >> don't you get it? >> no one? >> i indiana jones. when i'm gone, he's gone. it's easy. >> okay. now i've got it. >> yeah. >> harrison ford. >> this is a helz of a way to tell chris pines this. sorry, man. >> well, you know, better that he hear it from you. >> yeah, i thought so. >> thank you. it's a good movie. >> thanks. >> a lot of kids will enjoy it. adults, as well. >> i think adults will enjoy it as well. >> i hope you do more animation. >> i hope , too. all they have to do is ask. >> ask nicely? >> ask nicely. >> check out "the secret life of pets 2" from our sister company universal when it hits theaters june 7th. savannah, carson.

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