i'm frances rivera. >>> president obama admits the terror group isis is more capable than u.s. officials first estimated. >> well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, acknowledged that. i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. i recognize the contradiction in a constrict contradictory land contradictory circumstance. we're not going to stabilize syria under the rule of assad. because the sunni areas inside of syria view assad as having carried out terrible atrocities. the world has seen them. hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. >> in an interview on 60 minutes, the president said american intelligence agencies were surprised by the rapid advances made by isis and that the iraqi army's willingness to fight them is a lot weaker than had been thought. meanwhile in an interview, boehner said the plan insufficient. >> at some point somebody's boots have be to be onned ground. >> when asked ifon the ground, said we have no choice. 72% of americans believe the u.s. will use boots on the ground in the fight with isis. >>> t

i'm frances rivera. we start this morning with breaking news. a direct hit. hurricane odile makes landfall. the record-breaking cat 3 storm locked onto mexico's baja peninsula. cabo got whacked by 125-mile-per-hour winds. and there was nowhere to escape the storm's fury. one tourist was rolling as a hotel was hit. and the fallout from odile could be big. up to five to ten inches of rain, dangerous storm surges, and this. huge waves triggering flash flooding. so when will odile weaken? meteorologist bill karins with the answer in just a moment. >>> leaders from more than 30 countries will be in paris today to discuss a strategy to defeat the terror group isis. ahead of the meeting the president of iraq told the associated press it's not necessary for egypt, the united arab emirates and saudi arabia to participate in air strikes on iraqi territory. today's summit comes two days after isis released a new video purportedly showing the execution of british aid worker david haines. david cameron announced yesterday that britain will support the u.s. in the fight ag

i'm frances rivera. congress is back to work today after a five-week break, and the biggest topic, handling the ongoing and growing isis threat. the extremist group released new propaganda video purportedly showing how isis used i ttactico capture an air base. and in iraq, near the country's second largest dam, one u.s. official says there were air strikes that completely wiped out the isis patrol in the area. >>> president obama meets with congressional members tuesday to discuss a strategy to defeat isis militants and on wednesday deliver a speech to the nation. support from the arab league could help the president create a coalition against isis. urging members to confront the threat of isis militants and other extremists. >>> nbc's tracie potts is in the nation's capitol. we can expect a busy week in washington. >> reporter: it's going to be a busy week and we're actually inside one of the senate buildings where a lot of that work gets done, frances, and a lot of discussion about iraq, syria and ukra

i'm frances rivera. investigators in pennsylvania believe they are close to finding suspected cop kill eric frein. one picture shows an ak-47 that investigators believe he was carrying while on the run. another shows ammunition. police say it's just a matter of time until frein is found. >> we're pushing him hard. he's no longer safe and i'm confident that he will be apprehended. >> frein is accused of ambushing two state troopers more than a week ago. new this morning a possible clue in finding a missing uva student is made public. >> in fact, i believe that jesse matthew was the last person she was seen with before she vanished off the face of the earth. >> matthew is now a person of interest in hannah graham's disappearance. there's now an arrest warrant for him. graham vanished september 13th by a mall. security cameras caught her last moments. her father made this plea. >> did you see hannah? who saw hannah. somebody did. >> this weekend more than 1,200 volunteers combed charlottesville for clues. >

. >>> we want to get the latest in sports with frances rivera, here with the big stories from big weddings to action on the football field. a lot of people celebrating this monday morning. >> a lot celebrating out there. really a huge weekend in sports. as we'll start with the nfl this monday morning right here on nbc sunday night football, the cowboys dominated the new orleans saints start to finish. demarco murray had a big day, gaining 149 yards and two touchdowns. the saints finally find the end zone in the fourth quarter with this drew brees pass to josh hill for a 12-yard strike. >>> teddy bridgewater's first nfl start resulted in 317 yards passing with no picks or td passes but he did run for a 13-yard touchdown. matt ryan takes advantage of major confusion among the vikings secondary for this easy pass to roddy white but vikings fans are forgetting adrian peterson and his teammates. mckinnon has stepped up as vikings prevail 41-28. >>> colts veteran reggie wayne played in his 200th game, a season high 119 yards and his first td of the season, 82nd of his career. andrew luck dominat

. >>> i'm frances rivera.ed a new video reportedly showing the execution of british hostage david hanes. the white house has condemned the aide worker's death which follows the murders of two others. >>> ray rice showed up at his former high school for a football game. his first public appearance after being indefinitely suspended from the nfl following domestic violence allegations. >>> back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> inside the fairfax county adult detention center, caleb bumgarner has spent the last week in the medical unit, recovering from a brutal assault that left him with a fractured rib and injuries to his eye and jaw. >> the doctor told me that i was healed up and ready to go. cleared for population. probably going to take a while for the red to go away in my eye. i mean, i feel lucky. from what they told me, the guy could have killed me. >> bumgarner is less concerned with himself than with his fiancee and the baby they're expecting in less than a

. >>> i'm frances rivera.ent obama will meet with congressional leaders at the white house tuesday. lawmakers have pressed the president for a plan to combat isis militants, a topic which will likely dominate the conversation. >>> the condition of a third american missionary infected with the ebola virus in west africa has slightly improved. his wife says he is still very ill. doctors say he arrived at the university of nebraska medical center for treatment on friday. more news later. now back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> daytime is one of the most uncomfortable times for medium and maximum security inmates housed on the old side of the fairfax county adult detention center. the 20 men in each unit are locked out of their cells and must share a day room measuring 21 by 19 feet. most watch tv or play chess and cards. robert barr likes to draw. he just arrived here after serving 30 days in disciplinary segregation for starting a fire in his work release housing

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>>> i'm frances rivera. here's what's happening. the u.s. economy added 142,000 jobs in august.han forecast. economists were expecting a gain of 225,000. however, the unemployment rate fell to 6.1%. >>> president obama visited stone hedge friday before heading back to washington from the nato summit in wales. >>> a funeral for comedian joan rivers is set for sunday in new york. rivers died at the age of 81 after suffering from complications during throat surgery. now back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ lord, you know what i need is you ♪ ♪ dear lord, this is my letter to you ♪ ♪ still got it going got real personal with you i'm patiently waiting for this curse to get lifted ♪ ♪ jump in the swamp with gators have my heaters for smoking ♪ ♪ please forgive me, for i have sinned ♪ ♪ journey with me ♪ let's take a walk ♪ pain got me feeling like you really ain't listening ♪ ♪ lord, you know >> between them, kenneth body and billy hankins have endured more than 40 years in prison. >> come down here about three times a week, you know, to

. >>> i'm frances rivera.ersey man was arrested outside the white house after he tried to drive into a barricaded area. he has been charged with unlawful entry. a 32-year-old iraq war veteran through the white house front door. the secret service has tightened security. >>> in california fire officials are trying to see how many homes have been destroyed by the fast-moving and still growing king fire. another update in an hour. back to "lockup." >> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ >>> in the heart of the deep south, the long, hot days of summer often give rise to fierce thunderstorms. and in places like alabama's maximum security holman correctional facility, they can also lead to violence. >> all right. anybody in here been stressed out by the heat this week? and it has been hot. did y'all know they broke a record in mobile? it was 100 degrees. that was 120-year-old record. does anybody agree in here when everybody gets hot everybody gets meaner and madder? >> ain't no doubt. >> p

. >>> i'm frances rivera. the white house confirmed the death of a british aid worker at the hand of i.s.i.s. in a statement, haines brother said he was and is loved by all of his family and will be missed terribly. >>> police on the hunt for a gunman after shooting two state troopers. one was killed and the other critically injured. no arrests have been made. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> we interviewed a lot of inmites doing long-term stepses. i am talking decades and decades. in order to survive they have to make the absolute most of whatever small pleasure they can find. >> we should go get some bleach and make everything brighter and whiter. like a teeth commercial. >> james stone may still look like a young man, but his boyish face conceals a hard-lived life behind bars. >> when i first came to prison, had nothing to lose, didn't care about anything, and very violent. >> he is now 55 years old and has been an inmate at indiana state prison for more than two decades.

i'm frances rivera. we start this morning with breaking news. a direct hit.ne odile makes landfall. the record-breaking cat 3 storm

. >>> i'm frances rivera.resident obama defending his decision to delay executive action until after november's elections and blamed the altered timetable on which thousands of children crossed into the u.s. watch "meet the press" for the full exclusive interview. >>> a private funeral service for comedy legend joan rivers who died a week after going into cardiac arrest. more news in an hour. back to "lockup." >>> today is court day at the lake county juvenile center. judge mary beth bonaventura and her five fellow judges will hear more than 3,000 cases in a year. some will be simple detention hearings. while others will be trials for serious offenses. 16-year-old ayryana has spent the weekend in detention for disorderly conduct at a high school football game. it's not her first time in juvenile. with two previous trips to the courtroom, the judge will have to decide whether ayryana should remain locked up or be allowed to go home with her mother. >> i want to tell the judge the whole story and just let her kn

. >>> i'm frances rivera, here's what happening. police in pennsylvania believe they're closing in on eric frein. trackers have discovered items they believe the fugitive hid or abandoned in the woods including an ak-47 assault rifle and ammunition. nearly three dozen structures have been destroyed by the still-expanding king fire in northern california. it has grown to bun 28 square miles and remains only 10% contained. now back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discussion is advised. >>> from the outside, every floor of the fairfax county adult detention center looks the same. the fourth floor maximum security general population unit is like a whole new world to jermaine knight. he was just transferred there from administrative segregation. knight will now have more privileges, time out of his cell, and a window. >> freedom. i just came back up last night and see a girl. looking out that [ bleep ]. >> knight is also experimenting with new food choices. he filed a request with the jail chaplain to be on a specia

. >>> i'm frances rivera.sylvania a shelter in place order has been lifted in the area where authorities are searching for eric frein, suspected of killing a trooper last week. police don't have frein in custody yet but appear to be narrowing the search. >>> security 12e7ed up after two white house security breaches in two days. a man arrested saturday for refusing to leave a gate and friday night a suspect armed with a knife jumped a fence and made it inside the front doors before being tackled. back to "lockup." >> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ >>> in the heart of the deep south, the long, hot days of summer often give rise to fierce thunderstorms. and in places like alabama's maximum security holman correctional facility, they can also lead to violence. >> all right. anybody in here been stressed out by the heat this week? and it has been hot. did y'all know they broke a record in mobile? it was 100 degrees. that was 120-year-old record. does anybody agree in here when everyb

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get it at discover.com >>> hi, i'm frances rivera.tesville, virginia, are looking for a person of interest who they've identified as jesse matthew. police say he was the last person seen with university student hannah graham. >>> and police have found one of two rifles belonging to eric frein, suspected of killing a trooper. he is still at large. >>> now we take you back to "lock up." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> prisons are like a microcosm of the outside world. just like on the outside a person will try to move up the social ladder. it's the same in prison. the bottom of that ladder is segregation, the hole, where the inmate will spend most of their time by themselves without any privileges. at the top of that ladder is general population, where an inmate will have about as much freedom as you can in prison. >> serving a 60-year sentence for several crimes including rape and with a long list of violent offenses inside indiana state prison, inmate brian collins was fortunate to have been moved o

eye of france is rivera. here's what's happening.uld not be appropriate to include iran and talks on how to combat islamic terrorists. >>> the family of oscar pastorius is -- he could get a suspended sentence were up to 15 years in prison. now back to lock up. >>> directly between glasgow and edenborow is shotts. just beyond its green fields is a much more for boding presence. this is her majesty's prison, shotts. a facility that houses more than 500 of scotland's most violent prisoners. >> all the prisoners here will be serving four years and over. that means they have committed a serious crime. 52% of the prisoners at the moment are serving a life sentence. most life sentences are given for murder, so we have a lot of murderers here. >> many of the men convicted of murder here are young, still in their 20s and claim drugs and alcohol led them to kill. drugs played a role in the incarceration of 29-year-old chris hutchison. but he was on the supply side. and his crimes made headlines. >> so you were a drug dealer? >> but hutchison w

i'm frances rivera. we begin developing news. ferguson police are looking for two men they say shot a ferguson police officer last night. here's what happened according to police. two men were standing outside a community center last night which was closed. when the officer approached them they ran away. as the officer started to chase them, one of the men turned and shot the officer in the arm. the officer is expected to survive. meanwhile st. louis county police is investigating a separate incident not far from ferguson. an off duty police officer is injured when three people fired shots into the car this morning. this comes as tensions in ferguson remain high and protests continue after the shooting of michael brown by darren wilson last month. police don't believe the shootings are related to the protest. >> i don't think it is. it didn't happen within the proximity of the protest area. this is an area that's secluded. i wouldn't have any reason to believe that it was linked in any way, shape or form with the protest. it does

rivera. air forces struck at seven isis targets inside syria today as u.s. aircrafts carried three additional attacks inside iraq. >> along with france we conducted over 200 air strikes in iraq against isil in support of iraq forces. with our air partners we conducted 43 air strikes in syria. >> we are taking the fight to the isis savages who beheaded our citizens, raped, robbed and pillages territory, assassinated thousands of prisoners and now threatening to disrupt the world. >> isis are so bad that al qaeda is afraid of them. >> the fighting coalition against isis continues to grow. today aircraft from belgium, denmark and britain fly towards the fight. >> the brutality is staggering, beheadings, gouging out of eyes, rape as a weapon, slaughtering of children, all of these things are from the dark ages. it is backed by billions of dollars with an arsenal of modern weapons. >> is the modern enemy already here. >> 9-1-1 what's your emergency? t 12th street. >> what's going on there? >> we have someone attacking someone in the building. >> is he back? >> he is running around out here. >> and that -- that's a gunshot. >> he struck a

rivera. air forces struck at seven isis targets inside syria today as u.s. aircrafts carried three additional attacks inside iraq. >> along with france iraq against isil in support of iraq forces. with our air