Dylan dreyer and frances rivera. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back. Did you stay up . I didnt want the entire show but i watched the first 40 minutes or so. The first sketch suz so great, right . All these people from rock center that tracy morgan starred with, tina fey, alec baldwin. Great. Lots of funny stuff. Well have all kinds of highlights for those of you who couldnt stay up. Right to our top story. The chaos in ft. Myers, florida, when gunfire rang out in the middle of a zombie convention. Nbcs dara brown is here with more. Good morning, harry. Thousands of people were all drszed up as zombies out talking the streets for this big festival, but their fun turned to terror when someone opened fire, killing at least one person. Reporter people were celebrating zombiecon in downtown ft. Myers just before midnight when shots rang out. [ gunfire ] the gunfire sending masses of oh my go. Reporter witnesses reported hearing firecrackers going off before Emergency Personnel respondedtim laying on the ground. One person was fatally shot and died on the scene. Four others were taken to Lee Memorial Hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Zombiecon was expected to draw more than 20,000 people. In a statement, organizers said they were saddened by the news and the group takes the safety of its patrons very seriously. And at this point, police are still looking for the gunman and are urging anyone who may know anything to come forward. Harry . Dara, thank you very much. Turning now to weather, where the extra blankets definitely coming in handy this morning. Several states are seeing snow on the ground. As many as 50 Million People are still under a free warning this morning. Dylan has the latest on that. Good morning. And i had no hot water this morning. The coalest morning weve had and i had to take a cold shower. Just a bit of a dusting, but it already has some winter lovers excited for whats to come. Reporter a bitter blast of winter across the northeast and parts of the midwest, from new york to michigan and pennsylvania, snow has arrived and its only october. It was about 4 inches. It was gorgeous. Reporter vermonts Stowe Mountain resort isnt scheduled open until late next month but is already starting to look ready for business. The ski trails are covered in white. Reporter at mt. Washington in new hampshire, temperatures plunged to 20 degrees, winds between 60 and 70 miles per hour. Hikers are being reminded to stay alert. Its very dangerous conditions out there today. And it is still snowing in some areas this morning. We have that cold air crossing over the warmer waters of the great lakes thats producing lakeeffect snow near erie, pennsylvania, arnold buffalo. And we are seeing this cold stretching all the way down into northern georgia and mississippi and alabama, including most of tennessee, which is under a freeze watch right now, freeze warnings in this lighter shade of blue with temperatures at or below freezing in several areas. Its 32 in charleston, 31 in cincinnati, philadelphias at 40 degrees. Later on this afternoon, its only going to warm into the 40s, so temperatures running about 5 to up to 20 degrees below average. Rochester, new york, 42 degrees, thats it for a high. But its not going to last that much longer. This area of High Pressure will slide to the south, winds turn to the southwest, cleveland is back up to 68 by wednesday, 76 in louisville, even new york city should get into the corner the lower 70s by the time we get to wednesday. So its just a taste of winter to show you whats to come, but its not all in just yet. Appetizer. Thats right. Makes it so much harder to get on the golf course, frost warnings. Yes. Makes it tough. Wreaking havoc all over america. Speculation is still running high this morning, believe it or not, about when Vice President running for president or not. During an interview in excuse me, during an event in new york last night he didnt speak about his intentions, but it does come as he has a call with a major labor leader. Nbcs Kristin Walker is at the white house and has more. I thought this was going to happen yesterday. Are we going to find out today . Reporter well, a lot of folks are hoping so because it is the big question here. According to a source familiar with that call, the Vice President left the union leader with the impression hes likely going to run, and today biden supporters say a decision is imminent. Accepting a human rights award in manhattan this may be the greatest honor i have ever received in my public life. Reporter Vice President joe biden made no mention of his future plans but did pay tribute to his late son, beau, who had encouraged him to run for president. As my son beau used to say, just keep moving forward. Supporters cried, run, joe, run biden stayed on message. This comes as the Vice President gave the clearest sign yet hes leaning toward yes, calling the president of the powerful International Association of firefighters. It would be a key endorsement if biden runs. Biden spoke at one of the unions events earlier this year. Hello, firefighters reporter according to a source familiar with the call, they spoke for about 20 minutes friday, discussing strategy, infrastructure, and fundraising. This source says bidens message to the labor leader, he knows he can get the political pieces in place. Now he just has to make a final gut decision. Secretary Hillary Clinton has heavily courted unions, but the iaff is not planning to endorse here. Still, clinton is capping one of her strongest weeks yet with a postdebate bump in the polls. Saturday she tried to build on that momentum in alabama, promising to work for Voting Rights and slamming the republican frontrunner. When the election comes around, donald trump and the coke brothers for all their money, they only get one vote each, just like everybody else. Reporter now, biden spent the day in delaware today. Secretary clinton takes a break from the trail to prepare for a critical test on thursday, her testimony before the benghazi committee. The benghazi attack and her emails will be a may focus, biden watching all of it. Kristen welker, thank you so much. Chuck todd is moderator of meet the press. I like the way kristen put this, inching closer, because weve all been inching. Yes. Is it sprying to you hes leaning towards yes . Its not. I talked to a couple sources on friday who told me that the Vice President was getting irritated with what he believes is look, in his mind, this was never going to be easy whether he made the decision to get in three weeks ago or makes the decision three weeks from now. He snapped, actually, at some aides who told the Vice President , you need to make a decision, because if youre going to run, weve got a lot of torque wo work to do. Thats when he said, i need more time. In the last 48 hours, the letter from his longtime close adviser who sent a letter to supporters saying theres still plenty of room and time, and then the leak there of what happened with the firefighters union. That was to me done on purpose to send a message, hey, hes not leaping no as everybody thinks he is, hes still very much leaning yes. Well continue to watch it as i know you will too very closely. Moving to the republican side, theres been a lot of talk since donald trump came out and basically blamed 9 11 on former president george w. Bush. Jeb bush, of course, hitting back. Then the captain, jebs campaign, released this commercial pretty quickly yesterday. Lets take a look before i ask you about it. Trump says he felt, quote, i always felt i was in the military despite neve serving. Theres nobody bigger or better at the military than i am. Donald trump said senator john mccain is not a war hero. Hes not a war hero. I like people who werent captured, okay . This is sort of the strongest pushback weve seen yet. What does that say about where the campaign is for jeb bush . Its interesting. I think jeb bush, to me that ad doesnt get made that quickly, erica. Thats been ready to go is my guess. You dont have it all just cobbled together in a 12hour period just simply to respond to this attack from trump. I think the Bush Campaign is looking to pick a fight with trump. I think they were hoping to find a moment that trump would target him again. Look, jeb is theres something missing. We all know theres something missing with hicham pain. The fund raising wasnt as good as he wanted it to be. Hes not shocked and awed other people out of this race. needs sort of to step things up a bit. Picking a fight with the frontrunner right now isnt a bad idea. Before we let you go, a couple of your guests this morning will be from the house benghazi committee. Hillary clinton set to testify on thursday this week. Is this sort of another make or braek moment for her campaign . Well, i think the campaign believes this, that this is the single most important event of her campaign of 2015. Basically, not until voters the most important event until voters start voting. More important than last weeks debate. Thats why shes off the trail for four days. Nothing but i say debate prep, theyre taking it as if it was debate prep. Its going to be a long day. That testimony thursday, think 8, 10, 12 hours. Dont be surprised. Nice to see you this morning. Thanks again. Thanks, erica. And hi, harry. Good to see you, buddy. It is niles to see you here. We agree. We should point out, too, for chuck this morning on meet the press, one of his guests, an exclusive interview with senator ted cruz. The u. S. Is stepping up let me try that again. The escalating tensions in the middle east. More of that and frances is here. That involves secretary of state john kerry who has Just Announced he will meet with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian LeaderMahmoud Abbas this week as unrest in the region reaches a critical point. Nbcs chief global correspondent bill neely is in jerusalem and joins us this morning. Bill, good morning. Reporter yes, good morning, frances. John kerry will meet Benjamin Netanyahu in germany as israel reels after another day of attempted murders. All the attackers were shot. All were teenagers. Theyre so frequent now that people here are beginning to use the word uprying. Stabbed but alive, an israeli soldier survives an attack by a palestinian teenager. It was the fifth of the day. Here an israeli civilian in white holds the gun hes just used to kill an 18yearold police say attacked him with a knife. Most of the attackers are from east jerusalem, and most are palestinian teenagers with israeli i. D. Cards, free to move around with no criminal or terrorist record. For their families, the attackers, one was only 13, are heroes. Israel disagrees. Hes not innocent. He tried to kill, murder, knife to death an innocent israeli youngster. Reporter israel says theyre terrorists. Terrorists. 13 years and 15 years, terrorists. I dont i dont know what to say. They are children. Reporter new york citys mayor saw victims of the attacks and stands by israel. When you are going through pain, we feel pain too. When youre under attack, we feel under attack too. Reporter amid the daily stabbings, daily clashes, palestinians convince israel is eroding their rights. Some marched for peace last night in jerusalem and called for calm. That seems a long aoff. Yes, no sign of that as israel promises what it calls an iron fist, and some palestinian groups urge their teenagers to keep up what are almost appear to be suicide stagings. All the signs are that israel is spiraling into a conflict that, frances, no one seems able to stop. Bill neely for us in jerusalem. Thank you very much. Now to beachgoers in hawaii who are being warned to be on alert after two swimmers were attacked by sharks in separate incidents yesterday. Both occur on oahu with one happening just 100 yards from the beach. The 44yearold victim wutz i didnt realize the severities of his injuries until we pulled him out of the water. Both legs just above the ankle were just hanging on. Hours later, another man was bit in the foot by a shark, the third attack in oahu just this month, bringing the total number of shark attacks across hawaii this year to seven. A Texas Community is reeling this morning over the sudden death of yet another High School Football player. Kevin matthews was airlifted from friday nights game after collapsing from a suspected seizure. Late saturday a vigil was held at the football field after School Officials announced he died at the hospital. No word yet on the official cause of death, but matthews is believed to be the sixth High School Football player to die nation wild since early cement. Theres apparently been a dramatic turnaround for lamar odom, found unconscious in a las vegas brothel last week. The l. A. Times citing unnamed sources says odom is texting and speaking. And enews reports he is moving around. Odoms sisterinlaw, reality tv star Kim Kardashian west has broken her silence on line, tweeting a photo with odom. Her first post since the incident. The mets and the chicago cubs, another win for kansas city kansas city beating toronto 63 in game two. Game three is set for monday, and the mets are back in action tonight. An then theres this. Just when you think youve seen everything on the streets of new york city, maybe you havent seen this. Police caught up with a runaway kangaroo saturday. Ladies and gentlemen, that is in staten island, new york, in a backyard there. The fourfoottall kangaroo was apparently visiting neighbors in the area and somehow unlocked the gate in the backyard where its staying. No charges were filed, but, you know, when you have a kangaroo and it wants to hop around outside the backyard, he does his thing. He was just visiting. Visiting neighbors. Avoid traffic, too. Tell us theres a break for this cold weather out there. Tutz. Thats when we turn things arnold on the east coast. Also, the rain in the southwest will eventually come to an end by the timemorning im meteorologist meteorologist ron demers. After a chilly saturday morning in the 30s for most of us, we started to warm a little better by the afternoon with highs in the upper 50s and lower 60s. Tonight will not be quite as cold as the past couple of nights and a strong south wind over the next couple of days will keep the warming going with highs near 70 for sunday and we may get close to 80 by monday. Your forecast brought to you by knovas carpets, siouxlands largest shaw flooring center. And thats your latest forecast. Coming up next on today, Tracy Morgans comeback. We have all the highlights from snl last night looks like some folks have had it with their Airline Credit card miles. Sometimes those seats cost a ridiculous number of miles. Or theres a fee to use them. Theyd be a lot happier with the capital one venture card. And you would, too why . Its so easy with venture. You earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. Just book any flight you want then use your miles to cover the cost. Now, thats more like it. Whats in your wallet . This moment is perfect in every way just like my kid gooey. Flaky. Happy. Toaster strudel. Now with more icing. Lowes presents how to lay down the law. I thought i told you not to come around here anymore. Now get a husqvarna backpack blower for only 249. This guy is not a life coach. Yes, i am. I have my degree right here tracy morgan on saturday night live in a comeback so many have been waiting for, knocking it out of the park. He was back on stage in studio 8h saturday night look like he never missed a beat, i think its fair to say. His first time back on snl since a terrible car crash last year that critically injured him. If the early reaction to how he did is any indication, you can safely say tracy is back. Here ooh nbcs ron mott. Lame, tracy morgan reporter it was a heartwarming intro. Tracy morgan hosting saturday night live, a comeback performance after escaping death 16 months ago. Thank you so much. Nah, im just playing. Reporter he wasted no time getting right to the punch lines, his brain injury among them. People were wondering, can he does he have 100 mental capacity . But the truth is i never did. I might actually be a few points higher now. Music reporter it was also a homecoming, returning to stage that made him a household name, familiar characters like brian fellows, outofcontrol camel and all. I cant see, camel where the heck are you, jackie chan . Throwing in new ones for measure. This jukebox every night hoping someday someone want to share the magical rit wm me not with these but with these. Its me reporter morgans hallmark is a deadpan delivery often punctuated with a dash of sapeny, and it was on full display last night, facing off against his exwife, morgans old family was ready for a feud. Commitment oh, here we go. Reporter Tracy Morgans long road back now paved with humor, driving fans to a happier place. We dont know if hes going to make it. Boring good god, tracy im back and better than ever. Reporter funny is his kurp currency, still semied and welcomed by millions. And i love yall. Thanks for being here with me. Reporter for today, ron mott, nbc news, new york. You just saw there it sunt only tracy morgan making a comeback last night. You saw some of his costars. And larry david back for the first time in decades. Used to be a writer for the show. Last night he appeared as senator bernie sanders. Senator sanders, how are you . Im good. Im hungry, but im good. And now if you dont mind, im going to dial it right up to a 10. Go right ahead. Were doomed we need a revolution millions of people on the streets and we got to do something and we got to do it now ah. He had the hands down. He had that hands the whole thing. He really was bernie it was perfect. 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It all starts with 50 clean energy by 2030. Got just the thing. Here to tell us a little bit more is roy from the grand meadow Haunted House. Roy, thanks for being here. Thank you. The 10th annual grand meadow Haunted House is coming up, you dont want to miss it. Thats right. Were going to have plenty of activities. Were going to have hay rides, train rides for the kids and smaller children, crafts for them to do, make halloween things inside the barn, well be serving apples, and some good treats insides. Obviously the big attraction is the Haunted House, its so popular youve moved it to two buildings now. Thats true. We had so many people there two year ago and the lines were so long that we opened up the extra building. We have the Haunted House in the old original school house, wooden two story frame. The basement is really spooky downstairs, even in the daytime its spooky. The other museum, we opened that up last year was the first year we opened that up, its interesting downstairs in that. We go into the old janitors room downstairs, and weve got an old coat room down there and a basement and its kind of spooky down there. The money is going to used for the preservation of grand meadow . Thats right. Program going on, our main school, we want to tuck point that. The money will go towards the upkeep and maintenance of our schools. The Haunted House in three weekends, october 17th 23rd 24th 30th from 7 to 11, you dont want to miss it. Roy, thank so much for being here. Thank you for having trouble with the snap and the ball is free its picked up by Michigan State jalen watts jackson, and he scores on the last play of the game unbelievable wow. Oh my gosh. Lot of people feeling that way this morning. That was harbaugh. Everybody was ready to sing hail to the victors, right . Hail to the victors, the conquering heroes to michigan, the leaders of the best and with ten seconds left, this guy look at that face. The faces in the crowd. So my wife went to the university of michigan. Okay. She was there. She was in ann arbor yesterday. Was she at the game . I havent heard from her. Im afraid she might have gotten i dont know what. Anyway. It was a rough one. There. Lets get you caught up on past the hour. The coldest air of the season, you may have noticed, sticking around for another day. Some seeing temperatures in the 20s waking up to their first snowfall. Heres the good news, thanks to our meteorologist dylan dreyer we know well start seeing a warmup tomorrow. Thats a fact. She promises. Well, tuesday. We have some sobering news to talk about a little bit here this morning. At least one person dead and several others injured after a gunman opened fire during a busy zombiecon festival in ft. Myers. Police are still looking for the shooter. In philippines a powerful typhoon destroying homes, knocking out power, officials worried the typhoon could actually bring dozens of inches of rain to some areas, so keep a close eye on that as well. First, as we get ready to head back to work tomorrow wait a minute. Were at work. Yes, we are. As you get ready to think about going back to work, how would you like to make millions of dollars just by making little videos . Some 20somethings are doing it all thanks to youtube, of course. This is wellknown. Frances has more on that. After watching these guys you will agree we are in the wrong business right now. You may not realize it, but all those goofy videos your kids are obsessed are on youtube and theyre actually theyre millionaires and it is a multimilliondollar industry. I told you it was the best game ever. This should be good. Hootie and the Fine Brothers. You may have never heard of them, but chances are your kids have. Feel kind of bad. Reporter according to forbes theyre the worlds topearning youtube stars. The next time youre tempted to scold the kild for posting video, stop. This could be their road to riches. But how much money are we really talking about here . A couple gs, maybe, a year . Probably between 45,000 and maybe 60,000. Hey, girl, whats up . Get this. Felix made 12 million last year for playing video games and making jokes. This is ridiculous reporter comedy duo ian and anthony may know them as smosh, 8. 5 million. The Fine Brothers keep it simple. Seeking out funny reactions to ordinary, sometimes outrageous things. This robot is i have no idea what it would do. Reporter now theyre laughing all the way to the bank to the tune of 8. 5 million. I have no idea. Reporter violinist lindsey sterling arguably the most conventionally talented of the bunch, 6 million. Contour because it looks more natural. Reporter and makeup guru michelle 3 million. Are you kidding . Thats crazy. Reporter the avera Household Income in the u. S. Is 53,000. Follow me on twitter reporter so why so much . It all comes down to the eyeball eyeballs. Their channels have 10 million, 20 million, 40 million subscribers. This is a generation fagtforwarding commercials, not watching regular tv. Advertising agencies have to learn how to reach them and youtube is a great way to do that. Reporter dont be so quick to dismiss those goofy videos. They may just be the next hottest thing. What do you bros think . And heres thing, youtube is just the start for many of these stars. Of them and theyve gone on to develop their own product lines, book, or tours as well. My kids love the toy collector. You dont even see their faces. You see their hands. They unwrap toys and test and demonstrate and narrate and theyre millionaires. Crazy how kilds go to that now. Theyre not really on the computer but know enough to say we can just look it up online and look at the youtube video. Youtube kids makes it crazier. They press the mike, say it, and thats it. How about some good news, pal . Tuesday, wednesday looks much warmer. Im breaking out one of my new storm coats. This will be seen in a snowstorm somewhere along the lilis. But today it is a little bit chilly. In the southwest, though, it is continuing to be very rainy. We have the potential of some flashflooding as that low moves through the area. But you can see as it lifts to the north and east will decrease the threat of those thundershowers that produced the heavier rain. But today were still looking at if it falls in a short period of time it could lead to flashflooding. Elsewhere, the eastern half dealing with chilly temperatures but the plains warm up into tomorrow. Morning im meteorologist meteorologist ron demers. After a chilly saturday morning in the to warm a little better by t t highs in the upper 50s andndower 60s. Tonight will not be quite nights and a strong south wind over the next couple of days will keep the warming going with highs near 70 for sunday and we may get close to 80 by monday. Your forecast brought to you by knovas carpets, siouxlands largest shaw flooring center. We have a pretty incredible story this morning, exploring why alaska is sinking. As the state warms up, the icy earth it sits on called permafrost is thawing out, and releasing dangerous green house gases. The Weather Channel investigated. This is ruths house. Im ruth. Reporter and this is her late husband, peter. December will be 30 years since he passed on. Reporter the house peter built never had a chance. Much of alaska sits on a foundation of ice. The floor will get wavy like this. Reporter when thaha ice warms it swallows buildings. You dont want your soup pourg over here when youre supposed to be eating up here, right . Reporter what is causing alaska to sink like this . To understand that, we need to take you underground. Right now were about 70 feet below the surfafe inside of permafrost. Reporter permafrost is frozen soil and other stuff too. Probably a shoulder blade, probably of a buy son. Reporter as temperatures rise, this permafrost thaws out. Home is where your heartis. Reporter thats what turned ruths life upside down. That thermal environment has been changing because her house is there, and when you have a permafrost there, which is really hard, its solid ice. And when you thaw that out, it turns into mud. Reporter and just sinks down. Subsides, yes. Where you dont want it to go is into the atmosphere. Reporter thats exactly whats happening today. Permafrost is really the worlds freezer, locking ancient dead plants and animals underground where they cannot rot and give off green house gasesike methane. Eve an few degrees of warming here starts to unplug the freezer. And life in the north is being impacted really heavily by whats going on now on the planet. Reporter as this permafrost thaws, the ancient world is coming back to lifefe in fact, scientists found living bacteria 25,000 years old inside this ice. A microscopic version of jurassic park. For today, dave malkoff underneath fairbanks, alaska. Gettingng underknead and understanding how that works. Amazing. You can see more of this for the alaska state of Emergency Special on the Weather Channel wednesday night at 8 00 p. M. Up next here on today, our sunday stories from the massive efforts to save african penguins to how bicycles are changing the lives of many school kids. And how one nfl superstar is making moves off the field for a bunch of deserving kids. After we are all inside for a while, it gets pretty stuffy. When dad opens up the window, whats the first thing he does . The tobin stance. But when we open up the windows, you can see the dust floating around. Theres dog hair. Pollen. 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Reporter when batman crashed a Halloween Party at texas childrens hospital. Hello. Reporter what no onene knew was that theeal superhero was behind the mask. In just four years, j. J. Watt of the Houston Texans has become one of the nfls biggest stars. Yes, he does, j. J. Watt reporter 26 years old, 65, he was voted byis peers l lt year footballs top player. Touchdown hes done it again reporter but off the field his footprint may be even larger. All those of you who dont believe treys my friend, watch this touchdown. Reporter watt as become the leagags poster boy for random acts of kindness. Lets take a photo. Reporter usually children or the military. Often its just someone who needs a smile. High five. Beautiful. Reporter watt insists he doesnt do it for the cameras. In fact, he usually doesnt allow them in. He says he t tly enjoys the kids, a superstar cheering the underdog. I know what its like to be a fan. I know what its like to be a kid who looks up to football players. And i just want to be that guy that parents can point to and say, he does it the right way. Reporter but good deeds and great play dont fullyexplain waltz off the charts popularity. Millions of instagram and twitter follower, cameos in prime time. What are you guys doing in here . What are you doing here . Reporter laughs on late night. And more magazine covers than a supermodel. How do you stay fococsed . Football is always priority number one because Everything Else stems off of that so s easy to stay focused. Thats why every time i do a commercial shoot or photo shoot or the magazine cover, the workout is done before it starts. Reporter watt says these are the moments that matter. Show him h h hard y yve been working. G. Repororr a young amputee who wanted his hero to see that even with one leg he could stand. Wow. That is to be able to come in here and see these kids having fun and smiling is pretty awesome. Reporter an october surprise from a megawatt star wa supersized hehet. I know far fact that is all going to end someday, so im trying to enjoy it as much as i can right now because i dont want to be at the end of my career and look back and say i reporter for today, Janet Shamlian, nbc news, houston. Talk about a great story. Lets send it t frances whos in the orange wroom todays plaza fan of the day. Guys . Theyre so excited, jillian, her daughters sara and claire from springfield, pennsylvania. Sara hit the jackpot today because not only does sheheove secretary rumsfelds s here. Great to have you with us. Harry, you made their day. Welcome. Thank you. Still to come on today, adorable african penguins. Come on ovov here, harry and then erica too hi, tom. Hey, hs the College Visit . You remembered. Its good. Does it make the short list . You remembered that too. Yea, im afraid so. Knowing our clients personally is what we do. Its okay. This is what weve been planning for. Thanks, bye. And with over 13,000 financial advisors, we do it a lot. 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I think weont really understand someef the challenges that they face. No. As a species. That we dont, especially a lot of people dont understand there are actually penguins in africa, southern africa, never danced on the ice as much as we would like them to. Penguin awareness today, zoos around the globe were hoping to change that by teaching visitors about the many different species including the african penguins we recently met in San Francisco. Reporter its feeding time at the California Academy of sciences. Try and feed this one to him. Reporter theyre a little leery. They dont like the new girl. Excellent. Good job. Reporter twice a day, vicky and her team share this ritual with visitors. If you do see some matching colors, that is a mated or bonded pair in this exhibit right nono eporter an encounter designed to stay with them. We want them to feel empowered to help in conservation efforts. I dont think a lot of people realize that penguins are in danger. A lot of people dont realize theres penguins in africa. Reporter in 1930, an esesmated 1 million penguins roamed the coast of southern africa. Today there are less than 25,000 pairs. The sharpest decline coming in just the last 30 years. The main threats, overfishing and climate change. The birds arere having a hard time findingng enough fish. The pents are not able to feed the chicks as mu as they normally would. Reporter facing possible extinction, biologists like vicky are stepping in, helping to feed chicks in the wild. In 2014, they nurtured more than 500 chicks that likely w wld have starved. Its a stopgap measure. Were just trying make sure that the population doesnt decrease any more than it already has. Reporter t tyre vo prprtech tif of one another it seems. Yeah. They bond. Theyll bond for life. You have a good pair, they are very protective of each other. Reporter what would happen if the african penguin did become extinct . Well, african penguins are actually kind of a m mdle species in thehe food chain, so everything affects Everything Else which ultimately affects us. Reporter a message vicky hopes these 18 penguins back in San Francisco can help deliver. The California Academy of sciences is partnered with a number of zoos and aquariums too help maintain a genetically diverse captive penguin population which ultimately means a healthier captive population, and while they of course can never be released into the wild they do help educate as we saw and help buy yolss learnrn more aboutut the ecies and serve ass a backup plan. Dont you love to be able to do a story like that. Its cool. Back there with the penguins. Students in the classroom. Lowes presents how to lay down the law. I thought i told you not to come around here anymore. Now get a husqvarna backpack blower for only 249. I love yoplait greek 100 whips. The textures quite nice. Its like. A little fluffy cloud in my mouth. Fluffy, fluffy cloud. Mmmm, yoplait. We take away your stuffy nose. You keep the peace. We calm your congestion and pain. You rally the team. We give you relief from your cough. You give them a case of the giggles. Tylenol cold helps relieve even your worst cold flu symptoms. So you can give them tylenol one of our favorite moments of the week, sundays with harry, nearly 6 million kids in the United States have been diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or adhd. Thats a lot f f kids. Many pararts worry about the medications often prescribed to help the children. Help may be as close, though, a your garage. This is that kind of dreamy shot youd find at the beginning of a Steven Spielberg movie. It reads a lot suburbia, exuberance, fun. And heres the early plot twist. This is a junior high gym class taught by Jennifer Braithwaite in utah. Good job. Ill ask them to run 20 minines butt if i ask t tm to get on a bike, you bet, lets go, whoohoo, out the door. Reporter while obviously preferable to situps and jumping jack, this bikes in gym class thing has a higher purpose, sometetng specialized bicycle founder mike hasaseen thinking about for years. This isnt about our brand. This is about making a better world for kids getting out on bikes and for us to stop overmedicating our children. Reporter whatt if, thought sinyard, a good hard ride could replace rit asce ritalin orred a Adderall Adderall . Time on the bike, performance i i the classroom. Guess what . Before and half the riding, we could see a dramatic effect. But whats really more important is the behavior, is the behavior of the kids was so different. Reporter jennifer is a truee believer. She has seen the difference. They will in their own words tell you, im a better person, i can sit still in class, i can focus, im more happy. I can tell you story after story after story where the kid became a leader. It saved their life because it gave them purpose to come here. Reporter Richard Davis is one of those adhd kids. His mother said bikes at school came along just in time. I was, like, well, you know, ive tried Different Things and why not give it a shot and see if this will help him as far as his confidence and his ability to learn more at school. And so and its done night reporter night and day. Yeah. Reporter really. Yeah. Reporter yes, a real gamechanger he says. I notice after i done getting riding bikes i would get in class and id be kind of tired and just would calm down. Id Pay Attention better. I dont know. Reporter and for School Administrator jesse sorenson, its a nobrainer. Theres something about the rhythm of the bike, the balance, the fresh air, it helps his focus, it helps clearhe thoughts and why not provide that opportunity for kids . There was a great article in bicycling magazine a couple years ago called riding is my ritalin. It was about a High School Kid who went to his parents an said let me get off the kids. I feel so much better when i ride. I dont know if its all as simple as this, but certainly i think the idea of trying to figure out what alternatives are available, and especially if you can get these kids out there on bikes in the morning before school starts, at least in this school theyre saying this is itit great. What a fantastic program. Are they starting to do it in other schools . Theyve got it in a couple different places and theyre trying to collect all the science they can to say is this really real . Tinld cases are very positive. The kids love it and their parentntto see the differencnc and would you rather ride bikes than do situps and pullups . Tune in to meet the press this morning. Senator ted cruz among chucks guests. That does it for us on a sunday morning. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for being here this weekend. Have a great day. You think storm damage is the onlnlcost of climate c cnge, think again. From the rising price of food to higher insurance rates for homes and businesses, the economic damage will only get worse. But with americanmade clean energy, we can save money on electricity and spur innovation to create new businesses and jobs. S. It all starts with 50 clean energy by 2030. This sunday morning, a new sense of urgency in 5e president ial race. On one side, hillary 0clintons strong debate performance ups the pressure on joe biden and whether he gets in. On the other, trump and carson are sitting on top, but is ted cruz about to have his moment . If youre looking far candidate who the career politicians in washington will embrace, im not your guy. My sitdown with the senator