Havoc up and down the coast. The vacationing firefighters tell us how they got it out. And highway heimlich. An nypd officer in the right place at the right time. Are you choking . Yes, sir. Put your hands on your chest. He helped save a woman driving on a busy highway. His heroic efforts today, saturday, september 20th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe. Dylan is in baltimore this morning where we are sponsoring a health fair. We will check in with her for a preview. We will check in after the show. We want to get to todays top story. The Security Breach at the white house. A man was able to get through the executive doors after jumping the fence. Luckily the first family was not home at the time, but a lot of questions about how he got so far. Kristen welker is at the white house with more on this. Kristen, good morning. Reporter lester, good morning. I was here last night when the man entered the residence causing the secret service to evacuate the white house and press corps. This is the first time it has happened in the three years i have been covering the white house. Take a look. This Instagram Video captured the dramatic moments of the man running across the lawn and secret service yelling for the crowd to get back. 42yearold Omar Gonzalez of texas jumped the fence at 7 20. He made it up the north lawn and apprehended inside the nor nortnorth north portico doors. We have video trying to stop the man. Gonzalez did not appear to be armed or holding a backpack. The first family was never in danger. They left for camp david. Gonzalez may have been mentally distu disturbed. No shots were fired. Fence jumpers are not unusual, but normally stopped as they jump the fence. The secret service says quote this is under investigation and the secret service will review the response to ensure the proper protocol is followed. Lester. Kristen at the white house. Thanks very much. Turning to the scandal plaguing the nfl. Roger goodell broke his silence after more than a week. He is addressing the response to off the field violence. National correspondent Peter Alexander follows the story. Erica, good morning. Roger goodell vowed to get it right with a National Tv Audience watching. He made promises, but few details. This was scripted damage control, but it did not confirm his critics. Calling for him to resign. The reaction to the News Conference was swift from blistering to unimpressed. Social media no less harsh. It was a train wreck. Teddy brewski waeed in. Roger goodell needs to step down. We need new leadership. Reporter the commissioner started with an apology. I got it wrong in the handling of the ray rice matter. Im sorry for that. Reporter and promised to do better. If any of the victims had been someone you love, would you be satisfied with the way the league handled the crisis . m not satisfied with the way we handled it from the getgo. Reporter goodell pledged within the next month, all team and personal will take part in Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence sessions. Nothing is off the table. Reporter goodell launched plans with the Sexual Violence Resource Center and the Domestic Violence hotline which has seen calls sky rocket since the ray rice video became public. This pledges the force of the organization. Reporter it may not be enough for the fans who lined up outside the Baltimore Ravens stadiums on friday to trade in the ray rice jerseys. I cannot wear my ray rice jersey. Reporter in spite of the scrutiny, goodell wont step down. I have support of the owners. They expect us to do a better job. Reporter Roger Goodell said this is the beginning of the response he hopes to have a new policy in place by the super bowl. That is next february. Nearly five months away. Thanks, peter. Nancy armer is a sports writer. Peter mentioned the reaction was swift and blistering. He puts your column in that category. You said the press conference and what he had to say landed with a thud. There wasnt a lot there. There was nothing there. Nothing of substance. He had beinn communicative for n days. He said we are going to do this and we are going to do this and we are going to do this, but we got we are going to try really hard and talk to experts. How does that happen . The public has been calling for days and weeks in the number of ways for some substantive plan or action. How does it get to the point in the nfl that the commissioner is 50 minutes late for the press conference and says we will try to get something worked out in the next five months. Where is the disconnect . I think part of it is tone deafness. The nfl is the most popular sport in our country by far. You know, ratings last weekend were at record highs. I dont know if they think we can push it away and everybody will keep watching. I dont think they really recognize or appreciate truly the anger and unhappiness. There has been and the calls continue to come in for goodell to step down. He said nothing is off the table except perhaps his job or resignation. Would that solve anything though . I dont know it necessarily would. I think it would maybe make some people happy in the shortterm. Its more of a cultural thing within the nfl that they have to recognize they need to do things differently. You know, come up with some cohesive plans and i dont know if goodell is the whole problem. Right now, he is the face of the problem. Who does he answer to ultimately . He is the commissioner of the league, but he has to answer to somebody at some point. Is it the sponsors . Billions of dollars . It is, but it is the owners. He was asked about it yesterday. He said no, he has been assured that he is on solid ground. You point out they had record ratings and nbc polls which say this is a huge issue for people in terms of whether or not they watch the nfl. If all of that continues, does this end up being swept under the rug . I dont think so. I think it started a conversation which will not end which is a good thing. I do think if the nfl doesnt get this figured out soon, it is a slow drum beat. Who knows what happens in five years or ten years or maybe 15 years if it keeps happening. In the shortterm, will it impact us . Probably not. In the long term, it could. Not the last time we will talk about this one. Maybe wishing he did things differently. Thank you. Thousands of tourists in Cabo San Lucas are forced to flee desperate to get out after hurricane odile wrecked the area. Joe fryer is there this morning. Good morning. Reporter this popular destination is no longer a magnet for tourists. Cabo is destroyed. Completely destroyed. Reporter a swift bunch by hurricane odile was felt up and down the coast. A night she he wont forget. A high pitched whistle and lots of banging noises as things are flying and hitting. We could hear pieces of the roof falling off being ripped off. Reporter at a private airport, hangars were levelled and planes twisted like cans. The military stands guard at stores and gas stations. Power is out and resorts are closed and tourists are fleeing. Van horn waited in line for six hours at airport before catching a flight to los angeles. We were on a delta plane with 50 passengers. It was amazing to get on that plane. Reporter throughout the week, tens of thousands of people came to the cabo airport looking for a way out. Now the long lines have vanished as those looking to escape have been evacuated by plane. Were going home. Reporter many tourists returned home to the united states. Nick and ashton are back in chicago. The first thing they will do. Hug the kids. Not let go. Reporter were here at the airport which was hit hard by the hurricane. This is the kind of damage we have seen just about everywhere we have gone. Here at the airport, good news. It appears nearly all of the international tourists, including americans who are trying to fly out of the battered paradise have been evacuated. We ran into a group of four people who are still trying to catch a flight today to get back to sacramento. Lester. Joe fryer for us in cabo. Thanks. Battalion chief tom mangienello is with the chicago fire department. They were in cabo for toms wedding and just made it back safe and sound. Gentlemen, good morning. Great to see you. Tom, congratulations to you. I assume you got the wedding off before all this happened . Yes, we did. On saturday, it was a Beautiful Day out there. You would have never known what would hit us. And pat, i know some of the other hotels took flood damage. You went looking for supplies and tell me about what you saw when you got into the rest of town. When we went into town on monday morning, after the storm, you really got a feel for the actual devastation that had occurred from the storm. Telephone poles down. Devastation everywhere you looked. I know you saw some looting as well. Tom, as some point, the looters got to your hotel and you guys basically started taking up security positions. Tell me what you did to protect the large Wedding Party you were with. Well, first and foremost, we huddled in the hallway. We made a cache of weapons out of wherever we could pick up from the hotel or find kind of like in prison. We did our best to defend our group and keep watch overnight as people tried to get sleep. At some point, could you hear the looters or see them in the hotel . Absolutely. They were raiding cars outside our windows. They were walking through the hotel and rummaging through the rooms abandoned by guests. Tom, you had to figure out a way to get to the airport. Cabs were not working. Reports of people ripped off in cabs. You managed to arrange for some vans to get you out of there, but actually escaping the hotel itself was an operation. Explain to me. Okay. Ill take it. It was my son nick who contacted one of the workers there. The workers in the complex were good. They were helping everybody the best they could. He contacted a worker who got the group of vans. We had six vans. We had 50 people with us. Some elderly. Some people were worried about medications and all that. So at 5 00 in the morning, we had to kind of sneak out of the hotel because we were concerned about a mob reaction of people coming and just swarming the vans. Finally, pat, i know you got to the airport and there you see the sight of an american commercial airliners. One Airline Worker comes up to you and gives you a sense of everything is going to be okay. Tell me what happened. As we were standing in line waiting to be escorted on the tarmac, an employee from the Alaskan Airlines walked up to us and confirmed for us he would be the one taking care of us. He just reassured us we were safe and the event was over. We were going to be on a plane. We are all glad you are back safely. Again, tom, congratulations to you. Trust me, marriage gets better after surviving a hurricane. Thanks again. Great wedding. The honeymoon wasnt so good. Take care. Thank you. A redo. Good excuse for another vacation. Jenn is here with a look at the top stories. Good morning. Hi, everyone. Roads are closed in rural pennsylvania and people are hunkered down while Police Search for the killer who ambushed the state trooper. Ron allen is live in blooming grove, pennsylvania. Reporter jenna, a terrifying night. A Massive Police operation. The man hunt zeroing in on a neighborhood where they thought the suspect eric matthew frein might be holed up. Helicopters overhead. Roads blocked off. Hundreds of residents told to shelter in place. Frein is on the fbi top ten most wanted list. The search has extendsed beyond this area to five other states. There is so much uncertainty. Whether he is near or far from here by now. Of course, this is dangerous operation for Law Enforcement trying to track this man in the woods who is a survivalist. This is day eight as the search continues. Jenna. Ron allen, thank you. New allegations of a growing wildfire in oregon. 30 homes were given evacuation notices and in gasden, 35 people are out of their homes. Four homes have burned to the ground. 37yearold Wayne Allen Huntsman pleaded not guilty of setting the king fire. In the skies, the russian fighter jets. American f22s scrambled to get to war planes flying within 65 miles of u. S. Air space on wednesday. This came as ukraines president was in the u. S. The russian planes were fighters, bombers and refuelling tankers. Drastic measures to prevent the spread of ebola. The entire nation of sierra leone has been locked down. 6 Million People consifined to their homes for three days. Those flying out of the country are checked at the border. Health workers are going house to house looking for people infect infected. A moving tribute to joan rivers last night on Fashion Police and special remarks from melissa. I really want to thank all of the joan rangers for the outpouring of love. It means so much for cooper and me. Thank you. And melissa announced the show will go on without her mother joan rivers. And finally, take a look at this video of new yorks finest in action. A Police Officer approaches a vehicle that stopped in the right lane of the vehicle. The driver is clutching her throat. He moves in to perform the heimlich. The 49yearold driver was choking on a cough drop. If you have a cold, you should think about taking a train or if you have to drive, get through cough drop. You thought that was a stretch . Im good at morals. Everybody was fine. He was a hero. I would throw that in there. All right. Ill remember that. As we mentioned, dylan is in baltimore getting ready for the health expo this afternoon. For the rest of us, road trip. Dylan, good morning. Good morning, guys. I miss you back there. We are here in baltimore. As you know, for the last nine months, we have been working handinhand with baltimore to really shine a light on health and wellness and today is our huge health and wellnesswellnes noon to 3 00 today at the Carmelo Anthony youth center. So many things planned. Cooking demonstrations to give you tips on how to cook healthy. Exercise classes, line dancing if youre up for that. And, ladies and gentlemen, lester holt will be here. Granted, erica, jenna and i will be here, but lester holt is going to be here. Big deal. You know, were there, underneath in small font. Its okay. We know exactly how we draw people in. Are you kidding . Were like the backup singers but its not a bad gig. You guys are embarrassing me. I had a hit on the big one there. So, everybody, if youre in the area and can come on down, it will be a great event. There will be some activities outdoors as well. And the weather is absolutely fantastic here in baltimore. Well top out in the 70s today. In other parts of the country, we are looking at this cold front thats going to tgger stronger storms. Two areas of strong storms. One through the western great lakes, stretching into the midwest and another one in the upper midwest. The biggest threat for those storms today will be for large hail and damaging wind gusts. We want to focus on the southeast. Theres an area of low pressure bringing really heavy rain right along the immediate coastline. That is going to perhaps bring as much as two to three inches of rain along the carolina coast. That stretches into eastern florida. Its right along the immediate coast, something to keep in mind. We should see some improvements as we go into sunday. Thats a look at the weather across the country. Now heres a peek out your window. Very good saturday morning to you. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Partly cloudy sky, suns up already. Temperatures are in the 50s and 60s in most neighborhoods. 59 now in manassas. 54 in culpepper. 67 in annapolis. Upper 70s to near 80. Fair amount of sunshine coming our way for today. Clouds increasing during the day tomorrow. Slight chance for a few showers late into the day probably not until after the sun goes down. Have a good and that is your latest forecast. From here in baltimore, we have more coming up. For now, back to you. Thats good. See you in a bit. We will hop on the train in a while. Looking forward to it. The train ride or both . Both. What are the seating arrangements . Do you pick who you are sitting next to . Were on a train. It wont be either of you. Jenna and i will not be in the quiet car. Looking forward to that. Up next, if you are obsessed with checking your smartphone, we get it. A new way you can keep track of how often you are searching for satisfaction in your phone, but first this is today on nbc. Im sure she knows couples in our situation. I just hope she has good coffee. At least were talking about it. I was kidding. I know just try to be serious in there, okay . Okay, youre right. Its just going to be simple steps. Thats all we need. Yeah. Just hope she doesnt tell us we have to work until were 80. The its time to talk about retirement conversation. Wells fargo can help with my retirement plan. A tool that gives you manageable steps for retirement. We can do it with you or try it online. Together, well go far. Have you ever felt lost without your cell phone by your side . A new way to find out how attached we are to our smartphones. Jenna is in the orange room to explain. Here we go. You make a trip to the bathroom, you bring your phone. Out to dinner, phone. Wherever you go, phone. Instagram and pintrist and facebook. Im no doctor, but you may be addicted to your cell phone. I dont know what that is about. For me, and i will not na name names, it is a fifth limb. How do you break a cell phone addiction . A Silicon Valley may have the answer in the app. I see the irony in all this. The app is called checky. It tracks how many times you checked your phone. It maps out where the usage occurred. How does it work to break an addiction . It just makes you a little more aware of your device dependency. We all downloaded an app on the set here. We will all share our numbers later. Lester, erica, dylan, i will not tell you when. Keep your phones handy. Ill go into the app i have set up. Ill tell you my number this morning and it is only 7 30 is a low 14. I only checked my phone 14 times. Which since i average 380, is coming in low. I think that is low for jenna. Dylan . She is always on her phone. I have ten. I have ten, too. Im on location. Although i just downloaded mine in makeup at 5 45. One. Somebody tweeted during the show. Somebody looking all high and mighty. We know the real story. Still ahead on today, Actress Debra Messing stops by hese messages. Good morning. It is saturday, september 20gth. Im richard jordan. Police are looking for a man who stabbed a woman to death in the district 1 30 this morning on benning road not far from woodlawn cemetery. In less than an hour teams will gather at the university of virginia to search for a missing student from northern virginia. Hannah graham vanished one week ago, last seen at a bar. She is from Fairfax County and graduate friday west Potomac High School last year. 2yearold jacob and 3yearold sarah hoggle disappeared two weeks ago. Search teams will meet at 8 30 at Seneca Valley High School in germantown. There is a 20,000 reward for information that leads to their safe returns. Well check your forecast next. Stay with us. Know that chasing performance can mean lower returns and fewer choices in retirement. Know that proper allocation could help increase returns so you can enjoy that second home sooner. Know the right Financial Planning can help you save for college and retirement. Know where you stand with pnc total insight. A new investing and Banking Experience with personalized guidance and online tools. Visit a branch, call or go online today. Nice cool start to the day. It is the last weekend of summer. We need a warmup. Lets check in with chuck bell. Its a warmup you will get for later on today, temperatures running above average today and especially tomorrow. Out the door weather on your saturday morning, upper 50s to low and mid 60s. Pleasant start out there. No chance for rain today. Temperatures, 60s through the remainder of the mid Morning Hours up to 75 grease at noontime today. Up to near 80 degrees. A warm one for sure. Tomorrow even warmer. High near 86. Slight chance of a few showers tomorrow. Done before you wake up monday morning. From there on out, richard, dry and mild through the rest of the coming week. Looking good, chuck. Thanks. Next news update is in 25 minutes. Now back to the today show in new york. Have a great day. We are back on a saturday morning. It is september 20th, 2014. We have a fun crowd out there on the plaza. Last saturday of summer. Good to have them with us on this brisk saturday morning. Here in studio 1a. Dylan is in baltimore. We will check in with her in a bit. Meantime, iphone frenzy in effect on friday with thousands lining up to get the iphone 6. You may have read the professional reviews, but what do real folks think about it . And you loved her on will and grace. Now Debra Messing is back with a new show on nbc. We will talk to her about the experiences she brought to the role. A woman slowly losing her sight and hearing. We will have rebecca alexander. The sister of Peter Alexander. We will talk to both of them coming up. We begin with the search of the missing student Hannah Graham. She was last seen on video with a man who reportedly approached her that night. Could authorities be closer to tracking this case . Once again, here is kristen welker. Reporter students and members of the community flooded this Campus Center friday night signing up to join the search for Hannah Graham. Im a mom of two daughters. I think we can make a difference. Reporter it has been one week since the student at the university of virginia disappeared. A determined police chief is imploring the public to help. If you live in the city of charlotteville and attend the university of virginia. If that lady has touched your life, you have the responsibility to help us find her. Reporter police discussed a possible break in the case after searching the charlottesville apartment building. Im not calling him a suspect. We used this term person of interest. Im not fond of the term. Let me say, were interested in him. Reporter earlier this week, Police Released a video showing a man following the 18yearold just after 1 00 last saturday morning. That man has since come to authorities saying a second man approached hannah. That is the man police are interested in. They say those two walked into a bar. We know he purchased alcohol there. We know Hannah Graham was with him. We know within 15 minutes, they were gone from that bar. Reporter police say the person of interest is 32 with dread locks and known to them. Meanwhile, hannahs parents are thanking the community and posting on facebook. For those students planning to unwind this weekend, be extra vig vigilant when you are out and walk with a buddy. They want their daughter back. They want to know what happened to their little girl. Reporter for today, kristen welker, nbc news, washington. Lets go back to baltimore for a check of the weather with dylan. With dylan . Hey, dylan. Good morning. So excited. Good morning, guys. We are here in baltimore for a huge purpose. We have our big health and wellness expo today. Noon to 3 00 at the Carmelo Anthony free for health screening, cooking demos. Weve got it all. Im here. Youll be joining me soon enough. Anyone in this area, come down and check out this health expo. Weve been working hard and our producer has been working tirelessly to get this done. Forecast across parts of the country. Its cloudy but well clear out nicely here in baltimore. We are going to see our warmest temperatures further away from here. We should tap out five to ten degrees above average in parts of the midwest. In st. Louis today, about 89 degrees and out further west its even hotter. We should be in the 90s today. Medford, 20 degrees above average for this time of the year. Weve got this cold front though that will trigger storms. Hail and damaging wind gusts will be our biggest threat. We could see more rain in texas, an area hard hit by floods that does not need any more rain. Unfortunately a few more thunderstorms are expected down south. Now heres a out your window. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Temperatures in the low to mid 60s inside the nearby suburbs to upper 50s for northern montgomery county. 54 culpepper, 57 in winchester. As you plan your saturday, plan on plenty of sunshine and a warm day. Temperatures in the mid 70s by noontime and highs today near 80 degrees. Warmer tomorrow with a high near 86. Thats almost 10 degrees warmer than average. A few showers late tomorrow night. And that is your latest forecast from baltimore. Erica. Dylan, thanks. Just ahead, an inspiring story of perseverance and hope after a woman is diagnosed with an illness that robs her of her sight and hearing. She is here with us, rebecca honey, are you ok . crying shes being so nice. Id prefer you didnt watch these when youre pregnant. Sweetie. Could it be im falling in love. in an english accent with your pea coat and your stomping around with your bobbies. Is the audition to play a portuguese guy . No, british. You are really going for it. Eyes are muscles too. With the best screen of any tablet, the new Samsung Galaxy tab s is the worlds most entertaining device. Get it now at samsung. Com. Welllllllll, not when your travel rewards card makes it so hard to get a seat using your miles. Thats their game. The flights you want are blacked out. Or they ask for some ridiculous number of miles. Honestly, its time to switch to the venture card from capital one. With venture, use your miles on any airline, any flight, any time. No blackout dates. 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Rebecca and her brother, peter, our National Correspondent are here with us. Good morning. We spoke last time five years ago about ushers disease and how it is affecting you. You found out about this when you were in college and slowly came to grips with it. You say you are happy now. You are happier than you have ever been. Explain. I think when i first was given my official diagnosis, i was 19. It was really overwhelming and i wanted to try to hide my disabilities as much as i could. I could never imagine ever being blind and deaf. The idea of it overwhelmed me. To imagine myself here today with far less vision and far less hearing, i felt like i would never want to be in that place. Yet, here i am and im happier than i ever was at the time diagnosed. You made the decision to get a cochlear implant. You are hearing again, but not in the way you used to. Explain how you hear voices and music. A cochlear implant is a speech processor. It is embedded in your skull. You are giving up whatever residual hearing you have essentially. Im really hearing and deaf. I decided it was best decision for me because i was raised in a hearing family and hearing world. When i decided to get cochlear implanted, i had to have the implant and go through just about a year of listening therapy. Often times we see videos of people with the implants turned on for the first time and it is so exciting, but it is actually a lot more work than that. You dont simply get turned on and all of a sudden you are back to hearing. It is a digitized hearing. It takes time to relearn how to hear with it. Tell me about your sight now. I understand your field of vision is down to about 10 . What does that mean . Describe how you see things. Sure. A normally sighted person, i like to explain this way, has about 180 degrees of vision. So i have about 10 degrees. So my central most vision is my strongest. I dont really have the outer area. I have a small sliver of vision in outer periphery. How much of him do you see . I can see his face. I can see a little bit down here. You see nothing on either side of me. This doesnt define who you are. You are an incredibly accomplished woman as we mentioned. Two masters degrees. A psycho therapy. A spin instructor. I have been in your class a couple of times. A very good spin instructor. Explain to me, do you feel you are going through a check list of things you need to accomplish before you lose sight comcompl y completely . This disease reminds me i dont have time to sit around and wait for things to happen. I have to make them happen. I think im doing everything that i want to do. People talk about having a bucket list. I dont have a bucket list. Im simply living my life and doing the things i want to do. You have a lot of people rooting for you. You have your wing man here, as you describe. Peter. One time she was out on a blind date. Talk about ruining your game. She was out on a date to meet a guy. She knew he was going to be there. It is a loud room and dark. This is not a fun night in new york a couple years back. I saw the guy. I saw the picture of him before we got there. I saw him walking toward her. Hes on your right in five, four, three, two. Hi. He did not have a clue. Im not sure you want to take your big brother on the date. Awkward. Obviously a hollywood producer is thinking, i will write this in a scene. Rebecca, thank you for coming by. The book is called not fade away. Coming up on nbc, we will catch up with debra m you use tide pods . Yeah but i thought you were the queen of the pretreat soak treat soak . Those are fond memories, but those things are amazing. Once i saw what they did, i actually started to relax. Dont touch my things. Those little guys clean, brighten and fight stains. So now i can focus on more pressing matters. Like your containers. Isnt it beautiful . Your sweet peppers arent next to your hot peppers. [ gasps ] [ sarah ] thats my tide. Whats yours . [ gasps ] ok who woh, i do t rolls . whoooosh smack whoooosh smack whoooosh smack whoooosh smack whoooosh smack whoooosh smack whoooosh smack thanks carol electric hedge trimmer Everybody Loves the sweet, fluffy deliciouslness of kings hawaiian bread. [ male announcer ] this man has an Accomplished Research and Analytical Group at his disposal. But even more impressive is how he puts it to work for his clients. Morning. Morning. Thanks for meeting so early. Oh, its not a big deal at all. Come on in. [ male announcer ] its how edward jones makes sense of investing. Theres no mystery when it comes to the talents of Debra Messing. We still cannot get enough of her in will and grace. She is trading in the water bra for the police badge. You are looking at six months easily. Unless. Unless what . You get my boys enrolled in prek. Im just a mother with a shiny badge, a loaded gun and very little patience. Debra messing is with us. Good morning. Good morning. That will wake up. I hear you are a fan of date line. Where does all that coming from . I dont know. Its from very young age. I was really fascinated. I intended to be a prosecutor. Somehow you got side tracked . Side tracked. It worked out okay. It did. I get to do both. I get to solve crimes. It is a dramady. You dont see them on network television. To have a very classic, very complicated murder mystery coupled with laugh out loud moments of comedy is incredibly challenging thing to do. Finding the right tone. Were having a ball doing it. I understand it is important to you that your character be relatable which is why she is disshoved and a mom of twin boys and eating burritos off her desk. Why is that important to you . It is important to show reality. You know, im a working mom. The hardest job in the world trying to balance those two things. I wake up in the morning and whatever pair of pants on the floor of my bathroom go on. I dont look to see if they match. Sometimes you have to truck on through. Thats what i like about this character. You know, shes the best at what she does. She is a really smart detective. But she has no vanity. She is yelling at her kids running around the house. Before we let you go, you got a lot of attention for your juggling recently on jimmy fallon. This was actually part of your curriculum in school . It was. My masters degree from nyu. A program. 70 hours a week. In addition to shakespeare and acting and singing, we had circus class. Did you think to use those beyond acting . No. Somehow i think laura would not be a good juggler. No, no, no, no, no. She will stick to solving crimes. Thank you. Debra messing, thanks. You can catch the mysteries of laura wednesday nights here on nbc. Still to come on today, do you have yours yet . I hope you do. The iphone 6 is out. How does it stack up . We will see how people love it. First, this is today, on nbc. 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News 4 today begins at 8 30 this morning, not 9 00 am. Remember, you can always get your good morning. Its saturday, september 20th, 2014. Here is a look at the top stori stories. White house Security Breach. Chaos when the man scales the fence and runs to the mansion. Somehow he made it inside. How far did he get . Playing defense. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell talking about how he handled the ray rice situation. Goodell admitted again he got it wrong. Will the apology be enough . And vacation from hell. Thousands flee mexico after hurricane odile came through. A terrifying scene for tourists whose hotels were destroyed. Most people have been able to get back home now. Good morning. Im lester holt. Welcome to today. Im erica hill here in studio 1a with jenna wolfe. We have dylan dreyer in baltimore. In a few hours, we are kicking off a health and wellness expo there. We will make our way down to join dylan and our friends. We will hear more from dylan in a few minutes. Lets begin with the scary scene at the white house. The first family was not home at the time of the Security Breach. How did the man make it all the way into the executive mansion . Kristen welker is at the white house. Reporter lester, good morning. An official with the secret service identifies the man as 42yearold Omar Gonzalez of texas. Authorities say it started at 7 20 friday night when gonzalez jumped the fence and the press corps was evacuated along with white house staff. This is the first time this has happened in the three plus years i covered the white house. There is no indication of a similar breach happening in recent history. Everybody out. Reporter the cell phone video posted on instagram shows the man running across the north lawn as officers shooed the stunned away. Our nbc cameraman was on the scene as secret service scrambled yelling for the press to take cover. A Law Enforcement official says the first family was never in any danger. President obama and his daughters left for camp david. Secret service tells nbc news, the man was unarmed and taken to the hospital for evaluation. It doesnt happen too frequently, but it does happen. A man wearing a pokemon had jumped the fence and was immediately arrested. Last month, a breach when a toddler squeezed through the fence and was given the all clear. Friday was different with the latest intruder entering the white house. Now the man was arrested just inside the north portico doors. He did not get very far inside. The secret service says, quote, this incident is under investigation and secret service will investigate the response to ensure the proptocol is followe. The first family was not in the residence at the time and the individual wasnt armed. Still the secret service says the location of the arrest is not acceptable and the incident will be closely reviewed. Kristen welker, thanks. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell is promising to do better when it comes to how the league handles Domestic Violence cases. On friday, he pledged a Long Term Partnership on two organizations who have seen an increase to their hotlines since the ray rice scandal broke. Janet shamlian has more. Reporter the hotlines like this one are overwhelmed with calls. Battered women coming forward describing what happened asking for help. Domestic violence hotline. Reporter in the days after the ray rice video surfaced on tmz sports, the National Hotline saw an 84 spike. Suggesting the incidents and the around the clock coverage is compelling compelling abused women to speak up. I hope they know they are not alone. There are services and Resources Available to support them. Reporter Rebecca White runs the houston center. Its calls are up 40 . As many agencies do, they operate on a shoe string budget of donations and grants and government funding. We said to them, we want to be involved. We want to help. We will provide resources and assistance to be able to make sure that you can get the personnel there to answer those questions. Reporter nfl commissioner Roger Goodell friday pledged to support abuse groups as part of a league makeover on Domestic Violence. When i arrived at the hospital, i bled out and no longer had a pulse. Reporter laura white was shot by her husband with a 12guage shotgun. He was abusing her, but she stayed quiet. The three out of four women who dont report abuse can now come forward. They have a voice now. They are not the only ones. We can join forces and maybe make some more awareness out of whats going on. Reporter a National Conversation on Domestic Violence sparking hope for change. For today, janet shamlian, nbc news. We turn to the case where the man who is being hunted after killing a state trooper as Law Enforcement is following up on every tip. Ron allen is following all of this for us. Good morning. Reporter lester, good morning. Another terrifying night as police launched an operation targeting the neighborhood of the home where they think eric matthew frein may be holed up. There is no indication that police have gotten their man. With reports of shots fired, police set up roadblocks and ordered residents to shelter in place as they zero in on the neighborhood where frein lives. On the day now after ambushing and killing Corporal Brian Dixon and wounding alex douglass. The search expanding beyond pennsylvania to five other states. Police describe frein as a survivalist and fond of war games and made statements of mass murder. Seems to have launch a war against police. Is there any indication this is almost over . That is the 64,000 question. Reporter gregs restaurant would would be full on friday night, but now almost empty. Now all the Unanswered Questions hanging over the rural corner of pennsylvania. You dont know where he is or what his intentions are. You feel comfortable . Absolutely. The troopers have done a phenomenal job. They have been around and securing the environment. Reporter as the manhunt presses on, much of the area is on lockdown. Schools shut. Kids home. Parents keeping them inside. She doesnt understand. She knows there is a bad man out there. Reporter it is also a Community Pulling together. Rallying behind Police Working long shifts and worried about their families targeted. And at the local grocery store, a tribute to the troopers lost and wounded. So again, it is stay eighis day. Residents hunkered down and staying inside and being cautious with the extraordinary scary situation with a trained killer who may be delusional and perhaps in the woods nearby. Lester. Ron allen, thank you. Lets get you caught up with the stories this morning. Jenna wolfe is here. We will start in iraq where france is joining the air campaign against isis carrying out its first air strikes. French fighter jets bombed weapons and fuelled depots outside mosul. This as isis released 49 hostages from turkey. Now to Cabo San Lucas where tourists are getting evacuated. For more on that, we go to joe fryer. Joe, good morning. Reporter good morning, jenna. We are here at the airport. This morning, we already have seen a handful of people here showing up to try to get back to california and back to sacramento. Tourism Officials Say nearly all of the international tourists, including americans, stuck here for the past few days have been evacuated thanks to a number of commercial flights and military flights in and out of the airport. Still, a great deal of damage. We have been driving around and we have seen destruction. The Cell Phone Service is out just about everywhere and most of the resorts are closed. In the hours and days following hurricane odile, a great deal of looting. When you drive by stores and gas stations, you see a heavy police and military presence with guns at hand to keep the crime under control. No doubt it will take several weeks if not months to get back to normal. Jenna. Joe fryer. Thank you. The evacuation orders under way in oregon where a wildfire has burned 300 acres. Firefighters are battling the blaze on the ground and in the air with helicopters getting water from the nearby lake. So far, the fire has scorched more than 200 acres. No injuries have been reported. In california, wildfires raging there have driven 3,000 people from their homes. Firefighters say they dropped recordbreaking amounts of retardants on the fire. The suspect accused of setting the fire is held on 10 million bail. Now to texas where a u. S. Postal worker was one of several stranded rescued as heavy rains triggered flood waters. This comes as a body of a missing Deputy Sheriff has been found. She has been identified as jessica hollis. She was swept away on thursday. Two florida Police Officers are hailed as heroes after an accident caught on tape. Look at the surveillance video. The honda minivan drives into a lake. Eyewitnesss say the 78yearold driver was gasping for air when police jumped into the water and broke the window to save him. There are two kinds of baseball fans in the world. The fan who brings a glove to every single game hoping to catch a ball and the fan who just buys popcorn. The mets and braves game last night. Lucas duda hits the home run make that the glove no, the hands of the braves fan who sacrificed his popcorn to get the ball. You did not see the guy next to him who brought the glove to the game and only see the guy next to him catch it with his popcorn bucket. He wasnt upset. Life aint fair. Good catch. Jenna, thanks. Dylan is in baltimore this morning as we prepare for the health and wellness expo there. Good morning, guys. The sun is coming out. Breaking through the clouds. It will be a fantastic day here in baltimore. I am lucky enough to have the mayor of baltimore here. Stephanie rawlingsblake here with us. The expo is finally here. What do you hope the community of baltimore will get out of the expo . Im glad it will be a lot of good information. My journey is a long one and it has taken long steps to get here. I hope you have thing you can stick with and get on the right path to the journey of health. There is an exercise and cooking tips. Vegetables. Yeah. We have been working with baltimore for the last nine months. Ng with baltimore on our shine a light series. You, yourself, have been doing a lot of initiatives f to the community. What have you been up to . Were proud most about our be more healthy babies, to reduce infant mortality in baltimore. Weve gotten a lot of good made a lot of Good Progress with that and looking for ways to incorporate fitness in older kids. Weave the Basketball League thats been really great. Were looking for little ways to change and make health and wellness a part of everyones life in baltimore. You showed up today and said i wasnt sure my shoes were fancy enough. Sure enough, i pretty much have the same shoes on. Were twins. Youll be at the event today . Yes, i will. Well get all ready for that. It will be a fun day here in baltimore. So, if youre in the area, come on down. Its from 12 00 to 3 00 today at the Carmelo Anthony Youth Development center. We would love to see you. It will be a great event. Thats a look at the weather across the country. Now heres a peek out your window. Good morning. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Its in the 60s across the immediate metro area. 60s on the map, gaithursburg and winchester at 59 degrees. That Early Morning coolness is burning away quickly. 75 by noon. Todays high in washington, near 80 degrees. Even warmer tomorrow. Temperatures mid 80s tomorrow. A small chance for a few showers, probably not until after the sun goes down tomorrow. The week ahead looks co and that is your latest forecast. Lester. Dylan, thanks. 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See what happened next. Plus hear from the man who watched it all happen. Also ahead, the clinic offering free dental care today. All that when you join us missing persons case as two families sfrat for answers. Now how two crowds are gathering to find new leads. Overnight raid at a maryland home. Dangerous discovery made inside that led police to call in a special team of investigators. Good morning, everyone. Im angie goff. And im richard jordan. Welcome to news 4 today. Well start with your forecast on the last weekend of summer. It feels like summer out there. Chuck bell is here with more on this warmup before the official start of fall. Hi, chuck. Good morning. Yeah, the autumn equinox is a couple of days away, less than 12 hours of daylight as we race toward the winter solstice in december. Looking like summer, feeling like summer out there. 66 in washington. 68 annapolis. 63. 70s by lunchtime and highs near 80 degrees. Perfect day to be outside and enjoy some good weather. Making the drive down to blacksburg, the hokies playing host to georgia tech and university of virginia on the road out west in provo, utah. Perfect weather for football. Hopefully, thats perfect weather for a cavaliers win. More of your College Football and mention of that rain chance late tomorrow. Chuck, thank you. University of virginia in charlottesville, the search for this missing student. Hannah graham vanished one week ago. From