This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockerfeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Were so happy to have you back. Its really fall out. Its back to school here. My kids at home. Sorry about that. Back to school day. Did you get a new lunchbox. I did. I got the star wars one. Oh, cool. Dont leave him hanging. Meanwhile, this did seem like a good idea back in august, didnt it . Were waiting for our new set. I had a dream about it over the weekend. I had dreamed it had a jacuzzi. Did it . Nice. Well find out in about a week they say. Mean team, wooif got a lot of news to get to. Were going to begin with air strikes in syria. Intensifying in washington as Congress Ends its summer recess today and prepares to vote. Peter alexander is at the white house. Peter, good morning to you. Good morning. Within the last couple of hours secretary of state john ker
More op our lead story. Reporter new video and a new threat from isis a twitter account associated with the leadership posting a clip claiming it plans to take control of baghdad soon. We are told the video is significant showing isis remains steadfast in the face of efforts to beef up the u. S. Led coalition against it. The threat comes just a day after president obama said theres still no clear plan to fight the extremists. When a finalized plan is presented to me by pentagon then i will share it with the american people. Its not we dont yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of iraqis as well. Reporter separately another isis media post claims that tribal leaders in in the northern iraqi city of mosul have now pledged their allegiance to the terror group, calling out the iraqi politicians who they say have failed them by name. A counterterrorism source who tracks isis social media tells fox news that the loss of the tribal leaders is a major blow be
Jennifer, can you hear me . Hello. Hi, jennifer. Hi, katie. Can you please tell me what you saw and give me any information about whats going on there. Yes, i have to tell you, its quite terrifying. Im in shock right now. I calm out of the subway at Bowling Green heading to work in battery park at the Ritz Carlton Hotel and i come out and i saw a big i heard a boom, looked up and there was a big ball of fire. Im not looking north at World Trade Center. It is the last twin tower. Im looking north. Im in battery park right now. You can hear the fire engines and emergency crews behind me. It is unbelievable when the fire first burst hello. Go ahead. Like ive never seen before. And as you know, i used to work in news. Ive never seen any fire like this in the air. The pieces of the building were flying down. It looks like its the like the top, i cant even tell you. Maybe 20 floors. Intense smoke. Its horrible. I cant even describe it to you. Do you have any idea what kind of plane it was .
Hourplus. And to the top of the map, its now arriving in the jacksonville area ocala to gainesville, Flagler Beach area, daytona beach, new smyrna. Theyre getting the wind off the water. And you still have a little storm surge to go. So almost the entire peninsula from the keys to jacksonville right now is getting the Tropical Storm force winds. Where we still can get the hurricane gusts and we just had that gust to 70 at the Atlanta International airport. Its almost up to hurricane, the hurricane gust. But not quite. This entire area of red is still where the power is either out or still going out and thats shifting north with the storm. Now more Power Outages around tampa and the i4 corridor. Those people were watching and now not able to as much. Heres whats left of the northern eye. Gusts to 74. Still at 64. Now were not going to get with the center of the storm almost heading towards in between orlando and tampa, were not going to get those high gusts in tampa and the sarasota are