Extremely dangerous, and we need to find him. The victims family with the direct message for the killer. Youre not going to get away with this. You will be found. How authorities are trying to track the man just ahead those stories, plus, crackdown. Hundreds of families looking for their loved ones after a massive immigration roundup in mississippi. Coffee talk. The Surprising New warning about caffeine for millions of migraine sufferers and let the sun shine in als picture perfect weekend forecast that just about everyone is in on. Today, friday, august 9th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a friday morning nice to hear there is going to be a great weekend almost everyone in the country is going to see it. Yeah. Al roker has a beautiful map hes going to show you in a minute we have a beautiful concert planned on the plaza this morning. Tori kelly is going to be here with a full set. Should be fun. Good way to start the weekend. Well start with the news and the panicked moments in missouri when a young man walked into a crowded Walmart Store days after the shooting in el paso armed with a rifle and wearing body armor nbcs ron mott joins us from springfield with the very latest on this. Ron, good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning to you some very scary moments at this walmart in springfield, missouri, yesterday when thi young man walked in, armed with a rifle. Panic ensued people started running out of the store, including the gunman. Thats when he ran into a former firefighter who drew his own weapon, held him until Police Arrived and could make an arrest male wearing a bullet proof vest and ar around his neck has just walked into the store and is recording himself Reporter Police responding to an active shooter call at this walmart, confronting a man wearing body armor, carrying a tactical rifle, a handgun, and over 100 rounds of ammunition. This morning jail records identifying him as dmitrey andrechenko. Before the 20yearold was apprehended, he walked through the store pushing a cart and recording himself on the camera. The sight causing panic in the store. Im still shaking it was terrifying. Reporter a quickthinking store manager pulled a fire alarm, urging shoppers to evacuate julie captured this video of the suspect. I thought, this is real this is crazy. Reporter a former firefighter who had a gun of his own held the suspect until Police Arrived. I looked up, and there was a guy holding his hands up he had a rifle around him. I think it is great that that offduty fireman was here. That was helpful his intent was not to cause peace or comfort to anybody in the business here. In fact, hes lucky he is alive still, to be honest. Reporter in a Facebook Post in february, he wrote, it is official, i hate walmart they wont sell rifle and shotgun ammo if youre under 21. New policy however, i can walk into the store with a loaded. 40 caliber and nobody says anything what a joke. Overnight walmart released a statement reading in part, the behavior of a customer was concerning to thos inside the store, therefore, Law Enforcement was called they quickly arrived, managed the situation without further incident and no one was injured. This is the third gunrelated incident at a walmart in just over a week including the incident in a walmart in el paso that left 22 dead. Another incident on thursday in a walmart in florida, a man terrorizing shoppers with a gulf cart he drove into the store and slammed into a Cash Register in springfield, police are trying to determine why the heavily armed man was there in the first place and whether he had more sinister intentions. Ron, missouri is an open carry state. If you have a permit, you can carry a gun openly is this potentially legal, what he did reporter generally speaking it is legal, savannah. What is not legal is carrying a weapon in a threatening or menacing fashion people say he was talking to them as he was in the store. Charges are pending against the suspect for making a terrorist threat in the first degree no shots fired and no one was hurt savannah understandably, very much on edge right now ron, thank you. Now to the controversial comment on the campaign trail. Overnight, joe biden, the Democratic Front runner, raising eyebrows during a speech in iowa we have coverage beginning with nbcs andrea mitchell. Good morning. Good morning, willie. Joe biden, after a widely praised speech against the president 24 hours ago, is now facing a Trump Campaign counterattack seizing on a few words on the campaign trail. Reporter Democratic Front runner joe biden has been unleashing scorching attacks against President Trump this week on race the former Vice President accusing the president of being a racist who emboldens White Supremacists by aligning himself with their cause but it is bidens bungling of his own remarks thats making headlines this morning after a long day and night at the iowa state fair, speaking to a group of predominantly asian and hispanic voters. We should challenge these students we should challenge students in the schools that have advanced placement programs in these schools. We have this notion that somehow if youre poor you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids, wealthy kids, black kids, asian kids. I really mean it. Think how we think about it. The Trump Campaign seizing on just the white kids comment. Rapid response director andrew clark tweeting out a video clip that notably did not include the full remarks. Writing, yikes. Have fun mitigating that one. It comes after this confrontation between biden and a reporter from conservative outlet breitbart. Biden fighting back after the reporter claimed, incorrectly, biden had misquoted the president after charlottesville. He said specifically he was condemning them. No, he did not. He said he walked out and he said, lets get this straight, he said, there are very fine people in both groups. Theyre chanting antisemitic slogans, carrying flags. Reporter the Biden Campaign responding that the president is, quote, desperate to change the subject from his record of using racism to divide the country, that biden misspoke and immediately corrected himself to make the point all children deserve a fair shot. Andrea mitchell, thank you very much. After the Mass Shootings in ohio and texas, the push for gun control is gaining momentum with some key lawmakers. Peter alexander is on that story this morning. Peter, good morning. Reporter hey, savannah, good morning to you. President trump speaking as we speak on the south lyawn as he prepares to depart the white house saying America Needs what he calls intelligent background checks. That would defy a warning from the nra. The president said he has a great relationship with them. The question remains, what will he do . Nearlyneeek afr the Mass Shootings in el paso and dayton, theres growing pressure for stricter gun laws. The senates top republican, Mitch Mcconnell, says expanded background checks will be front and center when Congress Returns from its summer break after labor day. He is resisting calls to bring lawmakers back immediately ts b vote on a pair of background check bills already passed by the house, now on his desk. If we did that, wed just have people scoring points and nothing would happen what we cant do is fail to pass something, you know, by just locking up and failing to pass thats unacceptable. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi is pressing President Trump to step in, saying, mcconnell describing himself as grim reaper, has been an obstacle to taking any action. More than 200 mayors, including those in dayton and el paso, are echoing pelosi, writing to mcconnell and chuck schumer, our nation can no longer wait for the federal government to act. The president s expressed a renewed willingness to expand background checks. There is a great appetite, and i mean a strong appetite, for background checks. Reporter the gun lobby is already pushing back nbc news confirmed the president spoke with the nra chief executive wayne la pierre this week according to a source familiar with the matter, la pierre said expanding background checks would not be popular among the president s supporters saying, the nra opposes any new restrictions on gun rights adding, the proposals being discussed by many would not have prevented the horrific tragedies in el paso and dayton. California democrat Jackie Speier survived a shooting as a young congressional aide more than four decades ago. Now, shes underscoring the stakes for the country if we really have reached the tipping point, and i do believe that we have, when people are fearful to go out, to go to festivals, to go to grocery stores, to theaters, for fear that someone is going to blow people up, we have a problem reporter at his new interview, Mitch Mcconnell said when Congress Returns next month, expanded background checks and red flag laws that would empower Law Enforcement to take guns from those who pose an immediate threat, those would likely lead congresss discussions. Another big story out of washington this morning, a key intelligence official has stepped down what more can you tell us . Reporter it is raising uncertainty over who will lead the u. S. Intelligence operations sue gordon is her name she announced in a handwritten note to the president that she was stepping down as the Principal Deputy director of National Intelligence. She will leave the same day as director dan coats she was viewed as a trusted voice by democrats and republicans. Amid her resignation, the president announced he would name joseph mcguire, the current director of the National Counterterrorism center, as the acting director of National Intelligence willie and savannah . Peter at the white house, thanks so much. New developments on the massive immigration raids in mississippi. I. C. E. Agents rounded up 700 workers suspected of being undocumented Gabe Gutierrez joins us from morton, mississippi, with the latest. Gabe, good morning reporter good morning. This is one of the Food Processing plants where i. C. E. Agents picked up groups of workers suspected of being undocumented they were taken to a nearby military hangar to be processed. Some have been released because of humanitarian concerns, but hundreds of others are now facing deportation families in mississippi are searching for their loved ones after the largest u. S. Workplace immigration sting in at least a decade just see my mother, please. Reporter children left not knowing where their parents were being taken, as immigration and Customs Enforcement agents handcuffed hundreds of workers across mississippi and loaded them on to buses this woman, who says shes been in the u. S. For 24 years, told us her husband is among those still being detained this 11yearold says her father is gone. I need my dad with me my dad didnt do nothing hes not a criminal. Reporter the raids, which federal Authorities Say had been in the works for months unfolded wednesday in six small towns near jackson, mississippi. I. C. E. Agents took about 680 people into custody at several Food Processing plants. While we do welcome folks from other countries, they have to follow our laws reporter the operation took place on the same day President Trump visited el paso, texas, amid criticism his immigration rhetoric contributed to the mass shooting there the acting director of i. C. E. Says there was no connection between that trip and the raids, calling the crackdown a longterm operation. These are not victimless crimes illegal workers create vulnerabilities in the marketplace by presenting false documents to obtain illegal employment. Reporter many undocumented immigrants living in fear. This church a sanctuary for this 1yearold girl. This woman tells us the church is watching the baby as her father tries to find the little girls mother, who is in custody. Attorney Nathan Elmore represents several families in limbo. Imagine a 4 or 5yearold going to school, parents dropping them off, and learning later on that afternoon that daddy or mommy has been arrested theres a lot of people in shock over the circumstance. Reporter Child Protective Services here in mississippi says it was not told about the raids beforehand nearly 300 of the people who were detained have already been released about 400 or so are still in custody. Theyre being held in facilities here in mississippi as well as louisiana. Willie and savannah . Gabe, thank you very much. Now a remarkable story that played out at the airport in dallas yesterday the remains of an air force colonel who died serving i vietnam brought home a half century later. In a touching show of respect, an entire terminal fell silent during the ceremony, especially poignant for the pilot who was bringing the veteran home for the final time Anne Thompson has this remarkable story it is wonderful good morning it was a moment that came about because of a Defense Department determined not to leave a fallen fighter behind a family just as determined not to give up reporter this was colonel roy knight jr. s final flight. A trip home to texas after more than a half century. The air force pilot shot down in laos in 1967 while fighting during the vietnam war first declared missing, then killed in action, his remains were discovered and identified earlier this year. We had pretty much given up any hope that this would ever happen were absolutely amazed at how this came to pass. Reporter colonel knight served the country for 20 years at air force bases in asia and here in the u. S. Marrying his wife, patricia, in the philippines, they raised three children together. Roy iii, gayan, and briais youngest in 1967, knight said goodbye to brian at dallas love field. Itd be the last time the 5yearold would see his father alive. On thursday, that little boy, now a pilot himself for southwest airlines, flew his father home to the very same airport. The bustling terminal falling silent hundreds of travelers watching the moving and sacred moment unfold outside, airport workers standing at attention, in a gesture of respect the colonels family, including his sister june, on the tarmac to receive his flagdraped casket son, roy, reaching out to his dad. It was emotional it was sad it was good, too it was like the end of a journey. Reporter on a day of mixed emotions, brians face said, Mission Accomplished 52 years after they said goodbye, father and son reunited at last on the same soil since 1994, there were several attempts to find colonel knight at his crash site now home, hell be buried with full military honors this weekend. Just seeing that moment where everybody comes to attention and acknowledges the sacrifice of this man 50 years later. I thought watching the workers on the tarmac, some of them had their hands over their hearts, some of them were saluting, and then inside, you know, were in airports all the time, and how crazy it is. People just stopped. Just wanted to say thank you then the other thing i couldnt help but think of, how different this homecoming was opposed to had he come home in 1967 when the war was controversial. The poetry of his son becoming a pilot and bringing him home where he said goodbye. My gosh, what a story. Thanks, anne. Youre welcome. Lets turn to al for a look at the forecast. It is looking great for this weekend, were happy to say. Finally, we have really nice weather to talk about around a good portion of the country. We have this refreshing air mass coming into the plains, great lakes, northeast and Midatlantic States. Temperatures are right and comfortable and, in fact, were not looking at a lot of humidity for today. It moves all the way to the east coast. 83 in new york city. Make that 86 89 in d. C. 83, cincinnati heres the deal, we talk about humidity, but the dew point temperature, thats the amount of moisture that can be held in the air, the bigger the spread from the temperature to the dew point, the more comfortable it is 20point spread in rochester almost 25 points in cleveland. More than 30 in chicago. As we move into saturday, again, those dew point temperatures and the spread between the dew point and the air temperature nice and comfortable. That means the humidity looks great. Beautiful weather. Beaches from cape cod to long island to new jersey, jersey shore, temperatures in the low 70s for the water, air temperatures in the 80s. Outer banks, jacksonville, myrtle beach, hilton head, looking good with water temperatures in the 80s. As we get to the gulf coast, were looking at upper 80s for air temperatures in panama city. Water temperature, upper 80s in Clearwater Miami beach looking good we have fantastic weather along the beaches. Everybody is looking pretty darn good oh thats whats going on around the country. Well get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Jerry and this stuff beets stains. Its kind of a big dill. Lemon tell ya. It squashes sixty of your toughest stains. And leaves your clothes looking raddishing. So lettuce make the r