This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer along side Natalie Morales and al roker. Its a good day to be bald. The only way this works for people is if you put the mouse right on top of your head. But its promising. Its very promising. A lot of people will be very interested in this research. No question. But first, the terrible shooting at a nevada middle school. Joe fryer has new details on the investigation. Joe, good morning, what are we learning . Reporter good morning, savannah. Police are now trying to figure out what motivated a student to bring a gun to school and open fire, killing a teacher and injuring two students before shooting and killing himself. Im calling from Sparks Middle School. We have a shooting at our school. Reporter when the sound of gunfire erupted outside of Sparks Middle School, Mike Landsberry quickly stepped forward. The teacher fell and everybody ran away. Reporter landsberry, a National Guardsman and former marine, died at the scene. He was 45 years old. He loved everyone and wanted to protect everyone. Its hard on us to lose him. Reporter Authorities Say two students were also shot, including one who tried to helped teacher. Both of those children are expected to survive. One was shot through the shoulder. The other shot in the abdomen. Reporter in all, police say 20 to 30 people witnessed the shooting, which took place as students were arriving for class. This is a student from Sparks Middle School. Can you please send police out here . Theres a kid with a gun. Reporter students were quickly ushered inside and locked down then evacuated to nearby schools where they reunited with worried parents. I just was in a panic until we got here and we had to wait a long time to be able to see or know if she was okay. When i found out she was okay shes my life, you know. Reporter for some, a day that started violently at school ended peacefully at church as they remember a teacher who died a hero. Police have not yet named the gunman or released any information about him, but they do say his weapon was a semiautomatic handgun. Glasses here at Sparks Middle School will not happen for the rest of this week. Matt . Joe fryer, thank you very much. Jose is a student at Sparks Middle School. His life was saved by teacher michael landsberry. Joseoins us with his mother. Good morning to both of you. Good morning. Morning. Jose, how are you doing today . Good. Yeah . Youre hanging in there . Yeah. You saw and heard an awful lot yesterday, jose. Take me back to the time you arrived at school. I understand you were just there a short while when the shooting started. What did you see, and what did you hear . When i was at school, i was hanging out with my friends, and then we heard a loud gunshot. We thought it was fire crackers. So then we looked back towards where we saw the noise and we see the kid pull out his gun and shoot the kid in the arm. Then they started running. I froze because he was aiming his gun right at my chest, and i looked at the gun and my chest like he was going to shoot me. So i turned around and i ran. I heard a gunshot, and i thought he shot me. Then i looked back, and he shot a kid in his leg, arm, and stomach. Jose, you could actually hear some of the conversation going on between that First Student and the shooter, where one student said, why me, why are you going to shoot me. Yeah. And what did the shooter say . He didnt say nothing. He just kept on shooting him. And after he shot these two students, as you mentioned, you were frozen in place, which is completely understandable. The shooter turns and points the gun right at your chest, and at some point mr. Landsberry walks right in front of you and stands between you and the shooter. Can you tell me what mr. Landsberry was saying . He was telling him to stop and put the gun down. Then the kid, he yelled out, no, like yelling at him. And he shot him. Was mr. Landsberry calm as he was talking to this student, or was he yelling at him . He was calm, and he was holding out his hand like put the gun in my hand, like to just stop. Maricella, this teacher, Mike Landsberry, didnt really know your son. Never had him in a class. Yet, he stepped in front of a gunman to protect your sons life. How do you even begin to understand that . Im very, very grateful for everything that he did. Im just grateful he was there to help our children out. Jose, after this student shot mr. Landsberry, you ran with some other students and you hid. I understand one of the students you were hiding with was crying pretty cloloudly, which is understandable. The shooter heard it and came over and found you guys. What happened then . He started yelling like, if you guys say anything about me coming here, im going to shoot you. So then he shot twice to the windows. Then it seemed like he was out of bullets, so he left. He had his case and he set it up. He was praying like, dont shoot. Other people were like, we didnt see nothing, so he doesnt shoot us. So thats when he fired two bullets to the window. Then he left. He heard the cops come. You did not see this student take his own life, i understand. Is that correct . Yeah. Maricella, one last question for you. Mike landsberry leaves behind a wife and two stepdaughters. If you could speak to his family, what would you say . I want to say that theyre in my thoughts and my prayers today and for the rest of the days. I hope that god gives them the encouragement that they need to move on and mr. Landsberry, he sacrificed his life to take our kids to safety. I thank him for that. Hes a true hero. Thank you, both. I appreciate it. Maricella, jose, thank you both very much. Be well. Take care of each other, okay . Thank you. You too. Our thoughts and prayers with the family of that teacher and the students who were wounded. Also someone like jose who saw all of this unfold in front of his eyes. I couldnt stop thinking but for mr. Landsberry and his heroics in that moment, we wouldnt be seeing jose sitting there. Amazing story. Middle school. Happened at a middle school. Well, we move to washington now and the problems with the internet rollout of the president S Health Care law. He calls it an embarrassment and is promising to fix things. What are you supposed to do if you need to sign up for health care . Weve got two reports this morning, starting with nbcs Peter Alexander at the white house. Peter, good morning. Reporter hi, savannah. Good morning. Even supporters of obama care agree the onus is on the administration right now to resolve these problems quickly. As a former adviser to the president told me, if they do, this rocky start will simply be an asterisk in history. Opponents are already saying, i told you so. Overnight, republicans like ted cruz again took aim at the president S Health Care law. The disaster, the train wreck, the nightmare that is obama care. Reporter with others pouncing on the websites flaws. This things a failure. Its not something that you can just say is a glitch. Reporter more than three weeks into the turbulent launch into the Affordable Care act, president obama insists the law is healthy, even if its site is not. Nobodys madder than me about the fact that the website isnt working as well as it should. Which means its going to get fixed. Reporter among the fixes already in place, a tool letting consumers comparison shop without filling out an application and a new website design informing people they can apply by phone. At the end of the day, the buck stops with the president. Hes got to get this website up to maintain his credibility with the public. Reporter while signups run through march, the next several weeks will be critical with december 15th the last day to enroll for coverage at the start of the year. A key adviser for both massachusettS Health Care law, signed by thengovernor mitt romney, and obama care, remains optimistic. This law will work, and it will be popular. Its just going to take a while to get there. Reporter among those the white house is counting on to enroll, carmel allison, who nearly fainted during the president s remarks. I got you. Youre okay. Reporter later tweeting, thanks, barack obama, for catching me fortunate. Fortunately, she is okay. Kathleen sebelius is calling on to be fired. The president insists hes not looking to fire anybody. Sebelius will testify next week. Peter, thank you so much. For the first time, were hearing from the programmers who built that website. They say they saw red flags. Nbcs tom costello has that part of the story this morning. Good morning to you. Hi, savannah. E white house i exactly what the problems are. The Associated Press reports this morning that even project developers doubted that the website could be ready in time and for months they complained about unrealistic deadlines. Weve also heard the system routinely crashed in the run up to the rollout. Heres whats really troubling. When Big Companies like moo kro soft, apple, or yahoo want to roll out new software, they usually do something called a beta test. Thats where they put it out there for the world to test, but they warn everyone there will probably be problems. We cant guarantee this will be glitch free. The beta test period usually lasts months and sometimes a year or longer. By most accounts, healthcare. Gov went live with only a few days of beta testing. This website is very challenging because it involves 36 states and linking and confirming data with other Government Agencies like the irs, the va, medicare, even credit bureaus. And we have all we have are outside estimates for the job that theyre up against. By one estimate, they may need to rewrite 5 million different lines of software code, savannah. Which raises the question, tom, how long this fix might conceivably take. Yeah, and thats anyones guess right now. The white house isnt saying. Try to put this in a perspective in the big picture here. To give you a sense of how big this job is, imagine that you had all the possible variations for someone who wants to sign up for insurance. Age, sex, marital status, income, kids, what state and county you live in, the types of Insurance Coverage youre interested in. All those different questions and answers lead down different pathways and portals. Its like a huge tree that gets more and more complex. The problem is that the clock, as peter mentioned, is ticking. You have until the end of march in order to get the system up and running. They want to have 7 Million People signed up by the end of march. Right now its a real question as to whether they can do that. You know, theres one factoid you and i shared this morning that i think is interesting. Apple spent about 150 million to roll out the iphone, the first one. Theyve already spent 400 million on this website. And perhaps will have to spend more to fix it. Tom costello, thank you for the insight from washington this morning. Natalies here. Shes got more on those wildfires that have firefighters in australia very busy. Thats right, guys. Good morning again. Hot and windy conditions are threatening to set back firefighters battling wildfires in australia. Ian, good morning. Reporter hi, natalie. Well, its actually started to rain here in the blue mountains, but not nearly enough to affect the fires. Instead, weve been warned of extreme fire conditions, strong winds expected to fan a wildfire thats already blanketed sydney in smoke and could threaten its western suburbs. Overnight firefighters went on the offensive, starting their own fires. In an effort to slow the progress of a blaze now covering an area of forest the size of urban sydney. This area of forest has been deliberately burned as a last line of defense, providing a buffer against the approaching wildfire. Officials describing extreme temperature and winds forecasted for wednesday as about as bad as it gets. Ive been fighting fires for 33 years. Its the most challenging scenario ive ever faced. Reporter among those on the front line, volunteer tim parsely, trying to block the fires progress. If we can make some kind of difference to it here, then we will. Reporter hes an engineer who usually works on satellites, but the fight against the fire has become personal. My sister lives here. Were trying to manage the family issue as well. Reporter the fire could threaten sydneys western suburbs if it sweeps down from the mountains. Residents in the worst affected mountain areas have been told they have until midday wednesday to safely leave, which many are reluctant to do. Its your home. You just want to stay here and protect it, i guess. Reporter though it may be hard to protect against whats already the worst fire disaster in this region in four decades. If the forecasts are right, wednesday will see soaring temperatures and winds gusting up to 60 miles an hour. Perfect conditions for a wildfire, natalie. Ian williams in australia. Thank you. Well, smog is the problem in china. A city in northeast china is virtually shutdown. All highways were closed this morning due to the fog. Some reopened later in the day. Fog also forced the local airport to close, stranding over 2,000 passengers. Schools remain closed. The tsa is expanding its screening process to start looking at passengers before they arrive at the airport. According to a report in the New York Times, the tsa will use a wide array of government and private databases, including records like car registrations. The agency says the goal is to streamline the security process. Two Delta Airlines flights had to make Emergency Landings monday night. A flight from syracuse to atlanta returned to syracuse because of smoke from a small electrical fire. Another flight made an Emergency Landing in washington when a sensor indicated overheating in the cargo bay. No fire was found. A Massachusetts Woman is recovering this morning after falling on to some subway tracks. A frightening moment caught on camera. Take a look at this. You can see the woman walk across the platform right on to the tracks below. Makes you cringe. It happened near boston, about a dozen people rushed in to help her, with some jumping into the pit to pull the woman out. There were no trains approaching at the time, thank goodness. The 31yearold said she had fallen asleep on a bench and possibly ended up sleep walking right into the pit. She was treated for an arm injury. Thankfully that is all. And an emotional moment between a father and a son also captured on camera. The english boy you see here admits hes always struggled in math class, so when he got a passing grade, he set up a camera to get his dads reaction. Take a look. Is that real . Yes. Is that real . Yes. [ sobbing ] the boy says a year ago he had an f in math, so this time he got a c. It was a huge improvement based on that reaction. I love it. I love that. A Good Parenting moment. Are you sure . Is it real . Is it real . Thats fantastic video. Great, natalie. Thank you. You got it. Mr. Roker, you have a first check of the weather. Thats right. Our friends in mexico, were still dealing with hurricane raymond. Check it out. You can see this is from along the coast. Up to 5 to 8 inches of rain falling already. Theyre going to get more. Show you whats going on, on the map, on the satellite. Basically, were looking at this thing, it is just churning off the coast, stationary, 40 miles west of acapulco. Category 3 storm. Could see another 12 inches of rain. Closer to home, weve got the jet stream right now. Its going to open up the back door to much colder air from canada. Were already seeing some lakeeffect snow starting to develop throughout parts of the midwest. Were also looking at a clipper coming across, bringing some messy weather. But the big story is going to be the colder air coming in. Weve got freeze warnings, frost advisories and freeze watches from kansas all the way to ohio. Look at these temperatures. Cold air. Chicago today, 42 for a high. Thats 20 degrees below normal. Newbury, 41. Pittsburgh, only 51 for a high. 11 degrees below normal. And that cold air is moving to the east and even as far south as mississippi and georgia. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Good Tuesday Morning to you. Im meteorologist christina loren. We have really thick fog out there but i want to show you above the fog you can sunshine, a blue sky but this is what it looks like at the surface. A lot of fog on the golden gate bridge. A good idea to give yourself extra time. The sun will break through between 10 00 and noon and a warm day as a result 84 degrees on the way to livermore. Later on looking good all week. And thats your latest weather. All right, mr. Roker. Thanks very much. Lets swing into the orange room. Carsons in there with whats making news this morning. Carson . Come on in, everybody. Good morning. May as well be named tablet tuesday. Do you own tablets . Of course. Yeah. Well, today lots of going. Theres a big event in San Francisco. Apple, among other things, announcing a redesigned ipad 5. They have a retina display in the mini. You have microsoft coming out with new surfaces. Noe key ya for the first time getting in on the tablet action. Heres the charts. Three years ago, only 4 of you had a tablet. It has surged to september 2013, 35 . Todays a big day. The tablet wars are officially on. You can go through our today app and take our survey. Whats your favorite tablet . Apple, microsoft, samsung, other, none. Well do that in the next half hour. Back to you. All right, carson. More people have tablets instead of computers now. When i have my computer, its like a mainframe. A dinosaur. People who use apple use it ten times more than other folks with tablets. Interesting. Coming up, the fbi getting involved in a case of the socalled blond angel. A little girl found in greece. Is there a chance shes a