R not remembering a specific word that ive noticed, late, if theres any symptom at all, that one bng the one that shows the most. O exclusive and candid conversation. And a man falls from a stadiums per deck on to fans below. Thankfully, everyone survived today, mday, november 18th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, is is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live fm studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morni, welcome to tod on a monday morning. Im mattauer. Im Savannah Gurie along side Natalie Morales and al roker. The miest went through it yesterday. We knew this was going to happen on friday and when they issu a high risk, which is something the National Weather service her does inovember, we knew we were in for it. The powerful storms that spawned the deadly tornadoes in the dwest. Dylan dreyer is in washington, illinois fors. What is the scene there . Reporter its heartbreaking toee the devastation in this area of washingt, illinois. We had as ny as 40 tornadoes yesterday across five stes. Sadly, at ast six people were kied. The thing with the stos, they were traveling at high speeds. Aveling at times up to 70 Miles Per Hour leveling some towns across the mwest in an instant. Our father who t in heaven. Reporter a dperate prayer as a monster tornado passes by and dons of twisters traveled across the heartland. A tornado killed two people there but it cou have been worse. It ripped the steeple off this church. At t height of the storm anchors at a peoria ws station had sign off and seek shelter. We need to go up. Well be back when we n. Reporter achicagos soldier eld, the game will be temporarily suspended. Reporter a retreat was dered for fans and players alike as the brs and ravens waited out a tordo warning. Today show viewers using twitteto send us stunning pictures. A twister churning across a field. A home and c destroyed and several imagines of the splintered landscape left by the tornadoes. One twister re up a coffee shop in lenon, indiana. The debris started to kick up and thats wn i said, mom, ive got to go. Reporr some sections of washington, illino were leveled whilothers were left relatively uouched. Those are our two vehicle sitting across in the field. One of which was inside of our garage. Reporter cars gone. Homedestroyed. This survivor istill counting his blessings. Houses can be rebuilt b peopleant. Rorter that hard work of rebuilding has already begun. Noskies are clear heren shington, illinois, and across the midwest, but temperatures have tumbled as the area tri to clean up from the devastatio matt. Lan, thank you very much. Scott gundys home took a direct hit dung those devastating tornadoes. Scott joins us this morning. Scott,ow are you doing . Pretty good today, matt. Beer than yesterday. Thats for sur youe lucky to be alive. Thats for sure. You were away from youhome when the first warng sirens we off. Whatere you doing . Holong did it take you to get home . Well, i was at kroger. Thats about five minutes om my house, gettinsome garbage bags actually and the sirens were cing on right when i was lking out of the store. And weve had tornado warnings beforeyou know . So irive home and im in my backyard. M actually taking pictures for my boss of theky. And then i just happen tturn soutand here it comes. It was almost ght on top of us. Me and my son were out in the backyard. We run into the house. Rit as were running io the use to go to the basement my windows disintegrate tard me. Stuff flying a over the place. We finally get down inhe basement and tn it just went rit over us. Ke two seconds. Y hear people all the time y it sounded like a eight trai yohad no time to react. You were in the sement. What did it feel like or sound like . It sounded just like freight ain just like they id. My wife came out the door and sa scott i hear somethg and you can he it just rumbling. So i looup and boy it was 50 yards from me. My house started rumbling, you know . It just went right or us. I got glass flying all over the place. Vap shpnel all over the ple. I have a twobyfour in the side of my house. You must look at your loved ones andounting everybody and making sure erybody is all right but then you open at door into thbasement and head up into whatas your home, what did you see . I couldnt believe it, matt. I tell you. My neighbors house i just coult believe it. So we run ound going to all of my neighbors houses looking for survivors. I ju couldnt believe it ive got cars in trees. My 07 galanis three houses down. Ive got neighbors craing out of basents. Son went and helped a gentleman, oureighbor that the roof had caved in on him. It was jt eerie silence and everybody t out and all hell broke loose. You were able to salvage anythingrom your home . I understand it s splintered. I got the most important ing out which is pictures. Video of my kids grong up. To me thats the most important ing. Everything ee can be replaced. But oursves and my pictures, they cant be. So was lucky to get those. Im thinkinof you and all the folks out the scott. Were st a week or so away from thanksgiving. A lot to be thankfulor in terms of bei alive and your family safe. But where do you go om here . Well, i have a big day ahead of me. Were probably going to try to salvage some more. This who town has a lot of things going on today. I mean, we had a football am thats 110 going to play in the semifinals this weend. So hopefully that picks us up little bit. Other than that, i dont know what were goingo do, matt. I found pies of my house, you know, 100 yardnortheast of me. So, well be looki for bits d pieces today. You hang in tre, scott, all righ yea ur thoughts are with you and all the peoplen your town ere and well check back in with you. I wanto know how youre dog. Okay. I apprecte that. I appreciate you king the time on a really difficult morning. Scott gundy, tnks. Gets an idea of how tough its for pele picking up the pieces. Al, i know the threat isnt over yet its not, guys. This tornado ifrom washington, illiis from a young man anthony corey. Can yopump the audio on this . And forgive us our trespaes as we forgive those that espass against us and lead us t into temptation budeliver us from evil and thats whateople were going through as this storm this is the first time theyve had an eftornado in illinois in novber. And watcthese storm reports as they come in. You can see hail a wind. You can see ashe timeline goes throh sunday youre gointo see thestornadoes come in as well and by storm reports itself, th is the second most active storm report y of 2013. And u can watch this system now make its way into the northeast. Its theold front. Were not going to see tha severe wther, the tornadoes, the longrack storms out of this b what we are looking at is a lot of wind. A front right along here. You can track the frt right along it. Look, the temperates drop back to the west. Icago 37, cleveland , new york city,0. Caribo 34. And the winds are gog to be this big factor today. Look ahow they are going tbe howling. We look for rport delays from boston, new york, into philadelphia. Wi gusts of 40 to 45 mes per hour and the temperatures ll be dpping by this time tomorrow. Mperatures about 20 grees colder than they are today ang e eastern seaboard. Wergoing to have more on this and a big storm coming into the pacic northwest a little later. Thank you, al. Natal has the other headlineof the morning. Good morning to you. Good morning. Russian investigatorare combing through the charred fragments of an airliner that crashed sunday nht killing all 50 pple on board. The boeing 737 exploded duri a failed attempt to land i russia. It departed om moscow. Offials confirmed that 4 ssengers and six crew members re killed. Two vy sailors were hurt this wkend after an out of control drone ammed into a navy ship in Southern California. You can see the damage. The drone hit the ss chancellorsville during a Training Exercise off the island at pt magoo. It happened while the ip was testing its combat weon system. The sailors were treated for minoburns and the ship rurns to Naval Base San diego. Ficials are looking into whether small explosion lead to the death otwo miners on sunday. Thtwo died from carbon monoxideoisoning. 20 others were injured. Alof the miners are required to wear persal respirators. Stunning scene in dlas on sunday when two lis killed a lioness. This happened on the the other side of the protective glass. One of t male lions had his mouth around her throat but thought theyere being playful. The zookeepers reached the female but it s too late. The male lions will no longer she an enclosure with y other liones its an excing day at nasa as the latest ma explorer is sent to blt of maven will orbit mars inn attempt to study the aosphere. It is expected to cost600 million. It will he future human explorers who may journey to mars. It wiltake until next september to rch the planet. Frighteninmoments at a Football Game in buffalo on sunday when a n fell from the top of the stadium. Thmawas attempted to slide do the railing when he lost his balance and fell backwards there a couple hundred feet. You can see he landed inhe section below on top oanother fan. Both were taken to t hospital. The man that fell hurt his shoulder the other man suffered a hd injury and both arexpected to be okay. That so frightening to s that and tnk goodness none of e other fans injuredn that. Nd we remind people, dont sliddown the banister. Yh, if you need to remind people. Lets get the rest of your forecast. Our friends in the Pacific Northwest will be looking at a pretty good storm coming into that are well be looking at at as our other top weather story for today. This pacific northst storm will cause a l of rain and a lot wind. Its a big areof low pressure thats gng to be dominating that low pressure system and thes a few of them ths going to be making their way into the pacific northwe. As the day wears on today youll e the heavy rain start to move in as we get into e mountains. Look for snows starting to develop. Some areas in the mountains there,n the cascades are gng to be looking at anywhere om 10 to 18 inches of snoand then alg the coast from seale all the way to just nortof San Francisco, awhere from 1 to 3 inch of rain. We a going to get to you local recast coming up in the next0 seconds. Cast coming up in you get your coffee re. You get yo hair cut here. You find that certain thing yowere looking for her but actually you get so much more when you shop at these smallocal businesses, you support all the things thatake your community gat. The money you spd here, stays he. In this placyou call your neighborhood. The money you spd small buness saturday is november 30th. 7 14. Happy monday mning to you. I meteorologi christina loren. Mperatures are chilly throughouto start with. North bay. Example inhe well end up in the upper 50s b lunchtime. 53 degrees at 4 00 p. M. Ok at this the south bay , 63 for the peninsula, east bay 64, and 61 in San Francisco. And ats your latest weather. Ll right, al, thank you very much. The obama administtion is taking new steps to fix th troubl roll out of the new Health Care Law bucan the website anthe president s legacy be saved . Nbs Peter Alexander is at the white house this morning. Hi, peter. Reporter hi, matt, this is new territy for president obama. He nev faced a crisis like this. A crisis of coidence. In his very leadershipthe flawed rl out of the affordab care act threatening to undermine t future of his second term and his esidency. With his signare law under fire the president fac a daunti todo list to resuscitatobama care. Number one, fithe website. With the admintrations next deline less than two weeks away theyre still scramblg to have therippled site up and running. For most uninsured america. The vast majority of users. T vast majority of users. The vast majority of amicans. Repter officials acknowledge they consider a success if 80 of users can successfully buylans online. Number two, eer up confusion. White house officials still need to convince surers and state insuranccommissioners to support the president s fix to restate cancelled policies. For ose who want to keephem. Number threekeep democratic allies on board. Today the prident is joining backers to join him on Conference Call. Meanwhile,any Senate Democrats are pushing for a legislive fix just days after house decrats supported a republican bill that the whithouse thatened to veto. He bill is passed. This is an sue that has to dealt with but it doesnt mean its a politicaissue so were going to run ay from it. No, s too valuable for the american people. Reporter final, regain americans trust. Thats no easy task with the president s job appral and polarity both at record lows. A challee punctuated by one his top former advisors. You have to implement this in smart, effective way and regain Peoples Trust at this ishe right thing to do reporter a the great frustratioinside this west wing, at lea according to one obama sider is it will be nely impossible to movon to anything else including a top priority which iimproving the economy. Peter axander at the white house. Robert gibbs is a nbc news political coributor. Good morning to you. Good rning. This is a ddline the white hoe set for itself. Can it afford another miss . Absolutely not. They said thll get 80 of it right. At makes the decembe1st or november 30th deadline so importanis that if you want your coverage to take effect o january 1st and not have a gap, you ha to be enrolled by deceer 15th. Thats what makethe end of this month so important. If you boil this whole thing down, i thinit comes down to two core issues, the competence of the government and e president s own credibility with the whole, if you want to keep your plan, y can. How do you repair credibility . Well, i think, in the shortrm, as peter said, theyre just goi to have to slog through and fix the website. Thatshe key there. I think longer term and credility, theyll have to give people confidce not just in health careut in other aspectof government and i think theyre gog to have to hold somebody accountable for thbotched roll out and the website not workin somebody at hhs or a group of people. You think somebody shou lo their job . If this were to happen the private sector somebody would have probably already lost their job and the only way to restore ultimate confidence in gng forward is to make se whoever is in charge of this wasnt in charge of the longterm health care plan. You havbeen at the white hoe in dramatic politil crisis. Saturday night live had a take on ts this weekend. Take a look. Are you depressed . Run down . Like you juscant win . Aryou the president ofhe United States . Ask your doctor for paxil, second term stngth. The only antepressant Strong Enough for an embattled second term. If youre at thwhite house you laugh so you dont c. But what do you think the president s state of mind is now . Have you eveseen him like this acknledging i have a credibility oblem . He is obviously tremendously frustrated thano one told him the extent of this problem. You as the commander in chief and as the president f the uned states have to trust all of those aund you to implement antheres no doubt a deficit of tst that lead to that deficit of credibility. Do you thinhes depressed . I think take two of those a call somody in the morning. Good to see you. Now, heres matt. All week long wee looking back at the anniversy of jfks assassination. Tamron is in t orange room on that. Good morning. Good morning. Good to see you. Theres so much to discuss includg this gallup poll tt caht our eye this morng. 61 of americans believe there was conspiracy to kill kennedy. A fascinatinnumber and in fact, factor this in, on sunday, the former maryland lieutenant governor, Kathleen Kennedy wnsend expressed her own doubts that oswald acted alone. You might reca it was last weekhat secretary of sta kerry indicated that halso believed that osld did not act alone. So this morning, were askg you, do you believe the consracy theories aroundhe assassination of jfk . Yes or no . Go to today. Com and guys this number is down from th90s when it was actually around 80 after that jfk mov. Quite interesting. Tamron, thank y very much. Coming up, Jackie Kennedys cret Service Agent rives the horror of that fateful day in dallas. It was horrib and thats the one thing that i ct get out of my brain is that pictur him lying in her lap. Thats imbedded there forever. Our candid conversation with the future hall of famer brett fae. The surprising things heas to sawith about the games impact on his health and the nfls comingup, a wild scene as police bash out wiows and open fire on a van filled with children. Mymployer matches my charitable giving. Really. I get bonuses even working parttime. Where i work, over 400 peoplere promoted every da healthca starting under 40 a mont i got education benefits. I work at walmart. Im a pharmaci. Sales sociate. I manageroduce. I work in logistics. Theres more to walmart than you think. Vo opportity. Thats the real walrt. 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