Is it the first major blunder of the president ial race . Why the wisconsin governor says he was just misunderstood. And blue and black. Obviously its white and gold. What color do you see . Why do we care . The great dress debate burning up the internet, friday, february 27, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to the show on a friday morning. 7 00 on the west coast. We want to get to this breaking news, at least nine people are dead after a series of shootings in missouri. Police say the alleged gunman is among the dead. Pete williams is nbcs justice correspondent. Pete, what can you tell us . The shooting spree took place in several places in and around the Missouri Town of tyrone in texas county, missouri, thats about 40 miles north of the arkansas border. Officials have not given the names of the victims or the gunman who was found dead in a car in a nearby county, apparently of a selfinflicted gunshot wound. The shooting victims Authorities Say were in four different houses. At least one person apparently survived and has been taken to a hospital. Theres no word yet at this early stage on the motive or potential connection between the gunman and the shooting victims. Late word is that the shooting started at one of the houses, a young woman called to say she heard gun shots in the home and ran to a neighbors house. Two were found dead at that house and Authorities Say they know of eight shooting victims, and one person they found who died of natural causes. Pete williams, obviously a story still developing. Meantime, were learning more this morning about the londonraised man unmasked as the murderous face of isis. His background and what led him to join the terror group being revealed. Live in london, good morning. Reporter good morning. The families of the murdered hostages are reacting to the news, the family of steven solkof saying they want to see Mohammed Emwazi taken to a court and put in prison if he is convicted. Were learning more about this man, he grew up here in london, went to school and college here. And people are asking how the boy that youre about to see in a School Picture turned out to be the man that we saw in those brutal isis videos. A Grade School Student smiling but he would grow up to become the masked isis killer dubbed jihadi john. Mohammed emwazi grew up in a middle class family. According to this School Document he enjoyed watching the simpsons, when he is 30 he writes he will play for a soccer team and scoring a goal. He studied Computer Science at university of westminster. A spoke man there said they are sickened. Miles away the family of murdered hostage from florida now wants justice. The revelation that jihadi johns name is the first step in a long road to bringing closure to the family. Its going to take time to bring him to a court of law, and to prosecute him. Reporter james foleys parents say the name of the front man for their sons killing is not their focus. Discovering who he is might be important to some people but its really not important to me. While the british daughter of another victim david haines spoke of retribution. I think all of the families will feel closure and relief. The family thought to live in this house he traveled to syria in 2012. People who knew him while he lived here in london say he was also known to the British Security services, that he was detained at airports and prevented from traveling to some countrie there will be a lot of watching of this community in the wake of the revelation. There will be a certain amount of investigation looking into who may have been talking to who and what contact this will have sparked off. Reporter in syria and iraq, there is no end to isis rain of terror, the group destroying artifacts and human Rights Groups say close to 300 christians taken captive. Facing the same terrible fate as the roll call of isis hostages whose killings were broadcast around the world. And u. S. And american intelligence hunting for him for some time now. But today look at the front page of this british newspaper. It says mi 5, thats the service, blunders that allows jihadi john to slip through the net. So now there are questions about how he managed to get to syria to join isis, matt. Thats right. Keir simmons, thank you. Michael kay is a retired officer of the British Royal air force and International Affairs analyst. Good morning. Lets start where keir left off. The authorities have known about Mohammed Emwazi since 2009, they had several encounters with him over the years. Are you surprised they let him slip through the snet you say slip through the net i think its the analysis is interesting because whenever you are trying to apprehend someone you need a certain amount of evidence to be able to take someone to a court of law to charge them and then put them in jail. If you dont have that evidence, then while they might be able to monitor his movements which they did, back to the uk, to kuwait, in amsterdam, its hard to arrest someone. Were learning more about his biography, lots of facts coming forward, but do you see anything in that biographical information that answers the crucial question of how this guy became radicalized in a fighter for isis . What is interesting is it doesnt fit this perception we have about it being socioeconomic problems, high unemployment, high crime rate, low job opportunity. Thats an element of what the problem is. I think what we need to get our head around is how does someone get to the point they are either kravg for or susceptible to the ideolo now we know his identity, Mohammed Emwazi, the fact of the matter is intelligence officials have known that for a long time. Were just learning it. Does knowing his name do anything to help authorities stop him or stop others from following in his foot steps . Sadly not. Operating in the governorless space. We need to get to the root of the problem which is assad. Assad the reason muslims galvanized in syria to reject the brutality of assad. There is no political road map. Military activity is great but futile in terms of long term. We need to synergize military effect with the political road map. That goes to assad. Michael, good to have you. Thank you. Lets go to savannah. Thank you. The fight against isis is one of the issues addressed at a key gathering of conservatives. Last night it became the focal point of what some say was the first gaffe of the 2016 president ial race. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell has that story. Good morning. Reporter good were mooing. Its almost no bigger stage for conservatives than this annual gathering known as cpac. A test kitchen for messages. One unexpected moment by a rising gop star stirred up the attention and controversy. Sleeves rolled and no jacket required. Wisconsin Governor Scott walker quickly got to work on president obamas foreign policy. Radical islamic terrorism is a threat to our way of life. Walker claimed his own long battle with Public Employees unions prepared him to face isis. I can take on 100,000 protesters i can do the same across the world. Late thursday former Texas Governor rick perry said walkers comparison was a mistake. This is a face of evil. And to try to make the relationship between them and the unions is inappropriate. With all of the fire of a texas barbecue. We could have had hillary here. But we couldnt mind find a foreign nation to foot the bill. Ted cruz you were theed up the heat on Hillary Clinton. Hillary clinton, embodies the corruption of washington. Conservatives seized on the Washington Post report that seven foreign governments donated millions of dollars to the clinton foundation. While Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. Violating an ethics agreement with the obama administration. Former hewlettpackard ceo called out clinton several times. She tweets about womens rights in this country and takes money from governments that deny women the most basic human rights. Vying for the support of these active conservatives is a huge republican field. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie trailing in early fund raising took a jab at jeb bush. If what happens is if the elites in washington who make back room deals decide who the president is going to be he is the frontrunner. C pack is under way again. They hear from jeb bush, marco rubio and rand paul. Aids to walker tells me he was in no way comparing to isis. Aides say the governor was making a point about facing adversity with strength and Leadership Back to you. Kelly, thank you so much. In the meantime, it is deadline day in washington. Sure is. A big day. The u. S. Senate voting on the funding bill for the department of Homeland Security. Just hours before tonights midnight deadline, meantime House Republicans insist passing an alternative shortterm funding bill will allow them to continue their fight against president obamas directives on immigration. Three week stopgap measure would allow lawmakers to keep the department running a it a time of heightened threats worldwide. U. S. Intelligence chief James Clapper says the cyber threat from russia is more severe than previously thought. Clapper said he couldnt go into detail as he gave his annual assessment before the Armed Services committee. The assessment lists russia, china, iran and north korea as the top cyber threat and u. S. Intelligence agencies list Cyber Attacks as the top danger to u. S. National security ahead of terror the pickup truck driver at the center of the commuter train crash and derailment in california was released from jail thursday. Prosecutors say jose will not face charges on tuesday 28 people were injured when the metro link train slammed into the truck abandoned on the tracks. He was found about a mile and a half away and arrested on suspicion of felony hit and run. Full investigation is expected to take several months. The priest who transformed the university of notre dame into a power house during his 35 years in charge has died. Reverend Theodore Hesburgh was considered one of the most influential priest, he was a confidante of several president s, a special envoy to popes and a champion of human rights around the globe. Father hesburgh was 97 years old. British model naomi cam sbel apologizing for grabbing a camera in cuba. She was leaving a hotel in havana thursday when she had a runin with an nbc news cameraman. She refused to speak with the immediate qua when she saw the camera man, she rushes around the car and smacks the lens of the camera with her hand. Campbell calls this all, though, a big misunderstanding. And another example this morning of how dangerous it can be to be a tv news reporter. This is from the nbc station in greenville, south carolina. Sledding down a hill during a live shot seemed like a good idea at the time. Didnt turn out so well as you see there. Direct hit with that boulder of snow. And she is okay, though. Ego is probably bruised. Smiling so big. Just caught me offguard. Natalie, thank you. Normally we love bright brilliant colors but not when they are on a map in the Pacific Northw especially. 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Low 60s san jose to San Francisco, north bay temperatures about in the same range with a better chance for showers as we move into saturday, slight chance of thunder to kick off the weekend for saturday afternoon. And thats your latest weather. Thanks very much. Batten down the hatches now. Time for the great debate. This one has everyone asking what color is this dress . Tamron, get to the bottom of this. Its dividing people into two camp, white and gold versus blue and black. The issue is taking on a life of its own. It started with a simple plea for help. Singer Katelynn Mcneil posted, guys, please help me. Is this dress white and gold or blue and black . The twitter the dress was born. The number one topic worldwide sparking a debate across the internet. Everyone weighed in from actors to restaurants, even u. S. Senator chris murphy who says that dress is gold and white. Kim kardashian tweeting i see white and gold. Taylor swift, i dont understand this odd dress debate. Its obviously blue and black. The dispute over the dress went viral after buzzfeed share add photo garnering more than 21 million views and counting. Spawning eight of the top trending posts. This took off immediately. We started seeing people click on it quickly and it became our biggest traffic night of all time. As for why people see different colors, experts say its simple science. This is a perception issue, the way the brain processes information that comes in. Everyone is different. Though its the same stimulus coming in which it is, everyone processes the information differently. After her post went viral katelynn shared a followup photo. Turns out its a victory for blue and black. We went to today. Com. What colors is the dress, 67 said white and gold, 33 said blue and black. Ellen tweeted out from this day on the world will be divided into two people. Blue and black or white and gold. This is the dress, its sold out but apparently its back in stock. Quick, we put wrangler in. Dogs see blues, violette and yellows. So if wrangler could speak he would see blue and black. There we have our card. Ready . You start. I see blue and black. White and gold. I started here and then became this. Its weird. It is. We had the same experience. Going down the middle. I started white and gold, you now think its blue and black. You think its blue and black because youve seen the dress. Also im color blind. We have the actual dress being worn by a young lady named shany, i believe in london. There is the dress. There i see blue and black. Absolutely. Blue and black dress. The blue and black i see is not that royal blue. Its sort of a muted blue and black. We woke up this morning looked, saw white and gold and a few hours later blue and black. Shana, you can hear us . I can. Hello from london. Hello from new york. Tell us youre wearing it, what color is it . I definitely see blue and black. Im with the blue and black team. I know its dividing people. How can there be separate optical illusions. Our stage manager believes its conspiracy that this is a marketing ploy. The retailer who makes the dress says they plan to possibly make a white and gold i think the winner is the singer who now were talking about. You know, now i look you know what i see, that we dedicated three minutes of air time to this dress. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks. Coming up, another much discussed dress, this one at the center of a baffling hollywood heist. Who stole the 150,000 oscar gown . Its a lovely pink dress. Also ahead the rise of so called digital kidnappings, people stealing the pictures you post of your kids online. Wait until you hear what they are using those photos for. First this is today on nbc. Coming up on trending do you know who this is . The star behind the jaw dropping transformation. One more well deserved surprise for a family dealing with all that snow. 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