Growing outrage. You not doing like you suppose to. A Police Officer uses a tazer at city counsel. The man at the wrong end of the taser is speaking out. Are you ready . Come and get it. Pop super star selena gomez is here. Today, monday, october 12, 2015. From nbc news, this is today with matt louer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to the today on a monday morning. We check out a huge crowd. That is a huge crowd. In your dressing room, are you ready . Good morning. Does this look all right. Yeah. Good. I want to look good for you. Uhhuh. Thats another story. I cant remember the lyrics. That too. Were going to talk about that in a while. L lets get to our top story. Tens of thousands of passengers on Southwest Airlines facing huge delays today. Nbcs tom costella joining us from Reagan National air poport with more on that. Reporter theyre telling me the initial delays this morning seemed to have tapered off and as of 7 00 west coast time the Computer System seemed to be operating normally. They are still urging people print your boarding passes at home and use your mobile boarding passes if possible and that will speed you on to the gate. Yesterday tens of thousands effected. Today were off to a better start. You might call it flying the frustrated skies. Its poor customerinvestigat. Lots of people, lots of luggage. Nobody knows where theyre going or what theyre doing. The exciter crash crippling the airline across the board. From coast to coast miles of long lines at airports including nashville, phoenix and las vegas. One woman describing a three mile line with a weight before reaching the check in counter. Theres elderly people that have had to sit out in the heat. In laoss oka angeles passeng outside. Police were setting up canopies for shade. Southwest employees handed out pizzas to the hungry. Across the country a day of flying or trying to fly but getting nowhere fast. Yesterday they were advising people please get to the airport several hours early. Again, off to a better start today. Southwest releasing a statement. Heres what they said. We have additional work to do today to get bags delivered or some delayed customers into open seats. We have teams working as quickly as possible to accomplish this. Just after 7 00 on the west coast now easing up. Guys, back to you. Up to two hours. Tom costella, thank you very much. Such a bummer on the Holiday Weekend. A run for the white house. The president said if he were allowed to run again he would win but hasnt yet endorsed any fellow democrats for the debate tomorrow. His Vice President joe biden is still held up in delaware and not tipping his hand. International correspondent peter is in vegas this morning. Reporter welcome to las vegas. All the Democratic Candidates in the next 24 hours. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton will be laying their chips on the table. This morning president obama is defending his former secretary of state saying while making a mistake theres no evidence her private email system was used to hide something or squirrel away information. President obama speaking out about hillarys email con t controver controversy. Did you know about her private email while she was secretary of state . No. His former secretary of state should have held herself to a higher standard. Its important for her to answer these questions to the satisfaction of the American Public and they can make their own judgment. I can tell you this is not a situation in which Americas National security was endangered. I did not email still, the Republican Party isnt letting up. Theyre viewing this new add and ahead of the first democratic debate tomorrow night much of the focus is on the man that wont be on stage but his podium is there just in case. Vice President Joe Biden spending the weekend in delaware. President obama praising his v. P. But taking no position on 2016. Im going to let joe make that decision. Without biden in the race the majority supports clinton over Bernie Sanders. Add biden and that lead slinks. On meet the press sanders previewed the leikely hood of clinton a flip flop. His own left wing credential. Are you a catholic . No, im a democratic socialist. As for the republicans and trump keeping his front runner status. I dont think hell end up being president of the United States. Apparently donald trump is keeping score of the president S Performance last night on 60 minutes. This morning on fox news calling it terrible, sad and negative. Tomorrow night well tweet it. Great. Everybodys saying we did much better on 60 minutes than president obama. Hes up in the latest National Pole by six points by ben carson and has tripled every other rival in the republican field. More than 24 hours away. Peter alexander, thank you. Mark is managing editor of bloomberg politics. Good morning to you. Dpoorm, matt. Does a Strong Performance tomorrow night help Hillary Clinton more or Bernie Sanders more . Bernie sanders more. Hes introducing himself to the American People and if he shows himself up there able to be president that helps him a lot. He said to chuck todd hes not a capitolist. I think to Hillary Clinton people are going to look at that and say do yall want this to be our candidate . Hes going to hit her hard on her record as we just heard flip flops on major issues over the last decade or so. How poet innocent of how. From hillarys point of view she knows the reality. She gets top scrutiny. Remember eight years ago in an october debate in philadelphia, she made one mistake at the end of the debate on drivers license for people here illegally and it was a huge con tro ver si for weeks. She knows the margin of error is zero for her. The president weighed in on the interview on 60 mens and says she should have held herself to a higher standard and National Security was never at risk basically saying what hillary was saying on the campaign trail. On one hand you could help her out a little bit. Hard to know how he reached that determination when the fbi is still investigating. On the other hand, we know from reporting the president , Vice President , others at the white house are not pleased with the way she handled her email. The president didnt bail her out completely by saying this is serious, should be looked at and something shes going to have to explain to the American People. I dont think the people looked at what she said yesterday and thought that was the most possible thing. Let me end there. Without any unforeseen changes, joe biden is going to be watching this democratic debate in his living room or home or somewhere like that. What will he be looking to see or hear that will have a major impact on his decision about running in this race . Well, look, i think hes going to watch the debate for sure and see how she performs a and Bernie Sanders performs and how he does at the beghazi face to face. Really, matt, it comes back to no what happens here in vegas tomorrow night but whats happening in his heart and with his family. He still has to think about if he has it in him. Marx, always fun to talk to you on this subject. Thanks very much. As mark said one of issues excepted to come up on tomorrows debate will be the on going investigation into the benghazi attack. Hillary clinton swirling at the controversy of the attack. Now shes getting a report on the source. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell has the latest. Reporter those are the latest charges on the republican led benghazi investigation by a republican staff member who was fired. Increased scrutiny this morning as a Congressional Committee investigating bengh benghazi. Air force major bradley. This has become a partisan investigation. He was fired in june and says he was forced out because he resisted pressure to target clinton. As i stated, Hillary Clinton has a lot of explaining to do. We do not need to shift resources. Its a damn lie. Thats not a word i often use. In an interview, tray denies the claim saying he was fired for poor informans. He was a lousy employee. He mishandled classified information and wouldnt do what his supervisors instructed him to do. He says he plans to file a lawsuit charging that the committees leadership was not interested in revealing the truth about the benghazi attacks but rather they spended to use the select committee for their partys political feigliolitica takes leads for several weeks. That would violate a federal law. It would be a lifeline for Hillary Clinton as she prepares for tomorrow nights first democratic debate. The Clinton Campaign calls the new charges explosive. They further credit the Benghazi Administration which was under fire suggesting that it was set up to take down clinton. Matt and hoda. Thank you so much for that. Great time of year for the sports fans. Of course, the hockey season getting underway. You have football in high gear and the baseball playoffs. A lot of people talking about a controversial play that ended up costing the new york mets their short stop. He slid wide of the base and taking his legs out from under him. Several mets players said the play was dirty and the replay clearly shows utley did not start his slide until he was almost past second base. Hell miss the rest of the playoffs. Utley apologized and said he was trying to break up the play and not hurt anyone. The dodgers went on to win the game. Late sunday Night Major League Baseball announced utley will be suspended for his illegal slide for the next two games of the best of five series which is by the way tied at a game of piece. There is a question some are asking. Sometimes when Something Like this happens there is retribution from another team. You have to wonder. For the mets tonight matt harvey whose an emotional pitcher and the question is, is he going to throw high and tight . Do they do that . Yeah. But the risks there. If harvey throws a questionable pitch, will he get ejected . If you look at the slide, he was out of bounds, late slide. The part of him hitting when his back was turned, i think he starts his slide before he sees him spin around. What do you think the two games is fair . Its dangerous play. Think about football. Youre not allowed to take out a catcher any longer. To break up the double play nhe iran. The Washington Post reporter has been convicted after an espionage trial that ended two months ago. Its not clear though what specific charges he was convicted of. The newspaper calls the verdict an outrageous injustice. The americaniranian reporter has been in prison for more than 14 months, often under harsh conditions. In afghanistan, a witness says a helicopter that crashed sunday killing five nato Service Members and injuring five others struck the cable of a large balloon used for observation. The chopper has been attempting to land at the nato headquarters in kabul. A former member of sergeant be bowburg dolls court says he should be spared jail time. Burgdol was accused of desserting his unit in afghanistan before captured by the taliban and held for five years. The former colleague that is speaking out says he deserves life in prison. Several prisoners died while searching for him. The pentagon says they have no evidence of that. A suspect is in custody after the murder of an off duty memphis Police Officer. Officer Terrance Aldridge was shot several times in his own driveway while preparing to go to work sunday afternoon. Officials have not revealed any motive for the shooting. Officer aldridge was on the force for just over a year. Hes the second memphis Police Officer shot to death in the past ten weeks. California Corrections Officers want to start letting Prison Inmates convicted of Violent Crimes take part in fighting wildfires. Firefighters in the state already get help from thousands of nonviolent offenders. But the largest inmate unit is about 800 members short. So under the new proposaproposa. Con inmates convicted of robbery and assault would be add philadelphia the security classification level improved based on good behavior. Officials in south carolinas capital are still working to get the citys Drinking Water system repaired. More than 300,000 water customers in columbia will to boil water yet again this weekend before drinking or cooking with it. Heavy rain and flooding caused numerous breaks in the system and possible contamination. However, city Officials Say they are confident they will not lose Water Service altogether. And a fantastic finish in the sunday night nfl game. New york giants fans on the edge of their seats through the Fourth Quarter as the lead seesawed back and forth with the San Francisco 49ers. Then trailing by four with less than 30 seconds to go, the giants made that leaping catch in the back there of the end zone making it the win. The giants holding on 3027. If anybody is tired, its probably because of that this morning. George h. W. Bush got in on the playoff action. He threw out the ceremonial first pitch twens the astros and royals. Looking good there. Mr. Bush wearing a neck brace since breaking a vertebrae. He had a big smile on his face. Mr. And mr. Speaker bush wore the matching astros jerseys. Their team won 42. So a good luck charm for the astros. That is beautiful. All right. Thank you. Al is off today. We have a check of the forecast. It doesnt feel like october, thats for sure. Its been warm for most areas across the country. When the jet stream is sitting this far up to the north, thats when we have warmer temperatures. Especially in the southwest. An area of High Pressure is bringing exceptional heat. L. A. Should top out around 95 degrees today. Vegas, 96. The temperatures are 10 to 15 degrees above average in the east and back through southern plains. We are looking for temperatures in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Dallas, 94. That is 14 degrees above average. Kansas city making it into the upper 70s. Washington, d. C. , about 76 degrees. Now we have a cold front that is moving through the northern plains. Wind could gust up near 50 to 70 miles per hour. Fargo hit 97 degrees. Thats the warmest its been all of 2015. Thats the weather strong hair can do anything strong is unbreakable just like you, just like me strong is beautiful pantene good morning. Im meteorologist keri hall. Temperatures across the bay in the mid to upper 50s awe you step out the door with a lot of sunshine. The temperature wills be heating up. 80 degrees in the peninsula and the south bay. San francisco topping out at 78 and the north bay a high of 88 degrees, the hottest temperatures today in the trivalley, a high of 92 degrees. And in the south bay look for a high of 88. More of the heat heading into tomorrow. And thats your latest forecast. Coming up, a local politician taserred by texas police and its caught on tape. Now that councilman is speaking out as an investigation gets under way. And how reliable are the age progression photos you see in missing childs cases . We put the process to the test with some surprising results. But first, this is today on nbc. Coming up, how would you like to work for coming up, how would you look at you, saving money coming up, how would you like to work for on your Medicare Part d prescriptions. 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