Uniteds ceo defends having a man dragged off a flight for refusing to give up his seat. Oh, my god look at what you did to him this morning, why the airline is placing blame on the passenger. And today exclusive. The good samaritan. A tulane medical student shot in the stomach trying to save a woman from an attacker. The shooter taking aim at his head. This morning, how peter gold survived and the harrowing moment he will see for the first time today, tuesday, april 11th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Were so happy to have peter gold here. Its hard to believe he has never seen the video we just showed. We use the expression, theyre lucky to be alive. Peter gold is a young man who is lucky to be alive. Well talk to him later on. We want to get to the terrible shooting in San Bernadino, california. Were learning about the gunman and the victim. Gadi schwartz has the latest. Reporter good morning, savannah. Family members of the woman who was killed, karen smith, said that she went into teaching after home schooling her own children, and she especially loved working with children who had special needs. One charlie three we got three down. Reporter over the police radio, a shooting call from inside a special needs classroom. The first reports of chaos inside north park Elementary School. Can you advise if the victim is a student or an employee . Its both. Its both. Can you say the injuries on the child . Its a head injury. Two victims with severe trauma. Reporter Cedric Anderson killed his wife of two months in front of her own students. Its a husband of the employee. Reporter within seven minutes, police storming the school, evacuating 500 terrified students. I want to see them and just hug them. Reporter while the desperate parents waited for world. I want my children. Reporter there were 15 students inside the classroom when anderson opened fire. Two children who were behind the teacher were hit. 8yearold Jonathan Martinez died from his wounds. A 9yearold who was also shot is in stable condition this morning. Other little ones traumatized by the horror they witnessed. I saw blood across the room. I ran as fast as i could. She lost a shoe. I lost a shoe. Reporter its the second active shooter tragedy in San Bernardino in a little over a year. 14 people were killed in a terrorist attack that shocked the nation. This is an absolutely tragic event. Our hearts are broken, as is everyone else. Reporter anderson had checked in with the front office, saying he needed to drop something off for his wife. Theres no indication that the gun was visible on his arrival at the school. It wasnt until he came in the classroom that he presented the firearm. Reporter police say the couple had been estranged. This video from february, anderson talks about how much he loves his wife. I love my wife. She is making me really happy. She knows when to ignore me. That makes a happy marriage. Reporter one Family Member painting a different picture of the relationship. Saying smith was scared of her husband and went into hiding when they separated but never filed a police report. Now, her family is left to mourn her loss. I want to say that my mom, she was very special to a lot of people. Reporter and once again, the community of San Bernardino coming together in the face of violence. Apart from teaching at this school, Family Members say smith also volunteered at her Church Teaching children. Meanwhile, investigators are now looking into the criminal history of Cedric Anderson, saying that he had a criminal record of assault and a weapons charge in 2013. But those were later dismissed. Matt and savannah, back to you. Awful. Gadi schwartz, thank you. Another major story. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson making his way to moscow for what are expected to be tense talks with russian officials. Syria, the u. S. Air strike there, russias election meddling, all on the agenda. Well go live to moscow in a moment. First, Peter Alexander joins us from the white house. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. New this morning, secretary of state Rex Tillerson, en route to moscow is delivering a tough message early today warning russia as a choice to make. Either align itself with the u. S. And its allies or embrace the Syrian Regime and iran. As for the recent chemical attack, tillerson is making it clear we cannot let this happen again. Facing his first test as americas top diplomat. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson set to arrive in moscow for highstakes talks with russias foreign minister. Previewing his message early this morning. We do not want the regimes uncontrolled stockpile of chemical weapons to fall into the hands of isis or other terrorist groups who could and want to attack the United States or our allies. Reporter just days after a massacre with chemical weapons. Tillerson accusing russia of being complicit or incompetent, for failure to deliver on an agreement to destroy chemical weapons. The secretary of state reaffirming the decision to strike syria. Rededicating ourselves to any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world. Reporter two senior military officials telling nbc news, its not clear the russians were involved in the chemical attack. But u. S. Officials are investigating. And at the very least, acknowledge the russians didnt stop the syrians. The white house not ruling out another strike against syria. But it is stirring up confusion with press Secretary Sean Spicer warning assads use of barrel bombs could trigger a future u. S. Response. The sight of people being gassed and blown away by barrel bombs ensures that if we see this action again, we hold open the possibility of future action. Reporter but assad has been targeting civilians with barrel bombs that kill indiscriminately for years. Spicer clarifying that nothing has changed in the u. S. Policy. Also looming over todays talks, moscows meddling in the u. S. Election, including possible links between russian operatives and trump associates. Tillerson, a former chief executive at exxon mobil, knows the landscape. Even awarded the russian order of friendship by Vladimir Putin in 2013. Now, as secretary of state, his harsh words for russia, a striking contrast to president trumps hesitance to criticize putin publicly. It would be great if we could get along with russia. Its not terrible. Its good. Reporter as for whether russia was complacent or incompetent when it comes to syria, tillerson this morning says, quote, the distinction doesnt matter much to the dead. Also this morning, forceful comments from north korea. This from kim jonguns regime after the u. S. Deployed a Navy Strike Group towards the korean peninsula. The Norths Foreign Ministry warning it would defend against what it calls reckless acts of aggression and hold the u. S. Wholly accountable. This white house now navigating Foreign Policy crises on two fronts. Matt and savannah . Peter alexander at the white house. Thank you very much. Still the big question, will secretary tillerson get a meeting with Vladimir Putin himself . Nbcs chief global correspondent bill neely in moscow for us. What are you hearing . Reporter good morning, savannah. Rex tillerson is coming to moscow with tough words for russia, but with tough talking from Vladimir Putin here this morning. He has spoken on state television and said the situation in syria today reminds him of iraq in 2003 and the u. S. Claims that iraq had weapons of mass destruction. He also says russia will appeal to the United Nations to investigate that chemical weapons attack in syria. And more startlingly, he says more chemical weapons attacks are being planned to damascus to discredit president assad. He doesnt say who is planning the attacks or what his sources are. Rex tillerson will arrive here with a tough message from the russians give up on your support for president assad. He is toxic. Of course, the russians have just doubled down on their support for president assad by saying that they will help bolster his air defenses, and assad is winning the war with russias help. Whether russia will back down on assad is very dubious. One other thing there is talk that Rex Tillerson may meet Vladimir Putin. The kremlin is saying officially that is simply not on the agenda. Savannah . Matt . Bill neely in position to cover them in moscow. Thank you very much. Heres a story you and your friends will be talking about. Fallout is growing from a disturbing incident on a United Airlines flight, where a passenger was dragged down the aisle after he refused to give up his seat. The video has exploded on social media. And the airlines reaction is sparking more outrage. Tom costello covers aviation. Tom, break it down for us. Reporter matt, good morning to you. The ceo of United Airlines has sent a letter to airline employees saying he emphatically stands by them. And he lays much of the blame for this incident on the passenger who was dragged out of the plane. He says he became uncooperative and disruptive when he was told he would have to leave. And now, as you would expect, the airline is dealing with a Public Relations nightmare. [ screams ] this morning, the outrage is growing. A 69yearold man forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight sunday in chicago. My god. What are you doing . Reporter dragged out of his seat, hitting his face. Oh, my god look at what you did to him reporter and pulled down the aisle. Good work. Way to go. He was bleeding from his nose and mouth area. He looked like he was unconscious. Reporter it started when a Flight Attendant asked for four volunteers to give up their seats so four crew members can fly to louisville. The airline said it offered up to 1,000 per passenger. When no one agreed, united said it randomly selected four passengers. Three agreed, but the unidentified passenger refused, saying he was a doctor who needed to see patients and got increasingly upset. He was yelling at the woman saying, why did you pick me . Are you profiling me because im chinese . Reporter the crew called police who pulled him out of his seat. [ yelling ] reporter after being dragged from the plane, he suddenly returned, appearing disoriented and distraught. I have to go home. I have to go home. Reporter finally, he was taken away on a stretcher. United airlines Ceo Oscar Munoz took to twitter saying, this is an upsetting event to all of us at united. I apologize for having to reaccommodate these customers. Twitter blew up. Reaccommodate . You knocked him out and dragged him off a plane, wrote one. If you fly united, that could be you, said another. The Cleveland Browns joe thomas tweet, i had to reaccommodate someone once. They have suspended one officer involved, as the incident was not in accordance with our standard operating procedure. United cant manage their own people. And so they drag off these passengers. Its the customers come last. And united comes first. And its a bad attitude. And thats totally anticonsumer. Reporter this morning, United Airlines says it is reaching out to that affected customer. Now, if youre asking, is it possible the airline can simply bump me off a plane when i have paid for the ticket and im sitting there . The answer is, yes. They can do that. Its agreed to when you buy your ticket. They have to compensate you depending on how long youre going to be inconvenienced, up to 1,350. Back to you. They can. But should they . Obviously, united is in crisis mode right now, tom. Have you ever seen anything like this . Reporter another airline a group of airline employees from a competing airline just walked by me a moment ago and they shook their heads. They said, we cant believe united has gotten themselves into another Public Relations mess. And this is where united is right now. Theyve got a lot of people believing that the Customer Service is lacking. All right. I wonder what happens the next time they get on a plane and say we need volunteers. Every hand goes up. Or no hands go up again. Tom, thank you very much. Got new developments on whats becoming one of wall streets biggest scandals. Wells fargo forcing two of its top former executives to pay back 75 million, after the bank admitted as many as 2 million accounts were opened for customers without their consent. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has the latest on this. Gabe, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. A justreleased internal report blames wells fargos management for pressuring employees to meet unrealistic sales goals. The report says the sales culture dates back 15 years. And blames top executives for dragging their feet, until that scandal spiraled out of control. This morning, wells fargo is doing serious damage control, saying its forcing two former top executives to return another 75 million in compensation. The socalled clawbacks, the largest in wall street history. When i look back, i should have and could have done some things differently. Reporter the banks now ceo, tim sloan, speaking to cnbc, just after a newlyreleased internal report, pinned most of the blame of the scandal on former chief executive john stumpf and carrie tolstedt. Aggressive Sales Management that created pressure on employees to sell unwanted or unneeded products to customers. Last year, wells fargo acknowledged its employees opened up 2 million checking and credit card accounts without authorization to meet sales goals. It was very frustrating. These are accounts i never opened. Reporter the bank agreed to pay 185 million in fines and said it had fired 5,300 employees. We recognize now that we should have done more sooner. Reporter in september, stumpf was grilled by congress. Your definition of accountable is to push the blame to your lowlevel employees who dont have the money for a fancy p. R. Firm to defend themselves. Its gutless leadership. Reporter tolstedts attorneys released this statement. We strongly disagree with the report and its attempt to lay blame with ms. Tolstedt. A full and will fair examination of the facts will produce a different conclusion. We have more work to do in rebuilding trust with all of our stakeholders and making things right with our customers. Reporter the secondlargest bank in the u. S. , trying to revamp its corporate culture. In addition to the fines, wells fargo recently settled a 110 million classaction lawsuit. The bank remains under investigation by state and federal agencies. Gabe, thank you very much. We have major developments to tell you about in a sex scandal thats rocked alabamas state capitol. Governor Robert Bentley resigned last night, rather than go through impeachment proceedings. He pled guilty to misdemeanor Campaign Violations that arose during the investigation of an alleged affair with his former adviser. Both have denied a physical relationship. Legislators turned up the pressure on bentley by opening impeachment hearings on monday. He will be replaced by kay ivy who was sworn in last night. How do you like carnival rides . I like them. Look at this video. Its frightening video of a carnival ride that left a woman dangling by her ankles. This happened in paris on a ride called, appropriately, adrenaline which is essentially a giant swing. During the ride, the straps holding the woman to her seat failed. Onlookers gasps. She swung back and forth upside down at one point, almost hitting her head on a steel platform. Eventually, she was rescued. Amazingly not injured. Carnival operators said they were shocked by what happened and the rides will be dismantled. Would you get on it after that . No. I think its good that they did that. Get a check of the weather. Hello, mr. Roker. It was a gorgeous day up and down the eastern seaboard. In and out of the midwest. We have more fantastic temperatures to talk about. This building high pressure, jet stream up to the north. We may see records in boston, new york, philadelphia, maybe washington, d. C. , as we roll on during the day today. For tomorrow, temperatures, 17 degrees above average in philadelphia, houston, two degrees. Albuquerque, 73. And the warmth continues from the southwest coast all the way into the midatlantic, with temperatures anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees above average. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Good Tuesday Morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. We are tracking some rain moving inland, especially for marin county and approaching San Francisco. I would give it another 30 minutes, make sure you grab the umbrella before you head out. Were also going to see the rain at times throughout the day with cloudy skies in San Francisco, expect a high of 60 degrees. Even cooler tomorrow, and the coolest day will be on thursday before we get some clearing in time for the weekend. More showers in the forecast for easter sunday. Thats your latest weather. Thank you very much. Still ahead, the former medical student who was shot while trying to stop an attack on a woman in new orleans. He is here for an exclusive live interview. Its his first since that day. 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