Vile voicemail on a state lawmakers phone. I want you to prove im a racist. You little son of a [ bleep ]. The governor apologizing saying he wishes he could have a duel. And saved by the sand. Two sailors stranded on the tiny South Pacific island for a week are spotted after writing sos on the beach. Miles. Now they are all safe. Today, august 27th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on saturday. Im Sheinelle Jones alongside craig melvin and Stephanie Ruhle and dave price here from wnbc. He is here for dylan. To work in the sos song. It is perfect. Lets get to the top story. The breaking news overnight. Police in mississippi say they arrested a man accused of killing two nuns in their home. Nbcs janet shambian is in mississippi this morning. Reporter good morning. He is a 46yearold man from the nearby town of durant. He is charged with two counts capital murder. Rodney sanders was a suspect, but now they have enough to charge him. Police say they have their man. 46yearold Rodney Earl Sanders of kosciusko, mississippi. Charged with killing two nuns in durant this week. Devastating. Reporter they were well known by their first names. In one of the poorest counties, they settled with a wish. To serve. We make a difference in peoples lives. We never know what that differs is. Reporter for many of little means, the nuns, both 68, were the only Health Care Providers people have known. Serving as doctors and nurses and friends. For years, they have given tirelessly. Ultimately, they gave lives. A double homicide. This is the worst thing to happen to us since katrina. Reporter the women were found stabbed in their home. A back door ajar. Their missing car discovered a mile away. Their deaths are a shock to us. We are deeply grieved. Reporter police say sanders was a person of interest early on and after an interview friday, they had enough to treasured members of a community. They were the most beautiful women that ever drawn breath into their bodies. They were totally giving of themselves to everyone. Reporter authorities have not said how sanders was implicated or has a personal connection to the nuns. He is described as a drifter in the area. Meanwhile services for the two sisters set for next week. Sheinelle, back to you. A Tropical Storm brewing in the caribbean is close to landfall. That could cause problems for folks along the gulf coast in florida. Dave price is here and tracking the storm. What are we seeing . Lets walk to the weather wall and take a look. This is a busy time. Typically august is really the high point in the atlantic Hurricane Season. As you can see, it is living true to form. These four areas are what we are most concerned about. Islands. This is the tropical wave we are watching. In the next five days, a 40 chance this will again strengthen into a Tropical Storm. We will keep an eye on this one right now. Lets look at the things that are going to contribute to the strengthening or weakening. The warm water in the gulf at 90 degrees. Thats fuel to the fire. There are also winds which are shearing this introducing dry air and that may weaken it. N, chance this continues to strengthen. Two models, one the american model which takes it into the gulf state, and the euro, takes it into the southeastern of florida. No matter what happens, we will see heavy rains roll over the peninsula of florida right now. Locally upwards of 5 or more inches over the next several days. It will be a wet weekend. Lets see what we are expecting over the next several days. Will see wet weather stretching from florida straight through to texas over the next 48 hours or so. Again, a 40 chance this really develops into something stronger over the next four or five days. Lots of rain in store for the people in the sunshine state. We will get to the full forecast in a bit. This storm could be bad news for the residents of florida among growing fears against the battle of zika virus we have Gabe Gutierrez in florida with more on that. Good morning, gabe. Reporter stephanie, good morning. Any Tropical Storm could blow any mosquitoes out of the sky and could leave behind standing water. With more than 40 cases of home grown zika in florida so far, that is something Health Officials do not want to see. This morning, florida is bracing for a onetwo punch mounting fears over zika and now more standing water. Reporter that could lead to more mosquitoes. Officials are urging people to watch containers. Look at your property. Drain it. Reporter there are more than 40 home grown cases of zika in four florida counties, but the vast majority have been contracted outside the country. Maria got her daughter was born without microcephaly, the birth defect characterized by a small head. Her mother says she is terrified about what the future might bring. A study out this week in the journal of radiology suggests that babies born without obvious zika symptoms can have issues later and the impact prompted the fda on friday to announce for zika. Sonya knight is eight months pregnant. She took a zika test. Has Hurricane Season ramps up. She is worried. You are concerned about how your baby is developing and this thing you have no control over in a place like florida. Reporter floridas governor urging congress to approve more federal funds to fight zika. No matter how much rain sunshine state, experts warn that an active Hurricane Season could divert resources from fighting the virus. Stephanie. Gabe gutierrez, thanks. To politics now. Our exclusive interview with the doctor who said donald trump would be the healthiest president ever. Kaci hunt is here with more on that and how he is preparing for the big speech on immigration. Good morning. This has been a long and low donald trump and Hillary Clinton trading accusations of bigotry. There is another round of rumors of Hillary Clintons medical condition. This morning, revelations about Donald Trumps bill of health. Reporter everything americans know about Donald Trumps health was written in five minutes. Five minutes to sit at this desk and write the letter. Reporter this is the letter from harold borenstein. The nominee, his doctor wrote, the healthiest individual ever elected. Now telling nbc news. I try to get four or five lines done as fast as possible. Reporter it is the latest twist in the president ial campaign that many voters think stink. Trump spent the week pivoting back and forth on immigration. A softening. Legalization unless they leave the country. Reporter Hillary Clinton shrugged off questions of the foundation has a conflict of interest. My secretary of state was not influencesed. Reporter changing the subject to race and bigotry. Putting money behind the tv ad. I had a great relationship with the blacks. What the hell do you have to lose . Reporter trump firing back in the interview on fox news. It gets worse and worse. All she wants to do is get the votes of a hispanics. Reporter in nevada on friday, again trying to reach out to hispanics. Doing very, very well with la latinos. Reporter the question now whether donald trump can win over new voters and not alienate the conservatives. Donald trump is expected to visit the state as the Campaign Works on the upcoming immigration speech. Hillary clinton in new york where she is expected to receive heading to the hamptons for fundraisers. Lets talk about the calls for bigotry and racism. This comes at a time when their favorable ratings are at an alltime high. Are these reaching people in the middle . The challenge is they could turn off so many voters that each one would have a different set of problems. Donald trump really needs his core base, white, working class voters to come out in numbers before. He needs to make sure they get out and vote. Hillary clinton needs to make sure they are not complacent and she is so far ahead they dont need to vote. She needs the swing voters and africanamerican voters and hispanics to come out in record numbers. This could turn everyone off. What she said in reno and the exclusive yesterday, it seems as if the clinton folks are going out of their way to paint racist. They are not using the same brush for the entire gop. What are your Campaign Sources telling you about the strategy . Craig, she is separating out republicans, conservatives and saying it is not the same as the bigoted rhetoric from the donald trump campaign. The difference is normalize and say you voted republican all your life. You cannot go to your neighbors and say i voted for a democrat. Hillary Clintons Campaign wants people to say i am still a republican in the future, but this year im voting for Hillary Clinton. Donald trump is not the same as the republican party. Fascinating. Your insight is fascinating. Thank you, kaci. Maines governor is coming under fire for an obscene voicemail he left on a democratic legislators phone. It is the latest outburst to someone who is no stranger to the spotlight. More. Reporter the maine governor is under fire for the issue. This is not the first time he is under fire. Now many are saying they had enough and calling for his resignation. Maine Governor Paul Lepage at it ag again. You little son of a [ bleep ]. Reporter leaders in maine calling for his resignation on friday after a week of controversial remarks. He is reporter it all started wednesday when lepage made racially charged comments about the states drug offenders. 90 plus in my book, a threering binder, of black and hispanic people. Reporter prompting this response from drew gattine. These kinds of racially charged comments from the governor dont do anything to solve the problem. I want you to prove im a racist. You little son of a [ bleep ]. Reporter it did not stop there. Lepage told a local reporter. I wish it was 1825 and we would have a duel. Thats how angry i am. I would point it right between his eyes. Reporter it is the governor who came under fire. Prompting a friday apology. Sort of. I would like to apologize to e maine. I do not apologize to drew gattine. Everything i said to him is less insulting. Reporter gattine responded. I think his comments were racially charged and unhelpful. I did not call him a racist. You dont like me and i dont like you. Reporter an outspoken politician and strong trump supporter. Lepage has said some eyebrow raising things in the past. Smoothy and shifty. They sell their heroin up here and go back home. Half the time they impregnate a young white girl and leave. Reporter lepage shows no sign of backing down. Guys, the reaction to lepages latest remarks have been strong. Here are a couple we found on twitter. Governor lepage is the reason we need background checks. Unstable racists to guns. And another one. Just when i thought i could not love this man even more. Go lepage. This is the latest in a week of controversial remarks. Not the last. Morgan, thank you. Heading overseas where overnight the death toll r rose again in italy. Mourners this morning are remembering the victims and searchers are hoping they can find someone alive. Reporter it has been 80 hours since the earthquake hit. Finding survivors are not easy. Rescuers are not giving up and paying respects to the dead. In italy this morning, grief and farewells. A day of national mourning. The search goes on, but nearly gone. Reality sinking in for those who made it out alive. It is incredible the town has been around for centuries. Turned to rubble in an instant. Now the sea of tents is the only thing they have to call home. Reporter little sophia was born three weeks before the quake. She wont remember the hor horr. Her father will not forget. Disaster in the dead of night. Walls crumbled. Your family survived despite everything. Was it luck . I was fortunate, he says. So many others died. Reporter danielles children made it out alive. Her parents did not. We lost everything, she says. Its all gone. Even here among the darkness, light and life as the nation a lot of soul searching today as people come to grips with the full scale of the disaster and finger pointing. Italy has done an excellent job of rescuing people after earthquakes, but protecting buildings ahead of time, that is a different matter. Sheinelle. Thank you. Back here at home, it was a night of heavy rain and floods for people in the midwest. Sweep it away. A flash flood emergency in kansas city, missouri covered cars there. Search crews were dispatched throughout the night to rescue stranded motorists and stranded pedestrians as well. Dave murphy excuse me. Dave price is back with the full forecast in a moment. A tragic story. Tragedy for nba star dwyane wade. His 32 year d baby in the stroller in chicago. She was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire with three men. Wade spoke out this week about chicagos gun violence and took to twitter after the death to mourn the fact that her four children now dont have a mother. And the National Park hit by tragedy. A 20yearold concession worker the morning when she was with coworkers who saw her fall and called 911. There was a rescue at sea for two stranded boaters. Check this out. Stuck on the deserted Pacific Island for more than a week. Writing sos in the sand. Hoping it would catch the attention of searchers and it worked. Ship saw the signal on friday. A coast guard vessel up. In a weeklong ordeal. Extraordinary. Dave is back with a check on the report of the countrys forecast. Hey, dave. Guys, it will be a little sloppy in the midwest. Lets walk over and take a look at this together. Kansas city overnight. 4 to 6 inches of rain. Just deluge of shower activity. Look at this as it begins to slowly advance to the midwest. I would not be surprised if there are airport delays today if you head through those hubs. As far as the rest of the national map. It will be a really nice weekend in the northeast. Especially along the i95 corridor. Plenty of sunshine. Humidity beginning to decrease after a rough week. The stationary front is going to keep the rain kind of slowly meandering across the midwest. Meanwhile, in florida, as we spoke of a couple means ago, heavy 5 inches of rain. Monsoonal conditions for this time of year in the southwest. A mild day in the pacific northwest. Finally we see temperatures begin to work their way down after record setters over the last several days. Thats a quick look at the national maps. The inter Mountain West looks very nice as well. Heres a look at whats going on thats a look at dave price. Good to have you. You can call me murphy. Murphy. Price. Well talk about this cutie. Still to come, a look back at the most talked about stories and this brave boy who melted our hearts from the instant we met him. Plus, president obama putting a pair of Virtual Reality google on and the internet goes wild. It was awesome. But first this is today on look at that crowd. We will get out there in a bit. Still to come on today. A mother and father speak out after an american missionary is jailed in venezuela. And how you can make big buck b you can make a killing. You personally. We are back this saturday morning on this 27th day of august, 2016. It is expected to be another scorcher here in new york we have another beautiful crowd on the plaza. We will be out there in a while to say hi. For now, here is a look at the headlines. One man under arrest and facing capital murder charges in connection with the killing of two nuns in mississippi. Rodney earl sanders is accused of killing the two nuns in their home on thursday. In a statement overnight, police say sanders ways person of interest early on in the keeping an eye on the tropical system down south. It is feared that the storm could make the zika situation in the state worse. Residents are told to keep containers on the property covered and drain to avoid the build up of mosquitoes. And Hillary Clinton is in new york where she is expected to receive an intelligence briefing today. After that, she is heading to the hamptons. Meantime, donald trump is in iowa for a fundraiser and appearance at the state fair. Now to a recap biggest headlines. Ryan lochte is in more hot water after the gas station rhetoric. And it gets turned up between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. And the little boy makes us smile. Those are some of the stories in the download. Gold medal winning swimmer still in hot water for falsely claiming he was robbed. Speaking exclusively to matt. Because i overexaggerated that story and if i never had done that, we would not be in this mess. The Brazilian Police charging lochte with filing a false police report. The Ripple Effect is costing him millions. Four sponsors dumping the swimmer after a drunken night out where he first claimed he was robbed at gun point. In the race for the white house, donald trump getting personal in his attacks. Hillary clinton is a bigot who votes. While also taking aim at her ties to the Clinton Foundation. It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the state department begins. For her part, clinton accusing trump of a Campaign Based on prejudice and paranoia. He promoted the racist lie that president obama is not really an american citizen. This campaign ad. It is treason to heritage. A massive earthquake to italy. Massive quake as everyone slept. Its clock stopped. They worked overnight to pull people out, but mostly its bodies. Amatrice reduced to rubble. Drugmaker mylan faced a huge backlash after hiking the lifesaving epipen. Used by Many Americans and likely children suffering a fatal reaction to allergies. The price from 90 to 600. The last thing we want is not to have an epipen due to price. And true bravery of 9yearold zion. He was the first ever child recipient of the hand transplant. Zion and his family talked about the journey on the today set. What i