Kardashians paris bedroom in the middle of the night. Was she targeted after social media posts like this one . Could it be an inside job in the hunt for suspects today, tuesday, october 4th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody, welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Starting to get a taste of all eyes on the weather. This storm showing no signs of letting up. Our top story, the atlantics most powerful hurricane in a decade, matthew on a projected path that will bring the storm dangerously close to the east coast of the u. S. Well get als forecast in a minute, but lets go to nbcs Gabe Gutierrez who is in the thick of it in haiti this reporter savannah, the eye of the storm is about to slam into the southwestern tip of this country here in portauprince. We are already starting to see the rain pick up. As you mentioned, this is the most powerful atlantic hurricane in almost a decade. This morning, Hurricane Matthew, a slowmoving category 4 juggernaut is beginning to tear through haiti. Hardest hit the impoverish countrys southwest peninsula. Some fear up to 40 inches of rain in some areas triggering deadly mudslides. The storm could be highly devastating for haiti, particul reporter nasa capturing this dramatic view of the monster storm from space, its eye clearly visible. Matthews relentless storm surge and torrential rain flooding parts of jamaica. My roof is not solid and hurricane is coming. Reporter eastern cuba and the bahamas now on high alert as the storm slogs through the caribbean and now even threatening the u. S. East coast floridas governor has already declared a state of emergency. If matthew directly impacts florida, there will be massive destruction that we havent seen in years. Reporter the government is urging residents to head to emergency shelters. But many are refusing to leave. Now the death toll is expected to climb. Hurricane matthews already blamed for at least three deaths, including a fisherman here in haiti who was swept away. Another man is still missing. Matt and savannah . Gabe gutierrez, thank you. Ex in cuba. Nbcs Kerry Sanders is in santiago. Thats on the eastern side of the island. Kerry, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Well, they are definitely expecting to get a direct hit here. They are preparing for a direct hit, especially with that slight westerly turn that matthew appears to be taking. Here on the eastern end of cuba, what theyve done is what you would expect. Theyve gotten saws out and theyve started cutting down some of the trees that they think the wind will take down, as well as removing some of the of 100plus miles could easily accepted airborne. There are limited supplies here to prepare a home. But what theyve been able to do is get what they could find and put those supplies over windows, and in some cases put sandbags on roofs. Those roofs made out of corrugated metal that could easily go airborne. It will be interesting to see whether those sandbags actually do much once winds hit 60plus Miles Per Hour. Meantime, Evacuation Centers here on the eastern end of the island are opening. People have already gone to the university of guantanamo where they will ride out the storm. Many of those people have come in from the nearby sierra mountains, as well as along the coast here. Right behind me here, they expect the storm surge to be up to 11 feet. The population on the eastern end, about the size of baltimore. More than 500,000, 600,000 people. Guys . Back to you. Kerry sanders with the calm before the storm on cuba. We know where matthew is. The question is where is it u. S. Al . Guys, now we are starting to see some convergence and agreement amongst the models. Here is the latest on matthew. Right now, still a category 4 storm. Dangerous. 165 miles south of eastern cuba. 145mileperhour winds. Its moving to the north at 9 Miles Per Hour, so its Forward Motion has picked up. By wednesday morning, it will have cleared. Early wednesday morning. With 130mileperhour winds, still a category 4 storm. Thursday morning, its a category 3 storm. Still a dangerous storm battering all of the bahamas. By friday morning, look at how close it is to the eastern coast of florida. We are talking the cone of uncertainty only 270 miles wide. And by saturday morning, its just off the South Carolina coast. As you move into sunday morning, Cape Hatteras is under the gun. You look at the models, the three models we look at the National Hurricane center, the u. S. And the euro. Potential impacts three to six inches. We move on in to friday and saturday, coastal South Carolina, North Carolina, five to ten inches, storm surges, six feet above. Moving into sunday, the u. S. Model brings it right off the shoreline of new jersey and new york. One to three inches of rainfall, coastal flooding, beach erosion. Rainfall amounts, we are looking basically at anywhere from five to eight, maybe even ten inches of rain along the south to North Carolina coast, guys. So flooding isng beach erosion. Everybody up and down the east coast has to keep an eye on this. All right. Thank you so much. Well have the latest on matthew as it goes through the caribbean throughout the morning. Let us turn to politics now and the state of the president ial race, just 35 days to go now. Donald trump hitting back at a New York Times report that he declared a 916 million loss in 1995, and that may have allowed him to avoid paying federal income tax for years. Brilliantly used laws to his advantage. Our latest nbc News Survey Monkey online tracking poll just out this morning, it is now showing Hillary Clinton with a sixpoint lead nationally. 50 to 44 . Clinton will be campaigning in pennsylvania today hosting a roundtable discussion with families, while her republican rival hold a rally in arizona. A week after the states largest newspaper, the arizona republic, endorsed clinton. 126year history that it has backed a democratic candidate. A big event tonight, all eyes will be on the Vice President ial debate. Weve got it all covered. Lets start with nbcs hallie jackson. Hi, hallie, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, savannah. Both of these vp candidates struggle with name recognition. Our new nbc News Survey Monkey online poll shows 40 of voters dont know enough about tim kaine to have a positive or pence. That will change tonight as for republicans it is the top of the ticket facing new fire on several fronts. . Reporter tonight it will be mike pence playing cleanup. On the many controversies Donald Trumps trying to shake. I have legally used the tax laws to my benefit. I have brilliantly used those laws. Reporter trump, putting a positive spin on his nearly 1 revealed in tax filings leaked to the New York Times which reports the candidate may have gone years without paying personal federal income taxes. But trump, not so kind to others who may have done the same. I know people that are making a tremendous amount of money and paying virtually no tax. I think it is unfair. Id love everybody to pay because psychologically i think thats good. Reporter now trumps facing fire for something else. The new York Attorney general donations accusing it of not being properly registered in new york. Trumps team says the candidate will cooperate with the ags investigation but is concerned about the political motives from attorney general eric schneiderman, a Hillary Clinton supporter. Clinton taking aim on taxes. Well, what kind of genius loses a billion dollars in the first place . Reporter her surrogates on the campaign trail attacking trump, too. Stunned after trump said this. When you talk about the Mental Health problems when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and youre strong and you can handle it. But a lot of people cant handle it. I dont think he was trying to be mean. He is just so thoroughly, completely uninformed. Reporter trump denounced by Veterans Groups, defended by his supporters. Media does a cherrypick reporter but after one of trumps worst weeks yet, it is pence who will again be forced to defend the top of his ticket, as tim kaine tries to boost clintons appeal with millennials, neither with the name recognition of their running mates. Do you know who these guys are . No, i do not. Any idea . No. No . Nothing . Nothing . No. You . I do not. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan, by the way, now weighing telling the Detroit Free Press he doesnt think it will be that harmful. And new this morning, the founder of Wikileaks Julian assange will release some information before the election. Not saying what that information will be. Hallie jackson at the debate hall already. Thank you. What do you say we bring in nicolle wallace. Good morning to you. I dont envy mike pence tonight. Hes taking to the debate stage opposite tim kaine in the middle of what is perhaps the worst week and a half for donald trump during this campaign. Tim kaine has a lot of ammunition. What should pences strategy be . Well, listen, i agree with you, this is the stretch trump has had since he went to war with the gold star family, the khans, at the democratic convention. He might as well bring a mop and a bucket tonight because he is going to spend the whole debate, i think, on defense cleaning up selfinflicted wounds. Whenever we see the polls swing the way we did this morning, it is almost always because of this kind of debacle that donald trump says something, then he digs in, he tweets something and makes it worse. On the other hand, this is not new work to mike pence. Hes basically been doing this on the trail. Weve him on the set, weve asked him about various controversies. He has shown himself able to deflect and move on. Can he potentially help trump at i was critical to he is the perfectin to trumps yang. He has given some gop hand wringers. He is reassurance and answers that temperament question. I think when more people see him, i think that the piece is right. Trump can be a reassuring presence to this ticket pence, im sorry. Trump had a got moment in the debate last week. It was when he was kind of er p an agent of change. So thats going to come up tonight. Pence is going to hit kaine with that. How does kaine answer that . I think you have to lean into it. If you look at the other side of being there for a long time is not being prepared. I think there is a ready response. But pence isnt exactly the perfect messenger for change. Hes been in the government for a very long time. He was in the congress. I think it is a complicated message. Trump is much better suited to deliver a change message than pence ever will be. Nicolle wallace, thank you very much. You can watch the debate starting at 9 00 eastern right here on nbc. Now we move to developments on that new jersey train crash investigation. The ntsb says crews are working 12hour shifts to clear debris from the hoboken terminal. They still have not been able to extract the recorder from the trains front car. Officials say that recorder in the rear of the train that was supposed to store speed and braking information wasnt functioning on the day of the accident. One person was killed, more than 100 injured in last thursdays crash. It is day two of a trial of a georgia father accused of intentionally leaving his 22monthold son to die in a sweltering car. Nbcs Janet Shamlian is at the courthouse in brunswick, georgia. Janet, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. He was a father who decided he life. Those are prosecutors claims in this highly charged trial where a little boy died in the back seat of his fathers car and prosecutors claim it was no accident. Reporter Justin Ross Harris in a Georgia Courtroom this morning on trial for a crime that, to any parent, is unthinkable. Accused of intentionally leaving his 22monthold son, cooper, strapped to a child seat in his suv to die a slow and painful death on a sweltering 90degree da in Opening Statements, prosecutors say harris wanted out of his marriage and from being a dad. Alleging the 35yearold was leading a double life, seeing prostitutes, messaging women for sex, and sending lewd texts to underage girls. Messaging on the morning of the murder that he needed an escape from his son five minutes from getting just that. Childs body baking in that car for seven hours. Reporter a 16person jury was seated monday. Four are alternates, 11 have children. Theyll hear the defense present its Opening Statement this morning. Ross attorney has previously said coopers death in june of 2014 was unintentional. The truth is, coopers death was a horrible gutwrenching accident. Reporter harris exwife, leanna, who dirc coopers death, is a witness for both prosecution and defense. Her Attorney Says she believes it wasnt deliberate. She never changed her mind that she thinks that this was not intentional, that it was an accident, not negligent. Just an accident. Reporter prosecutors are now seeking the death penalty. But if convicted of murdering cooper, harris could be sentenced to life. The trial was moved here to the Georgia Court almost 300 miles from where cooper died because aware of the case, and the defense argues had already made up their minds. The case could take as long as a month. Matt and savannah, back to you. Janet shamlian, thank you very much. Overseas now, pope francis made a surprise visit today to the site of that devastating earthquake in central italy. Vatican released these pictures showing the pope standing alone and praying amid the rubble of one of the hardest hit towns. Nearly 300 people were killed in the august quake. The pope told residents there he had wanted to come earlier but he said, in this moment of sadness and pain, lets move forward while remembering our dear ones who died here under the rubble. So let us pray for them. Back to mr. Roker with more of his forecast. We have other weather to talk about besides matthew which we will be talking about right on into the beginning of next week. Foggy conditions right now in the ohio river valley. An enhanced risk of some strong storms in the mid Mississippi River valley. Well look at this in the next cool in the in fact northwest in the mountain west. More wet weather moving into the pacific northwest. Plenty of sunshine along the Southern Tier states. 78 in los angeles today, 68 degrees in salt lake city. It is going to be chilly there today. Thats whats going on. Well get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 and thats your latest weather. Guys . All right, al, thank you. Coming up, the manhunt for that group of thieves that millions of dollars in jewelry. Did they have inside help . Then a glaring problem. The Health Concerns now being raised over new energyefficient street lights being installed across the country. But first, this is today just ahead childs play. While a College Lacrosse game had to be decided by an epic and hodas pink power surprise know how you earn the title. Worlds best mom . 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