Onon speak for four seconds in this promo. Ill say this, ben carson is a complete and toyotatal loser. He releases his first campaigngnad. Well talk to trump live. And show stopper. Nothing like your love to get me high Justin Timberlake goes a little bit country a a the cmas chltd. The performance that brought down the house, today, thursday, november 5th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, thisiss today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a business thursday morning. The story of the russian plane crash becoming more troubling, with more information coming in in the last several hours. A lot of developments to get to. U. S. Officials saying the isis may be responsible. The 224 victims are laid to rest today. Well talk about the impact on security at airports here in the u. S. And around the world. We want to start with the investigation this morning and nbcs bill neely in cairo. Good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Strong suspicions and serious implications perhaps for all of us. U. S. Officials saying they have information. They call it evidence. That points to terrorism as a possible cause of this crash, and points to the worlds deadliest terror group. From the moment the first rescuers arrived, a bomb was one popoible cause of the crash. Investigators scouring for clues for six days. Now, u. S. Intelligence says the evidence indicates it was likely a bomb. Isis has twiwi claim it downed the plane. Its shown no evidence. It is active in the area, and u. S. Officials believe if it was its a strong suspicion, not a conclusion, and no evidence of explosives has been found. But its a suspicion shared by britain. We formed the judgment that there is a significant possibility that the russian rcraft was brought downy an explosive device on board. Reporter britain, one of three countries stopping all flights to the airport where the plane took off. American aircraft have long been warned away from this ea. We obviously have a strong desire to get to the bottom of what exactly happened there. Reporter no one is ruling out a technical fault as the cause. The black boxox recorders are still being worked on. But the focus now is on the airport and its workers. A member of your terrorist team as an employee would be able to go anywhere. Reporter egypt and russia resent the u. S. And britain suspicions. Nina was a 60yearold grandmother and the first passssger to be buried. There is deep concern among u. S. Officials, theres enough circumstantial evidence to suggest she was murdered in midair and wasnt the victim of mechanical failure. The egyptians really kicking back this morning. A government minister saying the u. S. Theory isnt based on facts, but they fired the heaea ofofhe airport from whehe the plane took off. Investigators found lack security there. The russians, too, arent accepting it. 23 russian planes due to land today at the airport. Theyve jusus sent in antiaircraft war missiles to protect their planes in syria. They think they are now a target. Bill neely in cairo. Thank you. Till questions ununswered. The question were asking is what does this mean for air travel in the United States . Tom costello covers aviation for us. Good morning to you. Any time you h he an incident overseas that heightens the awareness and concerns about security, u. S. Officials ss and tsa and Homeland Security take note and try to apply any lessons they might take from what happened overseas. Immediately, no change in Security Posture at u. S. Airports. We should note that no u. S. Airlines right now fly into or out of Sharm El Sheikh egypt. As b bl mentioned, theres a notice the faa issued earlier this year, stating that if any u. S. Carrier overflows that area, it must be 65,000 fefe. They were trying to avoid possibly being within range of missiles. Very few, if any, airlines fly that region on a regular basis. With this intense scrutiny onn thee sinai, its unlikely any of them will. In fact, i was checking one flight plan earlier this morning, and it is now diverting around the sinai completely in order to make a fly into dubai. We should nono, however, thaha as you know, the tsa has been under tremendous scrutiny, especially in this week, because it failed yet again in a series of undercover tests in september to catch these mock devices. These mock weapons that were inspectors were trying to smuggle through. Weve seen this repeatedly, where there have been problems at tsa checkpoints over the years. In september, this happened again. The tsa has comomtted itself to addressing those security lapses and trying to address the issue immediately. That is not in response to what happened over the sinai, but as you would expect, any time someththg like this happens overseas, Homeland Security takes a heightened approach to it. Tom costello, thank you very much. Lets dive deeper into this. Greg is a former ntsb investigator and kevin is a National Analyst for nbc news. You have crash investigateors on the scene, intelligence analysts figuring out that end of it. Can these investigations go handd in hand, the crash and the forensics . They have to go hand in hand, matt, only because now while we were thinking it was an accident, now it looks more to be, basically, an intentional act, if you will. En they look at the wreckage, theyll have a different eye. Theyre going to be looking for residue. Theyll be looking for markers, if you will, for bombs or explosives. Heavily studying the security at Sharm El Sheikh airport, in terms of, could a passenger have smuggled something on board, or did someone with access to the plane do Something Like this . Absolutely. The airplane, is it sitting overnight unattended . Did somebody have access to it . Did the catering crew bring something on board . Did the servicing folks get something into a portion of the aircraft . Of course, people loading the baggage, did they put something behind a cargo hold . Theyll be looking carefully at who had access to the airport during its time on the ground. Lets turn to kevin for the National Security implications. As u. S. Officials zero in on the bomb theory, why is that . Is it a process of elimination or a matter of going back, looking at the chatter, intelligence circles even before the crash, and seeing it in a new light . I think a a little bit of both. The british announcing yesterday morning, definitely sparked a frenzy in washington and got everybody asking, why would they go more forward than the americans, saying, first, it may have been an act of terrorism or explosive device. Then when the foreign secretary said, thats what they believe happened. I think theres crosstalk between the americans and the british, to figure out,ike you said, going back in time, how soon did they know and when . After the crash, isis said, we did this. People didnt think it was possible. Do u. S. Intelligence officials think isis has the planning and board, owr might they have had tep help . I asked James Clapper if they had the ability to shoot down an aircraft. He said it was unlikely but he wouldnt rule it out. Most officials are focusing on this video that isis put out, thats shown up, of what looks like to be the plane in the air exploding. If someone was in place ahead of time to film that, thats as much of a red flag as you can find. Significant piece of evidence, for sure. Thank you so much. Theres a new twist this morning tied to the shooting death of a beloved Police Officer in illinois that investigators say was actually a carefully staged suicide. Lieutenant gliniewiczs wife and son are also under investigation. Nbc is following the story. Good morning to you, savannah. This morning another Stunning Development in this story thats already had so many. It appears investigators want to secret life was a family affair. This morning the news that the wife and oldest son of lieutenant charles j. Gliniewicz known as g. I. Joe are reportedly under investigation is another shock for residents. My gosh. G. I. Joe went from a hero to a criminal. Reporter two months ago gliniewicz had a heros funeral. He ran a youth program. Now investigators sayay for seven years he stole from it. Thousands of dollars were used by gliniewicz for personal purchases, trashlg expenses, mortgage payments, personal gym memberships. Reporter investigators released startling new details how he placed his own crime scene. Carefully displaying his pepper spray, batoto and glasses to show he died in the line of duty. He even shot a bullet into his cell phone and chest before the fatal shot into his upppp torso. They say Text Messages say he feared his crimes would be uncovered by a village administrator. A text in june, this would give her the means to crucify me if discovered. The family issued a statement saying they had cooperated with the task forces investigation. A probe t tt took its toll on the investigators. The most Emotional Experience in my life and the only way i could express it is to say that it was complple shame. Reporter the 100 club of chicagos a civic group thats a group that supports families in the line of duty. They gave an initialal payment of 15,000 to the gliniewicz family. Now for the first time, they want their money back. Matt, savannah . All right. Thank you very much. Its a story thats been turned on its head in the last several weeks. Now to the president ial race. Donald trump is trying something new on the campaign trail as he gets ready to host saturday night live this weekend. Thats an appearance thats already courting controversy. Were going to talk live to mr. Trump in a moment but first Peter Alexander has more. Good morning to you. Good morning. Were now under 90 days and donald trump is officially hittttg theirwaves in iowa and elsewhere. Hes now spending his own money, just 300,000, to get his message out. Fighting to fend off his strongngt challenge yet, donald trump for the first time this campaign is paying to be heard. If the people of iowa vote for me, youll never be disappointed. Reporter trumps new radio atds ads appearing in key states. After securing his name on the New Hampshire ballotot trump teeee off on the new frontrunner, ben carson. Ben cannot do the job. You know what . Hes very nice and people would say, oh, that was nasty. I dont care. Reporter now hes hosting a gig on saturday night live this weekend. With people protesting outside the headquarters petitioning signatures saying racism is not cards. Reporter rubio is facing renewed scrutiny how he was using a state florida credit card when he was a legislator. Two years of credit card statements still have not been disclosed. There f there was something on it that was personal i would pay it and if it werent, the party would pay it. A aor snl c cson said he wont be watching. He said i think the presidency is a serious thing, adding, i dont like to make light of it like that. Andr. Now m m trump is on the phone. Good morning to you. Good morning, savannah. Lets talk about the ads. Im assuming you would not waste your money on ads if you didnt need to, does this mean the race is tightening . I dont think so. Fox came out with a poll last night, a big one and im substantially in n e lead. Ill tell you im getting heat because i havent spent any money. Ive spent no money and im number one. Others have spent tens of millions of dollars and theyre floup der floundering. Wouldnt be nice if we could do that with education. No. I just wanted to do the ads. Im putting them in iowa, in South Carolina, and New Hampshire, and, you know, hopefully theyre going to be good ads. And its time for me to start advertising a little bit. Ben carson talks about them a little bit. He saiai your attacks on him are basically grade School Bullying and suggests its beneath him. Hes referring to the saturday night live. He said he wouldnt do it. Of course, wouldldt do it. They didnt ask him do it. Saturday night live was like being on 60 minutes. There are iconic brands. He would certainly do it i i ask asked. Many of the candidates would have done it. I dont think they asked him but if they asked him, he would do it. Let me ask you. As youre aware there a a latino groups outside protesting because youre on seasonal this weekend. Are you sprised you were asked to host seasonal after the acrimonious split this last summer . It wasnt so acrimonious. The apprentice decided to renew. I decided not to do itecause i wanted to run for president. I told steve burke whos a fantastic guy i wanted to run. Decided i couldnt do i i miss universe, there was a problem, tooe honest, and i ended up buying their interest and then i sold it to img, the whole thing. And it worked outmazingly well for me. You know, theres no problem whatsoever with nbc. Now, the reasoso they put me there is one very simple reason. Its called ratings. If i didnt get good ratings, they wouldnt put me there. You were critical as recently as this momoing of marco r rio and the handling of his finances that perhaps the way he handles his finances would be a good way of how he might handle the countrys finances. My question is does thaha invite scruruny of your own record . You talk about using the Bankruptcy Law strategically in the past. Heres the bottom line. If the company is doing well, robust financially, why do you en use the Bankruptcy Laws . Im no different than many people you have on your show, the biggest businesspeople of the world. We use the laws of the land. I have over 500 companies. I have used it at least five times. I could name people. I have a list. But why should i. I never went bankrupt. Corporately. Frankly ive made a lot of money using those laws and ive bought things out of bankruptcy where i go in and pick up things in bankruptcy and have bought tremendous things. I have used the Bankruptcy Laws as the law of the land corporately. I could name the biggest names ins by in business and they almost all use them. I have had no backlash on them. As far as the rest, ive built an Unbelievable Company with some of the greatest asset os testify world. Everybody knows that. Ive made my filings. Everybody was shocked by how big it is. They were shocked at how ive been a public book. Youve been covering me savannah, you and matt have been covering me for a long time. Ive been a public book. We have indeed. Wheel see you in a different role this saturday on saturday night live. Appreciate it. Thank you very much, savannah. Former president bush on some of his comments. The scathing critiques are included a new biography. On cheney its written thatt he just became very hardlined and very different from the dick cheney i knew and worked with. As for rumsfeld the former president said i think he served the president badly. I dont like what he did and i thinin it hurur the president having his iron blank view of everything. Bush goes on to say rumsfeld was an arrogant fell, selfassured swagger. Bush also tumbled on the topic of gay marriagag he said, personally i believe in discrimination. The american odyssey of George Herbert walker bush scheduled t t be released next week already making head lines. Only once a year do roker and it come together. Where are you . Liberty national . Reporter Liberty International airport. Were at the united terminal getting ready to head to hawaii. Cant wait. Going to t tl youll about that. But theres a bigger storm system getting itself together. Its going to be making its way across the country. This is thundersnow. Its snowing and thunder and lightning. Some areas picking up nine to 12 inches of snow, and that is making its way east. Lets show you where it fwiengs to cause problems wrchl they do not need it. Down in texas. Already radar firing up. We have flash flood watches and warnings stretching into southwest texas and oklahoma. Ahead of the front weve got warm moist air coming up. You can see a risk of strong storms. Rainfall amounts are going to be anywhere from 2 to 3 inches of rain as we move through the weekend. Today, 2 to 3 inches. 4 to 5 inches from san antonio to texarcana and it continues to move east as we move into the weekend. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Thunderstorms to the state. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will eventually look grey and wet today. Right now it is dry temps. We are still in the low to mid 50s over most of the viewing area with the Colder Weather just outside of the state to the west. Winds will be breezy from thh south today ahead of the cold front, but will turn to the west and northwest by this evening as the front tracks through. Clouds are tracking into the area, with some clouds still in our northern counties. Rain to the west will eventually fill in as the system tracks to the northeast. The front will be the thats your latest weather, guys. Tomorrow, hawaii. We officially kick off rokerthon2. Be there. Al, you are the man to do this. Good luck, pal, all right . All right, dude. Coming up, carson is going to come clean about something he avoided telling uss yesterday. Uhoh. We thought wed hear from you first im just as surprised as all of you on that news. I beg to differ. Coming up, quinton about Police Brutality and calls to boycott his new movie. Plus, something new to worry about when it comes to your kids and cell phones. Guideline regulating radiation, are they in need of an update . Nbc. Comg up, the new debate deciding families, is a hot dog save it still . We have a Couple School announcements to let yououknow about this morning. Clayton ridge schools are closed today and tomorrow due to a water main repair. And howardwinn is delayed two hours thats because part of cresco has no power. We just t off the phone with police power is partially restored and electric crews are working to get it in service to everyone in town. New this morning. A Police Chase Ends with a man in jail. Police say it happened just before ten last night in waterloo. 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