November 6th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this the today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Weve got willie in for matt. Kind of the middle of the night for al but still has his hawaiian moves down. He is ready for rokerthon 2. Always looks good in a hawaiian shirt. We know that about al roker. I would say im jealous of the weather out there, but its 75 degrees today here in new york and across the east coast. Weve got a little hawaii here this morning. More on that in a moment, but well begin with the newest fallout this morning over the downed russian plane in egypt. This is a crash that now has u. S. Officials ready to make changes to security procedures here. Weve got two reports for you this morning. Lets start with nbcs tom costello. He covers aviaiaon for us. What can you tell us. Reporter savannah, good morning. As you know, the white house announced yesterday that in the wake of the metrojet crash it was reviewing seserity and really reviewing it at overseas airports for flights in bound. In total overseas 275 airports have agreements with how they work with the tsa and United States to enhance and ensure that the security is up and operational and in c cpliance with tsa regulatioio. What were hearing is a handful of airports and those in the middle east will likely receive a mandate and or a strong recommendation from the United States government, from the tsa, working in concert with the airlines and foreign governments that they need to be doing a bit more, stepping up security in the wake of what happened with metrojet. Were lking about enhanced random screenings, possibly enhanc screenings of passengers, of luggage and cargo, and what the brits have been doing is especially interesting. The brits have been saying, especially to those passengers in Sharm El Sheikh, you can fly out but not your luggage on the same plane. I dont see that with the United States recommendations for the regions. Here in the United States, no dramatic changes to the security posture. Theres a possibility of more random scrcrning, more swabbing of the hands, looking for any indications of explosive residues and more canine teams in the airports. Nothing overt. Mostly this is a deterrent to dissuade anyone who might be persuaded or enticed by isis and by that particular incident overseas. Most of thth effort will be focused on overseas airports, people flying to the United States. Savannah . All right. Tom costello, a lot of soul searching in the wake of that crash. And as investigation into that cra moves forward thousands of tourists left stranded in egypt for nearly a week are finally able to head home. Correspondent bill neely has made his way to Sharm El Sheikh this morning. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning, willie. Many of the emergency flights to evacuate touousts from this airport have been suspended this mornin and egypt wont say why. But a clear rift is growing between britain and the u. S. On one side who think a bomb caused this crash and egypt and russia on the other who say its too early to tell. 20,000 british tourists trying to get out, but thfres a twist. British tourists are leaving, but its hand baggagagonly. No checked bags, suggesting british officials fear a bomb was smuggled into the hold of the doomed russian plane at this airport, a suspicion the president shares. There is a possibility that there was a bomb on board, and were taking that very seriously. Reporter this airport has s been scrutinized closely. Investigators questioning security workers and seizing video. Egypt says this is one of the safest airports in the world, checked regularly by western experts whwhthey say found no gaps in security this year and gave it the all clear. Paid 30 to a guard to avoid long lines and some security checks. No point did my luggage go through, you know, any scanner. Reporter fear is the russian plane was vulnerable to attack. The airbus was on the ground here f f just an hour. In that time cleaners, caterers and baggage handlers were in it or beside it. Police and maintenance crews had access to the plane with minimal checks, in pitch darkness bebere it took off, e eloding around 20 minutes later. We still dont know the plane was bombed. Photos from the ground show holes punched through the fuselage but from what . Still dont know what evidence there is of terrorism. Intelligence officials picked up chatter from isis suorters suggestingn attack but only after it crashed. Isis has claimed the attack twice. And facts on the grod are proving hard to find. Now we should stress no hard evidence of a bomb has been found, and no one is ruling out the possibility that a technical fat caused this crash, but concern is growing, and the pressure on the investigators is growing, t t. Savannahah all right, bill neely, thank you so much. Meantime, a lot of developments in politics this morning. Republican candidates chris chcistie and Mike Huckabee bumped from the main stage at next debate as frontrrner ben carson is facing some new scrutiny this morning and donald trump courts more controversy. Nbc National CorrespondentPeter Alexander is across the street outside 30 rock where trump is set to host snl tomorrow night. Peter, good morning. Reporter hey, savannah, good morning to you. This tomorrow night is where the campaigns meet comedy, and in this case controversy as well. Theres already a protest rally scheduled ahead of trumps appearance tomorrow night, trump becoming the latest in a long to take their tu on the stage in studio 8h even though two more republicans have been demoted from the main debate stage. He said i could be his running mate. Cecily, did you hear im trumps vp. Im just shopping around. Reporter after saturday ninit live the next gopop showdown is tuesdays debate where the official primetime lineup is getting smaller, down to eight. Frontrunners ben carson and trump are still center stage, but this time mikeuckabee and Chris Christie missed the cut. Exiled to the earlier undercard debate. Christieieeisty on stage last week. And were talking about fantasy football . Can we stop. Reporter now tweeting it doesnt matter the stage. Give me a podium, and ill be there to talk abouw real issues. Meanwhile, carson is coming under new scrutiny for views of history defending these past comments on the pyramids of egypt. My own personal theory is at joseph built the ramids in order to store grain. Reporter in fact, historians say egyptians built the pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs. Carson defending his 17yearold claim with nbcs chris jansing. I think thats a possible explanation to how they got built. Reporter scientifically plausible . A plausible explanation. Its a personal belief because i happen to believe a lot of things that you might not believe because i believe in the bible. Reporter from the pharaohs to the f fnding fathers in a Facebook Post wednesday, carson defend his lack of political experience claiming every signer of the declaration of independence had no elected office experience. Not true. Thomas jefferson, john adams and ben franklin, among others, been elected to colonial assemblies. Carsons complain later revising the post to say the signers had no federal office experience, and new this morning carson is targeting young voters, launching a radio ad complete with a rap. Freedom is not free and we must fight for it every day. If we want to get america back on track, we gotta vote ben carson a matter of fact. Reporter as for that protest rally tomorrow night, its being held by latino groups still angry about Donald Trumpss comments about undocumented mexican immigrants. They are going to start tomorrow night at trump towers several blocks away before marching right here to 30 rock. Savannah and willie, back to you. All right. Peter alexander across the street from us, thank you. Another republican hopefulul jeb bush, is having to answer new questions this morning about his brothers presidency, this in the wake of former president george h. W. Bush with surprising criticism in a new book of the men who advised his son. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell has more on this. Andrea, good m mning. Reporter good morning, willie. Well, just as jeb bush is trying to reboot his struggling president ial campaign, he has to explain his fathers startling new comments about his brother george w. Bushs white house, exposing a family rift after decades of silence. More fallout this morning after george h. W. Bushs stunning candor, telling his biographer jojomeacham that his son, the president , got bad advice from his most trusted advisers. In the book bush 41 calls arrogant fellow and rumsfeld fired back telling nbc news that bush 41 is getting up in years and misjudges bush 43, who i found made his own decisions. Well, thats very regrettable to Say Something like that. One thing about bush 41 is as time passes we appreciate him more and more. Reporter two have a history. Asked d a 2013 documentary y whether it was dick cheney who brought him into the Second Bush Administration i dont think george w. Bushs father recommended him. Reporter and in the new biography destiny in power the elder bush didnt spare criticism for his own secretary of defense including dick cheney an iron blank. Had much worse said about me. Reporter cheney on fox even recommended the book. I saw my role as being as tough and aggressive as needed to be to carry out the president s policy. Reporter george w. Bush in a statement said i am proud to have served with dick cheney and donald rumsfeld. My brother is a bigigoy. Reporter caught in the middle, jeb bush, trying to become the third bush president , telling nbcs kasie hunt. A lot of people who love george want to create a different narrative. George would say this is this was under my watch. I was commander in chief. Reporter now, although rumsfeld said that the elder bushs comments were because of his advancing years, in fact he made thoho comments years and d years ago, repeated them and then only recently when the author jon meacham came to him and asked him if he wanted to elaborate, he said, no, he wouldnt change a thing. Willie and savannah. Family dynamics playing out on a president ial stage. Andrea, thank you. To the democrats now, three of the white house hopefuls will takekehe stage in south carolina, frontrunner Hillary Clinton change Bernie Sanders and Martin Omalley for a president ial forum on msnbc and last night clinton made another stop on the late night talk show kimmel and she said if she had to face her husband bill clinton in an election guess what, she would come out on top. I think youve got to the have that kind of confidence if you in this arena trying to be president so if i were going to run against him, would i win . Yeah. Wow. Secretary clinton says that if she bomes president shes sure not title bill would have. She suggested first dude, first mate or perhaps first gentleman. President clinton is a little competitive. You think they might talk about that over dinner to explain why he would beat her state to state. Could be a long weekend for them. Now to some e re stunning developments in thth case weve been following. The Illinois Police officer who staged his own suicide to look like a police shooting. Authorities now say he may have tried to hire someone to kill a local official. Nbcs john yang is on top of all of the developments from fox ke illinois this morning. John, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannnn. Were tatang a look this morning at 264 pages of gliniewiczs personnel record. Inside, new details about troubling incidents from his 30year career as a police officer. Just when you thought youd heard all the twists in the story of lieutenant t arles j. Glgliewicz, more of the officers murky past is surfacing this morning, new details from gliniewiczs personnel file obtained thursday night listing numerous cocolaints fellow officers made against him, including inappropriate sexual behavior, using his squad car for a family vacation, and letting members of the Explorers Youth Program operate department vehicles,s,ut Authorities Say it was a series of financial misdeeds that led gliniewicz to take even more drastic steps. Its very unsettling. Reporter investigators say village administrator anne marrin. No surprise he would go to Great Lengths to keep his s criminal activitieiesecret. The third party, she told us that it was for he had contacted heto reach out to the high level ranking motorcrcle gang member for a hit. Reporter gang member denied any involvement, and investigators consider the matter closed. They say gliniewicfeared marrin was going to expose his sevenyear looting of the Youth Police Explorer program he ran. On august 31st gliniewicz texted she has now demanded a complete inventory of explorer central in a financial rerert. E next morning, marrin said, gliniewicz emailed her promising to provide her formation by 1 00 p. M. Instead at 8 09 a. M. Fellow officers found him dead in what investigators now say it was a carefully staged suicide. Send everybody you possibly can. Officer is down. Investigation deepens into a case some say has turned a hero cop into a village villain. By the way, that Youth Program, it looks, will not be a victim of this incident. Two officers have come forward totoeep that Youth Program running. Savannah, willie. A little bit of good news amidst all of this. John, through. Thank you. All right. We senenal on his way in ursday. This morning hes officially in hawaii to officially launch rokerthon 2, marathon of all weather oer, all 50 states in one we be. Al, are you ready. Are you gassed up . Lets do this. Im ready. Were at the Royal Hawaiian luxury resort. The royal haiian and it is beautiful here in waikiki. Of course, weve got 50 states to go, and im telling you we are realal jazzed to do it, but lets get you started. First of all, the weather in hawaii. Boy, doesnt get any better than this, although its going to be pretty n ne where everybody elel isisn new york. Look at those temperatures. Going to get up into the 80s today, so thats pretty nice. However, as we go to the contiguous 48 states, look at difference. Weve got frost and freeze warnings from california all the way into kansas. Look at these temperatures. Going to see these temperatures anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees below average and then as you get into the east, look at high temperatures. Getting up into the 70s, record breakers, but that front will move through and thats going to bring temperatures down on saturday and even colder on sunday. And were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 sesends. The orders were rushing in. I could feel our deadlines racing towards us. We didnt need a loan. We needed shortterm funding fast. Building 18 homes in 4 months . That was a leap. But i knew i could rely on American Express to help me buy those building materials. Amex hel ed me buy the inventory i needed. Just like that. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself . Realize your buying power at open. Com yesterday. Most of us saw less than half an inch, although some got more, like dubuque, where a band of heavier rain tracked through. Stormtrack7 Live Weather Network will be mainly dry today. And it is cooler. Temps are in the low to mid 40s in our viewing area with 30s to the west. Still above normal, but 1030 degrees colder than yesterday morning. Winds are still running mainly 1015 to 20 mph with gusts up to 25 mph at times and that will continue most of the day. We are split between clear skies and some clouds in the st if you want to find out where were coming to your state, check out today. Com rokerthon, and you can also help donate. Were helping to feed the hungry. Feeding america. You can go at rokerthon and donate. So we are really excited about this, guys. Were just getting warmed up. Back to you. Al, were excited for you. Again, you look good in the hawaiian shirt and the tiki torches, the s sge is set. Cannot wait. Were learning more about the young man in ohio missing for 13 years who inadvertently helped solve his own disappearance. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk has the latest on that remarkable story. Stef, good morning. Reporter good morning. Julian hernandezs mother for that period of time never gave up hope, even as hundreds of false leads led to disappointment after disappointment. Now mother and son have a chance to start making up for a lot of lost time. Julian hernandez was on a missing childrens list for more than a decade. Authorities guessing what he might look like. Alabama investigators following every dead end lead. It was never r ose. It was a cold case. Every time we got a tip, we followed up on it. Every time we got a lead, we followed up on it, and they didnt pan out. So the case was never closed. Reporter today his father bby hernandez sits in an ohio jail, acacsed of abducting his own son. Speculation at this time is that maybe that was Bobby Hernandez who was calling in the tips to try to divert the investigation. Reporter j jian disappeared in 2002 from his alabama home. His parents were unmarried, and his father quickly became a suspect. But father a son slipped away some 600 miles to cleveland and assumed false names. Police say julian had no idea who he really was. 12, 13 years without knowing his own history. He was a victim of a crime and that someone was out there looking for him. Reporter a High School Senior and good student, julian was applying to colleges when the prosececor says he ran into problems with his Social Security number. School officials and the 18yearold put the pieces together and discovered julians true identity. Bobby hernandez was arrested. I t tnk he understands the gravity of t