And why he says he doesnt care about a dissident popularity. I am far, far from finished with my career. And dont let the bed bucksbugedbugs explode. How one mans attempt to let the insects get out of his car ends badly today. Thursday april 16th 2015. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning, savannah is on vacation. Happy to have hoda here. Everything you are thinking about that video on the bedbugs story is probably what happened. What was the thinking . The good news is guys that was a rental car. Hopefully he signed that waiver. Well hear moron about that. Lets start with that shocking story a. Shocking stunt about a man that flew his gyro coptor to washington and landed on the lawn of the u. S. Capitol. You can only imagine the questions this has raised. Peter alexander has moron on the questions and the fallout. Good morning. Reporter matt good morning to you. This gives new idea to the meaning of air mail. Right now we are standing in the middle of the National Mall. This is the gyro coptors flight path ending up right there shy of the capitol building. The head of the Homeland Security said had it gotten closer police have long guns to take it down t. Pilot had hoped to spark a conversation about the state of big money in politic, instead he began a question about the state of Homeland Security. Following this unprecedented stunt, new questions this morning about security in the nations capitol. Out of the u. S. Military Capital Police and the u. S. Military missed this. It played out wednesday a. Mailman, doug hughes looking to deliver a message to washington. Carrying 535 member one for each letter of congress protesting government production. This is not good people. Reporter ultimately landing on a capitol grounds. He was arrested. Hughes blogged acted his plan in 2015 and shared his details with the Tampa Bay Times last year. I dont think the authorities will shoot down a 60yearold mailman in a flying bicycle. Reporter reporter Ben Montgomery went to washington to watch but never alerted authorities. Its not my job to pull the plug on somebody doing Something Like this. Reporter it is unclear whether federal Law Enforcement was aware of this before he flew in. If you can think all of the ways people can attack your area too many people are getting through. Reporter overnight, we spoke to hughes friends mike shanahan. Im not going to deny that it was a kind of a fluke thing to do but it was also very brave and very patriotic. He is going to pay a dear price. Reporter he hughes told the Tampa Bay Times he took off from Gettysburg Regional Airport in pennsylvania. Thats about an hour the way the crow flies. He will likely end up behind bars and make his First Court Appearance this afternoon. Brave, recreation and dangerous . A lot of peel will be weighing in. We are learning moron about the Arizona Police officer who ran down and injured a suspect with his patrol camp. An incident from his time here in new york city is getting new attention this morning. Heres nbcs miguel almaguer. Reporter new details this morning about the officer behind the wheel in that Shocking Police dashcam video. Court documents obtained by kboa he was a subject of a lawsuit while serving with the nypd in 2005. According to documents, a man claimed the officer threatened to shoot him and handcuffed and choked him. The defense team for the officer and the city of new york denied the allegations. The case settled in 2008 when the city of new york agreed to pay the man 20,000. Meanwhile, the debate this morning continues over this video. Oh reporter and whether the use of this force was created using the vehicle i think was a very creative outside of the box, kind of thinking. Reporter or excessive. Man down this is another example of Excessive Police force, but its completely unnecessary. Reporter the suspect, mario valencia was hospitalized by survived. Now Police Officers are saying they cant understand the tape without knowing the being story that the crash stopped valencias crime spree, a holdup, a church fire, a Home Invasion and police say a gun theft from walmart. Moments before the impact valencia is seen firing the gun in the air, threatening suicide. Do you think police did the right thing . Yes, sir. Reporter why . Because the man had a lowered rifle. Reporter the officer has been cleared of any charges. The officer did what they had to do and were okay with it. One of those stories where every day you hear new information and every day you tend to think something in a different direction. Yeah. I just picture him shooting that gun off going down the street and wondering what someone should do. Lets move on meantime as the president ial field takes place, there is one major player who has yet to say whether he is running or not. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. He is testing the waters in New Hampshire this week where we caught up with him exclusively. It seems like forever we have been talking about the potential of you running for president. Doesnt it . Me too. Now, things have changed. You have got a team in place, a political team, a pac up and running. You are here in New Hampshire again and you will be here again later in the week. So what are you waiting for . You know ive got a day job to do obviously, its important. New jersey as the governor. Obviously, were still going through the really personal part of this decision which me and mary pat and the family. You know, you do that you dont rush that decision. Do you that in the time that it takes. I have known you for a long time. I am looking in your eyessh. There isnt one way that you can convince me that you havent made the decision you just have to make the decision. Its the truth, though it is absolutely the truth, mary pat and i have not made a decision. Lets talk about the last yearandahalf, though obviously, we could be talking about a week where indictments could be handed down in what is now known as bridgegate while, nobody thinks you will be indicted. Some of your close advisers of the past could be indicted. How much has bridgegate tarnished the governor . Listen i dont think anybody likes to have Something Like that happen on your watch. There is no question it affects you. No question. In part because it was a bad thing that happened. But also in part because of the incredible cover annual that it got. Lets talk about some numbers. Okay. Sure. Prior to bridgegate your National Popularity upper 40 . After bridge the gate 20 . Prior in new jersey some in the 60s, some say 70s. After bridgegate 35 thats a big hit. Matt, if they played as many bad thegs about you intensely over and over again, it will affect anybody. Thats in the past. Poll numbers go up and down based upon your performance and i am far, far from finished with my career. So you know you have the chance to go back up again. The big picture, governor there was a time where when people talked about 2016 all on the republican side it was about you. Is it possible that while you were dealing i dont want to call them distractions because that makes them sound trivial of the serious bridgegate back in new jersey that your moment passed . I dont know. Neither do you. Well see. I tell you this much i have been the front runner before. Its a place with a bulls eye on your back. Everybody is shooting at you. Thats okay. Im fine where i am right now. I havent changed. All that other stuff is artificial until the game really begins. The game hasnt come close to beginning. There is three, marco rubio, ted cruz and rand palm. Of those three governor, in your opinion, who has the best shot. I they governor or a former governor because i believe our party and country is something that has run something. While i have a Great Respect for a number of those folks, i dont believe that we have done well with the experiment of a one term u. S. Senator being the president of the United States so i think it will be a governor or a former governor. You took a shot at a couple of those people. Lets talk about a former governor jeb bush who has not declared but is out there raising millions of millions of dollars. When you look at a potential one u run, is he your biggest rival . Well i dont know. You would have thought when he announced in december that it would be. It seems that frame has slowed down pretty significantly from around the country. Do you think it will speed up again when he finally jumped full force in the race . I dont know. Heres the great thing about politics matt. None of it matters until the game starts to see how people perform under these lights. You have no lack of confidence in your own ability to perform under these lights . Ive done okay over the years. Hillary clinton, shes a foregone conclusion on the democratic side. She was a foregone conclusion if 2007 matt. So was Rudy Guiliani in 2007. So i dont know whats going to happen on the democratic side. Mrs. Clinton will have to perform to the best of her nomination. Nobody is handed this. I want to end this with you with five questions. Quick ones. I want you to complete these sentences for me. Okay. Here we go. President obama made my country. Weaker. In 2017 obamacare will be. Repealed and replaced. In 2017 gay marriage will be. Hmm. Decided by the u. S. Supreme court. Which way . I dont know. In 2017 concore will be. Probably no longer a factor in marine life. And last one in 2017 my work address will be well see. I dont know. I dont know. What do you want it to be . I will make that decision in the next couple months. But ill tell you this folks know me pretty well. If i decide i want to do this im going to do it honestly and go out as hard as i possibly can and try to win every di. But i will never give up being who i am because thats going to stay with me forever. Wow. Great series of last questions. Interesting his response. I think hes really surprised a lot of people if he doesnt. Well wait to hear it from his mouth. Coming up in our next half hour governor christies wife Mary Pat Jones our conversation. Shell open up about the impact of a potential White House Run on her career and their family concerns if there are any, about her husbands health. He has enjoyed a couple milk shakes. In a place in New Hampshire, vanilla for him. All right. Natalie is here with some arrests in california. Yes, this is a cause for sure. Two u. S. Army reservists are scheduled to appear in court today. They are charged with illegally selling guns, ammunition and body armor to an undercover federal agent posing as a member of the mexican drug cartel. According to criminal complaint they sold ten guns including four ak47 assault rifles. Some of the arms were stolen from the military. Both men work in the Army National guard in le mesa california. A victory for General Motors after a federal bankruptcy judge ruled the auto maker is shielded from death and injury claims in crashes that happened before its 2009 bankruptcy. The decision protects gm from 7 to 10 billion in lawsuits stemming from defective ignition switches. A new york man is recovering from burns after accidentally setting his rental car on fire get this while trying to get rid of bedbugs. Take a look at the scene in a long island parking lot. Apparently he poured running alcohol all over the back of the interior of the car. Not in a good idea. He was pulled over in a bad way and he lit up a cigarette, he suffered first and Second Degree burns. Pretty serious thing. Other cars were engulfed in flames as well there . A lot of damage there. Police in england are looking for a crafty burglar, look at this he got away with almost 300,000 antique pocket watches. He scaled this twostory building. Broke in through the roof and proceeded to scale along the floor like a snake to avoid security laser beams. Da da da da. He picked up three sets of watches and did it all under nine minutes. Pretty crafty. All right, some dramatic video now of a woman being swept away by a huge wave on the coast of ireland. They captured this incident on camera. You can see that massive wave slam into the cliff and knocking a person into the hole there. A person rushed in to help. He called the coast guard and made a makeshift rope and eventually they were able to pull her to safety. Thank goodness. She suffered a broken ankle. There are plans in the work to honor the medics for his effort. In the right place at the right time. You dont have to get that close to the scene . Right there on the edge e. Mr. Roker. It couldnt be causing snow and Severe Weather at the same time. As we look right now in the rockies, we got this upper level low and normally it gets caught up in the jet stream. The jet stream is up to the north. Its a cutoff low. It will meander for the next several days over the heavy mountain snows, rain with wet snow mixed in. Ahead of it we will see Severe Weather. Behind it a lot of snow. As you look as it kind of hangs out, we expect it to be anywhere from 15 to 18 inches of snow up into laramie, wyoming. We are looking foreign enhanced of risks of Severe Weather from texas into kansas. A risk otherwise, throughout a good portion and that goes into tomorrow along the gulf coast and on up into the west. We have a lot of Severe Weather in the next 24 hours. Good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Another nice day. A mild day with mostly sun . Skies. There will be a few clouds moving through the area at tiles. Solar winds at 10 miles an hour. Tomorrow, still mild but get your rain gear red. Umbrellas going up in the morning and afternoon. 69 the high. Showers, well get you to the weekend. Sunny and chance of storms monday. Have a great day. S your latest weather. Lets sneak off to see my mom this weekend. It looks like its a shower. Jessie is back in the orange room. Good morning, coaches. Where am i . Wrong show. Hey, look. Ho. Let the battle begin. Were going to talk about some ceo backlash this morning. Good to see you guys. Cheryl rio, a small Marketing Firm in dallas got a lot of attention from a post. Lets read it to you. Of course when Hillary Clinton made her announcement. This was the reaction. A female shouldnt be president. Let the haters begin. But with the hormones we have there is no way we should be able to start a war. Yes says yes, i may run my own business but that is not the same as being a president. That should be left to a man, a good strong honorable man. Imagine all the backlash rather than backing down cheryl stood by her words adding roots post on tuesday. In this great country, we are allowed our own opinions. Mean may not be something you agree with. There is a lot of backlash. People online outranldged by those comments. We can understand. While you were talking about that person natalie and hoda were like huh . Thats a cry for attention. That is what she got. Carson thank you. Coming up shutting down considering major changes of spring break in the disturbing art. The controversy over the popular snack bar people could be eating right now. Why the company says its nuts. I get it. Good one matt. First, this is today on nbc. All right, coming up. Be ready to fly with ten other people sitting next to you t. 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