Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Well answer the age old question, what does the fox say . And well answer the question how long will it be before you get that song out of your head. Two to three days. Sunday. Exactly. Well get to that later on. Well get right to todays top story. Theres controversy around the Nobel Peace Prize being o warded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and not to Malala Yousafzai. Andrea mitchell has more on that. Good morning to you. Good morning. It is surprising and controversial. It effects politics and the concern that she was too young to be awarded the most prestigious prize. She might win it in the future. It set off anger and disappointment. She has made a profound difference for women living under the brutally of regimes like the taliban. At the age of 14 encouraged by her father she started speaking out leading to a taliban gunman boarding her school bus and shooting her in the head. This week as she continues to Campaign Around the world for the right for girls to be educated the taliban issued a new death threat vowing to kill her where ever she is. She did seek refuge and medical care in england. Shell be in washington today. Even more so, the fact hah the u. S. Chemical weapons inspectors got the prize instead of malala. Only this week they made their second trip in to destroy the chemical weapons. Very dangerous and very challenging but only just beginning. From even my acquaintance with her, this disappointment will not stop malala and her campaign. She is only a teenager. This young woman is getting started. We agree with that. Our congratulations also to the winners of the prize. Andrea mitchell in washington, thank you very much. Now to the new imagine of Edward Snowden. Our first look at the nsa leaker since he sought asylum in russia. The government may have missed warning signs about snowden years ago. Lets turn to richard engle. Good morning. Good morning. He says according to americans that met him in russia he loves the United States and is grateful that russia granted him asylum. Reporter the first glimpse of Edward Snowden in russia is him holding an award, a prize for whistle blowing. It was given to snowden by four other americans all exintelligence and security who support that the young computer expert, formerly with the nsa revealed classified information about american intelligence programs including the collection of u. S. Phone and email records. We have more and more whistle blowers coming to the Government Accountability project than we had before. So i think if the u. S. Is trying to clamp down and send a message by making an example, courage is containo contagious and hes had a wonderful effect for the u. S. And the world. Reporter he told nbc news he is settling in well in russia and might not return home. He is healthy and well rested. Centered and grounded. He was funny and engaging. He did not seem worried. He did not seem to have lost weight or appear pale or sick in any kind of way. Hes been reading russian authors and studying russian history and trying to understand the politics. Reporter but snowden apparently also worries elements of the u. S. Government want to kill him. Theres no evidence hes an actual target. That would be illegal. We asked him about it and he shook his head. You know, so he is aware of these things. Reporter snowden according to his lawyer is now looking for a new job and has received many high paying offers to work in Computer Programming in russia. And today on the cover of the new york times, a report that four years before these last leaks came out, the supervisor snowden was working with at the cia said in a warning in his report that he was a possible leaker. How that was passed over in a background check is unexplained. A lot of questions. Thank you so much. Now to the latest on the shutdown show down. Theres some movement on a deal to get the Government Back to work and also to avoid a default. Peter alexander has that story this morning. Hi, peter. Reporter hi, matt. Good morning to you. I spoke with aids on both sides early this morning and they insist no final decisions have been made but there were more talks overnight and more talks scheduled again for today. Senate republicans arrive here at the white house several hours from now but a more different tone from days ago with clear signs that the end of the shutdown and the debt limit standoff may finally be within view. After a long night of negotiations new optimism that washington might find a solution to both problems it created. House republicans describe their hour and a half meeting with the president as useful and productive, even if no final decisions were made. Well come back to have more discussions. The president said he would go and consult with the administration folks and hopefully we can see a way forward after that. Reporter that way forward may include an end to the Government Shutdown by monday according to a top House Republican on cnbc. If were going to open the government, we need to come to some negotiation on that in relatively short order because people are hurting. Reporter also on the table, a shortterm fix to ensure the nation has enough money to pay its bills. Raising the debt ceiling. For how long, house and Senate Republicans disagree but it would avoid default. A position the white house seemed willing to consider. The president is happy that cooler heads, at least, seem to be prevailing. Reporter for 11 days now most americans have felt a lot like this little boy at Washingtons National zoo. Locked out with washington seemingly frozen in place. Even the senates historic ohio clock stopped ticking wednesday because the staff in charge of winding it was furloughed. The impact extends to the florida keys where fishermen rallied for the Everglades National park to reopen. That means we cant go fishing. That means we cant make any money and the days of fishing were losing we dont get back. Reporter our poll shows the Republican Party has been badly damaged by the back to back crises. Youll be talking about this more with chuck in the morning but republicans on the hill here have been paying close attention to those numbers and often times hearing from real americans can help drive compromise. Peter alexander at the white house this morning. Thank you very much. Now, heres savannah. Thanks. Since the shutdown started we heard people voice their frustrations about the shutdown in congress. Now a new wall street journal poll shows how angry they are. Chuck todd, good morning. Good morning. People dont Like Washington but there is one party thats getting more of the blame according to this poll. The shutdown has been, theres no sugar coating this, a political disaster for the gop. Heres who is to blame. 53 blame Congressional Republicans for this. 31 blame president obama. During the 95 shutdown republicans got more blame but never crossed 50 . This is unprecedented even for shutdown politics. And theres a question about who puts political interests first and the republicans fair badly on that as well. Very badly. 70 said they were picking politics over the country. This includes even 40 of republicans. President obama, 51 say politics over the country. And lets talk about the Republican Party in general. If midterm elections were held next month instead of next year, what might we see . The only good news in the poll is the date. Its october 2013. Not 2014. This negative view of the Republican Party in our poll, 25 year history of this poll, it has never been lower than this. 53 negative view for the Republican Party and when you look at the match up between democrats and republicans who would you like to control congress, democrats have an 8 point lead. They havent had a lead like this in four years since the six week period when president obama was inaugurated. This is what the shutdown has done to the Republican Party. However, people do not like this position i wont negotiate. The only talking point that republ republicans have sold is why wont you negotiate mr. President . Most of the things we have seen in this poll, though, democrats have rallied around the president but republicans, particularly nontea party rememb republicans are backing off the Republican Party. And politicians do their own polls. These are flying around capitol hill. Is that why were saying movements . Not to say our poll is creating urgency but our poll no other major poll is done this way. Republican and democrat. This one sent shockwaves last night. The urgency to flip the switch on this among republicans is at the highest point weve seen in weeks. Chuck todd, thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you so much. Theres new questions this morning about the cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castros suicide. Natalie has those headlines. Thats right. Good morning. The death of ariel castro found dead in his cell last month, a just released report suggests the death may not have been a suicide and questions remain about why he wasnt being watched more closely while in his prison cell. Reporter convicted cleveland kidnappers ariel castro was discovered hanging by a bed sheet september 3rd, just weeks into his mandatory life sentence. Im not a monster. I did not prey on them. Reporter revelations in a Ohio Department of corrections report now suggest the death may not have been suicide but possibly the result of accidentally choking himself during a sex act in his cell. The report also alleges two guar guar guards falsified documents as to when they checked on castro. He was arrested in may of holding three young women in his home for more than a decade. After his cell, Michelle Knight said life behind bars was the best punishment. You dont deserve that. You deserve to spend life in prison. Reporter while he did elude to taking his own life in a 2004 letter no suicide note was found in his cell. Only a few pictures and an open bible. Nbc news, chicago. Former detroit major Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 24 years for corruption. He said he was sorry buzz denied stealing from the city. Police and volunteers in new york city are pressing their search for a nonverbal autistic boy thats been missing now for more than a week. The 14yearold was last seen on surveillance tape running away from school. His family handed out flyers last night. Most of the search is focused on rail yards and subway tunnels because he has a strong interest in trains. The mother of an american man detained in north korea is there to visit her son. He was arrested last november while leading a group of tourists in north korea and sentenced to 15 years for what the government called hostile acts. His mother has not been able to see him for almost a year. She pleaded for visitation rights after her son became ill. The vatican has pulled 6,000 commemorative medals because somebody forgot to use spell check. The medals went on sale on tuesday. Somebody happened to notice that the word jesus stamped along the edge is misspelled as lesvs with an l instead of a j. Four were sold before the medals were withdrawn. Their value is expected to skyrocket. Visitors got a surprise when legendary rocker Paul Mccartney treated them to a concert. He played a quick four strong set. Police only gave him 15 minutes. Mccartney is promoting his new album titled new. 7 14. I think he should have kept going. Gotten arrested. I think the police could have given him a little license there. He does the cover of what does the fox say. You got snow to tell us about. Thats right. Its early for our friends in flagstaff, arizona. They only picked up an inch but still had to break up the snowplows and get stuff going. But the kids, the kids always love it. Nothing wrong with that. Dad and his son. Lets make some snow angels. Lets show you whats going on. Two big stories. In the plains, trouble there. We have a risk of strong storms from grand forks, jamestown, fargo into alexandria. Minnesota and minneapolis may get in on this. Rainfall from two to three inches. Rapid city, we could be looking at flooding there. We also have this pesky low. Theres a big area of High Pressure thats dominating. That High Pressure wont move. So its just kind of sitting there and not allowing this low to move on up so we continue to see this on shore flow. More rain. Look at this, over the next 24 hours from philadelphia to d. C. , about two to four inches of rain. Less than that as you get up into new england but there could be coastal floodings and big problems through the weekend. Airport delays from boston down to washington today because of the winds. Thats your latest weather. Well get to your forecast coming up in the [ Acoustic Guitar upbeat ] nd career change, fidelity is there for your personal economy, helping you readjust your Retirement Plan along the way, rethink how youre invested, and refocus as your career moves forward. Wherever you are today, a fidelity i. R. A. Has a wide range of Investment Choices to help you finetune your personal economy. Call today, and well make it easy to move that old 401 k to a fidelity i. R. A. Good morning. Rain will be with us throughout the weekend. Temperatures around 63 in downtown baltimore. And thats your latest weather. All right, al, thank you very much. Lets go into the orange room and tamron is in for carson this morning. The Nobel Peace Prize handed out not long ago. People talking about that online . All over the world people are reacting to the news that malala didnt receive the nobel prize. She captured our hearts and attention and inspired us to be more courageous daytoday. The anticipation, malala marches toward the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala yousafzai poised to win the Nobel Peace Prize. All of social media on fire but one tweet stood out to me guys and this is from a man that said malala not given the nobel prize but she rules the hearts of millions with or without a political award. That sentiment reiterated over and over again but i like this tweet because it comes out of pakistan, her country, of course. And a couple of days ago malala was on with john stewart. He asked her what she would do if she faced a gunman again. A very serious moment. Take a look. I would tell him how important education is and that i even want education for your children as well and ill tell him thats what i want to tell you, now do what you want. You see there, john stewart often has something witty to say. His breath taken away seeing the bravery and courage of malala and she was asked recently what she wants to do next. She said she thought about being a doctor but now she wants to enter politics and perhaps guys become the Prime Minister of pakistan. So this is, in a way a disappointment but how can you stop this 16yearold who say force of nature. Sky is the limit for her. So young but so brilliant. You do feel a little bad for the people that won the award. This is an incredible life achievement and all thats being said this morning is who didnt win the award. Thats true. Coming up, the real man behind the movie starring tom hanks, captain phillips. 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