Fan doesnt go quite as planned. Oh, no why the president ial hopeful says the quarterback always gets the blame today, wednesday, august 19, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from stay in Rockefeller Plaza. [ cheers and applause ] and good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. The quarterback should not get the blame in this case. Marco rubio clearly told him to do a fourstep button hook not a post pattern and the kid is stuck in the head. Much safer if politicians just kiss babies. A little bit more on that funny video in a bit. Well start with a weatherrelated top story. Strong storms in the midwest. New Severe Weather cropping up. Al, whats the latest . Well be watching this. It will be a 24 to 36hour problem. Wrigley field, boy, look at the rain coming in. This is kansas. Theres wrigley field. You have heavy rain there. A bit of a rain delay as you can imagine. All that pushing through. Then we go to kansas. You can see more strong storms pushing through that area. Heavy rain. We had no reports of tornadoes, but there was localized flooding and in nebraska, we had more heavy weather as well. We are looking to see this repeated throughout the day. Heavy lightning and severe thunderstorms pushing through the area. Heres whats going on. We have another area stretching from Central Indiana all the way down to oklahoma and oklahoma city. Strong storms firing up. Weve got the risk of strong weather today. Marginal risk from del rio to detroit. We have enhanced risk storm threat, damaging winds and super cells throughout much of michigan. Well be watching that. We have the fourth tropical named storm. We have danny. 1440 miles east of the lesser antilles, moving west at 14. This thing will be out over open water for a while. Its not going to be until early monday that it approaches the leeward islands. It continues on this path. There is going to be risk for parts of the caribbean and still way too early to tell whether it affects the united states. We are going to continue to watch that as well. Al, thank you very much. Three men are presumed dead in alaska where torrential rains triggered landslides that buried part of the coastal town of sitka. Emergency crews raced to the scene, but unstable terrain forced them to put the search on hold. Officials plan to reassess the situation later this morning. The story we are following overnight could spell trouble for millions of users for the Cheating WebsiteAshley Madison. Hackers claim they have followed through on the threat and posted personal information of some of the sites clients online. Justice correspondent Pete Williams is following this. Good morning. What can you tell us . Reporter the hackers call themselves the impact team. They appear to have followed through on a threat last month to make the data public, if the site didnt shut itself down. Based in canada it is a dating website called Ashley Madison. Com with the slogan life is short, have an affair. Late tuesday an enormous amount of data was posted on whats called the dark web which cant be found with conventional browsers like google. The data includes millions of names, addresses, credit card numbers and amounts paid. Data that stretches back several years. Many users may not have used their real names. In a statement the website says the data dump is an act of criminality and an attack of freethinking people who choose to engage in lawful online activities. Authorities are investigating the computer attack and studying the data to see if it was, after all, in fact, stolen from the website. The hackers say they dont want money. They wanted to embarrass users. Well see if they have. Thank you. The manager of a motel near seattle is being hailed a hero in the wake of a powerful explosion that levelled part of a building injuring a gas worker. Others made it out thanks to very quick thinking. Jacob rascon has the story. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It looked like a bomb had been detonated. Firefighterses toed into the air, shattering windows of nearby businesses as dozens of guests escaped just in time. Lets all head on over. Reporter it was a close call for guests on the street tuesday night, evacuated from their rooms minutes before a gas explosion levelled a large part of a motel 6 in bremerton, washington. The manager made the quick decision to sound the alarm after getting a call about a fwas leak. I said, okay. This could cause pandemonium, but my gut told me to and im glad i did. En route motel 6. Engine 2 will be evacuating the motel 6 at 3400 street. Reporter guests were immediately evacuated. 30 minutes later the explosion blew firefighters back 20 feet. Those on the scene said it felt like a shock wave. The building collapsed. My car was pushed by the force. Reporter remarkably, no guests were injured but a fwas Company Employee suffered second and third degree burns. He was air lifted to a Seattle Medical Center in critical condition. Firefighters battled the blaze overnight. Police are investigating just what caused the explosion. The injured gas Company Employee remains critical this morning. The red cross is assisting guests who were displaced as many credit the manager who pulled the fire alarm was a former volunteer firefighter herself with saving lives. Matt . Jacob, thank you very much. Now to politics. Hillary clinton getting fiery amid criticism over her emails as secretary of state. This is a controversy shes blaming republicans and the media for keeping alive. Nbcs Kristen Welker is on the trail. Good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning to you. Secretary clinton is about to start a slower week filled with fundraising and down time. After campaigning in las vegas on tuesday its clear that email issue isnt going away and could be getting to her. I do want to be the champion for every day americans to help each and every one of you. Reporter under mounting pressure, Hillary Clinton launched a heated defense of her use of a private email account as secretary of state tuesday. The issue that continues to threaten her second bid for the white house. What i did was legally permitted, number one. First and foremost. I did not send classified material. And i did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified. Reporter in exchanges that often became testy, clinton insisted she hasten tone anything wrong. In retrospect this didnt turn out to be convenient at all. I regret that its become celeb change the facts and the facts are stubborn. Reporter clinton tried to laugh off a question about whether she wiped her private server. You were in charge of it. You wiped the server. Like with a cloth or something . Well, no. I dont know how it works digitally at all. Reporter this comes as Forensic Experts are examining clintons private server. Two sources familiar with the prods tell nbc news, analysts are optimistic they can recover at least some of the data though they have determined it was wiped clean as previously reported when the account was deactivated. Investigators are working to determine whether classified information was mishandled. The mounting questions giving republicans fresh fodder. It is concerning. It shows in competencompetence part to not know this was Important Information she needed to protect. The fact that shes not been forthright in explaining the situation is also a problem. Reporter clinton walked away tuesday as questions about her emails were still shouted out. The nagging political problem she cant turn her back on. According to a new cnn poll just out, it shows Hillary Clinton is the strong democratic frontrunner leading Bernie Sanders by double digits. For the first time her number has dropped below 50 . In a general election matchup donald trump is catching up, now just six points behind her. All signs the email issue could be taking a toll. Savannah, matt, back to you. Kristen, thank you. In the republican race an interesting scene in New Hampshire today. Duelling town hall meetings, miles apart, involving frontrunner donald trump and his gop rival jeb bush. Katy tur is in derry where trump is scheduled to speak. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Trump will get here later tonight. It is no accident that he picked today of all days to come back to New Hampshire, trying to steal all the air out of the room and steal the spotlight. It will be a big day here in New Hampshire. An Education Summit later today that will be attended by a number of candidates including carly fiorina, chris christie, jeb bush, scott walker, john kasich who will be having a town hall later today. So will jeb bush. Frankly, just one county over, just 20 minutes away. Trump has been sparring with bush every chance he gets. Often unprovoked, trying to slam him on immigration an the military. Trump seeing and treating bush as his biggest threat right now. All while bush is annoyed at having to answer questions about trump and said trying to refer to him as the Big Personality in the room. Bush is having no choice. He has to respond to him. Responding specifically to the immigration plan on monday. Forced to comment on it saying it was unrealistic. Trump will try to sell the plan to voters today. You can bet hes going to try to steal the voters, reporters and all of the attention from the other candidates, especially jeb bush. Matt . Katy tur, thank you very much. Members of the media will be jumping county to county this afternoon. Which is convene yept for them. Tuesday the fda approved the first drug to boost sexualle desire in women. The female viagra works differently than that. The pill will be marketed under a different brand name and will carry bold warnings about possible side effects. Doctors will be required to talk to patients about it before writing a prescription. Natalie has more on the fires out west. Another gruelling day for crews battling 5 wildfires burning in Washington State and idaho. A group of fires in Northern Idaho scorched 90 square miles and destroyed 42 homes. In chelan, washington, flames burned through grass and timber. Nearly 1,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation there. The search is intensifying for the man accused of bombing a shrine in bangkok, killing 20 people and possible accomplices. Police released the sketch and are offering a reward for information leading to the suspect, apparently the same man seen in a video leaving a backpack at the downtown shrine authorities believe contained an explosive device weighing more than six pounds. Police believe the man didnt work alone but is part of a network. Authorities released pictures showing the wreckage from the indonesian passenger plane that crashed in the remote Eastern Region over the weekend. All 54 on board were killed. Officials said more than 70 rescuers reached the crash site tuesday after being hindered by rugged terrain and bad weather. A frightening construction stent at a new mexico hospital left a worker dead and seven injured. The scaffolding outside the Medical Center in rio rancho buckled and collapsed. Three construction workers being treated for life threatening injuries. Investigators are trying to figure out how it happened. Incredible video of a Close Encounter between a shark and a seal. This happened off the coast of cape cod. Look as the shark jumped out of the water to grab the seal, but the seal managed to wriggle out of the way. The encounter was captured by the Atlantic White shark conservancy. Videos like this are important to studies on great white sharks in the atlantic ocean. You want to make sure they are far off the coast of cape cod. The beach is right there. Not good at all. The core strength of seals and sharks. Very strong. Good abs. Doing their crunches. Natalie, thank you. Mr. Roker. Lets look at the rest of the country. We look for wet weather up and down the midatlantic coast through florida. The heat continues out west. Smoky conditions through the smoky conditions through the pacifi watch as these magnificent creatures take flight, soaring away from home towards the promise of a better existence. But these birds are suffering. Because this better place turned out to have a less reliable cell phone network, and the videos on their little bird phones kept buffering. Birds hate that. So they came back home. Come home to verizon and now get 12 gigs for 80 a month plus 20 per line. Verizon. Come home to a better network. Good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. A steamy start, mostly cloudy skies, afternoon showers and possibly scattered thunderstorms today. High temperatures in the 80s this afternoon and another steamy day tomorrow. More widespread showers and thunderstorms later thursday, come thursday night, some heavy downpours as those storms move through and into friday. Saturday, though, the humidity comes down. A warm afternoon with sunshine, a slight chance of a shower sunday and into the 80s monday and tuesday. Have a great day. Coming up at 7 30 we have a rare firenado. You have to look and see why its rare. All right. Interesting. Good tease. Thank you very much. Oscar pistorius is expected to leave a South African prison friday, ten months after his trial. Jeff rossen is there. Reporter good morning to you. The countdown is on. Oscar pistorius spending his final 48 hours behind bars in this prison in pretoria. Friday hell be released and placed on house arrest. This morning we are getting exclusive new details about his life inside. Plus the prosecutors new push for a new trial. It is one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Known for violence and gangs. But Oscar Pistorius is reportedly isolated in the hospital wing, living in a tiny six by eightfoot cell with a bed, sink, toilet and cupboard. Pistorius said to be so paranoid the prison food could be poisoned he eats canned sardines and baked beans. Hes allowed outside only an hour a day, getting another hour in the weight room. He was a vip prisoner. Everything was free for him. He could do whatever he wants. Reporter boswell said pistorius got special treatment beyond usual perks for good behavior. He was an inmate there at the same time as pistorius. How can you get your own gym alone . Why the cell that we are in, we were never given curtains but his cell was prepared special. Reporter why do you think it happened . Because hes got money. Its Oscar Pistorius. Reporter the family denies hes getting special treatment and prison officials didnt respond to requests for comment. It was a trial that kapt vicapt the world. The olympic hero, shooting and killing his model girlfriend rhee e reeva steenkamp. Pistorius claiming in court it was an accident. He mistook her for an intruder. The judge believed him convicting him of involuntary manslaughter. You shot and killed her. Take responsibility for that. Reporter now prosecutors are filing their official appeal saying the judge made a mistake. In papers filed this week the court not only approached the circumstantial evidence incorrectly but also incorrectly excluded relevant evidence. And pistorius should have been convicted of murder, calling it inescapable. Kooung do you think its possible the prosecution could be successful . There is a great possibility they could succeed and he could go back to prison. Reporter when pistorius is released friday he will reportedly go straight to his uncles sprawling estate a few miles away. In south africa many call it mansion arrest. Well be covering it all. Back to you. Put your lawyer hat on. Are there other systems around the world where a guy can be convicted, serve time in jail and be tried again for evidence in the same crime . In other Legal Systems the prosecution has a right to appeal. Its something we dont do here. Once a defendant is acquitted or has the appeal the prosecutor has no right to appeal. Meaning you cant go back to jail after that. Well keep eyes on that one. 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