havoc up and down the coast. the vacationing firefighters tell us how they got it out. and highway heimlich. an nypd officer in the right place at the right time. are you choking? yes, sir. put your hands on your chest. he helped save a woman driving on a busy highway. his heroic efforts today, saturday, september 20th, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m erica hill alongside jenna wolfe. dylan is in baltimore this morning where we are sponsoring a health fair. we will check in with her for a preview. we will check in after the show. we want to get to today s top story. the security breach at the white house. a man was able to get through the executive doors after jumping the fence. luckily the first family was not home at the time, but a lot of questions about how he got so far. kristen welker i
phase a gray start in downtown san men s. we ll see slight warming and approaching 3-s in the afternoon. we may see mid-60s coast side and low 80s for the inland spots. take a look at the satellite and radar. few areas of green in the north bay, that s where we are seeing isolated thunderstorms, if you re head to the tahoe area. rain expected in the bay area next week. annie? family and friend, mourning the death of 33-year-old, galindo. he s the san bruno man bheet ened to death inside the south francisco, bali. and they are hulling ris death car, violence was not in diego s vocab vocabulary. mother is falling apart. they have not gave us a call. galindo fram has comfort with the pr. i would have stobbed ub tawcial the meat mark, where diego s manager, sanchez, says, diego worked as a butcher. weeing doing the vigil for the people. the kid s knew him. everybody wanted to come and pay their respects. diegos pad away on thursday. day after south frn cisco dent atta
welker is at the white house with more on this. kristen, good morning. reporter: lester, good morning. i was here last night when the man entered the residence causing the secret service to evacuate the white house and press corps. this is the first time it has happened in the three years i have been covering the white house. take a look. this instagram video captured the dramatic moments of the man running across the lawn and secret service yelling for the crowd to get back. 42-year-old omar gonzalez of texas jumped the fence at 7:20. he made it up the north lawn and apprehended inside the nor nortnorth north portico doors. we have video trying to stop the man. gonzalez did not appear to be armed or holding a backpack. the first family was never in danger. they left for camp david. gonzalez may have been mentally distu disturbed. no shots were fired. fence jumpers are not unusual, but normally stopped as they jump the fence. the secret service says quote this is under inv
havoc up and down the coast. the vacationing firefighters tell us how they got it out. and highway heimlich. an nypd officer in the right place at the right time. are you choking? yes, sir. put your hands on your chest. he helped save a woman driving on a busy highway. his heroic efforts today, saturday, september 20th, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m erica hill alongside jenna wolfe. dylan is in baltimore this morning where we are sponsoring a health fair. we will check in with her for a preview. we will check in after the show. we want to get to today s top story. the security breach at the white house. a man was able to get through the executive doors after jumping the fence. luckily the first family was not home at the time, but a lot of questions about how he got so far. kristen welker i
plus the king of the blues, b.b. king has died. the islamic state of iraq and the levant is engaged in fierce fighting in the province in anbar. isil fighters are now in control of the government come pound in ramadi. military helicopters are trying to dislodge them. it s a blow for the government which had announced a campaign to recapture the province in early april. zana hoda reports from baghdad. [ gunfire ] reporter: the symbol of government authority in ramadi is now under the control of the islamic state of iraq and the levant. ramadi has long been a city that has been fought over it was also the iraqi government s main strong hold in anbar province. but isil fighters launched an all-out assault early friday taking over the ramadi compound which houses most of the city s government buildings. they managed to penetrate using suicide bombers. government forces and their local allies were not able to stop isil s advance. many were killed. it is a strategic blow