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sharknado, and the cliffhanger butting all other cliffhangers to shame today. this, july 23rd, 2015. and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a thursday morning. great to see you. remember that time we all got eaten by a flying shark. people waking up going, oh, they survived. a movie, not over, i know that. i really believed you in the role of matt lauer. very good. we re going to have fun with sharknado 3 later on, but we want to start with a thursday morning with serious news. candid and troubling comments from fbi director james comey on the threats from isis facing the united states, and that group s increased ability to inspire americans to extremism. kristen welker is at the white house with more. officials here have long signaled the terrorist group isis, also known as isil, poses a danger to the u.s., but the fbi director was asked if the group is now a bigger threat to the u.s. than al qaeda. his answer, yes. underscoring the level of concer ....
putting all other cliff hangers to shame today thursday july 23rd 2015. announcer: from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a thursday morning. remember the time we got eaten by a flying shark? did we survive? they survived. it s a movie. it s not over. i believed you in the role of matt lauer. thank you. we ll have fun with sharknado 3 a little bit on. we start with a serious news. troubling comments from fbi director james comb my on threats from isis facing the united states. at the group s ability to inspire americans to extremism. kristin welker is at the white house with more. reporter: officials here have long signalled the terrorist group isis also known as isil poses a risk to the u.s. the fbi director was asked if the group is a bigger threat to the u.s. than al qaeda. his answer is question underscoring the level of concern here. isil is no ....
the president broke the news in his favorite way, over twitter. writing, quote, i am pleased to inform you that i have just named general-secretary john f. kelly as white house chief of staff. he is a great american, and a great leader. john has also done a spectacular job at homeland security. he s been a true star of my administration. mr. priebus is the former republican party chairman, and he clashed with other officials in the white house, including the new director of communications, anthony scaramucci. john harwood joins us tonight on the phone from washington. john, welcome, good to be with you. how big a surprise, john, is priebus departure? and how big a surprise is the appointment of kelly as chief of staff? well, i think the departure of reince priebus wasn t a surprise. the timing was a s i had been talking to people during the day who were saying, you know, sometime in the next couple of weeks, certainly by labor day, so, that wasn t unexpected. john ke ....
southern maryland. you can see all the red. that s rainfall rates over 1 inch per hour from dunkirk to prince frederick to leonardtown back into much of charles county. we ll zoom in more and give you rainfall rates. this is impressive, just west of huntington 2 3/4 inches per hour of rain. there s no lightning or hail but flash flood still possible. here is some of the damage reports, nothing crazy like tuesday or last saturday, but we seem to be in a pattern of severe weather. we had a 41 mile-per-hour wind gust at quantico at 10:01 and a 41 mile-per-hour wind gust at 8:00 at swan point that. storm produced hail across 95 and weakened going into southern maryland. tomorrow we re in good shape, mid-60s in the burbs, low 70s downtown, breaks in the clouds. by 9:00 everybody is in the 70s. it should remain dry for the morning commute. by 11:30 showers are starting to pop up. we ll come back and go with futurecast through tomorrow afternoon and advance it through saturday ....
because we have watered diversion to go on at facilities and what not. reporter: water was more than a foot deeper in the manzanita park & ride and caltrans was rerouting drivers along the flooded roads and assisting drivers to chose to brave the water and regretted it. when it rains here it floods so you get a lot of cars going through mud like this and through water like this and if you are too low, you re not going to make it. reporter: up in sonoma county, more than a dozen roads were closed for flooding or trees down including this one in windsor. a flash flood warning in sonoma county was in effect until 5 p.m. urging thousands of people to stay off the roads. probably one of the creeks is backing up going into the russian river, the russian river being high right now. so when the river gets high, the creek backs up and floods the roads. reporter: i talked to officials here in sonoma county and they do not expect the russian river to get above flood le ....