manipulate videos with the help of artificial intelligence i tried out what it was like to control someone else s face. check me out as far as your hands and. personally. or by doing it put in. it s pretty impressive to see how easy that was with the right technology and in real time to i don t even want to imagine what could happen if a fake president declared war how can we stop fake news or deep fakes that s what scientists are asking themselves to we met the 2 most renowned the fake experts in the us their academic competition is advancing research on the issue. those who consider how to lead to be the best the fake artist in the world the german computer scientist teaches at the university of southern california and manipulates videos for science you know as hard as it sells. we re also trying to advance it in order to be able to detect them right because if you don t understand how they are being generated if you don t have the capability of generating realistic effects
today hurricane irma. with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and lester holt live from florida. and good morning, everyone. welcome to a special edition of today on sunday morning. lester and al are in tampa. if used just visiting us, it s going to a special day on the florida state. let s get the very latest now on the storm. it has been battering the florida keys all morning long. but its center just made official landfall there at 9:10 a.m. eastern time. utility officials in florida now say more than 1 million customers have lost power as irma has hammered that state. that number is expected to keep rising throughout what s going to be a long day down there. and to give you an idea how big the storm is, a tropical storm warning was just issued for atlanta, georgia. yes, that s 600 miles north of southern florida. it is inland and north of the storm. and yet that tropical storm warning for atlanta. we have correspondent
up. all of it with major concerns over storm sturge, that could get as high as 15 feet some some areas. power obviously, people losing power. a major concern. a number of people without power is increasing by the power. when we first came on the air at 6:00 east coast time. this morning, 200,000 people without power. that number is now over 1 million. we ll probably continue to see it climb. we ve got a team of correspondents across florida, as hurricane irma hammers the area. let s start with correspondent miguel almaguer in florida city. miguel good morning again. reporter: the wind is still blinding out here, the and ten miles inland from the coastline, they say the storm sturge is is not going to be a major issue. but these winds here that continue to knock down power lines and knock out power to this entire city. still, much of this region remains in the dark here. the winds are strong enough that first responders now say they will not leave the station. they are h
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