Take you live to an nbc exclusive. The plane that came dangerously close to sliding into the ocean. Well explain what happened here. And later a sunday sitdown with oscar nominee touragep. Henson. She starred in empire where she plays the notorious cookie lyons. You have this tick when people call me cookie and im not at work, the fans. I know, i understand. I get it, but it does something to me. Cookie im like, eh. Thats not my name. A sunday sitdown later in the show. Lets begin with the terrifying 38 minutes in hawaii on saturday when people there were warped falsely that a Ballistic Missile attack was underway. Nbcs Jacob Soberoff is in honolulu for us. Good morning. What happened here . Reporter yesterday cell phone signals were overloaded as others called their loved ones to say goodbye. It was a chaotic and confusing scene in a place known for its tranquility. Just after 8 00 a. M. In hawaii, pandemonium in paradise. Hysteria triggered by a false alarm. The terrifying message screamed across cell phones. Ballistic missile threat in bound be to hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. The u. S. Pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. People started to run. The hotel staff came and told my parents, seek shelter. You only have 12 minutes. Reporter the mistake was part of an Early Warning system put into place amid rising tensions between President Trump and north Korean Leader kim jongun. Less than 24 hours before the false alarm we were given an exclusive look at the room. If a Nuclear Missile is launch launched, this is where youll know . Theyll receive a message and theyll activate the statewide system. Wheres the phone . Right here behind us. Reporter saturday morning that phone never rang and there never was a call. The alert went out. It took 38 minutes for a correction to be tweeted out. The governor took the responsibility. Today is the day that most of us will never forget and many in our community was deeply affected by this. And im sorry. Reporter apology from officials here from a system designed to save lives instead turning them upside down. Willie, in the wake of this false alarm that happened during a shift change in a routine test, the governor announced he is suspending the missile Early Warning tests until further notice and from this point forward there will be two people at all times responsible for sending out the alerts like the ones that terrified so many. Seems like a good idea. Taking us inside the room where it all happened. Thank you so much. Jeremy bash is an nbc news analyst and former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon for president obama. I guess the question is, what exactly happened here . The ex34planation is somebody pushed the wrong button on a shift change . If this did happen, had this been real, there are reports from inside the airport in honolulu that the passengers were getting the notifications on their phones but no one in the airport, tsa, security, otherwise knew what was going on. It shouldnt be that easy, willie. From my perspective, you should have to hold down a button for three seconds or more before any alert goes out. I think a twoperson rule is critically important. If a missile were launched, our military satellites would detect it and it would be word would get out from the u. S. Military directly to the secretary of defense because the secretary of defense would have to decide within about five to ten minutes to launch our National Missile defense to intercept the in bound missiles. Of course, the president would have to be advised as to wlorptd he wanted to weigh any retaliation. This statewide Emergency Management system is not the system our military would use to knock down incoming missiles or retaliate. As you watched this, jeremy, did you think to yourself, boy, this could lead to a real life worst Case Scenario if a false alert was going and we know what russias been capable of in terms of hacking into our election system and so on, if somebody got in with a bad idea and wanted to hack and give an alert, could this lead to something worse . Its very distressing because with the United States and north korea effectively on hair trigger alert over these tensions, a miscalculation, a human error could lead to accidental war. Its very concerning if our military had the same problem or if, worse, on the other side in pyongyang and the northern regime they mistakenly thought we were attacking them, they could do something very pre1i7 to uw us precipitous. During the basketball game during residents of hawaii saw a notice to seek shelter. Thank god it wasnt true. Jeremy bash, thank you so much. So far President Trump has remained silent about the scare in hawaii. He tweeted about the stock market, Hillary Clintons emails and the newly released book about his white house. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is traveling with President Trump. Shes near his maralago estate. Whats been the reaction from the white house . Reporter to set the scene, willie, the president had already been at his golf resort for a few hours and he was back at maralago within 40 minutes. He was briefed by his chief of staff and National Security adviser, but he has not commented about it. Now the white house has pointed out this was a statecontrolled issue, but he has not discussed the fear that was generated or the context of National Security given this was a false warning about a Ballistic Missile attack. Just this morning he has already tweeted about being misquoted about his relationship with the north Korean Leader but nothing about what happened in hawaii. Kelly odonnell traveling with the president. Chuck todd is nbcs political director. Moderator of meet the press. Good to see you. Morning. Part of the reason there was such alarm on this, obviously on its face its scary for the people of hawaii but for the context which is the heightened rhetoric and escalations of tensions. President trump saying what he says about kim jongun and vice ver versa. I think the scare here is this is not such a farfetched thing that might happen. Reporter that is what made this so alarming, and certainly for the citizens of hawaii. Because you sit there as there have been concerns, i mean, you have done stories on a sunday morning about what happens if there is a misinterpretation of a tweet or a back and forth between kim jongun and the president and this president right now . And so all of a sudden it was that debates sitting out there and then heres an alert. So im certain so many residents, and were hearing stories of concern and fear and people taking this very seriously, its understandable why they should take it very seriously considering the atmosphere we live in. I think it 1er7b8 lcertainly on to the techs. The quote of the week as reported by the Washington Post that the president of the United States in a meeting about immigration and daca used the term shole countries. He of course used the full word. Does the white house appreciate why this was damaging not just to his reputation but to negotiations over the immigration, the impression of the United States around the world or do they say this is trump being trump. He talks like the guy at the end of the bar. Hes talking to the forgotten man, et cetera, et cetera . Does the white house feel this was a bad week for him . Reporter internally, yes, the white house knows this is a bad week, absolutely, but theyre trying to put the best face forward which is why you hear the spin you have. Look, i think the more damaging comment was not the vulgar comment, it was the sentiment behind it. The idea its the norway comment to me thats much more damaging long term because it reinforces the notion that this president does believe in playing favorites using race as a way to do it when it comes to immigration. White norwegians, more that hes more open to than black africans. That sentiment is what i think is going to cause all sorts of pain for the republican party. This is a party that before trump came out, before there was a donald trump, willie, this was a party desperately trying to run away from this stereotype, that that the party is nothing more than a collection of nativists that share the president s sentiment on race. And here is now the president as leader of the party bringing this stereotype front and center. I think it is setting back the partys attempt at trying to broaden its appeal. The president denied on twitter this week using that language. Republicans and democrats alike in the meeting using that term. They were talking about important legislation, chuck. With dhaaka and immigration reform. The president said it has to be part of a deal. Is there going to be a deal on immigration . Thats a great question. Im not as confident as i once was. I think the president has essentially handed the leverage to the democrats now. I think you have a bunch of congressional realizing they made the politics even more difficult for them. So i do think leverage is now in the hands of the democrats. The question is, do Congressional Republicans dump the president , cut a deal on their own and force the president to sign an agreement or do they still continue to try to work with the white house . Right now i think theyll try to work with the white house. I think if we have more negative reaction, they may cut him out. Even the president himself sent mixed messages this week where he stands on daca. Well look for more on meet the press when hes joined by rand paul and michael bennett. Its a race against time in california. Rescue crews are looking for survivors nearly a week after the devastating mudslides. Overnight the death toll rose to 19 people who were forced out of evacuation zones are being allowed to pick up vital supplies. It may be months before they can move back in. Scary moments for more than 150 people on a plane in turkey that skidded off an icy runway. Look at the pictures. Almost plunged off the cliff and into the black sea. Luckily the planes wheels dug into the mud and stopping it from going any farther. They were able to get the 162 passengers and crew to safety. No one, thank goodness, was seriously hurt. Shauchb white will represent the olympics. He scored a perfect 100 on the final run in colorado. The score helped qualify for the 2018 winter games in pyeongchang. White bouncing back after two big crashes late last year. And the nfl playoffs roll on today with the Jacksonville Jaguars heading to pittsburgh to take on the steelers and the Minnesota Vikings hosting the new orleans saints. On saturday the Philadelphia Eagles put on a stand at the end of the game to hold off the falcons. 1510 and last night dylans new England Patriots thrashed the tennessee titans. 3514. Tom brady and the gang heading to the afc championship for the seventh consecutive year. Dylan is here now with a check of the weather. Of the weather. Does it ever get old for you . No. Its so sweet every year. But i did stay up for the game last night and i normally dont do that. You didnt have to stay up too late. It was pretty over in the third quarter. I know. Whats it look like over there . Its cold. Big difference temperature wise. Hard freeze warnings. Wind chill advisories in panama city. It feels like 20 degrees right now. Up in minneapolis it feels like 16 below. Across new england it feels like 13 below. We have snow moving through the midwest. This is part of the system thats a clipper system so its fast moving but its going to dump a quick one to three inches of snow across the midwest. The main focus is the icing thats possible down across parts of the Central Texas especially as we go into monday night and tuesday morning. Could this morning our temperatures are slightly warmer, that High Pressure is going to keep us dry for today. Hayward, 46 degrees. Oakland, 45. San jose, 47. And the 24hour temperature change you can see, we are still expecting some of that Early Morning fog to build in, especially an long the concord area. Three degrees warmer in san jose this hour than we were yesterday. Expect another mild afternoon before rain moving in by tomorrow morning. And thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you very much. Straight ahead, the highs and lows of the week, including the young boy who survived a National Tragedy inside his church, this week riding with the men who saved him. And just a guy walking out to the car on an icy morning. Well show you how this real life benny hill routine ended. Well, it ended like that. Plus, dylan has the story of a doctor researching and fighting to save his life from a rare disease. When you have a deadly disease you dont want to wait for the stars to align. Its all coming up on sunday today. Alabama freshman receiver Devonte Smith catching a dramatic touchdown in overtime that won the hi, im mindy kearns. Its great to finally meet you. Nice to meet you too. Your parents have been talking about you for years. Sorry about that. Theyre all about me saving for a house, or starting a college fund for my son. Actually, i want to know what youre thinking. Have a seat. Yeah. Knowing that the most important goals are yours. 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Firefighter rusty duncan was one of the first to arrive at the scene that day. A little hand grabbed my pant leg. I just saw his eyes looking up at me and i knew i had to get him out of there. Rusty visited ryland in the hospital several times and promised him a ride home in the truck when ryland was feeling better. This week after two months and multiple surgeries, that day came. Rusty picked up ryland who rode up front in the stockdale fire and rescue rig waiving out the window to adoring crowds as he passed with a huge smile on his face. It was amazing. They basically had a parade for him through town. He came through and waived to the crowds. Thats the way to do it. What he survived, a tough little kid. To go home like that. Hes going home. Our first logos to the traction on the icy driveway at one mans virginia home. In a clip thats been viewed tens of millions of times this week, a Home Security camera captures tim zuckers ordeal as he simply tries to get out to his car. Tim strides confidently on to the driveway but then goes for a ride. He is no match for the black eyes. Stopped only by the grass and then the mailbox at the bottom of his driveway. His loving wife posted the video on social media, thanks, with a caption, hes fine. This thing is going viral and i cannot stop laughing. Leave it to the wife. Oh, my gosh, i hope hes okay. Laugh, lauf. Do you want to get to the car and drive at that point . I think it was right in front of him and hes like, ive got this. Driving on ice slowly faded away. Call out sick, is that your move . Yes. Yes. At the hint of ice. Id never work. Pure ectasy of being reunited with someone you love after a long time apart. Hey, boy. Hey hey, boy. Hey. Look at the height hes getting. That is ludo greeting his owner lee as he returns home to winchester in the u. K. From six weeks in afghanistan. The two are best pals and he often face times ludo. He is a former command joe in the royal marines. The first boumg performance in reported history. We all stink at bowling and do it for the beer and shoes. Lets head down do brazil for a night at the lanes. Difficult to be that bad. She releases the ball just a little late here, fires it straight up in the air breaking the tv monitor above her lane. Lets just watch that again. Now a couple things here, thats got to be a light ball to get it up there. They put the tv there knowing and being pretty confident that that will never happen. Like its high enough no one will hit this. That had to be a kid did i eight pound ball. Good viral video. Coming up next, the sunday sitdown with a ball of energy named taraji p. Henson. From empire and the curious case of hidden button. Her roots, the place in the me, too, movement and the town in the australian outback thats almost completely underground. Well take you down under inside the incredible world beneath the surface. 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Emerge and see. Good morning. S if 6 26. We want to give you a live look outside right plow. That is the Transamerica Pyramid in san francisco. Absolutely clear and gorgeous. Thank you so much for waking up with us this sunday. Im vicky nguyen. On thigh drive to work today, fog all across the ground. Once again we have fog blanket parts of the bay area. If you are going to be out in the Early Morning hours, you can expect to see some of that. 6 26 right now and a live look at walnut creek. You can barely see the mountain. The temperature, vicky, not as cold as what weve been waking up to earlier this week. Were in the 40s and the 50s. San Francisco San Jose at 46 degrees. Right now were seeing the most fog near the concord area. San jose seeing some fog as well. Our microclimate highs for today are also expected to be slightly warmer in some areas like san jose. A high of 67 in san jose. Thats actually above seasonable. We are still tracking three storm systems expected to make their arrival this week. I will break down how much rain and timing coming up at the 7 00 a. M. Hour. We need more rain, but it comes all at once. All right. Vianey, thank you so much. Well, a campin of sorts is in libby schaafs front jarred. People were taking their message to the mayors doorstep. Protesters tell us mayor libby schaaf is just feeding them lip service when she recently suggested oakland resident open their homes to the homeless. They set up this demonstration in her front yard as a tongue in cheek gesture to those comments. More than 2,700 People Living on oaklands street roos right now, many of them children. Most of them live in conditions unfit for children. Its freezing out here. Were doing . You can tell a societys values by where they put their dollars. Libbys values are in development. She doesnt care who gets pushed out in the process. Thats a group that accuses oakland pd of racial professoring. She says the city should start with using half of the police budget, about 250 million per year, to help address the growing homeless problem. The city does plan to spend about 185 million over the next two years on housing and homelessness. Much of that money, though, goes towards helping people stay in their homes. A nighttime cliff rescue is bringing attention to some of the dangerous conditions because of recent wet weather. San francisco firefighters had to use ropes to rescue a woman who fell off a cliff near baker beach yesterday evening. Fire officials are warning hierks even though the rain has stopped, trails and cliffs are still unstable. And fire officials are also asking people not to be hiking late in the day. It took firefighters more than two hours to rescue this woman and it was dangerous for them, too. They were challenged by the darkness and slippery ground. Coming up this morning on today in the bay, Actor Mark Wahlberg hands out 1. 5 million in a donation in the name of gender equality. We will have that story plus all of your top stories plus the rest of the forecast. All coming up at 7 00. Its time for sleep numbers lowest prices of the season on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort your sleep number setting. And snoring . Does your bed do that . Its the lowest prices of the season on the queen c4 mattress with adjustable comfort on both sides. Now only 1199, save 400. Plus, 36 month financing available. Ends monday. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. No one gets the bannon fire, no one. Except me. I did. I never said don jr. Which is treasono treasonous. Yes, you did. I certainly never said he cracked like an egg on tv. That sounds exactly like you. Okay, that does sound like me. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Good reporting. Bill murray returning to saturday night live last night as steve bannon and Fred Armistan making a cameo there as fire and fury author, Michael Wolff as they hosted musical guests. Taraji p. Henson hosted on that snl stage as her career was exploding with the popularity of the Music Industry drama empire and her hardedged swaggering character cookie lyon. Shes won a golden globe, nominated for oscar and shes appeared on thymetime magazine list of one of the 100 most influential people in america. Taraji, whose name means hope, is now nominated for another. We sat down at the manhattan cricket club. Here we go. Taraji p. Henson has always been a fighter, just not the kind in action movies. How much practice did you have to do for that . I had no training whatsoever, but weaponry im good with. Once you learn where the mechanisms are and how to work them, all youve got to do is aim and shoot. I look at it like dance. You know, its really choreography. Instead of 5, 6, 7, 8, plea, pirouette. 5, 6, 7, 8, shoot, kill, throw them over your back. Reporter henson is star and executive producer of proud mary. That added responsibility gave her a different perspective. If im in a movie my name aint on it, i dont care if we go over. Ill take a nap in my trailer. Were good. Whatever. Get to me when you do. But executive producer its like, hey, 12 hour day. Lets go and then there was that time i crashed the maserati. What . Yeah, that wasnt good. I put myself in timeout. I miss judged the turn. Reporter shes best known for her fierce portrayal of cookie lyon. Cookie is coming home. Reporter where she fights for control of the family music label. The role earned her a golden globe award along with two emmy nominations. Im gigi. Gigi, now you cant speak english . Reporter it must be a fun character to play, but as i watch the show, it must be exhausting. It is. Reporter she is all over the place. All over the place. She drives me crazy. Literally i have a tick when people call me cookie and im not at work, the fans. I know. I understand it. I get it. But it does something to me. Cookie not my name reporter henson grew up in a rough neighborhood of southeast washington, d. C. Her mother worked at a local department store. Her father was a metal fabricator. They divorced when taraji was just a baby. Reporter what did you dream about as a little girl . Did you want to be an actress . My father spoke that into me. I was a very rambunctious child. I had a very creative imagination and i think thats because i was an only child. My dad recognized that in me and said youre the greatest actress alive. The more you hear it, you know it. Reporter she hoped to study acting at the Duke Ellington school for the arts in d. C. But she wasnt accepted. She was devastated. I decided to hang up my acting hat. And i went to school for electrical engineering. Reporter to college, right . Because my friend at the time, thats what she was into. Ill do that. It sounds smart. Making a lot of money. Reporter how long did that last . I sucked at math. I failed with flying colors. Reporter but, again, hensons father pushed his daughter to pursue her talent. He suggested she transferred to Howard University and get back on the stage. What that did was it developed a fire in me that when i got to howard, i got into my comfort zone, i got my groove back and i just felt like i belonged. Reporter during her junior year at howard taraji gave birth to a son, marcel, now 23. Even while she was pregnant she continued to audition and to perform on stage. Reporter a lot of people would have said, okay, its over. Ive got to take care of my kid. No, i couldnt do it. You know why . Because i could hear the whispers in the back saying, shes going to quit. Shes going to quit. No, dont ever doubt me or do t please, i want you to because its only fuel. Reporter in 1996, a year after graduating, henson and her 2yearold son moved to los angeles to chase her dream. With 700 in her pocket. I knew i had a voice because i just didnt see me in the industry. I didnt. It was hard because i was edgy. You know, i was straight off the bus. Straight from d. C. Reporter she started to get small parts on television appearing on shows like sister, sister. Please, you be smiling if you finally got out of the tenth grade. Reporter and e. R. What you doing here . Reporter her break came in the role baby girl. She played opposite her current empire costar, terrance howard. Henson later would earn an oscar nomination for her role of queeny opposite brad pitt in the curious case of benjamin button. When she heard the director wanted her for the part, she was kind of in the middle of something. I was preparing for a garage sale because i was on my way to italy and i needed i wanted some spending money. I get a call and theyre like, david fin cher wants to me you, theyre like, when . Thats great tomorrow. Reporter during the garage day . I have to wait until monday because i have this kick ass sale. The goal point is 2990 miles. Reporter a year ago she starred in the critically acclaimed hidden figure. She played the real life katheryn johnson, a pioneering nasa mathematician. Katheryn johnson. I looked at her as being a quiet storm. I kept saying, oh, my god, you did all of this. Do you know what she kept saying . We. Yes, we did. We, us. She never said me by myself. So that made me really more in the sisterhood, the movie. In that time thats all we had. I wish we could go back to those times. Reporter the hollywood sister hood was out in force at last weeks golden globe award. Reporter what did you make of the night in particular and the movement more broadly . Whats happened over the last several months in hollywood. Now we have a dialogue. Now we have to frame the narrative. It doesnt stop with wearing black at the golden globes. That was a great statement. Where do we go from here . Reporter how does it change . Where do we go from here . There are ways to fight. This is not new to me. This is my career. My career is a fight to make things better for those coming behind me, you know . So thats how i change things, in my work, you know . Reporter you live it . I do. Im a natural born fighter. Reporter tarajis new movie proud mary is in theaters and empire is coming back. While she was at college at howard, she worked as a secretary at the pentagon and a singing dancing waitress on a cruise ship at night. She worked hard to get where she is. To hear her explain why her Big Personality sometimes got in the way of getting the parts she wanted check out our web extras at today. Com extras. Next sunday a sitdown with dane helen. We tried to impress her with a tea but she corrected us before we sat down. And dylan is back now with another look at the weather. Hey, dylan. Hey, willie. Biting wind chills. Clipper system producing moderate snow into the great lakes and tennessee valley. Into the middle of the week that snow will move eastward. A couple of flurries up and down the east coast on wednesday. Very cold temperatures in the great lakes. By the end of the week a bigger storm system moves into the you can expect another gray day across the bay area. San francisco right now, not really seeing too much fog but in other areas like concord and san jose, expect to see some of that Early Morning patchy fog. Santa rosa waking up to 46 degrees. San jose 46 degrees. Slightly warmer. We still have that system of High Pressure that has really been dominating the forecast this weekend. Were a little bit warmer in san jose at this hour than we were yesterday and our overall highs will be on the mild to warm side by the afternoon. And thats your latest forecast. Thank you, dylan. Dont go far. Next on sunday today dylan introduces us to the young doctor who has focused his time and tall lentsz on finding a cure for himself. An extraordinary fight for survival next. Somehow we always leave packing to the last minute. Time to break these bad boys out no i have a couple of things to wash we got this come on. Even on quick cycle, tide pods cleans great 6x the cleaning power, even in the quick cycle lets go did you just get up uhhuh its got to be tide from our cazy delicious family to yours. Crave those crazy squares for you, its always now over later. And pause. Not even in your vocabulary. So when a cold sore tingle strikes you act on it. Only abreva can heal a cold sore in as little as two and a half days when used at the first sign. It starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. Nothing heals a cold sore faster. And because abreva acts on it. You can too. Act on it, with abreva. Doctors spend their lives healing other people, but what happens when physicians become patients . Who do they trust with their own health and their own lives . And what if the only doctor can save you is you . Dylan shines our sunday spotlight on a young doctor whos now specializing in saving his own life. Dr. David saganbaum is in the fight of his own life to find a cure for an extremely rare disease. Its almost like a mix between an autoimmune disease and cancer. Its relentless. He is fighting to take the most Important Patient in his own life, himself. I said goodbye to my family and friends end of november and 2010. I had my last rites read to me all because my immune system was attacking my organs. The 32yearold doctor at the university of pennsylvania was always a picture of health. A former quarterback at georgetown university, he had never faced any serious medical issues. That all changed in july 2010. I went from being a healthy third Year Medical Student to being hospitalized in the intensive care unit with every organ failing, liver, kidney, bone marrow completely shut down. Gained 70 pounds of flute for liver and kidney failure. Didnt think i was going to survive. Intensive chemotherapy brought him back but two relapses followed. Did the doctors know at first that it was this disease . No. It took about 11 weeks to diagnose me. With very little known about the disease david took the treatments into his own hands. What i learned very quickly is though i now had a name for the thing they were trying to kill me, the medical community had such a poor understanding for how the disease works. His research led him to the university of arkansas. So david started here. He became very interested in the research. Together the two men started building a network looking for solutions, racing against time. When you have a deadly disease, you dont really want to waist time. We prioritize all the possible studies. We go into recruitment next. Despite the research, david continues to relapse. I turned to my sisters and my wife and i told them, i said, im going to dedicate the rest of my life, however long that might be, to trying to cure this disease. Blood works good . Blood works good. Of course, i kind of always good. With the disease that could come back at any moment, david became his own test subject. I started conducting Laboratory Research on my samples, going through all my medical data. I thought a drug had never been used for it before might work and i decided to try it on myself. It was a major break through. Hes now been in remission for four years. David said his perseverance was inspired by his mothers own battle with cancer. My mom was amazing, in not just finding Silver Linings in problems but also creating Silver Linings. To take a terrible situation and create something positive out of it. She instilled that in me. She lost herr battle with brain cancer. Davids battle continues. The drug that im on thats saving my life was now tried in a few other patients helping them. So were fighting with everything we have. Dylan, you look at some of those old pictures of some of him and how good he looks now. Is he totally healthy . Is he okay . It has been four years since his last relapse. Five relapses total. The good news now is he has enough data to take this to Clinical Trial and for everyone whos dealing with castle mans, this is the road to the cure that everybodys been looking for. I mean, hes hes the reason why. Thats the Extraordinary Part about it. It wasnt just curing himself, this is going to help a lot of other people. A disease nobody knows that much about. Very cool. Thanks so much. See you again in a minute. Next on sunday today the subterrainian australian town thats drawing visitors and residents from around the world. About 80 reside underground, 80 of the population. 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As you pull up the covers on another ice cold winter morning here in the United States, let your mind wander for a moment to a place in australia where its so warm theyve moved their lives underground. An entire bustling subterrainian community with all the comforts of a small town. In our sunday closer, nbcs sarah james takes us down under to a place you have to see to believe. Reporter the australian outback. Dry, desolate, and sometimes unforgiving. If you happen to find yourself out here, you might think youre the only one on earth, but thats not the case in coob coobep peedy. 500 miles from the nearest city, this town is home to around 2,000 people. In the summer temperatures soar to 115 degrees. Water is scarce. If youre a golfer, you get creative. Its strictly byot, thats bring your own turf, yet folks from some 40 Different Countries choose to call this mysterious little town home, and what unusual homes they are. How big is this . 45 feet. Reporter the indigenous name means white man in a hole, and with good reason. About 80 reside underground. 80 of the population. Reporter so when you say down under we mean down under literally. Reporter locals call them dugouts. They come in all shapes and sizes. Come on, complete with chandelier . No need for a heater or ac. Year round the temperature sits at a comfortable 65 to 75 degrees. So why go to such extremes . Many of the towns residents came here in search of treasure. It was a bit of the wild, wild west back in the day. Reporter how much were people making . Youd be looking in the millions. Reporter coober pedy is home to the greatest concentration of opal. A rare gemstones. George immigrated from greece. My biggest day was nearly 300,000. Reporter in one day . Yes. Reporter a pay day that has created a community unlike any other. Dugouts arent just limited to homes. Youll find a church, shops, even a beauty salon. This is my baby. Reporter tourism also helps drive the economy. This is living underground. Reporter so its no wonder coober pedy has its own underground hotel. How do you breathe . Theres a pipe that runs all the way to the top of the hill and thats how you get the air flow going through. If you didnt have that . There might be a bit of a problem. Reporter thank you. Helping to bring the air to the airbnb. Wow, this is beautiful. Thank you. Reporter this is not what people think of when they think of living underground. This is it. Reporter there are plans to expand, and its as simple as this. With some luck, this renovation may just pay for itself. Heres a shiny bit. Thats gypsum. Reporter thats not helpful . No. Reporter nub b newbie mista there are very few places where people live underground but this is one of them. Reporter a place where the color of the opal is as breathtaking as the landscape around it. For sunday today, sarah jane, coober pedy, australia. Guess were moving underground. Sarah, thank very much. This week we honor another life well lived. Anna may hastys. She joined the Army Nurse Corps and was sent to work in a jungle hospital in india where disease stricken Army Engineers were building a road into burma. An American Special operations units were staging attacks on the japanese. World war ii was the first of three wars general hays worked in. She stebd established a front line hospital in korea and was named chief during the korean war. She was promoted from kushl to one star Brigadier General making her the first woman ever to be a general in the United States military. At the ceremony general william west mooreland called her the first female general in the western world since joan of arc. Raised mostly in allentown, pennsylvania, as the daughter of Salvation Army workers, she became an advocate for women in the military ensuring, among other rights, that women could not be discharged for being pregnant. 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It is january 14th, 2018, and we want to give you a live look outside this morning to start your day. Thats the bay bridge from our camera in emeryville. Never get tired of these shots establishing here in the bay area. Just gorjsz views all around. Thank you so much for waking up with us. Im vic and nguyen alongside vianey. Shes looking at the microclimate and a series of storms heading our way. One last day before the rain really makes its way in. Start dusting off the umbrella and all the rain boots and dont wash your care because youll be fairly disappointed. Look at the south bay. Cant even see it. You cant see anything. Thats actually a live camera. The fog is so dense in that