Spacex rocket launches from the Kennedy Space center for the first time that helped sebnd th apollo astronauts in orbit. We will bring it to you live. Today, saturday, february 18th, 2017. Hello from virginia. Hi joshua. Hello happy birthday. Happy anniversary hi, nana. Were celebrating our birthday with the today show. Hi from miami. 25th anniversary. Good morning. Welcome back to today on this saturday morning. Our crowd on the plaza joining us to say hi. Im Sheinelle Jones alongside craig melvin. They make me happy. We will get out on the plaza in a bit. Out west, up to 10 inches. The powerful pacific storm affecting millions of americans out west. Steve patterson is live this mortgage. Reporter good morning, craig and sheinelle. This is the most powerful storm to hit Southern California in years for good reason. First of all, the rainfall has been absolutely incredible. More rainfall in some places in one day than those areas would get in one month. What does that mean . It means flash flooding, absolutely everywhere. Washed out roads causing dozens of accidents. In one case, rescue crews found a man submerged in flood waters. Pronounced dead on the scene. The wind has been just as bad. Wind gusts up to 80 miles an hour. In some cases, toppling trees and landing on power lines. The power lines arcing and sparking. In one case, a tree land oed on top of a car which killed a 55yearold man. About 150 calls for downed power lines last night. About 150,000 customers without power in the los angeles area. Mudslides also a major problem. Nearly 200 homes in the hillside communities thought to be in the red zone or the threat zone. That situation will only get worse after the storm ends because the rainfall saturated so much of the land here. The mudslides will be more likely. Back out here live, we have been watching the incredible situation. Crews pulling cars from the massive sinkhole that swallowed two cars. Because of a miraculous rescue, nobody was hurt. The full power of the storm has been on display and we are nowhere near over with it at this point. More rainfall expected today and another system moves through early next week. Craig and sheinelle. Steve, thank you. Indra is standing by with a deeper look at this thing. When can they look at relief . It is not just this storm, but another one behind it. The ground is saturated here. 22 Million People with the risk and flood treat. The greatest threat in the burn areas. Anything where the water is coming down. Here is the first storm. This is the last 12 hours. You are talking about 2 to 6 inches of rain in the coastal sections. In the foothills, up to 10 inches of rainfall. Now you have the second storm making its way in. There is going to be a difference with the first storm and second storm. That is where the focus is. Remember the river . The Atmospheric River . That is pointed at northern california. Especially out toward San Francisco. The next system makes its way in tomorrow. You are barely getting relief. Heavy rainfall making its way through oroville. Southern california, scattered showers with the Second System. Remember, the winds gusting 76 miles per hour. Powerful storm still in the area. Meanwhile, the Second System focusing on northern california. Craig. Thank you, indra. A look at other headlines we are following this morning starting with the president and Vice President on the road. Vice president pence at the Munich Security Conference trying to calm allies about the american support. He said the u. S. Is unwaivering in the commitment to nato. The president is touring a boeing plant in south carolina. Promising workers he would return jobs across the nation. He is now in florida to hold a campaignstyle rally. A new development in the suspicious death of the half brother of north korea leader he. The north korea man arrested in malaysia for what is called the assassination of kim jongnam. The estranged half brother of kim jongun. Said he was sprayed with a chemical at the airport. And now to the exciting countdown in florida. The launch of the spacex rocket planned to liftoff in the next few hours. Kerry sanders live at the Kennedy Space center. Kerry, good morning. Reporter good morning. The countdown is under way, sheinelle. Tminus 1 54. 38. The engineers had been concerned that the liftoff was an issue with the helium leak. They have plugged that up. Based on the weather, there is a 70 chance of liftoff. The falcon 9 rocket poised for st take off from pad 39 a. Where the rockets have launched and shuttle missions. Liftoff. Reporter a private company spacex is now using this pad adds a nostalgic weight of getting it right. How do you feel . Very high anxiety. Worse for this particular one. Falcon 9 off pad 39a. Historical mission. Its nerve wracking. Reporter Gwen Shotwell is the president of spacex. What does this make you think of . I remember being a little girl. My father sitting me in front of the tell e my father sitting me in front of the tell vision screen. Back and white. I saw astronauts land on the moon. Reporter she and spacex founder elon musk hope to inspire similar feelings for another generation when spacex lands on mars. Target date . Only 16 to 20 years from now. You know, spacex, everybody told us we would never get to orbit. With a little rocket, we did that. We would never get to the International Space station. We did that. Mars . Absolutely. Reporter another tricky part to the liftoff. That is after it lifts off and the top goes away. Then the lower part, the lower stage will come back toreuse it. It is like bringing a pencil back down to earth and try to land it on something that is the size of a dinner plate. If they can capture the lower stage, again, that means they can then reuse it. Thats all part of the economics that they believe will eventually allow them to head to mars. Amazing. Amazing. Kerry, i will never look at my pen the same way. Amazing college professor. Kerry, thank you. We have a milestone in migration to show you this morning. Check this out. Officials in argentina say this is the largest gathering ever seen of the south american penguins. More than 1 million have gathered on the peninsula ready to migrate. The large numbers are because of an unusually large supply of fish in surrounding waters. 1 million. Wow. Lets go to indra. She is outside with another check of the weather. Good morning. If you were celebrating your 25th wedding anniversary, where would you go . New york city . Dallas, texas. Go longhorns. Are you enjoying the weather . Yes. Big plans . What are you doing for the big day . Were going to walk around. Enjoy the city. Cant complain. Perfect weather. Look at the temperatures. Remember, it is february. Seriously . Temperatures are 25 to 30 degrees above average. Chicago, hello. 64 degrees today on a saturday. We are loving that. Detroit at 61. Cincinnati coming in at 61. By the way, this heat is hanging on for the weekend. We love that. New york city at 64. All of us not complaining. Especially when you celebrate birthday 40th and 13th. What are you doing . We are s good morning. If youre just now waking up were seeing 50s across the board. San francisco, 53. Palo alto 54 but seeing scattered showers and pretty breezy to windy conditions as well. San francisco, seeing winds of about 20plus miles per hour. Half moon bay at about 30 and the south bay lighter at 15 miles per hour. We will expect to see those scattered showers as that latest storm begins to make an exit east. Seeing a few scattered showers in the north bay and parts of the south bay as well. All right. You guys are all from miami. Does it feel like miami today . Theyre excited. Back to you. Thank you. 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The jacket is funded by kick starter. Hopefully it will get enough attention to make it on to the shelves. Would you wear it . Brilliant. Yes. Yes. Walk on like this. This is what i do in the field. I wear my snow gear and anything to not check a bag. Why are you making that face . Clearly you dont have a packing problem. You would spend money . Yes. Yes. When you get to your destination and you dont get your luggage. You will walk around . I already pack a mini suitcase in my suitcase. You dont have to wear it. Look at the size. It is stylish. Nothing stylish. Sign me up. You dont have to fit in the thing. College fees. Seem to rise every year. Did you know that one year of under graduate work at new york university, 66,000. It can cost 66,000. Steep. That is why the school is offering a way to ease the financial burden by letting students graduate faster. Acceleration program will help students graduate in three years instead of four. It does it by increasing the number of twocredit courses it offers and allows students to transfer more credits from other schools. Think other schools follow suit . I hope so. I enjoyed the fouryear experience. I would not trade that extra year. For 66,000. My kid would come out in two years. Kids dont agree. I dont think four years of my college cost that much money. Its a lot. Did you come out in four years . I did and went back. I finished in three. I stayed the fourth and had fun. Sorry, mom and dad. It is actually loans. You didnt have to go the fourth . You have to have a life. Physics. Fourth year of business. You sound smart. Lets get to pop start. We have a good pop start. Starting with the big weekend for new orleans. The city is playing host to the nba allstar weekend. Stars hit the court going toetotoe with basketball players and legends for the 2017 allstar celebrity game. Andy grammar played for team west. As for what people are talking about today. We have coach dj khaled. Dancing during the game and mannequin challenge in there and there was mark cubans not so subtle way of getting trumps attention with the jersey number 44. Just going to stay out of that one. For the winner, bragging rights go to the east. Now moving on. Earlier in the week, we told you about a tenminute love sequel works. He follows his love to the airport to profess his love for her. It looks like things worked out. You are looking at the all grown up couple right there. With sams on screen dad liam neeson. I love this. Look at the side by side. First of all, lee iam hasnt ag. You are thinking ten minutes for a sequel doesnt sound a lot. It will squeeze in hugh grant and keira knightley. Lets talk jessica biel. Just like us, she understands the multitasking that comes along with being a mom. She stopped by the tonight show this week and confessed to eating in the shower. Her 22monthold son keeps her so busy. She has two words for it. Mom life. I feed him in the morning. Trying to get ready. I realize i have not eaten. It is a huge success. Sometimes it is a huge failure. It doesnt work with cereal. It does. If you get a little water in the milk, not a big deal. What is tough is a sandwich. Thats hard. It can be sausage works great. I feel you. Especially this morning. That is your popstart. Thats funny. Just like us, but hotter. Sounds like she and j. T. Need to step it up. Still ahead, the ultimate grocery bagging championship. We he go headtohead in our alcohol to s challenge to see which of us is the better bagger. That is ahead her still to come on today from furniture to Home Appliances. Should you buy now or announcer vo when you have type 2 diabetes, theres a moment of truth. And now with victoza® a better moment of proof. Victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill, which didnt get me to my goal. Lowers my a1c better than the leading branded injectable. The one i used to take. 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We are still under a microclimate weather alert, mainly because any little bit of rain can make slick Road Conditions and weve already seen so much rain with the reservoirs and lake levels we still want to keep a close eye. In oakland, seeing a few scattered showers. 53 degrees. The storm system is expected to finally make its exit east within the next couple of hours giving you a nice break. Kira mentioned, to enjoy outside. Probably still muddy out there. Temps not bad either. Waking up to 50s across the area. San jose 52. We are still seeing breezy to windy conditions as well, and heres a live look now at that doppler radar. We can actually see that storm system kind of breaking apart moving east, and still with it leaving those scattered showers and we are expecting the scattered showers to stick around through the Early Morning hours before it finally makes its exit. You can see, los gatos area, moderate to heavy downpours out there. Vianey, thanks. That storm had downed power lines and trees in the south bay, and once again this morning we are keeping a close eye on the rise be waters of the anderson reservoir. This is what it looked like late last night. Gushing water at the bottom of the anderson dam. This is from the relief valve for the reservoir, nearing 100 capacity. Its only six inches from flowing over the spillway for the first time in 11 years which could mean flooding in nearby creeks. Out here about 26, 28 years ago, when the spillway first went over. We came out here and it looked like niagara falls. Wow. The latest storm is toppling trees throughout the south bay like this one on south park lane in santa clara. It was a close call. Very happy that it fell to the street, because my bedroom is right there, and my partner was still in bed when it fell. So it could have been a disaster situation. And in capitola, this massive eucalyptus went crashing down on park avenue blocking traffic and further north in socal another tree snapping power lines hitting a house and crushing this pickup. Fortunately, no one was hurt. Despite the fact that the storms continue, california state water officials feel confident that the spillways at the oroville dam will hold. They say water continues to be released and that right now the lake is about 40 feet below the overflow height. Lets be clear. The things were dealing with are very serious and thats why ive continued to say time and time again that this is still an emergency situation. Crews have been working nonstop in this rain to ensure the damage to the oroville spillway remains stable. Coming up at 7 00 on today in the bay, people are getting hit by blow darts on south bay streets. What restaurants and neighbors are saying about these serious attacks. That plus all your top stories and weather, of course, coming up at 7 00. We really hope you join us. Right now well send you back to the today show. Ive been losing sleep dreaming about the things we could be we are back on this saturday morning, february 18th, 2017. On the plaza. A lovely crowd. Thanks for joining us. They are so polite. We will explain why indra is wearing a jersey. Still to come, bringing the grocery bagging championship right here to studio 1a. We go headtohead to see who is the better bagger. Indra will referee. Hence the outfit. Ill take you to the place with big dreams of small kids moving closer to reality. And buy now or wait for later . We will give you an update on the sales. And a hardy beef stew. That recipe with our chef in the kitchen. Lets get a check of the forecast. It is nice out here. Not as nice as mississippi. You want to say hi, mom . Hello, mom. And check this out. From portugal. By the way, they are in the 513. Ohio . I got it. Look outside. Ill show you what the weather is expected to look like. We are talking about storms out to the west. Still another series of storms making its way through. A couple of showers in the gulf. In the northeast, a possible recordbreaking heat in toward chicago. Looking for the mid to upper 60s. Today and also through tomorrow. Another system in the west by tomorrow. The first system will make its way around the gulf coast. Texas will look for the threat for sectiovere weather. We have an 18th birthday. This is my hubby asking me for a date. Good morning. We are still under a microclimate weather alert. Because we are still seeing a few scattered showers left over from that storm that brought all of that rain across the bay area, and also Southern California. Heres a live look right now at that doppler radar. We can see it starting to break up. Livermore seeing rain areas near the south bay as well. San francisco, kind of seeing that rain clear out within the next half hour and will see the rain begin to move east making way for partly cloudy skies and a pretty mild day across the bay area. All right. Thats the look at the big picture. I said what . You look great. Im preparing mentally for this ultimate championship. For the fast and furious of the grocery kind. First, Nbcs Joe Fryer has the story. Reporter most Grocery Stores follow a familiar rhythm. A predictable beep of beeps building to a paper bag crescendo. At the metro market in seattles magnolia neighborhood. Talia randall sets a different tone. At 17 years old, she is washington states fast bagger. It is always nice being good at things. Even if it is weird. When you started working here, could you imagine state bagging championship . I did not know that is a thing. Get set. Reporter it is a thing. Grocery baggers compete to see who does it fast. The store manager is talias mentor. I did not know there was a bagging competition. If i did, i would have been in it. I was fast and furious. I was competitive. Glenn coached four state champions and two national champions. Two hands. Pull. Reporter thats right. Talia is training for the u. S. Title. Last two. 44. 73. Nicely done. Reporter not just about speed. Baggers are judged on weight distribution. Bags should weigh about the same and structure. You want to see things that will break on top. The structure, you want to build from the outside in. Do you think talia can win the National Title . I dont want to jinx it. I do. Reporter with the atmosphere of a payperview fight, baggers descended upon the Grocer Association show in las vegas. Lets get ready to bag reporter the competitors hailed from 23 states. Ha ohios brady long. After last year, withhat wase goal . Talia took the stage. She packed up all 37 scoring the best time in her heat. When all the scores were tallied, she missed making the finals. She had to watch as five others competed. A flurry of arms and food, boxes and cans. When it was all over. Brady long. Reporter we deposition fred bagger from ohio. Top of the line. Reporter as for talia sdplchlt. I have to come back. Reporter with more experience, the next title may be in the bag. For today, joe fryer, nbc news. You didnt think we would let them have all of the fun. I dont know what this will do. You didnt think our producers would let them have the snun. No, of course not. Who is the better bagger . Sheinelle jones for craig melvin . Indra is here to judge. To be clear dont point at me. You didnt bag before . No. I worked with babies. Judged on speed and proper bag building technique. We need distribution of weight, style, attitude and appearance. All right. Ready for me to win . You have 45 seconds to fill your bags and make it to the check out. On your marks. Get set. Bag bagging. Dont you cheat, sheinelle. Dont you cheat. Remember, placement. Attitude. Look at this. Weight distribution. I feel like speed. Do we have the time . 27 seconds. This is harder than it looks. Remember, you have to carry this stuff home. Im going to separate. Go. 16. Keep moving. A lot of bags. I can only carry so many at a time. Are you heckling . Yes. Five, four no, no, no three, two, one stop bagging all right. Let me see. This is difficult. I just have two. Ill start with craig. He has two. We are not supposed to put glasglas glass items next to each other. They break. Clang. We have bread on top. Cans on the bottom. I saw two starbucks glasses next to each other. Sheinelle, this is beautiful. You have three items in one bag. Literally three items. Very hard to carry here. Also three items. One of them being this small. Im sure that could fit right there. And then shes heckling us. Sheinelle, she packed this one perfectly. Then two extras. Who wins . Ill give it to sheinelle. She has one perfect bag. Craig, attitude. She is smiling. She is always smiling. Thank you. It is fun. Yeah. Sheinelle jones. Her winning streak continues. Up next, sheinelle will take us to a place my gosh. Victory lap. She will take us to a place thats making broadway dreams come true. A program thats bringing children from all walks of life one step closer to center stage. You know why . Cheating takes a lot of effort. But first these messages. avo did you know two areas of your brain can make it hard to lose weight . Contrave is an fdaapproved weightloss medicine that may help adults who are overweight or struggle with obesity lose weight and keep it off. Contrave is believed to work on two areas of the brain your hunger center. woman im so hungry. avo to reduce hunger. And your reward system. woman ice cream. French fries. avo to help control cravings. Across three longterm studies, contrave patients lost approximately 24x more weight than with diet and exercise alone. Contrave is not for everyone. 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That is exactly what happened to adorab adorable alyssadra. Under study in if the fun home. Now playing the same role in the national tour. I am going to be really excited. I will be playing small allison. It has been my dream. I am excited to get to pursue it. One day, ru walking down the street in the fifth grade. The next day, you are the fifth grader starring in a broadway show. The mission goes beyond singing. Students practice acting. Up next, a stage combat class. I want to play, i will put my shoes on. And hit. Did it hurt . I dont know. They venture outside of the classroom to experience a real broadway show. They had a chance to see waitres waitress, now, jessie is here, answering their questions as they soak up her every word. When did you feel you were perfectly connected to jenna . Moussically first. How they reacted when you walked out. You are it is crazy to me. You are a rock star. A nice ego booster. When someone comes from broadway, starts talking to me as an individual, it makes me feel it is that much closer. And they care about people who are up and coming. Being here with the kids, it was a reminder of the magic of it. You do Something Like this you remember that it is magic to someone. Within the workshop, there is a scholarship program, to help families pay for everything. It is called broadway workshop. This is fantastic. There are kids around the country, otherwise wouldnt have access to these kintds of things. Exposure. You only have a few weeks to catch Jessie Mueller in waitress. The shows composure is going to take over the lead role. If you want to find out more, my kid can sing. Visit broadway workshop. Com. Big sales. Should you spend now or save for later . Sara is here to break it down for you. First, this is today on c. Nb me. This is one of our favorite games on saturday morning. Lets begin. Lets do it. Lets start with furniture. Commercials galore. Buy now . Wait later . I would say buy now. You are absolutely correct. There is a slight caveat. Here is the thing. Furniture manufacturers release models two times a year. Beginning of february and early august. The good news for us consumers, if you walk into a furniture store, you will see last years models on sale. There may be less inventory, you will make up for that in savings. You cannot tell between models with furniture. It is not like clothes. Im trying to redeem myself after the grocery. Spring cleaning tools. I imagine the folks who sell these tools would want to jack up the prices. I say wait. You are 100 correct. A few reasons for this. Spring cleaning is not called Spring Cleaning for nothing. I recommend waiting on things like Home Organization items and vacuums. Wait for the warmer weather. The Companies Know that household enthusiasts and families do a deep clean twice a year. Spring cleaning is the biggest. They know that cheaper prices sell more products. You will see them marking dow y down items. Last year, we saw data conclude big names like dyson and hoover discount up to 40 off. Home appliances here. Buy now. Wait later. Ill use the same longer. Wait. Ill have to tell you you are wrong. I hate to say it. The thing with Home Appliances. Lets say you entertain and your appliances have seen better days. It is isa great time to upgrade. A lot of stores are trying to clear inventory. They need to get ready for summer. What they do is discounting to sell. The other thing about Home Appliances for viewers in maryland, actually, energy star is actually offering taxfree weekend this weekend. Taxfree on big appliances. And Winter Weather here. This is luggage. Buy now. Wait later. Buy now. You are right. March is considered shoulder season. Late february or march. Not a lot of travellers. Holidays have passed. Summer vacations have not started. They need to sell product. You will see up to 80 off. Not bad. Sara, thank you. 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Right. You had a focus plate of food that made a lot of sense. I could see exactly why you put the sweetness of the blackberry puree with chicken liver. It did not have the tartness. Thats what you love about the blackberry. It really was just sweet. You are tough. They always show the clips of me that make people cry. It is the drama. It is. In the finale, the next two weeks in a row. It is exciting season. Now im going to be the judge. Im kidding. I deserve it. The hardy beef stew. Perfect for a weekend meal to hunker down and get cozy. I have beef chuck with salt and pepper. Thats it . Thats it. Olive oil in the pan. Browning on all sides. Simple. Can i show you what you mean . Yes. The beef chuck. Shallots, carrots, dill, salt and pepper and stock and olive oil. You brown your meat on all sides. Add stock to cover it. Store bought . Absolutely. And then shallots. It gives it a beautiful sweetness. Is it horrible i never took with shallots . There is a whole list of ingredients you never worked with. Thank you. Cover it and simmer for an hour and a half. We are raging over here. Simmer it and take it down. Add carrots for 10 to 12 minutes. Then all of the fresh ingredients. Spinach, peas and lots of dill. I never thought about dill. One of my favorite herbs. I use it on salmon. I love it with beef. You will see. When he it its done, it looks this. Serve it up. Perfect for flu season. It is cold outside and bright. System, gail. Really simple. It is always delicious. The best thing is it is better the next day. Make a big batch. This is a food wine recipe i love. Why that beef . It braises really well. It falls apart. You put it in the pot, do you cook it all the way . You want to brown it and simmer it. That is the braise. The long cook to simmer up. I made a salad. Toasted hazelnut salad. It is also a recipe. You toast it . Toast them for five minutes and rub them in a towel. Now you know. Chop them up. It brings flavor to the salad. It goes well with the beets. The beets are raw. Slice thinly. Eat raw. Healthy. You win my competition. Thank you. The dill sets it apart. Very good. Thank you. Thanks for joining us. You can watch top chef on bravo. If you like the recipe, go to today. Com food. That does it for us on a saturday morning. Tomorrow on sunday today, willie sits down with the king of movie comedy. Judd apatow. Enjoy your weekend, everyone. We will continue eating. Good mo. Cong up next,n today in e bay. Live another ound rain hits thebay aney arana says well catca bit of a break to start th good morning, im kira klapper. Another round of rain hits the bay area. Vianey arana says well catch a built of a break for the weekend but another storm son the way. Plus a gunman shooting at homes and police. Why his neighbor thinks she was the target of his anger. Also, people randomly shot by darts on south bay streets. Why the attacker could get away with these crimes. When you find something worth waiting for, well help you invest to protect it for the future. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase, so you can. Good saturday morning to you. It is 6 59 and heres a live look outside in san jose. Lots of water on the road there, and thats happening across the bay area. We hope youre going to be safe if youre headed out on the roads this morning. Theyre still slick, but a break is on the way on this saturday. Thanks so much for joining us. Im kira klapper. Vianey arana has a look at our microclimate forecast. Under a microclimate alert, but you say today is a small great lake to enjoy . Yes. Even though were under a microclimate alert, mainly dawe of weeb seeing a lot of ponding water, soggy roads, and still seeing a lot of the lakes and rivers kind of gushing right now with water, but we are seeing the last of that storm system kind of make its way east, which means its leaving behind overcast skies. Some areas a chance of scotte d scattered showers but breaking apart as we speak. In the next few hours, seeing peeks of sunshine. East bay, 54. North bay 50. Not necessarily cold on this saturday morning, but heres a live look at that radar. Over the past two hours. If we kind of zoom in, you can actually see the majority of that storm move off the east to the north bay not really seeing too much rain right now, and if we kind of move towards the south bay and San Francisco area, still seeing a few spotty showers here and there and still seeing moderate downpours near monterey and, of course, further down nea