A fale teacher accused of helping the Inmates Escape from a maximum security jail. A new twist strikingly familiar to the new yk prison break. And making a splash. Michael phelps shows up at a College Basketball game to try and distract a freethrow shooter. Did the speedo do the trick . Today, friday, january 29th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, thth is today with matatlauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Go morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside willie geist, in for matt this morning. My Remote Control working overtime last night. My last button on the tv was used a lot last night. Well see if this paid off that is o top story this morning. Donald trump going through on his promise to skip the last nights president ial debate, but his presence was felt early and often. At his own event, trump admitted he w wnt sure how it woululplay overerith voters. We have our own nbcs correspondent peter alexander. Peter, good morning. Good morning. I think you hit it on the head right there. It was compelling counterprogramming. It was also a big risk for donald trump. On stage, he said he didnt want toe at his own event, that he likes debates. But without hihi the Republican Debate took on a decidedly different tone. Think of me reporter as fox put it, he was the elephant not in the room. Trump boldly boycotting the fox news debate. When youre treated badly, you have to stick up for your rights. And we have to stick up for our cotry when were beingng mistreated. Remember that. Reporter defying critics who inviting two underdog candidates to speak. Trump comparing the crowd and his fundraiser to the academy awards. Touting 6 million raised. Across town, t tmps absence gave opponents an opening to deliver their best oneliners. Im a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And, ben, youre a terrible surgeon. Now that weve gotten the donald trump portion out of the way. I kind of miss donald trump. He was a teddy bear to me. Reporter the debate offered a glimpse into what the campaign may have looked like without the unpredictable front runner. Ted cruz, number two on the polls, became number one t tget on the stage. Youve been willing to say and do anything to get votes. And thats an ahenticity problem. Everybody knows that he isisot as perfect as him. The last four questions have been, rand, attack ted. Chris, attack ted. Je attack ted. Gosh, if you ask one more mean questiononi may have to leave e the e age. Reporter after jeb bush announced he wont even be in iowa for caucus night. Couldnt run because it wasnt popular. Reporter he exchanged barbs over hit issues wiwi marco bio. You changed your position on immigration. You used to support a path to citizenship. So did you. Well so did you, marco. Reporter while Chris Christie lashed out at the senators on stage. I feel like i need a washington to enenish dictionary converter. Stop the bull. Reporter ben carson highlighted his unique credentials. Ive had more 2 00 a. M. Phone calls than everybody here put together, making life and deatat decisions. Reporter even as the challengers kept talking, donald trump was already on his way back to new hampshire. Not before suggesting his secret w wpon. Ivanka, it would be so great if you had your daughtete in iowa. It would be great. I would definitely win. Stand up, honey. Say hello. How will it play for trump . Iowa caucus goers, will they be offended or stick with trump . Those caucus goers have the final say monday night. Willie and savannah . Peter alexander, thank you. Leles bring in chuck todd, moderator of meet the press. Good morning. Good morning. Normally at this time in the morning, i would ask who won the debate. Today, ill say, who won the night . Did trumps big gamble pay off . You know, i think it did. The reason i think it paid off, because nobody on that debate stage was able to take advantage of the moment. I was surprised at how little beef that trump got on that stage. That was an opportunity for a couple of the front runners to come out and go at trump. He wasnt there to respond other than the stuff at the top, it was a light touch. If youre trump, youre sitting here going, well, this was great. Ted cruz and marar rubio, the two guys chasisi me, ended up beating each other up, and were the targets of everybody else. One thing i noticeceis without trump there, three people who trump has just obliterated over the last six months in attacks, ben carson, jeb bush and rand paul, all three of them had their best debate. Chuck, people thought ted cruz specifically, because hes running close with trump in iowa, would have a target on his back. How did he handle the pressure last night . I think he struggled with it early, in particular. He was the one getting a lot of incocong. I think you could tell he liked sharing that with donald trump, without trump there. I thought he looked a little testy at times. His jokes fell a little flat. His little tweaking of the moderators didnt seem to go over well. Look, i think hes still the guy that is the number two guy here, think, to go and grab trump. Maybe even come out on top. If anything, rubio may be nipping at his heels a bit. This may be a closererhreeway race than we thought. Chuck todd, well be watching. Youll have more from iowa this sunday on meet the press, including a conversation with senator ted cruz. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders are making their final pushes ahead of iowas caucuses. Cs Andrea Mitchell is also in des moines, iowa for us this morning. Good morning, willie. The democratic side is also heating up. Bernie sanders goes after Hillary Clinton for her fundraising and whatate calls her ties to wall street. Reporter Bernie Sanders is on the attack. Speaking to another roaring crowd in iowa thursday night. Change is not easy, and the opposition will be strong. Reporter hes targeting wall street in a new ad. How does wall street get away with it . Contributions and speaking fees. Eporter ads seen as an attack on Hillary Clinton. Wall street spends huge amounts on campaign contributions. Is she bought by wall street . Im not suggesting anything. Reporter with three days to go before the caucuses, clinton is trying to close the deal, winning over a former trump supporter. You have my vote. I cannot tell you what that means to me. Reporter connecting with one voter whwhis having trouble paying her bills. We have got to do more to help people. Its just not right. Reporter in iowa, one new poll shows she has a five point lead, with wen and older voters throwing their support behind her. Sanders is hoping young people and a growing organization will help him win on monday we have 15,000 people in thth state that have volunteered at least one shift a day. Reporter clintons people say their ground game is secure. Weve seen strong support across the state. Reporter at 74, sanders would be the oldest elected president if he wins. Medical report, asserting he is in very good health. You know what im thinking to do . Not with me. Do i get involved in senior boxing, light heavyweight championship, or run for president . I decided to run for president. The one thing our new poll shows is that Hillary Clinton has one advantage. Her supporters tend to be more experienced caucus goers and more committed. Bernie sanders has to hope that these firsttime voters do show up at the polls. Only three days to go. Savannah and willie . Andrea, watch out. He is going to box you. You will punch back. You have the hand moves. Nice technique, andrea. Thank you, willie. We are taking the show live to iowa next monday. We can tel you d dald joining us during the special edition of today. Moving,on to the ongoing occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in oregon. The fbi has just released video of this weeks Fatal Shooting of the groups spokesperson. Nbcs joe fryer is onhis story for us. Good morning. Good morning. The occupation is still not over. Four people remain at the refuge. The fbi already releasing video from tuesdays deadly confrontation with the occupations leaders, saying it wants to lay out aunfiltered view of what hapned. Reporter when authorities decided to pull over and arrest members of the occupation as they drove two vehicles down a remote highway, an fbi plane was up above, recording it all. The video shows a white truck driven by Lavoy Finicum sitting idle for nearly four minutes. During that time, the fbi says agent and state troopers were telling the occupants to surrender. Instead, the truck drove on. One minute later, it veered left to avoid a roadblock, nearly hitting an agent. At first. The fbi says on at least two occasions, he reached his right hand toward a jacket pocket. Thats when finicum was shot and killed. Authorities say he had a loaoad semiautomatic handgun in the pocket. As the video shows, it was a reckless action that resulted in the consequences. Reporter finicums supporters think he was not reaching for his gun. Three weeks earlier, the arizona rancher said hed rather die than go to jail. I iave no intention of spending any of my days in a concrete box. Reporter during the confrontatn, five occupiers were arrested, including the leader, ammon bundy, whose lawyer is calling for the rest to turn themselves . The message has been made. Reporter the armed occupation is dwindling with four militants left. In videos posted online, theyre dancing, saying theyll only lelee if theyre not arrested. Telling us, its safe to leave, but its not. Roadblocks have moved closer to the refuge. The fbi says negotiators are working around the clock to try to bring this to a peaceful resolution. Joe fryer, thank you. Now to a Major Development overnight in the manhunt for three fugitives who escaped from a maximum security jail in california. A woman who worked as a teacher at the facility arrested and accused of helping thehe heres nbcs miguel almaguer. Reporter the three inmates cut through the steel and repelled off the roof using bed sheets as rope. A jailbreak out of hollywood. It is believed that ravaghi has been arrested and believed she provided tools that aided in their preparation for the escape. Reporter the Sheriffs Department said the english teacher had a relationship with nayeri. Providinhim with google maps that m have shown him the roof. A case similar to the upstate new york prison break. I did wrong. I deserve to be punished. Reporter where prison employee Joyce Mitchell admitted to having a, quote, friendship withwo murderers before helping them bust out of prison. We know there was a relationship that developed. How far it went, whether it was physical or not, were trying to cereal with the trix rabbit. Now, a real bunny is going to be on the cereal box, to show a switch to natural ingredients. Cute bunny. A cold snap left car brakes useless. The wheels were spinning as drivers tried to navigate the hill. It was an ice risk. Amazingly, no accidents at the junction, despite the ice, according to local news sites. Crazy stuff. Lets get a check of the weather from al. T tt bus was unbelievable. Unreal. Wow. Thanks, nat. Heres what we have for your weekend outlook. Beautiful weather along the eastern seaboard. Temperatures getting a little more mild. Look for more snow making its way into the inner mountain region. We have showers in central california. Sunday, sunday, big storm coming on shore will bring a lot of wet weather to southern california, into the southwest. Icy mix through the southwest. Eventually making its way to the rain abound thereat lakes. Sunny skies and warmer conditions. Above normal temperatures for new england to the gulf coast and central plains. We are tracking a quick movovng low pressure system with a cold front on sunday that could produce some rain showers changing to snow. There could be minor accumulations of snow in the afternoon so that is something we will continue to track. As far as that winter storm. It is still on track to bring heavy snow to the thats your latest weather. Willie, i should mention if you go to facebook. Com todays take, go to the sweepstakes page. Our prize for today, a 500 kmart gift card. Great. Likeeus. Register to n. Im going to like us right now for 500 at kmart, al. Final installment in our series, chill out. Today, we have gadadts to keep you warm. Theres something for your dog. We have the hososof a podcast, here with your favorites. Lets start off with this awesome scarf. Which is in the microwave. Go ahead and pull it out. Heated it up for a minute. Its great for relaxation, tension. Feels good. 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You make it and, boom, itll be done. Great. Now youre going t brown up some whatever your protein is going to be. You do that. Frozen vegetables. Whatever youve got, youll put those in. All right . Throw that in. Can of this is easy, al. It is. Saute that. While this is cooking down, youre going to make your kind of a gravy. Takeke nice, dark beer, like a guinness, and throw it in. Of bouion. Put8that in. In the meantime, take a little water and cornstarch and make a slurry, to thicken this up. All right . Then youre going to mix, of course, the bobollon, which will be dissolved. Put it all together. Eventually, thatll cook down. You put it into a casserole, any casserole. Then youre going to take your mashed potatoes. Youre going to s son them on top. So good. So delicious. I could scoop it out like that. And add the cheese, right . Cheese on top. Everything is alreaea cooked. Right. You dont worry about too much. Little smoked paprika on there. Cool. I put it on everything. Little spice. Spread on more cheese. I told our kitchen folk id like a lot more cheese. Kitchen folk. Theyre like the woodland creatures. Our kitchen folk. Youre going to take this, put it in the oven, brown it up. For the last minute, youre going to put it on the broiler, just to brown ititp a bit. There you have it. This is the perfect winter food. It is. Right . Comfort food at best. Cheese, potatoes, protein, all the food groups in there. This is like, you should be at home withh this. We should pack it up and go home. There you go. Leftovers are good, too. Exactly. Patron state of food. Thanknkou very much. You can find this recipe at today. Com food. Also, a shoutout to andrea, one of our standout food club members this s ek. Coming up next, lets get ready to laugh. We have a good buddy, len,he world of hilarious sports, spanning the world after these see me. See me. Dont stare at me. See me. See me. See me to know that psoriasis is just sothing that i have. Im m t contagious. 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Its not easy to afford them. What did marco rubio do . He put 22,000 in personal expenses on a Republican Party credit card. Rubios bad judgment caused a scandal and for five years rubio refused to release the credit card records. Marco rubio skipping major votes. All over the place on immigration. Bad judgment. Marco rubio just too many questions. Right to rise usa