Rains batter the northwest overnight, with more to come, while in the atlantic, hurricane nicole roars across bermuda leaving behind major flooding. Better safe than sorry. Airlines stocking up on fire containment bags in case phones or laptops overheat, as samsung admits its note 7 failure will cost the company more than 3 billion. And jawdropping scare. Break in to a shark cage. Before wiggling its way out. But get this a diver was inside, and hes going to need a new cage. Probably a new wet suit today, friday, october 14th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from and good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Remember that shark diving segment i wanted to do . Forget it. You said he needs a new cage, a new wet suit. I think he needs a new hobby. All right . Because that is terrifying. Thats unbelievable. Well explain more about what happened in that videotape later in the show. Lets start though on this friday m
Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im dara brown. In the war on terror, a new enemy and a new face of evil. He is muhsin al fadhli, he is the boss of khorasan. The terror squad that is small, just under 50 soldiers, but their specialty is so frightening it has the u. S. Worried. Heres Nbcs Richard Engel. Reporter its a crowded battlefield in syria with dozens, perhaps hundreds of extremist groups drawing members from across the world. They fight against the assad regime and against each other. The Khorasan Group is just one of them. Its a Splinter Group of al qaeda which moved to syria to locate and recruit westerners among the thousands of foreign fighters in the country. The Khorasan Group is considered a threat to the u. S. Because american intelligence Officials Say it wants to bring down airplanes with explosives, a traditional al qaeda objective. The groups leader is this man, muhsin al fadhli, age 33, born in kuait. He ran al quaedas cell in iran, reportedly fought in a
Combined. American women are among the leaders going into the final legs of the skeleton competition. Katie and nicole start the day in second and fourth. Meanwhile, american speed skaters are looking for answers after a spring of disappointing performances. The wall street journal reports they may be slowed down by a design flaw in their hightech under armour racing suites. The company says they are working with the team to perfect performance. All right. Great olympic moment to show you here. Check it out. Put up the photo. There it is. Oh, my goodness. This is from the medicaler is menny from the womens 500 meter short track speedskating event. From italy, sticking her tongue out, making hand gestures, the bronze medallist slightly more restrained. What is going on here. Somewhere in the middle is happy medium. She is excited. Totally excited, right . She has it live with that for the rest of her life. Thats the money shot right there. Okay. Now to new jersey where a Silver Lining h
Claimed the u. S. Title. And today, we say farewell to our technical production manager, adrian cotega lets hear it for adrian. Hes an going to head over to n after five years here with us on morning joe and way too early. Hes been at msnbc for 18 years. Why are you leaving us . Its tiring to get up this early, so im going to get up earlier. Isnt that a great excuse. Adrian, good look over there at nbc. Thats going to do it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Welcome to morning joe. Hold on. You dont want a painting of new york city. We want an after shot. This is a print that b. J. Has in his bathroom. Lieu how beautiful that sky is. Can you believe that . Its august, but it feels like summer almost over. Feels like september actually. Oh, look at d. C. These are paintings. Can you guys get us good morning everybody. Boy, a lot of news, a lot of news overnight to talk about. I dont even know where to start. Were going to get to a lot of news in a second. We have, though,
Oregon. Seeing his mug shot knowing he was being arrested for peeping in on 4 q women and i e large windows. Knowing he was upstairs the whole time freaked me out. The pentagon revealed served in the Marine Reserve and flew helicopters as an army warrant officer. More now on the officers who died in the line of duty. The first in the history of the Santa Cruz Police department. Sargeant loweren butch baker was nearing retirement. He leaves behind a wife two, daughters and a son who is a Community Service officer with the department right now. Sargeant baker helped train the Current Police chief. He was a remarkable investigator, had an appetite to find the truth and i would go as far as to say he was the mostskilled investigator with my Police Department. Were going to miss him. Detective butler had been with the Police Department 10 years. The chief says she found her niche in the investigation of Sexual Assault cases. I would consider elizabeth to be a friend. She leaves behind her