People and injurining more than 100 others. Bodies everywhere. Was human error to blame . Running rampant. The flu epidemic somewhere getting worse. The number of deaths and hospitalizations climbing even higher. This morning what the cdc wants you to know and do. All that, plus, uma thurman breaks her silence on Harvey Weinstein. Icy conditions lead to massive pileups in the midwest, as a new winter storm marches across the country. And super monday. From the commercials that everyone is talking about to the surprising star of the halftime show. To the star of the postgame show, mandy moore, joining us live to talk this is us. And we got it covered for you, today, february 5th, 2018. From nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us this monday morning. I will not be neutral this morning. Im happy to see you wearing your jersey. What a game. What a game. Its incredible. It had everything. The patriots played great. They played their hearts out. But it wasnt enough. The eagles were on fire. My feelings are best expressed by al roker, go ahead [ bird noise ] cant get enough of it. The predatory birds flew. We will be talking about the eagles all morning long. Its our top story, our middle story, our bottom story. Were going to talk live to two of the big heroes in a moment. First, craig melvin is at u. S. Bank stadium in minneapolis. Hi, craig. Good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning to you. Congratulations. It was an epic back an forth. You had the per rannial goliath, and this years david, led by nick foles, a journeyman quarterback, a backup quarterback, who finally gave the city of brotherly love something to cheer about. And for the Philadelphia Eagles, the long drought is over. Reporter the Philadelphia Eagles conquering tom brady and the patriots to win the franchises first super bowl. Everybody dont believe in us but people from philly. Eagle s. Eagles. We battled but we didnt get the job done. Reporter overnight, tens of thousands of overjoyed fans, decked out in green, swarming the streets of philly to celebrate. It was the eagles that found the end zone first. It is caught. Reporter in the first half, tom brady missing on a trick play that had him on the receiving end of a pass. Just before halftime, the eagles pulling nearly the same play, with better results. Touchdown. Reporter tight end, trey burton finding nick foles in the end zone, making foles the first person ever to catch and throw a touchdown in the super bowl. It worked perfectly. Reporter the hall mark marky super bowl, the halftime show. This year, the highly anticipated return of Justin Timberlake. Justin timberlake, performing a medley of his biggest hits. Im bringing sexy back reporter and honoring minnesota royalty, prince, projecting the late icons likeness on to a large screen. I would die for you reporter and bathing the stadium and city in purple. Also during timberlakes performance, one young fan, snapping the selfie of a lifetime. Super bowl selfies. Reporter where does this rank in terms of moments of your life . Number one, definitely. Reporter back on the field, the game would come to the wire. The patriots taking the lead, with a t. D. That got the seal of approval from gisele. But it was foles who would answer with the go ahead score. And that put the game away. The first sack fumble of the game. Reporter first, with the brady sack and fumble recovery, and then, on a patriots hail mary to end the game. Losing sucks but thats part of it. You show up and you try to win. And sometimes you lose. And thats the way it goes. Reporter foles, the teams backup quarterback, who had debating retiring, the games unlikely hero, everybodying mvp honors. Message for eagles nation . We did it. Were world champs. Reporter foles went on to tell me, you should never stop believing in yourself and you should always be ready. I can tell you, being in that stadium last night, i had the opportunity to be at a number of super bowls. Ive never been in a stadium that was that electric. We can also tell you, tom brady theres been speculation whether hes going to retire. He told a Radio Station before yesterdays game, no matter the outcome, he would be back next season. All right, craig. Thank you so much. Amazing. We are so excited because joining us now are two of last nights stars for the eagles. Safety Malcolm Jenkins and tight end, zach ertz. Good morning, guys. How are you doing . Were so excited you all are here. This is so big. Your city, obviously, has never won a super bowl. You get to bring that trophy home. Just describe for us what youre feeling as you woke up, if you ever went to sleep last night. Yeah. We have not been to sleep, by the way. I mean, for us, you know, the season has been so crazy. Its been so much that we carried as a team, were so excited to bring this trophy back to philadelphia. They waited so long for an eagles team to be a super bowl champion that, you know, were trying to hurry up and get on the flight back to philly to join the celebration because we know that city is electric tonight. You could just fly there yourselves, its so exciting. Im thinking about that catch. When you were a little kid, this is the stuff that dreams are made of. Your team is down. You catch it. Its a touchdown. How do you top that . Thats amazing. Yeah. It was an unbelievable day, obviously, from starttofinish. When youre 5 years old watching the game, you never expect to have the opportunity to play in the game. And then, youre there and its just another game of football. It was a full 60minute fight. The patriots are a fantastic football team. But our quarterback played amazing. And i said all along, when the quarterbacks play like that, my job is so easy. All i have to do is run and catch. I was lucky enough to have my number called at the end. Nick is amazing. Hes the first quarterback to both throw and catch a touchdown pass in a game. That trick play is one thats going to go down in replaybooks forever. Did you practice the heck out of that . Did you know it was going to happen at some point in the game . That was installed for the vikings game. The bears ran it against the viki vikings. The coaches found it and ran it against the vikings. And we had trey burton, who i think was a quarterback for two years at florida. And nick, obviously, was a great actor to start the play and get everything started. But to call that play on fourth and one from the 1 yard line is pretty remarkable from our head coach. Yeah. That guy has so much confidence in us, to go out there and make plays. Obviously, it was successful. He has so much guts. It was uncredibl incredible. Malcolm, you beat the patriots. You beat tom brady. They didnt have an off night. They had a wonderful night, but you were better. How good does that feel . As a defense, you get in these games and we realize, okay, our offense is on fire. Their offense is on fire. For us, we needed one stop. And we were searching for it the entire game. When our offense went down late in the game and scored, we realized, our defense is going to be on the field for us to win this game. We didnt bat an eye. We knew that somebody was going to be legendary at this point. Somebody was going to be the hero. And that somebody happened to be brandon graham. And we had Derek Barnett scoop up that fumble. It was the only sack we got the entire game. It was the biggest one of our entire season. I would say youre all heroes. You were awesome, guys. Enjoy getting back to philly. Get back some sleep because it will be a lot of partying in philly for the next few days. Thank you so much. Thanks for having us. Well have more on the super bowl. We have the commercials. The selfie star of the halftime show. And this is us star mandy moore on that episode. We have more to talk about including a frightening train crash. An amtrak train slammed into a parked freight train. Gabe gutierrez has the overnight developments in the investigation. Reporter good morning. This crash happened while many of the passengers were sleeping. Two people were killed. 116 others were injured. Most of them are out of the hospital. Questions are swirling about who is to blame and whether new technology could have prevented this. This morning, investigators are looking through the mangled wreckage of amtrak train 91, working to found out whether human error was to blame for the violent crash. I have never seen anything in my entire life like this. Bodies everywhere. People on top of one another. I couldnt move. The seats were on my legs. Reporter the train was en route from new york to miami, with 136 passengers and 9 crew members onboard. Near columbia, south carolina, it slammed into a csx freight train. Passengers describe a terrifying jolt. You wake up bouncing off of chairs. Reporter amtraks president pointed the finger at csx. Csx dispatchers were manually routing trains. The National Transportation safety board says its working to confirm that. But investigators have found a rail switch that forced the amtrak train off of the main line. Does this appear to be human error . We want to look at that. We will be examining everything for whatever reason, it appears that switch, the rail switch, was in a position that it was not intended to be in. Reporter in a written statement, a csx spokesperson did not address the cause of the crash. But said their sincere c condolenco condolences for those passed away. He said, one of these he told me that. And it happened. Reporter its the late in a series of deadly crashes. Last week, a train hitting republican members of congress to a retreat hit a truck. And in december, another amtrak train derailed in washington state, killing three people. The ntsb chairman tells me that Gps Technology called positive train control would have prevented this crash. But amtraks president says, while its in use throughout the northeast, private companies that run the rail tracks elsewhere have delayed implementing it. Hoda and savannah . Gabe, thank you. Theres new fallout over the release of that controversial republican memo tied to the russia investigation. Democrats are now pushing to release their own classified rebuttal. Nbc National Correspondent peter alexander, is at the white house with the latest on all of it. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Despite President Trumps declaration that the memo vindicates him in the russian probe, it may undercut his case. Several white house allies cautioned that the memo did not contain convincing evidence of a conspiracy. President trump, arriving back at the white house, after reigniting controversy over the nfl players kneeling during the National Anthem. The president issuing statements hours before thanking Service Members saying, we hold them in our hearts as we proudly stand for the National Anthem. The president s opponents spending their super bowl sunday on offense. Arguing the release of that memo, accusing the fbi and Justice Department of surveillance abuses, was nothing more than a partisan ploy. The interest was not oversight. The interest was a political hit job on the fbi in the service of the president. Reporter President Trump touting the memo written by republicans to proclaim his innocence, using the third person. Tweeting, this memo vindicates trump in probe. Former cia director, john brennan, accusing the republican chairman, devin nunes, of abusing his office. Devin nunes, all the way back to the spring of last year, has been engaged in tactics to defend, make excuses and defend and try to protect mr. Trump. Reporter nunes responding saying there was an abuse of power but not by the chairman. Claiming partisan bias as detailed in the memo. A charge democrats call inaccurate and misleading. The president venting about the special counsel investigation. Russia, russia, russia. But several republicans on the House Intelligence Committee dismiss the argument with the criticism the fbi undercuts Robert Muellers inquiry. This memo has nothing to do with the special counsel. I dont think it has any impact on the russia probe. Reporter the president s former chief of staff, reince prebus, defending his old boss. I can tell you, i have never felt that there was some sort of collusion or some kind of obstruction situation going on in the west wing. Reporter this evening, the House Intelligence Committee is likely to vote on whether to release the democrats rebuttal of the memo, if it passes. The president has to sign off on it before it becomes public. To come up with a bipartisan agreement on immigration, with a possible Government Shutdown looming this thursday. Hoda and savannah . Big week, peter. Thank you. Now, to an update on the flu season. The cdc is reporting new cases and is warning theres a long way to go. In kentucky alone, the number of flurelated deaths has reached 100. Kerry sanders is in louisville. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Mother nature may be doing a favor to a portion of this community this morning because rural schools are closed due to ice and snow. As you know, when people congregate, kids congregate, thats how they spread the flu virus. Theyre hoping here in the e. R. , that its possible without the kids coming together, it may ease the number of traffic of patients being brought in here to the hospital. This morning, the deadly flu is not giving up its grip on the nation. In fact, overall, it appears to be getting even worse. The heartland is getting slammed. Kentucky now recording 100 flurelated deaths. Indiana, 136. The latest report from the cdc shows the number of people hospitalized with flu symptoms is climbing. Topping the previous high two years ago. 1 out of 14 doctor visits is a patient complaining of flu symptoms, the highest in almost a decade. My body ached a lot. Reporter hospitals like norton and louisville are seeing a steady stream of people feeling miserable. It wouldnt be shocking if you had influenza. Reporter doctors are administering rapid flu tests. Some able to tell if the patient has the virus in as little as 15 minutes. But you have to go to the doctor to get it. I think theres people that, i think, unfortunately, dont take influenza as seriously as they should. Reporter the death toll of children is up to 53 nationwide, jumping by 16 last week. One of those, savannah jesse, a first grader died within 24 hours of being diagnosed with the flu. You hear about it all the time. You dont think it will happen to you. Reporter doctors say the flu vaccine is the best defense against getting sick. In oklahoma city, the department of health is making it easy to get, with a flu drivethrough. Just roll down your window and roll up your sleeve. Thanks for coming. Reporter so, in addition to getting the flu shot, the second piece of advice, wash your hands as often as possible, guys. Back to you. Kerry, thank you so much. Al is here with a first look at the weather. As hodas phone goes insane. She just sat on it. Its a super bowl conversation. It sounded like tom brady. I swear it did. Tom brady is calling you. I have no idea what that is. Im sorry. I dont know how to turn it off. Roker, thanks for having us last night. We had a lot of fun. Unfortunately, not a lot of fun on the roads in missouri. Look at this. This is conway, missouri, just north of branson. They had a 30car pileup. Fortunately nobody killed. From were some injures. But this is i44 eastbound. What a mess. Heres what caused it all. This little band of snow. Its a quickmover. It moved through quickly yesterday and left a slick coating, caused big problems. And unfortunately, we have more snow coming that way. Its going to be causing right now, we have Winter Weather advisories throughout the midwest, snow, gusty winds, slippery travel, reduced visibility. As that pushes through, light snow, one to three inches, through the afternoon into tomorrow. Well get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Good monday morning, im meteorologist kari hall. A live look outside in San Francisco, its 54 degrees. We have a fairly mild start now. 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