Complaint. Extraordinary act of forgiveness. I dont know if this is possible but can i give her a hug, please . A young man embraces the former Police Officer who murdered his brother in his own apartment as shes sentenced to ten years behind bars. What the victims family is saying throughout this morning about that emotional moment. Those stories, plus fiery crash, a search for answers after a deadly world war ii era bomber goes down in connecticut. Opening day concerns, the stepped up security at theaters nationwide ahead of todays release of the controversial joker film. And fixing things up. Chip and Joanna Gaines get set for their next big project. Today, october 3rd, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on this thursday morning. We do begin this morning with breaking news overnight. A military training accident gone horribly wrong at mississippis camp shelby. Nearly two dozen paratroopers hurt during a nighttime jump, some of them still being pulled from trees early this morning. Kerry sanders has the latest, good morning. Reporter this is not the way they had planned it. The soldiers, the paratroopers were coming out of c130s on a nighttime operation when apparently the wind caught them and took them in a direction they did not intend to go. 22 of those who went out wound up caught up in the trees. 15 of them treated by medics in the field. At least seven of them taken to the hospital. As you noted this was a jump near camp shelby outside of hattiesburg, mississippi, the members part of a group of soldiers, paratroopers on a onemonth exercise, from the Fourth Brigade Combat Team 25th Infantry Division out of alaska. This morning there are a lot of questions being asked but no real answers. The military will have an afteraction review to determine who made the decision to jump and who it was that was supposed to be monitoring the wind. The biggest question is, will those who jumped out and wound up in the trees, the real question is, will they have the to get back out there and jump again. Kerry sanders, thank you. Former dallas Police Officer amber guyger was sentenced to ten years in prison yesterday for killing her unarmed neighbor in his own apartment. But its what the victims younger brother did during her sentencing that stunned everyone involved. Gabe gutierrez joins us from dallas, good morning. Hoda, good morning, it was a shocking conclusion to a tense and often emotional trial. The younger brother of botham jean forgiving his brothers killer in open court and then asking the judge to hug her. Many observers, including me, had never seen anything like it. I love you as a person. The timid request was entirely unexpected. I dont know if this is possible, but can i give her a hug, please . Yes. 18yearold brant jean shocking the courtroom by leaving the stand during his victim impact statement for a most unlikely embrace. Amber guyger wept as she hugged the younger brother of the man she shot and killed. The jury had just sentenced the former dallas officer to ten years in prison for murdering botham jean, an unarmed neighbor she had mistaken for a burglar when she accidentally entered the wrong apartment. As for that hug had you ever seen anything like that before . Never. Reporter even guygers defense team was floored. I think he showed, with his grace and forgiveness, how we should heal. And i hope that people that were upset by the verdict will follow his example. The judge, so moved, she also hugged guyger and gave her her personal bible. But outside the courtroom outrage from those who thought the punishment was too lenient. Overnight small groups of protesters took to the streets, prosecutors that asked for a sentence of no less than 28 years, the age jean would have turned this week. It does not seem like the punishment fits the crime. Civil rights Attorney Ben Crump who represents jeans mother was surprised. Did you expect it at all . I didnt at all, i didnt know what he was going to do. Would you have done the same thing he did . Maybe not now. The gut wrenching trial lasted more than a week but the pain may last a lifetime. I think what brant did was to heal himself. But i dont want forgiveness t be mistaken with a total relinquishment of responsibility. Reporter this morning all of the pent up emotion on both sides, perhaps captured, in a simple but powerful gesture. It really was an extraordinary moment. Now amber guyger will be eligible for parole in just five years when shell be 36 years old. Botham jeans mother wanted a tougher sentence but as for that hug and her other son she says what makes it even more incredible is that he is typically an introvert, and that this because not typical behavior but that his faith made him codo it and this should ser as an example for all of us. Savannah and hoda. Gabe, thank you so much. Just listening to that brother when he talked about, you know, this is what my brother would have wanted, for you to, you know, give your life. I was thinking about his mother testifying the day before, and saying, you know, my younger son has been so quiet. I dont know whats on his mind. I dont know what hes thinking. And then in this extraordinary moment extending that grace note in the most trying of circumstances. Just a really remarkable moment there. It was. We go to washington now and the impeachment investigation. The president appearing to reach a boiling point yesterday at this News Conference with the president of finland when a reporter asked him what exactly he wanted in that phone call with the leader of ukraine. The question sir was what did you want president zelensky to do about Vice President biden and his son hunter. Are you talking to me . It was just a followup of what i just asked. Are you ready . We have the president of finland, ask him a question. I have one for him. I just wanted to follow up on what i asked you. Did you hear me . Ask him a question. Ive given you a long answer, ask this gentleman a question. Dont be rude. No, sir, i dont want to be rude. I just wanted you to have a chance to answer the question ive asked you. Ive answered everything. Its a whole hoax, you know whos playing into the hoax people like you and the Fake News Media we have in this country and i say in many cases the corrupt media because youre corrupt. Ask the president of finland a question, please. Ill move on now. That was at the News Conference and the president s tweets tell the story as well. Nearly 300 in just the last week, the majority of them about impeachment. And this one in particular from him grabbing headlines for its use of profanity. Nbcs Kristen Welker is at the white house with the latest on all of this. Kristen, good morning. Savannah, good morning to you and thats right the president s outburst and twitter tirades sets up what could be a dramatic day on capitol hill today with the first trump official set to testify behind closed doors, kurt volker. Volker was in contact with the president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani who was investigating joe biden in ukraine. The president s frustrations boiling over during a press conference with the president of finland when pressed about the impeachment inquiry. Nancy pelosi hands out subpoenas like theyre cookies. You want a subpoena, here you go, take them, like theyre cookies. There are those that think im a very stable genius. Okay. I watch my words very, very closely. Reporter President Trumps anger also on display in a series of tweets blasting the do nothing democrats, wasting everyones time and energy on bs, the president using the full expletive. While overnight the president causing the band nickel back to trend on social media after tweeting out this edited video since removed by twitter for copyright reasons. I have never spoken to my son about his look at this photograph reporter the president has accused joe biden of abusing his power to help his son hunter who was on the board of a Ukrainian Energy company while biden was serving as Vice President. There is no evidence of wrongdoing. Look, biden and his son are stone cold crooked. And you know it. Reporter craig asked biden about the controversy. They said quote biden and his son are stone cold crooked. Have you talked to your son about any of this . We communicated a couple times. But look, there is zero, zero, zero, zero evidence of any assertion being made reporter later wednesday biden ramped up his attacks against President Trump. And ill put my integrity, my whole career of Public Service to this nation, up against his long record of lying, cheating and stealing any day of the week. Reporter it all highlights an intensifying standoff between the Trump Administration and capitol hill with House Democrats threatening to subpoena the white house if they dont hand over key documents by friday. But will the president cooperate . Well Work Together with shifty shift and pelosi and all of them and well see what happens. Reporter House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff saying if the white house does not turn over documents they will consider it obstruction of justice. Were not fooling around here though. We dont want this to drag on months and months and months which appears to be the administration strategy. Reporter House Speaker pelosi defiant. I think the president knows the argument that can be made against him and hes scared. Kristen we saw adam schiff, the democratic chair of the intelligence committee, and theres questions this morning about what exactly he knew about the whistleblowers claims before that whistleblower report was actually filed. Whats the story there . Reporter heres the latest on that, savannah. A spokesperson for adam schiff tells nbc news at no point did the Committee Review or receive the complaint in advance. An attorney for the whistleblower corroborates that. What did happen . The whistleblower did contact the committee for guidance on how to properly submit a complaint. Now, for perspective that is something that past whistleblowers have done. According to the New York Times the whistleblower had concerns about complaints being swept away by the white house. One of the Democratic Candidates is off the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders recovering from a serious medical scare. He suffered chest pains during a Campaign Stop tuesday in las vegas. Ari, can you do me a favor . Get me a chair up here for a moment. Its been a long day, yeah. Doctors discovered a blockage in one of sanders arteries, two stents were successfully inserted. The 78yearold tweeted about his recovery yesterday saying hes feeling good and hes adding hes fortunate to have Good Health Care and great doctors. Adding none of us know when a medical emergency might affect us and no one should fear going bankrupt if it occurs. Craig joins the table. Another story making headlines. Russian president Vladimir Putin was the featured guest at a forum on tuesday and he weighed in on everything from his relationship with President Trump to u. S. Election meddling. Keir simmons joins us from moscow. Good morning. Reporter just as those heated exchanges kristen was reporting on were playing out in washington i was speaking with president putin here in moscow and the russian leader coming to the defense of the american president. Meanwhile three times i asked president putin whether russia would try to influence the 2020 elections. Three times he frankly could not give me a straight answer. When it comes to the impeachment inquiry, president Vladimir Putin is defending his american counterpart. Saying President Trumps political opponents at home have been using any pretext to attack him, lash out at him nbc news given 90 minutes to question the russian president at a forum in moscow mr. Putin telling me President Trump is a victim. I asked him about accusations of Russian Election meddling in the last president ial u. S. Race and ahead in 2020. Robert miller says that russia did try to intervene in the american elections and that russia is attempting to do the same in the general election for 2020 reporter hats laughable, he told me, because everything we see going on inside u. S. Politics now is destructive to u. S. russia relations and im sure harms the United States itself. Let me ask you again the second part of that question is russia, as Robert Mueller alleged, attempting to influence the 2020 elections in the United States reporter ill tell you a secret, yes, president putin, joked, well definitely intervene, its a secret so that everybody can laugh and so well dont tell anyone, please dont tell anyone. And with that phone call between President Trump and the leader of ukraine at the heart of an explosive impeachment inquiry president putin telling me hes open to the release of notes of some of his private conversations with mr. Trump. Would you welco a rough transcript of your conversations with President Trump being published by the American Administration reporter we told the administration after the helsinki summit putin says if someone wants to know something, to learn something, make it all public were not against that and at one point in helsinki President Trump and president putin met for two hours with only interpreters in the room, craig. Its not known really whether there was a record of that conversation but one senior russian official told me, craig, if a rough transcript of those conversations were released it would make president putin look good craig . Keir simmons for us from moscow this morning, thank you. Now to a tragic plane crash in connecticut, at least seven people were killed yesterday when a vintage world war ii plane crashed and burst into flames at the states largest airport. Investigators now trying to piece together what went wrong nbcs ron allen has the very latest hey ron, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. This morning some of the wreckage from that crash still blocks one of the runways here at Bradley International the flight was supposed to be something of a history lesson, a rare opportunity to fly aboard a world war ii era bomber. But minutes into the flight something went terribly wrong. Federal investigators now taking over piecing together what led to this deadly tragedy at one of the busiest airports in the northeast. Wow. Theres a fire at one of the runways over here. Reporter minutes after takeoff the bomber with 13 aboard crashing at Bradley International. I just saw all this big billow of black smoke. Reporter the fiery crash killing seven people, injuring nine, including two airport ground workers and a first responder. Dozens of rescuers rushing to the scene. Officials praising their heroism. That is a challenging fire to put out, and the Airport AuthorityFire Suppression did a great job in doing that. Reporter investigators say the plane took off at 9 45 a. M. , just five minutes later the pilot told the tower he wasnt gaining altitude after circling the airport the plane crashed at 9 54. The b17 nicknamed the flying fortress was a military workhorse during world war ii, even featured in a hollywood film memphis bell, part of a touring exhibition of vintage warplanes. The foundation that owns and preserves the plane saying they are fully cooperating with officials to determine the cause of the crash we understand it costs about 400 to 5o fly one of those planes for about 30 minutes. Authorities say some of the victims of the crash remain conditions from minor to critical we expect to hear more later today. Ron allen in connecticut for us, thank you. 7 18, lets get our first check of the weather, including a little bit of a roller coaster ride weve been on when it comes to the temps al, good morning. Guys, good morning. Especially here in the northeast. We got a raw, wet morning in the northeast, all the way back into the upper ohio river valley, the moisture pushing on through and these temperatures, boy, you talk about that roller coaster, right now its 55 in new york city, 15 degrees cooler than it was this time yesterday, 20 degrees cooler in syracuse, 17 in buffalo, 22 in boston but look at the south. Were looking at 55 potential record highs today, especially from richmond, charleston, cincinnati down to birmingham, memphis, atlanta and raleigh tomorrow that area shrinks a bit but 12 potential records for highs on friday including atlanta and chattanooga and then temperatures get closer to normal here in the northeast were going to be looking at falllike temperatures over the weekend. Look at these overnight lows, saturday in oswego, 39, 37 in scranton, 46 in new york and 46 in morgantown. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds when i think of what my imagination looks like, i mean wow. The surface is a tool that helps me realize beautiful ideas. Good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. A live look outside in san jose. Its a clear start but also feels really chilly as you get ready to head out the door. We will have a beautiful day. Still feeling like fall and slightly cooler than normal. 75 in san jose. 77 the high in apartment yok nt concord. It will warm up starting tomorrow but especially this wee