Digging in, nancy pelosi rejects a white house demand for a vote right now on impeachment. This is not a game for us this is deadly serious. And top officials from the Vice President to the defense secretary to the president s own lawyer refusing to turn over evidence to congress were live from washington nasty noreaster, millions up and down the east coast set to face a day of heavy rain and high winds als got what you need to know before you head out the door those stories, plus, behind bars, an inside look at Felicity Huffmans new reality, after she reports to federal prison. Today exclusive, Monica Lewinsky joins us live in studio 1a to shine a light on an important cause that touches millions of americans. And national treasure, the nats win the National League and head to the world series for the first time ever. There will be a world series in d. C. One super fan was there for the big celebration. Today, wednesday, october 16th, 2019 from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning, welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning, boy is washington happy this morning, something we dont often say on this show. And somebody whos not at the table, craig melvin who happened to be in the middle of it all. They have a lot to celebrate, a clean sweep. Were get right to our top story, the fiery democratic debate, the first with Elizabeth Warren as the frontrunner and since launch of the impeachment investigation. We have two reports, well start with nbcs peter alexander, good morning. Reporter hey, savannah, good morning to you it was the most crowded president ial primary debate stage in history, and there were plenty of fireworks. Blafrn facing criticism and joe biden brurk off questions of any wrong doing. And Pete Buttigieg at times dictating the debate Elizabeth Warren under fire in ohio. I appreciate elizabeths work, but again, the difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can actually get done. Sometimes i think that senator warren is more focused on being punitive or pitting some part of the country against the other. The candidate who has seen a surge over the last several months taking heat like a frontrunner after taking the top spot in several recent polls. Your signature is to have a plan for everything, except this. Warren forced to play defense. For me, this is about knowing whats broken, knowing how to fix it, and yes, im willing to get out there and fight for it but one thing all of the democrats could agree on, the issue of impeachment, showing a united front against President Trump. Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of this country. Impeachment is the way that we establish that this man will not be permitted to break the law over and over without consequences. The target of the ukraine call, former Vice President joe biden defending himself and his son hunters lucrative position on the board of a ukrainian gas company. My son did nothing wrong. Rudy giuliani, the president and his thugs have already proven that they, in fact, are flat lying. Reporter with crisis in syria escalating, the democrats blasting President Trumps withdrawal of troops. Soldiers in the field are reporting that for the first time they feel ashamed, ashamed of what their country has done what donald trump has done because of that phone call with erdogan is basically giving 10,000 isis fighters get out of jail free. The night marking Bernie Sanders return after a heart attack the 78yearold thanking his supporters and rivals for their well wishes. I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, and im so happy to be back here with you this evening reporter the topic of age taking center stage for the top three candidates. One of the reasons im running is because of my age and my experience. With it comes wisdom. I will outwork, out organize, outlast anyone, donald trump, mike pence or whoever the republicans get stuck with. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders has a new endorsement this morning, what can you tell us reporter yeah, Bernie Sanders is back and hes actually touting a pair of new endorsements from prominent progressives this morning. Congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez, a rising democratic star, one of the most influential voices on the left, she is planning to endorse sanders during a rally to take place in new york city this weekend. Also this morning, we have learned from the campaign that ilhan omar, the congresswoman from minnesota will be endorsing sanders as well. Savannah. Peter, thank you so much. We heard the candidates united on the issue of impeachment last night, and this morning there are new developments in that investigation. Rudy giuliani, the president s personal attorney has now defied a congressional subpoena for evidence and House Speaker nancy pelosi is weighing in on how this will proceed from here. Nbcs chief White House CorrespondentHallie Jackson is on this story. Hallie, good morning. Reporter good morning, the House Speaker is insisting she is not playing games with nancy pelosi, announcing the house will not hold a formal vote right now to officially start an impeachment inquiry. She and democrats point out theres no requirement to vote, so they say they dont need one to move forward, theyre going to keep doing what theyre doing, calling witnesses in, doing their investigation, and so on. So why does it matter whether the households a vote or not right now. Republicans in the white house have been demanding one. They argue without a vote, the whole inquiry is simply not legitimate, and that is exactly why the Trump Administration says they are rejecting these different subpoenas and requests from House Democrats thats the basis of their pushback theres a new example were le abo this morning, the secretary of defense now defying a subpoena the Vice President s office is also turning down a request for documents about his interactions with ukraine and the president s personal attorney, rudy giuliani, as you mentioned, is also refusing to comply with a subpoena against him, calling the democrats investigation unconstitutional and baseless. Hallie, why does nancy pelosi not want to hold the impeachment vote, does she have the votes . Reporter democrats dont want to be seen as though the are capitulating to the white house and republicans demands, they feel like they have the right argument here, the correct argument, and they want to move forward. Hallie jackson at the white house for us thank you. Meantime, a powerful noreaster is set to hammer the east coast today bringing heavy rain and strong winds to millions al is standing by with details on this one. If this was a month from now, we would be talking a major snowstorm. As it is, its a mess. Two low pressure systems are going to phase together and bring a big storm. In fact, were talking bombogenesis, dropping 24 millibars, this could drop 30 millibars before its over, these two systems will merge, the storm intensifying in the mid atlantic, afternoon commute is going to be a mess. By tomorrow, it pushes through, rain starts to come to an end, but back behind this, very strong howling winds, rainfall amounts anywhere from 4 to 5 inches of rain in the adirondacks and could be snow in the green and White Mountains and adirondacks as well. Wind advisories for boston tomorrow, 55 Miles Per Hour gusts possible, generally, 30 to 50 Miles Per Hour winds. A big problem for high profile vehicles on the roads, guys, and the airports savannah. Al, thank you so much. Now the story were following closely, this ongoing crisis in syria, Vice President mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo will travel to the region hoping to broker a ceasefire were seeing how the Russian Military is getting involved nbcs chief Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel is in syria this morning. Richard, good morning. Good morning, savannah, so turkey just said it will not agree to any cease fire unless the kurdish fighters drop their guns and leave the area, which is something they say they cannot do because they say they are fighting against a Turkish Campaign of ethnic cleansing and thats around 250,000 kurds have already left the region afraid of this ongoing turkish advance. Now, were also seeing a different change of position from turkey, while Vice President pence is heading to this region. Turkey is saying it has had enough of President Trumps tweets about this war. The turkish president saying he finds them confusing they have also been contradictory, sometimes factually inaccurate, and he is saying that he is not going to follow them anymore, and that as far as i know is a first from a world leader saying that matters of war and peace and Foreign Policy cannot be dictated by tweets so the delegation is coming here president erdogan of turkey is continuing this offensive, and saying that he can not follow these tweets anymore, and isnt going to follow them back to you. Richard engel in syria for us, thank you. The latest on a british familys fight for justice a family took their case to the white house and the president and received a surprising offer while they were there. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk has the details. The parents of harry dunn sat down with President Trump, and while they say he offered synthetic words, he declined to take the action they were asking for, to send the woman they believe is responsible for their sons death back to the uk, a woman who it turns out was in the very next room the grieving parent of harry dunn revealing the news as they left the white house in tears. The bombshell was dropped, Anne Sacoolas was in the building and was willing to meet with us. Charlotte charles and tim dunn meeting with President Trump, but refusing to meet with Anne Sacoolas who killed their 19yearold son in a wrong way car crash. We werent ready to meet her. We felt a bit rushed and i dont think it would have gone too well. President trump surprised the couple by telling them sacoolas is in the next room. So Anne Sacoolas is in a different room, and he expected you to meet her without warning. I think thats what he wanted, yeah. It comes as sacoolas reveals new details about the crash, admitting she was driving on the wrong side of the road and had no time to react when she saw the motor bike approaching the crash happened too fast but she claimed diplomat immunity. She returned to the u. S. Three weeks after the accident saying in a statement, it was too difficult to stay under the circumstances. I felt the sincerity, i hope that will be carried forward to try and get a result for us. In a letter from her legal team, sacoolas said she was terribly sorry for that tragic mistake, adding she wants to meet with the family to apologize and take responsibility but dunns parents insist that meeting take place back home we basically reiterated that we would still be willing to meet but on uk soil. She needs to come back and face the Justice System the uk foreign secretary said that diplomatic immunity is no longer relevant in the case, and british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson urged her to return. We are no further on in terms of getting what we want. Which is having mrs. Sacoolas return to the uk that was made clear at one point that that was never going to that happen. We heard it right there it is unlikely shes going to return to the uk, so whats the familys next step, what recourse do they have. Theyre going back. They have a lot of unanswered questions, among them, when did sacoolas go back to the u. S. , and who made that decision, and apparently during this meeting with President Trump, he promised the parents that he would look at this from a different angle which it seems has given them some hope that maybe they will get what they want, although it does seem unlikely okay. Stephanie, thank you very much we turn now to that Deadly Police shooting in texas of a young woman who was inside her own home for the first time we are now hearing from the attorney of the former officer now charged with murder and the arrest warrant is shedding new light on what happened right before the fatal shot nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in fort worth with the latest on this. Hey, gabe, good morning. Reporter hoda, good morning. According to that newly released arrest warrant, the 8yearold boy who witnessed his aunt get shot at this home behind me, told investigators she had pointed a gun at the window. City Officials Say that is irrelevant because the officer never identified himself, and she had every right to defend herself from an intruder overnight, emotions boiling over at a Fort Worth City Council meeting. We are not safe in fort worth. Reporter as we learned more details about the shooting death of atatiana jefferson, former officer aaron dean is out on 200,000 bail after being charged with her murder. His attorney tells nbc news dean is sorry and that his family is in shock jeffersons family said she had been playing video games with her 8yearold nephew in the back room of her home, early saturday morning. She was like a second mom, when you see her, you see him, and most people thought he was hers. A newly released arrest warrant says the boy told investigators, jefferson took her handgun from her purse and pointed it toward the window after hearing suspicious noises outside and dean never identified himself as a Police Officer when he went to the house and into the backyard in response to a neighbors call to police saying the front door was open as seen on this body cam video, the 34yearold cop opened fire within seconds of drawing his weapon. Put me your hands up, show me your hands. Police say jefferson had every right to protect herself with a gun inside her home, and officer dean did not follow proper procedures. Chief, what needs to change at the Fort Worth Police department were looking at bringing in an independent Third Party Group to come in and evaluate our policies. Interim police chief ed kraus choked back tears tuesday saying there was absolutely no excuse for what happened. Its very emotional because the officers, they try hard every day to try to make this city better. Reporter before abruptly ending the news conference. I think thats going to be all. Thank you. Reporter jeffersons family members now want police to release body cam video from the second officer at the scene. Savannah and hoda, this case will now go to the District Attorneys Office and then likely a grand jury. Gabe gutierrez in fort worth, texas, gabe, thank you. Were going to switch gears now, including the baseball playoffs, thats something to talk about onehalf of the world series now set. Craig was down at the game. Look at craig. In washington. Good morning. I know it was a late night for you. The nats made quick work of it. It was a late night im working on four hours of sleep, guys, the party, by the way, still going on in the Nations Capital the Washington Nationals headed to the world series for the first time in franchise history. In the air, center field, this should do it, robles will sweep it and there it is, the Washington Nationals are National League champions. And they did it in spectacular fashion, too the nationals completed the fourgame sweep of the st. Louis cardinals, the final score last night was 74, and thestory, a celebration was on and heres the thing, its also quite an incredible comeback story, a team that was 12 games below. 500 in late may, they barely made the playoffs as a Wild Card Team they really werent supposed to be there last night, and now here they are, headed to the world series. How cool was that, craig, and you were on the field. Were going to talk to you about you and your Little Family celebration, when we come back in a little bit. We couldnt let you sleep in, no way thank you, craig. Mr. Roker, a check of the weather. The yankees are supposed to be playing tonight, the houston astros, it looks like heavy rain, gusty winds, probably a rainout. Good news for the yankees, that gives them a rest, and they can probably go to the top of the pitching order for the game on thursday almost felt a little like Steve Kornacki doing that. Cooler air behind this front for much of the plains and down into texas. Look at this, weve got another front coming into the Pacific Northwest that will be bringing more rain and cooler weather were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds its funny what happens when people get together. Holiday inn. Holiday inn express. Were there. So you can be too. Good morning. Im k ari hall. A live loo