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The overnight release of the final star wars trailer has the internet ablaze and fans dreaming of a galaxy far far away, today, tuesday, october 22nd, 2019. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Hey, everybody, welcome to today on this tuesday morning. Thank you for joining us, i know somebody whos totally geeking out over the star wars thing, and her initials are Savannah Guthrie. I love it and the initials of cp30 had me very excited. I got chills. Roker and i are nerding out. Were so happy. Were going to show you the whole trailer in a minute. Lets get right to our top story of the day. Another critical day of testimony on capitol hill in the impeachment inquiry, a key figure in the ukraine controversy is ready to sit down and Tell Congress what he knows and the president is taking new aim at the democrats behind the investigation and republicans for not sticking up for him. Nbcs White House CorrespondentKristen Welker with the latest on all of it. Good morning. Reporter hi, savannah, good morning to you. President trump is fighting on multiple fronts, forget another day. Hes calling on republicans to get tougher to defend his presidency, and bracing for what could be a pivotal day of testimony on capitol hill. In just hours, one of the key figures in the ukraine controversy is expected to take the hot seat. Bill taylor is the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine, and his Text Messages will likely be front and center on capitol hill today. In one, taylor wrote its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign. That message sent to the top eu ambassador, Gordon Sondland back in september. Sondland responded more than four hours later, the president ial has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. Sondland recently testified he was directed by the president to write just that and does not know why the aid was held up. The president taking new aim at the entire investigation. Pelosi, shifty schiff, schumer, these people are trying to destroy the country. Its a very bad thing that theyre doing. The president of the United States should be allowed to run the country, not have to focus on this kind of crap. Reporter it comes after the president called on members of his own party to do a better job defending him amid the intensifying investigations by house democrats. Republicans have to get tougher and fight because the democrats are trying to hurt the Republican Party before the election. Reporter and he tried to rally his core supporters by warning impeachment could be inevitable. I think they want to, any democrat wants to because theyre not going to beat me in the election. Of course they want to impeach. Why would they not want to impeach me. Its so illegitimate, it cannot be the way our great founders meant this to be. Reporter adding to the anxiety inside the white house, some republicans have been sharply critical. We certainly cant have president s asking Foreign Countries to provide something of political value, that is, after all against the law. Reporter prompting the president to lash out, accusing republicans of failing to out match democrats. I think theyre lousy politicians, but two things they have, theyrcious, and they stick together. They dont have mitt romney in their mitts. Reporter as for ambassador taylor he will testify behind doors. Taylor is viewed as a high eye that may raise eyebrows. Kristen, on the issue of the president s choice to have the g7 summit at one of his own resorts. He later cancelled that decision. I know you have more of the back story, what led up to it. Reporter thats right. The president has been defiant in defending his position to have the g7 summit at his resort in doral, florida, missing concerns that it would violate the emoluments clause, that would prohibit people from profiting off the presidency. They say youll get promotion, you dont think i get enough promotion . I get more promotion than any human being thats ever lived. I dont think you people with this phoney emoluments clause, and by the way, i would say that its cost me anywhere from 2 to 5 billion to be president , and thats okay. Reporter and nbc news has learned the president suddenly changed course and decided to pull the plug on doral late saturday after hearing from a group of House Republicans who were meeting at camp david who were opposed to the idea. Thats according to two sources in the room. Savannah. Kristen welker, thank you very much. Also this morning, parts of the south are bracing for even more Severe Weather. The system responsible for those devastating tornados in texas that destroyed homes and schools and knocked out power to tens of thousands, well, that is not moving toward the east coast. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in dallas. Hey, gabe, good morning. Reporter hoda, good morning. This was the strongest october tornado in Dallas County in half a century. Just look at all this all this devastation. The ef3 tornado crossed two major interstates and slammed a populated area amazingly, no one was seriously injured and the storm system turned deadly in two other states this morning, a Severe Weather system barrels east, a trail of destruction stretches nearly 20 miles across densely populated dallas. We just heard the winds very loud, and then everything went crazy. Reporter the National Weather service now says this was an ef3 tornado, packing winds up to 140 miles an hour. Incredibly no one was seriously injured. And the glass came in this way . Pearl huddled with his family in the bedroom. He just grabbed the bed and put it on top of us and thats when everything started popping into the room. Reporter desperate residents are now packing up what they have left. Everybody is scrambling as you can see, trying to get their few belongings and dont know where to go. Reporter the system turned deadly as it tore across other states toppled trees killed at least two people in oklahoma and arkansas two others died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning during a for tens of power outage tornadoes touched down in missouri and tennessee crews dangled from helicopters as they rushed to restore power for thousands. The lights went out and just like that, the winds just ripped and when they whipped, we knew something was seriously going on reporter Frank Mcgovern and his family dove into this tiny crawl space just in time. Then we got out and the real shocker was to look in the backyard, see no roof and no wall, and to see all of the lightning and the flashing and everything was going on. It was pretty impressive it was a memory i will never lose reporter and how thankful are you to have made it out of that crawl space guardian angels. Reporter this is all thats left of franks home the family says that theyre trying to salvage what they can, but this is likely a total loss. Be closed today. And thousands of people are still without power. Savannah and hoda. All right, dave, thank you very much. And als going to give us his forecast to let us know where that storm is headed. Remarkably, grateful for his life, what really really matters. We move to the crisis in syria, the ceasefire negotiated by the u. S. Is set to end today, and in the meantime, turkey president and Russias Vladimir Putin are coming facetoface today for a high stakes summit on the situation there nbcs chief Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel is in Northern Syria with all the latest richard, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah, everyone here is watching the clock to see if this ceasefire holds or if turkey will resume its military assault on the kurds who say that President Trump doesnt seem to care if they live or die. This morning around 80,000 children the un now says are among hundreds of thousands of kurds forced from their homes by the Turkish Military assault President Trump effectively allowed to happen. As u. S. Troops in syria leave, many heading for iraq, theyre leaving behind the kurds, close u. S. Allies who say they now face ethnic cleansing. U. S. Officials tell nbc news the white house is considering leaving a small number of american troops in Northern Syria to protect oil fields. We have a small group there, and weve secured the oil. Other than that, theres no reason for it in our opinion. Reporter while President Trump focuses on syrias oil, turkey and russia are focused on carving up the whole country turkeys president erdogan meeting this morning with Vladimir Putin in sochi. Theyre expected to divvy up zones in syria where russian and Syrian Government troops would have control and others where turkey plans to settle millions of syrian arab refugees displacing the kurds the kurds fear this could be the end for them in Northern Syria their homeland we have been following marad, a teacher for two years. Before she was hopeful for a future with american protection. Now you promised us to help us but you betrayed us. Reporter now, shes burying her neighbors, and worries kurds will be burying more as the u. S. Brokered ceasefire expires tonight. I know youll be watching to see how things take place there. On another topic, the pentagon reportedly taking precautions in afghanistan in response to the administrations decisions to what happened in syria how does this all fit together reporter well, of course the pentagon is taking precautions because President Trump seems to be making radical military moves in a completely erratic fashion, pulling troops out of here without a plan, so obviously they have to have this contingency, what if tomorrow President Trump decides to tweet that all american troops are going to suddenly leave afghanistan which by the way would mean the fall of afghanistan and the rise of the taliban there, and just one more indication of how erratic the military Decision Making is right now, the defense secretary said that most of the troops leaving here are going to be moving to iraq so they can defend iraq, and fight isis. Today, the Iraqi Military said thats not the plan and that u. S. Troops cannot stay in the country, only transit through. Richard engel in Northern Syria for us, thank you. Craig joins the table now, breaking story to our neighbors up north yeah, hoda, savannah. Good morning Justin Trudeau has won a second term as Prime Minister of canada, overcoming scandals that tarnished his image as a liberal icon trudeaus party took the most seats in parliament, but failing short of a majority meant they liberals would have to form with the opposition to pass legislation. Regardless of how you cast your ballots, ours is a team that will fight for all canadians. Trudeau told supporters it has been the greatest honor of his life to serve in the past. Also, this morning, there are new developments in the fatal accident involving the wife of an american diplomat overnight, british authorities announced they plan to send investigators here to the u. S. To interview her nbc National CorrespondentMiguel Almaguer has more on this one. Good morning. Anne sacoolas has admitted she was driving on the wrong side of the road when she killed a british teenager on his motorcycle but she anger eed many when she left the country declaring diplomatic immunity. There are calls for her to return to the uk and stand trial. British Police Investigating the death of teenager harry dunn, announced they plan to travel to the u. S. To interview the woman who is responsible. The suspect has cooperated fully with the police and with the authorities. She has also requested to be interviewed by British Police officers under caution in the United States. Reporter Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an american diplomat admits she killed the teen in a wrongway crash in august, but says she had no time to react because it happened so fast. Just weeks after the accident, sacoolas returned to the u. S. Saying it had become too difficult for her family to remain in the Small Community where the accident happened. But her claim of diplomatic immunity sparked an International Uproar british prosecutors have not said whether they would recommend charges in the case. We continue to urge u. S. Authorities and the individual in question to fully cooperate with the investigation reporter overnig, the British Foreign secretary saying they objected to her leaving the country and announced a new review of immunity regulations for all american personnel i do not believe the current arrangements are right and a review will look at how we can make surthherrangement cannot be used in this way again. Reporter just last week, harry dunns parents met with President Trump at the white house, urging him to help return sacoolas back to the uk. I felt the sincerity but all i can do is hope that will be carried forward. Reporter President Trump revealing during that sit down with the family that sacoolas was actually in the next room and wanted to meet with them, but dunns parents declined. I dont think it would have gone too well. Reporter in a letter from her legal team, sacoolas said she was terribly sorry for the tragic mistake, adding she wants to meet with the family to apologize and take responsibility but the dunn family says that can only happen if she returns to the uk to face justice. Overnight, a spokesperson for the dunn family tells nbc news they had thought the investigation was actually complete but had not been given official word back we reached out to a representative for Anne Sacoolas and the state department but have not heard back. Miguel, thank you. Firefighters in los angeles are still battling a brush fire this morning that threatened multimilliondollar homes and prompted investigations. This happened in pacific palisades, flames blackened 40 acres. Crews and helicopters attacked that fire in a difficult to access hillside area no structures have been destroyed and the evacuation orders have now been lifted. Time now to turn to mr. Roker for his forecast hey, al. Hey, guys, good morning the evacuation orders may go back into effect as we get, we have right now high fire danger, red flag warnings, high fire watches for 23 Million People. Were going to look in more detail in the next hour. Were watching this line of showers and thunderstorms, same line that triggered the tornadoes back through texas and the plains we right now have a risk for storm hazards stretching from cape hatteras, raleigh, wilmington, all the way down to jacksonville cant rule out a tornado or two. Rainfall amounts generally going to be anywhere up to 1 to 2 inches, especially as you get to Northern New England and back to the west, were going to be looking at problems as well. Were looking at strong winds bringing cold air, 18 Million People at risk for gusts of up to 65 Miles Per Hour scattered power outages, the strongest october storm since 2012 and with those winds come airport delays minneapolis, st. Paul and chicago, for gusty winds and here in the east, new york, washington, d. C. Later this evening, the clouds and heavy rain, raleigh for severe storms. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. As we check out our high temperatures today, its going to feel more like summer, reaching into the mid 80s in the south bay, low 90s for the inland east bay, and well see some low 90s also in parts of the north bay. Then tomorrow, well have a high fire danger, so fire weather watch going up for elevations above 1,000 feet, and that continues into thursday, as we get some gusty winds and look at how hot its going to be, reach in the low 90s and gradually cooling off for the weekend. And thats your latest weather. Savannah. All right, al, thank you. Coming up, the battle to end haz