Raid that killed the leader of isis, a rare look at the armys elite delta force in action. All that, plus not liking it, facebook under new pressure after twitter bans all political ads. A massive storm and record breaking cold set to impact tens of millions of halloween trick or treaters all across the nation. And nats incredible. The Washington Nationals rally to beat the Houston Astros and become world series champions. The teams first ever title setting off a celebration the Nations Capital hasnt seen in decades. Today, thursday, october 31st, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, welcome to today, thank you for joining us on this thursday morning. Halloween may be a little rainy but you dont who dont care, our crowd thats outside. Were going to go out and join them, weather permitting. It looks great. Were hoping to get outside. Nobodys celebrating like washington, d. C. This morning, the nats pull it off, goes to seven games. Historic because everyone won on the road and lost at home. I dont think thats ever happened in world series history. We see a lot of red and white there and there was some red and white this morning. Craig walked in decked out, he was ready. You think he is fired up . All of that just ahead. Lets get right to the top story of the morning, the overwhelming challenge facing firefighters at this hour in california. One of the big concerns over the past 24 hours, the Ronald Reagan president ial library in simi valley, you can see how close the flames are coming. Miguel almaguer is in simi valley with an extraordinary look from the front lines. Reporter firefighters are waking up to a mixed bag. They seem to have things under control. This wildfire that forced 30,000 people to evacuate for the most part seems to be in good condition. We havent seen any active flames here, but i want to show you pictures of a fire that was burning about an hour and a half away from here. At least five homes have been destroyed. The big concern is going to be the winds here, which could fan the flames all day long. Racing across tinder dry hillsides, this is the inferno firefighters feared. In simi valley entire neighborhoods threatened by those powerful winds. 40 and 50mileperhour gusts, whipping up firenadoes. This is the terrifying view for crews facing the intense heat and flames. Not just the flames that makes this winddriven fire so dangerous. You can see embers are flying everywhere. And that can ignite a new fire a mile away. The blaze surrounding the Ronald Reagan president ial library, coming within 50 feet of historic exhibits, but sparing the compound, thanks to a steady air attack from water dropping helicopters and fixed wing planes laying down lines of retardant. Time to go, bud. Reporter an intense firefight saving thousands of homes. Resources have been stretched thin withmultiple fires breaking out across the region. In Riverside County winds Strong Enough to topple tractor trailers kicked up a fastmoving fire near the freeway. As the flames approached dozens were quickly evacuated from a senior center. Neighbors helping save animals. This horse seemingly running back into the fire to help other horses escape. On the west side of l. A. Residents returning to assess the damage after the getty fire destroyed a dozen homes. And in Northern California firefighters finally making progress against the devastating kincade fire which has now torched more than 76,000 acres over the past week, claiming at least 266 structures. This cannot be the new normal. Reporter but on the front lines the most extreme wind event in over a decade shows no signs of letting up. Its a new reality on the fire lines as winddriven blazes take a terrible toll on the golden state now turning red. The good news here, during the drive in, we saw very few active flames. There are certainly still hot spots, so firefighters will have to keep an eye on that as well as the other fast moving wildfires burning outside of los angeles, crews will have their hands full as this busy day of strong powerful winds continues across the region. Back to you. Miguel almaguer, thank you. This is a big day in the impeachment fight, set to enter a new phase in the full house, holds its first formal vote on the matter. White house correspondent Kristen Welker with the latest. Savannah, good morning to you, it is another critical day in the impeachment inquiry. The full house is expected to v formalize the rules of the road for the process, moving the closed door depositions of key witnesses to public hearings at some point in the future. All as one of the president s former top aides has been called to testify. This morning the house is set to take a major step forward, holding a full vote in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Our plan is to start moving into public hearings, wrap that up and present it to the Judiciary Committee so that they can do their work. Reporter if it passes todays resolution would permit public hearings, allow staff attorneys to question witnesses, and enable the president or his counsel to participate in the proceedings. For weeks House Speaker nancy pelosi said a vote was not necessary but she has changed course, in part amid pressure from republicans, including the president who have criticized the entire process, which has so far taken place behind closed doors. People are still in a basement in a secure room in the basement trying to make us look as bad as possible but thats not working too well. Reporter meanwhile john bolton was asked by House Democrats to answer questions behind closed doors next week but his lawyer tells nbc news bolton is not willing to appear voluntarily. Still, boltons testimony could be critical. Other witnesses have testified he repeatedly raised concerns about rudy giuliani, the president s personal attorney and his interactions with ukraine, during his time in the white house bolton often clashed with mr. Trump over a range of issues. We actually got along very well. He made some very big mistakes. So kristen, give us the tick tock for today, what the vote is expected to be. Reporter savannah, we could actually see a vote within the next several hours. This is significant because every single House Democrat and republican will be asked to go on the record about impeachment. Meanwhile, in other key testimony today, tim morrison, a top russia adviser is set to speak with lawmakers behind closed doors, morrison being the second white house official on that july 25th phone call between President Trump and the president of ukraine to do so. Just yesterday it was announced morrison will soon leave his job with the administration. Savannah . Thank you. Craig has now details on that raid. Yes, good morning to you. Were getting a first look at that daring operation carried out by u. S. Special forces. The pentagon has released dramatic video of the assault as it unfolded. Richard engel is in syria with more on that. Richard, good morning. Reporter good morning, craig. The military released views from above, no closeups but you do get a sense of how the raid unfolded, while american commandos were on the ground for about two hours. The u. S. Military released aerial videos of the raid unfolding. U. S. Aircraft shooting a group of what officials said was armed men, clearing the way for the ground assault then Delta Force Commandos move in, calling on those in the compound to surrender. Those who came out of the building were checked for weapons and explosives and moved away from the immediate area u. S. Forces detained and released the other nine combatants. Others still inside. Five isis members inside the compound presented a threat to the force. They did not respond to commands in arabic to surrender and continued to threaten the force, they were then engaged by the force and killed, four women and one man. Reporter the isis leader baghdadi was hiding. He was discovered hiding in a tunnel when capture at the hands of imminent u. S. Forces, he detonated a bomb, killing himself and two Young Children with him. Reporter u. S. Troops destroyed the compound, leveling it with air strikes as they left, taking away a spy who kurdish Officials Say helped lead the u. S. Strike team to baghdadis hideout but if you think killing baghdadi means the end of isis look at these aerial videos with a syrian camp of 70,000 people, many are isis supporters and Family Members of isis fighters, conditions here are appalling. Hundreds of children have died in the last ten months from malnutrition and disease reacting to baghdadis death this woman said isis will only grow stronger. Richard, what more do we know about that spy who helped the u. S. Forces get to baghdadi . Reporter we know a lot about him. We spoke to the commander of Kurdish Forces here who was controlling the spy and then passing on intelligence to the americans, passing it onto the cia. We know that theyve been tracking down through this spy baghdadi for the last five months, this spy was helping set up safe houses and was able to get right next to baghdadi himself, memorize his location and help determine how many people were actually in the compound when it was raided. So he played quite an essential role and there are reports that he will get all of, if or part of the 25 million reward. All right, Richard Engel in northern syria, thank you and well have more on the raid in the next half hour, including a look inside the secret of Delta Force Commando group that carried out the raid. And something were talking about, the weather, wondering if you can trick or treat al, you are tracking a major storm. The eastern third of the country is dealing with this you can see heavy showers and thunderstorms, stretching from the great lakes to the gulf and back behind it, colder air, snow in chicago, and stretching back to the midwest we have a risk for Severe Weather across 11 states, 38 Million People at risk, a few tornadoes possible and also looking at damaging winds and weve got, speaking of winds, weve got wind advisories, high wind watches and warnings for 76 Million People stretching from the midwest all the way into new england, heres the front bringing in heavy showers and thunderstorms, soaking rain into new england, severe storms into the midatlantic later today as we move into tonight the system continues to the east, bringing heavy thunderstorms overnight into the northeast and moving out through new england rainfall amounts, one to three inches of rain thats going to be the worst of it as far as the trick or treating the hourly rainfall rates up to an inch along the eastern seaboard, the heaviest rain moves in just about 8 00, 9 00 toward the end of trick or treating craig . Mr. Roker, thank you, sir. Breaking overnight, a massive fire broke out on a passenger train in pakistan this morning leaving more than 70 passengers dead. Officials say it started after a gas stove was taken aboard by a passenger. It suddenly exploded survivors said it took the train nearly 20 minutes to come to a halt after the fire broke out. Passengers started screaming for help they say several people jumped off the train to escape the flames. The Chicago Teachers Union announced wednesday night it has reached a tentative deal with the School District to end the strike thats kept kids out of class for 11 days now. The union says a return to Work Agreement has yet to be reached. One of the late sticking points has been the refusal by chicagos mayor to add makeup days to the end of the School Calendar the new agreement is not perfect but they received many demands include class size caps and a nurse in every school. Washington nationals came from behind, won the world series craig, im not saying that you need a little concealer on the side, but you were up, huh i was, i watched the whole game youve got to give it to the astros as well great game, great series, actually incredibly neither team was able to win a game at home the entire series the nats kept that streak alive in a deciding game seven to take the title. 32 there it is the Washington Nationals are world champions. Game seven of the world series, an instant classic the nats clinching a teams first title. Out of the bullpen. That is adding to big insurance runs in the ninth. Two more runs. The final score of the deciding game, nats 6, astros 2. Back in d. C. Nats fans who packed their home stadium celebrating in the pouring rain with the teams adopted song baby sharke dugout already gone. Reporter one fans epic slip and slide on the dugout already gone viral the teams manager kicked out of game six for arguing a controversial call ecstatic. Im so proud of all these guys. Even though theres no crying in baseball Just One Team can win. Ive got a group of heartbroken men in there that did everything they could too of baseballs best. Bring a world series championship to this city and we fell one game shy. Washingtons ace max scherzer taking the mound despite neck spasms earlier in the week that left him unable to lift his arm. He fought through some unbelievable innings. Pretty upbeat until the latter third of the game. But the nats got to the astros bullpen, crushing two home runs. Nationals players celebrating by dancing in the dugout. The nationals franchise is just 15 years old but its been nearly a century since d. C. Fans have had a world series champ, the washington senators last winning it all back in 1924 now, the nationals bringing the gold back to the Nations Capital. Yes. Wow. Yes. My wife went out for the game she was still up with the nats fans who were there. The parade, saturday, theyve already announced. Are you going yeah. I thought your tie was a nats tie, but the design is very close. Very close. Almost the curly w. Ryan zimmerman, first baseman, third base for years, they call him mr. National, with the team from the beginning, since 2005 when the franchise started so the win for all the guys special, but for guys like that, pretty special. Last night i was with two members of the amazing mets from 69. Ed cranepool and art champsky. Congratulations to the nats. And great series for the astros too were looking at severe storms in the northeast, wet snow back behind the great lakes, a record chill coming into the Central Plains in the southwest, strong winds do continue down through california but those will start to dissipate later today were going to look at that coming up in the next half hour but were going to see your local forecast in the next 30 seconds yeah, switching and saving was really easy drink it all up. Good could have used a little salt. Visit geico. Com and see how easy saving on renters insurance can be. Good thursday morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. As we take a live look outside at the golden gate bridge, our air quality will be an issue as we go into the day especially for the north bay. We see drifts of smoke. It is a spare the air alert day and were going to see moderate air quality for the bay, the coast, the inland areas and the south bay will have some good air quality today. 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