Imposter. He knows full well that hes in that office way over his head. And so he has to diminish everyone else. The latest from washington just ahead. All that, plus under fire, Prince Andrew grants a rare interview about his friendship with accused rapist Jeffrey Epstein. Do i regret the fact that he has quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming, yes. Unbecoming, he was a sex offender. Yes. And his bizarre denial of the story. This is accuser told us. Today exclusive, Kim Kardashian west tells us what it was like to be in the room with rodney reed when he learned his execution was being halted. It was just this overwhelming sigh of relief and hope. And bearing down. Brown takes it in for a touchdown. The Los Angeles Rams pick up a big win over the Chicago Bears on sunday night to keep their playoff hopes alive. Today, monday, november 18th, 2019. Announcer 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. Its nice to have you with us on a monday morning. And it is a very busy one, a lot of breaking news overnight and over the weekend. Lets talk about that deadly mass shooting. It happened at a house party. That was in fresno, california. And theres a frantic search for the gunman. We have the latest details for you. Good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah, hoda. It was another weekend of violence in california, which has seen a rash of recent deadly shootings. Now, this latest incident, a horrifying scene at a house party. Police right now hunting for the killer who left four people dead. This morning, a manhunt is underway in california. Police searching for whoever opened fire sunday night at a Family Gathering in fresno killing four people and wounding six others. Any unit citywide thats available to start off, theres at least six victims right now. Reporter Authorities Say the gunman or possibly multiple shooters burst into the Backyard Party where dozens of friends and family members were watching the sunday night football game. They shot into the backyard where most people were at this party striking ten people. The fact that there was a shooting at a residence in whats a relatively peaceful area of southeast fresno causes people concern, and it should. This incident just the latest in a string of Mass Shootings in california in recent weeks. On thursday, a 16yearold student killed two classmates and wounded three others in a shooting in a high school in Santa Clarita and shootings at two separate halloween parties, one in a San Francisco suburb and another in long beach left eight people dead. Police now trying to figure out what led to this most recent violence last night that has this community on edge. This is senseless violence, were going to do everything we can to find out who the perpetrators are and bring them to justice. Youre talking about this manhunt thats underway as we can speak. What can you tell us about that search . Yeah. Ice right now, savannah are canvassing that neighborhood. They are looking for surveillance video, for witnesses, anything that might help them piece together what happened, and they believe it is very likely this was a targeted shooting and concerns this could have been worse with women and children inside the house where the shooting took place in the backyard. Back to you. Really disturbing. Sam brock, thank you very much. And we do have more breaking news. Overnight, violence escalated in hong kong with police and protesters clashing on a university campus. Nbcs matt bradley is in hong kong for us this morning. Hey, matt, what are you seeing . Reporter hey, well, just after an afternoon lull in the violence, we saw hundreds of protesters coming right up to this police line and in the past ten minutes they fired tear gas and dispersed them. Theyre trying to keep the protesters from the Polytechnic University behind me. Today hong kongs chaos intensified, hundreds of young protesters barricaded inside one of the citys top universities, squaring off against police for days, armed with rocks, molotov cocktails, even homemade catapults and bows and arrows. Yesterday, one impaled a leg. Any weapons which have been a weapon factory without a doubt. This is a murderous edge. Reporter police answering with tear gas and arresting more than 150 people. Battles raging all night long, turning this university into a fortress and students into warriors. At one point an Armored Police truck tried to approach a column of protesters but facing a barrage of molotov cocktails lighting it up and forcing it to reverse. Hong kong streets are once again gridlocked and right now the action has really intensified and become more frequent. More than five months into hong kongs antigovernment protest, activists now determined to turn weekly mass demonstrations into daily acts of disobedience. Protesters say they want more freedom and more autonomy from mainland china. I want to support our people and they protect us. Protect democracy. Reporter for police, the protesters are little more than criminals. You know, the University Administrators have been trying for days to try to negotiate a peaceful end to this, but, you know, with this renewed violence in just the last ten minutes, it looks like this is going to last. Hoda. All right. Matt bradley for us live in hong kong. Matt, thank you. It is the start of another critical week in the impeachment investigation. Eight witnesses set to testify this week. Among them, the ambassador at the center of it all who changed his story later, and two witnesses who heard that now notorious phone call firsthand. Nbcs chief White House CorrespondentHallie Jackson has the story. Good morning. Good morning. Two newly released depositions are setting the stage for the big week ahead youre talking about with key public hearings tomorrow through thursday. And now, House Speaker nancy pelosi is comparing President Trump to the only president in modern history who stepped down under scandal. A new response from President Trump after this suggestion from House Speaker nancy pelosi that he himself testify in it. He could speak all the truth that he wants. You dont expect him at the wants to take the oath of office or he could do it in writing. He has every opportunity to present his case. President trump this morning tweeting even though i did nothing wrong and dont like giving credibility to this no due process hoax i like the idea and will in order to get congress focused again strongly consider it. Pelosi also making clear where she stands on the president implying he should resign. What the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did. But at some point Richard Nixon cared about the country enough to recognize that this could not continue. Reporter it comes as the president is now suggesting without evidence that jennifer williams, a state Department Employee detailed to the Vice President s staff is a never trumper. Williams set to testify publicly tomorrow told investigators privately she thought that controversial july call between President Trump and the ukrainian leader was unusual and inappropriate. Former Top National Security council staffer tim morrison also set to speak publicly tomorrow tells investigators he was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed in that call. When the president asked for personal political help after freezing military aid to ukraine. But morrison still asked lawyers to review it for placement in a more secure server because he felt it would be damaging it it leaked. You had tim morrison who was on the nsc staff said alarm bells immediately went off for him. There are a lot of people who worked in the Trump Administration who have countering views to that and theyve not been allowed to come forward. Reporter of course, worth pointing out that the white house has blocked key potential witnesses from testifying, of course, like acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, savannah. The president had an unexpected visit to the hospital this weekend. Can you tell us about that . Reporter he went to walter reed and the president says that happened on saturday for phase one of his yearly physical. Now, this was a little unusual because unlike the president s past checkups this was not on his advance public schedule and hes never done his physical in stages before. So that unannounced trip sparked some speculation but the white house says the president is perfectly healthy and that the visit was routine and the president himself says everything is great. Before i let you go. Theres another headline, we have been covering vaping a lot on the show. There was a proposed ban from the federal government on some of those ecigarettes, the flavored ones, but now there might be a change. What can you tell us . Reporter thats the deal, and, yes, we have talked about this before, savannah, the president pledging to ban flavored ecigarettes. This is an issue the first lady was vocal about. Now reports show the president was swayed by advisers this month who told him this would not play well politically for him. A white house spokesman told the Washington Post they wont speculate on the final outcome, but this is definitely a story were watching closely. Hallie jackson, thank you so much. Hallie, excuse me, hoda, savannah, good morning, good morning to hallie as well. This could also be a critical week in the 2020 president ial race. The next democratic debate will be held wednesday and that debates happening as a new name has rocketed to the top of a key poll in a crucial battleground state. Nbcs Geoff Bennett has the latest on this one. Geoff, good morning. Reporter hey, craig, good morning to you. Mayor Pete Buttigieg is having a major moment in iowa. The latest poll in iowa shows the south bend, indiana, mayor with a resounding lead for the first time in the democratic president ial primary. And thats unfolding as former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg makes a significant reversal as he considers jumping into the jampacked democratic president ial field this morning, a big iowa boost for mayor Pete Buttigieg the democratic president ial hopeful rocketing to the top of the latest Des Moines Register cnn poll with 25 of iowas likely caucusgoers now picking mayor pete as their first choice for president. I have been feeling momentum, and a sense of when people hear the message, they connect with it but were not getting carried away by a poll results. Reporter buttigieg le leapfrogging over senator elizabeth warren, who was polling at 16 , and joe biden, and senator Bernie Sanders both at 15 each. The latest reshuffling of the top tier democrats comes as former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared to take another step toward a possible 2020 bid. Bloomberg in a major reversal apologizing for his longstanding support of stop and frisk, a controversial policing policy struck down by a federal judge for targeting blacks and latinos. I didnt understand that back then, the full impact that stops were having on the black and latino communities i realize back then i was wrong, and im sorry. Reporter with the 2020 field still taking shape, President Trump dealt another blow at the ballot box that could foreshadow a tougher than expected reelection road ahead democratic louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards winning another term in a state mr. Trump won by 20 points President Trump had visited louisiana three times to campaign for the republican in the race, including two rallies in the past ten days you got to give me a big win, please okay reporter louisiana following kentucky as the second state that voted for mr. Trump in 2016 to elect a democrat as governor in the past month despite the president s personal pleas and you can add to all of that, former president barack obama offering some rare advice to the 2020 democratic president ial contenders in new comments hes warning them not to veer too far to the left its a move, he said, woul alienate americans who would otherwise be open to voting for the democrats next year, so the former president said the average american doesnt think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it he was careful not to call out any candidates by name, but his speech made clear hes definitely advocating for the more moderate approach craig. Geoff bennett there for us in washington, thank you. We have a lot more to get to this morning including Colin Kaepernick his workout was supposed to be a chance for him to showcase his skills, but the event did not go off exactly as planned, leading to a new war of words between the controversial quarterback and the league nbc National CorrespondentMiguel Almaguer has details on this for us. Hey, miguel, good morning. Reporter hoda, good morning. Colin kaepernick hasnt played for the nfl in over three years. Over the weekend, he stepped onto the field hoping to land himself a spot on a new team while that remains to be seen, his attorney is speaking out about the controversial weekend workout. For the first time in nearly three years, Colin Kaepernick back on the field playing in front of nfl scouts, but things didnt go exactly as planned just 30 minutes before the private workout was set to begin in atlanta, the quarterback and his team announcing an audible, a change of plans saying he would hold an open, independent showcase of his own. My biggest thing with everything today was making sure we had transparency of what went on. Reporter scouts from 25 teams agreed to atend the nf hosted workout but only eight showed up after kaepernicks change of venue. Showing off his skills for 40 minutes on a high school field, on twitter, the nfl calling him a no show. The once star quarterback who led the 49ers to a super bowl appearance has not played professionally since the 2016 season the same year he led a movement but ignited a firestorm, kneeling during the National Anthem to protest Police Brutality and Racial Injustice but kaepernicks Attorney Says the chance to land a new contract may have been doomed from the start i think that this entire thing was a publicity stunt. They never expected us to say yes under their conditions. Reporter behind the scenes contentious negotiations among kaepernicks request, an amendment to the nfls liability in a statement, the league says the waiver is standard for all free agents. Kaepernick also requested the workout to be open to the media. Gehrig geragos says that request was denied by the league we werent going to let them control the footage and control the narrative that he wasnt in football shape reporter so where does this all leave us, Colin Kaepernick remains an unrestricted free agent. Any nfl team can pick him up but so far he doesnt appear to have any offers hoda all right, miguel, thank you. I didnt know if craig had anything to say. No, no. Im surprised we do usually turn to you for sports i would be surprised at this point if there was a team that picked up Colin Kaepernick that was what i was thinking in my head. Okay. And then you just blurted it out. And now it can be told. Thank you. Lets go to al with the weather. Hes got a check of the forecast do you have any thoughts i do about this oh, dear look at the flooding along the North Carolina coast we have a series of deer trying to buck the trend of all that is going on you can see we have had a lot of coastal flooding along the carolinas coast, and now that system is starting to make its way up the coast were going to be looking at some strong winds as thi system moves in, and then a secondary system is going to push in as well. Right now weve go coastal flood advisories stretching from new england to virginia for 15 Million People minor to moderate flooding and as we move up the coast, Winter Weather advisories for 13 Million People, freezing rain, sleet, snow tonight, and tomorrow into parts of new england. This first system, the noreaster moves up and off the coast today, rain and gusty winds along the coast. Then tomorrow this secondary system slides to the north and east bringing some heavier snow, and so snowfall amounts are going to be basically confined to upstate new york into northern new england, anyone where from two to three inches of snow. Northern new england could be upwards of 5 to 6 inches, and a lot of wind from new york city to boston out to nantucket that makes for airport delays from boston, new york, philly, and washington if you have highprofile vehicles, minivans look for trouble on the roads i87, new york to montreal boston to albany, i90 washington to boston on i95 were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds when you shop small you help support your community from after School Programs to the arts so