And Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer alongside Natalie Morales and al roker. We have a lot of news this morning including new information about the abduction of 16yearold Hannah Anderson. Its coming from newly released search warrants in the case. Well get a live report from san diego straight ahead. Well start with that deadly violence in egypt and new fears it is far from over. Nbcs chief Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel is in cairo once again for us. Richard, good morning. Reporter good morning. Many of the casualties happened here, this burned out area was the heart of the biggest protest camp and now is being controlled by the Egyptian Security forces. That death toll . Around 500, most demonstrators, but nearly 50 from the Egyptian Army and police. After egypts militarybacked government smashed two protest camps, today it was trying to erase that they ever existed, sweeping away debris, tearing down the stage where demonstrators had been demanding that the ousted, elected president morsi from the Muslim Brotherhood be reinstated. New pictures overnight showed the scale of what happened here as a pro morsi camp several city blocks wide burned. During the 24hour crackdown, police torched the camp and opened fire on demonstrators with live ammunition. Clashes spread outside cairo and islamic extremists, sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood joined in, burning churches and attacking government buildings. The Muslim Brotherhood and its allies arent just victims here. Staterun television and newspapers show images of protesters shooting at troops and stockpiling weapons and ammunition. Some cairo residents this morning said theyre all for what the Security Forces did. I support what they did. Reporter Egyptian Police say theyre taking tough action now and want to bring stability like it was under strong man Hosni Mubarak but there will likely be more violence before that, as protesters say theyd rather die than give up. Richard, you just talked about the quest for stability. In the last 24 hours the interim Vice President of egypt elbaradei resigned in the wake of all of the violence. Where are egyptians looking in terms of someone who might bring a sense of stability . Reporter the man of the hour, matt, the general who led the take over of the government, ordered this crackdown to the Muslim Brotherhood. He is public enemy number one. To other egyptians, however, he is a nationalist who is trying to build stability and here in the square weve seen some minor celebrations where people are holding up soldiers, thanking them for what theyve done, and calling out the name of the general. Richard engel live for us in cairo this morning, thank you very much. Well, closer to home we are learning more this morning about the deadly crash of a u. P. S. Cargo plane in birmingham, alabama. Ntsb investigators back at the scene today trying to piece together what happened. Nbcs tom costello covers aviation for us and has the latest. Tom, good morning to you. Hi, savannah. The ntsb was unable to retrieve the black boxes yesterday because the plane was still smoldering, but they hope to retrieve them this morning and then fly them back to washington for analysis. In the predawn sky in birmingham, fire and smoke as u. P. S. Cargo flight 1354 crashed and burned roughly half a mile short of the runway. The pilot and copilot never made it out alive. Seconds before the crash, witnesses thought they heard the engines sputtering or back firing. It flew so close to our house until when we heard the bang it shook the house. So it was quite terrifying. I seen the sky lighting up orange. I seen the plane on fire and i was like, hes not going to make it. I just heard loud noises. Reporter the tower reports no distress calls from the pilots. The fire that consumed the aircraft, intense. We have not been able to get in and get the black boxes if you will, the cockpit voice recorder, the flight data recorder. Reporter investigators hope those recorders will help them understand what went wrong. The plane involved was an air bus a300 built in 2003 with just 11,000 flight hours logged over 6800 flights. The a300 was first built in 1972. While it generally has a good safety record, there have been dozens of incidents and accidents worldwide involving hundreds of fatalities including the crash of american flight 587 in new york in 2001. Among the questions for investigators, did the cargo shift on the u. P. S. Plane . A cargo shift was blamed on a cargo plane crash in afghanistan earlier this year. And was the crew well rest sned new faa requirements only apply to Airline Pilots not cargo pilots. Regardless of what kind of airplane youre flying, fatigue is fatigue, and the same sorts of protections need to be in place. That includes the cargo industry. Reporter in a statement, u. P. S. Says we place utmost importance on the safety of our employees, our customers, and the communities we serve. Investigators will also look closely at the cargo itself being carried. Did it contribute to the crash in any way . Three years ago a u. P. S. Crash in dubai was blamed on a shipment of lithium batteries that overheated and caught fire in flight. There are still many more questions this morning far more than answers and u. P. S. Is promising to fully cooperate with the investigation. Savannah . Tom costello in washington, thank you very much. Natalie is here now with information on a dangerous new wildfire out west. In utah a wildfire has destroyed at least 14 homes and is threatening hundreds of others. Winds kicked back up on wednesday helping to fuel the flames. The fire has consumed an estimated 2,000 acres, 300 homes having been evacuated so far. Army private Bradley Manning took the stand wednesday at his sentencing hearing in the wikileaks case and pleaded with the judge for a chance to become a productive citizen. Nbcs chief pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski joins us now with more. Jim, good morning. Reporter good morning, natalie. Already convicted in the biggest leak of u. S. Secrets in history, Bradley Manning threw himself at the mercy of the court. After long claiming he was a whistle blower, army private Bradley Manning did an abrupt about face. Standing before a military judge, manning apologized for the first time for leaking hundreds of thousands of u. S. Secrets. I am sorry that my actions hurt people, he told the court. Im sorry that it hurt the united states. Manning has been convicted on 20 charges, including espionage, for leaking a treasure trove of secret documents to the wikileaks website and its founder julian assange, including this gun camera video of the u. S. Helicopter attack in baghdad that killed two civilians and wounded children. Manning testified, he thought he could change the world. The army released a photo wednesday of manning dressed as a woman while serving in the military. During the sentencing hearing his attorney argued, manning suffers from gender identity disorder. But manning told the court that was no excuse for my action. He told the judge he knows he must pay the price for his decisions. But in a plea for mercy, asked for the chance to prove hes a good person and can return to a productive place in society. Natalie, that could be a while. The judge expected to sentence manning sometime next week and he could get up to 90 years in a military prison. Jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, thank you. We are hearing for the first time this morning the frantic 911 calls from last fridays deadly crash of the small plane into a connecticut neighborhood. Nbcs Kristen Dahlgren has more. Kristen, good morning. Reporter good morning, natalie. This is the first time were hearing panicked neighbors calling in, but we have a warning. These calls may be difficult to listen to. Within seconds of the crash, calls flooded the towns lone dispatcher. How many people onboard . We dont know. I mean, he was inbound and he they just fell out of the sky and crashed. Reporter sheer panic set in as the scope of the tragedy unfolded. 911. Whats the address of your emergency . God help oh, god reporter the twin propeller plane was upside down when it hit a row of homes just blocks from its destination, Tweed New Haven airport. Are there people injured . The woman is saying that she has two children in the back room where the plane is. Okay. Where did the what did the plane crash into . Into a house. Reporter two sisters, ages 13 and 1, were killed inside that house. The two people onboard the plane, a former microsoft executive and his 17yearold son, were also killed. The father had been flying his son around the east coast on a tour of colleges. I pray for them daily. Reporter a vigil was held for the victims in east haven, saturday, as federal aviation officials look into the cause of the crash. Now, officials should have at least their preliminary report done within the next few weeks and natalie, once the wreckage is cleared, those homes will be demolished so it is unclear when that will happen. Hard to hear those calls. Thanks so much, Kristen Dahlgren. Incredible pictures this morning 45 feet below the ocean surface. They were take nn in the bahama. The diver is known only as tom. Gibson says tom picked one of 15 reef sharks and started to hypnotise it by rubbing its nose, a practice called tonic immobility. Once the smashing was totally calm he was able to pick it up and balance it vertically in one hand until the shark becomes unhypnotised and you want to get out of there. You move your hand and he goes nose first into the sand. Then hes not happy. That works for al, too. I just rub his nose. Totally. Just balances right on my hand like that. Balancing on your hand all the time. Im loving savannahs new do. Lucy, im home. Oh, my. Terrifying. Yeah. I went red. We love it. Well. Itll be fall soon. Very nice. You should wear that dress, that other dress with that hair. That would be crazy. Little orphan annie or something. Just for fun. A change. Different. I did the same thing. No one noticed. Anyway. Lets show you what weve got. Things are finally picking up in the tropics. Weve got two areas were watching, one tropical depression number 5 just coming off the coast of africa. One were most concerned with, though, is investigation area 92l. Right now this is getting ready to come into the gulf and has tons of moisture streaming up. It is going to get caught up in the stationary front across the southeast with 80 Tropical Development. It is going to bring a lot of rain over the next 72 to 96 hours and as that happens we are talking about anywhere from 3 to 5 inches locally up to 8 inches of rain from new orleans to norfolk and thats going to cause big flooding problems as we get into the weekend. Well get to your local forecast in the next 30 seconds. Problems. Good thursday morning to you, friday eve as we like to think about it here on today in the bay taking a live look at low clouds spanning inland. This sunol. With the low clouds, running milder than 24 hours ago, about five degrees warmer to kickoff the day in livermore. That means temperatures are going to be just about as warm today in the heat of the day. 93 for livermore, 70 in San Francisco and 86 on the way to san jose, getting into the weekend, 90 degrees for saturday, upper 90s return on sunday. Battling a almost always deadly illness. This is a parasite found in nature. But every once in a while, it can go into the brain and destroy brain tissue. A 12yearold boy is fighting for his life in miami childrens hospital, and Kaylee Harding who is battling over 1,000 miles away. They have primary amebic calmed p. A. M. There have only bun 128 confirmed cases in th its almost 100 fatal. Only one person has ever survived. So doctors took notice when within the last month two cases suddenly appeared. Your stomach just drops. Because it, you know, it has an over 99 mortality. The organism that causes this illness is commonly found in fresh water lakes, ponds, and rivers. Zachary was knee boarding in a waterfilled ditch. Kaylie was swimming at a water park which has since been shut down. She has been given an experimental antifungal drug and it seems to k working. Kaylie is doing wonderful. After more than two weeks on a ventilator she is breathing on her own and has even been able to write a note to her father. Zacharys family remains hopeful. Hes fighting. He is strong. Hes really, really strong. Reporter for the doctors this is uncharted territory. Youre pulling out all the stops and doing everything you can in hopes that you have a chance to save the patient. Nancy, what is striking about this besides the rarity is how two doctors in two different states are really working together to try to save these children. These things happen, savannah, to your point, doctors share information. They want to see who is doing what, what are the tricks they have up their sleeves. When rare cases happen there just isnt much of a protocol to go from. So the fact that kaylie is doing well in arkansas may be because they detected this early and threw this experimental antifungal drug at her and lowered her body temperature very quickly. They are also battling time. Hour by hour theyll be in touch with each other and, frankly, theyre going to keep swapping information so they can figure this one out. All right. Nancy snyderman, thank you very much. Coming up, new concerns for the clintons. Reports of infighting and cash problems with the familys foundation. Have explicit texts become the new form of courtship for teenagers . The new harvard study that will have you checking your kids phones when they get home much closer from now on. But first, this is today on nbc. Teenagers . [ man ] she yours . Yeah. My first. Congratulations. Your applewood pulled pork with extra pickles sir. [ male announcer ] new subway applewood pulled pork. The sweet and smoky flavor you love. Subway. Eat fresh. 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