Today saturday, october 13 12th. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill along with craig melvin and dylan dreyer. This is one of the most densely Populated Areas in the world. Cyclone, hurricane, same thing . Same thing but called Different Things in different parts of the world. Because its in the pacific . Yes. A whether a boy with be reunited with his family is in question. A ticket and likely a good deal of supervision on that flight. Also ahead this morning, we are following a developing story in new mexico. Police there are looking for nine teenagers who are missing from a rehabilitation ranch where they were living. The owner of that ranch is also missing this morning. We will bring you the latest on that investigation. It might somewhat like an oxymoron. Obese and health care. We talk about how some obese are of health. A mother who never appeared in her familys photos partially because she was taking the pictures but a lot of it was she didnt like the way she looked. But soon she realized she needed to be in those pictures to be a part of her kids memories and her own. We are going to talk to her about her transformation coming up this morning. The issue of finding youre not in the picture, is real. Ewe can never find family photos because we are always taking pictures of the kids. Selfies are great but only your arm in the picture. Todays top story, the governments shutdown. It is now day 12 of the shutdown. While there do to be more signs of progress, there is no agreement. Kristen welker is live at the white house. Reporter good morning to you. The house and senate will be back in session today trying to figure out a way forward. It seems like they are inching toward a deal, in part, because there is increasing pressure for them to do so. According to our latest nbc news wall street journal poll, a majority of americans are putting the blame squarely on republicans for this mess, so that party really feeling the heat. On friday, president obama met with Senate Republicans here at the white house. He also spoke with House Speaker john boehner on the phone. Now friday, the house had put forward a plan that would have extended the nations Borrowing Limit what we call the debt ceiling and it is set to expire in five days. The president said, look, its a good thing we are talking and moving toward progress but that deal would have only been six weeks. So the president said not good enough. He wants a longer deal. It now seems like a longer deal is coming together. May ask the president for some concessions like scaling back one of the taxes associated with hiS Health Care plan. In his weekly address, the president tried to harness the anger and call for action. Lets get a budget and put people back to work and end this government shutdown. Lets pay our bills and prevent an economic shutdown and then get back to the work of the American People because there is so much else we should be focusing our energies on right now. Reporter republicans seem to have abandoned their calls that any deal be linked to delaying or defunding the president S Health Care law. That was really a nonstarter with the democrats and the president. We will be watching it all today. We will be watching it with you. Thank you. We turn to congressman adam shift now. Congressman, good morning. Thanks for joining us. A pleasure to be with you. Reporter raised expectations now we may see the light at the end of the tunnel. Tell me how you think the next couple of days are going to play out . A lot of moving pieces right now. This morning, democrats are rolling out a discharge petition to reopen the government. Senate democrats are going to be putting forward a bill to raise the debt ceiling. House and Senate Republicans seem to be competing with each other to come up with a plan that is acceptable to the president. All of that, i think, is positive because it all moves in the direction of reopening the government and avoiding any kind of default. What do you think . Maybe a day, two days, three days . My guess is hopefully, something will congel the next couple of days. I think a growing recognition particularly in the gop that a default is completely unacceptable and the shutdown is really damaging the country and damaging their brand. So i think were coming together. This is the first time we are seeing any light at the end of the tunnel, but, still, we have no deal. And i think what we have is a much greater line of communication and a great receptivity of putting this ugly chapter behind us. You use the term damaging and it has been damaging to peoples lives and certainly to congress. Im sure you take some solace that the republicans are taking much of the heat and the blame if we look at the Public Opinion polls. 60 of the americans according to the nbc news wall street journal poll say all of congress should be fired and put you out of a job for the way congress has been acting. There is no solace to be found in any of this. The public is right to be infuriated and upset what is going on. There are no winners in a government shutdown. Im convinced the recurrent manmade artificial crises and debt ceiling and shutdown we go through every six months is the only Thing Holding back our recovery. It is infuriating because it is so so unnecessary. Hopefully we will get this done. I dont want to see a shortterm deal that lands us back in the same spot two months from now where we have to fight this out all over again. We need a structural change where Neither Party can use that something has been done keeping of the government as a bludgeon of something it doesnt have the votes for. We hope you all get it together. Congressman, thank you for talking to us. Appreciate it. The 9yearold stowaway who made headlines this week sneaking on a flight from minnesota to vegas is going back home today. Reporter quite a fantastic story when you look at it. A 9yearold boy somehow manages to get by the tsa behind me here and boards the plane and gets by the flight attendants and wasnt until the plane was en route to sin city, las vegas, he was discovered and hes in Child Protective Services since that time. A bit of history here with this boy. Its probably not a very positive story. He has been in trouble with the law in some cases, he was found to have supposedly stolen a car and that car damaged other vehicles as he was driving down the road. And, again, we should remind viewers that he is only 9 years old. So that is where the story ends in las vegas. Now the story is that he is supposed to be being brought back here to minneapolis. His own father has asked for help. His own father says he is at his wits end with his son. Chances are, when he does come back to minneapolis, he is going to be taken into some sort of protective services with regards to Child Protective Service or welfare, what have you. People who will provide him with some storm of counseling to try to sort of turn this story around. Obviously, a fantastic story. A wild story wrars to how this young boy, 9 years old, got all the way to las vegas. That it is and quite the history there too. Kevin tibbles, thanks. Time for a look at the rest of this mornings top stories. Craig melvin is here with the headlines for us. Good morning to you. The search is on this morning for nine teenage boys. Police say they were abducted from a rehabilitation ranch in new mexico. State Police Issued an amber alert, even though an attorney for the ranch director said friday that the teenagers were safe. Investigators went to the youth ranch with a search warrant. When they got there, they say the boys were missing and so was the ranch director. The 2yearold son of Minnesota VikingsAdrian Peterson has died. Police in south dakota say the child suffered head injuries consistent with abuse. They have charged 27yearold Joseph Patterson with assault in the boys death. Patterson is believed to be the boyfriend of the childs mother. The third player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has been diagnosed with a mrsa infection but the bucs plan to host the Philadelphia Eagles sunday. The team did not want to identify that third player but nfl. Com is reporting its rookie corner johnathan banks. The new comes after they say his infection had returned. Tynes lawrence was infected last august. He talked about the impact of his leaks to a group of u. S. Whistle blowers who travel to russia to give him an award. People all over the world are realizing that these programs dont make us more safe. They hurt our economy. They hurt our country. They limit our ability to speak and think and live and be creative, to have relationships to associate freedom. Michael isikoff is in d. C. With us with more on snowden. This was snowdens first oncameraance in while. What is his status right now . Snowden is federal fugitive and facing federal charges for violation of the espionage act. We see here he doesnt seem concerned here. He is even defiant. He even argues it should be u. S. Intelligence officials and not he who should be wanted for lying to congress. They say a wellknown espionage player has quietly approached the Justice Department on behalf of associates of snowden to see if there are any terms that might allow him to come home. In this video, snowden doesnt sound like anybody who is looking to make a deal. What is the future of the surveillance programs that he revealed, mike . That is interesting. There is mounting pressure in congress to curb these programs. President obama, remember, has already appointed a task force to review them. Theres an effort in congress, the last vote in congress came just 12 votes short of curbing the most controversial aspect of this program and there seems to be a building pressure that even if snowden personally doesnt have much of a future in the united states, he may well have had an impact on public policy. Michael, thank you. Folks, take a look at this amazing rescue video. Two sheep, thats right. Two sheep trapped on a cliff on an island near iceland for days apparently. Finally rescuers who were wearing cameras on their helmet, they make their way down the cliff and tie the sheep and then a lamb was a tad bit more difficult to catch. Didnt want to go . Apparently he was a bit suspicious of the rescuers so he tries to get away for a while. Eventually, the rescuers were able to corner the lamb and the sheep and get them to safe. There is a joke in there somewhere. Two sheep walking into a bar . But the lamb and the sheep are all fine this morning. Thanks. Dylan dreyer is here with a look at the massive cyclone we mentioned taking aim at india. A huge storm. The equivalent of a category four, almost a category five storm we could see here but it is considered a cyclone out there. You can see the flooding. This is one of the most Populated Areas in the world and the flooding is already coming on shore. Even though the eye of the storm isnt expected to make landfall moments from now, obviously the initial rain and the wind and the storm surge is coming in ahead of the eye of the storm so we are seeing massive amounts of flooding and this is going to a huge issue on the east coast of india. You can see now the storm is making its way on shore and it does have 125 135mileperhour winds. So its actually one of those areas in the world where its the most densely populated, right along this coastline here with about 4. 8 Million People evacuated up and down the coastline. So we are going to keep an eye on this storm. Again, its the equivalent to what we would see of a category 4 to category 5 storm and it will weaken as soon as it makes its way on land and rain itself out as that point as a category 2 forecast. More than a third of americans are obese and we have been warned how bad that can be for your health. It was surprising when a new study came out this week, saying that many people carrying too many extra pounds are actually healthy. Dr. Season lateven lamb joins u. We hear obese and overweight. I think many of us probably jump to the conclusion these are people who are not healthy so explain how you you can be obese and healthy. The mantle of people will transition from being overweight to being unhealthy but a small percentage early on in hair lives as young adults who may be metabolically still viewed as normal. Cholesterol and Blood Pressure is noormal. We are not talking about physical fitness but metabolic fitness but many will transition for an unhealthy state. What transitions you to unhealthy state . It is unknown. They do genetic studies. One twin is overweight and sometimes they are metabolically healthy and some are nope. Subtle differences between individuals that determine whether the fat cells themselves guess angry. When they get angry, they explode and cause diabetes and hypertension and all kinds of problems. The people who are healthy and obese theory fat cells are not angry . They are not angry. The fats do become ultimately almost angry. People who smoke and never get lung cancer and people have high cholesterol and dont get Heart Disease but i wouldnt count on it, i wouldnt bet on it. Do we need to change the focus . We need to have an understanding why people who are overweight can develop the illness. As you might look at instead of study people who are depressed, why not study people who are happy what about them protects them from depress. One size doesnt fit all. There are people who are overweight who remain healthy for longer times but i wouldnt bet on it. No reason for all of us not to be healthier in our searchers in new york are looking this morning for a missing teenager with autism. He was last seen on Surveillance Video a week ago and he hasnt been heard of from since. Katy tur has more on the efforts to find him. Reporter 14yearold devonte was last seen on video last seen running away from his new york city school. That was last friday. Now eight days without any sign of him. His dad daniel. I try not to think of the worst and i still have the support of everybody. Reporter friday, as they have done every day, the boys wornout family comb the streets with the help of volunteers. Police turned over Manhole Covers and swept the east river. Everyone hoping the rescue doesnt turn into a recovery. We get leads here and there throughout the day and we try to take them serious and call the police and the detectives. Reporter now the search has gone national. The group Autism Speaks is offering a 70,000 reward for his safe return. The Advocacy GroupVice President lisa gorg warns of the extra challenges when children with autism go missing. He may not understand what they are saying. Could you just imagine how he must be feeling and the anxiety . So he may not be able to understand what they are saying or if he can understand, he may not be able to communicate back what his needs are. Reporter in new york the nypd has expanded efforts to find the boy, especially in the subway system, since the boy was known to like trains. If you have any information this year alone, 14 kids with the disorder have wandered and died. According to the National Center for missing and exploited children. But dad daniel is not giving up. He is definitely a fighter. Reporter now still more searching and a vigil for a young boy lost in a big city. For today, katy tur, nbc news, new york. Sad news this morning. A bay area bride whose story touched thousands of people around the world lost her battle with lung cancer early this week. In july she was told she had months to live and she was determined to live the last few months to the fullest, starting with her wedding. Reporter jen was just 35 years old when she was diagnosed with stage 5 lung cancer this year. The news she had four to six months to live motivated her to focus on life. Part of that commitment meant marry jeff lang, her boyfriend of six years. Four to six weeks im treated and four to six months, treated. So when i heard that, i said, lets get married. Because i wanted to focus on life. Ive known for a long time she is the one i wanted to be with. Reporter with time, not on their side, jeff proposed and the couple gave themselves just two weeks to plan a simple wedding in jens parentss backyards but strangers had other plans. After a friend posted their story on an online message board, a local wedding planner saw the post. I was touched by the story so immediately i think i responded within like 30 seconds and said, absolutely, id love to help out. Reporter with days to make those dreams a reality, the wedding sprung to life. More than 30 vendors donated mosh more than 50,000 in goods and services. While many weddings focus on a couples future, these newlyweds celebrating the presence was the sweetest gift of all. I always think about the future but the time is not to think about it today. Today is the time to think about this now and enjoy this now. Reporter it was a picture perfect wedding day from the flowers to the champagne. Surrounded by friends and family, the couple shared their vows. For all the days of your life. Reporter with the rest of their time together with the love and sport imaginable. This past week after months of treatment, jen passed away in her Mountain View home, her husband jeff was by her side. He told owner nbc affiliate in San Francisco, her passing was beautiful and peaceful. A life cut short but not before one dream came true. I do it really gets you. When asked what message he would like to deliver after jens passing, jeff said, she may have left her body, but she is still with me and she always will be. Really her story touched so many people when we did that story and our affiliate in the bay area did a beautiful job with it and helped us get a lot of access to it. It touched so many peoples lives and inspired so many people. Its so sad you have to kind of smile. You do. They found each other and got what they wanted and had special moments. What a great attitude to have about it