9yearold . Only on today, Jennifer Aniston opens up about her new dark comedy, the pressure to have kids, and living through some tough times. I have grown up three times. I feel i have had three different periods of adolescence. And its i have had an incredible evolution. Carson is sitting down with one of hollywoods brightest stars today, wednesday, august 27th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studios 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today savannah on maternity leave. Hi, gang. It will be interesting to hear from Jennifer Aniston. Absolutely. She said no matter what she has accomplished in life, the cloud hovers over her. She really gets personal with carson. And i think a lot of people might relate to this. We will hear more of that interview in just a little while. On a weapons morning, the family of Peter Theo Curtis overjoyed by his return over nearly two years after he was taken hostage in syria. He said hes been touched beyond words by the response to his freedom. Now that story is unfolding as we learn of another american born and raise here who left this country to join isis militants and then was killed fighting for that group. Nbcs chief Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel is here with more on that. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The u. S. Military is flying surveillance flights overseer ya. It seems increasingly likely that the u. S. Military will soon be bombing isis targets inside syria as washington is acknowledging what a safe haven syria has become and magnate for foreign fighters, including some americans. A 33yearold american, doug the lass Mcarthur Mccain joined isis and died on sunday in syria. A battle captured on camera as isis fighters attacked a checkpoint held by a Syrian Opposition group. But he died in this battle. Nbc news viewed photos too graphic to show with his body with his distinctive tattoo. His u. S. Passport in his pocket when he died. The white house confirmed his death late tuesday noting we were aware of u. S. Citizen Douglas Mcauthur mcc3 c3 su pasaporte en su bolsillo. He converted to islam 10 years ago, eventually moving to san diego, taking the name duale the slave of allah in june, mccain wrote an isis member to say we will see you soon. You hear this american going to the middle east, joining forces with isis and dying alongside them. First of all, is isis actively recruiting americans and westerners, or are these americans people like this mccain actively going out to try to find their way to isis . A little bit of both. A year ago isis was actively calling on people, americans, europeans, to come and join the fight. It took over large portions of iraq. A lot of people on their own decide to the sign up, go through turkey and join the fight themselves. It doesnt need to advertise anymore. You quoted we are aware of u. S. Douglas Mcarthur Mccains presence in syria. How do we prevent them from coming pack into the country . Theyre not that difficult to find. This man had a big internet presence. He was tweeting and posting things on facebook that were increasingly radical. He was fairly obvious and easy to track. And the u. S. Thinks about 70 to 100 and there is some discrepancies in that number, which is an important thing to note, have cycled through syria. There are 100 just like them. We belief there are roughly a dozen to two dozen on the ground at any one time. Richard, go to have you in the studio, thanks. Tamron . Thank you. Al is tracking two hurricanes creating Serious Problems on both coasts heading into the labor day weekend. But last night it was damaging storms that create a lot of havoc. Thats right. From the rockies to the midwest, serious stuff. Lets take a look at the midwest. Detroit, trees down. You can see a lot of high wind. Big problems. In fact, trees uproot. There was a lot of heavy rain. In fact, you can see these trees, big oaks coming down causing big problems. Rain was also a big issue. There was flooding in the streets. That issue was continuing. Now, as we go to the radar continually and looking at the radar. Now the heavy storms moved out of the rockies into the central plains. In fact, we expect to see three to four inches of rain in the midwest. Locally three to four inches with flash flooding. Now we are also looking at strong storms. We have this big hurricane out into the pacific. Hurricane marie. 1,300 miles off the southern tip of baja. It is moving westnorthwest. It is also causing problems up and down the west coast. Miguel almaguer is in malibu. What could be great waves for surfers could be dangerous for the beachgoer. Reporter these properties used to be 100 feet or so away from the beach today. Today the water is in their living rooms. A half dozen already have water damaging from the rising tides. This is just the beginning. They are expecting another high surf to roll in in the coming hours. Overnight, Southern California beaches took a pounding. The largest projected surf in years smashing to shore. 10 to 15 foot waves expected through friday. What could be historic swells. Just because were predicting 15foot waves doesnt mean we cant see a larger wave, say 20 feet. And some of those bigger waves can get underneath the piers and under houses. Reporter with some local beaches already shut down to the public, this morning maria churning into the pacific. Once a category 5 hurricane, sister storm was generating 160mileperhour winds. Shes weakened but is still packing a powerful punch. During a High Surf Advisory in malibu tuesday, a surfers body was pulled from the water. His death under investigation. Its not just damaging surf. The rip currents are dangerous too. Lifeguards say it can be deadly. Rip currents, side currents, uneven bottom. Reporter for the last 24 hours, Southern California has been bracing for this blast. Massive berms stretch along some of the areas most iconic beaches. Erosion and flooding a major concern. This morning in many spots, the public warned stay out of the water as an incoming threat now washes ashore. With inland temperatures expected to soar into the triple digits, lifeguards here are concerned many people will flood to the beaches. Conditions here will be dangerous. We expect to see high tide at about 10 a. M. Local time. Al . Miguel almaguer, thanks so much. Heres what we can expect as we look along the coast. We are looking at these high tides and dangerous surf. Wave heights four to seven feet. Flooding is possible. We move up the coast. You will see santa monica, 10 to 15 feet. And santa barbara, 6 to 10 feet with coastal flooding possible. And here in the east, cristobal. It is going to cause dangerous rip currents and surf from miami all the way up to cope cod. Rip currents will be a big problem for swimmers. The good news this is going to last the next day or so. But out west it will go right into the labor day weekend. Al, thank you very much. Lets turn to other news. A tragic accident in arizona thats raising a lot of new questions about the raging debate on guns in the country. Katie, good morning. Good morning, matt. An instructor was trying to teach a young girl how to use an automatic weapon, an oozy. But the kickback was too much to handle. She ended up losing control and killing her instructor. You have to keep that held in. Otherwise, the gun wont fire. Okay . This chilling video captures the last seconds before the 39yearold was accidentally shot and killed by a 9yearold girl. The young student successfully fires the machine gun, an oozy, while it is set to single shot mode. But when he sets it to fully automatic, the student cant control the recoil and he is struck in the head by at least one multiple rounds fired. He was airlifted to a Las Vegas Area hospital where he was pronounced dead. The incident occurred monday at the bullets and burgers shooting range in white hills, arizona. The ranges website lists minimum age as 8 years. And all minors 8 to 17 must be accompanied by an adult at all times. The girl involved was with her parents at the time of the shooting. Okay. Turn this leg forward. There you go. But many are questioning why, even with supervision, a 9yearold girl should be handling a fully automatic weapon at all. Its incredibly irresponsible decision. We treat guns differently than we treat Everything Else in the country. We refuse to acknowledge these are dangerous weapons that kill people. While others assert it is merely an unfortunate incident. From what i understand of this incident, it is extremely unusual. I have been at this now 40 years. And i have never heard of any of this happening. The sheriff said no charges will be filed in the incident. Both the range and the instructor who was killed had clean safety rorldz prior to mondays surgery. Matt, back to you. Thank you very much. Willie is in for natalie. A massive outage facing time warner companies. Thats right. They have been working to bring customers online after an overnight cable outage. Service is largely restored. People in scattered pockets from new york to california went on social media to report problems with their Internet Service. They said it is investigating the root cause of those outages meanwhile, fire officials in dallas say a gas leak is expected on tuesday. When you see the pictures you will understand why residents are calling it a miracle that the family inside the home survived. It was real intense. Terrifying moments caught on tape early tuesday morning. A surveillance camera capturing this house exploding while a mother and her five children were inside. It blew glass on top of the roof, next door and blew glass out to the street. Neighbors say the oldest son helped the family escape through the window. I saw all those kids running out. They were running, just crying, crying, crying. Another neighbor captured the blaze on cell phone. I was so scared. Officials confirmed the explosion was an accident caused by a gas leak inside the home. The mother was the most seriously injured with burns across her body. An 11yearold boy underwent surgery tuesday. The rest of the children, 3 to 18 years old, all suffered burns. But Officials Say the entire family is expected to survive. Overall, we can replace the house. But they got out just in time. Amazing everyone survived there. International news, an openended ceasefire between israel and hamas militants appears to be holding after 50 days of fighting. There are hopes the agreement will put an end to the violence that left 2,000 palestinians and 70 israelis dead. It calls for an end to hostilities. In exchange, israel will ease the gaza blockade. Here we go again. A serial stoweaway arrested last month for sneaking on a flight to los angeles now back in jail. 62yearold Marilyn Hartman was arrested tuesday. She was spotted near baggage claim without a ticket. She tried to sneak past security last week and was asked not no return. Its at least the 10th time since Martha Hartman has been arrested or detained. Your washing machine probably overflowed with bubbles but probably not on this scale. 10 blackhawk helicopters covered in foam after the Fire Suppression system was accidentally triggered during a routine maintenance check. It started inside the hangar and spilled on the tarmac. They were not damaged in the incident. On the up side, the Fire Suppression system works. Very effective, yes. Thats one way to test it. The down side, mr. Bubble has not been since. Willie, thank you very much. Mr. Rocky senator. Lets take a look and show what we have going on in the rest of the country. On the west coast, plenty of sunshine. Portland, oregon, 90 degrees today. 88 in boise. Along the east coast, sunshine. But rain along the front from upstate new york all the way back into the midwest. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. 7 16. Good wednesday morning to you, im meteorologist christina loren. A live look at bay area from space. We dont have a lot of low cloud cover. Extends into marin county, not much on the peninsula at this point. As a result, its going to be a warmer day. 60 degrees in the south bay. Right now at 63 on the peninsula. Youre headed towards the low 80s there hit the 70 in San Francisco. 90s today in the north bay. Holiday weekend, temperatures moderate but more humidity. C3 muchas gracias. Al, thank you very much. A beef has quickly developed over burger kings decision no buy canadas most popular chain, tim hortons. And moving burger kings headquarters north of the border. That has some threatening to boycott. John, good morning. Reporter good morning, tamron. They may not be adding canadian bacon to the whopper but the idea of moving headquarters to canada has once loyal burger king subjects ready to revolt. A whopper of a deal. Burger kings 11 billion Warren Buffett backed purchase of tim hortons of canada and a whopper of a controversy. The combined company will be headquartered in canada. On facebook page, nearly 5,000 posts most critical. You abandon the america that will made you and we will abandon you. Move all your stores to canada and let them support you. Burger king tried to cool the flame grilled controversy saying the move is not taxdriven. The company will continue to pay all of our federal, state and local taxes. The whopper isnt going anywhere. But the parent companys corporate taxes will be paid in canada where rates are lower than in the u. S. Burger king pays their taxes. In the u. S. Tim hortons pays their taxes. In canada this new Holding Company will create taxes in canada. This is not a tax story. Some cheered the move going to eat at bk more now for sticking it to the u. S. Government. Good business decision. Go to bk today and have it your way. One even joked, can yall tajusn bieber with you . Lately, competition is heating up with taco bell and kfc. Especially fierce, the fastgrowing breakfast market. 8 of every 10 cups of coffee sold are from tim hortons in canada. That could give burger king a big breakfast boost. This could move them up 10 getting them close to mcdonald thes. Reporter if it is proved it will create the third biggest chain in the world behind mcdonalds and kfc. Thank you very much. Carson will be sitting down with Jennifer Aniston. In the orange room, dylan is in for carson. Its big in queens, new york. The third day of the u. S. Open tennis tournament. We are already getting big news off the courts. 15yearold c. C. Bellis is the youngest person to win a match in the u. S. Open since 1996. Thats when ana corn cova won. She was 15. That was three years before c. C. Was born. She was ranked 1,208 going into this round 1 match. Espn wasnt even supposed to be airing this match. They saw the crowds building and they caught this gamewinning match point and captured that awesome moment. Can you believe this result . Doesnt look like fan of justin bieber. Just to clarify, she says that was a long time ago. That was much longer. Shes no longer a fan. Oh, wow. Wow. A little backhand to the biebs. Two references to bieber in two minutes. Biebs is trending. Two shots. Thank you very much. Coming up, too good to be true. The questions being raised about a College Football players heroic story injuring himself while staving his drowning nephew. And carsons candid conversation with Jennifer Aniston on her new movie, the pressure to have kids and how she has changed since she was one of the stars on friends. First this coming coming up to recline or not to recline. 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