Violence scandals and ray rice gets set to appeal his indefinite suspension. There she is. Its a threepeat. The title of miss america goes to the empire state for the third year in a row. Why people cant stop talking about the winners talent monday, september 15th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on monday morning. Im matt lauer along with hoda ko kotb, al roker. Hey. Its great. How are you . Excellent. Glad to be back. You were here last week with kathie lee. Weve done this in the past before she refused to come back. What i love is we do all of this preparation and we have note wees take. And this is what hoda prepares for the show. That is it right there. Thats all you need. One piece. My favorite moment was somebody said frame up on hoda and one of our guys said hoda kotb . Like weve got a bunch of them. The other one. Were happy to have you. Also coming up in the next half hour well talk with greg norman injured in a chain saw accident. Lucky he didnt lose his left hand. Well talk to him, find out how he is doing. Hurricane odile lashing the resort area with 125 Miles Per Hour winds overnight. This could bring flash flooding. Into the southwest especially. Odile, category 3 storm. They never had one hit in cabo before so were watching this. Lets look at some of the video. This is folks driving through heavy rain. You can see the winds pushing through. This is before the hurricane hit. Then this is the next video weve got is from an nbc audio guy, this is some of his video showing the heavy surf as odile is getting ready to get closer. Now there are 30,000 tourists in cabo right now. They are hunkering down in shelters. Youre looking at some of this damage. They hunker down, they are pretty safe, however, weve gotten reports that theres a lot of damage and were going to continue to track this. Lets show you where we are right now. There are the folks in shelters. 164 shelters set up currently. Right now 65 miles northnorthwest of cabo san lucas, 115 Miles Per Hour winds moving northnorthwest as it does it hugs the coast. The closer it hugs the worse for the southwest in the United States. You can see it takes this curve heading to the southwest where weve seen flooding from norbert. Rainfall amounts generally six to 12 inches of rain, some areas could see 18 inches of rain. Thats flash flooding. All this moisture making its way up into the southwest. We could look at from three to five inches of rain over the next 72 to six days. You can see 3 to 5 inches. That doesnt seem like a lot, in this area where weve already seen a lot of moisture from norbert there could be bad flash floods. Al, thanks. Your local forecast in a couple of minutes. The president s plan to take down isis. Key allies join the fight. Even as that terror Group Released a new video showing the brutal murder of a british hostage. Nbcs chief Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel is in istanbul, turkey. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Secretary kerry says dozens of nations are joining a coalition against isis but in many ways bombing isis is the easy part. The hard question which is still unanswered is what happens next . The administration is building a war coalition. Secretary kerry in paris today. He is sounding increasingly optimistic there is a broad consensus to take military action against isis. The Administration Plan is a threepronged attack. Build a coalition, strengthen the iraqi army and syrian rebels, then weaken isis with air strikes. Isis doesnt seem concerned. In fact, it is goading the world into a fight releasing a video sunday of the beheading of a british aid worker david hayes. His brother michael honored his life. My first reaction could be one of hatred. My brothers life wasnt about hatred. It was about love for all men. Reporter ten arab countries pledged support for the u. S. Attack plan and a state Department Official says some are willing to participate in direct military action. The king of saudi arabia said isis if unchecked could attack the United States in months. Some experts say the groups most effective weapons are its thousands of foreign fighters. With the army its building inside of iraq and syria it can launch attacks not merely on neighboring countries like saudi arabia and jordan but international targets in europe and the United States. Reporter not everyone agrees bombing isis is the solution. Isis is born of a much larger conflict between shia and sunni muslims, a conflict that u. S. Led air strikes wont resolve. This is not a problem of terrorism directed at the u. S. , its a problem of an arab world in total war for religious reasons. Reporter how much of a threat isis poses to the United States is disputed. So is its size. Estimates range from 10 to 30,000. Also disputed, the long term effectiveness of the administrations plan. Despite those Unanswered Questions as coalition is moving ahead, france said it has flown its first Surveillance Missions over syria. Richard engel, thank you very much. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell remains in the hot seat facing more calls to resign as the league deal with a growing number of Domestic Violence cases. One group flew planes reading goodell must go. Peter is here. Good morning. Good morning to you. Citing muscle pell sources nbc sport reports that ray rice will appeal his indefinite suspension. There is another game set for tonight and the league is dealing with four high profile Domestic Abuse cases that are tarnishing the image of an image conscious game. He will kick off as the 49ers won the toss. With the San Francisco 49ers debuting a new billion dollar stadium sunday night. The team stood by ray mcdonald despite being arrested for allegedly beating his pregnant fiancee. He has not been charged with a crime. The nfls embattled commissioner promised in 2012 he would attend the game but was a no show. Nbc news check of the irs filings show the league rewarded goodell with 97 million from 20082012. 44 million in 2012 alone. This weekend a reversal by the Carolina Panthers who benched greg hardy. Hardy didnt play but he still got paid 772,000. Also out Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson accused of injury to a child while disciplining his son. His attorney defended him as a loving fat who deeply regrets unintentionally injuring his child. Social media like this image after an ad by cover girl photo shopped on twitter knocking the brands tag line get your game face on. Ray rice who sparked this scandal showed up at his High School Football game in suburban new York Saturday accompanied by his wife and daughter. Among the voices questioning the nfls integrity in light of the video, espns hannah storm. If the nfl and the ravens had the see that video to be moved to significant action then shouldnt the league demand the same to see action, to see change. Before believing. The outrage has not received before tonights game that womens group hired another plane to fly overhead with a banner reading goodell must go. They tell me they will fly more planes next weekend. Peter, thanks so much. Were going to have more on the Adrian Peterson case. Lets turn to politics. Hillary clinton returned to iowa sunday for the First Time Since the 2008 president ial campaign. She brought her husband along so a lot of people asking the question, is she going to make another white house bid . Nbcs Andrea Mitchell was there and joins us. Hi, andrea. Good morning, matt. Hillary clinton gave broad hints she is planning to run again. Teasing a large crowd of Iowa Democrats in the first caucus state. Hello, iowa. Im back. Returning to the state that many say dashed her white house hopes in 2008. Hillary clinton came back for an iowa tradition, the harkin stack fry adding fuel to the speculation she will run again. It is true i am thinking about it. But but for today that is not why im here. Im here for the steak. Last time clinton was trounced by a freshman senator named barack obama. Let me tell you, he sure loves iowa. She didnt say she loves iowa. Describing her third place finish in the states caucuses as excruciating in her new book clinton needs to prove she can run a different kind of campaign. A former obama supporters like senator janice peterson. It needs to be more ground up. Than top down. Clinton organizers say they learned their lesson. Bussing in volunteers from all over the country. Where are you from . California. Austin, texas. Washington, d. C. Clinton knows coming here will make it harder to turn back. Feel good to be back out here . Great. It was a great day. Couldnt have been better. Her husband is not making predictions. If she wants to can she do it this time . I have nothing to say. Its not my decision. I think i know which way you would vote. No you dont. I dont know which way i would vote. So they say. Bill clinton is not expected to make it official after the year knowing the Political Risk of being an early frontrunner. Andrea, nice to see you. Lets turn to natalie. Growing concern over wild fires in california. Right. Good morning. Hundreds of people in california are waking up wondering if their home survived new wild fires spreading across the state. And a heat wave isnt making the job easier for firefighters. Hally jackson is in silverado, california. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Firefighters here at camp received their morning briefing and are heading out to battle flames carrying heavy equipment with no shade in potentially tripledigit heat. Its the start of another long day for crews here at the silverado fire and beyond. Air drops came too late to save this burning building at the courtney fire in central california. But crews hope to keep the flames from spreading today, near one of the gateways to Yosemite National park, about 1,000 people have been forced out of their homes here. What can you say. What can you do. Im hoping its there. Im praying its there. Its just too much. It would be too much of a heart to break to lose it. Reporter further north residents packed a shelter, just outside smoke billowed from the king fire southwest of tahoe. If you want to get out now is the time. Reporter flames are threatening 500 homes and torched 2500 acres so far. More than 50 fires are burning in the west right now with no relief in sight. A heat wave and devastating drought have crews battling blistering conditions. In the valley we have 100degree temperatures. Reporter the heat smothering the region is making it already dangerous job more difficult. Whats it like to be in these conditions carrying all of this stuff . Its like super hot. The hottest place youve been in and then add another 10, 20 degrees to it. You think you can go faster youre slowing down. Reporter theres a concern the wind could pick up today in parts of california. For the heat, firefighters here tell me they are trying to drink plenty of water and take as many breaks as possible but with wild fire season in full swing, crews here still have weeks to go. Natalie. Seems like its been in full swing all summer long. A man hunt is under way for the person who shot two state troopers in pennsylvania friday, killing one and critically wounding the other. Police say someone opened fire on the two men outside the barracks in Blooming Grove during a shift change. Troopers set up a check point on sunday, stopping drivers in the search. They also spent part of the day scouring woods. They say good things come in threes. Its a threepeat. Miss new york. For the third year in a row miss new york taking the crown in the miss america competition. Kira kazantsev received the crown sunday night. In the talent competition she sang happy sitting on the stage banging a red plastic cup. You know that routine. Snet when im gone. A whole different thing. Break up new york. How about that. A dynasty. Amazing. Three in a row. Natalie, thank you. Mr. Roker. Lets show you what we have going on around the rest of the country today. Look for wet weather to the southeast. Gorgeous in new england and the northeast. The heat continues, were going to detail the heat in the southwest and Southern California as well. Look at all the way into portland oregon, a high of 94 degrees. Well get to your local forecast in the next 30 seconds. We have some low clouds to start the morning off. To the north bay today, highs in the low 80s. Mid 80s closer to polileasanton where well see these temperatures throughout the week and then a chance to see stray showers. The numbers warming as High Pressure builds in approaching next weekend. Weather. 3 f2 tiempo. Thanks so much. Carsons here from the orange room. You have information on that photograph from 9 11. Have you heard the story. Touching story about a photo making quite an impression online. Elizabeth stringer keith, her friends found this picture at ground zero, gave it to elizabeth, said do something meaningful with it. The past few years every september 11 she has been posting it and writing this. I northeast photo hoping to return to owner found at ground zero world trade center. For the past years maybe she got a couple of comments, retweets, finally this year it went viral and after a day and a half got the return message she has been looking for. I know the people in the picture. I was at that wedding. Theres fred, the one on the far left. And he goes on to say it is my picture that was at my desk on the 77th floor tower 2. The picture has been kept safe for the last 13 years. People were following this on twitter. Fred didnt go to work that day and confirmed everybody in the photo is alive and well. It was a moving story online that katelynn writes in, so very touched. Its unbelievable what humanity is capable of once we have come together as one. Love it. Social media too. How much that caught fire. Good side of social media. Thank you. Coming up, golfing legend greg norman recovering from a chain saw accident that could have cost him his left hand. Plus, a star claiming she was accosted by police and detained for showing her husband affection. First, this is today on nbc. Her husband affection. First this is today on nbc. Coming up why a major investor is telling olive guard tune back off the you unlimited bread sticks. No. And celebration of friends as the sitcom turns 20. And a peak inside after news and weather. 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