Months worth of rain in just one day. And, look what we have. Two days before the release to the world we have our hands on the newest iphone. Well put them to the test today, wednesday, september 17th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb, al roker and natalie morales. They hands thus these new phones. You would have thought they brought a basket of kittens. Everybody hovered around. This one, thats the 6a. Hold it up against your 5. Its a tiny bit bigger. This is the monster 6. 6 plus. Its going to be cool. Much bigger. I hear they take great pictures. You know what also does, the 5. Snoos. So excited. Baby veil. Is that baby is a bundle of joy. Look how terrible that selfie is but look at the baby. The baby with the mitts on and savannah looked so joyful. I got to tell you i got tearyeyed. Great. Thats cute. Were going to show more of that. Weve got to get to our top story this morning. New fallout overnight on the Domestic Violence scandals rocking the nfl. Nbc National CorrespondentPeter Alexander has more on this. Good morning to you. Good morning. The Minnesota Vikings telling star running back Adrian Peterson to stay away from all Team Activities while the League Players association has officially appealed the suspension of ray rice, hes not the only one challenging how the nfl handled this Domestic Abuse scandal. The biggest sponsors are also demanding answers and results. Overnight the Minnesota Vikings reversed their decision from monday reinstating peterson and now banning the football star from all Team Activities while allowing him to take care of his personal situation until the Legal Proceedings are resolved. The vikings star who admits he disciplined his son with a stick but face as criminal charge of injuring the 4yearold was set to return to practice today and play on sunday. The team explaining the decision by saying after further reflection weve concluded that this resolution is best for the vikings and adrian adding we want to be sure we get this right. The news came hours after the Nfl Players Union challenged ray rices suspension, saying it was taking action to protect the Due Process Rights of all nfl players. The union singled out commissioner Roger Goodell arguing the indefinite suspension was not fair or impartial and asking for an independent arbitrator to oversee the appeal because goodell may be called as a witness. In a game where winning is everything the nfl may be at risk of losing key sponsors. Mcdonalds, bridgestone and others voicing concerns but not pulling support for the nfl. The leagues biggest partner anheuserbusch sent a strong message saying were not yet satisfied with the handling of behaviors that go against our own company culture. The nfl responded saying we understand, we are taking action and there will be more to come. The average nfl sponsor gets back more than 2 in profits for every dollar they spend. Its really hard for them to want to give that up. Meantime, entertainer and Domestic Abuse victim rihanna took to twitter to blast cbs for pulling her song. Cbs says its moving in a different direction, and pulled the song permanently. New developments in this case almost every hour. Adrian peter tweeted a religious message in part, dont allow distractions to knock you off course. Pray and keep moving, god bless. It could be a while until petersons legal case is resolved. His arraignment isnt scheduled for another three weeks. Matt. Peter, thank you very much it. Now to breaking news overnight in the u. S. Led fight to destroy isis, the terror group releasing a hollywoodlike propaganda video threatening u. S. Troops and the white house. It comes amid new concern that Ground Forces may be necessary to stamp out the militants. Andrea mitchell is chief Foreign Affairs correspondent. Good morning. That slick video appears to be possibly a response to president obamas recent speech. Even as the nations top military adviser opened the door for the first time to the possibility of using american boots on the ground. And the president is at florida to be briefed on the war plans. The new video prom the isis machine looks like a declaration of war against the u. S. It shows clips of previous attacks on u. S. Forces, a quick picture of the white house, and then slayings engulfing edilted pictureses of u. S. Troops. Perhaps by coincidence it was released a few hours after joint chiefs chairman Martin Dempsey told congress that if the president s new strategy of training iraqi forces does not work he would recommend that the president use american Ground Troops against isis. If we reach the point i believe our advisers should accompany troops against specific isil targets ill recommend that. If there are threats to the United States then i of course would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of u. S. Military Ground Forces. But the president is repeatedly said he would not order boots on the ground. The white house immediately pushed back saying that dempsey was speaking only high po athletically. Later dempseys spokesman said american combat forces are not rired now but if the situation calls for combat troops the general will be asking for them. All right. Thank you so much. In the meantime, a Business Owner from upstate new york has now been indicted on charges of trying to aid isis, Pete Williams has that part of the story. Good morning to you. Matt, good morning. These are new charges against the man in custody since may, he came to the attention of the fbi after posting messages on social media saying he wanted to help muslims overseas carry out jihad. Mufid elfgeeh is a naturalized u. S. Citizen from yemen, he was arrested in may accused of buying handguns from two men who turned out to be undercover informants. He told them he wanted to carry out Mass Shootings targeting u. S. Military personnel returning from the middle east and shia muslims in the rochester area. Now these new charges prosecutors say he urged those same two men to go to syria and join up with the terror group isis. He helped one get a passport unaware they were actually informants who never intended to go there. The fbi says he also sent 600 to a man he knew in yemen urging him to go to syria, theres no indication in Court Documents that man ever made it there. Pete williams in washington, thank you very much. Now to those dangerous wild fires raging across parts of california. Tens of thousands of acres have been burned and the damage to the small town of weed is being tallied. Miguel almaguer is there now. Good morning. Reporter good morning. This is one subdivision in the community of weed, the destruction stretches block after block. This morning families are picking up the pieces to their lives while crews battle a blaze thats taken so much. Overnight the fire fight on the front line. The bowls fire still a threat in weed. But no longer the raging monster that swept flew 100 properties in this tiny town. Kids driven from schools, families from their homes. Heres my daughters bedroom here. My two sons bedroom is here. Reporter the burnsteins fled a wall of flames. They returned to a pile of debris. Im glad nobody got hurt. Reporter with 6,000 firefighters on the front lines in california today, a dozen fires are being fought across the state. Nearly 90,000 acres have already burned this year. Fueled by record temperatures and parched terrain. We flew with californias top fire chief and the states director of emergency services. Exclusive access in the air and on the ground in the burn zone. This is the early part of the fire season. This is more of a marathon, not a sprint. We need to be able to be prepared for it. Reporter conditions here can turn deadly on a dime. Outside sacramento at the king fire, 12 firefighters used their emergency shelters when they were overrun by flames. The delta crew, they deployed their shelters in a safety zone. Reporter a close call, everyone came home. But for so many in weed, home will never be the same. With so much disinstruction in such a small place the cost to rebuild and clean up this community will be in the tens of millions of dollars. If there is one piece of good news this someplace roughly 20 conta contained. Crews are making progress. Hoda. Miguel, those images look like a black and white picture. Thank you so much. People in the southwestern United States are bracing for even more historic flooding from this time from the remnants of hurricane odile. The storm slammed into mexicos resort area of los cab os. Gabe sin tucson, arizona. Good morning. Reporter matt, good morning. Flash flood watches or warnings are in effect in five states, the rain is expected to begin here in tucson in just a few hours. Guys, this is the desert. People are used to heat waves. Not Tropical Storms. This morning the Desert Southwest is bracing for its second drenching in more than a week. The rain is coming. Today the remnants of hurricane odile are forecast to soak Southern Arizona and new mexico with up to eight inches of rain. Other areas could see five inches. This after a flight through mexico with winds of more than 125 miles an hour the storm made landfall on sunday. Battering Cabo San Lucas and damaging the airport. The military there is scrambling to evacuate 30,000 stranded tourists, most of them american. So happy to be out of there. It seemed like we were there forever. Make sure you look at the Weather Forecast up and down before you go anywhere, i guess. Reporter in san diego tuesday the remnants spawned thunderstorms that knocked out power and picked up this small plane. This morning the system is much weaker, but still a threat. Some of the rainfall amounts that the High Resolution computer models put out are quite frankly, scary. I mean, to get what you would see in florida with a tropical system here in the Desert Southwest is dangerous. Reporter last week in arizona there was record rainfall and two deaths as what was left from hurricane norbert swept through. In phoenix Emergency Personnel prepare for the worst. Somebody monitoring the storm so that they can come running if it starts to get back like it was last monday. Reporter forecasters say some areas could see half a years worth of rainfall in just 24 hours. Many people here in the desert are asking themselves really . Thats right. In fact, this is the first time they had two tropical entities approach in ten days. So this is really unprecedented. And as we watch odile its still a Tropical Storm. 50 Miles Per Hour winds, if this makes its way into arizona, it will be the First Time Since 1997 weve seen a Tropical Storm make its way into arizona. You can all of the rain pushing up into the area. We do have flash flood watches now stretching from california all the way to texas, we expect as the day goes on and the day goes on well see them extend further into texas because you can watch, over the next several hours, you can can see that moisture streaming into texas between dallas into austin. And the rainfall amounts really impressive. Were talking 4 to 5 inches, but locally could be up to 9 inches of rain in the next 72 hours, and the landscape there just cant handle that. So, weve got another tropical system behind that, weve got Tropical Storm polo that look likes it could cause problems as well. Wow. Thank you very much. Natalies got the latest on the search for a dangerous suspect in pennsylvania. Scare they morning an entire School District in pennsylvania is closed this morning as police amp up the search for a man suspected of shooting two Pennsylvania State troopers killing one of them and critically injuring another. Police describe 31yearold eric matthew frein as armed and extremely dangerous, they say frein has militarylike survivalist training and had expressed antigovernment views. More than 200 Police Personnel are taking part in this massive manhunt. The Ebola Outbreak is spiraling out of control, president obama issuing that stark warning and saying that the world is looking to the United States to help fight epidemic in west africa. On tuesday the president laid out the plans at the centers for Disease Control and prevention in atlanta. Kelly odonnell is in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning, natalie. The president is asking congress to back a major new military mission with american boots on the ground in western africa. The president announced the deployment of 3,000 american troops to build health care facility, train medical workers, but not to have direct contact with ebola patients. Tuesday and again today congress is hearing from Infectious Disease experts and american ebola survivor dr. Kent brantly who worked with the Group Survivors first. I spoke exclusively with him about his meeting with the president and his message to congress about whats at stake. Whats at stake is humanity, human lives. This outbreak is now growing at an exponential rate. Every day we delay is hundreds of human lives. Reporter dr. Brantly says hes recovered from the virus but is Getting Better every day, its going to take time. He will appear before the house today and congress is considering 500 million for this effort. Natalie. Kelly, thanks. Nasa is one step closer to launching astronauts into orbit ending the reliance on russia. Boeing and space ex will design the ships to ferry astronauts to the space station. U. S. Astronauts have been riding on russia rockets since 2011. The launches will take place from Cape Canaveral beginning in 2017 at a cost of about 6. 8 billion. And take a look at some Butterfly Kisses for a flutist in the middle of a performance. She was taking part in the International Flute competition in denmark when that butterfly decided it found the best seat in the house on her face. But of course the stakes are high with this competition so what does she do, she keeps on playing beautifully. Eventually when she finished she gently brushed the butterfly away. Isnt that good luck . I think thats good luck. Youre blessed. Were glad it wasnt like yesterday with the bat. I thought id redeem myself. Merry christmas. Thats why i have the new iphone, our Christmas Present early. Mr. Roker, what else do you have . Lets show you what we have for today. We are looking at the wet weather down to the southwest. Low pressure off the carolina coast may bring heavy rain and rip currents, a Beautiful Day in the northeast with temperatures a little cooler than usual and lower humidity and wet weather along the Pacific Northwest coast. Helping the fire danger there. Were going to have your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Vivofit. Gently reminds you to get moving. Join the movement. Right now the sun is breaking through the clouds around San Francisco as we await the rain to get closer to the bay area today. Out ahead of the weather system youre going to see the south winds picking up ten to 20 Miles Per Hour heading into the afternoon. Partly cloudy skies, increase later on. Close to 70 in San Francisco. Mid70s for oakland. Low to mid80s out towards the trivalley as we see the best chance of showers coming in later today for the north bay. Thursday looks like showers and cooler temperatures and turning warmer through the weekend. And thats your what are you having . What is that . I got one for you. All right. Hey guys. How are you . You got it, baby. Merry christmas, ladies. Well, what more is there to say. These going to be in stores. Were geeking out. I like the bigger one. I really do. Not too big . You know, apple has been high on both the release of the 6 and 6 plus internally. How are consumers going to feel if the preorders are an indication they are in line with apple. A couple years ago when the 5 came out the first 24 hours, 2 million t 6 and 6 plus doubled that at 4 million. We have katie here, the reason we were able to get these. She was able to get these. Katie is taking your questions. Log on to facebook or twitter to at orange room. She will answer them and a lot more on this coming up. If you want read a great review on the 6 and 6 plus our partners wrote one thats at todays. Com. Thank you very much. Coming up, the search intensifies for a missing university of virginia student as Surveillance Video reveals new clues in that case. Well have the latest. Plus, thinki