Detective caught on tape with a rant. I let my emotions get the better of me. Now the passenger who filmed it all is questioning the cops apology. And seeing green. Tiger woods makes a big announcemef he will go for another green jacket as golf digest is raising eyebrows as putting a topless player on the coverage. Today, saturday april 4th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin in for lester holt. Alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. That cover is raising eyebrows. There it is right there. She is stunning. A accomplished golfer. We put it on like that to show how athletic she is. I dont know how a towel covering your breasts is showing how athletic you are. Some are saying it is sexist. We will look at that in 30 minutes. We want to get to the top story. It is the weather this morning. Residents in the south and midwest recovering from the Severe Weather. Heavy rain forced more than 160 rescues in louisville, kentucky alone. More nasty weather in upstate new york and new england area. Dylan. By tomorrow it warms up. We lose the snow. We lost the threat of Severe Weather. We do still have a lot of recovery to go through. Especially back through kentucky. Look at all of this rain. They picked up about 5. 5 inches of rain in just one day. It just took out this road here. That caused certainly some issues. Flash flooding was the issue back through kentucky. In nashville, we also had a lot of tornado warnings surrounding the metro area. Especially to the northeast. Wind gusts up near 50 to 60 miles per hour. It took down trees and power lines. Flooding was an issue because of the heavy downpour was the thunderstorms. You could see it is all clearing out to the east. The cold front is moving offshore but now as cold air wraps in behind this system we are starting to see the snow, especially across central new england. Heavy in maine where we will see several inches of snow through the morning and into the afternoon. Then it pulls away and things clear out for the holiday on sunday. We will see spotty snowshowers in syracuse as the colder air works in. The big story today is the wind. Wind advisories in upstate new york and southern new england. Winds gusting 45 to 50 miles per hour. Philadelphia with winds up to 44 miles per hour. As for snowfall the caribou could have a lot of snow. Chilly in the northeast. New york city up near 59. Washington, d. C. Should be up near 69 as we head into your sunday. Nice rebound. We have to get through today before we get there. Focus on the future. Right now, it may as well be 79. It will feel great. Thanks, dylan. To another story that is triggering shock on the Holiday Weekend. More americans accused of plotting to join isis. The latest arrest is a 30yearold mother from philadelphia. Ron allen is here with me. Good morning, craig. Several suspects charged this week are women planning to travel to turkey and syria. A familiar route for recruits. Two here in new york allegedly planning to build and detonate a bomb. One dressed in back and her eyes visible charged with trying to support isis. Prosecutors say the 30yearold mother of two bought a plane ticket to go join the terror group after being in touch for two years and exchanges electronic messages. If we knew the real ats, we all would be joining our brothers on the frontlines. Thomas case follows two women in new york city. Ages 28 and 31 both u. S. Citizens for allegedly plotting to setoff a bomb here at home. This is a scary feeling. Especially when you have children. It is asis scary feeling. Reporter one in Court Documents said she would not understand why there were more ways of policingleasepleaseing allah here in the United States. And Assan Edmonds was about to board a plane for the middle east. Jonas edmunds was planning to attack a military facility using his cousins uniform as a disguise. Officials say it is difficult to track the number of americans who have gone to fight for isis. Numbers are about 100. As they carry out air strikes in iraq and syria, the battle continues here at home. Ron allen, thank you. This morning, president obama is trying to build support for that controversial nuclear deal with iran one day after the foreign minister returned home to a heros welcome. That will not help with the congress. Nbcs john yang is here with more. Reporter good morning, erica. President is facing a task almost as tough if not tougher than reaching agreement with an international foe that called the United States the great sat satan. Selling that to the domestic opponents. Republicans in congress. On air force one, president obama began the selling job for the nuclear deal with iran reaching out to congressional leaders as he flew back to washington. It is a pitch he is taking to the public this morning in the weekly address. Today, we have historic opportunity to prevent the presented of Nuclear Weapons in iran and do so peacefully with the International Community behind us. Reporter some republicans say the agreement really just an outline, the administration hopes to fill in by the end of june is a bad deal. Im going to do everything i can working with my colleagues to stop these terms from going forward. Reporter while irans negotiators returned to a heros welcome that sanctions would soon be eased as well as reaction from iran yanians twitter. Such a deal does not block irans path to the bomb. Such a deal paves irans path to the bomb. Reporter the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu listed his allies on capitol hill which include many powerful republicans, mr. Obama could have a tougher stance by requiring congressional approval. The president argues the deal has enough safeguards. This deal is not based on trust. It is based on unprecedented verification. The white House Sales Team is a fullcourt press with Vice President joe biden, secretary of state john kerry, the white house chief of staff and the National Security adviser. They have a tough job ahead. Erica. John yang in washington. We have more this morning on the incredible survival story at sea. A sailor spending 66 days on a boat in the middle of the ocean. He is not the first person to make a situation look like all hope is lost. How did he do it . Here is nbcs tom costello. Reporter it is all the talk. How did 37yearold louis jordan survive drifl survive drifting in the atlantic for 66 days. Despite being at sea for two months still able to walk normally once the chopper landed at the hospital. Frank jordan noticed his son lost more than 30 pounds. How does he look . Hes a little thinner. Little thinner. He is not emaciated. Reporter louis had the energy to sit down for an interview after midnight. You look remarkably good. You dont have a sunburn or blister blistered. I tried not to do any work because all work equals food and water. I was trying to ration that. Reporter he admits he is a novice sailor. He ventured on a storm and boat capsized and righted itself three times throwing radios and clean water overboard. To survive, he captured rain water, rationed his food. They would swim out to my boat and i could scoop them up. Reporter there have about other amazing tales at sea, last year a storm had blown his boat across the pacific adrift for more than a year. And louis survived 47 days on the raft in the pacific. Louis jordan said he survived because he was able to stay in the boat and out of the weather which his rescuers say was brutal. If it was anything to what we had to deal with, it is amazing. Reporter jordan says he doesnt know if he will sail again. For now, he needs to recover. For today, tom costello nbc news, norfolk. Amazing. Lets get to the top stories. A survivor discovered two days after the horrific University Terror Attack in kenya. A female student found hiding in a ceiling crawl space. She is dehydrated and fine. Officials have announced three more arrests in the case. That makes five arrested since al shabaab gunmen killed nearly 150 people. The Blue Bell Ice Cream maker has shut the doors after it became under suspicion after five came down with listeria. Blue bell says it has notified the fda and will reopen the plant after the investigation is complete and make improvements. Two men in custody after a wild brawl in new york city. Police arrived at the resort world casino in queens to find hundreds of people throwing punches and throwing other objects. There were minor injuries. And an alabama man is enjoying the first full day of freedom today for the first time in 30 years. Anthony ray hinton walked out of prison on friday after the evidence against him was discredited. He was convicted of a double murder in 1985. Hinton thanked god and his lawyer and had a message for those responsible for putting him behind bars. When you seek the high and mighty you dont is have to answer to nobody. I got news for you. Everybody playing a part you will answer to god. The 58yearold spent more than half his life in prison. To sharks spotted off the atlantic florida coast. Swimming north earlier this week. The photographer said they swam for a mile. And in florida, a man recovering from a shark bite to his chest. He was spear fishing when he was attacked. He believe it was a bull shark. A big announcement from tiger woods. He will play in the masters next week. The fourtime masters champion has been away from golf for two months after several disastrous starts. Woods is 39 years old and had back surgery. It is the premier golf tournament. He said quote it is obviously very important to me and i want to be there. His 20th masters start. 20th . This will be his 20th. He never missed the cut. A lot of folks say if he misses the cut, that could be it. It as in the end of the career . Perhaps. Dont count him out. This is when the movie gets good. There you go. When the music starts to play. This moves out in time for thy tomorrow . We have snow across Northern New England. 6 to 9 inches of snow across extreme northern maine. The rest of the country, things are quieting down. We see the threat of Severe Weather moving out over the ocean ocean. Today, temperatures in the 60s and lower 70s across hey. Good start morning. Im anthony slaughter. Were off to a cool start. It will turn out to be a nice day. Afternoon highs will be comfortable, but chilly. Only 60s for daytime highs today. In fact youll notice well see temperatures 61 for San Francisco today, 68 for the trivalley 69d for the north bay, 67 for the south bay. Clouds on the increase for today, and showers are expected to arrive tonight into tomorrow. All the details coming up this morning. Ts your latest forecast. Dylan. The new york city detective caught on camera as he be litted an uber driver is speaking out in an exclusive. Detective patrick cherry has been reassigned and put on modified duty says he is sorry for the tirade. Jonathan diest from our nbc station in new york has more. Stop with your mouth. Stop with but what sir. Reporter that is detective patrick cherry in a video that has been watched online more than 3 million times. Now he is speaking out for the first time. I apologize. Sincerely apologize. What do you want him to know . That excuse me. That im not mad at him. I was just angry at that moment for that exchange. I dont know what [ bleep ] youre on right now. Reporter cherry is seen yelling at an uber driver. The exchange caught on cell phone by the passenger in the backseat. My emotions got the better of me. Reporter cherry says not everything was caught on camera. He said he was trying to move his car when it it was unmarked when the uber driver honked. I asked for his license. He turned way from me and turned back with a smirk and told me he would not give me anything. Reporter the passenger started re Council Industry r the city commissioner said no good cop could watch that without a wince. I was disgusted with myself. Reporter cherry said there was no intention to hurt the driver. Cherry hopes to be back working the streets soon. For today, jonathan diest, nbc news new york. The uber passenger in the car said he questioned the officers interpretation and says investigators need to sort out the facts. Now to a woman who is set to make history in the nfl. It has been an allboys club on the field since the league founded in 1920 but now it looks like that is all about to change this fall. Heres nbcs stephanie gosk. Reporter football ref sarah thomas is the most accomplished in the field and often the only woman on the field. The roster of referees will not be released until next week but the Baltimore Sun reports that thomas is on the starter list. That would make her the First Permanent female official. The competitive game. You love the sport . I do. Reporter we caught up with her two years ago at training camp. What does it mean . Focus. You have to be in shape. Look at these athletes. Reporter you have to run up and down the field. I have to move with them. Reporter she worked up through pee wee and high school and ncaa. I wanted to work the perfect game. News comes after a difficult year. The nfl was criticized for how it handled Domestic Violence cases involving players. I am sure the nfl is further advancing agenda to show sensitivity to gender issues. I hope sarah thomas is the best candidate. Reporter steph still to come how was it from the week that was with the download . Jimmy fallon and the First Lady Team up and our willie geist channels llcool jay in a lip sync battle it is time for the download. Our way of catching you up on the big stories. Details of the copilot who t the plane into the french alps and the tragedy. Deadly terror attack at a university in kenya. At least 147 people are dead. Witnesses say masked gunmen entered the campus through the dormitory. They started jumping up and down. Separated christians from muslims. Christians shot muslims freed. The Terror Group Al Shabaab claimed responsibility. Hours after the deadline passed the United States and iran reached an agreement on the nuclear program. It requires iran to not use uranium for weapons grade for 15 years. If iran cheats the world will know it. Details from the germanwings copilot troubling past emerge. Internet searches found on his tablet. Lubitz studied ways and methods of committing suicide and spent several minutes on cockpit doors and security measures. Very sorry that such a terrible accident could have happened at lufthansa. After pressure lawmakers in indiana and arkansas changed religious freedom laws which critics labelled antigay. The agreement follows Intense National backlash. Was i expecting this kind of backlash . Heavens no. Individual rights can coexist. Jimmy fallons lip sync battle on the tonight show sparks some hype as members of the today show family took part in the premier. Dont believe me just right dont believe me just right and lots of fans were treated to a live performance. Down in the sand im going to swing from the chandelier also making a special appearance on the tonight show, first Lady Michelle obama. We present to you the evolution of mom dancing part two. And no one was safe in studio 1a on april fools day. Snacks with a twist. Can you tell what the Grilled Cheese is made of . Its pound cake and frosting. Thats one, fudge brownies. I knew it that never gets old. Willie just pushed natalie in front of him. I do ll cool j. He killed it. I love he was there watching it. He has always been a true hip hop. Oh he is. Look at that. I always loved that song. I loved it when it first came out. That song by bruno mars. Trevor noah the new daily show host got in trouble for tweets he posted a while back. Some labelled him sexist and others called him an antisemitic. He apologized as well. It called attention once again to that line between funny and offensive. And its also how people interpret things right . That was another part of the conversation. You have 140 characters and you dont think about it when you send an email. We all in this day and age, you look at the email. Because if youre sending it really quickly, it may look like youre mad or upset. It has a wink after it or a smiley face or something. Still to come here on today, golf gone wild. Golf digest causes controversy again with a pretty racy cover. And hollywood heartthrob Ryan Reynolds on woman in gold. And the shoe giant is saying goodbye to bosses. Is this the right fit . Tell us if you would like a workplace good morning. Its 5 56. Were looking at the port of oakland on a cool saturday morning. Happy passover as well to everyone there. Good morning. Anthony has a look at the microclimate forecast. Finally lots of it. Were talking about several days of rain. Today is kind of the waiting period. We actually want to show you the storm system. Spreading over vancouver. For us well were just going to be waiting today. In fact if we do wait the clouds will increase. Ahead of that storm system with clear skies, 44 degrees in the south bay, 38 in the north bay. Later on today. With clouds increasing well stay in the 60s. 61 for francis. 69 for the north bay and mid 60s for the trivalley. Wale talk more about that at 7 00 and how much were expecting from the big system. Fingers crossed. Anthony, thanks. A settlement has been reached ending the audrey potts trial. The parents came to the agreement with the parents of two boys who sexually assaulted a teen. Audreys parents sued two of her Saratoga High School classmates. The 18yearold boys who were 16 ted previously had been punished in Juvenile Court for sexually assaulting andre, and texting photos of her while she was unconscious. She apologized in court yesterday not only for what they did, but also for anywherely denying it. They will appear in a documentary sponsored by the audrey potts foundation. The parents will received a settlement to be paid by the boys families insurance companies. A followup on