Investigation. One love and one love, president obama stops in jamaica. Today, april 9, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savann studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today morning. We probably should start the show this way every day. We will tell you more about the barack oba more bob marley. Is hesevere weather follo overnight of tornadoes, rain, hail, and dyla following all of it. We saw tornadoes, hail, we had flash flooding. Take a look at this video from deerhead, kansas. You can see obviously the funnel cloud. You see that raiow there. Unbelievable video from a more rural area from southern kansas right on the border of oklahoma. So there were no damage reports because it was obviously in rural area. Now in missouri, we saw more hail than anything else. We have reports of hail two to three inches in diameter, winds gusting 60 to 70 miles an hour toppling trees, power lines, tearing the buildings. We also had a lot of reports to damage to vehicles because of the hail, baseball and grapefruit size hail. Missouri is famous for getting giant hail storms. You can even see golfball size hail. Imagine that falling fro sky. Unfortunately, we are looking at the same setup again today. We got this really warm somewhat humid air, 60s and 70s ahead of this front. Behind it, its in the 30s and 40s. Its that clash thats producing those stronger storms. We are going to see them fire up today. This morning we have your run of the mill thunderstorms. Heavy downpour ss frequent cloudtogroun around st. Louis. Now, chicago is in the 40s right now. Its going to be in the 70s later on this afternoon increase the threat of s weather. Look at this, from texas all the way up into parts of west virginia. Thats where we are going to see widespread thunderstorms. Its in this air a yeah of orange where with we could see more tornado winds in excess of 70 miles an hour. Tomorrow that threat will shift further to the east. Thunderstorms from texas into central new jersey. However, we will lose the threat of tornadoes tom today we certainly have to k an e a little piece of g in the future. It gets better, yes. Thank you very much. In other news, outrage is growing in that deadly shooting of an unarmed black man by an a white Police Officer in South Carolina. In a moment well talk exclusively to the man who cap capt first, nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has the latest on the case. Good morning to you. Reporter investigators could release dash cam video. Meanwhile, the was er involved in that dead areally incident has been fired. City Officials Say they now plan to arm every officer on the street with body cameras. This morning we are hearing from santana. I took my phone out. Reporter the man many are calling a hero for recording the deadly encounter that seen by millions. The initial Police Report said walter scott took officer Michael Slagers taser. He grabbed my taser. Santana told lester holt. I believe he wanted to get away of the taser. Like i said, he never used the taser against the cop. Reporter right now, there are two main questions police havent answered. Slager retrieved an obje fell to the ground. Its not clear whether its his taser and appears to drop the object next to scotts body. Also not clear, why the video doesnt show officers performing cpr when the initial Police Report said they had. There are questions i have in my mind that i cant answer right now. Reporter scotts family is thankful the video became public, even though its so hard to watch. It was too heart breaking. I wouldnt want that to happen to anybody. Reporter now charged with murder, we are learning more about officer slager on the North Charleston pol for six years, his wife eight months pregnant. Personnel record show there was a complaint against him if 2013 for improper use of force with a taser involving a black man, but officer slager was exonerated. What do we want . When do we want it . Now. Reporter this shooting now reigniting a National Debate about the use of dead lily force. They shot him down like dog. That cant happen in 2015. Reporter officer slager has not yet entered a plea. He has just retained a new attorney who so far is declining to comment publicly at length. At least for now, matt. Gabe gutierrez on the story. Gabe, than santana who captured the video is with us now exclusively along with his attorney, todd rutherford. What have the last couple of days been like for you . Oh, its been something i never expected. You know, i say lifes changed in a matter of seconds i have been a witness, this video and to record this and all this will happen. Lets go back to saturday. You are walking to work. You are on the phone. You see the confrontation, excuse me, between officer slager and mr. Scott. I believe you saw the officer on top of mr. Scott and you heard the taser. What did it sound like . The taser, it was just sounding like i say, he was using the taser with mr. Scott. How did mr. Scott react immediately following being tased . How did he rae act to that . Before the video i saw that he was trying to get away from the taser and his reaction was, you know, to get away of the taser. Was there a struggle over the taser that you saw . Were they fighting over it . No, he never got the taser off the police. He never got the taser. You then put the phone up and you start to record after that moment and within seconds you record officer slager firing eight shots. Yes. One minute you are walking to work. The next minute eight shots are fired. You must have been scared . Yes, still, im still scared. Youre still scared . Yes. Yet you maintain your composure enough to keep videotaping this . Yeah. When you saw walter scott fall to the ground, can you just describe your reaction . At that moment i didnt, it didnt really thought he was going to die or that he was dead. You know, never, maybe thought one bullet would catch him and he fell to the ground. I didnt know how many bullets he was catched by and, yeah, never thought of any of that, that he was dead. I want you to look at monitor here for second. There is a moment on your cell phone video, immediately after officer slager stops firing, it appears to me that he looks directly at you. Im going to run the tape and just watch that instant. He fires the eight shots and then he looks right over. Do you think he was looking at you . Yes, definitely. Before like i record the video so maybe he felt that he can feel that someone is there. Like i say, it was an empty spot. There were just the three of us in that moment. Like i say i didnt, i couldnt tell what was going to happen, so i just want him to know that you know, that hes not by himself. You moved around and you got closer. There is one portion of the tape where you are pretty close to walter scott on the ground and the officers now, two of them are standing over mr. Scott. Did they say anything to you . Did you say anything to them . I was saying in the video that it was an abuse what the Police Officer was doing, what he had done at that moment. The officer didnt say that right when i get close, he actually said to one of them told me to just move from there. You eventually showed this tape to the scott family. I know you described that was a difficult thing for them to see. Mr. Rutherford, if he had not taken those images with his cell phone, this would be his word against officer slagers word. Thats right. That video changes everything. The video changes everything and shows the importance of body cameras, thankfully theyre now moving to other body cameras for all their officers. Hes afraid. The first thing he said how can i get protection . There are other officers saying they performed cpr. He was there five minutes afterwards and he saw nobody did cpr. What does he do when the ones supposed to protect us turn against us. Do you have an answer . What do you do . Keep doing what youre doing, talking about this . Like i said, like i say to todd, i decide now to show my face to the media because like i say to him all my life have changed after this with this. Now you know they say people know where i live, people know you know where i work. You know, so my normal routine from just walking from my house to the work, to work have changed. I said to him, i will have to like i say, at some point i thought about staying anonymous and dont show my face, dont talk about it, but there is something that have to go you know beyond that at this and like i say if i want to show my face, everybody over there knows including the Police Officers in the department knows who i am now. We appreciate you talking to us this morning. Thank you very much. Todd thank you very much as well. Lets go over to savannah. Thank you so much. The penalty phase in the Boston Marathon bombing case could Begin Next Week after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces conviction on every one of the 31 charges. Now they will decide if he will be sentenced to life in prison or death. Pete williams is in boston this morning. Good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. The jury reached that verdict after just 11 hours of deliberation. Victims and family members crowded into the courtroom to hear it and to see the marathon bomber who showed no reaction. Now that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty, he faces a second trial, to decide between life if prison without parole or death by lethal injection. Wednesdays verdict guilty on every one of the 30 counts against him. For two bombings, two years ago near the finish line of the Boston Marathon that killed 8yearold martin richard, lingzi lu and injured 200 plus us more, guilty too for murdering Police Officer sean collier and carjacking a terrified businessman who escaped and pleaded for help, a part of a crime spree three nights later. No date now for the next trial. Legal experts say his defense lawyers will benefit for several days delay. I would ask for as much time possible to from this moment to the sentencing phase to separate the jurors from the emotions of the trial. Reporter those emotions have bob been on the mind of heather abbott. Shea wanted to eded to sea tsarnaev held accountable. I think he got guilty and the jury got it right. Now he has to live with the consequences. Reporter in texas, bombing victim Rebecca Gregory says she will be back if boston for the final days. I do believe he should be held accountable. So whatever that is, i believe the true judgment comes after he dies, anyway, so its really not my judgment to make. And my heart goes out to the jury that has to make this decision. Reporter the jury has the rest of the week off. The penalty phase might start as early as next week, giving boston some time to absorb the verdict the city has been waiting for. Matt. Savannah. Pete williams, thank you, those will be difficult days in the courtroom for sure. Certainly. Lets go to natalie. She has what appears to be another black eye for the secret service. Here we go again. The department of Homeland SecurityInspector General now investigating a top agent who has been accused of Sexual Assault. Nbcs White House CorrespondentKristen Welker joins us with the latest. Good morning. Reporter natalie, good morning to you. According to a source familiar with the investigation, the secret Service Director placed a senior supervisors on leave and suspended his security clearance after a female employee accused him of making unwanted advances towards her last month. The female employee complained about the alleged incident a week ago accusing morales, her boss, of grabbing her arm and asked to have sex with her after a work party on march 31st. Now in a statement, director Joseph Clancy said quote any threats or violence that endangers our employees in the workplace is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. This is the latest setback for the agency after a series of embarrassments. Most recently two secret agents allegedly drove a car near the scene of an investigation after a night of drinking. The department of Homeland Security and Inspector General and d. C. Police are investigating the latest incident. No comment yet for morales. Natalie, back to you. Kristen welker, thanks so much. Some frightening moments on a flight from iceland to denver when a Lightning Strike blew a hole in the nose of the plane. Take a look there. This happened shortly after takeoff. Passengers on that iceland air flight say they heard a loud bang and pop. The plane kept going on its 3700 mile journey to denver where it landed safely, thank goodness. It wasnt until the plane landed that the passengers and the pilots realized the plane was damaged. I wouldnt want to be flying with a hole the nose there like that. We have an important recall to tell you about. Sabra is recalling 30,000 cases of its classic hummus do to possible contamination with listeria. It is limited to the best before dates of may 11th and may 15th. So anyone who has the item should throw it away or return it to the store. You can find out more on our website today. Com. President obama is in jamaica this morning as we showed you earlier. The first u. S. President to visit the country in three decades. The president wasted no time after arriving wednesday night making an unexpected visit to the Bob Marley Museum in kingston. It is located in the legendary musicians former home. Its normally closed at night. So special arrangements were made so the president could can go and see it himself. The president telling the tour guide, i still have all the albums. So an excuse this morning to play mousseusic and to ask favorite bob marley songs. Mine is buffalo soldier. I do know bob marley. I was going to say, you mean ziggy marley . Redemption song. There it is. A good dj back there today. No woman, no cry its a good one. Do you want to do the weather to this . One love we can do the weather to one love. Take it away. Now i cant even focus on the weather now. Lets talk about where its warm. In the southeast, were looking at temperatures in the 70s and 80s. 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