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Announces controversial changes that will impact millions of users. Those stories, plus Prince Philip breaking overnight. The heart breaking photos of Otto Warmbier. The role for o. J. Simpson and a surprise guest crashes a president ial news conference. Today wednesday, june 21st, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, and good morning, everyone, thanks, for joining us on a wednesday morning a. Morning that has us talking about a lot of Severe Weather, dangerous weather from coast to coast. We can show a live shot. This is new orleans the outer bands of Tropical Storm cindy are having a huge effect. Waves crashing on to a boardwalk there. Out west, no break from that recordmaking heat, making life miserable for tens of millions. We will get to al in a moment. We want to talk about the impact of that storm, Kerry Sanders is in position in new orleans for us, hi, kerry, good morning. Reporter good morning, Tropical Storm cindy is already hammering the area. Can you see the waves crashing behind me here. This is not the gulf of mexico. This is lake ponchartrain. Driving the winds that are expecting to exceed 60 Miles Per Hour a. Parking lot thats flooded out t. Real secure is the rain will be up to 12 inches on what could be a slow moving storm, not just here in new orleans, but from florida all the way west to texas. Gulf coast residents are bracing for the worst this morning as Tropical Storm as i understandy moves in from the gulf of mexico, packing dangerous winds and heavy rainfall, with severe flooding already hitting parts of louisiana. And along the florida pan hand him, businesses are shutting down. When you live in a beautiful place. Reporter the south bracing for whats to come as a different battle rages on in the west. Scorching heat impacting more than 40 million residents, from colorado to california. Brutal temperatures so hot, theyre shattering records. Death valley hitting 127 trees tuesday. Its like so hot, you can almost not breathe. Reporter the National Weather Service Warning of a major risk for heatrelated illnesses and even death. In arizona, paramedics are on high alert. As theyre flooded with desperate calls. Do you want us to get to you the hospital . Reporter sidewalks are buckling as they bake under the intense heat. Here in new orleans the question, of course, after Hurricane Katrina so many years ago is the levy system and the pumps. The levy system has been mostly rebuilt d. Pumps have been on for the last 24 hours, theyre punk and if they can keep up, it is expected they can, they can do about 12 inches of water in a day. So if the slow moving storm comes in with 12 inches, well the pump should keep up, but there will be localized flooding. Guys. Kerry sanders, thank you very much. Al steps in here. Deemers choice. Where do you want to start . Cindy or the heat . We will start with cindy, as we look again, just lake pan char tra ponchartrain causing those waves. We already seen severe flooding all the way up into georgia. Last night around the atlanta area, we had many flooding. Right now Tropical Storm cindy already, we got tornado watches up for a good portion of the gulf and what we have is called a pred saysive rain, predecessor rain event, a pre. This moisture ahead of it interacting with this stationary front, already enhancing the rain thats there. So were looking today, cindy, right now, its still 170 miles southsouthwest of morgan city t. Winds intensed overnight to 60 Miles Per Hour. Tropical storm warnings from texas to possibly, alabama, makes landfall early tomorrow morning. Again, that doesnt matter. Look how far in this goes. Not just the folks along the gulf. All the way to the Mississippi River valley. You will have to deal with extensive rain. Three to five inches of rain from nashville down to houston, but back into the heart the meat of the gulf coast, we could be looking at 12 inches of rain or more. It will cause lifethreatening flooding. Out in the west, sacramento 108, las vegas 115. Albuquerque 102. It continues this intense through tomorrow. Denver will be 90 degrees. We start to see it finally breaking down by sunday. El paso, youll cool to 95. Albuquerque 89. Still triple digits for tucson, las vegas and sacramento. San diego is the absolutely frigid temperatures in the upper 70s, but its still another 48 hours of a peak. And were only in june. A little early. Al, thank you. We will check back in. There is a lot more to get to, including that closely watched special election in. Ga. Republican karen handel fending off the Democrat John ossoff in the most expensive house race ever. A victory not just for her, for President Trump as well. We have full coverage. Gabe gutierrez, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. President trump tweeting his congratulations overnight to georgias newest member of congress, republicans around the country this morning taking a victory lap. Democrats had wanted this race to showcase the trump resistance. Well, it fell flat. This morning the most expensive house race ever is over and Republican Karen Handel is the new Congress Woman in georgias 6th district. I really am honored to be able to stand before you tonight and so extraordinarily humbled. Reporter around 60 million spent, mostly from out of state, a heated battle viewed as a high stakes referendum on President Trump t. Commanderinchief taking up the fight himself on twitter, weighing in again and again on what should have been a sleepy off year congressional race. And a special thanks, to the president of the United States of america. Reporter democrats saw an opening in the longtime gop strong hold after the president chose georgia congressman tom price for his cabinet. We showed the world that in places where no one thought it was impossible to fight, we could fight. Reporter john ossoff breaking donors from around the country. Handel slammed the political newcomer for living just outside the district, taunting him as he voted. Since my opponent cant do that today. Reporter democrats now wondering whats next . I think this movement is not done. You know, hes taught us how to fight and how to do it in a respectable way and i think well keep doing that until we can find a way to win. Reporter but for the gop, a key victory ahead of next years midterms. And i give every georgian this promise, my promise to work every single day relentlessly to make our state and this country a better place. Reporter polling for this race has been extremely close until the very end, hands el wins by 4 Percentage Points n. South carolina, another special election. A republican also won. Although that race was closer than expected. Matt, savannah. Gape gutierrez, thank you. There is another big talker in walk. Thats the battle over health care. Republican lawmakers are crafting new legislation behind closed doors. That is drawing complaints from democrats and now some top gop lawmakers are joining in. Nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander is at the white house. He has the latest on this. Good morning. Reporter matt, good morning. You are right. Those complaints of secrecy bipartis bipartisan. There is an all republican senators meeting expected this morning to talk about it. Their plan to hold a vote on the gop sweeping rewrite of the health care lous next thursday, just nine days from now. Its the best kept secret in walk. The not Republican Health care bill with republicans among being kept in the dark. We have been complaining like [ bleep ] when the democrats ran the Affordable Care act. Now theyre doing the same thing. Reporter that skrim echoing across the criticism echoing across the party. Im a republican assigned to narrow some of the focus of this. I havent seen the bill. Reporter Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell refusing to give specifics and promising americans would have plenty of time to review it. We have been discussing all the elements of this endslessly for seven years. Everybody pretty well understands it. I think this will be about as transparent as it can be. Reporter the questions the same as republicans raised about obamacare seven years ago, House Speaker paul ryan addressing that issue with matt earlier this year. Were not writing some bill in the back program in harry reids office like obamacare was written. Were going through the committee process. Were doing this step by step. Were having public hearings, were having committees work on legislation. This is how the legislative process is supposed to be designed, not hatching a bill in the back room. Reporter a sick coverage for 23 million americans, cuts to medicaid, how deep should they go . And will the bill drive down the price of premiums . Democrats ramping up the pressure. We will go down to the ceo see if they can tell us what is in the bill. Reporter three of them making a show Live Streaming their budget office. News flash, we didnt get the bill. Reporter press Secretary Sean Spicer accusing the democrats taking themselves out of the mix. They chose not to make it very clear they didnt want to engage in this process. Reporter with questions swirling about his future role, spicers return to the podium tuesday marked his first oncamera appearance in over a week. Social media lighting up after steven steve ban none says tell your reporter sean got battered. Among those chimeing in, chelsea chimeing in, fat shaming isnt a joke i find funny ever. Reporter tweeting democrats would do much better as a party if they got together with republicans on health care, tax cuts, security. He writes, obstruction doesnt work. This week, President Trump told tech leaders the senate bill needs more heart. The future of health care, though, is in republican hands. They need 50 votes for the be ill to pass, meaning if three republicans vote against it, the bill fails, matt, savannah. All right. Peter, thanks so much. Now yet another terrorist attack in europe. This time in brussels belgium a. Man was shot and killed by Security Forces after he blew up a small explosive device in the citys main train station. Nbc has new developments in the investigation this morning. Keir simmons is there, good morning. Reporter we are a short distance from this platform, an area surrounded by source behind me the marks on the ground where Officials Say a suitcase packed with nails and gas cannisters that only partially exploded. Europe waking up to frightening and familiar images. The floor of brussels station scorched after another attempted terrorist attack. Around 8 30 last night, a burst of flames, many feet high, he was close by and saw two explosions. The businessman from california took this picture. People were still running out. The soldiers started coming in, as i was leaving. Reporter this video recorded minutes after the attack, through the smoke, apparently, a glimpse of the suicide bombing suspect. Lying on the floor. After the explosion, he was shot dead by soldiers. A european city, again, gripped by panic as people, including many tourists fled. Europe has seen three attacks in three days and in the past three months, a wave of terror targeting britain, france and sweden. Among the attacks in manchester, a bomb at an Ariana Grande concert. In the uks capital, a knife attack on a london bridge. In paris, a man attacking a Police Officer with a hammer in front of notre dame. Then sunday night in london, a van mounting a sidewalk and mowing down muslims leaving a prayer service. Police in europes capital city say the situation is under control this morning. Brussels, the scene of a deadly isis attack last year, in which 32 were killed, by multiple explosions at the airport and the metro naomi this morning in brussels as the alleged attackers house is searched, europe seemingly the target of unrelenting terror. And Officials Say the man was of moroccan descent and has never been to prison. This wave of attacks demonstrating whilst Security Services are able to react here effectively, savannah, they dont seem to be able to prevent these attacks. We have a lot open their hands, thank you. The president s son if law Jared Kushner is arriving in israeli this morning with ambitious hopes of laying the ground for a peace deal. He will meet Benjamin Netanyahu and president mahmoud abbas, theyre calling it a part to keep the conversation going rather than launching a new phase in the peace process. Another big story making news in that region, a shakeup at the top of saudi arabias royal hierarchy. King salman has promoted his son 31yearold Mohammed Bin Salman to be the next in line to the throne. He replaces salmans nephew as crown prince. No reason for that change was immediately announced. Now to the options being waived by the Trump Administration in the wake of a former detainee and College Student Otto Warmbier. This as we see the final images of otto taken shortly before he was taken into custody. Nbcs Foreign Correspondent Andrea Mitchell has the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, is vanna. The u. S. And china are meeting in washington to discuss options against north koreas missile and nuclear tests. All of this complicated as outrage is growing across america over the death of American Students Otto Warmbier, the result of his treatment being held captive in the rogue nation. Overnight a vigil at the university of virginia where Otto Warmbier would have graduated this spring t. White house and lawmakers consider options. The most powerful nation on earth. We have lots of options. Reporter most likely a travel ban for u. S. Citizens. 1,000 americans go there each year and more economic sanctions t. 22yearold College Student seen here in these newly released photos, laughing, joking in his final days before being arrested, came back home to ohio last week and died monday after 17 months in north korean captivity. He should have been brought home a long time ago. Reporter President Trump tuesday implicitly blaming his predecessor. Frankly, if he were brought home sooner, i think the results would have been a lot different. He should have been home that same day. Reporter obama officials point out they brought back two americans and bringing back warmbier was a top priority. Later mr. Trump seemingly to excuse china for restraining the rogue regime, while i greatly appreciate the efforts of president xi and china, it has not worked out. He seemed opened to meet with kim jongun. I would be honored to do it under the right circumstances. Reporter not any e any longer. North korea has committed a crime against humanity. They will probably not come clean and explain what happened. Reporter as Otto Warmbiers family prepares for his funeral. But there is also a different kind of goodbye. Reporter filled with promise and eerily prophetic. Many of us will move far away and fought come back for a long time. Reporter today when the officials pete at the state department, meeting with top fine cheese officials. They will be pressing china to do more to restrain north korea, even while trying to figure out just what the president meant by hus somewhat confusing tweet saying china was trying to help, acknowledging his china policy has not worked. Thank you. We got some big news from the world of business overnight. Uber Ceo Travis Kalanick announcing his resignation after months of controversy and speculation. Busy correspondent jo learn kent has more on that. Good morning. Reporter the uber ceo resigned after a group of people pressed him to step down, following scandal and setbacks. It marks the highest flying startup valued at nearly 17 billion with 14,000 employees. This morning, uber Ceo Travis Kalanick is out of a job, stepping down as the ceo of the company he founded if 2009, amid whats called a shareholder revolt. In a Statement Given to the fork times and confirmed by nbc news, kalanick said i love uber more than anything in the world, at this difficult moment in my personal life, i have accepted the investors requests, to step aside so ub kerr go back to building, last week the Company Announced kalanick would take a leave of absence, in part to mourn the death of his mother, that move apparently not enough to satisfy investors. The uber board of directors releasing a statement overnight reading, in part, this is a Bold Decision and a sign of his devotion and love for uber. By stepping away, hes taking the time to heal from his personal tragedy while giving the company room to fully embrace this new chapter in ubers history. Ubers recent history has been littered with a series of scandals, just two weeks ago, at least between uber employees and staffers