Saved by his scouts. A boy scouts leader credited for saving his life after being mauled by a bear. The quick thinking scouts gave new meaning to their motto be prepared. The wrong winner named and crowned at the Miss Universe pageant before host steve harvey has to admit he made a mistake. I have to apologize. Sending credibly awkward moments followed before the real winner was crowned. Today, monday, december 21st, 2015. From nbc news, this is today with matt louer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Hoda is in while savannah enjoys awkward. They took the crown off one contestants head and put it on another. What killed me was watching miss columbia wave and blow kisses because she thought she won and then to hear the news, everybody was hurting after that. Were going to tell you much more about that coming up later on. Were going to start on a monday morning with our top story. A woman now behind bars after police say she intentionally drove her vehicle on a crowded sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip and carried out the rampage with a toddler in the backseat of a car. Morgan radford is live with the latest. Good morning. What can you tell us . Reporter matt, good morning. The strip has finally reopened after being closed all night for the investigation. This has the woman in question remains in custody. Las vegas strip after police say a woman drove her car on crowded sidewalks. Officials seen the female driver in her 20s with a threeyearold child in the car when she jumped the curb and plowed into pedestrians. One said people flew like bowling pins as the car flew in the crowd killing one and jurying othersjury injurying others. People running behind the car chasing the car and they were not Police Officers chasing the car. According to witnesses, the driver seemed to ignore people pounding on the windows and finally came to a stop on the street. Police say she then took off again jumping the curb at least two more times slamming into more people near planet hollywood. And yet, the driver did go from one location into the street and back on to the area of the palace. She left the crime scene driving to a hotel just a few blocks away where police found the car with a smashed windshield and arrested her. They believe the woman recently ved to the area. The information i got she may have been here for a short period of time but shes not from here. She recently moved here. The driver and the child remain unharmed this morning. The police say if they find out this was intentional, theyll treat it as a homicide act. Back to you. This morning, mar ganorgan, thank you very much. Thank you very much. A suicide bomber has reportedly killed six. Chris has the latest. Good morning. Hey, hoda, good morning. We are still getting details on u. S. Officials tell nbc news that our american soldiers among those killed and wounded. The number of dead reached six while total wounded is three soldiers at this hour. Earlier, the taliban said it was behind the attack but it claimed 19 soldiers have been killed. That appears to be a far higher number than is accurate. The suicide bomber detonated the explosives as he drove off the Coalition Forces which included some afghan forces. Local media have been reporting nato troops were killed in the attack. Again, in this stage we know there are only americans on the casualty list. We dont know the extent of their injuries. We want to turn to politics now and donald trump firing back at Hillary Clinton after she focussed her attacks on him at saturdays democratic first nbcs Hallie Jackson has the latest. Reporter donald trump kept up his twitter attacks but his biggest target lately is not in his own party. Its Hillary Clinton taking aim at the g. O. P. Front running. Hillary clinton dismissing her democratic rivals for a competitor not on the stage. Donald trump now hitting back. Hillary is not strong. Hillary is weak frankly. Her policies were a disaster for the world. Their war of worlds intensify. He is becoming isis best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadist. So far, no proof thats the case. Something trump is pointing out online. Its just another hillary lie. And on air. She lies like crazy about whether its trips where she was being gunned down in a helicopter or airplane, shes a liar and Everybody Knows that. Republicans are also taking aim at another clinton comment after she referenced the security counsel resolution in the fight against terror. We are finally where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after isis. She is secretary happy talk. You listen to Hillary Clinton and you would think no one has a reason to be concerned. Chris christie in New Hampshire trails trump there as both trump and clinton dominate their respected races. A potential match up on saturday night live. Arent you worried about the republican. Whose their front runner . Donald trump. I told you. Oh my god were going to be president. Trump meanwhile is doubling president putin who called trump a bright and talented leader and who also faces widespread accusations hes ordered political journalist killed. Trump insisting theres no proof of any of that. Thank you very much. Donald trump joins us by phone now. Mr. Trump, good morning. Good talking to you. Good morning. Lets talk about the fight, the criticism. You fired back at Hillary Clinton after the debate saturday night. Shes working on the ban of muslims entering the country and they have become isis best recruiting tool and theyre showing people videos of your comments. Theres no proof, no tape. Thus she is a liar and lies a lot. Dont you open yourself up to the very same criticism when it comes to your claim thousands of muslims celebrated. There is no tape, are you guilty by your same standard . First of all, many people saw that happen, matt, as you know. It was written about in the Washington Post and numerous ive been totally exonerated from that. Ive had headlines exonerated. I can send you a story but as far as hillary is concerned, shes always been whether its white water or the email scandal. She always lies. Now to be saying were just right in the perfect spot with ect to isis, i dont think thats a lie. I dont think she knows what shes doing. Shes been a mess wherefore shes been and created a mess. You look at her record. Excuse me. We can go back and forth on whether theres video whether muslims celebrated on 9 11. You should go back and forth. Theres many, many witnesses and many stories come out that they celebrated and by the way, matt, around the world they celebrated all over the world when the World Trade Center was falling down which is disgusting but parts of new york and simply in parts of new jersey. Let me move on. We have plenty of information. When you and i were at the town hall meeting in new i asked you about controversial comments and went back to your own book, the art of the deal where you wrote about some soft things you said in the past. I play to peoples fantasies. Its an innocent form of exaggeration and a very effective form of promotion. So is Hillary Clinton lying or taking a page out of Donald Trumps play book . Matt, youre talking about people dying. Youre talking about making up tapes and videos which dont exist. Her Spokes Person last night made the statement and i think she said she was sorry. She said the videos do not exist. Her Spokes Person said this. What am i going to tell you . I would say this, matt. Hillary. You can be the messmessenger. She should apologize. She lies about emails, white water, everything. She will be a disaster as president of the United States. I will deliver that message. I promise you. Let me ask you one other quick question. Is there some kind of a deal between you and ted cruz . If i noticed as the Iowa Caucuses approach, youve been tough on just about every one of the republican candidates and ted cruz has held his fire when it comes to you. Have you guys made some deal behind the scenes youll not criticize each other . No, we havent, matt. We just get along. From the time i came out, i was right about so many things. I was right about illegal immigration and he backed me on it. I was right about so many things and well build a wall and it will stop people from coming in illegally. Them to come in individually. He backed me on just about everything i said and we get along well. Thats ultimately probably going to come down to media stand by. I have a very big lead right now. You know i like to win and well see what happens. Ult patly, the peaceful end speaking to some point. One of those strangers where politics and pop culture stick. Im going to ask you to stick around and react to the story willie is about to bring us. Willie is here with a strange evening at the Miss Universe pageant. If you missed it last night, pull up a seat right now. Its the moment everybodys talking about. The mistake that forced miss columbia to turn over her ground to miss philippines on Live Television after she was accidentally announced as the winner. Its the crowning achievement the world waits for at the Miss Universe pageant. Columbia. But this is the unexpected moment from last night that everyone will remember. I have to apologize. Miss universe 2015 is philippines. Miss columbia forced to forfeit her crown to miss philippines after host steve harvey named columbia the winner. I will take responsibility for this. It was my mistake. Harvey took to twitter soon after calling it a terribly honest mistake but deleted the post after misspelling columbia and philippines. Unforwhich you kmat un up was swift. Harvey instantly coming under fire as the moment went viral. As for the new winner and runner up, both beauty queens remain con backstage. Everything happens for a reason so im happy for all. We love you. Its a very nontraditional crowning, isnt it. Very 2015. Strange night. Wow. Aside from those means you saw a lot of people giving steve harvey credit for taking responsibility. Nice to see miss columbia handling it with a lot of class. We Ask Donald Trump to stick around because donald you use to own the Miss Universe pageant and you tweeted this a couple of minutes ago. Very sad what happened last night at the Miss Universe pageant. I sold it six months ago for a this would never happened. Whats your reaction to this . Well, it was something, i guess, that can happen. Steve harvey is a great guy. I like the we he got out and did it. It simply was a terrible error. Terrible for the young woman from columbia. Things happen. Its Live Television and the new owners are tremendous people and frankly, i feel, i owned it for 15 years and sold it and they gave me so much, i said come on, we have to make this, you have to do something. If you still owned it and were sitting there as this happened, what would donald trump have done . I know theyre going to be calling me today. Theyve got a call scheduled what would i do . I think i would make them a cowinner. It would be very cool. Make them a cowinner. To give it to her for a couple of minutes and take it away, you have a whole country. Last year we had a young woman from columbia, the entire country, i mean they took like a the whole country was wild. So you can imagine what happened. I would recommend they go have a beautiful ceremony which is good for the brand and good for Miss Universe and do a cowinner and i think Something Like that could work maybe. It was a tough evening. You know what, steve harvey is a terrific guy and things like this do happen. Donald trump an politics and pageants on a monday morning. Donald, thank you very much. Thanks, good talking to you. This does not happen every day. Now to the on going drama surrounding the former farm tut cal directive who became known as the most hated man in america when he raised the price of a life saving drug 5,000 . Nbcs stephanie joins us. 3 f2 consecuencias. Deserto como wall street journal its the result of his drug increase and over the topper sewn that. Trying to find anything we could to stop him was the attitude of the government adding beating the person up and trying to find the merits to make up for it, i would hope to government wouldnt take that kind of approach. Even before his arrest he was accused of some being an ego maniac. Now stealing from his own accompany, hackers took over his twitter handle on sunday. According to a Spokes Person, turning it into martin the god. Tweeting anyone want free money . Willing to donate hundreds of thousands to charity before i go to prison. Offensive to repeat. Another hacker broke into the youtube account. Hours including one following the days arrest. When i look at drugs and diseases, what i want to do is be able to make an impact on that disease. The comedians on saturday night live secured him. Con fratgratulations on ree creating yourself, martin. Hes out on a 500 million bond and says hell fight the charges against him in federal court. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to 20 years in prison. Already, hes stepped down as ceo of pharmaceuticals and theyre suspending trials sponsored by one of their companies. Back. They didnt want his money. Theres no coincident that the criminal charges come as he faces backlash. He did nothing illegal and theyre confused by his complicating accounting. Those weird long videos he does tells you a lot about him. Not a good week on social media also. Step, thanks very much. It has not felt a lot like christmas for a lot of people thanks to unseasonally high temperatures. It reminds us of spring rather than santa. Its going to get even warmer. Mid70s for christmas in the north kz northeast. We are looking at temperatures 30 degrees above average. It was cooler over the weekend but were turning the corner now. Look at record highs for Christmas Eve. We are forecasting closer to 80 degrees in savannah and tallahassee 79 degrees. That would break the record for through the atlanta 60s and 70s to break records. We should get into the 70s in washington d. C. A record high 61 in boston set back in 1996. Were forecasting 67 degrees. Christmas day it is going to cool down a bit but were still looking to be close to record and boston falls shy of it. New york city falls shy of it. Were still looking at temperatures to run into the 60s as we go into the upcoming holidays. Thats the weather across the country. Your local forecast in 30 seconds. Rope look at me all together now everything star wars for everyone. And thats your latest forecast. All right, dylan. Thanks. Coming up, the boy skoutd leader who says his troop helped save his life while they encountered a bear on their hike. With christmas a days away, a surprising culprit for putting millions of kids at risk for is today on nbc. Know to im billy, and i quit smoking with chantix. I dont know that i can put into words how happy i was when i quit. 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Decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. Use caution when driving or operating machinery. Most common side effect is nausea. Man, i love being a nonsmoker. cell phone rings where are you . Well the squirrels are back in the attic. Mom . Your dad wont call an exterminator. Can i call you back, mom . He says its personal this time. If youre a mom, you call at the worst time. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Where are you . Its very loud there. It is 7 26. According to local court records, the woman who local police say is responsible for driving her car up onto the sidewalk last night is leticia holloway. Dana she is out of oregon and reasonably lives in the portland area. She has a couple of addresses, one out of portland and one in vancouver, washington. She had a threeyearold in the back seat. Murder and child abuse she is expected in a local courtroom tomorrow morning for her first appearance. Kim we will have updates during the today show every 25 minutes. Lets check the forecast. Kelly here are the temperatures. We are looking at upper 30s and the 40s in many locations. Nellis coming in at 37. A high of 54. The winter solstice is tonight but the first day of winter is the warmest of the seven day. Christmas looking at a chance of rain and a high of 48. Tom we want to show you that everything is open. Let me go to the strip, it looks like nothing ever happened but obviously the investigation continues. There is a fatality accident shutting down jones between sunset and russell. Jones will remain closed for the rest of the morning. Hours ago at 5 30, the woman responsible for this according to local authorities is lakisha holloway. Kim if youre not familiar what what happened, one person dead we will have morning. 21st day of december, 2015. Beautiful Christmas Tree in the background. Lovely crowd out on the plaza on a chilly morning here in the northeast, but, you know what . Dylan says this week is going to warm up. Were going to see some record highs by