The embattled singer accused of threatening a woman at gunpoint in his home. What the star is now saying about that incident. Fiery escape. The driver at a gas station backs into a pump, sparking a dangerous fire. The car behind him igniting with two children inside. How their mother sprang into action and helped save their lives. Today, wednesday, august 31, 2016. This is today from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. Big, surprising news from donald trump overnight coming on twitter. We knew he would give a big immigration speech today. Now we found out hes going to travel to mexico and meet with the president there. Donald trump sent out a tweet saying hes going to mexico to anticipated speech on immigration. That comes later on this evening. We are going to hear from his Campaign Manager about the surprise trip in a moment. Lets begin with nbcs hallie jackson. Reporter good morning. Already this morning serious new backlash against Donald Trumps trip to mexico with the countrys former president saying we dont want him, we dont like him and we reject his visit and calling the current mexican president a traitor for this. For donald trump after a campaign full of twists and turns this surprise sit down may be one of his biggest yet. Reporter before his speech on securing the border, a trip across it as donald trump accepts the invitation of the mexican president. The current president of mexico said he would meet with you. Will you meet with him . Yeah, sure. You would . Absolutely. One saw coming after trump announcing the candidacy said this about mexicans. They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. Theyre rapists and some, i assume, are good people. Reporter the backlash mediate with trump even now saying hell get mexico to pay. Mexico will be paying for the wall. Reporter that plan getting fierce pushback from the former mexican president. [ bleep ] wall. He should pay for it. Reporter and the current one, comparing trump to hitler and mussolini before back tracking. Now a softer tone as pena nieto said, i will be respectful and work with whomever is elected in november. Eight in ten hispanic voters see trump unfavorably. For a Major Political moment. Trumps trip today coming ahead of an immigration speech in phoenix tonight where hell try to clarify his muddled message. It is still not clear how trump will handle the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants here but a top Campaign Aide said he is expected to call for stricting work site enforcement, better visa tracking and an end to socalled sanctuary cities. Sources in mexico say the embassy advised trumps team against the visit. Clinton was invited also. A Campaign Official said she will do so at the appropriate time. Back to you. Well talk more about it. Thank you very much. Kellianne conway is Donald TrumpsCampaign Manager. Good morning. Good to see you. This is a lastminute trip, isnt it . Maybe its been revealed publically last minute but mr. Mexico. He wants to establish a conversation with a neighboring country, a leader. And also to discuss the common problems and challenges that our country is facing. You are using diplomatic language, something donald trump hasnt done with mexico. I dont think there is much disagreement about that. Is he a guy that will go to the mexican president and use that same bluntgu back. Youre going to get a bill for the border wall. Or will he try a gentler approach. You will see a president ial donald trump at the meeting in mexico. We are happy the president invited him. Im sorry Hillary Clinton is not going. She keeps following the leader here. We are the leader. People are needed in louisiana, we are there. The president in mexico invites us, we accept the invitation. Trade policy and drugs. Later today in arizona donald trump will deliver an address on immigration. At the end of the speech are we going to know exactly what his policy on immigration is as it pertains to the 11 Million Immigrants in this country illegally . Yes, you will. Too often, matt, typical politicians tell you, hey, the sound bite now specifics at a time to be determined. Its president ial to go lay out the policies ahead of time. The campaign created its own confusion on the issue. At the end of the day are we going to hear the there will be a Deportation Force and those 11 Million People living illegally in this country now will have to leave before some of them have the chance to come back . You are going to hear many things from mr. Trump. One, no amnesty. Absolutely going to build the wall. Thats been the center of his campaign from day one. Place. You want to work with congress. In fairness those are the positions that as far as anyone can tell he hasnt changed. In the primary he was as clear as day about it. Every single last illegal immigrant, whether criminal or not, if they are here illegally, they are going back. He did not mince words. Are we going to hear it today . Does he plan to round up and deport every last illegal immigrant starting on day one . Hes going to just 11 million and others as well including sanctuary cities. There is no reason angel moms like agnes, julie, no reason people should have to lose their children at the hand of an illegal immigrant murdering them. Hillary clinton is for that. Hes not. It couldnt be more clear. In terms of changing positions i have memorized 22 of them for Hillary Clinton. Keystone pipeline, you could ask her if she would talk to the to be open with the press, to go over the border to mexico to meet with the president , go back to arizona to give an immigration speech. She was in the hamptons raising money. Since you are here, are we going to see a reversal of the policy . You will not see a reversal. If you look at his speech at the convention which is when you accept the republican nomination, you lay out the vision as president. He didnt talk about deportation. He makes it clear he hasnt enforcing law. Do you know what might happen if we enforced the immigration laws in this country . I dont. We never bothered. We have i. C. E. , Law Enforcement, other people that should be consulted and should be part of the spectrum of responsible actors here. Thats not happening in this administration. Mrs. Clinton made it clear she would flot follow that either. Well enforce the law. If you could get me a pass to be a fly on the wall in the that would be a good one. Thanks for joining us. More politics to talk about. Three high profile incumbents won the primaries on tuesday, each setting the stage for a general election showdown in november. In arizona, senator john mccain fought off the challenge from a Republican Tea Party activist winning the right to seek a sixth term. Senator marco rubio cruised to victory in florida after reversing a pledge that he wasnt going to seek reelection. In florida, representative Debbie Wasserman schultz beat back a challenger after she had to step down as chairperson of the Democratic National committee. A storm expected to become Tropical Storm hermine later today. A hurricane watch has been announced as the state braces for heavy rainfall. Major flooding and surging waves. Dylan is in for al with the latest on this. We have been waiting for the storm to develop into a Tropical Storm. Moving slowly. It is going to become a Tropical Storm, most likely later on today. Tropical depression 8, the one off North Carolina, is moving out to sea. Thats no longer going to be an issue. Here are the hurricane watches right in the big bend of florida. This is the area we are looking at the strongest winds and also for the chance of a storm surge up to 3 to 6 feet above high tide. That could lead to coastal flooding. In addition, we are seeing heavy rain move through tampa. The storm will take the turn. The track shifted a little farther to the north. It includes charleston, south carolina, by saturday. They could see Tropical Storm conditions with as much as five inches of rain. It is this area in pink here. Thats where we could end up seeing as much as 10 to 15 inches of rain. Thats going to be the reason we could see massive flooding. We want to point out two storms in the pacific. We have madeline which is weakening and lester which is a north. We could see 10 to 15 inches of rain in hawaii. I remember when it was tropical depression 99l. It was upgraded to depression. Thanks, dylan. Now to a Major Development in the fight against isis. The terror groups number two in command has been reportedly been killed following an air strike in syria. Lets go to richard engel, hes got the latest. Good morning. Savannah. The u. S. Has been tracking this man for many years. In fact, he spent years in u. S. Custody in iraq until he was released. Hes one of the founding members of isis, but as of now its unclear that he really died. Hes one of the worlds most wanted terrorists with many titles. Isis recruiter, spokesman, second in command, syrian born attacks in the west, an appeal directly linked to the spike in isis attack this is summer in turkey, across europe and the orlando nightclub massacre. The pentagon called aladnani the principal architect of isils external operations adding his removal from the battlefield would mark another significant blow to isil. The media arm says he was killed while supervising military operations against aleppo. U. S. Officials confirm aladnani with the 5 million american bounty on him was targeted yesterday. U. S. Officials are not confirming that he was killed. Isis could certainly replace aladnani but losing such a key figure, the organizations public voice, would be a here at home with the election 68 days away a top secret u. S. Intelligence group is looking into russias alleged electionrelated hacking. Nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams joins us with more on that. Pete, what can you tell us about the group and dont say they are top secret. Its a group with a name out of the cold war. The foreign denial and deception committee. One of the positions is to track and analyze these recent russian cyber attacks. U. S. Officials say the russians did try and fail to get into arizonas on line Voter Registration system. Then successfully penetrated a similar system in illinois and copied a small fraction of the data but didnt appear to change it in any way. Elections are conducted by the states, not by the federal government. State Officials Say it would be much harder for the russians or any outsider, for that matter, to hack into the completely states, for example, that use optical scanners where you fill in the circles on the paper ballot and feed it to a scanner still have that as a backup. Security experts warn the touchscreen systems without a paper backup still in wide use are more vulnerable, especially to an insider hack, matt. The degree of nervousness if you could characterize it now in the Intelligence Community would be what, pete . Reporter the degree is high they are trying to influence confidence. I would say low that they are trying to manipulate results. Intelligence Officials Say, for example, they doubt the russians are trying to help the Trump Campaign though Congressional Democrats asked the fbi this week to look at it. The current thinking is even if the Russian Hackers cant manipulate the actual vote their goal appears to be a broader one to under mine confidence in the election system. Pete williams in washington. Stanfords campus ahead of brock turners release from jail on friday. The former College Athlete was given what some consider a six month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. He served just three months of the sentence. Heres the latest. Reporter good morning. Come friday, brock turner will have served three months here in protective custody, half of a sentence that many found appalling considering the crime. It was a conviction and lenient sentence that stirred a national uproar. Former stanford swimmer brock turner set to be released friday from jail after serving just 90 days following three felony convictions for sexually assaulting an unconscious female. The victims letter of outrage to turner going viral, viewed nearly 18 million times. Weighing in with an emotional letter to the young woman writing, a lot of people failed you, i believe you. Its not your fault. All of this igniting a fire storm against Santa Clara Superior Court judge aaron persky who presided over the case. Nearly 1. 8 Million People signed a petition for him to be removed from the bench. He voluntarily stepped down from criminal court. Now will preside only over civil court trials. California state legislators bill to the governor closing a loophole allowing for such short sentences. Under the law if the case was tried today turner would serve a minimum three years behind bars. Turner has been banned from ever setting foot on campus again but left an indelible mark on stanford university. This case shows if you commit Sexual Assault to an unconscious woman on the stanford campus in summer internship in jail. Reporter turner is expected to be released from jail here any time after midnight on friday. Sources here tell us he will receive no special treatment. We know he will have to report to probation for three years which means frequent drug tests and no alcohol. He will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Gadi schwartz, thank you. Today marks a first in over half a century as u. S. Airlines began commercial servio for the First Time Since 1961. Kerry sanders is in ft. Lauderdale where hell buckle up for the ride. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning from the cockpit of jetblue f 387. Well be traveling here shortly. I have to move to my seat but this will be a one hour and eight minute flight into history. This morning americans can once again buy a commercial airline the last scheduled u. S. Flight was a panam d. C. 6 in 1961. Jfk was in the white house. Hard linen had heard of the beatles. The first flight from ft. Lauderdale heads to santa clara east of havana where jay guevara is buried. Piloting today, frank who beban his career at 14. He will be flying here with me along with my grandfather and everybody else. Reporter jetblue is the first to resume flights to cuba but other u. S. Airlines are right behind. Next week American Airlines begins flights from miami to cuba. Eight airlines have tentative u. S. Permission to fly to cuba from various u. S. Cities. Permission to fly directly to havana could come later this year. Relations between our countries are once so tense that the u. S. Navy blocked the comings and goings of cuba you can understand why many historians never thought americans with their passports would be able to get on an american plane and fly back and forth to cuba. All right, kerry. Thank you very much. Kerry making a lot of friends preboarding the flight. Couldnt get the aisle though. Kerry, thank you very much. Have a good flight. Dylan is back with the busy weather map. We are going to see tropical downpours in florida but also with the cold front we could see isolated storms across the eastern great lakes extending into the plains and through northern texas with heavy rain. Thats a look at the weather across the country. Your local forecast is coming up in just 30 seconds. Also, his name is sous. No. Sloppy joseph. A middleaged man whos trying to get his life together, but he cant hes to sloppy. Huhhh no here you go. I got this. I get cash back so its like everythings on sale. 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