Life in lockup. A revealing new look at what o. J. Simpsons life is like now behind bars. How he spends his day, including coaching other inmates. And why wasnt simpson allowed to watch the tv series about his murder case. And miley mania. Miley cyrus grew up before our eyes and became one of the biggest stars of movies, music and tv. . . . We cant stop . . We wont stop . . Now shes taking her talents to the voice. I want you on my team so bad. But not before she makes a live stop right here in our studio today, friday, september 16th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on friday. Its going to be a busy morning in politics. Hillary clinton talking right now as this birther issue, as its known, as just come to life again. Shes already called for donald trump to apologize to the president and the American People for what she says perpetuating this lie on the question of where she was born. Any moment we expect donald trump to address this issue. We begin with the battle for the white house. The election now, just 53 days away. This is the state of the race, trump says hes going to talk about this birther controversy at an event scheduled for this morning in washington, d. C. , thats set to begin any minute, then he heads to campaign in miami later this afternoon. As we said, Hillary Clinton campaigning in the nations capital, speaking at the black womens symposium and First Lady Michelle Obama will be on the trail for clinton today, attending an event in virginia. According to a new fox news onepoint advantage, 46 to 45. As we mention, a lot to get to with our decision 2016 team and well start with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Peter, good morning to you. Good morning. Donald trump, the brash showman, trying to build the drama up this morning, promising that big announcement at his Campaign Event that begins really right now, fittingly held at his brand new washington, d. C. , hotel on the week of its opening. Still whats unclear is whether he will publicly t born in the u. S. Trump this morning saying he wants to, quote, keep the suspense going after repeatedly refusing to repudiate his own birther beliefs. With donald trump fanning the flames of the Birther Movement for years, his campaign overnight trying to put out the fire. The trump team issuing a reversal saying, mr. Trump believes president obama was born in the United States. The statement also crediting trump for a, Great Service to release his birth certificate and falsely accusing Hillary Clintons 2008 campaign of first raising the issue. Notably the statement comes from the campaign, not from trump himself, who in a Washington Post interview 24 hours earlier refused to say president obama was born in the u. S. Ill answer that question at the right time, he said, i just dont want to answer it yet. With the race tightening, trumps trying to seal his biggest deal yet. You better make sure to have wasted a hell of a lot of time, energy, and money. Reporter even as trump touts new momentum, a new poll shows 61 of likely voters believe the insurgent outsider is not qualified to be president , but a majority say trump is more transparent than his democratic rival. Thursday night in New Hampshire the billionaire ditching reporters, arriving before the press plane. They alled us and said could lets get going. Reporter the businessman promising to create 25 million jobs but offering few specifics. Late thursday trump also standing up for his adult children. Boy, the press likes to hit them, and they are such good kids, but they can take it. Reporter hours after donald jr. Came under fire for these comments he made about clinton. The media has built her up, theyve let her slide on every indiscrepancy, every slide, every dnc game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of that. Reporter trivialization of the holocaust and gas chambers is never okay. Don jr. Tells nbc news the remark was not antisemitic, insisting he was refgt capital punishment. Again, we want to show you live pictures right now, where donald trump will be delivering those remarks. Its being touted as a veterans event, but all the focus will be notably at his new hotel, blocks away from the white house. The white house, for its part, is declining to address the Trump Campaigns birther statement. This has been viewed as a racially charged insinuation and in the new interview trump boasted support among africanamerican voters is coming up, quote, like a rocket ship, he says. In fact, he still polls at 6 with africanamericans, exactly what mitt romney got four years ago. Willie and savannah . Peter ale washington, thank you. Hillary clinton was quick to hammer trump over the birther issue last night, as well. Shes already had more to say this morning. Nbcs Kristen Welker is in washington. Kristen, good morning. Reporter willie, good morning. Theres more sharp rhetoric as secretary clinton addresses the black womens agenda symposium here in washington, d. C. Shes trying to rebound from lagging poll numbers and wasting Hillary Clinton back on the trail at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus gala. He did it again. Reporter and taking aim at donald trump for again refusing to say president obama was born in the United States. He still wouldnt say america. When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry . Reporter and Clintons Campaign lashing out after the Trump Campaign released a statement trying to walk back trumps comments. Clintons spokesperson tweeting say it himself on camera and admit he was wrong for trying to de le jit miez the countrys first africanamerican president. A message that sends a message that even he can hear. Reporter clinton also poked fun at one of his top surrogates. If you dont do something about it, youre going to have taco trucks on every corner. Absolutely delicious. Reporter her opening act thursday, president obama, who also had harsh words for the gop nominee. Weve seen this kind of ugliness and anger and vitriol before. We cant let that brand of politics win. Reporter clinton resetting her campaign thursday. Calling three days off the trail after being diagnosed with pneumonia. Even i had to admit that maybe a few days of rest would do me good. To reverse these damaging optics by touting her strength. Nobody ever accuses me of quitting, and i will never give up. Reporter and president bill clinton giving her an assist, defending secretary clinton after she was criticized for calling half of trumps supporters deplorable. Hi, guys reporter a statement which Hillary Clinton retracted herself. She did what any grownup would do. Your friends, have been debased, demeaned, vilified, called crooked. Reporter secretary clintons also trying to calm jittery democrats who are concerned that the race is tightening, yesterday telling reporters she always expected this to be a close race. Once she leaves d. C. Shell head to new york for a fundraising event. On monday shell campaign in philadelphia and try to rally those allimportant millennial voters, some of whom are veering hushed tones as secretary clinton speaks behind her there. Mark halperin, good morning to you. As recently as yesterday donald trump declined an opportunity to say i know the president was born in america, the birther issue is over for me, but then his campaign went out and said, yes, he believes hes an american citizen. Is it going to change between did the interview wednesday night, published yesterday, and his Campaign Came out, his son came out, his Campaign Manager have all come out and said donald trump believes the president was born in the United States. Now its up to mr. Trump this morning, i think, to say the same thing. This is a position thats not sort of a side bar, as Hillary Clinton made clear this morning, this is central to how he got on the political map. The issue is, its not ancient history. I can think of a lot of different times during this Current Campaign when given the opportunity to say thats over, he kind of just dodges the issue, i dont talk about that anymore, or maybe ill write a book about it. He has been reluctant to just put an end to this. Tried to have almost a neutral position, but he cant erase the past. Hillary clinton made clear shes not going to let him. On friday night she talked about the basket of deplorables, which we all thought would be the dominant story of the week, then the clashes with pneumonia, and built the next 50 days plus with these events. Maybe were not talking about this by sunday, but today this is the showdown, donald trump will come out and talk and then Hillary Clinton and her campaign will try to remind people whatever he says today that this is part of his willing si they wont let him forget. From Donald Trumps side, why go through this charade, why shine another light on this issue, something hed like to put behind him, you would think, even though hes had the record of saying what hes said. Why play it this way, have another press conference to talk about it again . His advisers have been trying to clear things like immigration that are issue positions which will hurt his chances to reach out to those married suburban voters that he needs to win this election, needs a greater support. Lets see how he handles it, but its a big moment. The polls really tightening in battleground states that are important, nationally, are she needs to win this now, this is nothing she can coast through. She has to fight to become president of the United States against an opponent thats narrowed the gap nationally. Florida, ohio, just to name a couple getting tighter every day. Thanks so much. Thank you. We have a Major Development this morning involving the Samsung Galaxy note 7 phones that can unexpectedly catch fire. The Consumer ProductSafety Commission is issuing a formal government recall saying the devices pose an immediate risk and should not be used. Tom costello with the te this this morning, tom, good morning. Hi, savannah, we cant even get our hands on one to demonstrate because theyve all been recalled, but a million phones involved in the recall, the government telling customers nationwide return the galaxy note 7s right away. Reporter for the biggest cell phone manufacturer. Just wanted to post this and share what just happened to my note 7. Reporter what began as a big black eye is now an official worldwide. Samsung says it has 92 reports of the phones overheating. Dozens of reports of fires. Including a garage that burned to the ground in south carolina. And a jeep that was charred and gutted in florida. Because this product presents such a serious fire hazard, i am urging all consumers, all consumers to take advantage of this recall right away. We apologize, especially to those of you who were personally affected by this. And we will work every day to earn back your trust. Reporter samsung blames the fires on a defect inside its lithium ion batteries which operate at a very high 4 volts. The root problem with lithium ion batteries is potentially a lot of energy is stored inside a tiny little device. Reporter samsung says the replacement phones arriving wednesday will come with new batteries made by a different supplier. May also catch fire. In new york, a 6yearold suffered first degree burns when a samsung core allegedly caught fire. In florida tuesday night, a car gutted by fire after another galaxy phone allegedly exploded. Meanwhile, a california man has filed suit claiming he suffered second and third degree burns on his leg when his s7 edge caught fire. The cpsc says it is now looking into those reports as well. Sa on those cases but tells me it really believes the defective batteries are limited only to the note 7, which is now under recall. Customers can either exchange their note 7s for a replacement phone or get a full refund. Savannah . I remember you reporting airlines started asking customers not to turn on the note 7s, dont charge it when youre on the plane. Does this change now with the official recall, do you expect the airlines to say dont bring them on at all . Use of these note 7s onboard commercial planes. No longer a voluntary thing, and the fear is that a runaway fire involving lithium ion batteries is extremely dangerous, especially in a closed airline environment. All right, tom costello, thank you very much. Now to the frightening scene here in new york city on thursday. A man attacked an offduty Police Detective with a meat cleaver at the height of the evening rush it happened near penn station at the height of the evening rush hour. Police say officers confronted the man when they saw him trying to remove a boot from a car he apparently was living in. This video was taken moments before police confronted the 32yearold. When they approached him, he pulled out an 11inch meat cleaver and ran. After a brief chase, the suspect hit one detective in the face with the cleaver. Three Police Officers opened fire wounding him. The detective who was hit with the cleaver is now listed in stable condition. Also this morning, the House Intelligence Committee is urging president obama not to pardon former nsa contractor edward snowden. That caused tremendous damage to u. S. National security. The report says snowden is not a whistleblower as he claims. A bipartisan letter sent to the president says that snowdens claim that he disclosed information to protect americans is undercut by his actions. Snowdens attorney denounces that report and calls his client a genuine american hero. A School Bus Driver in new jersey is out of a job this morning after dramatic video surfaced showing the driver swerving across the yellow line of a slower moving fedex truck. The bus company said it fired the driver wednesday night after seeing the video. There were no students on board at the time. Fedex says it is looking into the incident, as well, and police are investigating. Scary to watch that. I guess the only comfort, there werent kids onboard at the time. We turn to dylan now in for al. Were looking at the west. Im no meteorologist youre right, absolutely right, its gorgeous on the west temperatures have been in the 60s along the coast, 70s and 80s further inland. We have this bit of moisture thats going to start working in for the weekend, so seattle its been a good run, but we are going to see a chance of more rain likely this weekend, especially as we go into sunday, but we are going to enjoy another Beautiful Day today, 76 in seattle, little warmer across most of oregon, in the 90s, San Francisco about 64 degrees. High pressure is in control for now, so even as you go into the mountains, temperatus of year, but only by about five degrees or so, so mid to upper 70s looking good, Salt Lake City about 73 degrees, and 72 in denver. The rest of the country, the east coast is looking good, as well. Another perfect day on tap, low humidity, temperatures in the 70s, about as good as it gets. Were watching this cold front. This is going to slowly move eastward through the weekend. It brought some severe storms through the plains states yesterday. Isolated severe storms later this afternoon, especially in and thats your and thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you. Coming up, a day in the life. A revealing new look at how o. J. Simpson spends his day behind bars. On rossen reports, hackers using your computers webcam to spy on you. What the fbi director does to protect his privacy and says you ought to be doing, too. But first, this is today on nbc. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. I know more about isis then the generals do. John mccain, a war hero. Hes not a war hero, hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured ok. 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