Doing well nationally, but there are some issues now with his polling in iowa, and we will be talking to him about the fact that ben carson has now surpassed him in those polls. By the way, trump had some pretty interesting thoughts on that at an event that he held on sunday so well get his reaction in just a couple of minutes, savannah. Looking forward to it, matt. Well check back in with you. Breaking news here. A crowded whalewatching boat sinking off the coast of Vancouver Island canada leading to a massive rescue effort. Nbcs National CorrespondentMiguel Almaguer has the late on the story. Miguel, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. It was a clear, crisp, sunny day in the coast off British Columbia when the boat went down. Its unclear why the vessel sank, but this morning we do know five are dead and one is still missing. The bow of the leviathon 2 and witnesses say when they first reached the boat bodies were everywhere. 27 were aboard on a whalewatching expedition when the may day came in at 4 00 p. M. All the boats that were out on the water were heading out to the start looking for survivors. Reporter 65foot tripledecker cruiser seen in this promotional video is operated by jamies whaling station in tofino, British Columbia. The boat shoved off in pristine conditions. A fleet of volunteers on the water and in the air launched the rescue. One by one the victims were pulled from the water. Ambulances rushing at least 18 to the hospital. This morning its unclear why the leviathon went down. Zinging nine miles off the coast it sunk in the sound where theres jagged rocks and reefs and the Company Owner said its been a traj day. Over this incident and our hearts go out to the families, friends and loved ones of everyone involved. Its not the first time tragedy has struck. In 1998 two were killed when the same company had a smaller vessel capsize, but in this area, popular with tourists, theres never been a tragedy like this, a day off the coast ending with a tour boat under water. The patients still hospitalized are all said to be in serious or stable condition. Many have already been discharged from the hospital. Again, savannah, this morning, five are dead and one remains missing. Savannah. The thank you very much, Miguel Almaguer. Meanwhile, torrential rains are hammering parts of the south this morning. The remnants of Hurricane Patricia creating misery for millions from texas all the way to florida. Heres nbcs Janet Shamlian in pensacola reporter recordbreaking are moving east and hammering parts of mississippi and louisiana. In baton rouge 10. 5 inches of rain in one hour and 5 inches in new orleans. A new runday record and thousands left without power. Tornado watches along the gulf coast with more expected today. Millions of people right now under flash flood warnings and into florida. In texas they are drying out rain. Places. Crews in san antonio searched for two days for a man who fell into a Drainage Ditch at heist storm, but somehow he survived. Bless the. Call it all of those things. Reporter this morning hes okay. And dozens of stories like this. The driver of that car was barely able to make it out when the road he was on near houston toured into a raging torrent in seconds. Were you frightened . Yeah, yes, i was. Reporter all of this caused by the remnants of Hurricane Patricia. One of the strongest ever recorded, merging with another weather system in the u. S. Before that will slamming into the mexican coast at 165 miles an hour. These exclusive pictures of the hardest hit area just now emerging. Nbc correspondent Gabe Gutierrez the only reporter to make his way in to see the damage where the historic hurricane made landfall. That was nbcs Janet Shamlian reporting from pensacola, al. And i look at your map behind you, its a map. It still is. We were very thankful in mexico it went on shore in between two populated areas, manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta and then immediately slammed into a mountainside, but right now we still have conditions that we have to watch very carefully. Tornado watches in parts of new orleans, louisiana, mississippi and into florida until 9 00 a. M. Gulfport, biloxi, mississippi, thats included until 9 00 a. M. Central daylight time. Rainfall amounts, anywhere 3 to 5 inches of rain today as we watch this. Lift up and make its way into the midMississippi River valley. Look for cincinnati, evansville, indianapolis all to be dealing with heavy rain today. Rainfall amounts 3 to 5 inches. Some rainfall rates up to half an inch per hour, and by wednesday weve got some showers and some heavier thunderstorms into the catskills and pocono mountains, savannah. Some areas could pick up another 1 to 1 inches here in the northeast, and sadly were watching another system that may be bringing another 3 to 5 inches of rain to texas by the end of this week. They are not going to be welcoming that. Al, thank you very much. Lets head back down to matt who is in New Hampshire this morning. All right, savannah, thanks very much. Were getting set for a special town hall meeting with donald trump and some New Hampshire voters. This mornings event comes at a pretty important time for the republican frontrunner who is leading nationally but now trailing ben carson in the key state of iowa. So we have two reports on the president ial race this morning beginning with nbcs katy tur who is also here in atkinson just upstairs from where we are. Shes covering trumps campaign. Katy, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. Donald trump taking advantage of his time here in New Hampshire, having a rally before the today show town hall, trying to woo voters here as this moderate state becomes increasingly important as his iowa poll numbers begin to drop. Now over the weekend trump the Associated Press released a poll showing seven in ten republican and republicanleaning voters believe trump can win the nomination compared for six in ten in ben carson as trump is feeling the squeeze in two major polls, including the Des Moines Register which has carson up by nine points. Trump was attacking his fellow political outsider who reacted to the numbers by repeatedly swing at carson calling him low energy and questioning his religion saying, quote, he carson, meanwhile, refused to hit back saying he refused to get down in the mad and continuing his lowkey approach to this campaign. Matt . All right. Katie tur just upstairs from us in atkinson. We have a full hour of questions and answers with donald trump coming up. Also this morning, Vice President joe biden. Hes speaking out, revealing more about why he decided against a president ial run. Nbc National CorrespondentPeter Alexander has more on this story. Peter, good morning to you. Reporter hey, matt, good morning to you. Vice President Joe Biden speaking for the first time publicly about his motivations not to run for president , insisting its not that he didnt want to run, but that this late in the game he simply didnt think he could win. Vice President Joe Biden on 60 minutes recounting the emotional struggle after the death of his son beau, including a conversation with his 11yearold granddaughter, beaus daughter. Shes lying between my legs and her head in my chest and turns around and pus her arms around me and starts sobbing and she says, pop, i see daddy all the time. I see daddy all the time. Pop, you smell like daddy. Youre not going to leave me, are you pop . Asked about reports that beau pleaded with him to run, the vp tried to set record straight. But there was not what is sort of made out as this kind of hollywoodesque thing that at the last minute beau grabbed my head and say youve got to run, win one for the gipper. It wasnt anything like that reporter decision not to run difficult for his wife dr. Joe biden. I think i was disappoint the. I mean, i thought joe would be a great president. Reporter vowing hell never run for Political Office again, biden defended recent comments that appeared directed at Hillary Clinton who called republicans her enemies. I dont think my chief enemy is the Republican Party. That wasnt directed to hillary. That was a reference to washington. Reporter still, clintons rival Bernie Sanders is reffing up his criticisms of the democratic frontrunner, attacking clintons evolution on her husbands support of a 1996 antigay marriage law. I think everybody at the time knew that it was simply homophobic legislation. Reporter with katy perry as lead cheerleaders clinton challenged donald trump. When he says we have to make America Great again, heres what i say. America is great. We just have to make it fair and just. Reporter a point punctuated by the Vice President who said hes disappointed in trump. I hope he reconsiders this sort of attack on all immigrants. I think that is i think that is beneath the country, and i hope he really doesnt believe it. Reporter biden says he wont be running again, but he said he isnt done with politics making no bones about the fact that he still wants to influence the democratic party. Among his Top Priorities in the remaining 15 months in office, aggressively working to support efforts to cure cancer. Matt, that, of course, is the disease that killed his son beau. Exactly. Peter alexander, peter, thank you very much. Well get to our town hall meeting with donald trump. Hell take questions from voters live in just a while. Right now he has just taken the stage upstairs from where we are right here to address a rally of his supporters. Hell make his way downstairs and well goat talk to him in a little while, but right now lets go back to new york and savannah. All right, matt. Thank you so much. Natalie joins us now with a breaking story overseas this morning. Thats right, in afghanistan. A powerful 1. 5 earthquake has rocked towns and villages in afghanistan and pakistan this morning. There are reports of significant casualties. Nbcs ron mott is in london with the very latest. Ron, good morning. Reporter hi there, natalie. Good morning to you. The massive earthquake struck shortly after 2 00 in the afternoon local time, just past 5 00 on the east coast, and there are reports, as you mentioned, of casualties, and were just learning schoolchildren are among them. There are also some building collapses. Nbc news producer in lahore, pakistan, said the violent shaking lasted more than a minute creating chaos. I was sitting on an easy chair typing out an assignment when i just felt it go up and down as if i was in a new york city subway on a really rough ride. It was just up and down five floors up. Thats what everything was doing. It was just moving up and down. My lunch on the table was just literally popping up and down. Reporter he also reports the army has alerted noncombat units to stand by for possible emergency relief assignments and that the earthquake may have triggered avalanches on snowcovered mountains in that region as well. Natalie. As we get more, more on the developments. Ron mott out of london, thank you. A Coalition Air strike in iraq has destroyed the isis prison where a raid freed 70 hostages last week. The pentagon released video that have air strike on sunday. The u. S. Military made sure isis would never use this building again as a prison. The kurds had earlier released video of the moment when the hostages were set free. One u. S. Soldier, Master Sergeant joshua wheeler, was killed in that raid. More than 120 people were injured when a high speed ferry slammed into unidentified object in the waters near hong kong. Authorities say the hydrofoilstyle boat was carrying 163 passengers and 11 crew members when the accident happened sunday night. Marine police boats were sent in to rescue the passengers. Six people suffered serious injuries. The campus of North CarolinaCentral University went into lockdown briefly overnight as police searched for an active shooter. Durham Police Say One person suffered a nonlifethreatening injury in the shooting on campus. The college issued an Emergency Alert telling students to seek shelter and lock their dey doors, and police are still searching for a suspect this morning. Some sad news from the world of sports. Flip sanders, the president and coach of the minnesota twofrlz, has died of cancer. Saunders took a leave absence earlier this year to get treated for hodgins lymphoma. Doctors were optimistic about his return, but a few days ago it was announced saunders would miss the nba season due to complications that came up during treatment. He was 67 years old. 53,000 General Motors workers will stay on the job for now. Gm and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative contract. Uaw locals were making strike preparations, but the deal was reached just minutes before the midnight deadline. Things went from bad to much worse for a professional golfer in south africa this weekend. He had a terrible lie right up against this tree. His shot, as you see here, ricochets off the tree and right into his midsection and hes in obvious pain. He went on to shoot a seven on that hole. Good for a triple bogey, but probably in a lot of pain, so a seven is good when youre in that much pain. 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