But cook managed to escape. That same night he got into a shootout with a kentucky state trooper before disappearing again, this time on foot. The fbi and u. S. Marshalls joined the search as a School District was shut down for three days. Kind of weird of us to think that one person could terrorize a community thatt much, one person. O thursday Authorities Say cook approached a home in the berksville area and asked for a ride and residence called police and cook ran into the woods. Authorities shut down part of highway 61 and set up a perimeter tracking cook with canine units, night vision and heatsensing equipment. Earlier this week two of cooks known associates were arrested following a foot chase in whitehouse, tennessee and now after nearly a week on the run, police say the threat over. This is not just a Kentucky State Police problem. It was not just a tennessee Highway Patrol problem. This was a community problem, so it was a collective effort that brought it to a conclusion. Reporter so how exactly were police able to closein . Well, a helicopopr was able to detect the suspects body heat signature which allowed authorities to tighten their perimeter. Right now, matt and savannah, investigators here are still processing the scene. Gabe gutierrez covering that story for us. Gabe, thank you very much. Another closely watched manhunt, this one in california, came to a peaceful end overnight. Kern county Deputy Edward tuckerr was recorded two days ago escaping from the back of a patrol car after being arrested on drug and weapons charges. The 44yearold managed to slip out of his handcuffs and then carefully open and close the door, all while officers doing paperwork. He was recaptured late last night at home of an acquaintance. Moving now to the president ial race and new fallout from weeks heated republican debate. The campaigns are planning to meet this weekend to discuss possible changes to future debates, this as jeb bush is insisting his campaign is far from over. Nbc National Correspondents have all the headlines from washington the peter, good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning to you. This morning the republican campaigns appear to be in full revolt against the republilin national c cmittee aftft major complaints about howow this weeks debate was handled and the rncs role running things. Nbc news has now confirmed that the republican president ial candidates will meet, at least thats their plan, this sunday in washington to plot how to fix this debate process. Not invited, any representative from the rnc. Ernight two surging senators, marco rubio and ted cruz back at capitol to cast their votes against a bipartisan budget bill. Jeb, i dont remember reporter under fire, rubio who defended his attendance record against jeb bush during the gop debate making a lastminute change in plans to appear alongside his rival. I can fix it. Reporter while for bush the writing was on the wall. Jeb can fix it n. New mpshire, with nbcs casey hunt. Im going to have to do what other candidates do which is brutally interrupt, not answer the questions that are asked. Its going fine. Reporter are you having any fun . Oh, yeah, you saw it. Im having lots of fun. Reporter after losing altitude in the mile high debate, nbc news has learned bush is privately reassuring nervous donors, vowing to improve as a candidate and a debater, and new overnight. S. News without this 112page Bush Campaign internal blueprint adding that marco is a risky bet saying those who have looked into marcos background have been concerned about what they found but the Rubio Campaign tells nbc news its been contacting bush donors directly trying to peel them away. Cnbc proved to be Good Business for rubio and cruz, both boasting a spike inn fundraising. While frontrunners donald trump and ben carson keep motoring ahead with trump even complimenting carson. W get along very well. Laughing at each other each other and winking at each. Were talking about fantasy football reporter and in the wake of Chris Christies feisty debate performance, the New York Times called on the new jersey governor to drop out. Overnight christie fired back. I ithe New York Times hates me that means im really getting some place. Reporter and nbc news has learned that during a private event with donor former president george w. Bush tried to reassure his brothers supporters to, quote, keep the faith, emphasizing this campaign is focused on a longterm strategy. Jeb bush will get another opportunity try to improve that performance at the next debate. Savannah and matt, its now less than two weeks away. All right. Peter alexander, thank you. New House Speaker paul ryan says hes not interested in settling old political scores. The Wisconsin Republican was elected speaker and hand the gavel on thursday, and this morning were getting a new look or a closer look at his official name plate. Ryan, of course, is taking over for john boehner. He says he wants to wipe the slate clean and move for a. He secured pledges from house conservatives before agreeing to serve, he was confirmed by a wide margin and nine republicans did vote against him. Want to talk about two incidents involving passengers planes, first an American Airlines flight heading from los angeles to philadelphia that. Flight had to be divert the to phoenix overnight because of an unruly passenger. Natalies got more on that story. Police say the passenger is not under arrest but he is gettin Psychiatric Care after refusing to take his seat and making comments about the government and the september 11th attacks. It was a midair scare for passengers on an American Airlines flight headed from los angeles to philadelphia on thursday. In this video from tmz a passenger can be seen being removed from the plane after his behavior forced the crew to make an Emergency Landing in phoeoex. Shortly after takeoff passengers say the man walked to first class where he stood at attention in military style refusing to take his seat. He was angry, swearing and talking about the government was aftete him and hes mad at the government and hes got plans. Reporter police say the passenger was also making comments about the september 11th attacks. They were, although alarming in nature, it gave the indication that this person may have been suffering from some type of mental illness. Chip yates says he and two other passengers subdued the man until he jumped out of his seat again, this time talking to passengers in coach. The passengers joined by three flight attendants finally managed to core rat man, fastening him tightly into a seat. We dididt have to drop him onn the floor or anythingike that. When he saw the kind of overwhelming force of all these guys closing in on him, he said okay, okay, okay, and he sat down. Police have not named the passenger but say he was removed from the plane at Phoenix Airport and transported to a facility for evaluation. A spokesman for American Airlines says the plane was refueled and able to head back to phililelphia. Thats a scaca one. In florida investigators are trying to piece together what caused a boeing 747 to catch fire at plane was taxying to the runway. Dozens of passengers were forced to evacuate use emergency slides. Ft. Lauderdale Hollywood International airport this morning. Kerry, good morning to you. Reporter overnight that dynamic air jet was towed to the other side of thee air. Its where a aident reconstruction engineers with the National Transportation safety board will begin looking for the caution of this dramatic fire. Along their first points of inspection will be a fuel line that may have been leaking. After escaping flames and what some thought might be death this morning the 90 passengers from dynamic air flight 405 have a new challenge, finding the courage too climb o o board another flighgh to their original destination, venezuela. So scary. Oh, my god. Its unbelievable. Reporter those fears may be wellfounded after the chaos on the Charter Airline thursday afternoon. Engines on fire. Engines on fire. Reporter moments after pulling away from the gate, leaking fuel on the left side of the plane igngned as the plane was still moving passengers scrambled to evacuate. Im like whats happening so i turn around and look in the window and its like flames all over the turbine of the plane. Reporter Officials Say within six minutes 101 passengers and crew escaped to the tarmac. 21 rushed to a nearby hospital. A 62yearold man admitted to intensive care with a serious head injury. Dynamic air, based in greensboro, north carolina, is a Charter Airline with a fleet of only five jets. Were standing at tango 4. Just, theres a big huge puddle of fuel, and it smells really, really strong. Reporter one focus. Investigation this morning, did the pilot do a socalled walk around, a visual inspection under the belly of the plane and around the engines . The in general if therers a fueleleak like this a little bit out of the ordinary, even though it doesnt happen very often, there are procedures in place to make sure that the fuel leak is handled appropriately. Reporter dynamic air executives say they will be working with the federal investigators. Their plane is 30 years old, but by airplane standards aviation experts say that is not particularly into old. Meantime, there are two p pple who are still in the hosostal this morning but everyone this morning said this could have been so much worse. Savannah. Kerry savders, thank you so much. Crews are taking a new approach to deflate that runaway Army Surveillance balloon that crashlanded in the pennsylvania forest the. It broke away from its mooring in maryland on wednesday and then drifted more than 120 miles. Well, now, Pennsylvania State police are using gunfire, firing more than 100 shots atreckage to try to help releasee that helium so the balloon can then be retrieved for investigators. For the first time now we are hearing from a young boy who survived a shark attack in hawaii earlier this week, and video of the tear fivegame encounter has now surfaced. Heres Nbc News National Correspondent miguel almaguer. Reporter a body border with a goerp row captured this from a discontinues, the10yearold bobbing in the waves when a shark appears to lung out of the water taking the boy under. I was on the boogie board just waiting for a wave and it pop out and bite my leg. Reporter from his hospital in hawaii the fourth grader described wednesdays attack. One bite, this leg. It jumped on and grabbed me. I kicked it with this leg and then i kicked him in the nose and t tn i didnt pan i didnt panic after th reporter body surfing in the warm waters 60 years off the shores of oahu raymond was seriously injured, bitten on his right leg and thigh. On the crowded beach first responsibilitiers rushed him to the hospital, his mother there among witnesses. He was pretty strong, i was hysterical. He wasnt. He was like im going to be dotting the beach raymond isn no rush to get back in the water, but this morning this brave 10yearold is already bag on his field. For today, miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. Were getting a few look at the huge biker brawl that left nine people dead and more than 175 people under arrest. Now video has been leaked to the media showing bikers at the twin peaks restaurant back in may reacting to gunfire in the parking lot, some taking cover and others pulling out their own clash. Police say the clash was part of an ongoing turf war between the smaller Cossacks Club and the states largest club the bandidos. 500 weapons were recovered after that fight. Both the waco police and the District Attorney are saying they are did not leak the tape. A grand jury is still weighing possible charges. Lets take a turn n n and get check of thth weather, 9 halloween forecast. Not a treat in texas, more rain to talk about and right now a ver volatile situation going on. Weve got a Tornado Warning in effect for san antonio. In the broader area weve brought a watch in effect until 12 00 noon and we are look at flash flood watches and warnings that will continue to plague this region, so we are seeing more showers and more thunderstorms. In fact, theres risk for severe weather, 588 to 65mileperhour wind gusts and twoinch hail and the possibility of tornadoes. Add to that the heavy rain, look at rainfall today. Rainfall rates of up to two inches per hour and san antonio, austin and houston under the gun for that and then as we move on into tomorrow rainfall rates up to an inch per hour moving into parts of the central gulf coast. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Earning unlimited cash back on purchases. Thats a win. But imimine earning it twice. You can with the citi double cash card. It lets you earn cash back twice. Once when you buy and again as you pay. Its cash back and thats a cash back winwin. The citi double cash card. The only card that lets you earncash back twice on everypurchase with 1 when you buy and 1 as you pay. With two ways to earn, it makes a lot of other cards seem onesided. We got to see more and more sunshine by the afternoon although temperatures didnt respond very well as highs hovered around 50. Well be a little warmer tomorrow despite the fact that clouds will be increasing. In fact, those clouds could cause some rain showers by late in the day and good chances of rain will be with us friday night. The good news is that we dry our for halloween and warm it up some as we could see the low 60s for highs. The warmup continues as we will be in the upper 60s to near 70 from sunday into the middle of next week. Thats your latest weather. Savannah. All right, al. Thank you very much. Now to a story out of washington state. Its reigniting the debate over religion in school. A seattlearea High School Football coach has been sidelined for praying on the field. This is a decision that is dividing a community. Nbcs joe fryer has the story this morning. Joe, good morning. Reporter good morning, savavaah. The schchl district says a coach can not lead players in prar calling that an overt religious public display so the coach was placed on paid administrative lead, but he was allowedto attend last nights game. When the Bremerton Knights took the field their assistant coach was benched. Joe kennedy watched from the stands like any other fan, but in a way he was the one with fans. Im just a guy standing up for the constitution who happensns to believe in god and praise. R rorter kennedy was put on administrative leave for praying on the 50 yard line after games, something hes done for years, ofte joined by players. He says if you want to be in he, join me. If not, thats your decision. Im not going to force you to be in here. Its your total decision. District learned about the prayers last month it ordered kennedy to stop, citing Supreme Court cases. The district says students can pray on their own, but it is as constitutional violation of students rights for a district employee, acting as such, to initiate prayers with students. You know the warriors, they minutes. Reporter coach abided at first instead delivering a postgame motivational speech. One, two, three. Reporter and this month he resumed praying after attorneys from a legal religious group said its okay as long as hes not coercing students. He personally expressed their personal faith in prayerr and they voluntarily decided to join him. Theres no c cstitutional violation there Reporter School system disagreed, putting him on leave, a move applauded by some parents. Im a parent. Im an employee here. Im a taxpayer, and its not okay to use public funds and Public Resources to showboat your own personal opinions and sports and prayer runs deep from the pros to high school games, both private and public. Been doing it for 22 years. Ive got to the think that 99. 9 of the teams have come to the ceceer of the field afterwards. Reporter back in bremerton after the knights pulled off a dramatic victory in the final moments, coach kennedy once again led a prayer, not on the 50 yard line but in the bleachers, not as a coach but as a fan. Sglfrmt amen reporter School District says its offered kennedy a private location to pray that does not interfere with his duties, but he has declined. Kennedys attorneys say that the School District simply hasnt done enough. They plan to take this case to the federal government claiming civil rights violations. Savannah . Joe fryer, keep us posted on it. Thank you very much. Coming up on this friday morning, an nbc news exclusive, the mother of the victim in that Sexual Assault case at an elite prep school in New Hampshire is speaking out for the first time. Natalie will have that today on nbc. Cominin up, should you keep your brere on the counter or in the fridge . Where to store your slices to keep them the freshest. And were counting down to our big look at you, saving money on your Medicare Part d prescriptions. At walgreens, we call that carpe med diem. Thats almost latin for seize the day to get more out of life and Medicare Part d. From onedollar copays on select plans. 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