And shakeup. She was supposed to be the savior of Weight Watchers, but nearly a year after Oprah Winfrey became a major investor, the scales have now tipped. The ceo is out, and oprah and the company are looking for a new leader today, wednesday, septembeth, 2016. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefelpl morning, everybody. Welcome to today, wednesday morning, willie for matt again. And hacked emails. Starting to be the story of this election. Yeah, this time general colin powell, tough words about donald trump and also about Hillary Clinton. Well get to that in just a second. Lets get to the state of the race. With the election now just 55 days away, donald trump starts off in flint, michigan, his first visit there. Theyll tour the Treatment Plant behind the water crisis and meet with residents. In ohio. Hillary clinton off the trail for another day as she recovers from pneumonia. President clinton will fill in las vegas and Chelsea Clinton makes several stops in North Carolina and virginia. Hillary clinton is expected to resume Campaign Activities tomorrow. And take a look at this new bloomberg poll out just this morning, focused on the race in the state of ohio. It shows trump now leading by five points. 4833. In a state that may swing this election. A lot of moving pieces. National correspondent, peter alexander. We start with the hacking. Former secretary of state colin powell. Peter, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, as you just said, Hillary Clinton will resume campaigning going to North Carolina and washington, d. C. , tomorrow after her bout with pneumonia. This morning, another wild card. The packed personal emails of colin powell with sharp criticism for donald trump and taking heat from former secretary of state, colin powell. Hacked personal emails first reported by buzzfeed sent within the last several months to a former staffer reveal powells contempt for the republican nominee. Calling trump a National Disgrace and an international pariah. And blasting trump for fueling the idea that president obama wasnt born in the u. S. Yep, the whole Birther Movement was racist, powell wrote. So far, the Trump Campaign hasnt responded. The emails published by a russian hackers. Powell confirming the exchange with nbc news, adding the hackers have a lot more. In one email, written back in may to a democratic adviser, powell expresses frustration with the clinton camp and her email controversy. Writing, i told hillarys minions theyre making a mistake trying to drag me in yet they still try. The media isnt fooled and shes getting crucified. Clinton still re cooperating is expected back on the trail tomorrow. Stage with his daughter, ivanka, unveiling a child care plan that includes six weeks of paid maternity leaving and allowing parents to deduct child care expenses. Trump falsely claiming that clinton doesnt have her own proposal. My opponent has no child care plan. She never will. Reporter in fact, clinton first detailed her child care proposals in the spring of 2015, before trump was even a candidate. In philadelphia, president obama on trumps outreach to blue collar voters. . 9 to be championing working people . Reporter and testifying to clintons stamina, reminiscing about their 2008 primary battle. Hillary is tough . Every time i thought i had that race won. I was like going up the rocky steps. I was about to celebrate, and then i look and shes right there. Physician, dr. Oz, reviewing the results of a recent physical. How much will be shared remains unclear. Look, the metaphor for me, is this is a doctors office, the studio. So im not going to ask questions she doesnt want to have answered. Reporter as for the emails, the fbi is investigating russian hacks, but this morning we have no knowledge whether theyre investigating hacks specifically targeting Colin Powells emails. Donald trump last night lashed out at president obama. Heres what he tweeted in remarks. Writing, why isnt president obama working instead of campaigning for Hillary Clinton . For his sake, the president s Approval Rating right now stands at 58 . All right. Peter alexander, thank you. Lets turn to nicolle wallace, our analyst. Good morning to you. Good morning, you guys. Lets set this up. Colin powell, former republican secretary of state under george w. Bush, but also endorsed obama. These emails are out. Theres a Little Something for he talks about trump is a National Disgrace and says the Clinton Campaign is trying to pin this on him. Who does it help, who does it hurt . Will it matter. It it solves a mystery as to why anyone isnt endorsed in this race. Its a human beings nightmare to have their most personal thoughts shared around the world. Hes a human being. He wrote these things he thought in private and thought they would stay private. That said, hes respected figure in a Political Climate where there arent too many of them. You can count them on both hands. So i think it will cut both of them a little bit. I think his critiques hes still a person widely respected by a broad swath of the middle of the country, which is we talk a lot in the squeaky wheels get the grease and usually on the far right and far left. The selection will be decided at this point by people whose minds are still hope. And to those people, colin powell has play. You know, he calls donald trump an international pariah. Emails hes got nothing but disdain and disgust for donald trump. But he does talk a lot about Hillary Clinton too. And one of the subjects, march of 2015 now. Were talking about he writes this she doesnt look good, of Hillary Clinton. Shes working herself to death. Questions from people like colin powell, people who are perhaps even partial to her, if you read the emails, about her health. And he says she doesnt look good on hdtv. None of us do. But, you be seen it will depend on which side youre standing, right . Which side of the divide you stand on. If youre Rudy Guiliani and have been pressing this case for a long time, then youll seize on to this and say, ha running for president is a grind. It is grueling. You look tired because you are tired. But on the other hand, the comments about donald trump are some of the harshest yet. And mike pence, his running and tenor of his candidacy. And when you see what someone like colin powell said in private, where he didnt hold back, he called him a National Disgrace. Tough, tough words. Nicole, you are not done. We have one more thing we want to talk to you about. Stand by there. All right. Thats right. The Trump Campaign is fighting back this morning after new yorks attorney general revealed hes open to inquiry to trumps charitable foundation. Hallie jackson has more on that. Good morning. Hi. Good morning to you. Donald trumps team insisting this new inquiry is purely political, as new yorks ag looks into who trumps foundation donated to, and what that money went toward. Donald trumps team touting his charity. This is a man who has given away tens of millions of dollars. Donald trump has been incredibly generous over the course of his life. But today his philanthropy post raised questions about his foundation. The new York AttorneyGenerals Office opening an inquiry, looking into what a source familiar with the probe calls trumping transactions. This after the post reported several charities never received the money trumps foundation said it gave. And found 20,000 seems to have been spent on a six foot tall portrait of trump himself. T president obama. The other candidate foundation took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a sixfoottall painting of himself. He had the taste not to go for the tenfoot version. Reporter the inquiry, led by new yorks ag, Erich Schneider man. We have been looking into the Trump Foundation to make sure its compliant with the laws that govern charities in new york. Schneiderman, a democrat, has tangled with trump before, suing him over Trump University. Ag, a partisan hack, adding, quote, this is nothing more than another left wing hit job designed to distract from crooked Hillary Clintons disastrous week. Trumps recent donations include 1 million to a veterans group. But the post found he hasnt contributed to his own foundation since 2008. Instead, using other peoples money to make charitable gifts. Before this may, before that Million Dollars he gave to veterans under a lot of media pressure, when was the last time he a charity and how much did he give . And what was his history out of his own pocket . Reporter questions that could be answered if trump releases his tax returns. I give a lot of money to charity. I think i revealed over a period of years, ive given over 100 million to charity. Reporter and by the way, we should mention that our parent company, nbc universal, donated 500,000 to trumps foundation back in 2012. This morning, Hillary Clintons video. Take a look. Hitting trump on some of these questions. Trump has already been forced to pay a penalty tax to the irs for a donation to a group associated with floridas attorney general. That was right around the time her office was considering, but did not pursue, an investigation into Trump University. Both she and trump have denied any wrongdoing. Willie, savannah, back to you. Thank you. Lets bring in msnbcs chief legal correspondent, ari melbourne and in thisas with us as well. How does an inquiry proceed . A review of whether there were any laws in new york state broken regarding these charities. Since 2008, this Trump Family Foundation hasnt had a lot of trump or family. And that may be news and make voters take a second look whether this is a charity at all. The question is, is there a legal problem . To be clear, this attorney generals investigation would not be a criminal investigation. Correct . What we know that anyone would be at risk of going to jail here. The question is whether these laws that governor charities in new york were violated and whether in some way either there was false accounting or this socalled nonprofit was actually being used for enough profitable purposes the hammer would come down. The Trump Campaign has said Erich Schneiderman is a hillary supporter, has endorsed Hillary Clinton, has gone after donald trump with a lawsuit on Trump University and now going after the foundation interest here . No conflict in the legal sense of the word. This is a very serious charge from the Trump Campaign last night. Basically saying that this prosecutor is trying to do this for political purposes. If that were true, that itself would be a crime. The Trump Campaign hasnt put out any evidence that. We are eight weeks out from an election, its understandable people are wondering whats going on here. No evidence that attorney general schneiderman is doing anything other than an investigation. That brings me nicely to first of all, do you think that voters who are paying attention will care about this issue, this notion that trump, according to this reporting, is not putting his own money in the foundation, is taking money and then taking credit for donations . And in one case, spending this money that was supposed to be for charity on a portrait of himself . Yeah how does that play . A portrait of yourself is a thing you need to book a shrink for that. I think this idea that his charity didnt do enough good is really to be so rich that you have a charity is wrap your brain around. And not a lot of people think youre bad if your good charit went astray. This is best used as a defensive weapon to guard the clinton camp against criticisms about their charity. The Clinton Foundation theyre not that criticism has gotten legs. Because of the interlay with the state department. Which is a u. S. Government entity. Thats where i think shes been vulnerable. Not the actual work of the actual charity. Liability because there were allegations that it was connected with some favors for pay by the u. S. Government. I think this will become sort of a battle between two charities. You heard president obama frame it up pretty well saying Hillary Clintons Charity Saves lives, Donald Trumps charity did what you just described, bought a very tall portrait of donald trump. Well see if they use this on the trail. Thank you. Another highprofile cyberattack getting a lot of attention this morning. The confidential medical information of several star american athletes. Heres nbcs national correspondent, miguel almaguer. Reporter the victims are some of team usas top athletes. Simone biles. Serena and venus williams. And wnba stars. The World Anti Doping Agency says its confidential medical Espionage Group and the information made public. It happened one month after most russian athletes were banned from the Olympic Games after a widespread doping scandal. Its really a shame. And quite despicable, frankly, that a group of people would attack innocent athletes to divert attention away from the obvious staterun doping system in the state of russia. The american athletes are firing back. Simone biles, who has a medical exemption to take a banned diagnosed with adhd, says on twitter, nothing to be ashamed. Nothing im afraid to let people know. Venus williams says she followed the rules. Della done, i would like to thank the hackers for making the world aware i take a medication for a condition ive been diagnosed with. Even your private information is no longer safe. Bears, the same group tied to the recent hack of the Democratic National committee. Thee russian government denies any involvement. This morning, the doping agency says the attacks targeting our athletes may not be over. For today, nbc news. That disturbing video we showed you at the top of the show, a driver slamming his car into three Police Officers in phoenix, arizona. This is so difficult to watch. Authorities say that act was intentional. The three officers standing outside of a gas station when the driver steered directly at them. Dramatic Surveillance Video released overnight shows the moment a man plowed his car into three Police Officers at a phoenix gas station. The force of the impact sending one of the officers flying into the air and through the stores window. Another camera angle shows the driver pulling up to a gas pump. Accelerating, shedding straight for the officers, including an eightyear veteran, a sergeant with more than 18 years experience, and a rookie who had just completed Field Training and was on his First Official sh shift. Our phoenix Police Officers were targeted. These officers could have easily been killed, and i thank god that were not planning three funerals right now. The two officers struck by the vehicle sustained serious but not life threatening injuries. The third officer was able to o unbelievable, our officer that hits the glass, gets back up, engages in the fight to take the suspect into custody. The sd, 44yearold mark payne has been charged with three charges of first degree murder. Police say they do not know what yet motivated that vicious attack. It is unbelievable to see that. Tamron, thanks so much. You have a new storm to worry about. As of the 11 00 p. M. Update last night, we have a Tropical Storm on our hands sitting off the coach in georgia. It is bringing heavy rain to the southeast. Jacksonville, florida, yesterday, very gusty winds. They picked up 1. 5 inches of muchneeded rain yesterday. This is only the first Tropical Storm ever to form over florida itself. Only about 2 of storms form happened with this one. So its a very interesting case. Now we have most of our heavy rain across northeastern georgia. We have some heavier rain moving into the charleston area. Winds are still at 40 miles per hour. And this storm, while it will weaken, is really not moving all that quickly. Here you see by friday at 2 00 a. M. , winds are up to 22 miles per hour. But its just sitting across parts of georgia. We will see the rain continue with flash flood watches in charleston could end up with 5 up to 7 inches of rain. Thats a look at the weather across the country. Your local forecast is coming up in just 30 seconds. 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