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WCAU Today September 26, 2014

And byebye bachelorhood. Americas most eligible man, George Clooney, could be just hours away from tying the knot. Were live in venice where preparations are said to be well under way today, friday, september 26th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb, Natalie Morales and al roker. Savannah continues on maternity leave. And really, derek . I mean, really . Could you have written any script better . I think you need something. Whats that . Oh, i did. How much were you crying . I did. Remember when i cried at the notebook on the plane . I know. That was dwarfed by this. I sat in my bed crying. That was amazing. What a night. Did you all see it . I saw the highlights after. Right . In the first inning, nearly homered and then this in the bottom of the ninth. Walkoff hit. The win came. It was unbelievable, and a fitting farewell, as we said earlier. Going out on top. This is now our top story. Willie is here now with more on this. Can i have one of those, please . I watched the game, post game press conference, watched the game again. I went to bed for about ten minutes. 14time allstar, six on major leagues alltime hit list and now one storybook ending. When derek jeter was asked what he was thinking when he walked to the plate for that gamewinning final atbat at Yankee Stadium, he said simply try not to cry. Its a routine derek jeter has performed in new york nearly 1,500 times before, slipping on the iconic yankee pinstripes, jogging out to his position at shortstop and playing baseball for the team he dreamed about playing for as a kid. But this time was different. This time was the last. As the soldout starstudded crowd at Yankee Stadium chanted his name, jeter soaked it in briefly, then got back to business. Runner goes. Deep to left field. Still back. Still back. Its off the wall. Double off the left field wall in his first atbat. Derek jeter with a double. That young man has the flare for the dramatic. Reporter later crossing home plate himself. Jeter was drafted by the yankees in 1992, a scrawny teenager from kalamazoo, michigan. Here is the kid, derek jeter, hunting for his First Major League hit. By 95, he was called up to the big leagues. A year later he was a World Champion and well on his way to being the toast of new york city. With the game tied in the bottom of the ninth inning and the winning run on second base, derek jeter came to the plate at Yankee Stadium one last time. Base hit to right field. Here comes number two comes through in the clutch again and the yankees win 65. Derek jeter, where fantasy becomes reality then he said goodbye. I want to thank everyone here. Ive said it time and time again. Everybody is chanting thank you, derek and im thinking to myself, for what . You know, im just trying to do my job. So, thank you guys. Class to the very end at Yankee Stadium. Just unbelievable. There was some question as to whether he would play this weekend. That was the end of his career in new york. Is he going to play in boston, he announced, probably going to dh, not play shortstop again. Out of respect for the boston fans im going to go up to boston and play. A moment tonight that was so moving. Is he very close to his sister. His nephew, little guy named jaelynn tipping his cap at the end of the game. Watch this. Tipping his cap to the uncle he loves so much. Speaking for a lot of yankee fans last night. Said he wont be at shortstop in boston. He has played the field a lot over the last several years. Hey, hey. Easy. Anyway, we should mention well be sitting down with derek next week on today for his first post retirement interview. Willie, thanks. Thank you, willie. Now u. S. Led fight to destroy isis. More targets were destroyed by the terror group. Iraqs Prime Minister claims that theyre planning to attack american subway systems. Kate snow is in Lower Manhattan with more on that story. Kate, good morning. Reporter good morning. Multiple Law Enforcement and intelligence officials tell nbc news that there is no evidence of any current threat against the new york city subway system. In fact, some officials said that what the iraqi Prime Minister said was total bunk. That said, the fbi director is warning that isis is capable of attacking the u. S. From coast to coast and in between, cities are scrambling to reassure riders theyll be safe on this mornings commute. In new york city, officer whose worked yesterday were kept on overtime through the night. We rode the number six train with the mayor and police commissioner. The people of this city should feel very comfortable and squur movi secure moving through the subways. Reporter they tried to tone down the initial warnings from the Prime Minister that alarmed so many. This of course, captures headlines. In truth, americans have to understand that these sorts of threats bubble up quite frequently and almost always they are not. Reporter comes at a time of heightened fear, made worse by terrifying beheadings. Director james comey believes they now have identified that masked man in the videos and theyre trying to identify two people in propaganda videos who appear to have canadian or american accents. He says he believes that isis is trying to do something in the u. S. , something matt asked ambassador susan rice about earlier this week. Do you have credible intelligence, ambassador rice, that would tell you that isis operatives, isistrained operatives are currently on american soil . Matt, we do not have any indications at the present of concrete plotting by isil against the United States homeland. We do know, matt, theyre dangerous. Reporter officials all over the country are trying to walk that line between reassuring the public but also saying theyre prepared just in case. The governor of new york saying that we are at the highest level of preparedness since weve been that weve been at since 9 11. Hoda . Kate snow, thanks so much. With a suspect now in custody, police are intensifying the search for missing university of virginia student Hannah Graham. So far the last man seen with her is not giving detectives an awful lot to go on. Nbcs craig melvin has been covering the case from the beginning. Craig, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. Charlottesville, police, are in galveston, texas, this morning, preparing to bring back Jesse Matthew. At this point, they say they havent spoken to him, because he has invoked his right to remain silent. Meanwhile, police here in charlottesville say they are redoubling their efforts to find Hannah Graham. You understand your rights as ive read them to you . Yes. Reporter Jesse Matthew jr. In a galveston, texas, courtroom, 1,300 miles away from where they say he kidnapped Hannah Graham, someone recognized him camping on a exclude e secluded beach. Real soft spoken. Didnt seem to come across as real tough or mean. Reporter he will be back in charlottesville to face a judge monday morning. We dont know where Hannah Graham is. Weve got to find her. Reporter thursday, searchers scoured hillside orchards and other remote areas outside charlottesville. Police are still trying to track matthews movements. He was seen at a Football Game hours before she went missing and seen in Surveillance Video, police say, with hannah. But friends did not report her missing for a day and a half. This block of time is very big, large, significant block of time between the time that we know Hannah Graham disappeared and the time that disappearance was reported to us. We need to shrink that gap. Reporter it was another week before matthews showed up at Police Headquarters and then sped off. If he was seen, we need that information. If his demeanor, attitude, his personality was different, we need to know that. Reporter Law Enforcement investigated an oncampus Sexual Assault allegation against matthew in october 2002 when he was a student at Liberty University in nearby lynchburg. The District Attorney says no charges were filed. Now his lawyers prepare their case against him for grahams disappearance, a community refuses to give up. Jesse matthews attorney also spoke yesterday. He said that matthew that his family is relieved that he was found safe. Matt . Craig melvin on the story in virginia. Craig, thank you very much. New fallout on the ray rice scandal. A claim that the nfl security chief was the person in Roger Goodells office who was sent a copy of the video back in april. Nbcs National Correspondent Peter Alexander has more on that. Peter, good morning. Hoda, good morning to you. This new report could complicate matter force the nfl, still trying to regain its credibility in the wake of the ray rice scandal. This new information offers more detail about an allegation that the nfl was sent that elevator video months ago, now naming the specific nfl executive it was mailed to. The answer to that is no. Embattled nfl commissioner Roger Goodell has repeatedly insisted that no one inside the nfl offices saw the infamous ray rice video before it came out this month. But a Law Enforcement official who says he sent the video to the headquarters in april, now tells the a. P. He sent it specifically to the nfls chief security officer, Jeffrey Miller. The official, who spoke anonymously, because hes not authorized to release details of the case, acknowledge that is he doesnt know if miller ever saw the video or even opened the package. Miller release this had overnight. I unequivocally deny that i received, at any time, a copy of the video and i had not watched it until it was made public on september 8th, he said. Last week, goodell said he repeatedly asked Law Enforcement officials for the video. We asked for it on several occasions, according to our security department. We went for it, asked for it several occasions through the spring all the way through june, february to june. Reporter according to the a. P. , no one from the nfl ever asked me for the inside elevator video. He sent it to miller with a note, reading in part, ray rice elevator video. You have to see it. Its terrible. The same official told the a. P. He heard back from the nfl in april, 12second voicemail confirming they received the package, a female voice saying, youre right. Its terrible. Robert mueller may never get to speak to the a. P. Force. The Law Enforcement official says he does not want to talk to nfl investigators. By the way, rices appeal of his indefinite suspension is on hold. Nfl and Players Union have agreed to postpone the appeal until both sides can agree on an arbitrator. Hoda . Peter alexander, thank you. Natalie is here with breaking news out of detroit. Thats right, everyone. Pedestrian bridge over a detroit freeway has collapsed, block all lanes of rush hour traffic on the south field freeway. It appears a car has been crushed beneath that fallen bridge, as you see there. At least one person was taken away on a stretcher. No word yet on what might have caused that to collapse. A protest march turned violent in ferguson, missouri, thursday night. Tom jackson was marching with protesters when a scuffle broke out. At least four people were arrested. This latest incident comes after jackson issued a video apology to the parents of michael brown, unarmed teenager shot by a Police Officer last month. Protesters have pledged continuous civil unrest until officer wilson is charged in browns death. New attorney general search is on this morning after attorney general eric holder announced his resignation thursday. The president heaped praise on holder, hailing him as the peop peoples lawyer. He will stay in office until his successor is confirmed by the senate. You can see our exclusive interview with eric holder tonight on nightly news with Brian Williams. The third american aid worker to contract the ebola virus is back in massachusetts this morning. Dr. Rick sacra was released from the Medical Center where he was being treated. He said he felt great but extremely weak. The 51yearold physician contracted ebola while working with pregnant women in africa. Captured on surveillance cameras, the suspect here as you see at the bottom left of your screen casually gets into the suv, slams it into reverse, crashing into the luggage rack and two valets. Other people jump in to try to help. The car jacker reverses it again, pin twog men against another vehicle. Eventually, he barreled his way through. The man was captured about ten hours later. He is facing charges of car jacking and attempted murder. Wow crazy stuff there. Terrible. Natalie, thanks. You got it. Mr. Roker . The calendar says fall, right . Uhhuh. But not not so much . What weve got going on today. Jet stream way up to the north. And a big ridge of High Pressure dominating. And so with that warm air coming in here, look at these temperatures. Billings will be 88 degrees. 15 degrees above average. Denver, 87. 12 degrees above average. Omaha, nine degrees above average in the low 80s. It spreads into detroit. Minneapolis, 81. Spectacular start to the weekend here in the northeast. Scranton, p. A. , at 78. Washington, d. C. , 79. Roanoke, looking at a high of 78 degrees. Not a great weekend. It will be a wet one. Lot of heavy rain through southern texas. Pacific northwest looking a little on the wet side, too. Into the great lakes and into the northeast. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Gets ready for lots of sunshine today. Youll need your sunglasses and temperatures warm to the middle to upper 70s this afternoon. Warmer over the weekend, bright, sunny skies for the first saturday of autumn. 81 degrees and that warming trend continues for sunday, up to 83 degrees. Humidity stays low both days. Another warm day on monday and then well see a chance of showers tuesday and wednesday. But bright sunshine thursday. Have a great day. Thats your latest weather. Al, thank you very much. Carson is here. Normally im asleep like 8 00. I was a 12yearold school boy. I had the chills. You cant say enough about derek jeters finale at Yankee Stadium. Neither could people online. It was a huge topic of conversation, as can you imagine. Over 2 million tweets. At one point, there were eight different derek jeterrelated trending hash tags, eight of them. Three of them were trending worldwide, respect. Thank you captain and even the phrase not a yankees. People were writing im not a yankees fan. Hugh jackman got in it as well as hundreds of yankee fans showing their respect. Take this moment in yankees fans. Cheer, clap, smile, cry. This is our legend. This is your captain. Farewell, captain. Another reminder, derek jeter will be here today as matt mentioned earlier in his first post retirement interview. I want to apologize to him. Awful crew will be all over him. Routine traffic stop in South Carolina. This morning, the victims lawyer is speaking out. And a moment some thought they would never see is almost here. We are live in venice, italy, where George Clooney is getting ready to say i do. First this is today on nbc. And you want to get an mba. But going back to school is hard. Because you work. 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