The scandal of Prince Andrew describes her Court Documents in explicit details. Despite his emphatic denials, she claims six encounters with famed Alan Dershowitz. He responds today in an exclusive interview, today, thursday january 22nd 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza leadership good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. What a story unfolding across the water not too far fromnous new jersey. Its not too much you can wake up and smell your lead story. That is the case an apartment complex devastated. Those are the images this morning. We want to go to our pilot who is providing us that shot. How is it going . What are you seeing . What are the remains you are seeing of this debris . Reporter well Savannah Matt a tremendous amount of fire out here, a tremendous amount of smoke from these pictures in chopper 4. Still pockets of small flames popping up once in a while. The fire has been burning since yesterday everyone in edgewater, new jersey. These are luxury apartments located here along the hudson river water front. Also this fire is being called one of the largest fires in bergen county. Many of the local streets surrounding this fire which im sure you can imagine have been shut down. Several schools in the area have been shut down as well. Amazingly, no injuries have been reported leadership thank you very much. It is our lead story. Let go down on the ground where nbcs Anne Thompson is standing by. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. There is a state of mortgages here in edgewatt. Schools are closed and some roads, too, as firefighters try to determine what caused that spectacular blaze at the apartment complex that is still smoldering behind me. You could see the fivealarm blaze from manhattan. The avalon at edgewater complex along the hudson river consumeled in flames. Officials say it danld or destroyed 175 unit. Leaving as many homeless for the night leadership we left with what we had. Without the kids and the dog. Our cars are all under feat. There is nothing left. Reporter the fire began around 4 30 wednesday afternoon with no visible sign of the massive destruction to come. There was plenty of people and residents. I guess you can say the building wasnt totally filled because of the time of day. That was fortunate thing. Reporter amazingly none were killed. To have a fire of this scope and have so many people displaced we feel fortunate and thankful. Reporter Authorities Say everyone else left under their own power. A few firefighters suffered minor injuries. 18 years ago there was a fire on the same site. That apartment complex was under construction. The cause was never determine but arson was ruled out. Now this morning, there is no cause for this fire either. Last night, about 160 people spent the night in a community shelter. Officials say they will work with all those displaced to find new homes, including fork yankees radio announcer, john sterling. He too, lived in this apartment complex. He too, apparently lost his home. Savannah. Anne thompson thank you so much. Our thoughts with those displaced. Absolutely. Moving to texas, dealing with recordbreaking snow. Al is here now, thats a powerful system. We think it may be heading east . Thats right. We will watch it along the gulf and the eastern seaboard. Amarillo texas, picking up almost a foot of snow. Thats more snow for january than st. Louis, boston, also juneau alaska. To the maps we go right now, we are looking at winter storm warnings Winter Weather advisories and winter watches from new mexico on into texas. So far weve seen over 11 inches of snow. This system now pushing to the east and north. So you got snow already in amarillo. It will end relatively quickly. This system comes into the gulf. Bringing heavy rain and thunderstorms to the north. Snow will start to set up. Rainfall amounts, basically onetothree inches. The snow though into parts of west texas will be onetothree maybe even six inches of snow and guys this gets into the gulf and ten tomorrow sets up along the southeastern atlantic coast. Becomes a noreaster. We will take a look at that and the potential tracks and what that can mean later. Thank you. Well the super bowl is fast approaching. Outrage is growing over the new England Patriots in the socalled inflategate around what to do about it. Peter alexander is at gillette stadium. Good morning to you. Reporter you said it first the scandal, now the scrutiny. Patriots head coach Bill Belichick will face people as the investigation heats up as to whether his team knowingly broke the rules. Thats how deflategate were born. They look over towards the patriots side line. Sucking the air out of the runup to the super bowl t. Question how and when nearly a dozen balls were deflate and if they knew about i. One former nfl ballboy said it would be almost impossible to pull it off undetectible leadership at that point thousands of people are pouring into the stadium. Official meldia tv crew members are everywhere. Reporter several current and former quarterbacks have spoken out insisting altering gameballs is nothing unusual. The altering of the ball is from the quarterbacks end. For them its how it feels coming off their fingertips. Reporter the patriots say they are cooperating with the review. The team and Bill Belichick have a reputation for playing with the rules. In the spygate they found they videotaped the side line scandals and one week before this the Baltimore Ravens complained about the formations they used against them in their narrow playoff win. Its league deception. Reporter they dont have a resident precedent for repeat offenders. We have never been down this road before t. Fact that the patriot versus this track record. Its the same coach and same ownership, that will not help the patriots this time around. Reporter now, more voices are weighing in on this. Former longtime referee jerry austin says he was informed he told espn during a halftime inspection of last sundays game all 12 imse imse colts footballs were found to be properly inflated. But all 12 provided by the patriots were fought a. League official says this review could wrap up in days. Thats a damming piece of information. Tanks. I have a great guy with me right now, hines ward won four super bowls, by the way was mvp of super bowl xl leadership my pleasure. I heard people say this is the mother of all scandals to its fought even worth our breath. One guy said its like driving 61 Miles Per Hour in a 50 miles her pour where do you fall . Its cheating. Regardless of how you may want to spin it. It helps tom brady provides a better grip on the football especially in bad conditions like rain. You want to deflate the ball you dont have all big hands, but to provide a better grip you will at the time air out. Game balls were inspected before the gym. At halftime they were found to be under inflated. How do they do it . From the time period where the referee checks the football. You may give the ball to the ballboy. He lets a little air out of it. Tom brady says i feel about it. I like this grip. Now you are talking about a conspiracy, several people involved who, would the coach have known . Its probably tom brady and the ballboy. Every week they scuff the football take that new film off the football because it becomes real slick. Also you want to let the air out of the ball just to have a better grip on it. So as a receiver, a guy that performed at the highest levels possible how much of an advantage would it be for you to catch the ball . Well for guys that have big hands and use gloves. Its easier to catch the football. Its almost like catching a nerf football. For the quarterback, its about the grip. You see quarterbacks who wear gloves because they want to get a better grip on the football throwing the football. I will put you out on a limb if if they determine tom brady and Bill Belichick knew it was happening and did it intentionally to gain some advantage, were ten days before the super bowl. When would they do it . I dont think they will do it before the super bowl. The punishment has to be harsh. This is the Second Time Around guilty for keithing. I dont know if you take a 1st round pick or you fine them money. Thats nothing t. Patriots dont want to have a 1st round or anything. If its done before the super bowl doesnt it taint the game . They might. Especially if you with tin game. Everybody says the patriots havent won a super bowl since spygate. So now if they win the super bowl now have you this kind of looming over the organization. We are talking about the game for all the wrong reason hines, its great to have you here thank you very much. We want to know what you think. Head to our Facebook Page let us know. If guilty again, thats f, should the patriots be banned from the super bowl . Should tom brady or Bill Belichick be banned from the super bowl . Sa van that. Meantime its day two of big talks in havana cuba focusing on reestablishing ties with the countries. Some big obstacles remain. Andrea mitchell is in havana this morning. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. Well the president s new opening to cuba is broadly popular according to our recent poll but, in fact when american and cuban diplomats sit down to talk about normalizing relations, which start today, neither side know what is to expect. The dawn of a few era between the United States and cuba. For these American College students from Brown University study income havana born after the cold war. Its a chance to witness history. We are excited to see the culture preserves and i am excited to be a part of this woman in history. I am intrigued with the political history it has with the u. S. Reporter but living with cubans is like living without social media. How is it being a young person without wifi . Being unable to contactpy parent or i cant set up internships for the summer. Im out here along. Reporter change isnt coming fast enough. We have better chances of raising a family if we believe the country. Thus huge limitations for young cubans to have a home of their own and things like that. Reporter retired bank era fael fernandez and his wife believe the talks will produce change. If both sides respect their systems, thats the bottom line a lot of things will go forward. We will eradicate whatever the mistrust is and then we will build a new relationship from scratch. Reporter led by two strong women, u. S. Santa and the dip la mat. The pede iiate is opening embassies, reversing special flights, which could take longer perhaps up to a year. Then banking, credit. Financial tie, postchallenging for the cuban government say observers, universal access to the internet exposing more cubans to a wider world, even as a russian spyship in havanas harbor today was a alongering reminder of cubas past. So the question now is how quickly they can overcome the mistrust of the past and agree on an entirely few future for our two countries. Back to you, Savannah Matt. Andrea mitchell in cuba for us. Thank you. Naatly is here she has another story developing out of cuba. At guantonomo bay, a navy captain at guantonomo bay has been fired and is being investigated if connection with an alleged affair with a woman on the base and the recent death of her husband. Nbcs chief correspondent Jim Miklaszewski has more on this story. Good morning. Reporter natalie, this was not any navy cap table. He was the Top Commander at guantonomo bay, cuba. But captain John Nettleton was fired yesterday in connection with the mysterious death of worker who was found two weeks ago. In the course of the investigation, criminal investigators reportedly found evidence of an alleged affair between the dead mans wife and captain nettleton. Now, no charges have been filed and the investigation is still under way. And while captain nettleton was if charge of the navy fleet, he was in no way connected or had authority over the infamous gitmo detention facility which president obama vowed again to shut down during his state of the union speech this week. Natalie. All right, Jim Miklaszewski thank you. Republican heavy weights mitt romney and jeb bush will meet in utah leading to speculation they will try to avoid in a collide for the run for the white house in 2016. According to new york times, bush opposed romney several weeks ago before he made it known he is considering a president ial run. The two have been drumming up support from dofors in weeks. Officials in new town connecticut, have dome lished the home where adam lance zalanaadam lanza lived. The land will be kept as an open space. U. S. Goalkeeper hope solo has been suspended from the Womens National team for 30 days and wont participate in matches next month in europe. U. S. Soccer officials did not reveal the reason for the suspension but it comes just days after the arrest of her husband, a former nfl player for driving under the influence. Solo was in the car at the time. She was not arrested or detained. It is the latest off field trouble, though for solo. Earlier this month, a judge dismissed two misdemeanor accounts of Domestic Violence against her. Hillary clinton is considered the front runner for 2016. If that doesnt work out, she may turn her hand to samberg. She described a mock conversation with Vladmir Putin after initially leaving office. Take a look. Vladmir, you think youd like to be president again . I think i do. You want to run or you want to go announce it . Well tell dimitri, he can be Prime Minister . Excellent, excellent idea. We have a process, yes leadership i think she sounds a little more like her husband, right . Former president bill clinton perhaps. He talks to himself like that the good guy the bad guy . I dont think hes right. Get off. Anyway,let show you what we got happening for the rest of the country. We told you about that storm system coming out of texas. We have a storm in the Pacific Northwest. Icy conditions inland. A nice day in the northeast. Plenty of sunshine tempera you want a loan to build a factory in america . You cant do that. Nobody builds factories in the us anymore. You cant do that. Using american Raw Materials makes no sense. You cant do that. You want to hire workers here in the states . Theyre too expensive, you cant do that. Fortunately we didnt listen to the experts. At weathertech we built american factories, we use american Raw Materials and we hire american workers. Weathertech. Com, proudly made in america. Quality like this. You cant do that. Good morning. Im meteorologist bill henley. A cold and cloudy start. Well see gradual clearing. Temperatures upper 30s to low 40s today. By tomorrow morning, its cold with clear skies overnight. Well start with sunshine on friday. Near 40 friday afternoon. Its the weekend that could turn stormy. Saturday, snow sleet and then rain with a high of 37. Clouds and sunshine on sunday. Another chance of snow monday. And then it gets much colder. Have a great day. Thats your latest weather. All right, al thanks very much. We were talking about the deflategate if the patriots are accused. What should they do as a punishment . How about the winner goes on to sun . Broadcast on nbc, well take it. Fought going to happen leadership this story is going to go one or two ways this week. Its either going to peter out or the momentum will build. It has been right there. The hashtag deflategate has been a trending topic on twitter all week long. Should the patriots be banned . A whopping 81 like hines ward mentioned earlier, if you want a stern punishment. People agree with them. 81 saying yes. Heather writes in of course they should. It should not be tolerated. The colts lost because they didnt play as well. Look who is getting if heres Krispy Kremes ours are fully filled. Boston common coffee deflated cookies available all locations. We got some here in the orange room guy, ill bring some to you, here you go back to you. Not the only deflated football we like around here. 19 dont think they should be banned. Were those 19 in boston by any chance . Money drops. Look how people think it should be. Some people think belichick should not be allowed to coach in the seumer bowl if found guilty. They give him a suspension game one who cares . 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