Daughter here with me. As questions swirl around t cause of the accident and thos mysterious cries for help hear by rescuers. And, gator on the green. A golf course in florida overr by massive alligators today, thursday, march 12th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt laue and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Take a look at ferguson, missouri this morning. This is a live shot right outside the Police Department there. As you see, it is calm now, but what a different story at around midnight last night. Thats right. This is our top story, as savannah mentioned. New violence this ferguson. This morning two officers are being treated after being shot during a demonstration. It came just hours after the citys police chief announced his resignation. Nbcs ron allen is in ferguson this morning. Ron, what can you tell us . Reporter well good morning, matt. There have been more than 100 nights of protest out here since Michael Brown was shot and killed by officer Darren Wilson last august and nothing like this has ever happened. The Police Though have always warned that there could be violence. They always felt that they were under threat and that theyd been targeted throughout all these protests. There was a small crowd out here in the parking lot across the street from the Police Station. Maybe several dozen people as the crowd was dwindling as the night wore on. Eventually the crowd and the police came together. Police were trying to keep them out of the street. There was some confrontation back and forth when the protesters would block traffic. Protesters were trying to keep the way open but for some reason things got tense. All of a sudden out of nowhere, shots rang out. Heres what happened. At least four shots rang out shortly after midnight here as officers attempted le dwindling crowd of protesters outside the ferguson Police Department. Shots heard. Everybody hit the ground. Thats when officers got up. Two officers didnt get up. Reporter police say a 41yearold officer from st. Louis county was shot in the shoulder and a 32yearold officer was shot in the face. Both victims are conscious and talking but still in the hospital. Police could not provide a description of a suspect or gun but say the shots were fired from across the street from the Police Department. After the shooting officers with guns and in riot gear circled the station and more than a dozen squad cars blocked the street. I would have to make an assumption that these shots were directed exactly at my Police Officers. R the protests started just hours after the resignation of the police chief was announced. He received scathing krite ingg criticism from the Justice Department. The decision to withhold wilsons name was slated for fueling fergusons violence and unrest. Meanwhile, police are working to contain a city that remains in a state of unrest. So why protests after the police chief resigned . The crowd seemingly want more. They want the entire Police Department dismapt lentled and thats a possibility. As the Justice Department continues to push ferguson to make reforms, dismantling the department is in fact a possibility. Right now the area is completely on lockdown in that direction for several blocks. The shots apparently came from up there, a residential neighborhood perhaps a distance of 50 or 60 yards to the Police Station. Again, it is quiet out here right now. Good news from the hospital is that the Police Officers are expected to make it. We do not believe that their wounds are life threatening. Talking to some of the officers as i made my way here they were saying that they think their guys are going to be okay. And the unrest here who knows what today and what the night will bring here as we move forward. Ron allen, well continue to follow that story in the coming days. Ron, thank you. Nbc news anchor has a dramatic story to tell this morning. Jennifer you were right there. Tell me what you saw and what you heard. Yes, good morning, savannah. We were on the side of the street of the Police Station, my crew. We were as i said alongside with the police. We had been there since about 8 00. We thought things were starting to calm down. Some of the protesters had left but there were still a couple of them there. A few Police Officers had left but they were still in force. But we did get the feeling that things were starting to calm down for the evening. When all of a sudden from the top of this crest of this short hill this street across the street by the tire lot across from the Police Station, loud noises. Pop, pop, pop. It sounded like firecrackers. Thats what we thought at first. But when everybody hit the floor and the police said get down get down and guns were drawn, we all hit the floor. It was a frightening moment. And there is a short brick wall next to the Police Station where we were standing and the police all ran for cover there. They told us to get there. We were on our knees next to the Police Officers and there were no more shots fired but it was a very very tense few moments and they said as soon as we give you the okay you run down the back of that building and get to the very back of the parking lot. And we did that. And then we were told to move further back over hyped the firestation and thats when they brought the injured one of the injured policemen and put him in an ambulance and off to the hospital. Jennifer when you saw that and you saw the injured officer or officers, were you a ibl to get a look . Could you tell how serious those injuries were . From our vantage point, at the end of the driveway it appeared he was not sitting up but at least not lying down and we got the impression that he might not be in too bad a shape. But we werent close enough. But it did appear that he didnt have extraordinarily serious injuries. We never did see the other officer being taken away. We waited for quite a while but that ambulance never came so it must have pick him up and on the other side of the Police Station. But we know that some of the protesters fled. They didnt have any brick wall to hide behind. They fled when they heard the shots. And because we were hunkered down we didnt see too much else but we know that some of the protesters that were still there were questioned by police afterward. It clearly was a long night and a scary one for you. Were glad you and the crew are safe. Thank you for sharing your experience with us this morning. We appreciate it. Thank you very much savannah. Lets turn to washington now where the secret service is dealing with another new scandal, and this one is a big one. Two highlevel agents reassigned, accused of crashing a car into a white house barricade following a party. Chris jansing is nbcs senior white house correspondent. Chris, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. This is a stunning setback for the secret service after a string of embarrassing Security Breaches because this latest breach was allegedly caused by agents themselves. And when president obama was briefed on the incident he learned that someone he trusted with his life is a target of the probe. This morning, the white house is confirming the investigation into two highlevel secret service agents. One, an elite member on the president s close detail. According to the Washington Post, the men drove a government car into White House Security barricades after drinking at a Late Night Party last week. Were talking about a very very senior person who is regularly within arms length of the president. And if this person if its true doesnt get any worse than that. Reporter two sources familiar with the investigation confirm to nbc the men are senior supervisor George Ogilvie and the second in command on the president s detail Mark Connelly who has been by the president s side from ireland to tucson to coney island. According to the post, officers on duty wanted to arrest the agents and conduct sobriety tests but the officers were ordered by a supervisor to let the agents go home. Even though witnesses say, the car was being driven erratically, lights flashing tearing through security tape before hifttting the barricade and disrupting the Ongoing Investigation of a suspicious package. The investigation will be a significant test for the agencys new director Joseph Clancy who came out of retirement to clean up the service after a series of highprofile missteps rocked the agency. 2012 in colombia a prostitution scandal led to some agents being fired. March 2014 two agents were booted from a president ial trip to the netherlands after one of them was found passed out in a Hotel Hallway after drinking. And last fall the agency made headlines again after a man with a knife jumped the fence and got into the white house. These new allegations will put clancy and the agency back on the hot seat. The deepseeded concern is that the shine of the secret service has been rubbed off. We cannot keep having this discussion. Reporter congressman chaffetz tells me hes directing a letter to clancy wanting answers to a lot of questions. Because the agents are so high up in the service, the investigation is being done by the Inspector General of the department of homeland security. While thats happening, the agents have been reassigned and have not responded to our requests for comment. Matt . Savannah . Chris jansing at the white house this morning, thanks chris. Meantime in oklahoma in the wake of that fromaternity scandal the frafraternity sae, is pushing. Back. Gabe gutierrez is on the story for us once again. Reporter good morning. Overnight, ous president announced the creation of a new position Vice President of diversity. Meanwhile, while its investigation is still ongoing, the National Fraternity now says it cannot verify any reports of racist chants beyond this campus. [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. Reporter all week it called this video appalling. This morning, Sigma Alpha Epsilon says the problem seems to be limited to one chapter. The fraternity has come under attack and a lot of chapters and members are vilifyiedvilified. That unfair. We hear the critics. We hear the conversations taking place. We know we can make this better and prevent this from happening. Reporter calling it a horrible cancer ou says racism entered its university of Oklahoma Chapter three to four years ago. Thats about the time keith low jan, this junior started college. He was among dozens of people attending a previously scheduled town hall meeting wednesday night to discuss racism on campus. That it happened at the same time is not surprising. Reporter parker rice, one of the asae members in the video is keeping quiet saying his family has been threatened. Outside his empty dallas home a small group of protesters gathered. We are planning on filing a complaint with the department of justice. That way they can actually look into every chapter across the nation of sae. Reporter but the fraternity says so far it has been unable to verify any rumors that members using the chant beyond ou. E. J. Beasley is a proud africanamerican member of sae at the university of cincinnati. I would nat be part of a fraternity thats racist. Reporter at ou two students have been expelled and the University Says more are possible. But now some experts are questioning whether thats even legal. Students at public universities have free speech rights. Now if they had threatened a specific person that would be different. But merely uttering even offensive racist speech is protected by the first amendment. Reporter University Officials certainly feel that those expulsions are justified. Matt and savannah right now there is no timetable for when their investigation might wrap up. Gatebe gutierrez, thanks. New fallout this morning tied to the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Its a controversy that could impact the rollout of her expected run for the white house. Nbc National CorrespondentPeter Alexander has more on this. Hi peter. Reporter hey, matt good morning. Hillary clinton hasnt even announced shes running for president yet and already these stumbles handling the controversy have Many Democrats nervous, persuading clintons advisors she needs to speed up her 2015 campaign launch. I opted for convenience to use my personal email account. Reporter despite Hillary Clinton digging in her heels this week she hasnt silenced the skeptics. The spectacle reminding many anxious democrats of the 1990s when another clinton was in the white house. New this morning, Time Magazine putting clinton on its cover, the clinton way, they write their own rules, will it work this time . Clinton now reportedly considering moving up the rollout of her 2016 campaign to early april. Even some of her democratic defenders acknowledging the trust issues. You dont believe her, dont vote for her. Thats what i think. And if you believe her, then vote for her. Reporter the white house has been forced to address questions whether it trusts the 30,000 emails clinton says she deleted were all personal not work related. Theres not been any evidence thats been produced to raise any doubts. But no one can produce evidence because she deleted them. Reporter all this focusing new attention on clintons woulden democratic primary opponents who remain silent on her email issues. Maryland governor Martin Omalley who was in New Hampshire last weekend couldnt avoid the issue last weekend. Frankly, im a little sick of the email drama. Reporter Vice President joe biden hasnt said a word about the controversy, while senator Elizabeth Warren who said shes not running made waves last month when she seemed to side step al sharptons question on whether she would be be tough enough. I want to hear what she says she wants to run on and what she says she wants to do. Thats what campaigns are supposed to be about. Reporter former White House Press secretary robert gibbs tells the Washington Post clinton and her team waited too long to answer questions about the controversy. Theyre the ones who put air in this balloon in a way that was not necessary at all. Shes a candidate without a campaign. And this morning, clinton is being challenged on her claim that all email to her state Department Colleagues were saved by them. A new state department Inspector Generals report says for the last five years, most important state Department Emails for the entire department were in fact not properly archived because of inadequate training a failing Computer System even some employees deliberately avoiding creating computerized records. From washington thats Peter Alexander, thanks. Natalies got the latest on that investigation into a terrible military accident in florida. We started talking about this yesterday but the search goes on this morning for seven marines and four soldiers presumed to have died when a black hawk helicopter crashed. Their search will resume this morning, weather permitting there. The helicopter went down tuesday night in the Santa Rosa Sound along the Florida Panhandle during a training exercise. Hundreds of people attended a solemn candlelight vigil wednesday night. Military officials have not said what caused the crash, but there was heavy fog in the area at the time. Some frightening moments in Central Alabama on wednesday after an explosion at an industrial plant. One person was killed and at least two others were injured during the blast at brent industries. Fire triggered some secondary explosions. Fire officials are still trying to figure out how it all happened. A dramatic rescue near Sacramento California wednesday after a truck pulling a trailer went off an overpass. It landed in the water below. The driver ended up trapped in his truck. Rescue crews were called in and they hoisted the man to safety. Police say the man may have had a medical emergency. He was flown to the hospital. Outrage this morning over a huge brawl at a Brooklyn New York mcdonalds and the fact that no one jumped in to break it up. The video youre about to see is disturbing. The cell phone video shows several teenage girls beating up a 15yearold girl. Dozens of kids at least two adults watched. None of them called 911 or even tried to help the girl. Instead, as you see there, many pulling out their phones to record the fight. Mcdonalds employees did call the police. The girl was taken to the hospital. So far, no one has been charged in that case. Just outrageous. Three crew members of the International Space station landed safely in kazakhstan early tod