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WCAU Today May 9, 2015

13yearold girl in her own home. How Good Samaritans helped police track him down. And warrior prince. Prince harry wows australia wrapping up military training by repeling buildings and copiloting a helicopter. All before returning to his princely duties. Today, may 9th. Announcer from nbc news this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im willie geist in for willie. We saw wrangler in the shot making his weekend debut. We will spend time with wrangler coming up. The top story is the weather. Dylan dreyer in oklahoma tracking it for us. Stormy weather coasttocoast. The potential is killer tornadoes. The tornadoes are part of a monster storm system. People preparing for large hail and wind gusts up to 70 Miles Per Hour. Severe storm threat stretches into mothers day tomorrow. Our team is out covering the weather from the plains to the Atlantic Coast to the rockies. We begin with dylan tracking the most severe threats. Potentially deadly tornadoes in the mid section today. She is at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman Oklahoma. Dylan. Reporter so far this morning, so good. It is usually in the afternoon when the storms fire up. It is at the National Weather service here where they issue all of those severe thunderstorm watches and tornado watches. The local Office Issues the warnings. Yesterday was day three of the Severe Weather outbreak. Hail and large winds and as we gear up for day four it is possible that today could be the most dangerous day yet. Tornado alley. Taking the brunt of another round of vicious storms that ripped across the nations mid section. Tornado. Reporter late friday several tornadoes touched down in northern texas. Reports of hail the size of baseballs in oklahoma and other places it coated the ground like snow. Look how deep it is. Reporter relentless thunderstorms and damaging near hurricaneforce winds uprooted trees and downed power lines. Flash flooding is a risk. Several streets were closed to high water in norman. And warnings alerting people to take cover. The danger so great, the Oklahoma University has to postpone the commencement ceremony. The severe flooding destroyed communities and it is not over yet. Now we have the set up out there today where we have warm humid air and also the trigger of a front moving east. That means we are going to see more storms fire up. We have a couple of showers and stronger storms through eastern arkansas right now. The area in red is our best chance today across southwestern parts of kansas where we could see most of our tornadoes. In the orange areas, we are still looking at dangerous lightning and flash flooding and large hail up to 3 inches in diameter and winds up to 60 to 70 Miles Per Hour. On sunday the two branches start to break to the upper midwest and out to arkansas and texas. We are looking at hail and damaging wind gusts and flash flooding and possibility of tornadoes. We have had several inches of rain across the plains in the last several days. We could see another 5 to 7 inches of rain in the same area. That is going to lead to flash flooding with the water really having no place to go and that is one of the dangerous parts to the storms. People drive into the flooded waters. Stay out of the flooded waters. Stay indoors. Listen for the tornado sirens this afternoon and evening. Really play it safe. It could be a dangerous afternoon. Guys. Dylan, busy morning for you. Well check back in. Residents in the carolinas are batoning down the hatches this morning. Top sustained winds of 60 Miles Per Hour. Hurricane season is weeks away at this point. Let go to nbcs Gabe Gutierrez who joins us from myrtle beach, South Carolina. Reporter erica good morning. Ana was reclassified from a sub Tropical Storm to a Tropical Storm. We are now starting to see the outer bands, wind and rain have been pounding myrtle beach on and off through the morning. The rain is picking up a bit. This storm is forecast to bring up to 5 inches of rain to parts of the area through monday. It would be the seventh named storm to make landfall in may in the United States since 1950. It has maximum sustained winds of near 60 Miles Per Hour. It is moving northwest at about 3 Miles Per Hour. On friday it stayed stationary in the atlantic. Today, we are expecting dangerous rip currents here. We are expecting more rain and ana is expected to make landfall tomorrow. Erica. Gabe thanks. Lets swing out west where a third powerful storm system is threatening to dump up to 2 feet of snow yes, snow in parts of the rockies. We have nbcs Miguel Almaguer in rapid city south dakota. Reporter good morning, willie. It is cold and wet out here right now. In the next 12 to 15 hours we expect that to change. The front edge of the winter storm in early may to slam into us. They are expecting up to 20 inches of snow in the rockies. We could see avalanche warnings tonight. In rapid city the mayor is asking folks to stay indoors and saying the roads will be treacherous. We could have whiteout conditions. Winds up to 25 Miles Per Hour blowing snow around across the region. Again, while right now it is cold and wet, we expect the temperature here to plummet and all of the rain to turn to snow and blizzardlike conditions in a matter of hours. Willie. All right. Miguel almaguer dusting off his snow shoes in may. Just what you wanted. Sheinelle has breaking news on the fbi shootout. Good morning. Good morning. The fbi agent is recovering from gunshot wounds after hunting down a suspected bank robber. The agents cornered the longhorn bandit. He fired two shots. The agent was hit in the leg. The suspect was found dead in the motel room. The agents would not say how he died but say they did not fire shots. North korea ratcheting up the tension. Kim jongun says the military test fired a missile from the submarine. Experts call it alarming in the weapons capability. Liberia is declared ebola free. It has seen more than 4,000 deaths in the past year and a half. And Jameis Winston is counter suing him. His lawyers say she is motivated by greed. Prosecutors in florida decline to filed charges against him. This is a case of people getting too close to nature. Tourists at Yellowstone Park pulled off the road to get a close look at the black bear and her cubs. The mom bear did not appreciate the attention and starts chasing them off. They ran for the cars and the baby bear scattered. In the end, neither bear nor human was harmed. A reminder, a bear is a bear. There is your wisdom. Lets go to our common sense moment of the day. The bear is a bear. Not just a bear. A mom bear. Lets go back to dylan in the Weather Center in oklahoma where she is tracking the storms. Dylan, how is the rest of the country looking in. We are seeing the National Hurricane center busy too tracking Tropical Storm ana. It is still sitting off the coast of the carolinas. It is the outer bands that will produce rain and producing dangerous rip currents and rough surf. Watch what happens overnight and through sunday. It will start moving and most of the rain as it makes landfall in North Carolina will fall across eastern North Carolina with 5 to 7 inches of rain in that area. In the middle of the country, we are focusing on the dangerous weather outbreak today. Especially across southwestern kansas. We are still looking at widespread hail and wind gusts and the flooding potential. We had so much rain here recently. In the northeast, it will be a nice one today. Temperatures in the 70s and 80s. Up in seattle, it is not bad with the high of 7 good morning. We have fog and drizzle. There might be a thunderstorm or two later on sunday, 84. Monday 86, up to 88 on tuesday with a chance of thunderstorms. Have a great day. Home grown terror attacks. How serious is have been briefed say it under scores the threat from isis is real. As isis tries to expand its reach, the warning. The department of defense ordering more than 3,000 military bases and sites across the u. S. To raise the terrorist threat level to bravo. That indicates an increase or credible threat. That means they will take much more careful look at who is coming on to base and who is already on the base. Reporter the announcement is not the result of a specific threat the military is concerned about several recent incidents, including the shooting where two isis inspired gunmen were killed in garland, texas at the Prophet Muhammad incident. The fbi followed up and said clearly there are perhaps thousands of people in the United States that are participating in some way communicating back and forth with isis. Reporter a lot of that communication and recruiting is happening online. We are certainly using all of the tools available to us to determine how social media is being used. Reporter fbi director james comey said this week it is almost as if there is a devil hitting on the shoulder saying kill kill kill, all day long. The latest warning is targeted at the military, but what does this mean for every day citizens . An escalation of threats fromher countries. Reporter there is no word on how the Terror Threat level will last. The fbi has ordered the field offices to review the list of all suspects to make sure the right ones are being tracked after revelations that one of the texas gunmen was known to authorities, but not under surveillance. Erica, willie. Kristen, thank you. Turning to a story getting a lot of attention. If you may be thinking of getting a manicure you want to hear this. An expose on the lives of the korean owned nail salons in the new york area. A story they have been working on for over a year. An explosive one and a lot of people talking about it this week. A reporter talked to 150 nail salon workers in the new york area. Many were found to be Illegal Immigrants working below minimum wage. The leader of the new york area Korean Nail Salon Association declined to address the problem. That is not the worst of it. Workers endure all manner of humiliation and having tips docked for minor transgressions and monitoring by owners and physical abuse. Employers are rarely punished for labor or other violations. This is not just a new york city problem. 17,000 nail salons and as you pointed out, it is mothers day. A lot of people are going out. My thing is what is the take away for women or men who want to go get a manicure or pedicure. What do we do . There are things advised on things you do the next time you go to the nail salon. Get to know the manicurist. Interview the person. Work look around. Most of the time you go in and out. Most of the time it is elevator chat. They are saying you should actually and this is where you say if they can give you an answer if cameras are involved. You should interview to the point where you say how are you paid. That can be an awkward conversation but a better sense of the salon you are in. Willie said go to the stores and ask the owner. Put heat on them. The exposes lead to big change. Shining a spotlight on it. Some of the nail salon workers in the piece not paid at all. They live on tips alone. The owner reserves the right to take the tips away. If we all do it you wont feel like an oddball. How do you pay your employees. Makes a difference. Yeah. For more than 50 world war ii airplanes flew over the nations capitol on friday. A chance to honor the american heroes who won world war ii. Nbcs Peter Alexander got to take a rare trip aboard a practice flight on the famed b29 bomber which helped to end the war. Take a look. Reporter history soared with flying colors on the nations restricted air space. An Unforgettable Army of airplanes that helped win a world war. I want to be the last guy standing who served in world war ii. Reporter strangers until today, this pair of 91yearolds who flew in world war ii are going back up. Honorary crew members on the practice run for the flight. Go touch it. Reporter even today imposing on the runway. The b29 bomber that ended the war. Thats my baby. Reporter carter was the last to parachute out of the burning b29 over burma. Not having my chest buckle buckled. We didnt practice. They say buckle up next time. Reporter captured, he survived beatings and malaria as a p. O. W. You decide to give up and you die away like a lot of guys did. Reporter thats not the call . No i said as long as im breathing, im alive. I will make it out of here. Reporter now as carter completes his mission, flying along for the first time his daughter carla. All volunteer crews from the air force helped the history take flight. 70 years ago you were on board. Thats right. Reporter what does it mean to be back . Wonderful experience. I love it. Reporter the b29 was the most technological aircraft of the time. Higher and faster and farther than all of the others. Nearly 4,000 produced for world war ii. This is the last one still flying. To be in the plane that my dad was in i mean it is just phenomenal. Reporter carla took the seat where her father once flew. After a flight through the past. This is an emotional moment. Yeah. Reporter the generation of veterans that scratched the heavens still leaving a lot to look up to. For today, Peter Alexander, nbc news, manassas virginia. What a moment. What a view through the front of the plane. Peter got the front row seat. Great story. Still to come on today, we will get you caught up on the stories that had people talking this week. From the shooting in texas to the private battle that went public. But first this is today on nbc. And were back this saturday morning with the download. Catching up on the week that was. From deflategate to a round of new president ial contenders. No shortage of headlines. We begin with a deadly shooting in texas sparking fears are home grown terrorism. Gunshots fired at an antiislamist event in texas. Two men in body armor opened fire. The two gunmen nadir soofi and Elton Simpson were quote soldiers of the caliphate. No evidence that isis had a hand in the plot. A state of emergency declared across the center of the country. Up to 50 tornado reports. The eerie sound of silence. Now you get clear contact to the ground. A massive tornado half a mile wide tearing through oklahoma. Three coming down on me. I have to back out of here. Tom brady back in the spotlight after the the nfl released the report on deflate gait gate. I have not had time to digest it. A big week for declaring for candidacy. And Carly Fiorina declaring her candidacy. Entering the race today, dr. Ben carson. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee jumped in the race. I dont have a Global Foundation or taxpayer funded paycheck to live off. Silicon valley mourns the loss of the most loved and respected. Dave goldberg was married to well known facebook executive sheryl sandberg. If you picked someone willing to share the burden and joys of your personal life you will go further. Believed goldberg was on the treadmill when he fell and hit the back of his head. Sofia vergara is speaking out about bringing the frozen embryos to term. You break up and you say i dont want to have a baby with you. Im not involved. Can you blame me in. In the oped, loeb wrote, this is tantamount to killing them. One of fashions biggest night. Celebrities dressed up for the met gala in style. Sarah Jessica Parker dressed in style. She got to the carpet and everybody cleared out and made way for her. And Shaquille Oneal showing true sportsmanship on live tv. He tweets out whoever makes me the best meme of me busting my you know what wins 500 cash. Go. He has the smooth criminal dance with Michael Jackson and simba in the lion king. Some really good shaq memes. My kids are obsessed with shaq. He randomly stopped by here one saturday. I know he did. He sat next to sheinelle. There he is at superman. Knocked out by floyd mayweather. The memes went on. He has a great sense of humor. Another story we want to update you on the offer from zappos. We will not have traditional managers or job titles. If it doesnt work for you, we will give you three months severance and you can leave. The Washington Post has an update. About 14 of the company, 200 employees, took that offer. They did not give details on who left or why they left. They say that people took the packages for different reasons. Said this is not for everyone. When given the out, they took it. Probably a case by case thing. You want to leave and get three months severance. And you have three months to look for a job. Other people dont like the idea of not having a boss. I was surprised about that. Interesting update on that one. A lot of attention at the time. Still to come here on today, another one that will have you talking. By jumping into the pool or nbc 10 news starts now. Good morning. Im rosemary connors. Its just a few minutes before 7 30. Lets get a check of the weather now with meteorologist Michelle Grossman. That fog slowly starting to lift michelle. We going to see it lifting over the next couple of hours. Were seeing a little drizzle in some spots. Looking good in the poconos, a little better out north. Reduced visibility especially down to the south, down to 1 1 2 miles in atlantic city. It will be burning off in the next couple of hours. Theres that drizzle, especially along the coast. Temperatures are very mild right now, into the 60s, 64 in philadelphi

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